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Warhammer - Anger and Denial
The Ancient Gaming Noob — ... I seem to have struck a nerve with yesterday’s post, because Syncaine is up today with another post rife with anger and denial. And he didn’t even wish my wife a happy birthday. He is back raging against the “WoW Tourists,” only they have now be demoted to “WoW Lemmings.” It seems that they have just destroyed the MMO space in general and his pet game, Warhammer Online, in particular. Damn those WoW Lemmings for buying nearly one million copies of Warhammer Online! Damn them for ...

Lemmings Play WoW…
Random Ogre Thoughts — ... No really, it’s true. See? I didn’t leave WAR because I thought WoW was better or because I thought I’d be less cool for playing it over WoW? I’m not playing WoW because the masses are. I’m playing WoW because it’s entertaining and fits in with the amount of time I want to spend playing a game (though I do play it a little much at times). I left WAR for the following reasons: - The begining content was fun but after awhile I got bored or frustrated - PVP was fun until people figured out bugs and used them to their ...

World of Warcraft’s success is greatly because of luck.
mendax.org — ... One of the primary reasons that World of Warcraft (WoW) managed to make MMOGs mainstream is because of timing. That’s not to say that WoW isn’t a good game in its own right, but chances are, if the stars weren’t in perfect alignment, WoW wouldn’t have amazed observers with its vacuum-like prowess at sucking in millions of gamers. Hardcore Casual’s syncaine wrote a great synopsis of these events: ...

Locusts and Lemmings
Kill Ten Rats — “Montana Sucks! Now go home and tell all your friends!” Recent discussion of WoW tourists brings to mind the problem of all tourists: “let’s go somewhere different and whine about how things are not like they were back home. The food here is funny. The toilets are weird. They act like they don’t even speak English.” The tourists go looking for virgin wilderness, something pristine and untouched. Then they leave tire tracks, litter, and poo; they call for modern conveniences, ideally heated cabins with indoor ...