Trust me, this isn't as fun as it looks.
It’s been a great month for games, I must say. Modern Warfare 2, Bayonetta, Borderlands, and even the console version of Tekken 6 entered my life and entertained me to no end. One of our colleagues quit playing World of Warcraft, and may God bless his soul for doing so since he’ll have time to play other worthwhile games like Dragon Age: Origins and Torchlight.
But how about those poor unfortunate souls who have no idea what they’re going into when they think that the prospects of an MMO is deemed fun? Fear not, for I have five (out of a s***ton) reasons on why you should not play an MMO.
(Disclaimer Note: Mr. Toffee is biased against MMOs and hates them with a fury of a thousand suns. Please take this article with a grain of salt and just hear him out. You might agree with him on some things. Also, this article has been rewritten due to a major disagreement to the tone of the original article. Mr. Toffee is still human, after all. )
5. You Are Throwing Money Off A Bridge: How much is a subscription fee for WoW? Last I checked, you had to pay US$15 per month, which is about S$20 bucks here. S$20 could get you five meals from a hawker centre. S$20 can get you an XBLA/PSN game that’s sure to kill your time progressively without asking you for monthly subscription fees. If you’re lucky, S$20 can get you a second-hand console game that was released last year. S$20 should not be used to pay a monthly fee for a game, especially since you have real life bills to pay.
When you start a new MMO, the first month’s usually free. I recall drug peddlers telling their customers almost the same thing. It’s always free the first time before these companies suck you dry of your time and wallet. And the less said about the free MMOs or Counterstrike clones claiming to be like an MMO which always saves the best stuff for those with a never-ending wallet (usually from Korea and China), the better.
Learn to revise odd fragments in your sentences, "n00b".
4. Your “England Becomes Power”: I may not be insanely anal when it comes to grammar and punctuation, but I do fear for the world when people start incorporating “L33T” speak in their everyday vocabulary. MMOs aren’t really helping, with terms like “aggro”, “zerging”, “mounts”, “DPS” and other such lingo being introduced. I don’t really care if some people do it among themselves; talk like imbeciles for all I care. But when I see it creeping into written and online articles (not in any satirical form, mind you), I feel a part of me inside has died.
3. Immersion In An MMO Setting Is Non-Existent: When you dub yourself an MMORPG, the RPG bit better have some semblance of immersion and “role-playing” in it. In a single-player RPG like Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Age, you can generate your own persona and immerse yourself into that universe. You can be damn sure that you’re the sole “chosen one” to rid the land of blight and evil. Your character will always talk in the world’s dialect (albeit in text), and you can be sure that Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, or any of those obscure cartoon show voice actors will add flavor into the narrative of the world.
In an MMO, three million people are doing the exact same thing and happen to have the “chosen one” mantle on them. No one will ever speak in character, nor do they care about plot and narrative: just on what stuff you get when you kill the big boss on a special dungeon. Doesn’t really make the adventure personal and immersive, does it?
If you’re still not convinced how MMO damages the concept of immersion badly, just take a look at the excerpt from a FFXI chatbox:
“Rochefogne: King Ranperre… It is I, Rochefogne. Does Your Majesty not remember me?
Zigkirby: wtf whats pat doing
Governator: think hes getting the cutscene
Rochefogne: Often in youth did I hear stories of Your Majesty’s glorious reign. I longed to grow into a man like the great Dragon King, Ranperre.
Governator: you got the cutscene pat?
Schoolgirlforu: meow
Rochefogne: Try though I did, I have failed. I have lost everything, even the most sacred of possessions.
Schoolgirlforu: =^-^=
Rochefogne: I…
Zigkirby: fucking spawn camping japanese
Rochefogne: Your Majesty, please tell me. Whence has the sword disappeared? Did you dismiss it?
Bernkatsel: [Scroll of Teleport-Holla] [Can I have it?] 2k”
Maybe I’m just sore that there isn’t an MMO where Liam Neeson/Patrick Stewart lends their voices as the game’s narrator for the intro cutscene.
For all the hate in this post, I do think this boss looks cool. Until you realize that killing him will probably eat up 5 hours of your day.
2. Time Crawls In An MMO: And boy, does it ever. In the single-player action RPG Torchlight, I manage to get to level 10 within an hour-and-a-half or so with quite a bunch of pretty decent gear to at least get through a few more dungeons. As soon as I popped in Uncharted 2, I manage to play all the fun multiplayer stuff straight away without even any need to play through the single-player campaign if I wanted to.
