To be honest, I wish World of Warcraft was a single player game, or that at least the players were more friendly and typed better.

On the other hand, the game's like marijuana. I've hidden my copy in a safe so I wouldn't be able to play it, and only my brother knows the combination (explaining his many hours sitting in his room on the PC, hmmm).

And you stole my riot plan! (Only I usually run away with the game unpaid for.) Improvement: Hang around with a rubber chicken and a pulley in the middle.

Why not grab a PS3 while you are at it?

To be honest, I wish World of Warcraft was a single player game

WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT!!???

On the other hand, the game's like marijuana.

Because it makes you slightly sleepy and stoned?

Fucks sake.

Ha ha, are you saying this game has a point?

Does anything really have a point?

Because the world is so large and diverse. If the game had some interesting, living characters in it, with some AI to make them behave realistically (something between how characters get annoyed if you keep asking the same thing in The Secret of Monkey Island and the cycle of Animal Crossing), and possible motives and comments, with them being influential (i.e: convince you to join this side and not that one), then the game would become really interesting.

Think of a game in Middle-Earth (the novel and not those 7/10 games), or the Star Wars galaxy (not like LucasArts games), but where there were many influential and living people. Bear with me. I know it's impossible to make everyone smart and with rich A.I., and hey, there's your story: Something is wrong with the world, and you're one of the few who hasn't been affected by the curse.

Why has this happened? What's caused it? And with any luck, your story is free of stereotypes, the combat isn't random and in real-time, twist a bit of adventure in there and you've got yourself one heck of a game.

Because it makes you slightly sleepy and stoned?

Because it's addictive. And I was wondering if we could not swear? I'm a millerman during the day, but I don't want to spam Grumpy Gamer.

Have you played Oblivion? The AI in that isn't perfect by any means, but at least they try to give you an MMO feel in a single-player game. Which is good for me, since I don't play MMO games... although LOTR Online might win me over, if it's any good.

No, no I haven't. I've been making a list of videogames of the past generation I've missed-out. If it is part of the last generation (I think it's Xbox 360, right?), I'll get it.

I dunno LotR online ... I'm kinda sick of franchises that continue more than three years after the original material has been done.

It's originally a PC game, but also available on Xbox 360, and soon on PS3.

As for LOTR Online, I think I'll like that because I'm a major LOTR fan, and it is actually based on the book, not on the movie (because they couldn't get the rights to make games based on the film, I imagine), so the original material is actually over 50 years old, making it a bit more acceptable to you maybe.

Also, for whatever reason I decided to open Idle Thumbs, and lo and behold, for some reason you made 'quote of the moment'?!

I what??!

Oh bugger. I'm referred to as an idiot.

Yeah, that's what you get for saying what most people think anyway. at least, I agree with you, so I guess I'm an idiot as well then. Hey, wanna start up an Idiot Club?

Are you asking me to subscribe to a gaming magazine?

I'd be much more likely to play WoW if it were a single-player game, and you're not an idiot. There are other reasons I wish it were a single-player game —  it wouldn't be dangerously addictive to young people who are going to spend a lot of their important developmental years playing computer games instead of socialising and going to the library. Some people claim that they learned everything they need to know from computer games, but that's from a variety of computer games with more material to learn from.

The 'idiots that plague the internet' they refer to are normally not as intelligent as you.

Lol! Having a bad day are we? :)

thank god I'm on ysera

Ron do you ever meet random monkey island fans on wow?

Never, but I'm not running around offering Free Enchanting for MI fans either.

Actually I did run into a "Guybrush L'K" once.

My characters name is Lechuck, so i'd probably count as one, although I play on an oceanic server so I don't think you'd ever meet me.

I once met a gnome called "Wally" and yes, he got big goggles and no beard, not even fake.

Oh I'll be grabbing my copy tomorrow as well.

I gotta admit I'm disappointed that it's not being distributed digitally, but whatever.

My only question is: Dranei Priest or Shaman? :P

World of Warcraft scares me. If I ever started to play the game I'd become addicted almost instantly and that would be my life over. Lying on my deathbed, I'm much more likely to wish I'd spent more time writing than playing computer games. That's why I'm making such a determined attempt to catch up now to compensate for all the time spent playing games.

Well I dont know, if I happen to be at my deathbed anytime soon Im going to be much happier about WOW than 1) some silly human relationships that always backfired 2) your meaningles job 3) your grades at school that didnt really matter 4) all that money you hoarded for nothing (unless maybe in wow..)

The really scary part is the gameplay isn't even very good. It's got lots of grinding, long travel times, repetitive quests. If the game was single player, it would score 40/100.

And yet, somehow, I was there partying at the portal yesterday...

I didn't get it at 12 AM last night. Part of me was hoping that Blizz would change their minds and do a tuesday morning maintenance afterall.
<millions of geeks who stayed up all night and just got back home from the game store>: "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

i think every mmorpg is some waste of time :)

As long as someone doing something is having fun, nothing is a waste of time, isn't it?

depends on what you can do instead (e.g. family, social stuff, work, etc..) :D well i bought it, installed it, registered an account and paid the fee for ca. 12 months.. after that i noticed that i had a game somewhere and start playing it. my failure: never buy games if you are a developer xD

Well I never managed to like RPG game and never got quite addicted to MMO-RPG game as well. But this game got quite famous I had to give it a try. I bought it and shipped it from outside, installed it and played it for less than 10 days before I decided to quit it for good. For the sake of my family and my career, I decide to stick to linear games from now on :)

I never managed to sell the game to another person as well.

You know, it occured to me that I'd probably play WoW and the like if they were less...well, screaming, bleeding, poke out your eyes boring. Dear God, its like a vast wasteland of non-interactive zombies. Hey, wait a second, did I just come up with a game concept?

stop playing WoW.. and start playing FFXI.. and join my linkshell.. >_>