Yet another interview..Kotaku however.

[Aion]

aside from UI...from the videos and screenshots so far, do you feel it is WOW in disguise? hope some veteran WoW players can point out...

[Genjuro]

aside from UI...from the videos and screenshots so far, do you feel it is WOW in disguise? hope some veteran WoW players can point out...

I've played World of Warcraft, FFXI, This game, Star Wars: the Old Republic, AION.

Honestly I can say that I didn't see a lot of aspects that followed that trend. Granted there are the usual UI of "WASD" controls and "Spacebar" for jump and all, but I think those things are pretty standard these days even with FPS games.

I'm a little unclear about the whole "Wow in disguise" term as I think that each game has it's own presentation. Understand that there WILL be aspects of the game that are universal with any game such as: UI (wasd controls, spacebar to jump, 1-0 hotkeys, macros, etc), repetitive mob kill quests, some sort of gathering or crafting or way to make income. These are just to name a few things that will be universal regardless of MMO or stand-a-lone RPG.

But again each game seems to present these aspects differently so therefore it changes up a bit. SWTOR for example has you killing mobs over and over again, but instead of having to stop what you're doing and head back, a droid updates your quest and you just continue killing in the area till you're done. In WoW, you kill mobs, head back and talk to NPC and go kill more mobs etc. This has changed from recent days, but again there is a little bit of a different presentation.

In the end, I guess everyone has their own definition of what a wow clone is so I guess we'll just have to wait till open beta to be sure.

[Dannythm]

aside from UI...from the videos and screenshots so far, do you feel it is WOW in disguise? hope some veteran WoW players can point out...

Cannot now until we play it, but I've played 7 years of WoW and the only thing that ARR reminds me of it is the constant jumping.