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Originally Posted by Xyion  Isn't WoW, (and every other fantasy game) a rip off of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?  |
Warcraft is derivative of the Warhammer franchise, which Blizzard originally hoped to license for use with their Warcraft engine. They couldn't acquire rights, and so resigned themselves to redesigning many elements to become something entirely different. For clarification, Warhammer is a science fiction series rather unlike LotR. So no, Warcraft isn't too similar or derivative of LotR beside having similar language.
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Originally Posted by Sim Kid That wasn't exactly point I was getting at because really, if you look at it from any perspective...eVERYthing is a ripoff of SOMEthing. |
Your point is moot. There were no massive multiplayer online games before UO. Its predecessors did not have to deal with hundreds of thousands of users in a single environment, and did not have to manage a simulated economy in the same manner. The games since it have played off of what UO established, making use of what features were successful. You can claim some of the gameplay elements are derivative of MUDS, but many of those are clearly derivative of the Ultima series' execution of gameplay, whose history predates the lot of them. Just as you can say that SMB is truly the first sidescrolling platformer title, even though there were rudimentary platformers before it. It did not make use of elements in the predecessors to its genre, but instead accomplished something similar by entirely different means. You are inappropriately cross-comparing mediums.
Electronic gameplay is still a young medium. There are many franchises around today, such as Ultima, that established gameplay in an original manner that was impossible outside of that entertainment. So no, not all electronic
gameplay is a copy of something. If you'll recall, the medium was invented less than 40 years ago.