WAR (Warhammer Online)

With a recent announcement from blizzard saying how they are turning their PvP into more of a faction thing, and taking it away from competitive e-sports thing makes me think of WAR.. on top of that they are adding the possibility of queing from anywhere in the world..

Their new tome system, err i mean Achievement system.. phasing outposts (living cities).

Tell me, do I need a tinfoil hat or do you also think they are actually copying stuff directly from WAR?

Link to the source where blizzard made the announcement is in my signature below.

not gonna take sides cause WoW fanbois will probably go nutz. Oh well yea they are.

Well they already stole/adapted from Warhammer (tabletop) many many years ago, now they are just going in for the kill and going to copy it all now (WAR:Online).

No tinfoil hat, they want it all and are willing to do what it takes to capture and hold onto the entire market.

As much as I like Blizzard; they've always been copying things from Games Workshop and the Warhammer lore. No big surprise. So, yes, they are copying stuff directly from WAR.

Experience for PvP - both in daily world PvP and daily BG's were introduced in October 2007 ....

I leveled the last part of my PvP rogue purely on PvP doing the daily PvP world quests and BG.

So ...

No news there - unless WAR was introduced in Sep 2007 ....

To be copying War those things from would need to be original to War. They're not so Blizzard isn't.  In this day and age you're not going to find a whole lot of new things in fantasy MMOs.

if you see a feature of a rival and you have the good sense to realize that it is better than yours, yes, you are going to try and implement it in your game as well.

This has been going on since the dawn of games and it is an evolving process.

What one has to be interested into is how this features will affect each game, where they are gonna be better made and so on.

In the end if the impact of WAR will make WoW a better PvP game, I am all for it to happen. I wish the impact of WoW will serve to make WAR a better game as well.

Heh good, then it's not me. When i read the link Yijal posted to where the announcement from Blizzard were made, every damn line just told me "copy, copy, copy...". It's like they're taking every little difference feature-wise that WAR has, and blizzard hasn't. It's like they're trying to not give anyone a reason to ever play WAR > WoW.  

Thanks again to Yijal for pointing this announcement out for me!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I for one am glad that they are implementing this. I won't have to worry about buying WAR at all now if similar gameplay is incorporated into WoW. I can stick with just the one sub.

What!?!.. WoW copying from other games, Shirley you jest?!