Does anyone play WOW?

[kremmy]

Played it for about 2 years, WoW's great fun if you manage not to get completely sucked into it. You can meet amazing people out there and have a lot of good times, then again, you also meet a lot of noobs and bad people. Though to be honest, sad to say but the community there I had is much more mature than disco.

Same here. It's funny to me that people are railing about "what that game can do to people" considering the following:

1: Discovery's main server has way fewer people than a WoW server, but I've heard almost as many "this game took over my life" stories from here as I have from people who play WoW.

2: Most people don't write detailed biographies and elaborate stories involving their WoW characters.

3: I can't speak for everyone but I've spent the better part of a day doing nothing but playing Freelancer once or twice, whereas after 3 hours of WoW I'm ready to set fire to my computer.


Now, I'm not saying it's bad if computer games are your passion. Far from it, there are much worse things to be passionate about. I'm saying it's bad to blame WoW when 10 years ago these people would have been playing everquest, or 10 years before that they would have been obsessively talking to people over a BBS/playing a multi user dungeon.

That, and looking down on people for playing their medieval RPG while you play your space RPG is an awesome example of the pot calling the kettle black.