That’s the title of a new article from Slate magazine. The obvious soundbite is…
It’s a shame, then, that the first massive online game to break into the mainstream is so horribly flawed.
… but it’s less biased than that over all.
I find it interesting that at least some of the problems he identifies have been addressed in Everquest 2, but EQ2 has nowhere near the following that WoW does. The problem may really just be that gamers like the lowest common denominator.