There is something that non-gamers don't understand about World of Warcraft.....IT CANNOT BE PAUSED. I don't know how many times I've heard "Well can't you just pause it?!"....No, I can NOT. World of Warcraft is a MMORPG- massively multiplayer online role playing game, key here being MULTIPLAYER, meaning I'm not just playing by myself. If you see me playing WoW, I am playing in real time with other people. It is un-pauseable. This is a very hard thing to try to convey to people who just don't understand. If you were playing a game of soccer with a bunch of other people, could you just pause it? No. In the same, I cannot pause a dungeon in which I am working with 5 other individuals to down a boss.
Duh! lol
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Haha. I don't play WoW but I get this when playing anything online all the time. I will be in the middle of team slayer and someone will want my attention and think I can just pause everyone else. I think the idea of online play is too weird to some.
@scrambledmegzntoast - Yea, some people just don't get it! lol Thanks for the rec!
My husband was playing Prototype and it's not multiplayer, but it can't be paused either... lol
Neither can Sacred 2 I think.
Yeah, it can be annoying when non-gamers do that with my MMORTS games.
I had that problem when I was playing an on-line game. I don't see what's so hard about the concept for some people.
@XDaemonessX@xanga - Oooh I like Prototype..yea, no pausing lol
@QuantumStorm@xanga - @willow_ann209@xanga - I don't understand why its so hard either. Its like if you were playing a card game in a yahoo room that can't be paused either.