Warhammer Online

[Lezaro]

how many of you are going to check it out?

me, gausav, and a couple friends from school are going too

[Darkmatter]

I'm not sure if I will

[Mobus]

I won't be. I'm just waiting for the new Star Wars mmo.

[esno]

i have it pre orderd gonna give it a run

[esno]

Lol love the phelps super saiyen thing hahaha

[Lezaro]

cool

[Mobus]

Sept 6, 2008 9:57:50 GMT -5 esno said:

Lol love the phelps super saiyen thing hahaha

Yeah it is funny. It is also kind of scary how low he has his bathing suit down, though. I mean man, Phelps Jr. has got to be within millimeters of saying hello to the International Community.

[Mobus]

Interesting.

kotaku.com/5046327/wow-is-a-dirty-word

MMOs aren’t like other games. They’re closer to a lifestyle choice, for a lot of people defining how their spare time is spent, how their lives are lived. So if you criticise the game, you criticise the player. God knows there are plenty of non-MMO games that people treat as though they’re bound to their very souls - witness the pile-on for Eurogamer’s MGS4 review, or even the outrage about various RPS writers being down on Stalker: Clear Sky - but it’s even worse with MMOs. Telling a WAR player that his game is similar to WoW is like telling a goth that he’s emo. No-one wants to be told they’re not unique and interesting, to be dismissed as a stereotype they’re not.

WAR is not WoW. But it is a lot like it in a number of crucial ways, and for one essential reason: money. I suspect Mythic and EA aren’t too concerned about the comparison themselves - they might disagree with the sweeping generalisation, but if they didn’t want to be compared they would have gone for an entirely different interface and art approach. Saying WAR is like WoW is not the same as saying it’s a bad or a lazy game, but unfortunately there are guys who do intentionally make the comparison unfavourably, and that’s perhaps understandably made a lot of WAR fans very touchy.