When someone gives you a cupcake and you enjoy it so much that you want to keep having it on every breakfast… does this make it a juicy sirloin steak? No, it’s a cupcake. There’s nothing wrong with it being a cupcake. That’s what it is!

MarkvA wrote a “11 awesome and very important MMO improvements in Star Wars: The Old Republic” review on swotr.wikia.com and I feel responsible to clarify his inaccuracy and I think he’s over glorifying this game. His review doesn’t bother me because of his personal opinion – which I disagree with – it bothers me because of the several shocking fallacies that I feel obliged to address. I will go through all his 11 points on how he thinks SWTOR “improved” on the genre.

When you have an IP and a Game Brand which has its own demographics of a specific target audience and filling a specific Niche in the genre… you should take care of it and evolve it WITHIN what makes it the unique experience it was.

MMORPGs are not Massive, Not Role Playing.. sometimes they are Multiplayer but they are always just… “games”.

In 1993 while playing Aber Bud using my Procomm Plus DOS program which connects me to a Unix Internet Server which also connects to this beautiful MUD game, I had a big dream. But, being in that world of text and nothing but text. Looking at the black screen reading the white text of Aber MUD world. I was thinking how great it would be if this was turned into something graphical. Five years later and my dream came true. EverQuest while based on Diku MUD was still what I was asking for.