i feel like wom would do far better than ao if vetex kept updating it to this day. It had some cool features like randomly spawning camps and npcs (enemy towers don’t compare to them), the roaming bosses that are farr cooler than bounty npcs and the towns actually felt alive, the overall game felt way more alive than AO imo. I also think exploring a huge connected continent with multiple biomes and secrets is far cooler than exploring a sea where most islands have basically nothing
In my very biased former WoM player opinion, I think wom would do much better than ao if it was still being updated. I love arcane odyssey but at times it feels lifeless (as you said, WoM’s towns feel a lot more alive) and the whole premise of the game is honestly better. I will say though Ao’s story is (in my very biased opinion) really good, and I’m not sure WoM could compare to it if they continued on with the whole villain or hero storyline without branching out a bit more. Going back to the towns and overall aliveness, wom just felt more sunny and relaxing, it had a lot less toxic players and less ganking (I assume thats because of no leaderboard). It felt like you could explore a lot more (its really odd that I think WoM’s exploration is better than ao’s, as thats one of arcane odyssey’s main features) and (again circling back to towns) the towns also had so much more that you could explore (in my very biased opinion). I really do love Arcane Odyssey and I think its story is/would be better than WoMs but something is just missing from ao that wom has.
Anyways, in conclusion of my very biased opinion, I think if WoM was still being updated it would be a a fair bit better than Ao.
It is fairly likely that it would be more well liked, but I’m not sure if it would be more successful. I get the feeling that the player count would remain pretty much the same, even if those players enjoyed it more.
yes
Wom really felt more alive and really just felt more fun than AO. Personally I think it would be better, but not more popular
probably around the same
As said;
It’d entirely be based on of Vetex’s issues involving his putrid feature-creep, his lack of communication and planning and whatnot would be solved.
If not… Yikes.
i think the lack of the dark sea would provide a performance boost in of itself as vetex refuses to make it only load when you actually enter the dark sea, and his SLIM model range thingy is 400 studs 
WoM would be better performance wise maybe, but idk. could either flop or do better
hopefully there wouldn’t be a mr
i actually disagree
AO also had a clear and memorable direction like WOM did during the very early days
if vetex stuck with WOM, it’s likely that the same issues with AO would eventually come up in WOM
So what y’all are saying is that the issue is vetex’s approach
eh? what-
Yes.
I thought that was the obvious issue at hand, seeing as AO is potential game but is held back by the development and overall planning, therefore; Vetex.