LunarWeaver: Diablo 2 and Starcraft are run on the cheaply upheld and made servers of B.Net and they are not MMORPG's, so they don't hold as many players at once. Yes WoW is a monthly fee, for good reason.

I'd like to say that I was in Open Beta as well, and leveled Mage, Rogue and Hunter until level 10 before it finished.

I was hooked on this game, and I bought it the other week. Currently a level 16 Paladin and I'm loving it.

The graphics are great, for a MMORPG.

I am with a clan on the alliance side called Tears of Valor, which at the moment is around 15 people that live in the town next to where I live, but we're currently growing so we can get a good Australian clan for a PvP server.

I would also like to say that the battle and questing system are superb. I came from a FFXI style playing and compared to WoW, well FFXI just doesn't make the cut in the amount of fun you can have. FFXI is too depedent on partying with other players to get ANYTHING done, and experience grinding also plays a part in that.

In WoW, the quests aren't a joke and they are really fun to do. You also can recieve fairly good experience points and armor / weapons from them. Also money.

Another thing about FFXI, is that it left you with way too little gil to spend. You would farm for hours upon hours until you bought up enough gil to buy one peice of armor, then it was back to it again. With WoW, gold / silver / copper is fun to get and it's easy to get.

You may be saying WoW is easier in terms of getting the best equiptment and leveling? Well I think it's not as easy if you just compared it to FFXI. It is very balanced out and you won't be leveling up extremely quickly.

So far the community is pretty good; it was horrible in open beta but I think the monthly fee and buying the game evened that out.

In conclusion I think it's a great MMORPG and I plan on playing it for a long time. The only thing I'd ever miss about FFXI is the community and friends I had on there.

So if you are ever on the PvP Blackrock server, just send a /t to Omecle for a friendly hello. =)