World of LordCraft Rips Off Blizzard's Franchise?
It name itself sound way too familiar to be legal.
Someone get Blizzard on the phone. Just in name alone, World of LordCraft should indicate where the roots of this online PC game truly lie. While WoL isn't exactly an MMORPG, it clearly borrows heavily from Blizzard's offline fantasy-based RTS franchise... right down to the Alliance and Horde factions. Oh wait there's a Demon Legion thrown in there too. How original.
A video provided on the game's website actually looks somewhat promising--at least for a few seconds until a horrible, echoing voice-over spoils the show. "Build an unprecedented castle, " the video promotes. "Never surrender your freedom."
Without showing actual gameplay, the promotional video offers various animations on building a kingdom, and screenshots depicting Heroes of Might and Magic-style battles. On a whole, WoL is an isometric, flash-based, browser-based PC game with city building and RTS traits.
WoL is also absolutely free to play.
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Good, Blizzard deserves to be ripped off.
World of Failcraft...
Looks more like a cheap rip off of age of empires trying to cash in on the WoW name.
Blizzard stole all their ideas for Starcraft and Warcraft from Games Workshop. In fact I am tempted to say their only original idea was Diablo. Warcraft comparison if fairly self-evident. In Starcraft you have the Zerg in place of Tyranids and the Terran in place of Space Marines. Thus the cycle of borrowing or stealing of others ideas continues, nothing new here.
The game play mechanics are copy of Evony or Travian, with warcraft theme. I personally think this gameplay is shit.
that article make it sound like WOW was full of original idea's ????
Someone missed the plot or what? It's ALL "old hat" isn't it?
and dont forget Protoss in place of Eldar
blizzard copied all of their lore from J.R.R Tolkiens work, if you don't believe me i watched blizzcon and one of the guys was saying that ALOT of their ideas come from tolkiens work, so they deserved to be copied and ripped off