For one of our recent play sessions, we played WOW as a class. We all started up a trial account, joined the same server, and created new characters of varying classes, all Tauren. Many people had never played WOW before, as spent a good deal of the time adjusting the game world and the controls. However, I had recently been playing on a trial account and had already played as a Tauren, so I had already done all of the quests available to my beginning character. As such, I found myself becoming quickly bored, despite playing as a different class than I had the first time.
This is an issue that I believe most MMOs have. From both my experiences on WOW and Guild Wars, it is fun to create a new character so that you can experiment with the different class types, but you always dread grinding through the same introductory quests. There is no variety, so you must always grind through the same quests. And MMOs lack the strong presence of an obvious, directing storyline that many other games have. In that sense, it is much harder to start over.
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