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WAR = WoW with new skin, thats about it!

sabutai22sabutai22 Member Posts: 262
in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

WAR is nothing new except the standard run of the mill cookie-cut level based grind fest! Even the UI looks and feels just like WoW.

AoC is no exception, both of these games are nothing more than game designers, developers and companies trying to steal market share away from WOW in order to make money!

bah, i hate the fact that here we are in 2008 and all people can come up with are carbon copy's of games that have been around since the 1990's!

 

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  • jazz.bejazz.be Member UncommonPosts: 962

    It's also the same as pacman as both are played on a computer with a screen attached to it.

    How new does a game has to be? The whole concept is already diffirent as far as I can see

  • BadSpockBadSpock Member UncommonPosts: 7,979

     

    It's actually about 67.4% different then WoW. I've done the calculations....

  • ArudanelArudanel Member Posts: 47
    and WOW ripped off EQ, and a million other games that came before it. Though if you want to get technical, WOW is just a Warhammer MMO without the liscence, or the war since Warcraft copied the look of the Warhammer miniatures game years back. But I'm fairly sure I got a book from when I was a kid somewhere where it had green monsters under the bridge with big axes and hunched backs... so I think Warhammer ripped off the Grimm Brothers....

    Face it, nothing is revolutionary. Or few things anyway. Doing things different just to be different, well that's how we got ET on the Atari....

    I'd stop whining about nothing being totally new, and instead think what you like about these various games, and then try and find yourself one that combines those various things. If you're waiting for a totally new MMO, you'll likely to die of old age first to be honest. Maybe a new twist here and there, but that's hardly a revolution. More of an evolution.

    Not trying to bash you here, I know where you're coming from. I hate the level grind too. But what other options are there? If players don't progress somehow, they don't play. A skill based system? That could work well, if it's done right. But the cost of developing one that is done right, and then the headaches of explaining to gaming-illiterate CEOs and Investors why you're doing that, and not copying the biggest game there is... LOL. Fun times. Forget the big AAA titles if you want inovation, and watch those little korean games like Flyff, some of those are pretty odd, and look to be fairly fun. Investors aren't going to hand out 30 million and say 'Ok, now go try something weird, and see if it floats.'

    PS- Love the Dead Horse gif there. LOL
  • Munkyman1Munkyman1 Member Posts: 221

    more like DAoC diff skin, and background mythos. thanks

  • Jenus1Jenus1 Member Posts: 162

    WAR would have to be a flight sim MMO for people like you to not say it copies wow.

    So please;



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    Thanks alot.

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    Go outside - Get a life,
    It's not coming back.
    We arn't giving you your game-back.
    So go outside, and realize that you've wasted 2 years.
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  • KaylessKayless Member UncommonPosts: 365

    Bye...

    Can I have your stuff...

    Oops, too soon

  • KomaKoma Member UncommonPosts: 25

    It's a rave troll!

    Seriously get a clue...

  • oakaeoakae Member UncommonPosts: 344

    I can't believe they are still making Mario. It's been like 20 years. Can't they think of something new?

  • KeladorKelador Member UncommonPosts: 130

    AoC is nothing like wow...... gameplay,graphics,story line, control system, interface all completely different cant go into much more than that NDA. WAR ive not realy seen much about it, graphicaly it has the cartoonish graphics which is similar to wow i guess other than that dont realy see anything that makes it a clone. Both these games have the standard MMO feactures which countless other games have wow is no exception there name one orignal feacture in wow? wow is a warcraft themed game they spent more on pr/advertising than the game lol

  • Psiho246Psiho246 Member Posts: 482
    Originally posted by sabutai22


    WAR is nothing new except the standard run of the mill cookie-cut level based grind fest! Even the UI looks and feels just like WoW.
    AoC is no exception, both of these games are nothing more than game designers, developers and companies trying to steal market share away from WOW in order to make money!
    bah, i hate the fact that here we are in 2008 and all people can come up with are carbon copy's of games that have been around since the 1990's!
     

    the dude is obviuesly just wanting to stirr things up and see all the flaming reactions lol couse no way AoC or WAR have anything to do with wow except they are both mmo fantasy genres.

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  • daarcodaarco Member UncommonPosts: 4,276

    I guess WAR gameplay seems to be very close to WoW gameplay. But who is trying to hide it? Noone is.

  • Shifty360Shifty360 Member Posts: 629

    How can you compare the gameplay?

    People rarely get into the damned beta.

     

    In response to the OP.

