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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5628506" data-attributes="member: 46713">I think, every game can be played 'competitively'. Games with a fan following have dedicated websites and forums where players can track and compare their progress, skill or tactics. Some players are hunting for cheat codes or easter eggs, write strategy guides or walk-throughs. There's definitely competition there to be the first to 'publish' these things.Just look at ENWorld's news threads: There's also a kind of competition to be the first to post about new articles or products. Pre-ordering RPG products based on previews (or even without any basis other than 'it's a new supplement for my favorite rpg')' is pretty common, I think.For me there are three kinds of games:1) the ones I'm looking forward to for years and will buy as soon as they're available.2) the ones I'm interested in but will wait 1 or 2 years until I can get them really cheap.3) the ones I'm not interested in at allIt's not uncommon that I enjoy games in the second category more than games in the first category.But then again, the survey is obviously only interested in the first kind, or rather what might be the properties of a game that allow it to make it into the first category.Some concrete examples:Diablo2 was a game in the first category because there have been few games I spent more time playing than Diablo1. Diablo3 is in this category for much the same reason. At some point I spent as much time playing Diablo2 as I spent reading and writing about the game and the way it worked. For me buying Diablo3 is a no-brainer because I trust in Blizzard's competence.Starcraft2 is firmly in the second category for me. I'm not particularly interested in real-time strategy games (and I'm not a particularly good player) but Starcraft1 was definitely the best title in this genre I ever played, so I'm looking forward to play Starcraft2 - at some point in the future.I've never been interested in WoW even though that's also a Blizzard title, so it's firmly in the third category. I even play-tested it for a couple of hours but it just didn't click for me.</blockquote>

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