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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4835266" data-attributes="member: 80487">This is purely anecdotal, but I have seen the comparison coming mainly from people who are not into WoW (or MMORPGs, or the current computer-game scene at all) -- and also are not 3E devotees.My impression is that in those cases it's the first analogy that comes to mind in trying to describe what the heck 4E is like, the fundamental point being that it is so very unlike "old school" D&D. The comparison is usually doubly naive, I think, for want of actual experience playing 4E, so taking it literally is probably to attribute more claim of precision than was intended in the first place.The mere perception of difference from "how D&D was" is likely to depend a bit on how far back the referent goes. A lot that players of 3E (or even late 2E, perhaps) take for granted is strange to players of Basic+ or Advanced D&D -- and a lot of that has been carried forward into the latest version.</blockquote>