Why I Don’t Play WOW (or other MMOs)

World of Warcroft. What is there to say about it? It is the most popular MMORPG ever created and has become a huge cash cow for its creator, Blizzard.

This game makes so much money that, most likely, if Blizzard would just donate its next five years of earnings to the Treasury, we’d have enough money to bail out the economy, pay off our national debt and have enough left over to buy Iraq.

With nearly 11 million subscribers each paying $15 per month to play the game plus the cost of buying the game and expansion packs, Blizzard could only make more money if they invented a vacuum cleaner that sucked dollar bills straight out of people’s wallets.

But despite the rampant popularity of the game, I haven’t even tried it. I’ve never once set up a character or even bought myself a copy. I’ve watched others play it, and have to admit that it looked pretty cool, but I can’t see myself actually jumping in.

Why? Well, I’ll tell you. Read more