Biggest Rip-off

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07-30-2009, 03:55 AM
Ponder

AoC completely ripped off Ultima Online with it's Online Persistent world. Damn dirty apes. >/
07-30-2009, 03:56 AM
chakraflare

veto this thread.
07-30-2009, 03:58 AM
Corrision

Why? I see no reason why this thread should be removed.
07-30-2009, 04:05 AM
btlv

Wonderking =/= Maplestory

Just my opinion.
07-30-2009, 04:30 AM
Paladuck

Just about every TQ Digital game utilizing the same engine. In a semi-related matter, can someone tell me which of these is the most fun? I'm stuck with a crappy laptop. I've played The Warlords, wasn't impressed.

Zero Online
http://p.images.91.com/abum91e/uploa...4889797635.jpg

The Warlords
http://p.images.91.com/abum91e/uploa...4773895374.jpg

Conquer Online
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...OInterface.jpg

Crazy Tao
http://p.images.91.com/abum91e/uploa...4866849957.jpg

Eudemons Online
http://p.images.91.com/abum91e/uploa...4871151815.jpg

"Hey guise lets make everything the same font LULZ"
07-30-2009, 05:49 AM
Wicked315

The only MMO you can't REALLY say is Runes of Magic.

Granted they DID Copy WoW (Amgosh doesn't every 3D F2P MMO nowadays) but they ATLEAST were successful. (I haven't slept in the past 26 hours. Forgive me)
07-30-2009, 05:51 AM
Corrision

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wicked315

The only MMO you can't REALLY say is Runes of Magic.

Granted they DID Copy WoW (Amgosh doesn't every 3D F2P MMO nowadays) but they ATLEAST were successful. (I haven't slept in the past 26 hours. Forgive me)

It's a rip off. It's a good game, but it steals from every other game. You can't not say a game because it's good.
07-30-2009, 05:53 AM
cinderboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wicked315

The only MMO you can't REALLY say is Runes of Magic.

Granted they DID Copy WoW (Amgosh doesn't every 3D F2P MMO nowadays) but they ATLEAST were successful. (I haven't slept in the past 26 hours. Forgive me)

cos the company bothered to add huge updates regularly and stuff. kudos to the developers.
07-30-2009, 06:51 AM
Barrettblatter

They all took the 3D element from Everquest. And most of WoW was based of of EQ. Meaning anything based off of WoW was partly based off of EQ.
07-30-2009, 06:51 AM
girtrute

I'd say WoW was the biggest rip off it was the same 3d wasd target based system that we all played befor it came out and was succesful still tricking people to play that old target based system that should been done away with.when wow released.
But all mmorpg's are rip off's of rpg's on systems like nintendo.
07-30-2009, 08:17 AM
MrTingTing

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9571/61040258.png
07-30-2009, 08:34 AM
dimmock

Biggest ripoff
Pandora saga
just looks like ffxi all over again.
07-30-2009, 08:35 AM
kon11

Quote:

Originally Posted by dimmock

Biggest ripoff
Pandora saga
just looks like ffxi all over again.

with worse graphics and gameplay,

And it JUST came out in english... LOL???

At least release it sooner if its made for the year 2000
07-30-2009, 10:24 AM
MerkaMerka

WoW
RoM
All 2.5D games
SoS
WK

Also did I actually hear someone say Pandora Saga has better graphics then FFXI? Notrly.

Also Why is it with all of these threads it always ends up in a roast of one game, and it's not even a good roast.
07-30-2009, 10:25 AM
fenix40k

you forgot ultima online,lineage and so on...WoW stole everything from the old mmorpgs to make a mmorpg with only good things
07-30-2009, 10:31 AM
hyarume

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinnful

Most of the major parts of WoW are ripped off from EQ.

/flameshield

Yep... agreed
07-30-2009, 10:32 AM
Alivada

Quote:

Originally Posted by hyarume

WoW, is the biggest rip-off

I bet myself you were going to say that.
RoM is clearly a WoW clone but at least it is actually a F2P with some sort of quality. Aion looks just like L2... LOL WINGZ OUR GAME IS SO UNIQUE.

But if you are a good devolper then you will borrow some ideas from other games (Champions is having PQs as they said they were a great idea) but unfortunalty it's becoming so bad that devolpers are basically trying to be new WoW (Lotro and WAR).
07-30-2009, 10:49 AM
hyarume

ROM is a WOW and FFXI in the mixxer.
07-30-2009, 12:19 PM
TanakaReina

I think ffxi majorly ripped off wow. Then again, I guess everyone is these days.
07-30-2009, 12:20 PM
Anrick

ROM is the biggest rip off ever made.

Since its a Rip Off from WoW.

And WoW is a Rip Off from Everquest;

ROM is a (Rip Off)² from everquest.

A Rip Off from a Rip Off, can't get more "Rip Offer"
07-30-2009, 12:24 PM
hyarume

Quote:

Originally Posted by TanakaReina

I think ffxi majorly ripped off wow. Then again, I guess everyone is these days.

Impressive, that a game from 2002 can be a rip-off from a game from 2004..
07-30-2009, 01:56 PM
Anrick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nergan

I ONLY PvP, because that is the only thing in WoW that requires some real skills nowadays. Do you see me complaining that everything is to easy? No, you don't, because I choose not to play it the easy way.
.

I Agree.

But why paying to play a entire game when the only fun thing is Pvping?

Id rather play a free, fully pvp game.
07-30-2009, 02:00 PM
hyarume

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anrick

They used time machines to go to the future and steal some ideas Mate.

