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#1 blahniach
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How long did you play the game ? Judging by the contents of your post you haven`t been around in vanilla or otherwise you`d have grown tired of this game as it`s sole purpose now is to generate maximum income for greedy Activision and their puppets Blizzard. What you`re describing here has been long gone from the world of Azerorth as now you see nothing but poor attempts to keep the playerbase at a maximum peak as Blizzard is working on their next MMO. What they`ve done over the years was simplification and further simplification of the game mechanics to please the masses, but unfortunately that`s what happenes when players opinions do not matter anymore and watching your wallet swell is the only thing you care about. I remember immersive things like ability to learn opposing faction`s languages so for example as a Tauren you were able to learn the common language of Humans by departing on these series of quests of which every single one granted you an additional letter to the alphabet. Then, after learning these letters you could go and talk with the opposing faction. How cool was that ! In The Burning Crusade Expansion you had a complex system of achieving mounts e.g. Paladin Charger. In order to achieve that you had to go through a series of quests, visit different place, gather this and that and actually completing the quest felt enormously awarding. What do you have now ? Oh hey, every Paladin has the ability to summon the charger by default when reaching a specific level. In general, what it boils down to is, again, making the game as much approachable as possible, maximizing the playerbase, not paying attention to what other players have to say. Ghostcrawler himself said "we won`t let other players decide the game balance for us" and what result you have ? Nothing but a shadow of its former glory with game balancing totally out of hand and community raging all over the fora.
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#2 blahniach
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If you`re looking for a game with sci-fi elements (or in this case rather a fully immersive sci-fi game) i strongly reccomend Eve Online. This game, unlike many others in this genre, presents you with a total sandbox experience, meaning almost everything is player-driven and manufactured by other players. It is a PvP oriented game so if you have a competitive personality you should find it quite amusing. Of course, if you`re not into PvPing you can of course play the PvE content, either alone or with others, however it`s strongly recommended that you make friends in this game as experiencing it solo can be very tedious and might bore you to tears rather quickly.

The variety of activities that this game presents you with is astonishing. I could make a composition regarding this topic, but let me try to be brief as much as possible to not make this post too boring. Among cliche activities like gathering resources, shooting NPCs, trading and many others what you can focus on is e.g. corporate espionage achieved by sucessfully infiltrating a given corporation (a guild in most of other games of same genre) and then providing a valuable intelligence to others, either for profit or for your own evil deeds. Pirating in different solar systems, taking ransoms from innocent-as-a-sheep pilots who just want to be left alone and then collecting the "tears" as you blow their ships up after collecting the money.

http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ - this link summarizes what can be done in EvE

And to make things even more interesting, or boring, depending on what your approach have been so far check out this enormous guide that depicts all major elements of the gameplay.

http://www.isktheguide.com/downloads/ISK_Vol_1_Incursion_1_4.zip

Probably by now you`ve noticed how immersive and complicated this game is. I`ve literally seen people quitting day one because the amount of information provided by the game was just too overwhelming for them. That might be your case, it might not. As a sidenote i`d like to add that Eve Online is directed towards mature community of gamers so most likely you won`t find 14 year olds playing this. What i can guarantee though that once you pull throught the massive amounts of information you`ll be fed with at the beginning EvE will appear much more approachable and will kill your free time like nothing out there on the market.