Ten Reasons Why Second Life is Better than World of Warcraft

1. Play for Free

Unlike WoW Second Life gives you the option of having a free account without the monthly fee. If you do not own any land in Second Life you have full access to the game and do not have to pay the required $155.88 to $179.88 (depending on your payment plan) needed to play World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King. For free you get an awful lot including a very good set of 3d modeling tools.

A Comparison of World of Warcraft and Second Life Avatar Characters

2. Be Whatever the Hell You Want

What? You mean I am limited to a certain race and characteristics? In Second Life make your avatar whatever the hell you want with no limitations or restrictions. And that includes a human, a bat, an organ, a robot, a monkey, a cat, an alien, a penguin, a wolf, a bug, a dragon, a bear, something abstract, a horse, metal, a bird, yes anything.

3. Stream Live and YouTube Videos In Game

It is just cool that you can show video in Second Life and even YouTube Videos. WoW? No? Awwwww.

4. Hold Business Meetings

Aside from the stray business raiding party (which can prove distracting to go over the minutes while fighting off a giant Monster) Second Life is the clear winner for virtual business meetings with employees from all over the world or even a virtual alcoholics anonymous meeting in Second Life. Especially when you take into account the recent developments with Immersive Workspaces 2.0 and the ability to show a Powerpoint presentation in Second Life.

5. Game Development

Have you ever wanted to create your own game or your own mini game? You can create mini games within Second Life such I am Legend first person shooter, virtual soccer, and more.

6. Second Life Gives You Intellectual Property Rights to What you Create

Read that terms and agreements from WoW sometime. Technically Blizzard owns everything including your character and everything you do or accomplish. In Second Life a developer can create full custom programs and own them and sell them. Fashion designers design clothes for large profits and more.

7. Scientific Research Can be Conducted

There are several examples of simulations, scientific programs, research, etc being run in Second Life which is extremely useful and practical. Try doing that with your Orc. There are many many organizations performing research, simulations, and scientific study in this virtual world.

8. More Diverse Players

As Wattanajantra points out you will most likely run into an IT worker in WoW. In Second Life it could be anyone from any diverse walk of life including fashion designers, business women, djs, artists, etc.

It is Not As Addictive

Second Life is more of a casual gaming experience for most and is far less addicting without the need to constantly level up as in WoW. There have been far fewer lives destroyed by playing Second Life (there have been a few) than World of Warcraft (there have been many many more).

9. Limitless Possibilities of Things to Do

In Wow it is all about leveling, crafting, trading, quests, battles, and maybe a few other things. In Second Life you can build an art gallery, become a property owner and open a mall, build a business, design clothes, program applications, shoot the breeze with friends, go jet ski-ing, play in mini games, create 3d objects with 3d modeling, get a battle Hud and fight as Storm Troopers, or fight as ninjas and that is just scratching the surface.

10. With a Move to OpenSim OpenGrid and OpenSource as Well as IBM Business Applications the Future is Limitless

IBM has developed a corporate version of Second Life, recent moves to Open Source, use of OpenSim, and OpenGrid puts Second Life into an open source world unlike Blizzard tightly holding the reigns on their software. The possibilities are limitless and the power of tens of thousands of developers can be harnessed. Just look at the success of FireFox.

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Well Mass Evidence tells us WOW is FAR more popular than second life

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Wait why are they comparing the two? Isn't WoW an mmoRPG while second life is a life sim? Never played second life, so I don't really know too much.

Second Life wins...

BOOBS FTW!!!

Well, WoW is a great online MMO, one of the best to be honest.

But i gotta say, i never tried second life but the Graphics ARE better then WoW's but then again thats what makes blizzard so damn good.

Anyways, i've no opinion on this one just saying WoW is a great MMO but this looks interesting to say the least, maybe Sony can make Home more like SL with all those cool features.

What a silly comparison. World of Warcraft and Second Life are fundamentally different entities; most of these points aren't even "wrong" so much as the comparison is fundamentally invalid. It's like saying that Microsoft Word is better than Halo because I can write my doctoral thesis in Word, which would be impossible in Halo. Which is true, but makes no friggin' sense and misses the point entirely!

How can you compare them Second Life isn't even an MMORPG.

Lawl, sorry, WoW isn't a great MMO. Final Fantasy XI has ranked higher for difficulty and co-operation by Allakhazam. It's a no brainer to play WoW, but the mechanics of FFXI are much more complicated. Ask Twesterm for details on that as he's played it for as long as I did.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25752.html

WoW is never serious with story line. Go look up "Illegal Danish: Super Snacks," as it's a fan-made WoW movie. No one can doubt the awesomeness of Final Fantasy.

EDIT: Oh, and you can have multiple Jobs with one character on FFXI rather than being left with one profession (class) on only one character on WoW.