^What about Elitist Jerks and Mmo-Champion?

Those guys are known to be extremely analytical towards WoW.

Occasionally you have threads like this:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=64036&page=1

Personally, I think people just don't like change.  The oldest FF fans think the series died with FFVII, and many of these plus the ps1-era fans think FFXII is an asbolute abomination.  This obviously isn't true for everybody, but it seems true for the ardent detractors of one game or the other.

My first FF was FFX, and I only played it around half a year ago.  I really liked it, and I enjoyed FFXII as well, though I've yet to finish that one.

I liked Halo 1 & 2 but Halo 3 doesn't compare well to CoD4. WoW is an MMO and MMO's are like jobs but you have to pay to do work.

 This sums it up really well.

Halo is popular among casuals. It's obviously a good quality game, but as it became more and more popular, it became a fad. It's a good game to get just for to play online with people you know since so many people are likely to have it also. It has every multiplayer feature that a console can have (co-op, split, etc) so that just helps it out even more as a game to get just for playin with others. I know many people that have Halo 3 but barely do any gaming at all.

Like Rath said, it's not VGchartz, it's anyone that'd visit a gaming forum - they're more informed about what's out there. They're don't rely on word-of-mouth as much as a casual gamer would.

As for WoW, some people seem to avoid it simply because they seem to think that it'll suddenly turn them into a nerd er somethin, which is why you see the "WoW is for losers" responses. Any game will make you look like an addicted no-life if you play it enough. I guess you can say that it's the opposite of Halo - one is known for being popular among casuals, while is the other being the choice of some super hardcore nerds, but that can be said about both. I know a few casuals that have WoW. I also this one guy that I met off a different MMORPG that moved onto WoW specifically to stalk a girl and her new e-boyfriend after he looked them up on some gaming site and found out they were playing it......he admitted to taking screenshots in both games to keep as "records". It's one thing to hear about all the creepy WoW stories, but to actually meet one of those types.....yes, it's awkward =/  

Besides that, there's the fees......some people on here are already paying for Live and probably Netflix too, so I doubt they'd wanna add more to that. I actually didn't buy WoW because of the fees.

Another reason could be this site is a very special site its not like other gaming sites it takes a special person to join and post on here b/c its a site thats main focus is console sales so ur are going to find very special and unique people on here that differ from the vast majority of society

A lot of people on this site are elitists and act like everything popular sucks and everything niche rocks. Especially when it comes to japanese RPGs.

Another factor is that this site has very few Xbox fanboys and almost no PC fanboys (compared to PS3 and Wii fanboys, anyway) so Halo 3 and WoW cant get popular around here.

Myself I havent played Halo 3 as I dont own a 360. But I've played Halo 1 (on PC), it was alright. I've also played WoW (70 hunter BM) for some time but got tired of the game quickly. Still, I think it's a good game.

I think at the end of the day the thing that makes some people enjoy certain games while others didn't enjoy them as much is the people that you actually play the game with. For example, when I played WoW I was in the top raiding guild on my server, quit, and when I got back into it I got into the best PvP guild on the server. Being able to experience high end raid content and high end arena probably made WoW a far more enjoyable experience for me than it would be for a casual who only gets to run 5-man dungeons and battle grounds for pvp, and those experiences for me were based on who I knew on the game.

Same goes for Halo 3. My brother and my best friend come over every Tuesday night and we play split-screen Halo 3 for hours and hours while drinking beer and enjoying each other's company. Perhaps I'm enjoying the overall experience that I get when I play Halo 3 as opposed to the game itself.

Both Rath and Alic0004 have great points, which should answer your questions.

This is mainly a console site. You don't see PC sales in the main figures do you? Even though many of us will play PC games as we love games in general, generally we (as a site) don't focus on just one game, platform, or genre. Also, most people here know what WoW is and what it feels like to get addicted to leveling up and how much time it has taken away from the lives of so many others we know. The mainstream who aren't interested in the next biggest game or the next revolutionary play control/mechanic or graphics are going to be more susceptible to that. This site is NOT mainstream in that sense. Most of us know our stuff and watch the game industry closely.

I find it quite funny when I go to other forums and see comments on random news discussions or on youtube videos at all the people who don't know anything. People having conversations and wondering about something that we have discussed to death here at VGchartz. Many of us have played tons of FPSs and games of every genre. We know what makes a great game in general. We see stuff in other games that Halo 3 just doesn't deliver on. Stuff that mainstream could care less about as long as they have 3 or 4 buddies that know just as little. We generally watch the game industry as a whole instead of making a single franchise or even a single game our entire lives despite its flaws. So for Halo 3, it was fun for a while and some of us will still play it, but the industry didn't end with it.

Granted there are many reasons, but maybe a few of these will help you understand a bit.  And if anybody here wants to add or disagrees, please do.

Personally, I'm a singleplayer guy. I tried WoW, and thought it sucked because of its repetetive nature. And it really doesn't fit into the Warcraft universe either.

As for Halo 3, never played it, don't own a 360, and I don't care about it.

Halo 3 (and actually the whole series) seems rather mediocre. Well, they seem polished but mediocre to be more precise. Truth be told though, I've only played the first one for a couple of hours. It actually felt mediocre.

WoW? The idea is boring even if it's well executed. Besides, it's expensive and I can't think a game is good simply because it's addictive to some (or many, in this case).

Sony fanboy site? I thought it was Nintendo? Hardcore? This site? I'd call it a bad joke if you weren't so new (well, at least I think you're new, as I forgot to check your post count).

Anyway, Halo and WoW are two brands that even more casual gamers know. Yep, those casual gamers that don't care about the fact that the games are pretty simple in the end. Of course they have more hardcore fans as well but... I'd really say it's the more casual players that make up most of the fanbase.