Let's compare early WoW with early TOR

so even though EA stated themselves they only need 500k subs to be profitable which this game sold over 2 million im pretty sure not even blizzard got their money back when WoW came out they even gave out almost a month of game time that is alot of money they lost.

this isnt about the free month people we know they will leave just it happen to every MMO to existence but i am talking about a expansion of WoW that is suppose to bring new content and new gameplay which this lost 2 million people from it.

remember half of WoW subs is china remember is not available everywhere.

Lets compare 7 year old things to recent things

so let me get this straight my leveling experience in WoW was much different than my main character i leveled?

last i checked i had the same quest later on class quest got completely removed from the game and tbc wotlk and cata was very linear.

WoW did have a storyline but none of mattered until the raids hell vanilla kinda didnt even make sense naxx in EPL...... when everybody knew it was in northrend.
dont bring up KT was suppose to come back stronger guess what blizzard copied and paste naxx into wotlk and he said the samething.

at the end of the day WoW is just as linear as swtor but atleast swtor has a class quest line to follow through.

honestly since leveling is fast in this game that gives this game alot more replay than WoW by far.

In wow you at least had 2-3 zones(vanilla) per level range that you could visit. You didn't HAVE to go the the same zone EVERY time without a choice.

are you serious cata is the most linear of them all you are FORCED to do quest because of the stupid and bad phasing of areas even blizzard admitted the questing in cata is not good and they plan to change it.

In cata you had static zones and had to be handheld through each of them to move to the next one.

*blink* Wait, they did????

Where?!

Can you provide the link? Cause I'm really curious now..

In cata you had static zones and had to be handheld through each of them to move to the next one.

As Dave Kosak and others have said before, we think we may have gone a bit too linear with Cataclysm. That informs one of our big philosophies for Mists of Pandaria: Give players more flexibility to play how they want to. We think that the solution may be to have linear story arcs, but have more of them in each zone, rather than making the whole zone one big story with a beginning, middle, and end. In addition to multiple linear quest lines, there will be smaller (and in some cases, one-off) quest hubs, and some of those hubs may be well off the beaten path.


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Isn't that what we have in TOR? You have to admit, it's completely linear.

As Dave Kosak and others have said before, we think we may have gone a bit too linear with Cataclysm. That informs one of our big philosophies for Mists of Pandaria: Give players more flexibility to play how they want to. We think that the solution may be to have linear story arcs, but have more of them in each zone, rather than making the whole zone one big story with a beginning, middle, and end. In addition to multiple linear quest lines, there will be smaller (and in some cases, one-off) quest hubs, and some of those hubs may be well off the beaten path.


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hmm lvl my dk through mount hyjal. lvled my priest through vashji'r but i guess thats as linear as swtor lol