No, I don’t always agree with RPS, but isn’t that the whole goddamn point? If we all lined up like soldiers and vowed not to have different opinions or sway too far from the message, how shitty would the world become? Isn’t that just the same as politics and political parties? I thought the original article was spot on, but never bothered to read those comments for whatever reason.

Now, I’m in the camp that disagrees with RPS’s STALKER CS opinions, we all can’t like the same games and the same functions within our games but that doesn’t take away from how much I enjoy this site, and that absolutely doesn’t warrant me to come here and make it personal. It’s almost like the WAR community is just like the WoW community, but their a bunch of infants, since there game is in it’s early stages of release. Once the game is out, it can speak for itself, and I suspect just like we saw with Age of Conan, it will die down after a few months due to a lack of content, which seems to be the problem in almost every MMO. If Mythic can do anything, it’s to make sure they hire a room of 500 people making content for this game, because they’re gonna need it or suffer the same fate.

The bottom line is, RPS is the best PC news editorial aggregate site on the net. Nothing even comes close. PC Gaming magazines are obsolete by default with a site like this, and if you enjoy reading on the pot? Print it out, it works fantastically..

I would really like to buy WAR.. the main problem is quests.. quests are what you do in the game for at least 50% of your overall /played. And they feel exactly as they felt in WoW. They’re bla and brawl (except ive been told the tome quests seem very interactive, with puzzles and some brain-food, both a rarity and a poison for today’s “cry for hints” players). As far as i’ve seen PvP is nowhere near fun, it feels more like NatGeo lions vs zebras, hunting groups of hungry beasts waiting for a pup to slow down and separate from the bulk… besides the engine and interface which inevitable drag back to the same old playstyle.
Im not dumb enuff to pay for a game i’ve already played in the past (at least 50% of it).
Average players are and will pay for it, instead, because they don’t know/don’t care that they’re playing basically copycats. The community is made mostly of office-crazed freaks who just want to vent their frustration in a user-friendly, cozy, FAMILIAR, and easy to handle game full of presto achievements, so they will not put one in their heads. And it’s easy to realize that WAR’s main goal is to make things user-friendly, just as WoW did with the games before it. WAR is based on dumb-down, in the end… for god sake my character couldn’t even WALK and SIT! This is the rule of mass market, this is what happens when ANYTHING becomes mass and has to appeal to millions, it-gets-dumbed-down.

While some people like new game mechanics and interesting things to do, others are happy with easy to use games, addictive and with familiar interfaces that don’t require thought to be mastered. And WAR tries to give ‘em that and prolly succeeds. But please do NOT tell me about beatles and Led Zeppelin, because WAR is just good marketing.

I believe some ppl will deny this because they consider those similarities as the very foundation of the genre MMO.

Which is ofc ridiculous, it’s just them never having plaid UO and planetside.

Others just don’t like it when someone’s telling a truth they don’t wanna hear about their favorite gamey.

Thank God there still unbiased folks like you RPS buds. Don’t ever worry, We got your backs.

Considering EQ released March 99 and AC Nov 99, Turbine must be really, really good to have “cloned” EQ in that time ;)

Seriously dude, just the “AC is a EQ clone” comment alone disqualifies you from this conversation. Sorry :(

All facetious comments aside, and taking Noc’s comments into account, and what Alex posted, I accept your apologies and am in turn sorry if I hurt your feelings. Welcome to the Cult of War….WAAAAGH!!!!!

@ the “WAR vs WOW” folks. Who gives a ***** who copied who, what matters is if it’s 1. a decent game (stable, relatively bug free) and 2 FUN! So far WAR is both (IMHO :))

Since “warcraft” ripped off “warhammer”, maybe we can talk about the real inspiration for both.

Mythic is the “Burger King” to Blizzard’s “McDonald’s”, and to claim more is to put on airs of innovation unbecoming either team.