Some complain that it is only about BOE

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Majority of gamers has a common sense that the real top-class games normally have few fans. In this point of view, WOW is obviously a fail. Isn't it a paradox? A game with no fans contrarily becomes an epic? Diablo has become a world craze for tens of years, why there are still millions of gamers fighting on Battle Net nowadays?

 

BOE has great graphic effects, but Chinese team seems don't like Gothic style because it is too much like Diablo and not suit to be an MMORPG. In other word, it doesn't suit to the development of MMORPG market, especially in China the biggest one, and this is really over my head. From the way of out thought, Diablo has a vast basis of gamers and is a game with highest reputation all over the world. It is easily to be accepted by anyone who plays games in or out of China, no matter console-games or MMOs.

 

All right, I accept the fact that Chinese teams possess abundant experience in market development of MMO, but we also should let all the gamers to decide that whether an MMORPG with a Diablo-look will succeed in current complicated market. Certainly, we are full of confidence and there is no doubt of it.

 

For sure, even Chinese teams still has lots of questions of this kind of attempt; they accept our advice with their professional ideas on work. Even though there exists discrepancy between China and western countries, we still had a very comfort course of cooperation after reaching a common understanding...

 

 

What is the thing I want to say in this post with so many words? I just want to state a fact that even I found huge difference on ideas of game-design when we're developing BOE, it is not to prove who is right and who is wrong. It is just the way of looking at the game designing, and the culture difference. However, as a title ready to be released to the world market, BOE either acquire all good things from Chinese games and our games or become a neither fish or fowl thing. Of course, we consider it to be the former one.  All of us are quite looking forward to see whether this Diablo-genre MMORPG merged with China and western lineage could successfully satisfied the gamers, especially Diablo core gamers.