Comment Re:In conclusion (Score 1) 305
Easy, lazy and expensive decision. You sound new to management.
There's always EVE Online, which is about as far from a WoW clone as one can get. It's not an alternative to WoW, but a successful, different MMO model, and I think there's a lot to learn from the differences between the two of them. For the record, I've played both extensively.
Except that the EVE Online player community is not very helpful at all to newcomers and generally push them away. Just as braindead as most of the McWow players but a hell of a lot more meaner and nasty.
Exactly... tried EVE Online as a complete newbie. The learning curve is unbelievable, took me two days to figure out how "quests" work. Warping to another system through jumpgates took another half day to figure out - and don't get me started on how skills work. All of this with NO HELP from anyone in game (Yes - I did sign up to all the "newbie" friendly corporations and none accepted my application - most likely because i'm not a paid player). So I deleted my character and quit - I don't have time to piss around and re-learn a whole new game from scratch, not to mention the free trial only gets you so far then you can't train skills for a better ship which they DO NOT MENTION. That ultimately pissed me off.
EVE is for elitists - that will be it's downfall.
Protesting weed laws doesn't make you a drug dealer.
No, but it makes it more likely that you could be, and considering the law of averages, i'll put real money that there are more people carrying weed in their pockets (and breaking the law) at those protests than anything else. The only reason police don't bother is it would become a PR nightmare, and generally not worth the paperwork, but make no mistake - they could round them all up in a heartbeat and be completely justified in doing so.
A penny saved is a penny to squander. -- Ambrose Bierce