TERA's Sam Kim talks PvP Battlefield, questing

After all the Guild Wars 2 reveals the last couple weeks, this game looks more and more like a generic, me-too Korean game port. I never got too excited for this game, and lately any interest has nearly disappeared. They will have to do a ton of work to get any interest stateside if this releases in the same year as GW2 and SWTOR.

Overinstanced world (zones split into channels/districts/subzones) and what looks to be a very clunky combat system (need to stop in order to perform a melee attack etc.) with staggering amounts of cc, so it's not like they can make the game any worse by introducing battlegrounds...

The average gamer bored of wow won't be looking for wow 2, they will be looking for something new. Tera does not provide that, except for the combat system which may turn out clunky.

World of Warcraft is the worst thing to happen to the MMORPG industry, hands down, for the very reason you just gave.

Too many MMO players all want to play WoW and only WoW, or, in your theory, a game just like WoW. How is the genre going to evolve if everyone is playing the exact same game?

Yeah, a lot of WoW players want to play WoW re-skinned...then when they blow through that game's content, they return to WoW because it has a 5 year headstart on content.

Alternately, there's another sect of gamers that want to play the original EQ reskinned.

It's probably less the fact that other games lack the quality and more the fact that many players have invested so much time and money into World of Warcraft that they don't want to have to start all over in a new game. Tera could be exactly like WoW with Action/Adventure style gameplay and players would still run back to Warcraft after a month.

Cloning World of Warcraft like Tera and half the MMO competition keep trying to do isn't going to help the situation at all. If anything, MMORPG's should be trying to reach out to potential new players who wouldn't touch WoW or anything like it, seeing as, as I stated above, the vast majority of people who are playing WoW are so hopelessly hooked that nothing is going to pull them away, anyway.