i don't get this post.. even after reading the article i still don't know what prompted you to start this thread.. but since you did i'll run with it...
first, you're a moron... completely and utterly retarded... you're arguments make no sense.. out of 12 million plus people you bash a game... that you've never played(or even opened)
second, you bought a game never played it and didn't return it... that's worse then the fact that i willing know and pay the 15 bucks a month it costs.
third, yeah there are f'ked up people playin wow that have no lives, live at home(basement), have no social skills, and no will to do anthing else, but i see more in the news and on tv about people addicted to super smash brothers and madden getting kicked out of college, home, apartment because of their obsene addiction to a game that never really changes.
fourth, you've never played... wtf!!! that makes no sense.. either you got dumped by some chick who'd rather play wow than deal with you, or you have way to much free time on your hands, in which at that point in time you need to open that box and try the free trial and educate yourself
fifth, WoW players have no skills... i don't even know what the f*ck this means... everybody excels at differen types of video games, i for one can't play racing games for shit or flight sims... so i suck at video games... i do know that at any given point in time i have to strategically deal with over 80 different abilities and work through close to 100 buttons on screen at any given point in time while watching myself and 4 other teammembers health/mana while dealing iwth the enemy... fps= 10 buttons max for a casual player, and more often then that it's every man for himself..
sixth-l4d compared to wow... i don't even think l4d will sell as many copies of wow let alone have anywhere near as many dedicated players. yeah it won for cooperative play against wow.. which is roughly only like 28-35% of the total wow community as of the last WoW census(the award l4d recieves against wow is in pvp situations), so why don't we compare l4d to the other aspect 25man raids?? wait you can't have a 25man group in l4d... only 4...(what a joke)
and to the person who said they'd challange any wow player to fps and win.. my cod4,tf2, and cs:s team won both the ma and il showdown lan competiions last year. i'll take you up on that.
To everyone-grow the f*ck up-wow isn't a special game, the box doesn't come laced with anything, it's only addicting to some people because if fulfills basic needs like worth and happiness, if that's how someone wants to make themselves feel happy and needed then so be it. i'll tell you this at least while they're playing they're still consumers that spend money(that invariably has to come from somewhere), they don't purchase one game for 50 bucks keep it for a couple years then complain constantly over the fact that the patch isn't out yet(not like you're paying for a patch anyways so why so impatient)
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