That can be the worst though: "Hey! I can see that tiled texture/sharp poly edge/lower res texture on the back of the shield that fills up 1/8 of my screen... "
etc.
Being too close to game development can be terrible for immersion 
LOL that wasn't exactly what i meant rather the mechanics lol but i also see your point too but I not saying go into playing a game to finds its faults but while your playing a game its faults will stand out to you if they are major I mean every game has it faults but you can learn from where other games have failed ... if you don't learn from others mistakes than you will end up making the same mistakes.. like now days most MMO's are riding on Wow's success and build their games cloned after wow with nothing unique to them but other than a new GUI skin and thats not what gamers want is just another WoW, yea sure they want alot of features in the new games that WoW has pretty much made a MMO standard but at the same time they don't want where WoW has failed to be in a new game or they will put your game down and just go back to WoW lol
anybody who wants a game with anything resembling wow plays wow and isnt looking for a new game... gamers specifically want a game that is NOT wow or they would be playing wow. As for your "that WoW has made an mmo standard". WoW didnt make anything an MMO standard except thier stupid quest system where quests are always and perpetually announced with icons above npc heads and quest lines that always lead to the next quest and are set up so as long as you follow the quests you will never stop doing wuests until you are max level which takes bout 2 weeks if you "do it right". Other than this everything wow has is stolen from much more classic games such as asheron's call, dark age of camelot, everquest, anarchy online, ultima online... they just made it "popular" with the "non-nerds" and thus everyone thinks wow is responsible for it's creation and implementation... where as in fact wow screwed up massively on a number of things from magically shrinking dinosaurs that become tiny when tamed to druids who cant cast roots in a small cave covered in roots but can cast starfall through an entire mountain to a hunter epic weapon quest that always gave you a sword even if you were specced for the bow to the complete and utter destruction of warcraft lore and standardized history such as making blood elves part of the horde and making undead part of the horde as well where as blood elves, undead and the horde were all enemies in a nice little triangle death pact with the horde having only used undead in the earlier years of the war due to the side effect of having been created by the scourge but stopped using undead when thier chieftan turned against the scourge. So to WoW I say LONG LIVE THE IDIOT MASSES! now lets go make games that are NOT WoW...
Thank you this has been "Nightshadow's rant against all things WoW and people who praise or glorify WoW for having done anything special or unique to advance the world of MMORPG's"
