Why not make a MMO EXACTLY like World of Warcraft?

I was reading Openedge’s comments about Lord of the Rings Online, and remembering claims by a Turbine exec that LotRO was destined to overtake and surpass WoW, which seems unlikely to me. A EA exec thinks WAR will be huge. Everyone thinks the magic formula is to copy WoW, then change something to make it different. People claim other MMOs don’t get a lot of traction unless they more or less copy WoW. ...

September 3, 2008 · 2 min · 243 words · Tipa