Cause for concern?

And those who reject wisdom because they don't like the packaging are stupider still.

It's "worth" is always personal. If you're having fun with it, than it's worth it. If not, why are you paying for it?

Quoted for serious truth.

Lot of the good the packaging and the branding has done us. Wisdom is perfectly fine standing on its own, and exists without that necessity.

are you having fun?

thats the real question, even in wow you have to do more work as in you get full pvp set armor new expansion makes it worthless.

every game is like this.

Anet has planned for people stopping playing ocasionally.
Because there is no monthly fee, they dont loose anything when you take a break. In fact they might have their expenses lowered because you stop using their bandwidth. :P

While as when WoW players take a break, Blizzard looses money because you dont pay the fee anymore.

But there is still plenty of time for you to play before GW2 arrives.

As for some more comparison with WoW, Blizzard has announced its first expansion to WoW more than a year before it was released, and the seccond expansion is also announced a year before its release. That is a long time for expansions. Two, three years for a full new game is actually not that long. Many games take more than that to develop.

True, but religion is the primary facilitator for the transference of wisdom. Or it used to be, anyway.

Besides, attempting to pass on any form of wisdom seems to spontaneously create a religious framework, whether that was the intention or not.

Stupidity does a similar thing, as evidenced by many of the newer religions. A certain S comes to mind here. These new religions aren't any less valid than the "big 3" in and of themselves, but their core concepts and values tend to be pointless and stupid, whereas the "big 3" share a core concept of communal cooperation engendered through the religions rules.

The second sentence is important. Also I think one need to consider what one puts into the word "wisdom". It certainly isn't synonymous to "knowledge" in the modern sense of that word.

The next Duke Nukem installment, for instance

Wisdom was never the same as knowledge, at least as I view it. Knowledge is science (roughly). Wisdom is more ephemeral, more of a social thing, like thou shalt not kill.

I would beg to differ. More a facilitator of doctrine within an architecture of "us" vs "them". I agree though if we go back far enough religion in the west was responsible for the safekeeping of knowledge otherwise lost, and I would extend that also to include eastern religions as well.

Through the religion's interpretation is the modern day problem, along with communal cooperation being limited to only those within said religion.

Very good point. Wisdom is closer to a morality which itself is not tied to any specific religious principle, generating common truths adopted by many religions. Definitely true wisdom=/= knowledge.

My only point was these common truths require no religion per se. Certainly religion offers an extended form of community, but with that also comes its downside.

I depends on what you regard as wisdom, I suppose. I don't see knowledge as wisdom. I see wisdom as that part of human nature which allows a bunch of aggressive, self-interested animals to live in close quarters and co-operate for the good of the multitude. It's basically the part that puts a leash on the animal, to the point where some people now honestly believe they aren't animal first, "human" second.


Very true. But I also feel that the downside is largely due to a deliberate attempt to subvert the religious tenants by those who are supposed to be safeguarding them. Islam today is a perfect example of how this is done, but by no means the only example.

As a Catholic, I look at the church and just think "WTF?". But that's the church, not the religion, a distinction most people don't or won't make. And I don't choose to throw out any wisdom, even when the packaging is polluted by corruption and hatred.

I agree knowledge is more like skills learned, things memorized and academia while wisdom is more like the sum of your experiences, insights, common sense and the way you access and react to your environment and those around you. However it does seem that it is easier to teach and transfer knowledge than wisdom. We all know people who make the same mistakes over and over regardless of advice given or bad experience of the past.They seem not to get any wiser. Which leads me to believe if wisdom can't be readily transfered from person to person it must come from somewhere else, perhaps somewhere divine?

Its a game, if your having fun, your time is not really wasted (....well, it sort of is). Conversely if your not having fun, go play WoW.