Casual Gamers Not Wanted (Score 2, Interesting)

I agree wholly with the folks that casual gamers are turned off by the MMORGS. While I never into WoW, I had my fill with DAOC, which I felt was a actually a better system. Drops had finite lifespans, so you limited the farming aspect of the game. PvP was initially weak and limited, but got better over time. The server lag on the raids was horrible, IMHO, and my involvement was limited to walking into the raid and reading "You have died". But driving force that went against the casual player is that once you are beyond level 10, the progression slows to a crawl. You'd spend 3 hours getting one bubble of experience, and then you'd slip up and lose half in a second. As the game matured, they allowed anyone with a level 50 (the max) character create a level 25 from scratch. Once that happened, the number of low level characters simply evaporated, and often times you'd wander for hours in lower level spots without seeing anybody.