When World of Warcraft launched, it shattered sales records for massively multiplayer online games. There are close to 90 servers available across the United States and because several still are full, likely more are on the way. Blizzard is happy, and Universal Vivendi is likely tickled by the success of the game. But is World of Warcraft all that it was promised to be? In a word – yes. But at its core, WoW is a dichotomy in the world of MMOs, a contradiction within the core of gameplay that is at once a head-scratcher and appealing.