Tabula Rasa

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by _Shadowmage

- strength of the I.P in the gaming industry - Warcraft were hugely successful games, whereas at the time SWG was released there had not been a good Star Wars game released.

Lucas Arts sold more Star Wars PC games before SWG launched than Blizzard sold Warcrafts.  People tend to forget the original War Craft was f*cking terrible.  It was a turn based POS and that's why Blizzard went into scramble mode to save their company in 1994 and completely ripped off Command & Conquer (itself an evolution of Westwood's previous RTS title, Dune II) with Warcraft II.

The only thing WoW had going for it is that it came hot off the heels of Warcraft III which terrible PC gaming magazines were going ape sh*t over (even though the game was completely pedestrian and still just a poorly done Westwood ripoff).

Wow, quit bitching, everyone grabs ideas from each other in every industry. It's who succeeds with it wins. I believe Blizzard succeeded more than Westwood in the RTS market only by popularity, granted I love both companies; but I never found a similarity between any of the Warcrafts and Starcraft when compared to Command & Conquer (you cuold be bitching about the normal RTS formula, which is quite retarded if I might say so). They were completely different and that is why I played them all. Blizzard won the popularity contest by their Battle.net, Westwood had something similar I believe at the time, but it was completely no match for either Warcraft II or Starcraft's battle.net. Warcraft III took the battle.net system to the next level and just made online gaming a delight, granted I'm not sure of the recent online changes to the newest Command & Conquers, but that is where it's at.. the online. Blizzard is just simply better at it. Their battle.net also has experience from their Diablo franchise. Guess what? It was all free and that was a big ass deal at the time of Warcraft II & Starcraft.

I'd argue how Blizzard redefined the RTS genre by implementing RPG elements correctly into Warcraft III, but it'll be useless because I'm sure someone in the distant universe already had invented it completly shitty and unresponsive (which is your arguement). Else, they would've gotten the same satisfaction, correct?

R.I.P. Tabula Rasa. A lovely attempt to depart from the WoW inspiration, but ultimately too much potential not lived up to.

P.S. Wow popularity=having "Blizzard" name on the box. End of story.

Originally posted by Scottgun

R.I.P. Tabula Rasa. A lovely attempt to depart from the WoW inspiration, but ultimately too much potential not lived up to.

 

P.S. Wow popularity=having "Blizzard" name on the box. End of story.

Funny, TR had Richard "Father of mmorpgs" Garriott, and where did it end up?

WoW popularity = Blizzard being good at what they do and focusing on the game they made. Didn't see any Blizzard devs running away from their game to go on a space jaunt.

I always wanted to try out this game, never got round to it. now I get to play it free for a month hopefully id ont end up liking it

Am I the only one wondering why they can't make it F2P with ingame advertisement?... Exteel & Dungeon Runners are F2P and they run fine, decent population playing the game with quite a number of advertisements in Exteel. RGTR is a futuristic game, so advertisements won't really do any damage to it...

... Seems like I pressed ENTER to early :p so the poll's messed up & can't edit >_<

Originally posted by arrowotwood

Am I the only one wondering why they can't make it F2P with ingame advertisement?... Exteel & Dungeon Runners are F2P and they run fine, decent population playing the game with quite a number of advertisements in Exteel.

Like time I checked Exsteel also has a cash shop... I doubt the in-game ads support it. I've never played Dungeon Runners but I would suspect it is in the same boat.

I just wish that Richard didnt fill his pockets and used TR as an mofo xcuse to get his butt launched in thin air for a shitload of millions, but donated some of his egotestical earned money in the game  and tried to save it but noooo.... jump the ship before its to late and NCsoft just let him get away with it. His goodbye letter from the game is even a bigger laugh