I will jump in on this as well here and offer up a few of my thoughts for the coming year.  These are in no particular order.

1) The STO license will stay with Perpetual as long as they keep their heads above water money wise.  New announcements about the game will be few (comparatively speaking) but what is released will be carefully chosen and will make a few say “hmmm…” (in a good way).

 

2) WoW will continue to glide along on its seemingly endless trade winds.  I think it is a foregone conclusion that the new expansion will miss the 2008 mark (but not by much).  We may however see some small parts of it released as a live patch in order to pacify some.

 

3) AoC will not be what many have conceived it to be.  It will be in the same boat as D&DO.

 

4) Cryptic Studios will rise up with some exciting news.  I do not know what but it will be something to get the community talking about them in a good light.

 

5) EQ II will continue to be the sleeper it is now while its subscriber numbers continue to rise.

 

6) Warhammer will have a huge release (not much of a prediction there) but the community will be heavily commenting on it “failures” this time next year.

 

7) RMT will be announced to becoming to a true western market AAA game.  I do not mean The Agency but something more liken to WoW or an EQ II.  Whether it is a new game or a new server for an existing game is unknown.

 

8) Developers who are thinking about RMT services will start listening to the gaming community for new ideas that may be appealing ways to implement it instead of the normal “cash shops”.

 

9) Some bloggers will be hired by developers/publishers as a new marketing tool.

 

10) Bioware will still keep the Austin project quiet and we will start to see more and more “who cares” posts.  Time starts to run out this year for them to make an announcement.

Bonus Prediction:

I will get a reply to one of my postings.  Even if it is only to say that I am the sux0rz.

RogueSlayer