I'm not sure if I should seriously describe what World of LordCraft is or just cue up the laugh track and let it roll on for a solid ten minutes. If you haven't guessed from the lawsuit worthy name, the trailer above for the upcoming MMO castle building game (I think that is what it is) is pretty much the biggest rip off of World of Warcraft ever made. They really don't seem to have changed anything. From the art style to the story (the Horde battling the Alliance) GSprite, the game's developer, has simply taken WoW and made it cheaper.
The money making scam game is about to go into beta the official site says, and you can log in and play now if you wish. One can only assume that we will be staring at mostly naked women advertising this game in the months to come, and then reporting on a lawsuit from Activision soon after that.
I choose not to speculate on the future and instead make fun of the trailer, which contains one of the best typos since "All your base are belong to us." Sure, "Never surrender you freedom" is a much easier mistake to make when typing, but the fact that they missed that they left off the "r" is just as priceless even if their native language isn't English. Also, the narrator is clearly just some guy they picked up off the street and asked to speak in a really low voice.
Greatest videogame trailer ever or greatest videogame trailer ever?
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11:00 PM on 03.20.2010
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I was almost surrendering my freedom.
Then again, fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one cahnce, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom.
The idea of having a focus on castle building is a good one I think... an MMO that sort of combines a game like Stronghold: Crusader with an RPG would be really interesting.
That's obviously not what this is though... I'm so confused... They had at least one unique idea, so why didn't they just come up with a unique premise to go along with it?
What the fuck is up with the title??? This looks especially pathetic to myself since I don't even like World of Warcraft.
you freedom
...
Was that on purpose?
*remembers full life consequences*
I still think its a joke.
Silly fuckin' me.
"What is World of Lordcraft?
Players have been discussing about the source of World of Lordcraft recently. We consider that a statement should be made here to clarify the issue.
World of Lordcraft should be regarded as a fan game of WoW. All the creators and staff members of this game love WoW and we thank Blizzard for such a brilliant work. WoL is not a replica of WOW. WoW is a MMORPG while World of Lordcraft is only a browser game of building, strategy and simulation. They are totally not the same kind. All the artworks in World of Lordcraft are the original creations of our art team. However, some elements were similar to WoW and some other games. Likewise, WoW also borrowed some elements from Tolkien's novel. We hope that WoL can provide an interesting alternative for those players lacking time for WoW raids and arenas. Or you may also insert a few clicks between raids or wipes in WoW.
We'd appreciate your support if you like World of Lordcraft and wish you have fun in the game."
"And what is that message?"
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
"Do you come in peace or war?"
"NEVER SURRENDER YOU!"
"What is your purpose here?"
"NEVER SURRENDER YOU FREEDOM!"
"Tell us, what is 2 + 2?"
*Long pause*
"22?"
That's what I think of this.
Silly fuckin' me."
Not a D&D thing, but yeah, it would be a Tolkien thing.
Except Blizzard tends to take their x-craft ideas more from Games Workshop's franchises (Warhammer and Warcraft, Warhammer 40k and Starcraft), rather than Tolkien.
That reads like a 9th grader's English essay. Did he mean ALL of the artworks, or only some of the artworks?
"Welca, to da worl, of lorcraft."
http://www.arksark.org/blog/2848/world-of-lordcraft-evony-decides-to-take-on-blizzard/
Also... http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/SaintRising/has-anyone-seen-this-shortblog--163627.phtml
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14330395/alganon/videos/Alganon_trl_ombatHaggonMarsh_102709.html
Not only do they steal some of the art, they outright steal the default interface, as well as the character creation screen and graphical assets, which are then made worse.
"World of LordCraft" will probably live some sort of fringe existence while somehow scraping together enough profit so that they can launch their next bit of CR/IP infringement.
Then again, if they're based in the Western world, they might be fucked.
Oh i love it :)