I have never played a game like Final Fantasy or Wow and i all ready know i would hate them. How do i know you ask. Well, when i was younger (like 11) i used to watch others play them for hours on end. (I had nothing better to do.). What did i learn, Watching that video of your monster attacking some other monster is cool the first few times you see it but after seeing it 50+ times in a row for a singe battle is awful. Then after a 1:15 battle, consisting of the same 25 sec animation over and over again, you walk around a stupid little map for 15 min until you run into someone els and do it all over again (o that was quick, this battle only lasted 20 min). Its not even like your doing anything, your selecting crap form a menu. select attack a, b, or c, ohhhh.

Since this summer I've discovered that just about everyone involved in the game design program at Austin Community College plays World of Warcraft. To the point where two hours of a three hour Design 1 class might be spent relating design concepts to WoW and analyzing the design decisions Blizzard made in it. Some people even play WoW on their laptops in the back of class. Then, when people are standing around after class, the conversation is about WoW by default.

It's a little more complicated than that.