WoW’s implementation is so superior to DAoC’s implementation that DAoC seems as if it is in the dark ages (and not in a good way). I would never say that WoW is a better game, it is not, but DAoC is implemented as if it were cow dung.
That link to the WoW commercial is an interesting advertisement for WoW but great advertisement will not help DAoC because most MMO players (99.99%) would hate what DAoC is today. There is no reason for Bioware to attempt to attract players to a game that those players would hate. First the game must be fixed.
Even now, on the front page of the general board, is a thread where a player can’t figure out the ambiguous slash commands for controlling the alliance. After all these years Mythic still requires convoluted and difficult to create slash commands to control/manage guilds and alliances (not to mention how guild leaders and alliance leaders need more logs/controls/etc. . . ).
I see no problem with having slash commands available but to require them for often used controls is archaic . . .it is self destructive.
Also, just creating that WoW advertisement probably cost more (because of Chuck Norris) than an entire years budget for all the developers assigned to DAoC. While Mythic did at one time have the funds to create great advertisements, they (or rather MJ) squandered that money and drove DAoC into the ‘pit of despair’.
There are a few that love what DAoC is today. Unfortunately most of those players do not understand why the typical MMO player would hate what DAoC is.
Advertising DAoC would not help the game. First the game would need to be repaired.
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