WAR (Warhammer Online)

Warcraft used ideas from Warhammer who used ideas from Lord of the Rings.

Warhammer Online used ideas from World of Warcraft.

Has WAR copied successfull concepts from other MMOs? Yes.

Are the main sources of inspiration DAoC and WoW? yes.

Did WoW/Warcraft copy the Warhammer world and lore? Yes.

Originally posted by Delondial

Originally posted by ILuvWoW

WoW is the reason why WAR even has any players, it attracts all the people who hate WoW.

WAR had a large tabletop community before the internet was even in full swing.

 

WoW created mmos  the like Nabster put pirating on the internet. It was still going on, they just put it in the spot light.

See, and I thought Evercrack was what swung the spotlight onto MMO's....what with all the people getting divorced over it and such.....then those of us who played it became "one of those people", lol
 

2 questions:

1 What is more important in games, art style or gameplay?

2 Who copied what?

Graphics

Warhammer has so many different looks, from the very cartoony to the serious.. its hard to not look like 1 of the Warhammer versions. But IMHO WoW has the better graphics.. not from a technical standpoint but from an artisic and visual standpoint.. theres so much more detail in WoW graphics than WARs.

  
           WAR (climax)                              WAR (Mythic)                                 WoW:WOTLK

Lore

Lore is a story they, dont share the same story, Warhammer has a very basic story about an endless war.. WoWs story is far deeper. IMHO

Gameplay

The similaries with WoW are obvious if you cant see those then your blind. yes theres some DAoC in there too. WoW is infulence by previous blizzard games such as Diablo but also games that came after Diablo such as EQ and OU.. WAR if infulence in the same way by games inc WoW that came before it.

But who cares. Well find out in a few weeks if WAR delivers

WAR copied Tolkien actually.

But Tolkien copied WoW.

Ok pplz, i have 5 things to say:

1. Orcs, Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, Giants, Ogres, creepy aliens, superhumans and fluffy man eating bunnies have been around for 1000's of years, they are the stuff of myth and cannot be plaigerised because they are owned by all.

2. probably the first mmo was mazewar, look it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazewar

3. Games workshop, the owners of warhammer, recruited blizzard to create a warhammer fantasy computer game for them. For whatever reason the deal fell through and blizzard took the work they had done on the game, altered the art, created a new story and released it as warcraft, (this has been stated in previous posts). Games workshop cunsequently sued blizzard for plaigerism, but it was found that blizzard had changed enough to evade copyright laws (there is a huge rivalry between games workshop and blizzard, blizzard also has been accused of stealing stuff for starcraft and games workshop has been accused of stealing some of the zerg creatures for use as tyranids).

4. who really cares? both have they're good points, both have they're bad points, they are both good games and both have fans. If u don't like one, play the other, if u like both, great, if u like neither fuck off and find something else to play.

5. Those who think only ppl who hate WoW will play WAR are sadly mistaken. I play warhammer fantasy and i was going to play WoW because there was no warhammer mmo, but then i heard of WAR and promptly forgot about ever playing WoW and kept track of WAR for most of its developement (unfortunatly i never got to play the closed beta =[ )

Originally posted by Brainybones

Ok pplz, i have 5 things to say:

1. Orcs, Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, Giants, Ogres, creepy aliens, superhumans and fluffy man eating bunnies have been around for 1000's of years, they are the stuff of myth and cannot be plaigerised because they are owned by all.

2. probably the first mmo was mazewar, look it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazewar

3. Games workshop, the owners of warhammer, recruited blizzard to create a warhammer fantasy computer game for them. For whatever reason the deal fell through and blizzard took the work they had done on the game, altered the art, created a new story and released it as warcraft, (this has been stated in previous posts). Games workshop cunsequently sued blizzard for plaigerism, but it was found that blizzard had changed enough to evade copyright laws (there is a huge rivalry between games workshop and blizzard, blizzard also has been accused of stealing stuff for starcraft and games workshop has been accused of stealing some of the zerg creatures for use as tyranids). I am sorry but this has NEVER been proven its just rumors.. with not an a single shred of proof.  Its a nice tale but its not been proven.

4. who really cares? both have they're good points, both have they're bad points, they are both good games and both have fans. If u don't like one, play the other, if u like both, great, if u like neither fuck off and find something else to play.

5. Those who think only ppl who hate WoW will play WAR are sadly mistaken. I play warhammer fantasy and i was going to play WoW because there was no warhammer mmo, but then i heard of WAR and promptly forgot about ever playing WoW and kept track of WAR for most of its developement (unfortunatly i never got to play the closed beta =[ )