The great wow killer was wow’s source code all along
What a twist
It is, but making generic 3rd person MMO with trigger-based pve content would be so much easier than doing all the hassle required to reverse engineer wow lol.
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I guess if they would be copying something, they would at least choose something good.
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all who do business with china expect knock offs in 2 years or less. they hope the 1-2 years of the fat paychecks payout enough to have it work out in their favor more.
Even cisco knows as they export the new switching hotness…the china market will in time have a switch, shocklingly ofc, almost like it.
sometimes they even bother to rewrite cisco ios to pretend its different. Only sometimes though.
For their sake I hope they didn’t copy the source code. I mean, it works and all, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a worse choice to base your software on than a 20-year-old engine written in C++ and held together with string.
It’s probably made in Unity, everything else is these days.
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Don’t even think you can. It’s some sort of Chinese WOW knock off.
No one, but the second they try to release it over here, Blizzard will grind that company into dust.
Thats chinas gaming ‘thing’
It’s never popular outside of the country
China’s IP theft isn’t only targeted or affecting America, it affects every developed nation on the planet directly, and many others indirectly. Developed nations in both the east and the west have been trying desperately to stop it for decades. Do you have any conception of what’s actually happening with Chinese IP theft? It’s sheer scale? How it happens? Who does it? What’s done with it? The Chinese state’s involvement? Its goals? FFS…
“China’s fields of radioactive, boulder-sized oranges stretch for hundreds of miles.”
“You can’t talk about that! America’s just as bad! It has an apple in its past!”
they could extract the assests and improve them,
if they realase they sould do it in america, i will love to leave wow for a better game, after so long it looks like done for sega, even ff14 are improving resolutions, effects, charactrs etc…
wow doesnt even have reflections, nothing shine, as a warrior i get the same slap paint texture in my model than any one else…
blizz will find someone else to publish the game in chine, so many billions of players, the amount of revenue they are losing, they will cry and fight with their nails to get that market.
really doubt they are using wow source code. would be way easier to just make it all over again. wows source code is very likely a mess.
no it doesn’t.
assets and code are two very very very different things.
Lol, the funniest one was Autochess, a chinese made game that got so popular Blizzard Hearthstone, Riot League, and Steam DotA all copied it at the same time.
Also WOW itself is a well known theft, they stole dragonriding from GW2. People need to stop acting like America is not the king of stealing IPs.
they are thinking in America…they buy the company to use the IP asset.
they are half right.
the big fish buy out small fish when their IP lawyers tell them yeah…this goes to court we will lose. they got too solid a case, patents filed so perfect I am even impressed and would consider poaching some of their people.
okay…buy it. go make an offer.
now for less solid cases…the big fish sees the subpoena. and replies back going…
bring it. you will run out of money long before we do. we will make more in a quarter than a year of your legal feees. still feeling froggy? then leap.
Reminds me more of Wildstar, but yeah there’s a bunch of very similar areas, model designs, and other visuals.
If it was in English i’d give it a go.
buit china bad 
they’re communism. it scary
China isn’t a communist country though. It’s economically capitalist and socially authoritarian. It’s just state capitalism with the top spots being government > private entities > the masses.
Same trap the American left is enabling here in America, they aren’t bad because they are communists, they’re bad because they are authoritarian.
Although governments adopting or at least virtue signaling communism is often the trojan horse for authoritarianism.
Poor bastards. I feel really bad for all the players affected by this. Hopefully the toons are all stored safely and can be used if and when the situation is resolved. I would be SHATTERED if this happened to me. I’m not sure if they had WoW for 20 years like us but, my god. The memories and pain. I lost my 10 year Facebook profile recently due to a hacker attack and can more than empathize. My heart goes out to the Chinese players <3
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No it doesn’t lol.
Guys, its impossible to reverse engineer WOW, not because its hard, but because its a waste of freakin time.
WOW was built on an old inhouse engine, the time you need to decipher and study a 20 years old engine would be spent better by just building it from scratch.
Its like trying to create a sidescroller game, instead of just making it, you decide to reverse engineer Mario Bros with whatever it is their Nintendo 16bit engine back then. That is such a bizarre and stupid move.
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Said it befre, It looks better than WoW.