Because I Was Told To

I have not purchased a video game since I bought Call of Duty 4. There hasn't been anything interesting enough to me to warrant a purchase. So I've been playing World of Warcraft. I'll talk about that a little bit.

World of Warcraft plays well. It should after three years of fine tuning. They even allow you to install mods to your interface. I use several of those. The only problem is the same problem you get any time you have millions of people involved: idiots. There are several kinds of idiots involved. Most of them are the same idiots in any online game: griefers, liars, incompetent people. When you get into an MMO, however, you get new varieties of moron.

1. Gimmes. These people, who are perfect strangers, expect you to give them gold, run them through an instance or otherwise babysit them while you could be doing something productive, like questing or killing Alliance characters. They usually whine or call you a fag when you say no.
2. People who still think Chuck Norris and Mr T. jokes are still funny. They're not. Period. I've heard them all and nobody is going to love you for posting them in trade chat.
3. Know-it-all talent spec experts. These guys have already formed an opinion about how you should play the game and you are just dead wrong. Period. They will communicate this to you at their earliest convenience from their mother's basement, you know, after they do the dishes and take out the garbage.
4. Battleground AFKers. This is a kind of Gimme. They will enter a battleground and, instead of helping take flags and what-not, surf the web or watch some TV. I don't know what they're really doing and I don't care. I just want them to pull their weight. Help me cap the flag or something. Maybe throw out a heal or two.
5. Ninja Looters. These are guys who wait for you to kill all the enemies in the vicinity of a treasure chest or mining node or quest item, then walk up and grab it. That's just lazy.
6. Spammers. These are people who advertise powerleveling and gold selling services by either standing in the middle of the capitol cities or sending you a message personally. I always report them. These services have been linked to account theft. They are also are the people responsible for trial accounts being so limited, since that's how they get around being banned repeatedly. They just download another trial version of the game.

There are more of them. I just can't remember all of them.