I'm elderly school. I was a young kid in the early 80's, and had the privilege of owning an Atari 2600. Pac Man, Space Invaders, Q-Bert... even the lesser known, but equally awesome, Keystone Capers, Air Sea Battle, and Plaque Assault. From this catalyst of a machine, my love for video games was born. To sum up twenty years in sentence, I moved on to the Nintendo Entertainment Method, then the Tremendous Nintendo, the PSone, Dreamcast, PS2, and PS3.
There is method I left off the list. That method is my computer. I'd played the elderly "Quake" game way back in the day, but hadn't dabbled much in the ways of PC gambling, and didn't think about it a "gaming system"... until that day. So despite my chagrin toward computer games, I decided to give World of War craft a try. If you are ANY kind of gamer, you know that games get elderly. You get familiar with them. You already know which castle the princess is in, or what order Lara Croft must pull the levers. Even the sports games get elderly after some time. After five years of steady play, World of War craft has not gotten elderly.
You would require to be living under a rock for the past five years to have not heard about this game. Blizzard Entertainment boasts ten million subscribers currently. All of which, paid about $30 for the original game, $40 for each of the three expansions packs, and pay an every month fee of around 14 dollars, depending on your billing cycle. This means... hold on to your hats, because the numbers are staggering... a who has played Wow for five years has paid $150 for program, and $780 in every month fees, for a total of $930. Blizzard makes roughly $140 million per year in subscription fees. With all the free games out there, even with the PS3 offering free online play how is it that people still pay to play this game? Variety.
Wow is truly that. It is a world. It is a social surroundings, where people of all ages, races, sexes, religious beliefs, etc., all come together to accomplish a common objective. This giant world is yours to explore, and there is SO much land to explore. Generate your character, choosing its race, class, sex, and appearance. Go on quests. Try your hand at of the plenty of Player Versus Player battlegrounds. There is an in-game mail method, and a fully functioning economy, complete with supply and demand. The landscape is attractive, the graphics... immaculate, and the game play... outstanding.
There’s “too many" things to do in this game. This is why people pay to play. This is why I pay to play, because every time you log in, you experience something different. Is not that what life is all about? Variety? They might as well enjoy us before the finish of the world... of war craft.