In my one-month stint on WoW, I barely got to level 7 after half a day has passed killing wild boars and doing stupid fetch/kill “x” things quests. Non-stop. The really fun stuff like raids and going to epic dungeons only come AFTER you’ve reached about level 60 or so. If i were to dedicate about 4 hours into WoW to get that far…no wait, I rather not think about that. It’s too much for my sanity to handle. Imagine if Uncharted 2 only let you play multiplayer right after you sink 30 days into the single-player mode: that’s the kind of logic WoW runs on.
Final Fantasy XI gives you the same kind of time-killing “joy”, only you kill rabbits and farm animals instead of wild boars, with the added bonus your experience points docked if you die. I skirted around a few Final Fantasy forums, and found out that an average number of days you reach to level 25 is, wait for it, thirty-two days. That’s over a month for a measly level 25. I’ve seen old-school Dragon Ball Z episodes with better pacing than an MMO.
Some would argue that WoW at least is slightly faster than FFXI. Then again, that’s like saying Paris Hilton is less of a skank than Bai Ling.
Borderlands: A Much Better Skill-Based Timesink
1. You Won’t Be Playing Other Games, Thus Minimizing Your Variety In Your Gaming Preferences: Just think of all the other great games you will be missing out on when you’re stuck with one particular MMO that might as well just place real-life shackles onto your wrist to your computer. Thanks to the effective “carrot on a stick” mentality MMOs infuse in their design, you can be damn sure that once you’re sucked in totally, you can forget about putting much time on other games.
You’re stuck to just one genre: plain and simple. A genre of games that have no end so long as publishers find new ways to keep the “carrot on a stick” mechanic going on to ludricrious proportions (microtransaction pet feature in WoW, anyone?). Even with its length, you can eventually finish Dragon Age: Origins. As time-consuming it is to build a toy model, you will eventually finish it and show it for display to like-minded people. You can never finish an MMO. Ever.
Sure, you might be able to play other games briefly on the side, but your commitment to other genres dissipate as soon as Tuesday’s WoW server cleanup period is over, or if some new expansion or update occurs.
All I can say is that, if you seriously think that level-grinding and doing NPC fetch quests online while socializing with total strangers who you might probably never meet in person sounds enticing, I hope this guide serves to prove otherwise. If it does entice you, hey, it’s your choice, buddy. Free country and all that jazz.
Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that:
- There is no point customizing your character thoroughly. You’ll end up wearing stuff that covers you up from head to toe, defeating the purpose of individualizing your character.
- There is no skill involved in an MMO: it’s all about numbers in the gear you’re using and the macros you have set up on your Cheezel-and-oil-tainted keyboard.
- At least you can take a break from a few Modern Warfare 2 game sessions and go for dinner outside/socialize with the outside world. Can you afford to do that when you’re trapped in an MMO instance-raiding session with people in your group?
Okay, okay. I’ll stop.
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Hey great list, they are really good games.
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LOL funny stuff. haters can go f*** themselves.
You guys are taking it too hard. Scrutinizing spelling/acronyms/slang/whatever does not prove that you are a better player or a better person in life. It just shows that you think being well-versed in gaming stuff makes you a better or a more successful person. Unless you are saying that you are someone who earns his living off playing games. Haha.
j.wartooth:I don’t see why someone is a n00b just because he doesn’t know a term?
Fools defending mmos…..*sigh*.
Personally i really don’t understand the appeal of mmos spending hours grinding just to get to the next level.
and haters give toffee a break, everyone has right of a opinion, he can blog whatever he wants to.
I dunno. looks liek people r defending themselves rather than the games. Right of opinion comes with the right to be flamed. On the internet any shit with a connection can speak, and if journalists who get paid to write are writing nonsense as bad as everyone else… why do they get paid? The article = flame bait.
GaX is guilty always playing on stereotypes. This can be funny once. But when the whole world is stereotyping gamers as nerds, we have the gaming media strengthening these stereotypes. All these gay jokes, nerd jokes, basement dwellers… have some better taste, and be a bit more responsible – the media has its role to play in making gamers not seem like a bunch of kids.
welcome back, emoboy. we missed you.
Hello hello.
