Xen Solarus
Inner 5phere
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Posted - 2013.10.19 11:27:00 -
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I used to play wow a bit, and it is fun. It differs from EvE in many regards though. Wow you can jump into and enjoy immediately and not have to worry about anything. The only advantage is that its easy and doesn't require much effort. EvE can sometimes feel like a burden, or a second job (for those with responsibilities). It's a game completely devoid of consequences or loss. Doesn't matter if you die, and doesn't matter what you have. It's all about getting to your maximum level, where supposedly the end-game is, where the best wow has to offer awaits. However, it became quickly apparent to me the pointlessness of it. Once you've hit that celling, you've got all the nice shiny gear, you've done all the raids and stuff, there isn't anything else. Sure, you can own at pvp, have a great arena/battleground team, but essentially that's it. Most people at this point start again, and level a new character and the whole thing repeats. Worse still, you can spend loads of time and effort acquiring all this stuff, becoming the most badass of a character, and the moment an expansion comes out it's all worthless again. You literally throw it all away.
I don't think the word "economy" can even be applied to wow. At the maximum level gold is worthless. The only thing you really need it for is to get the best flying mount, but after that it means nothing. There's nothing left worth saving for. Most items are aquired through kills, rather than created by players. Worse still, their subscription numbers mean nothing. Each server is limited, and varies in numbers, but we're talking like 7000 people online on a server at any one time, as an average (the internet has differing opinions on exact numbers). Each server is completely seperate and don't interact. Nothing like EvE's massive server, where each and every action had a knock on effect on the economy, and where people control direct creation of its goods.
EvE i've always considered vastly superior because it is a game where you can truely lose what you have worked so hard for. I don't think a wow player would engage in pvp at all if the result was the victor looting their body of all their best gear. They'd literally have a heart attack at the very concept. More still, EvE has endless possibilities. There's always something else to can aim to do or achieve. No-wonder Wow subscriptions are falling, when you reach that maximum potential, there's nothing left to do but the same old over and over.
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