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Every Theme Park MMO is a World of Warcraft Clone: Guild Wars 2 | MMORPG.com

Nick is back with his tongue-in-cheek column all about how every theme park MMO is just a World of Warcraft clone in disguise. This time he looks at ArenaNet's excellent MMO, Guild Wars 2.

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Angrakhan

I honestly can't tell if this article is serious or satire.

Scot

Angrakhan said:

I honestly can't tell if this article is serious or satire.

Tagged "Tongue in Cheek", but may that be there to make us think he is not serious.

lotrlore

Scot said:

Angrakhan said:

I honestly can't tell if this article is serious or satire.

Tagged "Tongue in Cheek", but may that be there to make us think he is not serious.

That and the literal disclaimer at the bottom stating point blank that this is meant to "not be taken seriously," yea.

jenk3m

Surely most of these "people" articles are just poorly written AI slop

Wargfoot

lotrlore said:

Scot said:

Angrakhan said:

I honestly can't tell if this article is serious or satire.

Tagged "Tongue in Cheek", but may that be there to make us think he is not serious.

That and the literal disclaimer at the bottom stating point blank that this is meant to "not be taken seriously," yea.

Scot, he just said that you're not to be taken seriously, and some rude things about "yo momma" I won't repeat (1)


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1: Due to endemic reading comprehension issues, this may be the wrong forum for "not to be taken seriously".

Vagabondo

Hahaha

Nick_Shively

jenk3m said:

Surely most of these "people" articles are just poorly written AI slop

You're poorly written AI.

Wargfoot

jenk3m said:

Surely most of these "people" articles are just poorly written AI slop

If you cannot be nice we'll have to close your lid.

Angrakhan

Oh my gosh.

-facepalm

Let me try this again. In spite of the column name and the disclaimer I cannot honestly tell if this is satire or not because frankly so many people express this sort of opinion and they're dead serious.

I guess I shouldn't try and post when I only have a few minutes between meetings and can't explain myself in detail.

Gorwe

Yeah, the GW series and WoW clone. Right. 

(Amazing games, but I don't really like 2 as much as 1)

Brenix

GW2's UI is enough to make me never want to touch the game again. Maaaaybe it's just the art style and animations....and the combat. I don't know, it just might be the whole game honestly. The mounts might be the only positive I can think of, funnily enough.

Vagabondo

I love Guild Wars 3

Mazeneal

Angrakhan said:

Oh my gosh.



-facepalm



Let me try this again. In spite of the column name and the disclaimer I cannot honestly tell if this is satire or not because frankly so many people express this sort of opinion and they're dead serious.



I guess I shouldn't try and post when I only have a few minutes between meetings and can't explain myself in detail.

I actually knew what you meant, but still want to point at the bottom disclaimer and tag! Bwahaha....ha

Alverant

City of Heroes predates World of Warcraft so it would be fair to say it's a CoH clone.

Theocritus

and WoW is a EQ clone....They dumbed it down, gave it cartoonish graphics, made everything for the masses, and had a company with billions at its disposal to market and hype the game like no one else ever could....It arrived at a perfect time and you have to give them credit for that....Maybe someone else should look at the games today and take the same approach?...Find a more hardcore game and dumb it down...maybe Eve Online or Dark Souls.

Scot

scrotum_citizen said:

 double post

Err Welcome to the forums!

Scot

On a serious note, you could see the effect of WoW on GW2. GW was very much its own game, from a time when each MMO had its own approach to what was best about MMORPG's. WoW did not just usher in WoW clones, it brought in the idea there was a "best" way to make a MMO, that perhaps more than trying to follow WoW itself was a bigger handicap for MMO evolution.

goemoe

Every car is a Ford clone... it has wheels, you know? Oh, oh... this is not meant serious... I guess...

Splattr

Scot said:

Angrakhan said:

I honestly can't tell if this article is serious or satire.

Tagged "Tongue in Cheek", but may that be there to make us think he is not serious.

Anything, anywhere tagged as tongue in cheek has a little bit of truth hidden behind it. What I find amazing is that 20 years after it's release, the mere mention of WoW clones still triggers people from both sides of the argument. Yes, we all know that WoW wasn't the first MMO, and we also know that it took elements from {insert your favorite pre 2004 MMO here}.

Scot

Splattr said:

Anything, anywhere tagged as tongue in cheek has a little bit of truth hidden behind it. What I find amazing is that 20 years after it's release, the mere mention of WoW clones still triggers people from both sides of the argument. Yes, we all know that WoW wasn't the first MMO, and we also know that it took elements from {insert your favorite pre 2004 MMO here}.

In some ways WoW became the "best" way to make a MMO because it put so much money into making the game (supposedly 63M) compared to previous MMORPG's. So trying to copy the WoW template with less money as so many did was bound to not reach the hights of the original.

ESO is quite WoW like, they spent a shed load and they have a really solid MMORPG, if you are going to try to copy WoW get your wallet out.

Neoyoshi

Wake me up when you do a FFXIV edition of this, so you actually have to play FFXIV, and then advertise FFXIV.

Nick_Shively

Neoyoshi said:

Wake me up when you do a FFXIV edition of this, so you actually have to play FFXIV, and then advertise FFXIV.

Already done!

https://www.mmorpg.com/columns/every-theme-park-mmo-is-a-world-of-warcraft-clone-final-fantasy-xiv-edition-2000133084

Uruboz

I wonder how this website allowed such a bad post with no head and no feet.

Nosense of info that feels like reading AI

Anyway, OP should not taking seriously lol

WoW copied EQ bro

GW2 copied WoW and vice versa!

Gorwe

Scot said:

On a serious note, you could see the effect of WoW on GW2. GW was very much its own game, from a time when each MMO had its own approach to what was best about MMORPG's. WoW did not just usher in WoW clones, it brought in the idea there was a "best" way to make a MMO, that perhaps more than trying to follow WoW itself was a bigger handicap for MMO evolution.

GW 2 isn't what it is because of WoW. ANet could've easily went with "GW, the modern engine version". But people requested the open world. People requested the ability to jump. People requested races(not as much as others, but it is there).

Would I like GW 1, the modern engine version? ... let me correct that. I would LOVE that. But it is what it is. And GW 2 is fair enough, just not really for me.

Mova_Z

This post is ridiculous and very inaccurate. The fact that this person is even discussing dragons, shows you all you need to know. Years ago, we saw the end of dragons. I would love to see a new dragon emerge, to be honest, because we haven't seen them for quite some time.