As friend, and former colleague of Mr. Toffee, I can’t say agree with everything on in this article. Although I’d appeal to some people here that obvious joke is obvious, though the reasons are a little… odd (much love dude, but reason 5 cancels out reason 1, since if you don’t play other games, you spend way less money).
Having said that, there are cores of truth within what he is saying. First, you do spend alot of money. WoW (though it is the most popular) may not be the best example here (unless you buy gold, like a certain other gaming writer across the causeway, in which case you are the scum of the virtual earth), but in games where there is a cash shop system, then entire game becomes an excuse for you to spend money on things that you don’t need. There are tons of Chinese and Korean MMOs that can be pointed to. And for that matter, even WoW, with its pet shops, server transfers/faction and race change has elements of this extra spending. And if you play Second Life, you’d know that in those scenarios, RL money and virtual money are almost indistinguishable (a favorite discussion on mine, that belongs elsewhere)
I cannot really agree with the second reason, since Xbox Live is a huge cesspit of bad English as well. Not to mention that “Zerging” is a term originating from Starcraft. Still, I suppose that MMOs are very susceptible to the perpetuation of bad English. First because people play it a lot, and second it requires communication in short spans of time. Unless you are using a voice chat program, this means that you are going to use abbreviations galore, and inevitably bad English.
On a deeper level, I’m not sure if even the bad English used in MMOs/computer games generally is inherently a bad thing. A comparison can be taken with Singlish – Puah Chu Kang never really threatened anyone’s English standards so long as people are able to code switch between when is it appropriate to speak colloquially and when you have to be formal. And if you can’t make that switch, the problem is really with you and not Puah Chu Kang. In the good old United Kingdom, our colonial masters consider cockney English as part of their culture, and aren’t trying to stamp it out like the government is doing with Singlish. So maybe a more enlightened approach to 1337 speak (as much as I personally hate it) is appropriate.
Reason 3 is a sore spot for me. If you try to RP (outside a role-playing server, and even in these “safe zones” you have your trolls and greifers) you’re probably going to get all kinds of insults hurled your way. On a game design level, the problem with MMORPGs is that they exist (more or less) in perpetuity, meaning that they are always the same. This is necessary for a variety of reasons, like newbies being able to expereince the same (albeit old) content, as well as the sheer difficult that exists in constantly updating the world. So what results is a game design where you do the same things over and over, without any apparent effect. Killing Nerfarian and bringing his head to Thrall means that Thrall is just going to be there next week staring into empty space and acting like he never met you.
And while this is the case for WoW and other “theme park” (a term used by Blizzard to describe the MMO design that is top-down, with content coming from designers to players), “sand box” (meaning the opposite) or player run MMOs don’t face this problem. The best example on the market right now is probably Eve Online, where players have so much power that they almost run certain parts of the game.
Perhaps there is something to be said about the emphasis on the genre of MMORPGs at this point. RPG purists will say that the role playing part is the most important. But really it should be the MMO part. Players make the MMO what it is, and it is what players do with other players that make MMOs fun. So you might not role play as a Night Elf in wow. That’s fine. So long as you are able to distinguish the real point of MMOs (playing with people online) and the distractions (phat lewt), you are okay.
Reason 4 sort of ties back to reason 3. The fundamental MMO design is to keep you playing for as long as possible. There is no “end” in the traditional sense, but just more and more stuff to do. A lot of this is simply lazy design – MMOs can have more proper story arcs (as LOTRO did), but because of the effort involved, most, in particular WoW just use the boring “carrot and stick” method that leads players from quest hub to quest hub, from collect X quests to kill Y quests. True, Blizzard is trying to clean all this crap up, but so far the whole system remains entrenched in the WoW design.
As for reason 5. That is wholly true. Unless you’re unemployed that is. The fact is that gaming right now is developing at such an amazing pace, that you miss out all kinds of AA titles while keeping up the time investment needed for an MMORPG. Although this has to be qualified by reason 1, in that unless you’re a game reviewer, you dont’ really have enough money or time to play a lot of games anyway.
Finally a word on skill. Some mentioned that WoW arenas are competitive. Well, wow areans are also a complete joke. Did you see the recent MLG live casts? one of the announcers called a game that laster 5 minutes “long.” If you really think that skill can be measured in that 2 minutes of chaos, think about how a football game would be like if it were condensed into 20 minutes. Some wild shots, and whoever has a lucky break wins. The simple notion is that the shorter the time of each match, the more things like luck will play a role since these factors are traditionally averaged out if matches are longer.
