Myself and most my friends thought the episode was fucking hilarious.
All my friends thought it was pure shit... my South Park afficianado friends that is... Many of my guildmates thought it was hilarious, but those of us who have seen every ep of the show (and play WoW) thought it was crap. They just pulled ALL of their punches. There were SO many roads to go down to really say something meaningful, to make you think about what MMOs actually do to some people, and they didn't at all. It was kind of a letdown in our opinion. It'd be like if they did the ep where Cartman enters the special olympics and Jimmy takes steroids -- without having the baseball players come out at the end. Or the Butters episode where his Mom kills him and then they have OJ, the Benet-Ramsey parents and Garry Condit bitching about "some Puerto Rican guy" in there. It'd still be kinda funny... But without the real kick behind it that makes it South Park, and that's what they left out in the WoW ep.
They were like... "Oh, some people take games too seriously!" Ha-hah! and "When you sit in front of a computer all day, you get fat and greasy!" Ho-HO! Seriously. Anyone could come up with that drivel. South Park is so above that. They obviously sold out on the social commentary in order to get to use the game engine.
And no Lesson, not anymore. I quit about a month back. If you're looking to make a point about my knowledge of the game though, you should probably actually make it instead of just posing a semi-rhetorical question. At least give me a chance to elaborate or defend myself.
http://www.worldofming.com/?p=405 (link posted for the stats, not because I respect all of Ming's opinions all that much, cause I don't really)
I know, it sucks to get focus fired first all the time, I've played a healing/key support class in several MMOs, and healers are usually first to die. It happens. It can suck. But that's how it goes. And locks are obviously not underplayed in 5v5s, and if you have a good holy pally who's on top of his BoP, you should be alright anyways. Sad that you almost have to have a pally in every 5v5 team to really excel when there are 9 classes, but Pally's always have been overpowered PvP healers. 10 sec immunity > focus fire, and no other classes get it. And locks are one of the strongest 2v2 classes, so while it's unfortunate to have to make tradeoffs like that, at least they get to really shine somewhere.