Quote Originally Posted by 'mackenziemi',index.php?page=Thread&postID=47108#p ost47108
Speaking purely as a develop Blizz can, and will, adapt faster because they have already built their development framework. taking good ideas from other games and implementing them in WoW wont be too much of a problem.
They have been doing it since day 1.

To me the only thing WAR has on WoW right now is the Siege city concept and more classes. Love ya Sentack but I disagree ,what WoW is really needing is more classes and gradation. I know I am getting tired of the same old same old.
I am more a fan of a pure skilled based system ala EVE. I find the "class" restriction rather stupid and unrealistic.

The other thing I think is they are going to hurt themselves with the graphics style that they have picked. People may make fun of it but one of WoW's greatest assets is the graphic's style they have chosen. It suspends the players disbelief whereas going with more "real" graphics doesn't and players find themselves finding things that look wrong. Which detracts from the overall gameplay experience.
It detracts from my gaming experience everytime I see a bizzarely shaped male Night Elf or a male Blood Elf doing his gay jump or a Troll's tusks doing wierd things to a helmet.

I don't see how a "cartoonish" style suspends your disbelief and a more "real" style doesn't. The more "real" the graphics are the better the suspension of disbelief would be.