I never played much RPGs, MMO etc, But picked up WOW during Beta and continued maybe 6~8 months afterwards, had alot of fun, cann't say anything negative about it. It has a rare gameing quality to it. However to me it got very repeatative and boring. Guild Wars didn't like at all, City of heroes didn't like at all. My advice would be if you haven't played WOW or Guild Wars, buy WOW it is 19.99 alot of places now get the cheap 6 month sub deal and play as much as possible. You will play it out of your blood stream and never go back. WOW makes you realize you like games that have a end.