I agree with the first part. It's not not action bars are specially just in WOW, they are included in many other games. I think Wow Is just the obvious choice of comparison as its the number 1 mmorpg, and most well known.
But as for your comment on why people would think less, I couldn't disagree more. Although I've said in previous posts, I don't think this update is rubbish, I think it'll be quite neat, BUT having said that.. I see where other people are coming from. The reason why people dont want to see runescape become like wow is obvious isn't it? If they wanted to play a game like wow.... They'd play wow. The reason why they chose RS to play was because how it is.
Runescape is losing its originality, it's saddening
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