This is not just about World of Warcraft it is about the latest craze in online gaming MMORPG. I have played Star Wars Galaxies briefly and I downloaded a free trial of World of Warcraft. In order to get anywhere you need to do missions etc e.g. get 10 boar snouts. The trouble is, this is mainly what this game and most MMORPG games are based on. These games lack depth and story. Your next mission is to collect or hunt something different and then bring it back to the person who asked you to do it, then you get a reward e.g. Sword of Metatron! and XP Points. XP Points help you level up for example to get to level 10 you need 110 XP points. With Each Level you get to chose what you want to upgrade e.g. strength agility attack and all that RPG stuff. Let me compare this to Oblivion on PS3. Oblivion has more depth and story and when you attack someone or something you press the action button and your character attacks in real time and blocks etc if you want to attack something on World of Warcraft just press the mouse button 5 times and you have selected to attack them 5 times( basically click and wait). Maybe I'm not a fan of this fighting system, Fair Enough. These games all do same tho. When you progress, mission get harder by asking you to get more of something or the monsters etc have higher levels. Now to the nitty gritty
Money, Money, Money..
OK so maybe I am just not a fan of this type of game but even hard core MMORPG or World of Warcraft player have to agree with me on this one. You payed £9.99 or £19.99 (Star Wars Galaxies) for these games and then they ask you to pay £8.99 or £7.99 a month to play it online. I agree that server upkeep and staffing cost, and it cant be free but £7.99 a month is a bit much even £3.99 is asking for allot. I would ONLY pay £2.99 a month for the service they offer MAX. Lets do that maths, OK so apparently there is 1.5 Million World of Warcraft (Source Google Search) users and 1 Million Star Wars Galaxies. That's £14,985,000 for World of Warcraft and about £19,990,000 for Star Wars. That's just from the game, that allot of profit but developers have to get paid. Now lets pay for our Internet at £8.99 for World of Warcraft and roughly £9.99 a month for Star Wars that's £13,485,000 for Wolrd of Warcraft and £9,990,000 for Star Wars a MONTH! from user! Come on, no one in there right mind can say that they need half that a month for admin costs, if So I want to work as one of their help desk operators! OK lets take my £2.99 a month that's £4,485,000 for World of Warfcraft and £2,990,000 for Star Wars, This is still allot a month. So lets half it to equivalent of £1.50 a month (my kind of price), now we got £2,242,500 for World of WarCraft and £1,495,000 for Star Wars. At £1.50 a month I think its more than enough for electricity, network, staffing, and maintenance etc. I think all user of any MMORPG should go on strike!
Another point is its got addictive game play and never ends meaning they just keep adding mission you will NEVER complete the game EVER.
EDIT: I have just been informed there are 9 million World of Warcraft users making it over £100 Million a month! more reason to go on Strike!
*Special thanks to Amanda Elliot for Title
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