{"id":53,"date":"2005-03-08T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T20:19:39","slug":"wow-same-old-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"WoW&#8230; same old crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game&#8217;s fun. I can see it getting repetitive fairly quickly though. Not sure about the longevity, but it&#8217;s something I had to play both for fun and for research reasons. It has a ton of features designed to make it easy on the player.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten about the MMORPG crowd. This being my 4th or 5th MMORPG experience, now it&#8217;s definitely just a game. When it stops being fun, I&#8217;ll quit. I laugh at everyone complaining about lag (half of them can&#8217;t even distinguish between network latency, server problems, and poor PC performance). I laugh at people complaining about ninja looting. Most of all I laugh at people trying to claim that there is an implied morality necessary to playing the game. These days, my attitude to all of this is: if the mechanism of the game allows it, fine.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this I am generally a fair and moral player. Perhaps this is born of apathy &#8211; I don&#8217;t really care enough to foster any strong emotion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game&#8217;s fun. I can see it getting repetitive fairly quickly though. Not sure about the longevity, but it&#8217;s something I had to play both for fun and for research reasons. It has a ton of features designed to make it easy on the player. I&#8217;d forgotten about the MMORPG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}