On top of this, you have all that nonsense about buffs and nerfs, class imbalances and forum whining, that i’m not sure how anyone can seriously call arenas competitive in the sense that a competitive FPS is competitive, or how Virtual Fighter is competitive. The reality is that WoW is just a huge money earner, and so no one wants to lose out, which is why we still have this silly competitions.
I would however argue that MMOs if played correctly do need skill. It is a different skill set from the twitch reflexes of a CS team, but skill nonetheless. Call it a social skill, or managerial skill. Skills that you’ll need to run a guild, and make 40 complete strangers to work together and accomplish something even though the rewards of the accomplishment can only be enjoyed by a few. Skills that you’ll need to exploit and in-game economy and be rich. The cool things about these skills that even if only 1% of it is exportable to real life, it is likely to be more useful to your RL pursuits than having twitchy fingers.
So there. I think I ended up with a whole post of my own, but I can’t post here anymore anyway. The bottom line probably is: there are lots of things that are wrong with MMOs generally but this does not mean that there aren’t a lot of things that can be done right. Exceptional examples already exist, just don’t be blinded by the huge WOW in your rear view mirror.
f-ing hell, what’s wrong with the text. I had paragraphs but it became a wall of text.
edit function!
I see what you tried to do there toffee, but you’re not Yahtzee and you can’t pull it off nearly as well. Try to remember that Yahtzee doesn’t insult the people that play the games, he insults the games themselves. That’s what makes him funny, and what makes you look like a complete tool.
Next time also please either do some research, or don’t admit that you know nothing about the genre you’re critiquing. It makes you look like a big baby that’s whining and moaning because you’re not good at something. Almost everything you posted is subjective/universal to all games or just plain right untrue.
Just my 2 cents.
So, uh, yeah. That’s a lotta friendly comments there. This is what happens when you spend the weekend playing MW2 without monitoring the site at all.
My original intent for the article was to poke fun at the genre, but turns out that i’m poking fun at the players instead, and harshly at that too. Believe me, that wasn’t my intent. Thus, a bit of tweaking here and there’s added. And yes, my “england” does need correcting. Thanks for pointing that out.
Regarding point #2 and to some commenters: yes, I am that terrible at MMOs. Most people would at least suck at one genre, and MMOs are it for me (and puzzle games too, but that’s another story).
So yeah, I apologize if I rubbed you guys/gals the wrong way. I’m making fun of the genre, not the people who love the genre.
@NAORANTO: Good point. Should have thought about that.
“I’m making fun of the genre, not the people who love the genre.”
BUT YOU MADE FUN ON THE PS3 PLAYERS TOO AND DID NOT APOLOGISE!
- TELLING PS3 OWNERS TO ‘STFU’ WHEN AN XBOX 360 PLAYER WAS FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING HIS PARENTS FOR CONFISCATING HIS XBOX 360.
- ANNOUNCING A PS3 ‘PRICE CUT’ ONLY TO LAUGH AT THEIR FACE AND SAY ‘APRIL FOOL!’
- SMASHING A PS3 CONTROLLER IN YOUR STICK VS. CONTROLLER’ VIDEO.
YOU HAVE APOLOGISED TO WOW PLAYERS, WHAT ABOUT PS3 PLAYERS HUH?
This is very rare of me to say this to you Toffee; thumbs up!
Clearly his only talent is failing at being funny and pissing people off, thumbs up Mr. Toffee, at least it’s not another sad post that goes ignored
I won’t disagree with your other points, they have a point one way or another but,for point number 5, its very subjective.
What money do u spend other then food and lodging? you could be a pub goer, who spent heaps more then paying for a monthly mmo, and i could feel that u are also WASTING your money going to a pub, so unless your the hermit type who only spend money for food and lodging, you shouldn’t complain. To each their own.
insulting everyone and being generally uninformed and tasteless and then saying JUST KIDDING! at the end doesn’t make you a comedian, it makes you an asshole. You really think anything that was written was funny? Hell like i said, i don’t even play mmos so I don’t care, i just come here every friday to read the Friday Fives and saw this rant fest. If there’s more of this to come i’m not coming back.
if you were to dedicate only 4 hours a day for FFXI, you don’t have to start.
