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EA on The Old Republic vs WoW

IndustryGamers hears from EA Games Label President Frank Gibeau on the topic of competing with the World of Warcraft juggernaut in the MMORPG market, and he explains why he thinks Star Wars: The Old Republic has a chance of doing just that. "It operates across multiple classes from Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitors, bounty hunters, spies, troopers, to Jedis… it’s a really fantastic world," he tells them. "On multiple levels we’re highly differentiated and different from World of Warcraft. We’re not being slavish or imitating them at all. We’re doing our own thing. We’re doing our own unique way. BioWare and Blizzard have been around for almost the same period of time. They’ve built incredible audiences. They have their own unique cultures, and they do things very differently. They’re both very successful RPG developers."

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15. Re: EA on The Old Republic vs WoW Mar 16, 2011, 09:29 eunichron
 
Darks wrote on Mar 16, 2011, 01:57:
The difference is, you need to go and watch the complete walk through at lv 32 for four players. This is a perfect example of how the game is different. Yes there are going to be similarities, but I play wow with a very good guild. From watching that video I can see all the differences. There is a lot more story driven quest with full on dialog. go to Fileplanet and download this video and watch it. I think you might be surprised.

Search for this text, I would post the link ,but its telling me its too long.

Star Wars: The Old Republic 'Taral V Walkthrough' Trailer


As a long time WoW/MMO player, I was not impressed by that video at all. While the story driven questline looked neat, it also looked invasive and obnoxious, in that it took control away from the player for too long. The combat itself looked bland and uninteresting, just blasters and saber swings. Despite the commentators insistence that "this is a very tough boss! these guys probably wiped several times!" it didn't ever look like the group, and individual players, were ever in any real trouble of wiping or suffering any consequence. How many times did a mob just get stuck on the healer, and the healer never dropped below 50% hp? I realize that was probably a highly scrutinized and staged dungeon run... but don't make claims to the opposite when it's not what is being shown.

Overall it did just look like WoW 3.0 with blasters and sabers. Another minimal effort MMO with no risk vs. reward component, just all reward.
 
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