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Hello there Vaneras.

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Why do I get the feeling your boss just asked you that question, and you realised you had no idea what to answer *grins*?

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Anyways. Even though the above posters make a lot of insightful remarks about roleplaying and roleplaying in WoW specificly, I think Vaneras was aiming for something else.

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What is it that makes World of warcraft "the game" enjoyable. Not necessarily the lore or the history. Offcourse, I might be way off here and the above posters got it right but lets pretend that I am right...(for once).

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So what makes WoW so special. Well a lot of things I guess.
Lets break it down.


Lore and depth:
Though the lore in itself is not that remarkable, it has depth in a way few other MMORPG games have. Mostly because the lore in WoW evolved over a long time and people got to play their way through it. People can relate because they "remember" the history of Azeroth. That makes it easier to place a character in the world (for some atleast.)


Lets move on though.

Enviroment:
I thing I like very much about the enviroment is the way NPC's become famous. A very large portion of the NPC's we meet play a part in quests. So even if the world isnt dynamic as such, you can act as if it were. You can talk about your adventures, doing some work for a certain NPC and other people can join in, casually roleplaying along and improvising. This is offcourse a minor detail but it is avery nice way to break the ice when meeting new people.
Instances. A nice way to make your adventuring privat yet still part of the world.
Population centres that actually remind you of towns and not some oversized employment offices.


Group interaction and communication:
This is my favourit. I know I will get flamed for this, but blizzard actually got the classes right.
Wait, hear me out.
In many MMORPG's a class was nothing more than a slight change of clothes and weapons and possibly some magic or equvilant. Sure, everyone had some tricks up their sleeves but the only times you really needed other players were when the old "more is better" equation kicked in. The classes in WoW are very specialized. So much in fact that we have endless threads about class imbalance. Wich is silly because you cant compare a bird with a fish. They both excell... at what they do.
This leads in turn to people actually needing eachother. And whats more important, they need to talk when adventuring together. In effect, Blizzard is forcing us to be social at gunpoint.
I know this last part have is a big part of what I enjoy with roleplaying. Meeting new people and being social.


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WoW also sports a rather simple and intuitive user interface. You can also make mods. This helps alot when trying to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of WoW. No annoying scroll down menus cluttering the screen is a godsend.


Well.. thats my view atleast..

~Evallyn~

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PS. This doesn not mean we dont want more.. Like instanced housing, guild halls, proper banks... and so on.

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