MMOs:Like em' or not?

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Why Blizzard had to use the Warcraft setting for an MMORPG is beyond me.

The Warcraft world is much more fleshed out than their others. Seems like the perfect place for at least an RPG.

The very idea for MMO games disgusts me, which is why I probably will never play WoW or Everquest or any other MMO game that comes out.

Seems to me the idea of MMO is the massive multiplayer. The monthly fee is a consequence of the way the genre evolved. Guild Wars has proved it's not necessary, but what happens when NCSoft decides Guild Wars isn't worth developing for anymore? They'll be paying for servers and not getting any money in, since the money for Guild Wars is in box-sales. How long will Guild Wars last once they stop developing for it? I wouldn't pay for servers if I wasn't going to get anything out of them.

But for those of you that enjoy MMO's I will say this, you must have money coming out of your ears if you can afford to be playing them and paying for them every month.  I'll bet that if you keep track of all the money that you are spending on monthly fees for these games for a year that you'll soon discover that it is quite a bit after all.
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By the way, do you have cable? Digital Cable? Broadband? A cell phone? Magazine subscriptions? All these are cost over time, and anything cost over time adds up. But there's soo many more expensive things I don't do. For one movie in a theater, you could easily outpay one month for an MMORPG. Then again, if I followed the advice you seem to be saying, I'd never go skiing. I put tons of money into skiing, for 7-20 skiing days in one year! So why am I not giving up skiing for more cost-effective things to do? Because I'm having fun. Just like when I'm playing WoW - it is fun, believe it or not. I'm not rich, hell I still don't have a post-college job lined up. Somehow I still manage to get by.

If you don't want to pay a monthly fee, that's fine. But don't make it seem like I'm some rich yuppie - or a poor idiot - for paying myself.