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stranne said:
I thought about getting City of Heroes/Villains because I like the theme, but haven't done it yet. Is it any good?

I want my gaming to be fun, not a chore. Just from second hand information, WoW seems like it can be a bit like doing chores sometimes, but that may be false.

In the sense that all MMOs are a chore, yes, it is, but City of Heroes/Villains is even worse, so I doubt that solves the problem.

Here's the core issue: designing content takes a whole lot longer than it takes to actually play through it. The base of WoW took 5 years to develop, but many players had hit level 60 and were in the original end-game dungeons within a month of the games release. 5 years to develop, 1 month to "beat." Or think of more traditional games; things like Super Mario Galaxy probably take a week for a "hardcore" player to beat, but it took years to develop. That's a problem.

So the solution must be to create repetitive content that can be churned out fast enough to keep pace with high end players. All MMOs do this -- but WoW handles it significantly better than any other major MMO.