{"id":1562,"date":"2006-12-11T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-12-11T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:38:43","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1562\/","title":{"rendered":"MMO Rant #4?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, here I poke some fun at Nerfbat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a title such as “Please Don’t Clone WoW” you would expect a demand of new ideas, new ways of playing, a different kind of involvement with the game world. A radical, different view.<\/p>\n

Instead Nerfbat’s “Please Don’t Clone WoW” is reduced to four points:<\/p>\n

1- Less inventory management
\n2- movable windows
\n3- A “loot all” button
\n4- No server queues<\/p>\n

In summary, World of Warcraft is not perfect. It is far from perfect. So don\u2019t make a game exactly like WoW under the assumption that they do everything right, because they don\u2019t.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I really hope that the desire for something different isn’t reduced to irrelevant (and questionable) details. And I also hope that people notice the much deeper and relevant problems in WoW’s design.<\/p>\n

If you ask me “what kind of MMO would you make right now?”<\/p>\n

The answer would be: a fantasy game. But a fantasy game that feels and plays completely different from all the other fantasy games out there.<\/p>\n

WoW has made stronger a dictatorship on the genre. It seems that a fantasy game cannot be different than that very narrow view they have portrayed. It made people blind about what this genre really represents.<\/p>\n

I hope that at least Todd McFarlane and Salvatore at GMG open up the genre for something new. They arrived here with a different history behind, and they may have a “fresher”, more faithful point of view. At least from them I expect a fantasy world that isn’t trite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, here I poke some fun at Nerfbat. With a title such as “Please Don’t Clone WoW” you would expect a demand of new ideas, new ways of playing, a different kind of involvement with the game world. A radical, different view. Instead Nerfbat’s “Please Don’t Clone WoW” is reduced to four points: 1- Less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}