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The guys over a gamasutra.com, an industry related website, have posted an article on World of Warcraft, the largest MMORPG game in the world right now. Author David Sirlin stats that the game play of WoW teaches people the wrong thing to expect in games and in life in general.
He starts by attacking the idea of time vs skill. The idea that someone who levels by mainly questing in the game, though he may rise quickly to level 60 he will not be as good as one that has grinded out their levels. This idea even life is unfair. No matter how good (or bad) of an artist I am, even I spend 1000 hours I would never be able to create anything as good as the Mona Lisa or even the art on this site for that matter. Even the Honor system rewards the players based on the time they play, not how good they play it. In the Honor system once you reach a certain level you are completing against people (mainly kids) who play 10 to 12 hours a day. Your gains are capped each week, so it will take months and months to gain rank 14. So no matter how good you are at killing the other factions, they can rack up many more points than someone who plays 2 to 3 hours a day.
Mr. Sirlin continues by talking about the grouping aspect. By design, playing alone (even if you are the best player in the world) will get you worse loot than if you always play in 5-man dungeons. If you always play in 5-man dungeons, you'll always get worse loot than if you play in 40-man raids. And as in real life there is no way you would be able to accomplish more if you always tried to do everything in 40 man groups.
David continues also by talking about guilds, PvP and PvE rule set, and even the Terms of Service comparing them to real life. He finishes off by saying; Blizzard treats the players like little children who need a babysitter.
Please remember these opinions our those of the author not of us at QJ.NET. Full article at source link.
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