Why is world of warcraft so successful?
tokipin: i think it's simply that Blizzard actually thinks about what they're doing.  i played various MMORPG's, and many of them had such obvious game design no nos -- like losing experience upon deathit's as if the companies were just shoving together a collection of "challenging things," and thinking they were making a gameso i guess those companies were trying to manufacture games, while blizzard crafts them