You are a patronizing loser who just spend twice the word count making the same point as Emma. Please do everyone a favor and uninstall your life. Please stop rationalizing your entertainment choices by bashing folks that disagree with them and grow some self-esteem.

I know there have been D&DO games, but…I rarely hear any good buzz about it. Maybe I’m just not listening, but I certainly didn’t see anything about it in this comment thread!

Please stop with your invalid and personal complaints, or at least stop presenting them as if they are fact.

WOW does not prevent other MMO’s, it does not prevent “Titan” whatever that is and it is not WOW’s fault that other MMO’s flop.

WOW did not “win” because of luck, it was not the first MMO or “the one that hit the right moment” as you claim, there were other MMO’s there but none of them did what WOW did, which was to deliver a fun, polished game.
Everquest, Ultima Online, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot and so on were all from the same time, they all had their time and did well, but all had major errors that WOW did not and does not suffer from now.

Also, fun fact, WOW setting a high standard for content and activities ingame does not prevent other MMO’s from doing the same, it’s just setting the bar high which is a good thing for us MMO players, afterall if the best product did not set the standards, we would all still be using horse and carriage, because why use a car when the horse-carriage can get you there as well ?

Please stop blaming WOW for your personal feelings and stop blaming people who still play and enjoy WOW for not agreeing with your statement of it being bad, bland, boring or any other derogatory statement.

I play WOW and have on and off, I play it after an expansion comes out and after 7-8 months I get bored again, I go play other MMO’s then (and even play some while playing WOW) but most of them does one of the following.

1: Lack’s polish, game has basic errors or miss basic things (See: FF Online)
2: Lack’s content, once you hit level-cap and there’s nothing left to do with any real meaning (See: SWTOR)
3: Lack’s unique flavor (See: RIFT, many class/combo’s, but their usage is the same)
4: Lack’s “minigames”, e.g. things to do when you got a little time, want to do something fun/meaningfull but don’t have the time or inclination for leveling/dungeon’s (See: GW2)

WOW has it’s faults, it’s old, it suffer’s from many of the above issues, but it either suffer less from them or it has other things to make up for it.

This is the part I don’t understand: “Your refusal to let WoW go is hurting the MMO genre. There will never be a “WoW killer” because WoW doesn’t HAVE to compete or improve.”

First off, don’t assume people who defend WoW only play WoW. I play a wide variety of MMOs and give them all credit where credit is due. I love many of the features of RIFT, so I play RIFT. I love GW2, so I play GW2. But I also love WoW (I know! So crazy! How could I?!” so I play WoW.

By why does the fact that Blizzard doesn’t have to compete prevent a “WoW killer” from rising? If there was ever a game that I felt could replace WoW in my heart, I’d play it. But I still love WoW for what WoW has. Just like I love other MMOs for what they have.

WoW is old, but for many it is not stale and it is not boring. Those are all matters of personal opinion. It does not NEED to die. That would help nothing. If anything, it would make other developers get lazy and stop polishing their games so much. If you believe so strongly that WoW needs to die, maybe it’s not the game for you. In which case, I’m sorry that you stumbled across this website by mistake, you must have been looking for “The Daily Blonk”, which is a site for something else probably.

I understand though. The keys are like, right next to each other. It’s a common mistake.

Way to take half a sentence out of context Emma. What Sergei was trying to say is that if Blizzard did fall on its sword with WoW, it wouldn’t inspire other publishers to push out a truly great game.