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<blockquote data-quote="blargney the second" data-source="post: 3716685" data-attributes="member: 14678">Interesting post, mattcolville!&nbsp; I agree with most of what you're saying - WoW is a very popular phenomenon, and with good reason.no decisions that you can only understand through many many hours of play.Honestly, you can only really understand the actual ramifications of character generation once you've reached the endgame.&nbsp; On the upside, you only usually choose between about a half-dozen alternatives at a time.&nbsp; On the downside, that's a lot of trickle-down opportunity costs to evaluate.&nbsp; There are so many options and variables in that game that there's a good reason it promotes the build mentality.You are rewarded very quickly.Whoever made that business model has an astonishingly good grasp on stimulating pleasure centers to induce addictive behaviour.&nbsp; (I had to force myself to go cold turkey once I figured that out...)-blarg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blargney the second, post: 3716685, member: 14678"] Interesting post, mattcolville! I agree with most of what you're saying - WoW is a very popular phenomenon, and with good reason. [INDENT][b]no decisions that you can only understand through many many hours of play.[/B][/INDENt] Honestly, you can only really understand the actual ramifications of character generation once you've reached the endgame. On the upside, you only usually choose between about a half-dozen alternatives at a time. On the downside, that's a lot of trickle-down opportunity costs to evaluate. There are so many options and variables in that game that there's a good reason it promotes the build mentality. [indent][B]You are rewarded very quickly.[/B][/indent] Whoever made that business model has an astonishingly good grasp on stimulating pleasure centers to induce addictive behaviour. (I had to force myself to go cold turkey once I figured that out...) -blarg [/QUOTE]

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