Unimagined said:
Apologies for making it sound like you played for a whole year. To be fair, someone who would go to the trouble of writing that many academic papers, the song etc with any kind of extensive knowledge or authority seems like they'd need to play it for longer than a week.
People can level fast, that's true, but no one will ever see the whole game and experience everything in four days.
I made an assumption based on how much trouble you went to. I guess if someone said they wrote several papers on any subject, academic or not I'd imagine they'd have been studying the subject longer than 4 days for it to be actually a balanced summary.
You don't like wow. That's totally cool. Just remember to respect other people's choices. Recognising and accepting diversity is a powerful academic tool.
I don't hate the playa, I hate the game. Only time I take exception to that rule is when the playa decides to insult everything else in existence in defense of the game. Especially when it is insanely untrue things like "WoW has the best graphics EVER".
I only played the game for 4 days. But like I said, I did research into everything else that I hadn't done. I heared opinions from people across the board. I went on Google and found pictures to explain my points. That sort of thing. But you don't need to see every aspect of the game to know how it works. I wrote a guide for two new classes in FFXI within a week of the expansion's release, before I installed it myself or partied with any players of those classes. And the only things I've ever edited on the guides were updates to them over time.
MMORPG's are predictable. Especially when all 4 days you play one, you're stuck doing quests that force you to "kill X monsters" or "collect X items". The lack of variation in quests is what killed me.
