<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="698235912-20042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">There's a lot of reasons I don't like the game and I'm not going to go into them again (or Joe might start a mini-flame war! :>) <BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See you say that but then you say...</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="698235912-20042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">but suffice to say imo wow is a far superior game in almost every way. </FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The major difference, and this is fundamentally the reason you love it and I loath it, is that WoW is "mechanistic" game playing. This suits your personality to a tee... you love to work out the mathematics and figure out exactly how many points of damage you will do per hit... we know this of you of old (it's the same reason you were the always best at Empire :>). In this way, fundamentally, WoW "fits" you as a player perfectly. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DDO is different... I'm not going to say it's better or worse, (although so far I've enjoyed just about every game from about 10 games (4 hour evenings) of DDO a thousand times more than a *year* of WoW) - in that it is designed around the idea of gaming as a social pursuit (without a need to be a mechanist unless you want to) as is DnD itself. For that reason above all it suits me as a game. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The equation for me (i.e. as suits me) boils down to this: </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wow = great UI (as provided by the community), nice cartoony graphics, lousy repetitive boring game in exactly the same mold as all other mechanistic MMO's I've played(EQ, EQ2, DAoC, EO etc).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DDO = lousy UI (as provided by the devs with no opportunity for community improvement), pretty semi-realistic graphics (which I always put at 1/2 way between the twee of WoW and the real of EQ2) with fun quests and above all a focus on social gaming atmosphere which I've never seen in any other MMO. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I chose the latter cos it suits my personality :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Joe</DIV></BODY></HTML>