WoW has screwed up player grouping pretty darn bad. Plain and simple. In almost every other game out there grouping has benefits.

There are a lot of factors to WoW that make it work, but I would actually say that the unfriendly grouping is a big problem. One they don't see now, but is a serious crack in their empire.

The fact is, WoW is an unfriendly place to be. Like you mentioned, only WoW has "PuGs." which are supposed to be all bad. Yet just last night I was rocking in a PuG (or I guess PuT) in City of Villains. Totally fun.

Heck, every time I sign up on Team Fortress 2 I am in a PuG of some sort. Yet that game is hugely successful.


WoW seriously blows in the community department. Their party tools suck, their guild tools suck, and they lack serious community building gameplay elements. They even go so far as to offer RP servers but ignore any features that might actually encourage RP itself.


Look, Netscape - right company at the right time. There was no way anyone was going to replace that browser yet somehow it was. Then they said IE can't be beat with Microsoft pushing it they way it does, but look at Firefox making huge inroads every day.

WoW is not the end all of MMOs. Period. There is plenty of room for improvement.