I played WoW through all of Open Beta and around two weeks of retail. At first, sure it's an extremely great game. But it still starts to fall under the repetitiveness of most MMORPG's. The only difference this game has is newer graphics (seeing as it's a newer game) which do make the landscapes and water very nice to look at, yet the character models are subpar to FFXI's. Also the fact that experience points and currency is extremely easy to come by, as you gain them while doing quests.

The quests are extremely repetitive. It's always the same "Go fetch this, take this here" or "Go find this guy and bring me his head" type things. It's basically just like FFXI's little quests (not missions) except with a little more jazz. All there is to do is quest, craft and PvP.

Quests start to get harder when you get into Contestant Terrirories, as you come across memebers of the other faction probably trying to do quests themselves. And of course somone's going to be stupid and just try to kill the other one. I was running to Lakeshire once at level 22 and a mounted Troll (who would have been above level 40) jumped off his mount and came and killed me... that's not fun, it's just annoying.

I found WoW to be very solo-orientated and I enjoy party things more. So it's really a matter of opinion. Also it seems like there's not much achievement in WoW seeing as everyone can do it pretty quick and easy.

I agree with the above post and I have made other posts that are probably more detailed.