1) Beta is closed, which as far as I am concerned is little more than buttsecks with people that know others within the company, or have a lot of experience in beta testing. 2) EA is also playing a part in it. and yeah, I doubt it will encompass a majority of the WoW gamers, considering most of the gamers whom are active players are more so into raiding than PvPing. They may lose a million subscribers, but a million compared to nearly 10 million still means that Warhammer will have a huge gap, and the fact that their graphics engine is only remotely better than WoWs means alot of people whom prefer PvP in games such as Guild Wars, with a more high end graphics engine will be less inclined to move towards Warhammer. Now, if Warhammer incorporated the actual game play as how they present cinematics, and it was potentially the best graphics engine of all MMORPGs, then yeah, almost indefinitely I would try it, because lets face it, the graphics engine is what makes the difference when it boils down to most PvP oriented games, as its generally going to be the same spells / attack with slightly different races / armor decorations and spell designs.
Actually, as far as I'm concerned, graphics plays almost NO part in PvP games for me. I play Guildwars on the lowest settings, simply because that LITTLE bit of extra graphics could be that LITTLE bit of TINY lag that makes me lose. I have an excellent computer, and I play WoW on highest settings no problem, and I can EASILY play GW on the highest settings with no problem, or almost no problem. But in PvP games, lag is essentially the biggest issue, and eliminating that from being caused by the hardware makes me have a better chance of winning. Thus, I play GW on low settings, and it's no coincidence that I was in one of the highest ranked, and infamous B-Spike guilds in GW. I'll play Warhammer on low settings, because I want that same advantage. And remember, I said the idiots that say WAR is the WoW killer are stupid. But I do know for a FACT that about 80% of the Guildwars PvP community is moving to WAR, because like me, they are sick of A-Net ------ing up the PvP in that game. And WoW is going to lose alot of their PvP players because of WAR as well. But like you said, the majority of people in WoW raid, and not PvP. Also, EA is playing almost no part in it . EA has their name attached to it... and that is about it. They are letting Mythic do everything else regarding the game. I've read SOOOO much about WAR it's ridiculous... which is the reason I'm so excited about it.
