Although I get tired of people saying that every game is a WoW clone... sometimes it is true...

Hate to say it but this is one of those cases.

Try the game.. even the menus are exactly the same (not just similar, exactly the same, right down to the interface options) The idea of off line learning is a nice step in a different direction though.

"Hey, here's a MMO about the zombie apocalypse. Pfft - such a Warcraft clone."

Except this game is set in fantasy world, divided in two, with two alliances. (And sadly only 2 races.)

"I've played Alganon and talked to the developers - there are a lot of unique ideas that aren't being done by other companies."

They have a lot of unique ideas, and that is where it ends. Their study system is a knock off of Eve, and everything else is a knock off of WoW. Rangers are Druids that use bows (i.e, 3 trees, 1 ranged dps, 1 healing, and 1 tanking). Their UI is an exact carbon copy of WoW, including features like the Achievement Pane and Key Ring which they don't even use in Alganon.

"A game not released yet that has bugs...like that's never happened for...oh...ever."

So, I gather you are one of the few who got suckered into purchasing the game as an early subscriber, and now you have to defend the product, knowing it is terrible. Let me ask, when you go into the game, and see all the mobs rubber banding, does that make you happy? Or that some of the tier 1 talents effect skills you don't get for 10 levels? Or that the Soldier and Healer are exact copies of the WoW Classes for Warriors and Priests -- including the rage, err... anger mechanic and the 3 stances?

Just because they have a lot of intentions means nothing, hell do they even have a proper set up for hosting servers? Because, given the lag on their test servers with 20 people on, it would be scary to see what 1,000 people would be like. And given that they are a small company, that had to resort to lying to raise capital to keep the Beta going, do you think they have enough money to host more than 2 or 3 servers?