  • RaunuRaunu Member UncommonPosts: 480

    Originally posted by Jenus1


    WAR would have to be a flight sim MMO for people like you to not say it copies wow.
    So please;



    You  ---->>>       Warcraft online
    Thanks alot.

    Nope! That would be a WoW Clone too!  WoW has flying mounts!

    - - "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?" - -

  • Burlock2Burlock2 Member Posts: 9

    what i dont get is why so many people think WOW was the first ever mmo, i mean the reason why wow did so well was it stole the best bits from a numerous number of mmo's before it. the devs have even stated that.

    so how can you say anything is a copy of wow when its a copy of other games?

  • judgebeojudgebeo Member Posts: 419

    Originally posted by sabutai22


    WAR is nothing new except the standard run of the mill cookie-cut level based grind fest! Even the UI looks and feels just like WoW.
    AoC is no exception, both of these games are nothing more than game designers, developers and companies trying to steal market share away from WOW in order to make money!
    bah, i hate the fact that here we are in 2008 and all people can come up with are carbon copy's of games that have been around since the 1990's!
     

    Perhaps war remembers you a lot wow but... wow was a "compilation" of other games, a "copy"... yes... nothing new, a grinding fest. Then, why are you trolling with posts like this with war and aoc, and not with wow?

  • Shifty360Shifty360 Member Posts: 629

     

    Originally posted by Raunu


     
    Originally posted by Jenus1


    WAR would have to be a flight sim MMO for people like you to not say it copies wow.
    So please;



    You  ---->>>       Warcraft online
    Thanks alot.

     

    Nope! That would be a WoW Clone too!  WoW has flying mounts!

     

    Hmmmm, perhaps a Submarine MMO would work..........

    Nah..... WoW has cows and elves that turn into seals, so that would be a clone as well.

  • matraquematraque Member Posts: 1,431

    Originally posted by sabutai22


    WAR is nothing new except the standard run of the mill cookie-cut level based grind fest! Even the UI looks and feels just like WoW.
    AoC is no exception, both of these games are nothing more than game designers, developers and companies trying to steal market share away from WOW in order to make money!
    bah, i hate the fact that here we are in 2008 and all people can come up with are carbon copy's of games that have been around since the 1990's!
     
    WOW is a copy of EQ1, they only improved.  Other games are taking WoW and try to bring it to the next level....

     

    But your just a troll

    eqnext.wikia.com

  • starbeadstarbead Member Posts: 43

    Originally posted by sabutai22


    WAR is nothing new except the standard run of the mill cookie-cut level based grind fest! Even the UI looks and feels just like WoW.
     
     
    I always love the "it has WoW's UI" argument.  It is laughable because most of WoW's current UI was borrowed directly from the mod community.  Whenever someone made a mod that everyone considered a must-have, WoW incorporated that feature, so WoW's UI is a pretty good reflection of what people wanted out of a UI. 

    If I were making an MMO UI, I would take a close look at what players of the genre's biggest success wanted most out of a UI.

  • JelloB2000JelloB2000 Member CommonPosts: 1,848

    Omg how bad can you copy WOW....

  • BadSpockBadSpock Member UncommonPosts: 7,979

    Originally posted by Arudanel

    and WOW ripped off EQ, and a million other games that came before it. Though if you want to get technical, WOW is just a Warhammer MMO without the liscence, or the war since Warcraft copied the look of the Warhammer miniatures game years back. But I'm fairly sure I got a book from when I was a kid somewhere where it had green monsters under the bridge with big axes and hunched backs... so I think Warhammer ripped off the Grimm Brothers.... Face it, nothing is revolutionary. Or few things anyway. Doing things different just to be different, well that's how we got ET on the Atari.... I'd stop whining about nothing being totally new, and instead think what you like about these various games, and then try and find yourself one that combines those various things. If you're waiting for a totally new MMO, you'll likely to die of old age first to be honest. Maybe a new twist here and there, but that's hardly a revolution. More of an evolution. Not trying to bash you here, I know where you're coming from. I hate the level grind too. But what other options are there? If players don't progress somehow, they don't play. A skill based system? That could work well, if it's done right. But the cost of developing one that is done right, and then the headaches of explaining to gaming-illiterate CEOs and Investors why you're doing that, and not copying the biggest game there is... LOL. Fun times. Forget the big AAA titles if you want inovation, and watch those little korean games like Flyff, some of those are pretty odd, and look to be fairly fun. Investors aren't going to hand out 30 million and say 'Ok, now go try something weird, and see if it floats.' PS- Love the Dead Horse gif there. LOL
    I've never heard this argument before...  *cough* Love the gif? Well, you deserve it to be posted in response to what you said too!

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