Why do people flame WoW? Why did people flame EverQuest(and still continue to), or Flame Guild Wars. Hell, there are people who flame Halo. It doesn't matter how many people like and play a video game, or how popular it is. Not everyone will agree that one game is superior above all. You have the right to believe that WoW is the best game at this time in the MMO world or you may believe that it's simply the name Warcraft and it's World that keeps it filled with fans...Hell, I'm a Half-Life guy where all my friends love the Halo Series. Doesn't mean one game sucks and the other doesn't. There are people who dislike playing Super Mario Brothers, but yet it's still an icon of gaming and is widely popular. It's a matter of opinion, it's what makes us all unique and thankfully for opinions that we have so many diverse games and different styles of gameplays. Can you imagine if everyone simply loved run and gunners...Rpgs, Platformers, Solid FPS, Stealth/Espionage, Survival Horror and so forth would not exsist. Opinions make the world go round and even though sometimes the world likes to screw up. Doubtful we'd have the choice between Xbox360, PS3 or Wii...if everyone loved one and didn't the other one.
I've seen many reasons why the game is flamed. Although the most of the complaints seem to come from the girlfriends who hate the game because their boyfriends spend all day and night on the game. I play many MMO's but I've never been addicted to any of them. I still haven't found the perfect MMO that could cause me to give up my entire life. My friend's Sister Boyfriend, is banned from even talking about WoW, he is not allowed to have it installed or play it anyone elses home. If he ever did play it they would break up with no questions asked. So, the biggest flames I hear are from the girlfriends. Although there are many women who are in the opposite situation.
I love MMO's...I've played/play World of Warcraft, GuildWars, EverQuest, EverQuest II, FFXI, Rappelz, Knight Online, MapleStory, Ultima Online, Dungeon Runners, Anarchy Online and a bunch of others. I am looking forward to a new MMO coming out Pirates of the Burning Seas. I've played all those games and through out my experiences, I've seen people who proclaim the game as being the best and while others have thought otherwise. I've played those games and I still do not believe any one game is flawless. There are things I love about WoW and things I wish were done anotherway. There is one good thing that comes out of flaming. So long as it's a flame with a purpose. I believe game developers should have people criticize the game. Hopefully the game developer will listen and perhaps make the next one better.
On a final note, I enjoy WoW when I play it. I believe the world is beautiful and the graphics are very nice. The game seems to run smoothly on any system I've run it on. It closes quickly unlike others which had my old laptop catching up for several moments. It has an interesting World and it's nice to see the world go from RTS to MMO. I believe Blizzard is a great company and the fact that they could of easily milked on the StarCraft craze by having tons of sequels or expansions by now is saying something. As well as Diablo sequels. StarCraft, WarCraft, and Diablo are still being played by thousands, if not more players everyday. Where if you look at companies like Capcom...You have more MegaMan and Street Fighters (no disrespect to either series) sequels than there are definitions in the Dictionary. I've rambled on long enough and I hope I made my point.
~Sion
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