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Wow. Just... wow. What an idiot.

World of Warcraft is not a success because it only has 10 million players? Um... isn't that more than Gaia has? (Especially since, however many registered accounts Gaia has, a good chunk are either mules (thus not unique users) or inactive (WoW can tell how many users are active, but I doubt Gaia can).) (I'd be surprised if number of active users was even half the number of registered accounts.) If WoW isn't a success, what does that make Gaia? (And wouldn't the blame for that (at least some of it) fall on... oh, I don't know... the CEO?)

Moron.

And kids, today's lesson is learning when to keep your damn fool mouth shut.

*headdesk* What an idiot.

*headdesk* He's damn lucky that didn't get out so much. See folks, this is why you keep your mouth shut if you've got something bad to say. So you don't wind up saying stupid things like that. Remember to listen to your parents folks. rofl

Blizzard didn't create Halo; it was developed by Bungie as a division of Microsoft. (Not that it really matters.)

To be honest, I wasn't too crazy about the idea of a paid subscription to WoW, either, mostly because I was afraid I'd wind up paying for a subscription to a game I didn't play often enough to justify the expense. That's why the only MMO I really play (except for occasionally zOMG, but that one still needs some work) is Guild Wars. *Shrug*

WoW being a success isn't a matter of opinion, though. By ANY objective standard, it's a HUGE success. It has a majority (not a plurality; a MAJORITY) of the MMO market. It's bringing in a boatload of money for Blizzard every month. In order to feel that WoW isn't a success, one has to ignore the indisputable FACTS.

Is WoW inferior to other MMOs? I don't know; I've never played WoW. But that's completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand; it's a completely subjective argument, and the fact is, quality of product does not relate to the success of said product. Many is the product that has been outsold by an inferior competitor (even if you only look at cases where there is a more obvious objective basis for calling one product superior to the others). Whatever the level of quality of WoW, and for whatever reason it's doing as much business as it is, the fact remains: it still has a majority of the MMO market and a huge paying subscriber base. It IS a success.

As for points 2 & 3... I really have no idea what point you're trying to make there, really. They're not relevant to the facts of WoW's success. At best, it could be argued that they could be selling more copies of/subscriptions to WoW, but name me a product that couldn't sell more. Doesn't mean they're not a success.

If you want to argue that WoW isn't a success, you're going to have to do something to argue against the facts of WoW's market share and subscriber base, and explain how those huge numbers are not indicative of success. You can't just say "I don't think it's a success", because those facts prove it is; it simply is NOT a matter of opinion. Sorry, but it's true.