World of Warcraft

Now that i've hit 70 i'm starting to see a lot of flaws in the game (too mechanical, repetative ect.), i've been getting kind of board so i've been looking for some new games (waiting on WAR). Wow does have ten million players, where other games aree below 500k, so i'me wondering what makes wow better than every other game?

yes i think wow did get boring but i think your wrong about all the other mmos have under 500k players

There are many answers to your question, but I will try to sum it up in one word, polish.

That word wasn't even used in reference to MMOs until WoW as far as I recall.  The game is solid from top to bottom, offers a wide variety of play choices and just has a lot of thought put into what will make the game go.  It may not do one individual aspect better than another game, but it will do just about everything else better making it a more complete product.    Thus the polish.

Most games after max level have a certain repetitive nature to them despite what many others speak about other games in comparison.  WoW just has more options and does them better than most games.

        WoW is only repedetive if you make it so, run a heroic one day and pvp the next, you.. YOU make the game boring via playing 9 hours a day and trying to do the same thing over and over for those 9 hours.. stop running heroic underbog and go blast face in warsong gulch.. join a casual raiding guild or level up a profession, level a twink or just an alt to mess around on.. it's all about spending your time wisely and making it not boring. If you place things like that on a game youre... well not playing right.. and before u say u need gear to raid or pvp wrong.. i see fellow 70s in greens in pvp and wtf do u think kara is for? lol just go play for like 2/3 hours instead of 8/9 and if your bored through only 2/3 hours then youre def not playing it right.. because if you look at almost any other game's critique youll notice they all want wow-esque alterations "we want an AH, we want to be able to mail stuff, we want to swim and jump" WoW has 10mil players for a reason, theyve created a plateu for other games to aspire to so just start.. playing right =p

To the OP:

Wow/TBC in its end game offers something for everybody/

Normal dungeons, heroic dungeons, raidings, battlegrounds, arena play, solo play and even crafting is an economic very viable alternative on the Auction House. All can be played with DAILY quests or weekly cycles, which makes the traditional grinding obsolete.

As these dailys also give badges as loot ,everyone now can build up his special gear from those badges. You NO longer need to do raiding 7 nights a week. But you can play at your own rythem or pace.

So wether you have 30 minutes or 6 hours to spare. YOU decide what you play and HOW to play it (hard or soft. Easy or hardcore. Both get rewarded). TBC has so much more to offer than the standard Wow had 2 years ago. In standard Wow you HAD to raid, now it's an option as arena is an option, the battlegrounds are an option, the daily's are an option.

The game is NOT only polished and offers something for eveybody to choose from.

The game has made PvP Arena fights the perfect basis for analysis of all the classes and their talents.

Many don't see this because these evolutions came bit by bit in the last 18 months, but now Blizzard has made the analysis of the classes more like a combination of art and exact science. They can analyse the millions of arena fights and fine tune the classes for a 3vs3 and 5vs5 fight.

Not only makes this Wow as the most analysed  PvP and PVE game yet, but at the same time its integration between PvP and PVE in future expansions is balanced and controlled by this micro analysed PvP system.

The ultimate challenge for Blizzard is that they want - as a first - a complete balanced open world PvP system with adapted rules and a controlling mechanism in WotLK. Applied to a PVP zone even on PVE servers.

There is only one MMORPG at the moment that has a PVP end game which even includes a proper e-sport branche with 200K US dollars price money. So I have no doubts they will do the exact same thing to controlled PvP fights in bigger so called world battles.

So Wow has more options, better polished game play and it builds up step by step to an ever more higher balanced gameplay both in PVE and in PVP.

That's why people are critical about other MMORPG's : they expect the same kind of choices and polishment  from companies with about 5% of the Blizzard resources.. Of course these MMORPG's fall short.

Originally posted by Pepsipwnzgod

        WoW is only repedetive if you make it so, run a heroic one day and pvp the next, you.. YOU make the game boring via playing 9 hours a day and trying to do the same thing over and over for those 9 hours.. stop running heroic underbog and go blast face in warsong gulch.. join a casual raiding guild or level up a profession, level a twink or just an alt to mess around on.. it's all about spending your time wisely and making it not boring. If you place things like that on a game youre... well not playing right.. and before u say u need gear to raid or pvp wrong.. i see fellow 70s in greens in pvp and wtf do u think kara is for? lol just go play for like 2/3 hours instead of 8/9 and if your bored through only 2/3 hours then youre def not playing it right.. because if you look at almost any other game's critique youll notice they all want wow-esque alterations "we want an AH, we want to be able to mail stuff, we want to swim and jump" WoW has 10mil players for a reason, theyve created a plateu for other games to aspire to so just start.. playing right =p

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Originally posted by zeul81

Now that i've hit 70 i'm starting to see a lot of flaws in the game (too mechanical, repetative ect.), i've been getting kind of board so i've been looking for some new games (waiting on WAR). Wow does have ten million players, where other games aree below 500k, so i'me wondering what makes wow better than every other game?

I think it's because WoW 1-70 is fun as hell for just about anyone.  It does fall flat on it's face for many players at 70, but by then you've likely made friends in the game or are just attached to your character. 

Originally posted by Pepsipwnzgod

        WoW is only repedetive if you make it so, run a heroic one day and pvp the next, you.. YOU make the game boring via playing 9 hours a day and trying to do the same thing over and over for those 9 hours.. stop running heroic underbog and go blast face in warsong gulch.. join a casual raiding guild or level up a profession, level a twink or just an alt to mess around on.. it's all about spending your time wisely and making it not boring. If you place things like that on a game youre... well not playing right.. and before u say u need gear to raid or pvp wrong.. i see fellow 70s in greens in pvp and wtf do u think kara is for? lol just go play for like 2/3 hours instead of 8/9 and if your bored through only 2/3 hours then youre def not playing it right.. because if you look at almost any other game's critique youll notice they all want wow-esque alterations "we want an AH, we want to be able to mail stuff, we want to swim and jump" WoW has 10mil players for a reason, theyve created a plateu for other games to aspire to so just start.. playing right =p

There's a lot of things wrong with that post.

To be able to actually have fun and "blast face" in WSG you need gear. To get gear you need to do those repetitive things over and over again..including WSG, AB, AV, EotS.  To get in cooler and harder raids you need to repeat heroic Underbog and Kara the point where you want to kill yourself. If you have to make a low level character for the sake of killing people who don't know the game very well in 1-2 shots.. then you're probably not having much fun when it comes down to it anyways.

Leveling professions is the definition of repetition. Find nodes(or herbs) to gather. Buy mats. Craft. Totally linear.

Leveling an "alt" isn't exactly fun either most of the time, since it's just rehashed content.

Defend the game all you want- but  it's pretty much undeniable that in order to progress you have to do things you don't want to over and over and over again.

Then once you get that shiny s3 armor you have nothing to do with it, since BGs lost their fun as you were grinding for marks every day.

I've played this game long enough to know that the end-game sucks for people who play more then Kara on the weekends.

And to answer your question OP;

It's because:

1. The game has low system requirements

2. A lot of people play it, and it's pop culture in it's own way; making it socially acceptable