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CaseyDDR said:

zone16 said:

shio said:

zone16 said:
I doubt you'll find many interested people on a console oriented site. It's just another grindfest. They amusingly try to hide the huge grind with boring and unimaginative quests "Kill 40 of X, collect 50 of Y".

you know nothing of MMOs.

Is that so? I've tried over 20 different MMOs. I know perfectly what I'm saying. Even WoW is a grindfest, but what's great about WoW is the amount of content you get to use right from the beginning. Multiple starting zones, battleground pvp (which is probably the most fun thing I've seen in any mmo), huge open world to explore, crafting and a few instances. Aion is a completely linear game until max level. I played Aion until lv40. All you can do on this linear path is grind on mobs through extremely boring quests, and you also get some crafting.

You obviously haven't played 20 different MMOs or else you'd know that a lot of them have offered what WoW has way before it came out. Ragnarok Online, Anarchy Online, Everquest, and Asheron's Call. WoW got huge for 1 main reason IMO, IT IS A BLIZZARD GAME. WoW's depth with even the things you listed is very limited. The Battlegrounds don't hold a candle to most MMO PVP setups. All MMOs for most part have HUGE open worlds. Crafting is MUCH better in a lot of other games. Graphics in WoW are just god awful. 

 

Basically what I'm saying is WoW was great when I was a kid, but now I want something fun. 

Actually that's quite false. Very few games had the accessability tht WoW had. I won't even go into quests. WoW was the first to have such a huge number of quests that basiclly levelled you, and eve when you did so there were thousands more. Not to mention they were actually interesting with some pretty cool stuff. No MMO had such a thing before and quest systems in curent MMOs are still too weak to stand up to WoW's quests. They give you a reason to play other than "just for the fuck of levelling."