Quote Originally Posted by Zarzak View Post
While your not wrong. The reason is because WoW has systematically destroyed MMOs for the past 10 years or so by pandering to the lowest common denominator.

Also WoW's "success" can more be attributed to its successful marketing and being the "gateway" MMO (like gateway drug) and releasing rigt when parents started trusting the internet enough to let their kids use their credit cards to play an online game.
Their retention rate is fine. They have Patch-Hoppers the same as here, but this idea that somehow WoW ruined mmos when it practically DEFINED then and KEEPS INNOVATING is ridiculous. I get it - you hate WoW, anything to do with WoW and you think that Final Fantasy can do no wrong. However, I cringe whenever I see someone act like that game is somehow "easybake oven" compared to this one. Feel free to link your Heroic Garrosh kill or your Brawler's Guild achievements or even your Arena rating.

This is a good game - I play it and enjoy it - but WoW is a freaking hard one at high levels of gameplay. There are a lot of good lessons there that SE could learn. They have already implemented some of them to the playerbase's collective delight. Look around you at some of the systems you are just now getting to enjoy. 90%+ of them had already been thought up, tested, implemented, and bugfixed somewhere else.