EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Jessixa — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:09 GMT

lol wow will always own

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

cybernaught — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:08 GMT

Definitely....WoW is over 4 years old and people are looking for the "next big thing". There are only so many hours in a day and fewer that you can spend gaming. My WoW guild is looking forward to Warhammer (just as we were looking forward to WoW when we were still playing Star Wars Galaxies): some of us continued playing SWG, some split their time between the two games and others switched completely to WoW. There are a lot of people currently playing WoW that want a grittier, more mature, less "cartoon-y" game and they are definitely going to switch to Warhammer Online.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Oslar — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:07 GMT

There are somethings in WAR that WoW doesn't have...yet. Such as Sieges and RvR, but WoW's upcoming expansion will probably keep alot of WoW players on their lesh. WoW's expansion promises a new profession and a first for the game a "hero class" plus a new continent to explore: Northrend. Also WoW players will have to gain yet another ten levels to the new level cap of 80. WAR has plenty of awesome features and great fun and new ways of playing an MMO. WAR is trying to make everything go by alittle faster for example, WoW has a recipe system for professions while WAR doesn't. WAR may have alot of lures but is the worm big and juicy enough for players to bite? Possibly.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Deathmethod — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:06 GMT

I have to agree. It's very similar to EQ and DAoC. EQ was PvE oriented and was known as being the most popular game of it's time. DAoC was a PvP oriented game that had slightly fewer people, but the people I've talked to act as if the game was basically perfect, just aged. I think WAR will do good on it's own. 700,000 beta sign ups is nothing to scoff at. At the same time, WoW will probably keep it's majority popularity because of it's current fanbase. I for one, really want a more PvP oriented game, and cannot wait for Warhammer. Although while I'm waiting for it I keep going back to WoW. BTW, I think the crafting in WAR will be better, recipe systems get really boring.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Oslar — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:05 GMT

Heh, yeah they do :)

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Mygrn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:04 GMT

FYI Siege Warfare is supposedly a part of WotLK. Also along with destructible objects.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

souliisoul — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:03 GMT

Yes there are but everyone knows that was a direct rip-off from WAR by WoW developers. I would suggest everyone read the WAR information again on their web site, since WAR is PVP but will have PVE content, but at least it will support the single player who wants to contribute to the end game and not necessarily have to be part of a massive guild but WAR caters for smaller guilds.

Additionally, you do not have to be hardcore PvP or PVE player to enjoy the full content of WAR.

The crafting system by WAR has really shown WoW recipe system to be grinding boring task that does not allow players to enjoy the real content of the game. Do not get me wrong, no one should just be able to get epic stuff, but having to grind so intensely in WoW is just a waste of time and effort.

I do enjoy WoW and think it is a great game and as one developer said "It is the Gold Standard of MMO' but I will predict that WAR improves on that and I look forward to its release.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

gruntboy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:02 GMT

@souliisoul - I thought that siege weapons were an old idea in WoW, since before the original game was released. Pretty sure siege weapons were on the PvP feature list for WoW for a long long time, pre-WAR.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Aldrian — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:01 GMT

War have will PvP base but lately WoW have become more PvP freindly it is no lie about with new Honored system in WoW i would say that Blizzard have lost sight on PvE and tell that WoW is a PvE game is in my eyes and ear a big fat lie from Blizzard i have been play WoW from beta and i have see all change and tbh Blizzard have really mess up honored system alot so tell me that wont lose people the will for 85 to 90% off all player in WoW are on PvP server.....

Blizzard is also know to take thing from other game and i think WotLK will be more PvP freindly and not so much PvE freindly in the end game for blizzard end game are only 3 thing to be honest it is farming rep/money, Raid and PvP it is only thing you can do in WoW

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

OMally — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:17:00 GMT

Anyone else catch that?

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

WookRAWR — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:16:59 GMT

in the case of seige weapons WAR copied WoW. It is known fact that WotLK was going to be the first Xpac for WoW but at the time Blizz didn't have their servers or graphics up to date for it.
They also wanted things to be at a higher lvl for WotLK. SO we got ported to frickin space in TBC and all let down.
WotLK will bring a lot of base back to the game and a lot of ppl will be happy with it since it will have something for both hardcore players and causal.

WAR is just over Hyped it will never match AoC or WoW, to many ppl are finding out that it's no where near finished or even up to date, After being in 2 beta tests from 2007 and the last round I was hugely disappointed so i bought AoC and found it was good but soon as WotLK comes out i think I'll be playing WoW again with many old timers.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

d4nthraxxx — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:16:58 GMT

Actually, WAR takes it's siege system from Dark Age of Camelot, which came out long before WoW.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Merah — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:16:57 GMT

Wow is good to PVE but to resume the PvP in WoW, it's all about you, your stuff, your honnor, nothing much, Warhammer makes all level chars small or high to be important for the war, your guild take experiences, countries are ownable, there is a larger number of classes/talents and I forget lots of other nice things I enjoy discoverin while playing it. WaR won't probably replace WoW here but I think I will have both because WoW does not reach Warhammer in term of "war"

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

Aughban — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:16:56 GMT

a lot of Warhammer is hype, after having played a version at games day i was unimpressed, things that where promised to be good where infact disappointing and it just felt like playing any other MMO. I think wow is going to stand the tests of time with its already dominant hold getting even stronger.

EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

ArenaceusMaga — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:16:55 GMT

Unfortunately... Warhammer is almost 100% hype. I won't give any specifics because of NDA but its sadly just not going to cut it. WoW was amazing in beta and has always been solid. Warhammer just doesn't have that greatness. I really hope Blizzard gets some competition soon though because they make strange decisions when they have no one making them sweat a little.