FFXI is not for solo ( except beastmaster) after lvl 25. You can die to a monster which give you the least exp. 4 hour of game time will not get you into any good grinding party unless you have your regular guys.
for someone who is good with the game, log in, seek party, got invited, party formed within 15 mins, gather and reach destination in 40th mins, buff and start grinding for the rest of the 3 hour. Even for a pro, this is a little too short. If the party is not your own friends or LS mates, or you are not a crucial job like a bard or tanker or healer, most likely they wont invite you for short leveling time.
normal grinding wont gain much money, in fact it is losing money. And FFXI good parties require you to update all your equipment and spells.
these are main reasons why this game is making so many people pissed.
there are a lot of funny scenerio for those who has no time:
1) log in, seek party, after 1 hour no one invite, after another hour some noob ask you to join, and hanging in his party for the next 30 minutes you realise he is worst then you, he can’t convince anyone to join. then either you decide to quit his party or he tell you he has to log off and goes to school.
2) log in seek party, after 3 hours no one invite, you log off.
3) log in seek party, after 30 mins you got invited, then leader spend another 1 hour to form the party, everyone go to the leveling ground and realise the party has no healer or tanker.
4) log in seek party, no one invite and decide to form a party, ask all those available but either they ask you get lost or no reply, only get 1-2 guys. after 3 hour party disband and log off.
5) manage to form a party, when reach leveling ground, realise one of the party member is not here, keep asking but the guess is he has fallen asleep. party disband.
6) manage to form a party and start killing, but all noobs in the party in the end got wiped by the mobs, instead of gaining exp the party is losing them, getting wipe for every 2 mobs pulled, end of the 2 hour, lose a level.
there are alot more such funny craps for those who are new, so this game is not really newbie friendly. WOW got rid of most of these, those who suffer in FFXI and jump over to WOW starts to claim that WOW is so much better but actually it is they who sucks or they do not have the time.
ha ha. good work!
but you forgot another point though. MMOs help bring out one of the biggest plagues in internet history: GOLDFARMERS! im surprised no goldfarming sites spammed this post, let alone this page since the header says mmo :)
wtb better writers who know what they are blogging about
wts sense of humor to “trash”. one-time only
@ medic, kensai, shinigamieyes: can’t take a joke much, can you? its clear that the writer is just joking (protip: look at the disclaimer note, n00bs). i play a lot of mmos like shadowbane and aeon, and i don’t find this article offensive at all.
i think the biggest joke here is that mr toffee is expecting flames from people who take their gaming habits with mmos too seriously and making fun of his credibility/ writing skills/ whatever. please get a live, haters.
on a serious note, i don’t agree with point number 4 though: other games like FPSs and RTSs too are real culprits in bringing in in-game slang that make its way into other people’s vocabulary.
true, true.
Yeah.. like he’s so smart he deliberately has bad writing skills and doesn’t know how to use the words he uses correctly. All for the sake of entertaining us right?
And how come you spelled Aeon the same as the previous guy? It’s Aion n00b, if you misspell it you obviously don’t play it. Hang on, are you mr. toffee?
aeon = aion. sorry.
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I’ve learnt to just ignore everything mr toffee writes. I dont even play mmos and i can tell this ‘opinion’ piece is just a badly written and badly thought out rant. and according to the other replies it wasnt well researched either. like j. wartooth said, just ignore him. if you check his other stuff, he’s ranted against PC gaming too. guess he’s just a console fanboy.
can we go back to funny friday fives please? if i want to hear ranting and opinions i’ll go surf the forums. thx.
agreed. wtb (OOPS L33T SPEAK) a mr.toffee filter, like a link we can click to filter out all of his posts. they stick out like eyesores.
Console fanboy? More like an Xbox 360 fanboy instead. He’s also against PS3.
hey i was at play it first with gax warriors of the 3 kingdoms. isn’t that an mmo? now mr. toffee u say we shouldnt waste our time on mmos? but ur website is promoting W3K as a good game. which one is it?
just ur personal opinon? v. weird leh.. u never play mmos is ok, but den go say on gameaxis website that other people oso waste their time and call us pathetic? f*** you
This is just poor writing. How about trying to present your argument without being a douchebag? The fact that you only got to Level 7 on WoW (and judging by your hatred, I doubt you played any other MMO) makes your piece a lot less credible.
And why is this article even tagged humor? This isn’t satire, or being snarky, this is plain rude and tactless.
