Azoth?

[Rodo]

I mean really come on Azoth? really? really? Everyone on the gaming planet knows WoW takes place in a world called Azeroth, is the similarity on purpose? You would think a creative developer would avoid naming anything important in their game that might draw a similarity to the genre's most successful mmo. But no, you get Azoth? Sure its different but, uh, yeah, so creative...reeks of minimal effort

[Natjur]

Azoth was considered to be a universal medication or universal solvent, and was sought for in alchemy. Similar to another alchemical idealized substance, alkahest, azoth was the aim, goal and vision of many alchemical works. Its symbol was the Caduceus.

The word goes to way back thousands of years.

[Rodo]

could have been creative and thought of something unique, especially due to the similarity

[Katitoff]

Is this a mild troll thread are is OP just utterly and completely ignorant of history and mythology of real world?

[Ｍｏｎａｄｎｏｃｋ]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Is this a mild troll thread are is OP just utterly and completely ignorant of history and mythology of real world?

Maybe, but it's still a valid point. Azoth was a real idea in the alchemy world, sometimes given to Mercury by ancient alchemists.

Still, it does sound vaguely similar to Azeroth, even though that wasn't the intent at all, as far as I can discern.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Natjur:

Azoth was considered to be a universal medication or universal solvent, and was sought for in alchemy. Similar to another alchemical idealized substance, alkahest, azoth was the aim, goal and vision of many alchemical works. Its symbol was the Caduceus.

The word goes to way back thousands of years.

You with your facts and history! Don't you know everything evolves around WOW, the world didn't exist before WOW?!

I recall an old Multi User Dungeon (MUD) called Imperium that was set in ancient Rome. It used Azoth as the solvent for alchemy, this was many years ago but I am sure WOW copied it because that is the only way an idea can be formed through theft of ideas.

[Wynaught]

You're acting like you order WoW off of WISH and got this instead... the Game is called New World, how was the new world discovered .... hmmm...

[kenloui15]

WOW players doesnt have many brain cells, so this post dont surprise me.

[môrgondír]

That's not nearly as egregious as practically any magical metal in a fantasy environment becoming 'mithral'.

It seems one or two letters is all the substitute you need for imagination - where a certain something is 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 something else, but with much less risk of litigation for copyright infringement.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by môrgondír:

That's not nearly as egregious as practically any magical metal in a fantasy environment becoming 'mithral'.

It seems one or two letters is all the substitute you need for imagination - where a certain something is 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 something else, but with much less risk of litigation for copyright infringement.

"Shut up! It is the Shinning! De Ye want to get sued!!-Groundskeeper Willie

You are right games often re brand/rename materials or at least use the same thing, such as gold as a currency. It doesn't mean they are trying to reference other games, unless of course they are but they usually go to great lengths to make it so people know that.

[stretch]

Didn't WoW use gold too?
Dwarves?
Elves?
Melee?
Ranged attacks?
The list goes on.... but you choose to get bent out of shape because Azoth is slightly similar to Azeroth. WTF is wrong with you?

[moq]

So many people still don’t know that WoW was the first MMO!

[Sommer]

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[Doomed]

Originally posted by moq:

So many people still don’t know that WoW was the first MMO!

Please tell me you're kidding.

[SertanDoom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoth

[Rodo]

zero creativity, just like the defenders of the word and and just like the game. Statement stands