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• • De-Mystifying WOW, and why it wont be de-throned nonetheless

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    Originally posted by Thunderous
    

    You can say whatever you want to defend WoW, here is why it is successful...

    1.)  Kids can compete with adults.  WOW REQUIRES ZERO SKILL OR THINKING.

    2.)  CPU specs are low.

    That's why.  The game is built for a child to navigate, women can get into it as well.  It's like the Super Mario Brothers of the MMO world.  It reaches ALL genre of people.  it just has an enormous customerbase to pull from.  My friends 10 year old was getting addicted to it so he grounded him from it.  The 10 year old had several toons with elite levels...

    Personally, I want to play a game with adults, not kids.  WoW isn't for me.  However, WoW clearly is for 10 million other people.

    Children, women, Asian subscribers, and first time MMO players can easily get into this game.  That is why it is so successful.  Plus, Blizzard provides quality content and a very dumbed-down level.

    
    As a adult woman I find your comments to be pretty offensive. "This game requires zero skill or thought and therefore it is great for children or women" ... ?!

    Gee, thanks pal. Try that line out on the next girl you wish to date--I'm sure she'll be charmed.

    Yes, I started with WoW. It was my introduction to the world of gaming. When I was studying computer animation, I watched the guys in the lab playing the beta and it looked like fun. The thing however the tipped me to actually try out the game was how Blizzard ended the beta. If anyone remembers that far back, rather than simply post a message saying "Our beta testing period is now over", the developers simply let loose hordes of impossible-to-kill creatures into the world and let the mayhem ensue. We sat in the lab just laughing our asses off as we watched players feebly attempt to band together to try and take these things down.

    In short... WoW has a sense of humour. It's a GAME and it knows it.

    As a CG junkie, I have been trying to find other MMORG games with better graphics to get into, but I always end up going back to WoW for the simple reason that, unlike much of its competition, it doesn't have a big ol' stick up its butt.

    If that makes it accessible... if that makes it "carebear"... fine and dandy with me. Please point me to other games that aren't going to treat us evidently *inferior* female players like dirt.

  • Posted: 5/13/08 10:32 AM
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