The WoW Factor, page 2

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12-22-2010 @ 4:24PM

Mayhew said...

I think that one factor might be familiarity. For me, WoW was my first MMO. When I was first creating a character, there were several knobs to tweak and a lot of things that I didn't know about yet.

Choosing a human reduced some of the unknowns for me (or at least I thought I did). Because the race was more familiar to me, I made the assumption that there would be things about it that I could take for granted. So choosing a familiar race was my way of trying to reduce the amount of "newness" that I was exposing myself to.

My second toon was a gnome, and my third toon was a night elf. But my first toon, which happens to be my main, was a human.

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