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4 Responses to “Why World of Warcraft Is So Popular”

  1. Jesse 13 March 2008 at 1:20 pm #

    Having played EVE, and watching people for a year or so play, I think this graph is actually a bit too kind.

    Picture yourself being thrust into the future from today, on a space station- hundreds of years in the future. You know nothing of asto-navigation, space cruisers, or even how to buy a sandwich. You arent even sure how to turn on your spaceship let alone navigate.

    If for some stupid reason, you decide to leave the space station, you are thrust upon a 365 degree – 3 dimension map of star systems, jump gates (dont even ask how you USE the jump gate) and other things.

    If you stray too far – that range is seemingly arbitrary, you can be destroyed by anyone, loosing your stupid little ship.

    It’s as though the developers built this massive space simulator and on day 6 of 7 said “OH CRAP THIS IS A MMORPG!” kinda tacking on NPCs and missions, etc.

    Trust me, DO NOT play this game unless you have 2 of the following:
    1 Astrophysics degree
    2 3 months of uninterrupted play time (ask players, they will say it takes this long to get a ship worth anything)
    3 Your very own galactic starfleet

    Other than all that it rocks.

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  2. Chris 13 March 2008 at 4:19 pm #

    You just sold me. If I had any real time to spare playing video games, the first one I would buy would be EVE.

    As it stands, the most involved complex game I can tackle at the moment is some music racer/puzzle game I got on Steam for $10 (audiosurf).

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  3. The Gimcracker 14 March 2008 at 6:11 am #

    Anything that has The Second Genesis in its title is naturally going to be confusing just for confusing’s sake.

    The graph reminds me of Line Rider.

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  4. Jesse 14 March 2008 at 1:05 pm #

    My character, a mostly harmless pirate- resides in the lonely cemetary on that graph.

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