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Posted: Nov 10th 2008 9:27AM (Unverified) said

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It's funny, that the thing that you guys on this site for World of Warcraft is sooo perky and good and cheery; however, the thing that you guys did for Warhammer Online was instead spiteful and questioning whether it would even be a good game or not:

http://www.massively.com/2008/09/15/the-daily-grind-warhammer-or-woehammer/

Maybe instead this should have been an article saying something like: "How will Mines of Moria, releasing next week, effect it?"...or..."Is this of polished quality, or are they going to be adding in key things weeks/months later like TBC?" (Black Temple and Arenas were not in the launch of TBC, they came afterwards)...or..."Will WotLK have enough PvP content to stack up to Warhammer Online's Heavy Metal in-game event mixed with the anticipated Patch 1.1 in December?"

See, I can do that backward's thinking as well. I'm seriously kind of sick of this "doom and gloom" feel for every other MMO, yet for WoW it's all "sunshine and gnome's gold."

The game's 'ok', but it has rehashed so many of it's monsters, content, ect from one part into the other that once you've done 1-60 you've practically done all the game already. Naxx is being reimplemented again, so those that already did it once (and it's doubtful it was just one time, either) gets the joy of doing it again.
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Posted: Nov 10th 2008 10:25AM Abriael said

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isn't this obvious? that's because WoW will rule "indefinately"!

It's seriously sad how a part of the gaming press is striving to help blizzard in their marketing campaign to mantain the status quo... I guess they don't understand how much the MMO market would benefit by competitors making a sizeable dent in the wow monopoly.
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Posted: Nov 10th 2008 11:26AM (Unverified) said

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You ask for analysis comparing WoW to other MMOs out there, but simply put, those articles are too simple. There's no complexity to an article about how LotRO MoM expansion will affect WotLK release. WoW isn't going to feel any pain from that release...but neither is LotRO. They each have their market of players at the level cap whom are eagerly awaiting the expansion.

You can either ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room - which many commentors here are advocating - or you can write about it. Massively has found a decent balance. If you want to visit sites that completely ignore Warcraft, go visit MMORPG.com or something.
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Posted: Nov 10th 2008 12:24PM Abriael said

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One would wonder why many commenters are advocating it. Maybe because there IS a divide between the celebrative tones used for wow and those used for other games? Or maybe because people are starting to be tired of hearing the blizzard marketing campaign directly echoed without any doubts or questions?

It's funny not to read any questions about if wotlk will deliver, if it'll be the same usual re-heated soup (which it is), if the PvP will be meaningless like it's always been in wow (which it is). The only question if what kind of shipping people are using...

There's already wow insider to make the wow fanboys happy. I see no reason to turn massively in a blizzard ad. But of course, this is just my two cents.

MMORPG.com is much more balanced. It talks about ALL mmorpgs, and wow is just treated (as it should be) as one of them. It even has obvious ads and banners for wotlk, but guess what, at least those are obvious ads, not ads disguised as articles.
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