Why did Warhammer mmo 'W.A.R.' never become big?
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technically two of those were trying to compete with each other and giuld wars did not try to copy wow it tried to compete with itDulcinea said:Really? Guild Wars is trying to copy WoW? Star Trek Online? EVE?Turing said:When all other MMOs created are trying to beat or copy World Of Warcraft, that pretty much makes it the industry standard whatever you believe it or notDulcinea said:
I'll give you EVE isn't so much a cardboard copy as the rest of them and seeing as Guild Wars was released only about 6 months after WoW, they would have been hardpressed to make a lot of changes.Dulcinea said:Really? Guild Wars is trying to copy WoW? Star Trek Online? EVE?Turing said:When all other MMOs created are trying to beat or copy World Of Warcraft, that pretty much makes it the industry standard whatever you believe it or notDulcinea said:
That doesn't change the fact that most MMOs, free or otherwise, are obviously taking more than token inspiration from WoW.
Indeed. But since those games aren't being played by around 12 million players, they're not the industry standard.Dulcinea said:And WoW took all its inspiration from Ultima Online and Everquest.Turing said:I'll give you EVE isn't so much a cardboard copy as the rest of them and seeing as Guild Wars was released only about 6 months after WoW, they would have been hardpressed to make a lot of changes.Dulcinea said:Really? Guild Wars is trying to copy WoW? Star Trek Online? EVE?Turing said:When all other MMOs created are trying to beat or copy World Of Warcraft, that pretty much makes it the industry standard whatever you believe it or notDulcinea said:
That doesn't change the fact that most MMOs, free or otherwise, are obviously taking more than token inspiration from WoW.
I realise you don't LIKE it, but that doesn't make it untrue.
I mean shit, Activision bought up Blizzard and not long after Activisions primary competitor buys up Bioware and tasks them with making an MMO.
You know why? Because you need to have an MMO to compete in the big boy leagues and WoW is, very arguably, the best there is
not exactly minecraft for instace isnt competing with wow in terms of stealing player base economically they might be competing but the people attracted to the games are mostly differentDulcinea said:Ever game is competing with every other game. That means nothing.Tim_Buoy said:technically two of those were trying to compete with each other and giuld wars did not try to copy wow it tried to compete with itDulcinea said:Really? Guild Wars is trying to copy WoW? Star Trek Online? EVE?Turing said:When all other MMOs created are trying to beat or copy World Of Warcraft, that pretty much makes it the industry standard whatever you believe it or notDulcinea said:
Lack of any meaningful end game at release (devs seem to think that the players level slow and they will have time to get end game going. Such is not the case.) and lack of class focus. Every patch they seemed to completely revamp a class, sometimes several times, completely changing its play style and role. Combine the two and you have a game that will last a couple months, in any meaningful way.
This ^. I hardly know anyone who actually plays the table-top version of original Warhammer, and I only vaguely remember the ONE game I played of Original Warhammer which was called Dark Omen on PC about 9 years ago.Loop Stricken said:
But still....yea 40K universe MMORPG would be awesome...I mean I would subscribe in an instant.
Rift seems to be doing pretty well with that train of thought, and it's marketing continually promised it wasn't WoW. Oops, guess there was a lack of communication between marketing and the dev team, because it's just like WoW.Souplex said:
Rift does nothing Warhammer didn't already, and I liked Warhammer far better, but that's just personal preference.
