I'm finally sick and tiered of seeing an MMO be compared to WoW it seems to me that everyone is absolutely obsessed with "killing wow" "wow clones" and other ridiculous things I'v seen people call mmo's

This artical will guide you through what a modern day MMORPG will look like and why it is utterly ridiculous to say that an interface looks "wow like" 

First of all what is interface? Interface is what any human player uses to control whatever it is the interface is on your keyboard is you human interface and your operating system has interface so you can bring up windows close them and look at your naughty videos. Interface in a game usually consists of the following things

1.)Mini Map

How many games acctually exist today that do not have a mini map? Very few. The same applies to(and I feel very safe to say) all MMO's it's an important part of the game how wonderful it is to be pointed out to your next objective by this magical little thing in some games you dont need it in others your staring at it for 60% of your game time.

2.)Skills

No matter what MMO your playing there are skills involved because really who wants to run around hacking things to death without cool animations

some games you simply click on your target and then press your skill and watch it go boom in others you select your skills the right click to execute and in others you have to somehow swing your sword from the left to the right in a slashing motion.

and what part of the interface comes with skills...

3.)THE SKILLBAR!

Yes thats right the skill bar is another important player in all MMO's why? Elementary my dear watson people simply need a bar that displays what skills are hooked to what key or they can just click the skill bar to execute a skill some games have as many as 100+ skill slots that can be used for por.....potions and buff potions and other silly things that may be compeltely irrelevant to your epic battle with the gianty troll from the first harry potter movie.

4.)Health/Stamina/Energy/Mana/Whatever you wanna call it

All MMO's incorperate a health and energy system somtimes they take it to the next level and add a sheild of some sort of secondary version of energy like adredaline or dark magic in some games and generally it has its own way of displaying how far its been built up or how many points are left

Some FPS games will just make a thick red tint on your screen when youve taken alot of damage but in MMO's its all about the bars and numbers people use these bars stratigecly to plan out thier next move and removing them completely is out of the questions .

5.)Experience bar

Yes that dreaded thing that tricks you the first time you log into your game some games it may move like a rabbit and then start moving like the tortis(and whoever said slow and steady wins the race is wrong, lightning fast is the way to go)and in others they may simply not exxist it's simply decided how the developer made the game but regardless its seen in many MMO's

What's an MMO without 5000 levels right?

6.)Your stats

alot of games use these so players can really customize thier character in the end there ends up being a guide on how to make a character the right way and it then becomes completely irrelevant to the players life unless they level up. Most games you can't even modify it without paying a hefty sum gold or some other currency. So why is it even important? Well its another part of the MMORPG genre that we see alot in some cases they cant be altered they just grow in others we get 5 points distribute them and move on but regardless they are there they affect how muc hdamage we do and how much damage we take they affect our health and in some cases our energy levels regardless the higher the better.

7.)Guild lists and friends lists and block lists

Lists lists lists so many lists who will keep tracck of all my friends? my guildies? those douche bags who think yugioh is still the coolest shit ever? The Interface will? Yay!

In every game we have a guild/clan system and friends/buddy list and a block/ignore list all these play important roles because they help us find our friends who wants to remember the alias of 100's of people right? Thats what we have cellphones and PDA's for and honestly whats an MMORPG without people to get lost with you? You remove this part of the game your gonna have a boring game and people are going to be forced to make facebooks and myspaces and twitters and all the like.

Well these are things we see in games all the time and really the way I look at it you can't compare one games interface with another based on functionality and then immediatly call it "wow-like" because they are nessacery they should be there and if a developer removes one there better be a damn good replacement.

But there are things that should be commented on

1.) The way the interface is presented

You dont want to log in to a game and see black and white boxes thats just boring I want gold silver I want pretty colors! (but no red thats bad for your eyes.) 

2.)Key bindings

Lazy is lazy gets you gotta think about the play becase even though the developer may have 15 fingers most humans only have 10 because I dont plan on using my elbow to hold shift to sprint while I'm holding NUM5 to charge my spell then I have to hit F7 with the arm thats on shift with the elbow to execute can you just imagine?

But then theres also a template for that in almost all asian MMO's Num lock is your auto run in more westernized games its R and so on. I suppose its worth mentioning about if you really do have to do the teapot dance on your keyboard to shoot off a skill or open your guild window

3.)Ease of use

interface is a great thing isnt it? all the great thigns it remembers for us and all the thigns it makes easier

But somtimes it can be a pain I'v had an experience where the interface was so cluttered I couldnt find the option to hide my hat in aion till I squinted my eyes and looked really hard and then I found it

and then In some games theres a skill bar lock thats really tiny or its somhow burried under another part of my interface so it ends up being easier to leave it unlocked till...I drag it off the screen and then I have an empty slot of my skill bar that needs to be fixed while in the heat of battle.

Can you compre any of this to other games? No.

Should you? No

All MMO's have a way they are made if theyre your standard point and click you can't compare them because thats how it should be what makes the game fun is the communtiy, the way the skills are built, how characters progress, quests missions dungeons etc.

Sure there are things the developers could have done to make the game better there always is and it's the players part to voice thier opinions and get the devs to make the game that much better!!!

What are you doing comparing one game to another and saying that this game isnt as good as that game? 

Are you advertising the so called"better game"?

If you want the game to die quit giving it rep

If you want a game to get more players don't advetise another game for having a better this or that.

Because that game was imperfect at the start to and who the hell are you to throw down a new game to a game thats been around longer and already has rep?

Stop comparing MMO's to other MMO's

You want innovative? Either make your own or start sending the devs emails

You want revolutionary? Like I said get off your ass and start coding or start calling

What shouldn't you do? You should stop advertising other games on another game's review.

What should you do? Throw around the positives and negatives state what can be improved about this feature or that quest.

There will never be such thing as a perfect game because everyone has thier own taste in MMO and you shouldn't expect any game to be you should expect the devs not have been lazy and half ass certain features.

If you plan on bashing a game make sure you have a legitimate reason and legitimate reasons have a ver ywide range of what is acceptable but saying it's not as good as another game is not.

It's impossible to completely extinct troll's but it seems to become a trend on this website to compare one MMORPG to another and it needs to stop. Proffessional MMORPG website... Biased Reviews are not professional. So whatever people are doing trying to review MMO's to other MMO's just stop because it's just wrong unless your shooting down a new MMO to advetise an another one then by all means. So long as your arguments make sence.