wtf_man wrote on Mar 11, 2010, 20:44:
He says a lot more stuff, which is actually entertaining to read... including getting rid of the "WoW clone" look and really laying into Dave Allen and a couple of other folks. Not sure how he's gonna get the "WoW Clone" out of the game by April, because the UI ain't the only thing that looks like it was copied from WoW.

a) This whole "WoW look-a-like" rubbish, is gone. I've essentially asked them to throw it all out and for the artists to come up with the game's own unique look and feel for for both the web UI as well as the game UI itself.

You don't go competing with WoW when you don't have a WoW sized budget or the manpower to match. But thats what David wanted to do and I've pretty much tossed it all. The team was unable to actually do this previously due to David wanting it that way, even though they knew it was a terrible decision.