I wouldnt compare this so much to wow as i would diablo. Its basically diablo with guns to me. It does of some similarities to wow but they basically took the good ideas from alot of popular games and smashed them together to make this. And i think they are gonna do the fans right in this game. this is a piece of an article that i found.
"We were pretty careful there," Gearbox's Mikey Neumann said in a recent interview when asked if trade in the game would be expanded. "We wanted free-for-all looting for now. Then we'll look at what the community really latches on to or wants, and we'll move in that direction."
Judging by that id say the community has alot of power as far as how they change the game.
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