World of Warcraft...

[seawasp]

... actually downloaded and tried the free version for a bit yesterday. (Well, given how honkin' huge it is, I actually had downloaded it over the prior night).

I doubt I'll be playing it again. It's pretty enough, I guess, and the FMV to start it was impressive, but the controls suck (not surprising, I'm using a keyboard), the tutorial features aren't sufficient, the flexibility in creating a character was minimal, and the icons and text are printed in teeny-tiny print I can barely read even when holding the computer up near my face.

No character interaction or intro; I get more character in Oblivion. And the controls on the PS3 just are totally lightyears beyond anything on a keyboard. (yeah, I presume there's probably some awesome USB joysticks or something out there, but I don't have one).

But I'll leave it on my HD for a bit; I may change my mind and give it another shot. 

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[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

As a kind of follow-up, my advice is not to let yourself get sucked into any kind of big MMO. They can, and will, suck up all of your gaming time. I'm talking thousands of hours. No exaggeration; I logged about a thousand hours in Guild Wars 2 over the course of a year from launch until I logged out for the last time.

[seawasp]

I wanted to play one just so I actually could say I have first-hand experience in playing one. I have specific gaming time limits, so they can't suck up more than the time that I already spend on my PS3, after all.