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Posted: Nov 8th 2008 1:50PM Abriael said

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got a call from blizzard about not hyping WOTLK enough? :D
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Posted: Nov 8th 2008 3:10PM Wispur said

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Ok, what game do you play that is so much better than WoW that it causes you to hate WoW so?

Clearly you've found the perfect game that makes all overs fail in comparison. Please share. =)
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Posted: Nov 8th 2008 5:36PM Abriael said

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I'm playing warhammer at the moment, and while not being perfect yet, i definately find it superior to wow in basically every aspect.

I don't "hate" wow, but I do think it's massively overrated, and that while it brought something good to the MMO market, economically (lots of people), it damaged it in so many other ways (expecially community-wise, and in making any attempt to innovate seem almost detrimental) that it's impact on the MMO market is to be considered almost completely negative.
One of the reasons why i'm rooting for WAR (besides the fact that it's providing me with the most fun i ever had on a MMO) to be very successful on the long run is that someone needs to demonstrate that it's possible for other MMOs that aren't WoW to cut for themselves a sizeable and profitable niche of the market, or the pay to play MMO market will suffer, as more and more developers will consider it too risky to even try.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2008 9:12PM The Last Metroid said

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The 2nd expansion to the most successful MMO on the market is coming out. Do you expect Massively to not hype it up?

And people can have their opinions, whether they think it rules or not. Massively posting that a % of players are coming back to WoW is just news. It's not like they're saying "HAHAHA, EVERYONE IS COMING BACK TO WOW, WARHAMMER SUCKS".

And just fyi, I'm playing no MMOs atm, so I'm not being biased towards one game or the other. :P
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Posted: Nov 8th 2008 9:54PM Abriael said

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It's not news anymore when it's the second article in a few days about it.
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Posted: Nov 10th 2008 5:31AM (Unverified) said

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@Abriael:
1) In a game as large as WOW, there are going to be a lot of people in it for a lot of reasons. I'm sorry you were to klutz to find your niche.
2) WoW has not destroyed the MMO community. If you want to play your game that 50k people play, its still out there. But now, you have a huge audience, many varieties of gameplay, organic evolution (which is quite substantial), etc... You make another stupid comment like this, and you will show your true colors.
3) As a WoW enthusiat, Massively is very lite on wow. Yeah, articles about how Azeroth has more citizens than you have brain cells may get old, but get over it.
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