waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over-exagurated...

Ok, I was addicted to WOW. Then, suddenly, I became absoultely sick of it. I mean WOW really is boring. The game is just one giant grind fest. When I started playing it in late September of 2007, I countinously played it. It was the only thing I did in my spare time. In 5 months, I had logged 30 days played on a single character. 30 days. Basically in 5 months, I spent 20% of my total time playing WOW. This is while having a 9-10 hour a day job, so guess what I did during all my free time. I gained nearly 20 pounds in that time as well. Also, I am no closer to lossing my virginity now as a result, for sure.

However, I magically became sick of the game. The game really is stupid because it is really boring once you realize why you are grinding away. I was a Paladin, so maybe thats why the game got boring. Anyway, I got hooked by really trying to grind hard to get my first mount. Then once I got my warhorse, I got bored again. Then it was grinding for the charger. Then once I got my charger, that became normal and boring. Now, I am level 70 with a regular flying mount, but it dawned on me: I was about to slave away for months to get 5200 Gold for what? So I could fly around fast in wow? If I wanted to fly around fast, I could just buy a flight simulator and still have time to get laid.

Yeah, I hate WOW. Besides, eventually it gets to a point where you sign in and get tonns of tells from noobs begging you to run instances, give them gold, etc. Screw that.

I got a free 10 hour trial of WoW. Played it for about two before realizing that yes, that was all there was. I don't understand the appeal of the game, it's ridiculously dull. The entire game is designed to waste as much of your time as possible, as best I can tell.

Whatever you were playing, it wasn't Guild Wars. First, there are no dinosaur skeletons in GW and, more importantly, there's no subscription system.

The only MMO I've found to be 'fun' has been City of Heroes/Villains. Aside from running out of things to do in the mid to late 30's the game is fun, fast paced, and designed specifically against grinding since even with the 'loot' Invention Origins they are really just gravy over regular SO's. A huge part of the game is the fact that you can design our character in millions of different ways and look cool even at lvl 1 and most costume upgrades are level rather than loot based. They also implemented automatic travel powers rather than the ultra grinding or high cost by buying gold online mount system.

I tried WoW. It was a grindfest, no fun to be had and your characters are generic as hell. The only reason to play that game imo is if you have a big group of friends who also play it a lot (a lot of people do, I don't).

Ok first off WOW did not make anyone do anything. 2nd almost anything can become addictive if you let it. Now I know in our brave new world we are no longer responsible for our own actions and that it is always someone or something else’s fault that we do the things we do. But I don't subscribe to this point of view nor do I believe in Political Correctness. Does that make me a rebel or a racist (I'm sure that since I disagree with the concept someone somewhere will try to use the race card even though this has absolutely nothing to do with race. Using the race card is all the rage these days,) maybe I'm a bad evil person for believing that each person is responsible for his own actions if that is the case then so be it.
Now WoW was a fun game until you got to the high levels then it became a grind. So I left it and went to play DDO then LOTR then came back to DDO which I'm now playing until Conan comes out. Am I addicted to these MMO's? the answer is no. I don't play enough to be considered addictive besides if I played too much then it would cut into my GALII play time

Played Everquest for two years. Thank god that was in high school, cause I would have dropped out of college if I started playing it in college. I was ADDICTED. So I won't play these games anymore. Now I play games such as GalCiv2 which I can just stop and do more important stuff and come back at another time. When you pay to play something monthly, your mindset kicks in saying that you should at least make it worth your money.

EVE is pretty fun. But it is kind off slow paced. I had to do a little bit of "MMO Grinding" before I really got into it. After that it's fun. Sins and Galciv2 are addictive in a good way.


It looks like the majority of people think WOW is crap. Good choice.

Now, if someone threw a bomb into the WOW server room at night...  

Etrius

Ya think? Look where he's posting it. He might get a different variety of responses if he posted this on the main WoW forum, maybe?

I've played WoW since summer 2005, and I'm still actively playing it, though I'm no longer clocking 12+ hours a day on it like I did at the worst when I was still in school. I was pretty much addicted to it I'd say. Like most character building RPGs the basic point is to develop a character of your choosing, through leveling and getting better gear, and as you reach max level you develop solely through gear, reputation and various titles.

As far as MMORPGs go, WoW probably is the most casual friendly MMORPG ever made, but if you're the type that don't like taking your time and slowly developing your characters through the combat mechanics, you're probably not going to like it (even though I say "slowly", it's way faster than in any MMORPGs to come before it). You can actually make appreciable progress in just an hour of playtime until you hit max level and got the basic gear sorted, though the first time through a character will always be slower than the ones that follow it.

The thing that's kept me in the game this long is that I early on met some people that I got along with really well, and over the years I've met a lot of great people that I've gotten to know well and whom I still play with fairly regularly. Naturally, it was a bit special back in the day as the game was really new to most everyone in Europe and the process of exploring and discovering the world that they had made along with my friends was really something special.

As WoW has gotten a lot more mainstream, naturally you see a lot more types of people in the game, and not everyone are the sort of people you'd want to associate with, be it twats, immature kids (and adults), and people who feel they are superior to you for whatever reason.

All in all, if you like the way the game mechanics work it'll probably be worth it, then it's just hoping that you get to know people who you get along and have fun playing with.

Guys, Blizzcon is awful. Its main purpose is to glorify themselves over other developers. As if they weren't snide enough. Like I said before, the main reason people go there is because PC Gamer likes Blizzard games (all of which are over rated) You could take a Crysis player, a Battlefield 2142 junkie, or GalCiv2 player  , send them to Blizzcon, and they'll come out Warcraft geeks and Starcraft (shudders) losers. It's stupid.

My advice, play games that are actually fun.

Anyone read my wisecrack about an explosive in the WOW server room?

I like Bungie because they do have a diabolical agenda to take over the world  

Hi!

From start of this year there are two less that are playing it. I've been paying subscription fee for about a year and a half for my two children, but then they ralized WoW isn't fun anymore. In all that time I NEVER even tried it. From what I could saw over shoulder of my kids it was just a big grind to get better stats or equipment, and lots or anger when one jerk just quited in the middle of an instance. I had enough of such a "grind" in the middle of the third replay of Fallout 2 some 5 years ago.


You know, in 10 millions people one can find just about any deviant behaviour imaginable. Why should WoW be excluded from that?


This I can't deny. But it is said one can't fool everyone all the time. My two kids aren't fooled anymore. So there's still hope.

BR, Iztok