Vanguard, new game Options

[hodge]

Everything is a rip off.

WoW was a complete rip off of EQ, where they just made it 100x easier so anybody could play.

EQ was a rip off of Ultima Online to some
The whole genre is getting so played out - but who knows, somebody may come in and just do the same thing that the others did in the past - rip off the fun aspects and ideas of the previous king, and add things to make it more user friendly.

its more apt to say vanguard is ripping off WoW in this case tho, and be correct.

vanguard in early beta's didnt look like it does now, and the game play wasnt the same. then microsoft snuck a focus group in, they thought the game was shit. microsoft realized the situation they were in, backed out and sold it back to sigil, now to try and recoup and make a profitible game, they blatantly are ripping stuff off from wow. the interface is just the most obvious thing.

WoW unfortunately is redefining mmo's, like it or not. they took a lot of what EQ and other mmo's had and polished/reused it. because of this new mmo's have to take what people like about WoW, polish that and reuse it adding whatever "new and amazing" system they can which another mmo will refine. unfortunately vanguard is best summed up with this video..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5092334696541893626