Guess what? I come to GameAxis to read stuff about games I enjoy – MMOs, FPS, and console games alike – I don’t give a shit about what Mr. Toffee thinks. I shouldn’t have to put up with being called stupid and misinformed. Now start being a REAL journalist and stop being a moron. Yes, you sir, are the imbecile. Nobody wants to read your stupid rants.
you click on macros all day while going in dungeons with other people in wow; i hardly call that skill. good writeup. i know it is satirical, but there’s a shred of truth to it.
you forgot to add in one more point: mmos are also making other genres on the pc platform stagnant. i recall the new aeon mmo staying at the top position of pc games sales for a long time, and critics say that it isn’t as good as other mmos. what does that tell you about the genre?
if you click on macros all day in a dungeon, then you’re a bad player.
also, allow me to enlighten you and Mr. Toffee: DID YOU KNOW! WoW Arena is competitive? http://www.gotfrag.com/wow/story/44715/
Do you have the skill to play at that level? No? Then STFU.
lol click on macros all day u sure fail. canot play pvp like that leh. sure die. heroic or raid zone also must me smart and work with team. click macro and dont pay attention kill everyone. then they hate u lol.
mmos are making pc gaming stagnant? lol complete opposite dude. only reason aion is on top of the pc sales charts is because people need to buy the game to get the CD key to play online. everything else just download pirate copy = no chart sales. MMOs are keeping PC gaming alive.
also, blaming mmos for other companies making bad games is just lol.
Strongly agree with point number 1, although I disagree with the bit about MMOs not requiring any skill.
Anyway, to each his own I guess. Just like how some people despise playing racing games or puzzle games, not everyone likes to play MMOs.
Oh the irony:
Quote: (Disclaimer’s Note: Mr.Toffee is biased towards…
It’s Disclaimer or Note. Not Disclaimer’s Note. Disclaimer note would also have been acceptable.
I believe you meant you’re biased ‘against’ MMOs.
Guess you weren’t kidding when you said you weren’t a grammar nazi. Even so, L2write IMO.
And isn’t one half of GameAxis Magazine called L33T? lol
haha this is hilarious. thanks for quoting before he could edit it. learn proper english before you start making fun of others mr toffee.
How about this Mr. Toffee – say you’re sorry and put up an official apology instead of covering up your fail English.
Mr Toffee doesn’t really apologise for his mistakes nor insults. I apologise for my grammar error at least and my faults but does Toffee apologise for his? Not at all.
Might want to look at the top again, dude.
You haven’t apologised to the PlayStation players you’ve insulted yet…
“There is no skill involved in an MMO”
lmaozedong
Guessing you haven’t played too many MMOs, right?
5. $20 a month when you only play one game is cheaper than 1 new game every month, which cost, what $50-80 each? If you buy 3 or 4 as you said you did this month, that’s at least $150. $150 is 7 months of paid game time. Basic maths. Also, most MMOs release free content patches every couple of months.
4. Zerging comes from RTS not MMO. Starcraft to be precise. FPS, RTS, MMO all have their own acronyms and language. It’s not an MMO thing, it’s a gamer thing. You should know that unless you only play console games.
3. There are roleplaying servers. If you want to roleplay with other people, you can. And there are epic story lines if you want to follow them. Some quests and events will permanently change the world around you. FYI Christopher Lee did voiceover work for Everquest 2.
2. If it took you a month to get to level 7 in WoW i don’t know what to say. You can hit 60 in two weeks, and 80 two weeks after that. And that’s with casual play. For some people, leveling up is part of the fun.
1. Some people like not having to play other games, there’s always new content in an MMO, and time invested now, you’re still getting the reward from a year from now. Unlike, in a console game where you won’t be playing it a year from now.
Others: Most mmos let you customize the gear you wear. You can customize your face, and not show your helm which is what most people care about. Your gear will look different too.
High level play in an MMO, PVP or PVE takes a lot more skill and co-ordination than pushing buttons and macros. But since you never got past level 7, you wouldn’t know that.
Theres lots of time to take breaks. True you can’t pause the game, but if you start a 2 hour instance right before your dinner time, that’s just bad planning.
Ignore Mr. Toffee – he’s just mad his belf paladin got beaten up by a gnome =p
What’s a belf? That noise you make after you’ve eaten something bad?
Blood Elf. n00b. >.<
no way you reach 60 in 2 weeks with casual gameplay… done it many times, nvr 2 weeks of ‘casual’.. casual is like… 3 hours max a day?