You can't say that without playing EVERY Asian MMO. Most of them look and play the same. And wow being the best is your opinion (and mine as well), not a fact.
Do you really want to discuss semantics? Well, WOW is the best MMO because the numbers speak louder than opinions. It's an RPG for which you must pay monthly to continue playing, and yet there are more accounts than every other free to play MMO besides arena-type games (LOL, CS, Dota, etc). That means something. And let's be honest, WOW is well made and the gameplay is fluid. I played many MMOs and very few come close to WOW in terms of controls.
Do you really want to discuss semantics? Well, WOW is the best MMO because the numbers speak louder than opinions. It's an RPG for which you must pay monthly to continue playing, and yet there are more accounts than every other free to play MMO besides arena-type games (LOL, CS, Dota, etc). That means something. And let's be honest, WOW is well made and the gameplay is fluid. I played many MMOs and very few come close to WOW in terms of controls.
Number speak louder than opinions? Hitler also had a lot of followers. Doesn't make him any more right.
WoW has the most subscribers, yes, that's a fact. (A)
WoW is the best MMO, no, that's an opinion. (B)
A does not imply B, simply because to be the "best" requires many more variables to be in it's favor, and some aren't.
People cling to WoW because they've already invested so much time in it and cba to learn a new MMO (like myself), or because their guild/friends are still playing... There's lots of people who believe the changes done to WoW have made it better (myself included) and then there's people who cling to nostalgia and say that WoW is **** now.
Again I don't know why you seem to think I'm bashing WoW because I'm not, it's my favorite game of all time.
But still, B&S is a really, really good game, and, to me, the combat in that game is far superior to WoW. But the lore is bland, the characters are forgettable, it has a pedo race, and it doesn't have mass scale PvP. I find it hard though to return to WoW after playing B&S... WoW just feels so slow now.
What's also better than WoW is that classes are balanced around 1v1. A good x can always beat a mediocre y regardless of what classes x and y are. As opposed to WoW where (in wotlk speaking) a good rogue can't beat a mediocre paladin.
Number speak louder than opinions? Hitler also had a lot of followers. Doesn't make him any more right.
He didn't actually have all that many followers. But overall it depends on what you define as "a lot" I guess.
What's also better than WoW is that classes are balanced around 1v1. A good x can always beat a mediocre y regardless of what classes x and y are. As opposed to WoW where (in wotlk speaking) a good rogue can't beat a mediocre paladin.
That doesn't make either game better or worse. I rather have a game balanced around 3v3, then balanced around dueling. Which won't result in my claiming game X is superior to Y because it's balance focus is different.
"No matter how much you think you know about WoW pvp there will always be a rogue to contradict you". ( and his gf :p )
Lezbi honest, if a rogue isn't stacking ArP and the Pala knows his CD's, the pala has much more burst (even tho the rogue has much more sustainable damage), enough to global a rogue that let's say didn't use evasion/cloak on time.
But that was not the point.
I like the game being balanced around 1v1 because that means there are no "bad matchups" and all of your losses are due to the other player being objectively better than you. I understand that some may not like this, but again, I'm talking about my opinion.