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The idea of traveling a gameworld and picking up stuff has been with us more or less since the dawn of gaming. ItвЂ™s not about square mileage, itвЂ™s about seamless variety and spectacle. If you want people to stick with your game, you need to give them stuff to look at.

The game creates the impression that thereвЂ™s always another cool landmark or impressive vista just over the horizon. There is a ton of content to consume here, and lots of players derive satisfaction from taking the world tour. WoW has many different areas with unique music, mood, lighting, monsters, architecture, cities, wildlife, and flora. What few MMOs seem to grasp is that being able to walk from one end of a massive gameworld to the other is deeply satisfying to people with a sense of wanderlust, and the effect is often ruined if you break the world up into little playpens connected by loading screens. Your upcoming WoW-killer needs to be able to offer a variety of combat experiences, from complex hot-key driven action strategy (Rogues in WoW) to casual point-and-click for people who like to play while watching American Idol. The combat will get old eventually, but for people that like combining powers and experimenting with different character builds it can offer many hours of entertainment. There are a lot of different enemies that require different approaches. The game feeds you new combat abilities at a steady rate, so that a new one opens up just as your existing skill set is starting to feel a little tired. People dismiss WoW as a вЂњmindless clickfestвЂќ but the truth is that the game is not multiplayer Diablo. You need to give players lots of tools to acquire and connect with friends while filtering out irritants and idiots. If you want to knock WoW off its perch, you need a way to make that Northrend conversation as seamless as possible. I know the average MMO looks like an RPG with a chat bar, but thereвЂ™s a lot more going on here than just chat. You can joke and gossip and bitch about work and school while sitting around your favorite restaurant, or you can have the same conversation while fighting a Flesh Giant or traversing ZulвЂ™Drak. Stomping around Northrend with your friends is a perfectly legitimate way to spend an evening. MMO games are social by nature, but WoW benefits a great deal because people join simply because thatвЂ™s what all of their friends are playing.

Yes, sexy screenshots help at launch day, but if the game looks wrong and runs slow on the average machine then youвЂ™re destined to be a minor player in the MMO world. Your game doesnвЂ™t need to look like 8-bit warmed over, but it does need to scale down gracefully to the low end of the spectrum if you want to take a bite out of the WoW user base. The WoW juggernaut proves that graphics take a backseat to gameplay for most players.

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Here is my advice for the next developer who comes along with a head full of ideas and dollar signs in his eyes: If you could capture just one in ten WoW users and get them to jump to your MMO, youвЂ™d be a massive success by industry standards. At $15 a month each, that comes to $150 million a month and 1.8 billion a year. But I want to take the question seriously for a minute, partly so that you can just drop a link to this article the next time one of those threads appears, but mostly because I think that hopeful MMO game designers might be asking themselves the same thing. Now, mostly these posts are from basic internet-level malcontents and trolls, or people who canвЂ™t grasp the idea of different people having different personal tastes. If I had a double bacon cheeseburger for every forum post titled вЂњWhy do people play World of Warcraft?вЂќ then I would have died of a coronary a year before The Burning Crusade went into beta.