[incision]

Wow, it has probably been 15 years since I read something from Raph Koster. So long that I had to think for a bit to recall why that name didn't quite feel right - until Designer Dragon popped into my head.

I can't disagree with a single thing said here.

I tend to think of WoW as the Buy-N-Large generation ship of gaming.

It created an entire word that was in some sense a paradise, but at the exclusion of all the awesome, frustrating, exciting, tedious richness that came before it.