The world of World of Warcraft recreated in Minecraft

@(Unverified)

It's normal when "World of Warcraft" has become "Captial City of Wait and QueueCraft"

@(Unverified)

It's hardly irrational. Maybe he just enjoys the setting of WoW, but not the gameplay, but does enjoy the open ended sandbox gameplay of Minecraft? Some of the WoW hate out there is due to people hating it just for it being WoW, but a lot people also hate it because they objectively find the game mediocre/boring/whatever.... I'm in the camp where Minecraft >>>>>>>> WoW so I can understand this guys comment.

@(Unverified It's a narrow frame of view that would find his statement to be out of context.

He's impressed. The idea of being able to create such a project makes him want to play Minecraft, while he laments the reminder of a game that he no longer plays.

There are a couple-three million of us out there. Perhaps it's not strictly rational behavior to express resentment, but it seems rational to expect such sentiments given the context.

@(Unverified)
I always laugh when I see this. Some people can not grasp that what you call "hate" is quite likely disappointment in the direction WoW has gone the last couple of years and many people would love for them to actually put the Warcraft in World of Warcraft so they can go back.

@(Unverified) On a different note, every time I see a converstation take place between Unverified and Unverified I feel like I'm watching someone argue with themselves. I honestly hope Massively works on fixing this issue along with the avatar update issue.

On topic, nice project and while not as impressive as the Lord of the Rings project it is still very well done.

@Unshra

Good grief +1 to this. The commenting and avatar system is like something from 1999.

And do you have a link to the LOTR project? Would love to see it.

@ScottishViking Sure.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_M3_uxkdSU

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjnmEXyGyvA

Part 3 (my favorite (starts near the end of part 2) as it explores their epic Mordor it's flipped HUGE wish the on in LoTRO was this cool):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ioec2ccPJk

@Unshra There is another tour, slightly better as they have one of the builders there talking about all the work they did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc

@Unshra

Thanks!

@Clemalum07

Sorry, my comment was for the above commenter on my post. I friggin' hate Massively's comment system.

@(Unverified) I think it'll be neat when we start seeing... well, not MMO's perhaps, but custom game shards for several thousand people, at least. Call them single-server MMOs.

In Minecraft I see echoes of the old DIKU MUDs. Here's this tool, just like with DIKU, mostly-open and mostly-free and fork-able that will let any old joe roll their own game server with whatever ruleset they like.

Sure, it's crude now, but I'd bet on the work of the public fanbase over any AAA-funded enterprise for iterating the best improvements. By the time Minecraft goes open source I could see it being the standard introduction for game designers in the next decade.

@(Unverified)

Well in a sense the old Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 did this too as they gave you a toolset in order to build whatever you want and then you could host your own server and have folks on it. I was a DM and creator for several worlds like this and it was a lot of fun. Sometimes we would crash the server with the amount of folks and I think at the tops we had something like 60 folks playing (this was in the early 2000s!).

I have hopes for games like storybricks and the foundry toolset that cryptic has been pushing but I want to see more completely open ended games like Minecraft with even more options and customization. Sometimes if you hand folks the tools you get things that loads of folks enjoy... just look at Team Fortress or Counter Strike!

I have friends who would love to see Minecraft break up the blocks into 8 pieces so there could be even more customization. I think we could see that and then some in the future with the amount of sandbox style games that are using Minecrafts concepts.

@Vandal

LOL, that's what I thought. Impressive as it is, I'd be worried to be the guy who made it for fear of Blizzard's lawyers suing his pants off.

That said, it's an impressive feat, though the scripting of it's creation does take away from the accomplishment a bit.