"Hey there, with all these final fantasies, and billions of profit with amazing games, im outta ideas, we should make a time machine to go to the future and steal some ideas from a company with horrible game titles'"

Lets do it!
07-30-2009, 02:05 PM
girtrute

That was my biggest problem with WoW it seems like a slowed down version of everquest also i felt that mmorpg's should have been capable of non target based system and still be mmorpg.sadly still till today non target based system is rare.
07-30-2009, 02:06 PM
Bad Hamster

BLeeh no one noticed I was being sarcastic T-T
07-30-2009, 04:35 PM
cyber7chink

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nergan

While non-target MMOs sound good on paper, it just doesn't work unless done really well. MMOs with targeting don't have to have excellent movement fluidity to work, but it's great if they do have it, WoW has it for instance. But a non-target oriented MMO HAS to have excellent and perfect movement fluidity, it also has to provide perfect latency symmetry between players, the combat has to feel completely fluid and natural, something that is already hard enough to do in MMOs like WoW, Aion, Warhammer etc...

Plus, lag can't be forgiven in a game with non-targeting, they'd HAVE to restrict people with very bad latency, and that just doesn't work in MMOs, they'd loose money on it.

Darkfall Online tried their hand on non-targeting PvP oriented combat, and it works like shit on a stick. It's the right idea, but it's just not done even remotely right. Whoever would do this, would have to have an insane budget/manpower. It's much much harder to do than regular MMOs.

I'm not even sure I would like it that much even if it was made with the polish I described above.

Its good you used Darkfall as an example for poor application of the non-targeting combat system. Now wont you talk about the ones that applied it with success? DDO & AOC
07-30-2009, 05:03 PM
Vatermelon

Let's face the truth, all MMOs are just cheap rip offs of WoW, the grandfather of all online gaming. ;/
07-30-2009, 05:04 PM
Xkarinx

Every game, and I mean every game was a rip off from pong! Pong was the first game ever made, so people had to base it off pong. Enough save /thread.
07-30-2009, 05:05 PM
BadpcGuy

I guess you can say BOD to DFO. I haven't played DFO but yeah I've screenshots of both. BOD really rip-off DFO in alot of ways.
07-30-2009, 05:41 PM
Nergan

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyber7chink

Its good you used Darkfall as an example for poor application of the non-targeting combat system. Now wont you talk about the ones that applied it with success? DDO & AOC

I haven't played DDO enough to assess wherter it did it well or not, but AoC had a pretty good one indeed, it had some other problems but yeah, an overall good experiment in my opinion.
07-30-2009, 06:19 PM
Bryan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xkarinx

Every game, and I mean every game was a rip off from pong! Pong was the first game ever made, so people had to base it off pong. Enough save /thread.

Wrong. Pong was made in 1972. Technically, the first video game ever invented was the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device. The patent was filed on January 25, 1947, and issued on December 14, 1948.
07-30-2009, 08:34 PM
chewy130

wow, a entire thread dedicated to seeing what game copied what game.

as if we don't do this enough already
07-30-2009, 08:37 PM
Merumeru

XD the shock of RoM still wears heavy on me as the biggest
07-30-2009, 08:37 PM
chewy130

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xkarinx

Every game, and I mean every game was a rip off from pong! Pong was the first game ever made, so people had to base it off pong. Enough save /thread.

psssh pong is a rip off of tennis and tennis is a rip off of badminition
07-30-2009, 09:45 PM
Corrision

Quote:

Originally Posted by kait0s

Maybe the father. Ultima is a tad older; maybe. O_o

BoD is a ripoff
SoS is also
Wonderking is too.

WoW is like the baby. Ultima is the Grandfather, and Everquest is the dad. Hello Kitty online is the mom 0.o
07-30-2009, 10:08 PM
Lawliet1

SoS Ripped from Ragnarok

RoM ripped form WoW

Only 2 that come to mind.
07-30-2009, 11:25 PM
remaru

perfect world seems like a rip off of WoW

i just don't get why this company made another clone of their own game
(PW and jade dynasty) why not combine it to make it bigger
07-31-2009, 01:04 AM
Nergan

Quote:

Originally Posted by remaru

i just don't get why this company made another clone of their own game
(PW and jade dynasty) why not combine it to make it bigger

It's actually a great way of making money for them.

They do two games that look very different from one another, but plays exactly the same and even has very similar maps, that means they skip very big parts of development and can complete their project faster. Some people don't like fluffy cute graphics so they opt for a more colorless/realistic looking game, they know this and to minimize money cost they simply carbon copy their games and change the overall look.

Minimizing development costs but improving revenue overall. :)

As a customer/consumer I dislike it, but it works for them. It happens with everything. It's stupid, but most fall for it because it looks different, myself included. ^^
07-31-2009, 08:31 AM
NetSage

Well I say everyone copied from the cave men. I mean what game doesn't have fire? XD
07-31-2009, 08:38 AM
Claudezero

Quote:

Originally Posted by LOC

It amazes me that people forget (or maybe they were to young to remember) there were other MMO's long before WoW ever came out.

Ultima Online springs to mind as others have mentioned. But the one that really started the bandwagon on the whole MMORPG scene was Everquest. WoW copied much from Everquest of course, some from Ultima Online and a few other games. But the sad thing is, WoW really, really copied from Warhammer. In fact, alot of fantasy based MMO's wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Warhammer's universe.

But then again, if it wasn't for Tolkien and Lord of the Rings, Warhammer wouldn't exist either. So it's a two edged sword (all on fire and with extra stats).

finnaly someone who remembered that even ultima online came out before
Wow did.

who else remembers?

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