KLoWn wrote...
WoW takes this in a rapestomp, just as it does if compared to any other MMO out there.
You know a game is fuckin awesome when the main thing people complain about is that they can't stop playing.
Well FIFA isn't an MMO, that's why this comparison is so odd. It's like asking "What's better: Wednesdays or grass?"
As for WoW, to be honest, how I see it and how most people see it is that the fact that certain people can't stop playing it says more about them than it does about the game.
I've played it and quite a few people I know played it and we all stopped after a few weeks; even a few days in some cases. When we all played it we were really into it but after a while the novelty wore off and we just moved on to other things. Same happened when I played FFXI and RO. I think it's easier to stay addicted to an MMO when you're about 12-16 and then much later in life when you're aged about 40+. If you're in between there are too many distractions; too many other things to do.
There's almost zero feeling of progress in MMOs and after so many hundreds of hours of doing exactly the same thing you just think "What the fuck am I doing this for when there's a whole world outside?"
As for which is more popular, it's hard to say. A seriously significant proportion of the impressive number of WoW players are Chinese MMO-money farmers (or other similar banned practices).
If you count the whole FIFA series as one game (because frankly, even though you "have" to buy a new one each year you're also constantly paying for WoW, and buying a FIFA each year is still cheaper than paying for a years worth of WoW) then it'd have to have sold way more than WoW, even if you start counting from the FIFA that came out in the year that WoW did. But then at any given time, more people are probably playing WoW.
But as I said before, it's a really silly comparison. One has real-life footballers in whereas the other one is set in a Warhammer-like fantasy world. One is a sports game, the other is an MMO. One is largely aimed at casual gamers, the other is aimed at people who'll happily spend thousands of hours building up their character. One is usually played with people in the same room as you, the other is played with people all around the world but ones that you've probably never met IRL. Really, they're like chalk and cheese. I certainly expect to see more WoW-players than FIFA players on internet forums, just like there are many situations in life where everyone there would have played FIFA but very few of them would have played WoW, if any.
Fuuuck this is a stupidly long post about a very silly thing.