MMOG's (WoW bannage)

For me WoW is a good game because being married sometimes I have only an hour to play.

Played FFXI for over a year. That game is really stupid, and a complete grindfest, requiring usually months of play to reach endgame for beginners. (when it first came out it took even the best players a good 5 months to reach endgame).

RO I played for a summer. RO is pretty much worse. All you basically do in this game is kill things over and over for no purpose other than exp and extremely rare loot (like 1/1000 or worse). There is almost no story and the quests are extremely limited and lame. The only people that seem to like this game are obsessed anime otaku who love being cutesy little huge-eyed cartoons. This game can be a little fun on high exp-rate Private servers, but playing it on the official servers is like masocism.

WoW I played for about 6 months. WoW is better than most. It's not too much of a grind to reach 60. But the dissapointing part is that the endgame is itself a grind, a grind much worse than the actual leveling portion of the game. Getting gear through PVE raids takes countless hours of dedication and patience, but can be fun if you have a great guild and if you don't mind putting in the hours (have nothing better to do I guess). PVP used to be one of the worst grinds imaginable if you wanted to 'win' it (max rank). But from what I hear they did away with the system and a much easier, perhaps too easy, system has taken its place.

Guilld Wars I played for about 2 months. The allure of a subscription free MMO is cool. But the game itself becomes boring quite fast. The missions can be fun but get old eventually. The PVP can be fun but from what it was when I played there was no reward at all for doing it except for the opportunity to be ranked high on the Guild Ladder. No idea if any has changed pvp wise since the new chapters. It's a good purchase since theres no monthly fee but not something I would want to really get into.