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Originally posted by Waterlily

No, I'll set you straight here.
 
WoW is successful because:
 
-It runs on almost any system
-It's has rock solid gameplay
-It caters to both raiding and single player gameplay
-They have decent customer support
-Their servers are stable
-Their quest system is great
-They have a great team of designers and great support and relationships with  hardware and GPU companies
 
If you don't like WoW, that's aight, but WoW is successful because it did a lot of stuff right, SoE.........not so much.
I don't agree with you or the OP that makes WoW look like a mistake, it's an awesome game for the people that enjoy playing.
 

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1. BS.
2. BS.
3. BS.
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. DEFINITE REASON NOT TO PLAY. No more of this Made for Nvidia and more spam before a game -- where you have to find a way to get kill 3 minutes of ads. >:(

I hate WoW. Not only because of what it did to gaming itself, but it's graphics. Last time I played with dolls and "cute" play things was 30 years ago.

Blizzard do gaming a favor: roll over and play dead (I'm sure your team of designers can make it a fine funeral, too). Thank you!

Originally posted by UNATCOII

 

 

 

I hate WoW.

Blizzard do gaming a favor: roll over and play dead (I'm sure your team of designers can make it a fine funeral, too). Thank you!

Get over yourself imo. It's the most successful MMO ever.

If you don't like WoW, that's fine, but there's really no need to be a hate mongering zombie about it. If that's who you'd like to be, fine, have fun, yawn, no one will care.

Originally posted by Waterlily

Originally posted by UNATCOII

 

 

 

I hate WoW.

Blizzard do gaming a favor: roll over and play dead (I'm sure your team of designers can make it a fine funeral, too). Thank you!

 

Get over yourself imo. It's the most successful MMO ever.

If you don't like WoW, that's fine, but there's really no need to be a hate mongering zombie about it. If that's who you'd like to be, fine, have fun, yawn, no one will care.

Aren't you suppose to be smoking the crack? It's 9pm, dear, and you're here and not at your WoW crack house.

lololol

Lots of good responses (until the thread became a WoW-bashing contest, at least). I can't repond to every one of them, but I am surprised at how many people think I'm trying to remake EQ1. If the paper gave that impression, I guess I should go back and change a couple things, because I was as clear as I thought I could be in saying that developers should not replicate any game, specifically mentioning EQ1.

EQ1 had a great many things that were wrong with it, many of which were described in this thread. I would be foolish to point towards that game as the goal for any developer. I certainly wouldn't play it, and described earlier in this thread that EQ1 didn't succeed on more than 1 or 2 of the 8 points I made in the paper. 

What I wanted to point out are the things about EQ1 that were somewhat successful, because it doesn't appear that developers realize what held gamers so tightly to that game while it was still going strong. WoW did a stupendous job on seeing what was wrong with EQ1 and improving the deficiencies, but I have yet to see a game put forth a major effort to capitalize the few things that made the game appealing.

Again, I hope no future game is comparable to EQ1 in general (there were far too many things wrong with it), but I do think there are one or two aspects of the game that I can point to and say "look at the effect of this strategy", without promoting a duplication of the game.

Originally posted by Waterlily

Originally posted by Ghazni

8)                  Gameplay does not have to be difficult, but it must be challenging. There is a difference.

 

Many gamers do not like dumbed down MMOs. None of your target audience does (I’ll explain why later).

 

 

 

 

This is seriously wrong.

WoW is huge, how you can make such a statement and actually believe it is just stupidity.

You also write MANY, and then write NONE. What is it?

How do you even know that  None of your target audience does? How many players did you actually ask this question to? I'm guessing........NONE.

Your whole post is just drivel.

 

Actually, what i wrote does make sense. I'd defend myself but spending that much time on your horrible response would be an insult to those who actually gave constructive feedback.