If it takes away 5+ hours of your life daily, then it's basically a no-monthly cost WoW. And one that has fewer variety unless you have a lot of different people playing. No social interaction except beating each others skulls in during serious play. And if online, none at all most likely.
A lot of people play WoW not just for gameplay, but social interactions. I wonder iof to rpers on an rp realm were bf/gf in real life, if one was a paladin, would that be awkward in game?
requiring several hours a day of gameplay to make it semi-fun- where Brawl can take up six hours of your time
A subtle difference in wording, however important in conveying the meaning of my sentence. I said it could take up to six hours of your time and you wouldn't notice, I didn't say every day.
Honestly, I'm not even going to get into WoW being a field for "social-interaction", but I think you have WoW and Brawl backwards. Here's the difference between a WoW party and a Brawl party:
WoW Party: Everyone is at home, at their computer screen, or not facing each other cramped in a tight room on LAN. You can't sit on the couch and play because computers are too phat, and unless you got $$$ you're not going to be able to afford a decent laptop to play with on the couch. No one's looking at each other, and everyone's trying to meet up from being half-way across the world at some specific point so you can start a raid that might take you 4-6 hours to complete.
Brawl Party: Everyone comes to your house. You guys crack open a few beers, everyone's sitting around; probably about half or more then half the people in the room either don't play Brawl or don't want to, but love watching it anyway because it's so entertaining. People are talking, partying, enjoying themselves as you try to plug in your Wii but you forget where the fuck the chords go and in what jacks..
WoW Party: You guys finally meet up. You go through a few rooms but by then
Brawl Party: Brawl is up. Four people step up to the plate and choose from one of over 20 chars. and start kickin' each other's ass. People are yelling, screaming, some leaving the room and re-entering. You're waiting your turn, laughing and watching and making off-hand comments about how nerfed Marth got and how much you love Landmaster.
WoW Party: One of your party members goes AFK cause he probably wants to jerk off, and the rest of you decide to get food. Unfortunately
Brawl Party: By this time more people have shown up and you're all just chilling. Now everyone's played a round, since rounds aren't that long, and you can start doing epic 1v1s, 3-stock on Tourny-stages or FD 3 games. Kick everyone's ass, keep switchin' chars and enjoying the fun of hanging out with everyone and showing off something you're good at.
WoW Party: He's still not done and you're wishing right about now you could change chars, since that Level 65 Orc Warlock is getting a bit boring; but in order to do that you'll have to invest something around 40-60 more hours into the game. Unlike
Brawl Party: A Brawl Party, where you would've already spent the less-then-10 hours it takes to get all the characters, since most of the characters can be earned through matches played; which you can do at parties like this! Wow, how lucky. Or you could do the Subspace Emery, which doesn't take 40-60 hours to complete, or you could just enjoy maining Metaknight or Wario since he's so pwn. At any rate, the selection kick ass.
WoW Party: Three hours later you guys wipe and are super pissed off. You are start blaming each other and then you decide to go get a coke.
Brawl Party: After maybe 2 or 3 hours everyone's gettin' tired, it's time to get something to eat. You can break, play the few people who are serious 1v1 while everyone moves rooms. Food comes, you can take a break; eat, talk, return if you'd like but no rush. You and a few others wanna go outside? Not a problem. More beer? Easy. Does it affect your gameplay? Probably, but who cares.
You know, it's like. Brawl, you sit there face to face. Yeah, you can play on Wi-Fi and w/e but I'm still gonna invite people over to play it. WoW? WoW at a party- it's not gonna happen. Unless you got some super cool friend with like 5 computers, WoW is one of those games that's just not fit for fast-fun playing. You invest time in it, and perhaps it rewards you.
Brawl<3.
Ion.