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World of Warcraft

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Should I do it? I've stayed away from it for many reason for such a long time. I didn't want to get sucked in to this side of gaming. The massive multi-player online role playing games... role playing...eh. Not really into that.

I see the typical "cliche" WoW kid as a complete turn-off as many others do. The problem: that cliche is wrong.

I've come to realize that WoW is a game with vast options of play-style. I don't have to "role play". I don't have to fight other real-life players. I don't have to just kill lots of "monsters". I don't have to spend hours upon hours to enjoy the game. I don't have to pay extra money to compete with other players' advancements. I don't have to play alone. I don't have to play with other people. I don't have to quest throughout the whole game... ...I don't have to. But I can if I want.

This game, as I'm discovering, is made upon the option of "options". And it's not just a kid game either. This game probably has large percentage of it's 9 millions players credited to 30 year olds on average. I want to get those stats. But most of the people I've talked to are not kids. And they treat the game as serious as a nice game of Scrabble... or Tournament Chess. You pick one.

Either way. I now have an account and I'm trying it out first-person.