Re: WoW Am I Missing Something?

In article <MPG.223214d0ec2654bb989738@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <b8ofs3h8s835re4j0u2jjff10vjhajvi1m@xxxxxxx>,
macecil@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:56:46 GMT, JAB <nochance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have been taking advantage of the 10 day trail and as yet I'm seriously
unimpressed. I choose a role playing server but in the few hours I've
played so far role playing is a about zero. I've had lot's of little
quests to kill x number of creatures to get y things or delivery x to y
but that's it! So come on that most be more to it than this.

It's hard to roleplay in a game with no history. Even in LotRO where
there is a rich backstory, most players don't bother roleplaying.

Actually there is a ton of backstory, most of it incredibly convoluted.
Wowwiki can give you pointers.

A brief summary might be that everyone is always at war, and when the
good guys are not at war with evil invaders from another dimension or
planet, or even when they are, their leader turns evil and becomes the
next threat to all life on Azeroth :-)

I remember some press last year about the need for MMO historians, now
that the genre has been around a while. New Ultima Online and WOW players
who didn't know what was going on had a hard time keeping up with the
latest plot developments and didn't know who they were fighting or why.
It's not wholly roleplaying in the sense that we understand it, but having
a motivation behind your fantasy character's existence is certainly the
start of it.

At the beginning, wasn't the initial appeal of World of Warcraft partly
due to the history we came to know through playing the RTS games? That was
certainly what caught my eye at first, although I never did end up playing
the game. Not many MMO titles come with an established game world that way.

-KKC, who is way ahead of schedule at work and is trying to keep it a
secret.
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