Your typical MMO player analysis is probably the worst clueless, derogative, insulting and inaccurate thing I've ever read in this thread. You should take a helluva chunk of your time to google MMO players studies. Internet is full of interesting information for anyone who wouldn't want to look like a fool.
Uh, he's probably right, depending on your specific definition of underemployed. A huge section of the US workforce is underemployed, so a huge section of MMO players being underemployed is fairly likely.
Then why aren't you playing WoW? Seriously, this sentiment makes me LOL. WoW famously has an extremely easy, fast, and generic leveling curve after the original release. None of the expansions were hard and did anyone really find it hard to hit max level? You hit max level in a month MAX and then what did you do for the next 20 or so months? Really generic endgame. Over, and over, and over ad nauseam. Playing one WoW expansion is close to playing any WoW expansion. The definition of generic.
A huge majority still doesn't. The statistics for WoW accounts did show a majority of players without a max-level character for most of the game's life. I suspect it has changed by now, because chiefly, only the more hardcore are still playing it. But the idea that...
...is false. A higher percentage of the players you know or heard about do, but, mostly, that's because your social circle is chiefly composed of such players.
It would be interesting to know the actual numbers, because it's implicit that people that don't reach the level cap are only buying the box and a few limited months of subscription, while end-game players have ongoing, recurring subscriptions. At what point does it become more profitable to cater to the long-term subscribers?
They do give the option to select server only when queing for dungeons, not sure about pvp.
After seeing the difference between my dead server (Shadowsong) and a 'full' server (Stormrage). The overcrowded server has more 'community' now than my server has had since release.
Yeah but it's so much easier to make a hard faction one weapon per class quest hub bear ass collecting skinner box
It's also a problem because companies refuse to "merge" servers, because it's seen as a bad thing and the "Beginning of the end". WoW should of merged servers a long ass time ago.
Definitely agree. I dislike hard factions for MMOs for that reason. I know in Wildstar I'm going to be forced into playing Exile when I really don't want to play any exile races, but that's where my friends are going so I just gotta suck it up. I know it would ruin the lore and all that letting races play together that are sworm enemies.. but shit, even crazy rednecks helped black people out of slavery. Not everybody of the race is against everyone else.
WoW is spending alot of programming effort on masking that fact though, even Blizzard is scared of the negative publicity and subscriber impression associated with it. I do hope they have some nifty new ideas for Wildstar beyond "launch more servers" if the game brings in more players then they planned for. The overflow tech GW2 used is a very good imo (and even with that they end up having too many servers now).
While levelling things change often, scenerey, abilities, tasks to perform, npcs you interact with. Once you are max level all you do is exactly what a hamster does: run on the fucking wheel over and over and over until a few pieces of your dress of choice get that +gooder amount that is good enough to jump on the next wheel.
