The old adage goes:
What's wow upside down? Mom!
What's mom upside down? Dad's favorite thing.
World of Warcraft is, as far as I can tell, signaling the death knell for civilization as we know it.
Aye, here's the rub: WoW is just as bad as Everquest in terms of making dorks shovel out cash to have the unique honor of sitting in front of a computer all day long clicking on Elves—but, whereas Everquest sucked enough that only dorks would actually play it, WoW seems to have good enough advertising that even normal people want to play it.
What can this possibly bring for mankind?
For one, loads and loads of money for Blizzard. Enough that the board of directors and majority shareholders have recently announced that they intend to purchase Great Britain and turn it into a sortof island research park, where they hope to extract dinosaur DNA from preserved mosquitos and actually use that DNA to, get this, clone dinosaurs. I hear they will be using Unix systems (I know those!) and their videoconference system will be run over Quicktime.
Where was I?
Yeah, anyway. Making WoW a hyperpopular game is about as irresponsible as letting the French run their own country. Really.
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