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Waaagh! is a blog about
Warhammer Online (there are a few of them springing up lately, and our sister site Massively is doing a great job of covering news
about the upcoming MMO), and Syp, who writes over there,
says his blood pressure rose just a little bit when reading the news that
achievements might be coming to the World of Warcraft. When news first broke about
WAR, which is made by a company called Mythic (the original creators of
Dark Age of Camelot, now working with EA), they got a lot of flak for making a game that looked a lot like
WoW. But now that details are coming out about
Warhammer, including this really interesting achievements-style feature
called the Tome of Knowledge (which basically tracks what your character does around the game and gives you rewards for what you do), the allegations of imitation are going the other way. Is Blizzard ripping off
Warhammer now?
In point of fact, yes. Blizzard didn't
start from scratch with World of Warcraft (in fact, many of their designers were actually players of other games, including
Everquest and
Dark Age of Camelot) -- instead, they (as they've always done with their games) took a formula and tweaked it close to perfection. And of course, since
Warhammer is (if you listen to the hype) supposed to be
WoW's biggest competitor going forward, it's not surprising at all that the ideas coming out of
WAR are also making waves around the Blizzard offices.
That said, give
WAR a chance.
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