Everquest 2 vs. World of Warcraft

Gamespy has a piece up today comparing and contrasting the feature sets of Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft. It's a pretty thorough story, covering the newb experience, combat, character customization and more. From the article: "In one corner, you have EverQuest II, the sequel to the undisputed heavyweight MMO champ EverQuest, the game that has probably caused more divorces than any other video game in the world. In the other, you have the challenger, World of Warcraft, the first MMO created by Blizzard Entertainment, the development house best known for StarCraft, Diablo, and the original Warcraft RTS games."

Comments

The title of this article is just asking for it.

[genrader]

Let the WoW vs. EQII flames begin. ....EQII is better.

The fact that they are comparable..

[QuantumG]

show's that WoW is just an Everquest knock off. It's such a shame that it takes so long and costs so much to develop a MMORPG. Businesses are afraid to try an unproven business model so they just make clones and never try anything new. Not that any of this stuff is new to MUD builders, but most of them don't have the need to convince a board of directors that their design will make money. So we're stuck with another batch of level based, quest driven, class based fantasy role playing games.