MMOs:Like em' or not?

[Jarulf]

I have yet to meet anyone who plays board games for any other reason than to kill a random hour or two, so I don't know if they can really be qualified as hobbies that one would put the same number of hours into as a video game, sport, etc.

I play board games (mostly ASL and Diplomacy) and I do it for fun and it is usually far mroe than an hour or two each time.

Most games now-a-days seem to aim for ~30 hours of gameplay, but let's be generous and say that it takes you 60 hours to play through and you play the game twice. With a $50 box price, you're getting about 42 cents an hour - 140% of the price of the MMO... and the MMO lasted longer.
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I don't know why people have the idea that games last only 30 hours or whatever and then one has gone through them. Most games I have had and bought (admitadly after research or getting info) last far, FAR more than that and admit me to play thorugh many, MANY times. By your logic by the way, most people playing WoW would not be playing for that long, since once you play "through it" and beat it, that is it. Seems people can do that pretty quick, yet still play on.