3 ms·
That kind of comparison is exactly why the MMOG market is filled with so many failures. Everyone says to themselves "WoW does this X way, if we do this X way,
by DarkShikari 17y ago
That kind of comparison is exactly why the MMOG market is filled with so many failures.
Everyone says to themselves "WoW does this X way, if we do this X way, we can earn lots of money like WoW!" So you get a ton of failed WoW clones that earn pennies.
Just because WoW does something in X way doesn't mean that doing something in a way other than X prohibits you from making a lot of money. And it also doesn't mean that doing it in X way ensures that you will earn lots of money.
- jfarmer 17y agoFortunately I never said any of that!
- jfarmer 17y agoAlright, I'll elaborate, you vicious downvoters, you. EVE is a great game. The way the game world evolves naturally it's fascinating for all sorts of reasons, and I love open-ended gameplay. I played A Tale in the Desert for some time. But this time of gameplay is hard for people to get into. It demands a lot from the player. You might call it "active" gameplay. WoW is the opposite. The story is crafted for you, not by you, and it is more about pure gameplay than these higher-order things in EVE. It's a much more passive experience. I don't think it should surprise anyone that EVE is less profitable. It is, by it's nature, less inclusive. EVE is your favorite indie band. WoW is the latest pop hit. Also, I wouldn't discount the amount of time Blizzard puts into crafting the in-game experience of WoW. It's very polished and very fun, even if on some level it's less fulfilling than the do-it-yourself nature of EVE. The upcoming Cataclysm expansion is just one example of the kind of thing that can happen in WoW, but could never happen in EVE.