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rufiohoFeb 11, 2011
Alright these MMO fanboys are nuts. Just nuts.
dragonpieFeb 11, 2011
....we already have one of these. Its called post cu/nge SWG.
couragewulfFeb 11, 2011
Not sure why you're getting buried. SWG pre CU was the best Star Wars experience ever. The problem with the EMU is that they are putting their own little twist on the mechanics instead of doing a straight copy. Also, the server lags bad.
dragonpieFeb 11, 2011
Have they ? I've been keeping up with it, but not that closely. What little twists are they doing themselves?
acetatedFeb 11, 2011
Fear of being different leads to fanboy anger. Fanboy anger leads to fanboy hate. Fanboy hate leads to financial suffering for Bioware.
xtomtomxFeb 11, 2011
The author, (in addition to being more of a hack than an author) is a complete ignoramous. (and probably would benefit from some psychiatric help/social skills as well.)
ToR may be a similar or even same engine as WoW, but it won't be WoW, for obvious reasons which are quite plain to anyone who knows even a tiny bit of how the game industry works. It is a gross miscalculation to simply blanket judge anything else that isn't WoW for either trying to be WoW or not being WoW.
Will it be similar? OF COURSE! Will it share similar mechanics, game play and graphics? Who knows, but probably, and SO WHAT! Bioware has so much money invested in this project that the fans WILL get what they want in the end, and they will do whatever it takes to keep fans engaged. And you know what else? SO WHAT if it's a clone. I'll still play it, and so will millions of other people, simply because it's a Bioware product, and because they love Star Wars, and more importantly, ....and let me say this slowly for the author...IT'S LIKE WoW, which makes the learning curve all that more easy! (GASP!)
Lastly, I'd like to point out to the author, pretty much the whole Wow world is a "clone" of D&D.
/rant
garthsFeb 11, 2011
You wrote a lot of words, but provided surprisingly little information.
Is it a clone, or isn't it? And how exactly is gameplay differernt from WoW? I'd honestly like to know, having left WoW a few years ago.
xtomtomxFeb 11, 2011
I think you may have missed the point of my little rant.
adml_shakeFeb 11, 2011
So what? I'm not a WoW player any longer, but the idea of a WoW like game, as far as the game mechanics goes seems pretty appealing to me.
blamecanadaFeb 11, 2011
I'm inclinded to agree. WoW is tried and true. I haven't played it in years and even when I did I didn't manage to get much higher than level twenty-something. But millions are playing so it must be doing something right.
So building upon a proven model seems to make sense to me. Just because something is new or attempts to break the mold, doesn't necessarily mean that it is going to be better.
Honestly, one of the major things that have kept me away from WoW is that I'm not really into that whole side of the fantasy genre. But I am into SW and used to play SWG a lot until they, IMHO, killed it with the NGE.
Even if TOR was an exact clone of WoW but in the SW universe, that would be fine by me. Still, I'm sure they are doing plenty to differentiate from the WoW experience.
That said, any new MMORPG faces an uphill battle and often teeter on the verge of success or failure. One thing is for sure...anything tied to the SW franchise will at least attract throngs of players to begin with. Hopefully TOR will be good enough to keep em. I'll be checking it out for sure.
chilidogsFeb 11, 2011
A wow clone with star wars skins actually sounds pretty rad.
lespaul42Feb 11, 2011
"One of the reasons why DCUO found such great success"
I could be off base... but I thought DCUO sucked and wasn't really doing all that well?
lonewolfsanscubFeb 11, 2011
So I've never played WoW but I love The Old Republic universe. Should be rad.
jaythewiseFeb 11, 2011
Wow has well crafted quests and a dynamic world along with fairly balanced pvp which while in no ways perfect is better then most....
Every mmo should go for that for f**ks sake. The only issue I have with Wow is it's too easy until the end game grind... I dont really like the look of the Wow either I guess...
Closed AccountFeb 12, 2011
The writer seems completely off-base here. DCUO has sold roughly 300k copies, which is fairly strong but nowhere near what WoW did in the same amount of time.
Also, Bioware never actually says (going by what was quoted in this article) that TOR is a WoW clone. They mention that they're following the rules that WoW set because it's been so successful but there's nothing saying that they won't add their own spin on things and try to stand out from the crowd in some way.
TOR will fail miserably? I don't see that happening. With the Star Wars IP and the rough numbers of 500k subscriptions to make the game quite profitable, I think it'll do just fine even if it does turn out to be a "WoW clone".
dustinthewind2Feb 12, 2011
"Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that’s pretty dumb"
What a horrible thing to hear a developer say. I'm sick of WoW, have been sick of WoW for years. And what does this guy say? He tells us that unless a game is like WoW, it's "pretty dumb." Seriously? This dude really thinks that all we want are a bunch of WoW clones? If we wanted that, we'd, you know... f**kING PLAY WoW! That'd be like dozens of bad vampire movies and TV shows coming out just because Twilight was popular. Oh wait... that happened... and we're all sick of it.
gamepreordersFeb 12, 2011
Just wait for Guild Wars 2... Now those guys will break some rules :)
gakidouFeb 14, 2011
i think they said this just to get WoW fans to buy the game... lol