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http://www.gametrailers.com/game/1026.html
It looks to much like wow, apparently it plays like wow, a lot of the concepts in wow were taken from Warhammer so.. 
ive opted for Age of Conan, and if that sucks we have Spellborn, Star Trek, Stargate, etc etc etc
It is nothing like wow, it is a lot bigger and the way you play is very different and even when you pve it is to a bigger goal towards pve. You whole server and faction actions reflect what happens to the whole server. This game is scaring many because it is huge and they class it as a hobby game. No casuals no short stay players, if your playing WAR it is a hobby.
You need to watch the developer videos on the US site (not flash also new look it works better then the EU site) and watch the RVR information videos etc.
Take the recent city info videos, You have your city and it starts off on all realms run down, the more you do on the server and more everyone gets rep and does quests more of the city opens up and the city changes wealth and new zones and new quests open up, not after you get to a certain level but when everyone has done x amount of things in regard to the city. Piles of rubbish blocking roads that are later cleared up etc.
Thing is the other faction can see a city progression and decide to go pillage and ransack and you get that in the game with things on fire etc and both get new quest hubs when a city turns into this state and you work to sort it our or be the attacker etc.
RVR is massive, small things lead to bigger and bigger things... Watch all the podcast videos on the site and you will see just how stupidly big and complex it is (in a good way)
It is certainly nothing like wow
It has a trophy system where when you do things and kill stuff you do not just get the loot but you can get a trophy like an orc head and you can place that upon your person and be visual to everyone
As for beta it is 3 months behind development internally and has not got the lighting or some of the rendering engines in it
I wont be playing it, to big for me
Many know blizzard has started and is hiring for its next MMO, which is about right, wow is 3 years old, development of your next mmo takes 2-3 years going on what you learn and it will mean wow is about 5 years old so 2010 would be a good time for the next.
- Another version of wow would be stupid
- Diabalo would just basically be wow since wow has many aspects and concepts from that game already. It is best as an rpg
- Some total new story and mmo, this would mean though you would have to make new races and new lore and what not from scratch, more work and more cost.
- Starcraft, The RTS will be a big hit and hype everyone up and the april fools the other year with starcraft mmo got a lot of hype in terms of a concept for such a game. You got the lore, the factions, the races etc to work with and take what you know from wow, use a nice engine which could follow from the looks of starcraft 2 and you have a very good concept for a starcraft mmo.
Besides who does not want pew pew lazer beams?
Star trek online is a mess and been shafted and shifted many times over and again in a mess right now. You will not see this for a long while if at all
Stargate - they been rather hush hush about it really even in their blogs, has nice concepts but will it work? Who knows.
Conan looks great but I think I may not ever pick up an mmo again anyway.
