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So for the people who 'laugh' at this post, just remember that the people who made WoW and are now godly rich, started by saying his exact same words.



Lol, but Blizzard has over ten years of experience with online games dating back to their earlier Starcraft and Warcraft games, probably even before those. I'm 100% certain they were in a WAY different position when they started working on WoW as you are.

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I agree that you should start small, but I also understand where you are coming from. I guess it's to say that many of the people on this forum are professionals and want to get paid and be 'professionals', meh. I was kinda looking for a group, but the thing is I don't even know what my specialty is! lol



It has little to do with professionals or being professional. If someone sets goals that are rather unrealistic, it's only because we want to help that we warn people about it. There's no such thing as a 'curse' on MMO games or something, but it's not something a newbie can handle. I'm not even sure if a small team without the necessary funds could manage it, probably not. It takes tremendous amounts of resources, servers on which your game is running, good graphics so people will even bother to start playing, marketing and so on. I don't think now is a good time to start an MMO when the competition is this fierce. By the time World of Warcraft 2 gets finished your game is likely to not even be finished, let alone as good as World of Warcraft 1.

Making a 2D MMO with a distinct abstract style, something less ambitious has a better chance of survival.

Basically if someone sets it their goal to re-make World of Warcraft when just starting out with 3dgs, what they're really trying to do is to pick up a guitar, claim they can play it like Jimi Hendrix within a year and obviously fail miserably at it. When it comes to 3dgs you might even come to the conclusion along the way that your guitar lacks some vital strings you'll need to play the same songs Hendrix did if you even come to the point of actually playing a song,

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