First Impressions: Alganon

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First, some quality WOW bashing to limber up the fingers before discussing Algonon.

Rubbish, WOW hasnt done anything to anyone other than create voiceful gremlins, for the game and against it, i am one of the gremlins against it and the french company that runs it with an iron fist.

There isnt a game out there that has copied WOW in anyway, graphics or mechanics wise. What other games are doing are using the same things available to all MMO makers that have been around for over twenty years, Wow was not the first to dip into the resource pool of ideas and implement them and they wont be the last. And we can all assume the same lousy trend will continue for some time.

Let me be clear, i dislike wow so much i could use the term hate. The graphics, mechanics and the social experience of MMO's were around long before wow showed up and will be when wow is rolling around in its own filth, not that is isnt doing so now.

The french created a mechanic that was popular with another company they had a stake in, AOL. Make it simple to play, automate it, make pretty colors, associate them with numeric symbols and you have the AOL of games, WOW. Simple things for simple minds, very smart frenchies.

People on average will not get rid of things they have invested time in or try to attempt something more difficult, the mechanics of WOW help this along, easy wins over new. Now many more MMO's later folks see things like Algonon and Allods and cry, "they are copying WOW". Algonon has similarities, leveling, trying to attain a piece of gear at a time in mindless raid grinding (allods too) but graphically and playwise they differ to much to quantify the statement "its just like wow".

Algonon does not interest me, the graphics are blocky and very dated as is combat, you still level in the game, you grind quests and have to run through multiple times to get gear...........omg, just like wow!!!!!

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Wasn't WoW created by Blizzard? A company based founded and based in the US, yes they are now owned by Vivendi, said French company but this is a little later on, and after WoW's release date. (Merger was 2007), previous to that Blizzard was owned by Activision, based in Santa Monica CA, also not in France.

If you're going to go on a rant please at least make sure you get the facts somewhere near reality.

WoW is ultimately the iPod of MMOs, nothing new or particularly innovating, but everything polished to a blinding sheen and done very well. To dumb it down to say simple things for simple people is to be totally blinded to the reality of Blizzard's creation, they made it accessible, but complex at the later stages, some of the boss fights are hard to complete without excellent knowledge of your class and proper coordination, you can't just face roll through the tougher raids, conversely getting the maximum level is just a grind, skill makes it quicker. The progression is quick enough to prevent a lot of people getting bored. WoW really doesn't get to where it is by being a crap game for morons, or people who don't like depth, it gets there by doing what it does well, but keeping the fundamentals easy to understand and making the game accessible, especially at early stages.

I don't like the fact that it's made expectations from MMOs unrealistic, that everything has to be a WoW beater, someday WoW will fade and something else will come along, until then accept the fact that WoW is the bench mark, and if you personally dislike it there is plenty of choice out there, but of course they're all "failed" mmos, because instead of millions of subscribers they have 100ks.

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You got that wrong Ash. Vivendi Universal was Blizzards backer and then they merged with Activision. Not sure why this other guy its ranting about them. My is guess he used to work for Blizz and got canned maybe. Seems pretty bitter for someone that just played the game.

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