Originally Posted by
l33t
I'm sorry, but this is very subjective. I played all this titles and they are nowhere near WoW.
- Rift has little to no lore, clumsy animations and in general all races just look the same, which makes it feel like you're playing some Asian grinder. Also its idea of multispec failed great, because marketing said that you could make a tank which deals lots of damage while healing everything, a "jack-of-all-trades" build; instead we received standart wow-like talent tree with switching between specs, which were very one-sided. Raids are good, but nowhere near the quality of WoW's.
- SWTOR has a shitton of bad things, I won't list them all, but for me the biggest issues were yet again the fucking races look like twins; and, in general, with all the species varieties that SW universe had, making six types of same humans with little-to-no visible features? LAME. Lame beyond limits. Not to mention lore stuff; me personally was disgusted by the millions of light-sided empire players. Running flashpoints with them completely ruined my experience. Hard modes are fine, but they are too easy compared to WoW's heroic raids. And, well, after the game went f2p, it basically died for me.
- Tera: no availability of EU servers for our region. Having to play on US servers with all the ping issues - no comments.
- GW2: I'd better won't comment this at all. Can tell only one thing: bought the box, played for a month. Never played since. Looks like I'm just not the target audience for this game. I always find something good in every game I play; but this is the only game I could not find anything good in. Clumsy unresponsive controls, meaningless wandering here and there, lack of skills, meaningless character progression, awful animations, awful senceless zergy dungeons... And, the very worst, calling classes "professions"... meh. As I said, not the TA, obviously.
TL: DR - Whatever WoW offers, he does it way better than any competitors, that is why its great.