I have a War account, and will keep it, it's a great game. I have been a huge geek on paladins sine my first D&D adventure in the 80's and I really enjoy the Warrior priest class in War. However, I love WoW, I have 3 raid worthy lvl 70 Paladins on WoW along with a raid worthy lvl 70 mage and a lvl 70 tier 5 lock and a lvl 65 shammy and a fair ammount of alts ranging from 10 to 50, I got hooked on wow during closed beta along with my girlfriend and will be for some time to come. With that said, I really like what warhammer is doing, I enjoyed Daoc back in the day and I see this as a much more accessible version of it, and I am a sucker for PvP. Seeing as I'm a tool and all, it being accessible is a huge factor for me, it's clear they took notes from world of wacraft, and hopefull blizzard will get inspired to take notes from Warhammer *couhg* public quests *cough*.
I was never hating on Warhammer, I was hating Jacobs, Mythics CEO, who was clearly being a little defensive against WoW. Any person with a little common sense knows that war is doing great. It can only grow from here on end imho, but attacking WoW, for basically being at the right place, and the right time, and being accessible enough to explode like it did in the long run for an MMO is childish, especially for a CEO of a company. Warhammer will go on for years to come, but attacking wow publicaly like he did is for marketing purposes only, to think otherwise is crazy.
As for your dear friend Zonker, if he does not want to change, that's his choice, he should'nt downplay Warhammer though but the reality is that any MMO with a high population count will have people crying about X patch broke the game, or Y class is OP, that's the nature of the beast, Jacobs was the same guys that said that when they game would launch, the classes wont be tweaked, they will be as they are, yet patches are playing around with classes less then 2 months in.
I'm just a little annoyed of this WoW hate when 70% of the people that play wow would of never even bothered with a game like warhammer, or EvE, or Vanguard or Lineage in the first place. It got a big piece of the pie, and 5 years down the road I think it will still have a lot of people playing it, like people still play UO or EQ. It's all about choice.
I am never one to say that Warhammer copied Warcraft's lore, that would be stupid as it's has been clear to me since I installed Warcraft : Human and orcs, many moons ago, that blizzard where huge fans of Warhammer, they even have their own 40k with starcraft. But last time I checked, Blizzard did a lot of things right with thei MMO and it's pretty easy to see that when most people say warhammer copied wow, it's in that respect, not the lore.
and as for that gamasutra article, a lot has changed in wow since feburay 2006. It was a great read though, made me realize just how much has changed.
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