Smith's Statements on Stuff

After playing WOW for a year I "gave up" a few months ago, and have been drifting along looking for the next new thing. I recently got Warhammer Online as a birthday pressie (21 again!).

Now, WOW has been out for a few years and runs on my now decidedly average PC, so why does a brand new game not look as good as WOW, still need more power and have clunkier UI / controls. They've recreated all the main concepts from WOW but haven't been able to pull off the whole package.

So, I cranked up my WOW program, sat through 1.3GB of updates and am once again a happy pally. Interestingly as the new release (Wrath of the Lich King) is about to be released the servers are maxed out, with queues to join and instances maxing out this evening! Looks like everyone is coming back for more