At 10/14/06 08:02 PM, charlotte wrote:
you're probably right in that aspect, but WoW has characters called ORC MAGES. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?
let's see you explain those things.
I'll try. In order for an internet forums any other such thing to be fun (for most people) it needs to have some sense of organization. A hiarchy. Every forums has its mods and admins and WoW has its Game Masters and Blizzard employes. However these are only a meager portion of the population of the online world. The standard members too need to have some sort of hiarchy. On NG or other forums it's in the form of e-stats. Post count, level, sign up date, ect. In WoW it's your character.
See that's the one thing I like about WoW more than internet forums. There e-stats actually mean something. if a retard decides to spam up my club on NG I can flame him...and that's it. It's not going to do jack. If a retard pisses me off in WoW I can get on ly level 60 black orc mage and kill him. Then he'll have to spend several minutes trying to ressurect only so I can kil him again. He pissed me off, so I used my superior e-stats to make his life miserable. Likewise, e-stats in WoW can give you authority or respect, they can let you help your friends whenever you want to, they basically make your standing in the online world mean something.
This makes a game like WoW a lot more fun than a forum. It's the same thing at its core, an online way to communicate with people. Same as the Alliance, same as MSN, same as NG. However in WoW you don't just talk, you actually do shit. It's virtual yes, and it has no effect on real life, but so what? It's fun. When you and 9 other people get together, and kill some big dragon boss and he drops some items that increase your e-stats then you've actualy done something. As opposed to a forum when you and 9 other people get together and...talk? Or flame?
lmao, i wish you were around more often.
i'm going insane.
those two sentences aren't actually related.