Well, if you look the link I pasted above (about the trend) you find:
Come on, Mythic. You really needed two years to realize this?
Or the mmorpg genre needed Blizzard's awesome designers to come up with a mark for quest-givers NPCs? Woot, innovation! Revolution!
My point of view isn't really different from yours. The point is that what happens is silly. Those tweaks for the interface are *blatantly* ripped off from World of Warcraft. Even if they are not an "intellectual property" of Blizzard.
Come on, it's not a case that Mythic is implementing all these nice elements *right now*. What I wrote was somewhat sarcastic exactly because those tiny (but with their own relevance) elements aren't coming from wonderful ideas that noone had till now.
So, there's the ambition and the passion to invent and experiment or it's just about running behind the game that set the "new standard"?
What Mythic is implementing now has been suggested by the players too many times in the past. Is really nothing new. WoW becomes just a game where the devs have directly addressed those important points that were brought up as problems in these years.
Instead of dodging those issues (that you correctly call "bad habits") they concretely considered and solved them.
WoW is simply the game that DAoC and EQ should have been *long ago*, instead of radicating themselves on their own positions and refusing to address the problems as they were noticed and analyzed. Instead they produced swamps and sit in the middle.
Now Blizzard stole the pie. Under the eyes of everyone. They deserve the success they have now exactly because everyone else just remained there staring with an dull expression.
Why must be the "danger" to lead a progress?
For me this genre has really just an aspect as its stongest trait: the fact that you can observe, adapt and evolve. It's an ongoing reasearch and creation. The problems that you find along the path are the most important resource.
WoW is like a coffee when you are about to fall asleep
Well, if you look the link I pasted above (about the trend) you find:
Come on, Mythic. You really needed two years to realize this?
Or the mmorpg genre needed Blizzard's awesome designers to come up with a mark for quest-givers NPCs? Woot, innovation! Revolution!
My point of view isn't really different from yours. The point is that what happens is silly. Those tweaks for the interface are *blatantly* ripped off from World of Warcraft. Even if they are not an "intellectual property" of Blizzard.
Come on, it's not a case that Mythic is implementing all these nice elements *right now*. What I wrote was somewhat sarcastic exactly because those tiny (but with their own relevance) elements aren't coming from wonderful ideas that noone had till now.
So, there's the ambition and the passion to invent and experiment or it's just about running behind the game that set the "new standard"?
What Mythic is implementing now has been suggested by the players too many times in the past. Is really nothing new. WoW becomes just a game where the devs have directly addressed those important points that were brought up as problems in these years.
Instead of dodging those issues (that you correctly call "bad habits") they concretely considered and solved them.
WoW is simply the game that DAoC and EQ should have been *long ago*, instead of radicating themselves on their own positions and refusing to address the problems as they were noticed and analyzed. Instead they produced swamps and sit in the middle.
Now Blizzard stole the pie. Under the eyes of everyone. They deserve the success they have now exactly because everyone else just remained there staring with an dull expression.
Why must be the "danger" to lead a progress?
For me this genre has really just an aspect as its stongest trait: the fact that you can observe, adapt and evolve. It's an ongoing reasearch and creation. The problems that you find along the path are the most important resource.
This is exactly what's *not* happening.