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Originally Posted by Camerous  ...I just don't care enough any more to go into it... I guess I am just getting old but I just don't care about MMOs any more. |
That's a dead on assessment. I was talking to an old ex-military friend of mine who now works for Blizzard about five months ago and his comments about WoW’s market strategy was very succinct
"We made this game for 12 to 35 yr old people who have lots of time on their hands; we absolutely don't care about any other demographic. We won't spend any significant amount of money toward any other tastes. You can play RPG or FPS or SIMS etc. It would be best for you to stay out of our world—you will never matter to us."
As we age we realize we don't want to spend X amount of time fumbling through an evolving game. We develop other interests that co-op our time (like the opposite sex) and MMO's are specifically a young person’s genre. I've been looking at this site off and on for sometime and honestly haven't given a shit about what pixilated mob FoH has beaten for years. Even if all the FoH team was in their 30's to 50's I wouldn't be able to relate to them as their lifestyles somehow would afford them ad nausea amounts of time to raid, do dailies, crafting etc. EQ was enormous fun, but the thought of trudging through another MMO again makes me want to vomit.
Enjoy it while it lasts kids.