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What percentage of a MMO has to be similar to WoW to be considered a WoW clone to you?
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e.g. Grey white green blue purple names for item quality.
Talent trees where you spend one point per level on one of three trees, reaching a new tier every 5 points.
Attacks that build combo points, up to a maximum of five, and finishers that spend those combo points with their effect scaling by number of points.
That sort of thing.
It's kinda like porn....you can't describe it but you know what it is when you see it.
You want me to pay to play a game I already paid for???
Be afraid.....The dragons are HERE!
Everything is just a clone of Meridian.
If 'heroic dungeons' are in the very first press release article ever, It's a WoW clone.
Currently playing - FF14ARR
Previous games - SWG, World of Warcraft, ShadowBane, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Darkfall, Planetside Asheron's Call, Everquest, Everquest 2, Too many.
One could argue that you just described Skyrim.....(except for the PvP part)
You want me to pay to play a game I already paid for???
Be afraid.....The dragons are HERE!
You guys do realize that every game we talk about on this site is a clone, right? A Dungeons and Dragons clone. That's pretty much where all this stuff started.
You want me to pay to play a game I already paid for???
Be afraid.....The dragons are HERE!
Not all aspects of WoW's mechanics are bad ideas, so if another game wants to borrow SOME ideas from WoW, as long as they add user-friendly features without detracting from the enjoyment of the game, then so be it.
A lot of WoW's features are cloned from other MMO's, with a little original flair thrown in so Blizzard can call them its own.
Other features are refined, such as taking the basic matchmaking concept and adding it to the MMO environment as a "Group Finder".
WoW just simplified the experience so the average consumer could partake in the MMO experience, so no other MMO stands out enough to qualify as the originator of such features.
Maybe it's the "themepark" clones that are the real nuisance. Everyone is running on the same tracks, and it's the same experience every time, and the journey's not even being made that interesting. The storylines are uninspired and lack challenge, the end-goals are unfulfilling, and there's no variety or choice at the end of the road.
Then its your duty to stop buying them and push studios to work outside and away from the WoW design formula .
WoW was not similar to MMO's that came before it I don't recall WoW having:
Player Housing/w ability to decorate
Naval Combat on the open world seas
Non-Combat Professions
Social Features and Community Features
Player based economy
Meaningful Crafting/ basics plus expanded crafting professions, shipbuilding, shipwright, seige equipment builder , archtiect
Dyanmic Resource Systems
Player Cities
Meaningful Open World PVP
Treasure Hunting/Foraging
Casinos, Gambling
There are many other features too long to list here that WoW and all the other WoW clones and wannabes don't have these features existed in MMO's at a time when the few MMOs that were out there before being an oversaturated market of the same game did their best to stand out from one another unlike today they don't even try to reintroduce a lot of these features into their game when it expands your game it may not be a important focus of the game but it keeps players engaged in another activity in your game to do once people tire of raids and instanced pvp which thats all these MMOs post- WOW are the same thing over and over with a little twist.