Vanguard Among Most Anticipated MMORPG’s of the Year

Posted by Draedus in Vanguard News

guard MMORPG Highly Anticipated MMORPG.com released the results of their polling regarding MMORPG’s, in particular these results indicate the marets level of anticipation for the various MMORPG titles slated to enter the market this year.

‘Warhammer: Age of Reckoning’ and ‘Vanguard: Saga of Heroes’ lead the pack with a bit over half of the market jittering with anticipation, eagerly awaiting the release of these two titles.

The question we ponder now is ‘How does Warhammer manage to make the top of this list - over Vanguard?’ The answer is simple -marketing. Warhammer has done it, Vanguard has not.

Warhammer Online:
Age of Reckoning
27.3%

Vanguard:
Saga of Heroes
22.8%

Star Trek Online
15.5%

Age of Conan
14.2%

Pirates of the Burning Sea
10.5%

Lord of the Rings Online
9.7%

Warhammer has done a great job promoting their title using visual tactics, not the least of which is that flashy cinematic trailer. This excessive attention to out of game promotional imagery leads me to wonder…why not promote the games play-ability, depth, and uniqueness..? Simply put, its not unlike WOW where visual style is the bulk of what you get.

My contention all along has been that Warhammer isn’t a direct threat to Vanguard. Both games will meet the needs of different styles of gamers and can coexists nicely in the growing MMORPG market.

From everything we’ve read about Warhammer, it sounds like the game play will focus more on thrashing pvp (realm vs realm) while Vanguard backs away from WOW-ish button spamming driven grind for levels and gear and presents RPG gamers with our first real glimpse of character development depth and game play that promises to leave the arcades to the kiddies.

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