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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
See Blaster here is where I disagree - I think people, like with what happened with AOC is they are going to log in to the game, play it for a few months, experience the grind, experience new MMO bugs (which every single MMO experiences regardless of how much beta testing there is, and EA has a pretty bad rep for not doing enough testing), poor response time on bug fixes, poor customer service.
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The difference is, WoW has no expansions coming. AoC came out a few months before WotLK, which was the expansion most players had been waiting for. TOR is coming out free and clear in a time when interest in the WoW story is waning. So there is no real WoW competition. But you are right, WoW players will jump ship if this is a vanilla WoW clone. I said as much in my post.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
They think - why the heck am I playing this when everything that pissed me off about WoW is exactly what is happening in this game? I've created X number of characters in WoW before, why am I doing the exact same thing again?
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Because if the early grind is not as mind numbing as their first characters and the story is interesting and the end game content is solid, the pay off is worth it. But Vanilla WoW clone means they will feel the way you've described.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Why am I starting over?
It takes years to get those things established.
There are countless games based on lore already, has the failure of SWG left everyone's mind already? Just because it has the franchise tag on it, doesn't mean that it will be successful.
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Which deviated from the WoW model (mistake one) and had huge balance issues (mistake two). It was a bad game and still moved one million units.
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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
Watching a bunch of the videos tonight, I feel like this looks more like KotOR 3 with Coop Multiplayer than it does WOW2:Star Wars Edition.
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How something looks and how something plays are totally different. Also turn based does not work in an MMO setting. It makes PvP clunky.