Any game with quests is OBVIOUSLY a WoW clone. OBVIOUSLY.

WoW Clone is one of the most retarded terminologies ever.

You can say a lot of negatives about FE, however it's NOTHING like WoW.

lol Really.

Seriously. Stop saying everything with an extremely passing similarity to WoW is a WoW clone ffs. This game is absolutely nothing like WoW, for better, or for worse. I'm not sure a single similarity can be drawn besides, hey, you can do quests, and you level up.

WoW is an EQ clone anyways, which is a clone of Ultima, which is a clone of the text based MUDs that came before MMO's were barely a twinkle in anyone's eye. Every MMO takes bites out of what came before it, and betters the ideas of its predecessors, or at least tries to.

If FE is a clone of WoW because of quests(all they have in common), then I'm suggesting now, that you skip every MMO that comes out from this point on. Don't even bother looking at them, because they'll all just be WoW clones.

I will say the quests are one of the few gifts that WoW gave the genre. They didn't invent them, but they popularized them. Before that, it was grind in one area until your eyes bled before moving onto the next, and let me ask you, is that enjoyable?

Sorry for the wall o' text.

Lougi : the continuous clonage has made you blind, they blinded you and they're treating you like a sheep... and they brought you to thank them and think everything is fine while they're still screwing your brain.

Having said that i can TRY to explain: It's one thing to be inspired by a table-top, a game in the past, a book, a ruleset, any element of any kind, if when you make it, you still do it your own way in the end. It's another thing if you copy the same element exactly as it is. Before WoW all the MMO's were original and strange and creative, we had planetside, neocron, star wars galaxies and luckily we still have EVE. Then WoW came and made everything more accessible and user-friendly. In it quests are everywhere, easy and pleasant to do, with continuous rewards for addictive gratification. Kudos to WoW for coming up with this. It had commercial success. IT created a mass market. So every MMO thought necessary to copy it, and the originality ended.

I don't want simple grind, neither do i want WoW quests. I want a new way to conceive quests and XP... and i don't have to skip every MMO because thank god more games like Mortal will finally come, becayse people got dead sick of clones.

Ok, I can respect that.

I can entirely agree that 90% of games these days aren't worth checking out, and that's pretty much why I haven't played any MMO's for almost a year now. Truth be told, most are, in fact, extremely similar to WoW. I suppose that's why I've don't get that tingly feeling of being in a new world anymore either. It's the same old, it just has a new skin it, except they somehow keep making things even easier.

I, still don't agree that FE is a clone of WoW, however. It's got too many differences, mediocre or not, that set it apart, from what I experienced.