On WoW & Time Invested...
According to the NYT interview, Jeff Kaplan thinks that about 25% of WoW players with level 60 characters have killed Ragnaros, and 15% have killed Nefarion.
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For those with actual social lives, Nefarion is the last boss of Blackwing Lair, currently the second-hardest dungeon in the game. You have to kill seven bosses before you get to Nef, and each of them can take weeks for a new guild to learn to defeat for the first time. And since the dungeon resets every Tuesday, you have to clear your way through all of them EVERY WEEK to even get a shot at learning how to kill Nef - a process that takes months for some guilds.
In other words, Kaplan is estimating, from his "gut feeling," that 15% of the people who've gotten to level 60 will ALSO have spent 15 hours a week for several months in BWL. Either the WoW playerbase (of 5-6 million) is even more fanatical than I would have guessed, or this is a big overestimate, and possibly an attempt to justify the fact that for about a year now the WoW development team has focused almost exclusively on new content for the high-end raiders who make up a small proportion of the fan base.
Hmmm. I'm still playing Warcraft, but I have (or, at least, attempt) a social life. I can't see dedicating that kind of time to it, though. Not since my last period of prolonged unemployment, anyway.
from a comment on this Slashdot story
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Parmeter May 13, 2006
Yeah, Slashdot did a pretty good job of disecting the article when it was posted earlier this week.
I'm in the same camp as you. Elizabeth and I just got our mains to 60 in the last couple of weeks. I can't see either one of us spending hours to get through the kind of things talked about in the article. Just not that interested.
Matt Haffner May 16, 2006
I'd personally be interested in trying out one or two of these crazy 20-40 people instances, just for the experience. But the chances I'll have the time for even one is looking pretty remote right now.
Since I've only gotten a few of the classes to 30-40's, I feel I still have a lot of legs left in the novelty of the game from that perspective. Playing the other faction for my second main has really kept things "fresher" for now. I sure would love to see some new mid-game content though, and not just for the new races.