Don't play much MMOs, but I have played...
City of Heroes: Creating my own super hero persona was fun, in general the game was fairly good for roleplay for those that wanted to do it. As far as gameplay mechanics go it was fairly decent in this department as well, my main complaint being the lack of non-combat orientated skills and things to do.
Star Wars Galaxies: I only ever got to play post combat upgrades and new game enhancements, so I can't speak for the experiance before this point - though from my perspective it seemed it'd have been a better game before the upgrades. That being said what they're left with wasn't exactly BAD - it was just vastly different from the game they had before hand, the game I read about that even if it wasn't pulling people away from say Everquest - it was still a decent game with a lot to do, combat related or otherwise - and a fairly decent roleplaying community. I joined post upgrades as I said, and well.. Again, it's not "bad" it's just... Empty. I made myself leave because while I was enjoying the game enough, well it felt abandoned. Every player city I came across was a ghost town and the only people I really saw were spambots advertising their credit purchase services. It's a damn shame too, if they didn't "upgrade" everything and cause a tonne of folks to leave I'd have probably liked it a lot and stayed. But what can ya do?
World of Warcraft: Well, it's fun. I still play, though I haven't really touched the game in a while. As with City of Heroes, theres not too much to do outside of combat which doesn't suit me much. I mean yeah, I can mine and blacksmith and woo. But thats just not enough. The only non-combat activity that keeps my attention any length of time is fishing. Combat is decent enough though, not that I see much of it as I usually get shoved into the healer/buffer role by whoever I group with. I've no real problems with the community, really. I was actually quite suprised as I have heard many horror stories about some of the immature 12 year olds and what not you'd encounter as you play but everyone I've come across has been pretty decent, bout the only thing that annoys me about WoW or any online game really is their insistance on using netspeak. I don't care if it's quicker to type "u" rather then "you" it's just retarded! I feel like the only person who bothers speaking in full sentences. But other then that, they're fine. I, the most anti-social person I know, even managed to join a guild with people I actually LIKE - and I don't like anyone - in fact they're probably the only reason I still play as while the games fun I don't think it's $15 a month or whatever it costs fun.
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