Many games have been hyped up as WoW-killers.

WoW, of course, refers to the World of Warcraft, the people’s smash hit and most successful MMORPG, showing of more than 12 million active members currently.

For many gaming companies, to publish an MMORPG that will get to feel even a mere tenth of the achievement of WoW would mean a revered cash cow for their enterprises. To defeat the World of Warcraft - or to be a WoW-killer as a lot of persons believe - would denote billions of dollars in revenue per year.

Numerous games have attempted to "kill" WoW.  

Each one of them have botched.

On September of 2008, an MMORPG was put out that, though it may not "kill" the World of Warcraft, can very well compete with it toe to toe.

I’m telling about Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning.

Much similar how the World of Warcraft has been warmly abridged as WoW, Warhammer Online has been labeled as WAR, or as WAAAGH by its famous developers.

Whereas WoW is focused on PvE, or player vs. Environment, substance, Warhammer Online gloats in giving a PvP, or player vs. Player, feelvoyage for its subscribers. One of Warhammer Online’s distinguishing attributes is Realm vs. Realm (RvR) battle where alliances of contradicting factions are pitted against each other in instanced or world situations. This RvR dynamic primarily culminates in sieges on the rival force’s main city. Once a group’s town is captured, its players will have to settle for refugee camps for a particular period of time, much to the enjoyment of the victorious group.

But RvR is just like battlegrounds and PvP servers over at WoW, you can probably reveal.

Surely, such an argument can be done, but Warhammer Online applies much importance on PvP content. Whenever you kill a participant from a rival group, you acquire points. Whenever you become a victor an instanced RvR scenario, you get experience. Every time you finish a goal in a world RvR scenario, you acquire experience.

In fact, it is probable to get to the highest rank of 40 in Warhammer Online without having to end and turn over a PvE quest!

Truly, opinions can be made that Warhammer Online and WoW are the same to each other. Their prototypes are similar. Their simulation techniques reflect one another. And the way their gaming schemes are laid out are corresponding to one another.

Nonetheless, for players who like to slay characters cleverly controlled by other gamers, then Warhammer Online may attest to be a better alternative.