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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hunter In Darkness" data-source="post: 4936576" data-attributes="member: 44298">It's not a criticism or anything, but man I have heard that said to much to just wave it off as bashing. The over all look of the book tends to remind folks of wow, and the powers and such. I am not saying it plays like wow or that they are right but that is what they jump to.Saying it's not like wow all day long does nothing to make folks think of it as like a MMO upon first look. I am not bashing the game but people get the impression they get. Saying they are wrong, ignorant or bashers does nothing to change that first impressionI know people that seem to enjoy the game so it's not an attack on it. Stand in a bookstore near the games a while, watch teenages with no pen and paper knowledge look though the books. I have Pointed a few to some games even cleared up the "It looks like wow" thing twice now. This group looked though some shadowrun, 3.5 and wod books yet when they picked up the 4e PHB it was "Hey guys look this looks like WoW!"  At that point I went over said Hi told em I was told it did not play like wow, but still thats what they jumped to.This is not me saying that{though I did on first looking at the book) but other people that had never played. The comparison is not going away unless the books are vastly redesigned and thats not gonna happen. But hey if they can bring more players into the community then more power to em</blockquote>