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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3990324" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>D&D and WoW are apples and oranges. Direct comparisons between the two are almost meaningless because of this fact. D&D is a game built around a small group of people playing a game together (usually in person), and all game content is controlled for a small number of people. WoW is an online game that is built for entertaining thousands of people at once, and game content is built to match that objective.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, any attempt at saying one is absolutely better than the other is futile. World of Warcraft is a different game than D&D that needs to be judged by different standards than D&D. Of course WoW will not hold up to D&D if both are judged by how much they are like D&D. D&D would suffer horribly if it is judged to how much it is like an MMORPG.</p><p></p><p>In the end, World of Warcraft is a game that entertains millions of people. These millions of people are probably quite happy with the game, and it is nothing but an insult to those people who enjoy that game for you to say that your game is better than theirs, that you are having more fun than them.</p><p></p><p>It is really no different from someone barging into ENWorld (or at least posting on a different messageboard) and saying how HERO Champions is better than D&D because D&D does not handle superhero games as well as HERO Champions, with the implication that superhero games are <em>obviously</em> superior to medieval fantasy games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 3990324, member: 32536"] D&D and WoW are apples and oranges. Direct comparisons between the two are almost meaningless because of this fact. D&D is a game built around a small group of people playing a game together (usually in person), and all game content is controlled for a small number of people. WoW is an online game that is built for entertaining thousands of people at once, and game content is built to match that objective. Frankly, any attempt at saying one is absolutely better than the other is futile. World of Warcraft is a different game than D&D that needs to be judged by different standards than D&D. Of course WoW will not hold up to D&D if both are judged by how much they are like D&D. D&D would suffer horribly if it is judged to how much it is like an MMORPG. In the end, World of Warcraft is a game that entertains millions of people. These millions of people are probably quite happy with the game, and it is nothing but an insult to those people who enjoy that game for you to say that your game is better than theirs, that you are having more fun than them. It is really no different from someone barging into ENWorld (or at least posting on a different messageboard) and saying how HERO Champions is better than D&D because D&D does not handle superhero games as well as HERO Champions, with the implication that superhero games are [i]obviously[/i] superior to medieval fantasy games. [/QUOTE]
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