[Moontayle]

Originally Posted by Zuuljin

I need to play WoW so I can make a comparison, because from the little bit I'v played, it seems very similiar to EQ2, except different graphics. It still requires you being a monkey hitting ability buttons, soloing is just as easy, both games have instancing, etc. So I dunno.

Having played both extensively, there is a very large comparison to be made between the games. However, EQ2 is suffering from bad press at release... Or as Rob Pardo explains...

"I think every game has this, where if you ship before it's ready, you're really going to cripple the chances for the success of that game," Pardo said. "But with massively multiplayer games, the stakes are much higher... People generally don't take a second look at your game. There's been a whole lot of MMO games that shipped early, admittedly so by their companies, and in a lot of those cases, you hear these great stories about how much more fun their game is [now]. Yeah, that's great, but no one actually goes back. If you ship before you're ready, you're going to cripple yourself. You're putting at risk the next five years of your product."