One Shots: Goodnight, sweet prince

Wow, Why would you wish failure on a game? Just because you may not like it doesn't mean other's feel the same way.

"Jack - why would you want any MMO to fail. People's jobs, homes, families and lives depend on them.

There are people who like the game. Does that bother you so much?"

I think I might have to agree with Jack. I even own stock in EA. Warhammer was such a blatant ripoff of World of Warcraft, that they should of been slapped with a lawsuit.

Maybe not fail but I would have hated to see a company succeed and make money off the hard work by Blizzard. Blizzard took so many risks when it created WoW - to simply steal their game and make one based on RvR was a crime.

@mpdivo

Are you serious? You have it totally backwards man.

Games Workshop was founded in 1975, 34 years ago. Warhammer Fantasy Battles (=Warcraft) was made 27 years ago, Warhammer 40k (=Starcraft) was made 23 years ago. Blizzard wanted to make games useing the Games Workshop IP's but didn't like the asking price so they just ripped it off instead. Blizzard commited the crime if anyone did.

So even if people want to argue the obvious fact that Blizzard ripped off Games Workshop, how could Warhammer rip off Warcraft as you claim when it predates it by what, a decade at least? Oh are you one of the people that sees a fantasy mmo with wasd movement, a UI with buttons to push, spells and weapons, quests, ect. and think it's a WoW rip-off?

World of Warcraft only exsits because of Everquest, they have admitted it serveral times. If you want to see for yourself watch the Evercracked series where they are interviewed.

Blizzard ripps off other games thats what they do.

mpdivo is either a moron or a troll; I think I've seen at least two other posts where he complains that Warhammer rips off World of Warcraft, even though the Warhammer IP predates Warcraft by many years, and World of Warcraft itself cannibalized ideas from Asheron's Call 2, DAoC, and EQ.

Blizzard took pretty much no risks when they made WoW; they took the aspects of existing games and refined and polished them to fantastic levels. There's no doubt that WoW is a superb game, but to claim it is original in any aspect other than being the most accessible and well-polished MMO is moronic.

First of all it people need stop with the mini drama and get back to the real world people are fired and layoff everyday. They not just give you a job like they like you so much and want take care of you. NO they give you a job like you CAN DO what they need! If your ideas not work anymore and your work is not all that anymore and start costing them money or they find someone way better them your your fire and that's the way it is in the real world! If you got any houses, cars loners and kids and wife and others, you better got some kind of backup or fallback plan or its all your own fault! Everyone always need to known noting last forever!

Jack that minidrama may be a way of life, but blatantly wishing it on someone makes you a twisted and deluted person. You are either very young and don't work. Or you are take your job for granted. It doesn't really matter. If anyone has to get laid off, I hope it's you, rather than these people who work on their games.

How many new MMOs has Blizzard and Valve released in the last 3 years?

Zero.

NCSoft might've rudely taken away TABULA RASA, but the other games like AUTO ASSAULT and DUNGEON RUNNERS were financially dragging the company down.

They have every right to slim their operations down when you consider just how many MMO's they are currently running. NCsoft might get a bad rap for shutting down someone's favorite MMO, but you can't deny how many more people are still playing the ones that are still running.

And I'll give them credit for at least trying to do something other than yet another generic fantasy game.

On top of that - financially speaking I don't think many companies are half of the company Blizzard is. They've had a license to print money for years. Plus your example games are multi-million-selling titles and still selling (so is Starcraft for that matter)... not a good example.

Additionally - NCSoft tried cutting costs as they could, and I do believe the games did improve (or in DR's case, had plans to), but to no avail. Ironically, what killed DR was the move to advertising support for free-play, which caused the subscriptions to drop yet the number of players didn't. Simply did not work out... and that's one of the things they tried to improve things for DR (without screwing the players over, even).

"I have an eagle's eye", said the marksman, in a serious tone. "It's in my pocket!"

Would be nice, but simply put: if it was that easy they would've done it. Very seriously - if a game is failing, why buy someone else's loser when you could take that money and try something else? After all, you'd be buying a game that obviously has problems and a low playerbase, pay money to buy it, then have to invest even more money into trying to fix it, promote it, etc., hoping that the old players stay around rather than get spooked into leaving, hoping the technical problems are actually fixable without spending a ton of time and money, and hope enough people give you another chance.

Sounds like a losing proposition to me.