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The UI debate
Khalathwyr
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I normally hate to do things like this, but there has been much talk about LOTRO "stealing" or borrowing the UI from WoW. Well, one of the members here posted this link and I think it's very relevant. This link shows the UI for Asheron's Call 2, which came out on November 22, 2002. WoW debuted on November 23, 2004, a full 2 years later.
http://ac2vault.ign.com/site_images/multimedia/screenshots/image13.jpg
So, if AC2 had this UI for which the WoW UI resembles alot, then LOTRO is stealing from....Turbine. You can't really steal from yourself, now can you?
All that said, Turbine for sure took elements from other games' UI to put together the one for AC2. It's the gaming circle of life. Hakuna Matata. 
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
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LMAO
Its the same f*cking interface as AC2....only makes sense, LotR uses the AC2 engine ...duh....
Shame on me, I played AC2 also back in the day and I never recalled that.
To be honest all the interfaces look the same to me either way. They all have a toolbar and they all have a specials bar and most have a "radar". /shrug...does it really matter anyway? I hate radars, does anyone actually use them? They provides like zero vital information. At least for me anyway. I think I actually found one useful a handful of times in my years of gaming. It mostly just takes up screen space so I shut them off or minimize them until I do need them if the game allows that.
FFXI or EVE are the only MMOs I can think of (of the ones I played) that really has a different interface, the rest are all pretty much the same.
EDIT
Nice job on locking this one down Khal
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
Oh yeah?? well... they ripped the Ui off of Diablo.. which came out in '96 or something... and was done by BLIZZARD!
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/diablo/screenshots.html
Yeah.........well in 1947 an alien spacecraft crash landed in Roswell NM and the controls to the craft looked allot like that so Blizzard stole it from ALIENS!!!! Maybe its all a plot by Aliens using human co-conspiritors to take control of the world!!!!
Free Earth from the evil influence of Alien invaders now!!!
Viva la revolution!
This message was brought to you by: Humans against evil alien technological influence. Power to the people!
I miss DAoC
ROFLMFAO!
Damn, seriously, Jack and Torak, you guys can go drinking with me ANYTIME! Ya'll are killing me.
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
Yeah I was going through my AC2 screenshots the other day. I always thought LOTR UI looked like AC2. The game sometimes feels like AC2. I liked AC2, so no complaints here.
I wish they would put that UI in DDO cause the one currently in DDO is the worse I have seen in a game. There is just no style and feel to it.
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