WAR (Warhammer Online)

Originally posted by NotArkard

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually saw Warcraft 40,000.

Starcraft.

 Blizzard copying Warhammer? Wouldn't be the first time.. 

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by redcap036

What!?!.. WoW copying from other games, Shirley you jest?!
 

 

         Its funny while many of us know these guys are the kings of copy, there are still many people that know of no other game and think every game copies off of WoW.......

So is Microsoft...and look how well they did....but you know it's like who makes the better  and cheeper ball point pen in the end.

And GW copied from Chainmail to make Warhammer...

And Chainmail was based on existing table-top gaming rules, some from Avalon Hill...

"There's nothing new under the sun."

And faction based gameplay? That's been around forever. Unreal, Tribes, Planetside (Before DAOC had working RvR), any number of RTS's...

Originally posted by Balthaazar1

 Blizzard copying Warhammer? Wouldn't be the first time.. 

 Fanboy going into nerdrage? wouldn't be the first time

Originally posted by Warguru

With a recent announcement from blizzard saying how they are turning their PvP into more of a faction thing, and taking it away from competitive e-sports thing makes me think of WAR.. on top of that they are adding the possibility of queing from anywhere in the world..

Their new tome system, err i mean Achievement system.. phasing outposts (living cities).

Tell me, do I need a tinfoil hat or do you also think they are actually copying stuff directly from WAR?

Link to the source where blizzard made the announcement is in my signature below.

Of course they are..  and I don't blame them.

What I do blame them for is being so damn late about it.  I would still be playing WoW if they'd had any care for the PvP community..  but they stuck their hypothetical fingers up at us then and never bothered to realise the factional conflict properly..  every expansion was focused on raiding.

Now they realise that the PvPers are moving..  theyre crawling back to us and offering us what we want.  Too late I say.  I will not be going back.

Blizzard can incorporate free massages with happy endings into their games for all I care.  At this point I'm so tired of WoW nothing is gonna bring me back.

Does that mean I'll stay in WAR?  Certainly not if they dont improve performace issues, bugs, etc. (Although I think Mythic is working hard on these problems).  But, at the very least, I'm not going back to WoW...

I shudder to think of giving another penny to that company.

I can guarantee you that right now Blizzard has a team of people playing WAR and reporting back with detailed analyses on what's good and what's not.

The big wigs will then use this data to try and make WoW better in these areas. Whether they pull it off or not is the key.

A bit of healthy competition never harmed anyone and it's this competition that has made the MMORPG industry what it is today. There's no way WAR would be what it is if it hadn't been influenced by WoW in some way.

Blizzard trying to implement these great game mechanics into their game will only strive WAR to become bigger and better than it already is. But then of course this works both ways, it's the perfect synergy.

Originally posted by Sweeet

I can guarantee you that right now Blizzard has a team of people playing WAR and reporting back with detailed analyses on what's good and what's not.

The big wigs will then use this data to try and make WoW better in these areas. Whether they pull it off or not is the key.

A bit of healthy competition never harmed anyone and it's this competition that has made the MMORPG industry what it is today. There's no way WAR would be what it is if it hadn't been influenced by WoW in some way.

Blizzard trying to implement these great game mechanics into their game will only strive WAR to become bigger and better than it already is. But then of course this works both ways, it's the perfect synergy.

Any company with more than 4 employees probably has people playing every current game on the market.  What percentage of the devs from Warhammer do you think at one point had an active account in WOW, my guess is a large portion of them also played AOC.  It would be absolutely stupid of a gaming company NOT to pick off the best ideas from other games.  You don't think Warhammer devs aren't currently beta testing Lake WIntergrasp and taking notes?

It's widely obvious when a gaming company DOESN'T play it's competitor's game (which is the vast minority).  For instance, it was clearly obvious that nobody at Funcom had ever played UO because they created the exact same pvp system and then had to delay it months until they fixed things that UO had fixed years earlier.

Players aren't going to play a game because it invented something, they are going to play the game that made something the most fun.  And it's silly the number of people who say "  X game stole that idea from 'my' game".. and are ignorant to the fact that most features in their game were stolen from other games.

Again, how many people know that UO had PQ's for about 4 years now with nearly the exact same mechanism ( kill 100 easy mobs, 100 harder mobs take their place, kill those and get harder mobs, kill those and get a boss).