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    TF2 isnt simple. My friends who are obsessed with COD tried TF2 and found it too complicated.

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    I find WoW so immensly popular due to the end-game. No game has so much to do when you cap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueno View Post
    bahaha same! my mates say....

    "World of Warcraft is this computer game where u kill dragons n stuf"
    We were doing a project on the story of Tir na Nog so my mate went to google images and a picture of I think it was DAoC came up and hes like ''Look theres World of Warcraft'' I was like

    I blame South park tbh, all my mates love the WoW episode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by girtrute View Post
    My problem with WoW is by the time it came out that gameplay was already outdated.Also its causing people to not think for themselves with how simple it is. Becouse any mmorpg with the slightest learning curve people seem lost on them now.EQ1 kinda killed WoW for me since WoW's gameplay just seemed like slower cartoony version of it.



    You wanna see real end game content play ultima online.
    To be fair, Ultima Online is not really divided into mid-game and end-game. The whole thing is just merged together to form a "game". This can be considered either no end-game or infinite end-game. UO is really the only MMO IMO that has been able to accomplish this so far. This is largely due to it also being the most sandbox out of any mmo that has ever been released to date. I will say that UO at its prime was by FAR the MMO that took the longest to get bored of. UO took me 3 years to get bored of it, while right under that was probably Anarchy Online and Lineage 2 which both took about 6 months to get bored of, and then every other mmo I have gotten bored in under 6 months including WoW.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Acreon View Post
    I always seem so lost when i try uo lol <s> maybe bad freeshard?
    like I have no ****ing clue what to do at (not the games fault I know lol, just saying)
    It's always been like that. Most older games have a steeper learning curve because they didn't have a huge fanbase of people wandering in, just the RPers and nerdy D&Ders. Oh, and helpful communities with active GMs that constantly helped people.

    Then WoW came along.

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    Advertising and appealing exclusively to the casual market.
    And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear.

    You shout and no one seems to hear.

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    I think low system requirements are a good way to make an mmo popular. Look at Maplestory and Runescape. Anyone with a working computer and a graphics card with atleast 50 MB can run them. I was playing WoW with an integrated graphics card and 512 RAM.

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    WoW rocks that's why it's so popular.

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    The main reason why people are addicted to WOW is mainly because of the lore. The game is fairly 12+ years old with a long story behind it. Those who fell in love with the storyline get into WOW and love it because they continue the lore as the game continues. Plus, many people who don't know much of the lore and just start playing WOW play it because it is simple like OP said.

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    I personally loved the Warcraft lore but hated the lore in World of Warcraft. WoW pretty much butchered the lore...for one thing, they literally revived a dead character with the excuse that he was just sleeping.

    I'd say WoW's popularity stems from the game being made by Blizzard. That's all that needs to be said.

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