I would give up my 360, WoW, and any other electronic gaming products I owned and sign an affidavit that I will never use them again for a Starcraft MMO.

First, I enjoyed Starcraft far more than Warcraft, despite the fact that I feel the D&D/Tolkien-esque type world is more intriguing.

Second, who better to build a WoW-killer than the creators of WoW. They have a pretty good handle on what works, and what doesn’t. They could also gain a lot of initial community by allowing some sort of deal for switching from to WoS(World of Starcraft, although I think Starcraft Galaxy or something like that sounds better), or a deal for combined subscriptions. This would be akin to allowing addicts being H to shoot up while on methadone.

My main concern is that if they ever did make WoS/SG, it would be a WoW clone set in the future with pretty graphics, with all the same positives…and negatives. My minor concern is a lack of appropriate character types for classes and races. You’ve got Protoss, Terran, Zerg(are they even sentient on an individual basis?). Terrans have a few realistic classes, but past Marines, Firebats, and Zealots, you start running out of options.(I don’t even consider any Zerg classes viable as playable race characters) How can you scale a Dragoon down to a Marines level, or a Firebat up to a Templar.

Still, I want it.

About the only thing that could do it, honestly, would be Starcraft’s MMO. Come on Blizzard, you know you wanna let me roll Firebat.

I tried LOTRO, i hate it. I even have a sub still (bc i forgot to cancel it, doh). Its completely uncustomizeable, and I got tired of the default UI after an hour. Also, there is no community. If my wife didn’t lead me around by the nose, i would wander aimlessly to get quests done. I’m used to the wham bam thank you ma’am of WOW quests.

I also tried EQ1, and discovered the community was spoiled rotten kids, and SOE was just competely absent from the game. No dev talk, no moderators, no in game help…it was horrible, horrible. All it took was one jerk who corpse camped me and refused to give me my corpse back that killed the game for me. (plus there is the fact that you lose XP when you die, oh yeah and all your stuff).

Bravo sir. Bravo.

“Can you imagine playing WoW without any player-created addons of any kind whatsoever? No custom UI, no Omen, no Recount, no Map mods or coordinate displays.”

I actually liked it more so before all the massive addons it has now, to be honest. Dps meter spam, gear score spam.. yada yada. For me it has somewhat tarnished the game. While I love my healbot to death it’s annoying to become dependent on addons, especially when they break and I can’t use it for several days! Sure it makes things easier… but in a sense it has lost it’s thrill and any mystery it had. We know what all the bosses are about to do!

These days I find myself playing WoW less and less, because it’s just turned into a circus- because of the community. Where the outside community is great, blogs, fan sites and information sites are superb- the in game community is .. well.. meh.
.-= kaozz´s last blog ..Allods, Yikes! =-.

Having tried EQ2, I’s gotta say part of the reason the WoW community be so much more developed is, EQ2 just didn’t didn’t gives ya that much fer ta talk about. “Dear diary, today I killed things fer a really long time, then I went and sat in me house by meself and rearranged the furniture. Again.” Just didn’t do it fer me.
.-= Ratshag´s last blog ..Well Hello There =-.

If I didn’t read the community documentation, yes I could be a bit amazed when finding a new critter like the spirit bear if I happened along the right place at the right time. But conversely, I’ll never be able to that one guy that figured out where it spawned and be the only one to have it. There is very little in the way of originality. Everyone reads the same documentation that the community puts out and within a couple of weeks everyone has the same stuff if it’s the best.

So while I do appreciate it sometimes, I’ve started becoming a bit jaded by it as well. It has become the “easy button” of the game. A crutch that everyone uses and I am as guilty as the rest.