Fantasy games like wow are more successful than ... hm ... Western games, Vikings games, renaissance games ... and many others?
The stories in fantasy games have themes that fit our needs:
- The nature in the game is untouched, virginal, all-powerful, awesome, diverse. Because it is hard to find in the reality of nature. Usually well hidden under a road surface uses, cherished behind a fence, or by mines, landfills, houses etc. In contrast, wow not even a trash bin is needed.
- Everything is imbued with magic , there are all kinds of spell casters: Mage, Warlocks, priests, druids, paladins. In reality, however, all we can think of is studied by specialists and explained. Secrets? Hell no. Puzzles? Not for us. Of course, it looks for the specialists themselves different, but that's another topic. For the layman, the specialist can answer all questions in his field so that the layman dizzy.
And then there's a theme that is shared by the fantasy games with other games: fight. In the reality of Western societies, the fight to the death (thankfully) almost no space. It is still fascinating. That is why there are so many games to the battle. In a were wild, unregulated world, probably more games in which the goal is to build a social order and maintain or to live in it.
A game that simply reflects only the reality, without neglecting to meet needs - does not sound particularly exciting. The Sims are perhaps the close, but there is (even with the Sims, I think) an important difference to reality: You can
nothing lose. If you follow the rules, you will not lose his home, his partner, his work. Out there in the real world, there are no guarantees, and we are worried about the resolution of small businesses in a transparent society.
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