Poll: Are you pro or anti WoW

[Duck Sandwich]

I've played it briefly. Boring combat mechanics. I'd much rather grind in real life. So much more rewarding.

 

[Weaver]

I just want to say that WoW is very overrated and completely undeserving of it's praise and obsession. There are way better MMOs out there, but WoW for a lot of people was the first one they ever played (due to the Warcraft license), so they think it's hot shit. In reality it just does the exact same things as other MMOs.

 

[puggs]

I've never played WOW so no opinion either way.....I've only played LOTRO and haven't had the desire to try WOW

 

[CoziestPigeon]

It's terrible...but I still play it

 

[vampirekid.13]

wow is fun when enjoyed with real life friends.


wow is fun if you dedicate the necessary time to get the good gear.

otherwise you get left out. :\

 

[Bigeyez]

Bad, bad, bad.
On other notes... £102 a year (last time I checked)?
If you want to get rid of your money quicker, go to the bathroom and stick it all up your ass. It'd probably be more pleasurable than this game in any case.

For 100 bucks a year WoW is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around...how many $60 games do you buy a year? How many movies do you go see? Do the math yourself man. I'd rather drop my 15 a month and have something that gets new content added to it, with a large population of people then drop $60 bucks on a game for a console....then drop $20 bucks when DLC comes out....then not be able to play the game in a year cuz no one plays the ***** online anymore. Rinse and repeat with the next console game. (People who buy Madden games baffle me...their buying the same pos year after year...go ahead and add up those costs).

WoW is only tedious if you do nothing but play the game every damn day. I only play about 3 days a week (raids) for maybe 4 hours each day...Thats a lot less then what most peoople spend playing on their average console game. As far as complaints of it being a grind...hello its an MMO...grind is the name of the game in MMO's.

 

[SnakeF]

I Played WoW for several years, I made friends on it but I eventually gave up subscribing to it as a break and now i don't think i could go back. I have so much more spare time, time that could be spent playing better games or even socializing. It was fun but once you stop I don't think it's easy to go back to it.

 

[cambodiancam]

I say if some one wants to play WoW let them. Other then that all I hope is they people dont get absorbed into it, By the way, can any one tell me the allure to the game every one I ask just says its good. But when I played it I thought it was just another grind fest.

 

[MisterColeman]

For me it isn't about WoW being good or bad, or opinions, or anything. I am begging for something to come out that makes me play something else. I played WoW religiously until 60 and managed to distract myself form it for a while, Sims 2 for a month, got a 360, and so on, but it brings you back in. I'm just going to go with recently here...

Age of Conan, this had promise, if it had been everything it said it was going to be I maybe would have lasted longer, as it was, played a week, hit 20, realized all the content wasn't there and went back to WoW.

Warhammer Online, I wanted this to work so bad, lasted two weeks, came back for the new classes both times, lasted a week after the new classes, and then back to WoW. It just doesn't have any real draw, everything feels slow and uninteresting, the skills are not flashy, it took me a while to realize what is killing me, at least in WoW you know what is hitting you. For a game that promised honest PvP they didn't make the skills awesome enough in animation look and feel for me.

This might be a shock as it isn't an MMO, but I went and bought a PS2 because it was finally killer cheap, Final Fantasy 10, 12, Persona 3 FES (omg persona is mad crazy fun and time consuming) all kept me busy for a long time. But then wrath of the lich king comes and I feel like I've been waiting for Blood Knights my whole life once I start playing one, pretty soon I'm doing 80 raids and cursing myself.

My latest hopes are Champions Online, Sims 3, and League of Legends. I need them to work and keep me interested. If they all fail my only remaining hope is Blizzard announces a new MMO in a new universe or the PS3 finally price drops into the affordable range.

 

[Wide White]

I play it every now and again, but I'm not going to play it anymore it's just very tedious and boring after awhile.

 

[ryai458]

its a great game played the trial wouldve actually paid for it but was to lazy almost got me addicted..

 

[Volstag9]

Well when i played it can be fun. I stopped because it was getting a little boring and tedious

 

[Sugarfluff]

ALSO, the game is at its best now. I can understand preferring Vanilla WoW to BC - even WotLK, but objectively, it's just such a better game right now.

I have to disagree. Perhaps my memories are influenced by happier times with better people but I found WoW pre expansion to be immensely more amusing than TBC (can't speak for WotLK since I haven't played it). In fact the further back I go the happier I was. WoW was at it's best when the best gear you could acquire was from Molten Core, Onyxia and Blackwing Lair, probably because while the gear gave you an advantage it in no way gave you victory, exactly as intended.

Except... it DID give you victory. If you were a BWL raider, you would go into BGs and dominate everyone except the people who had the lack of life necessary to get the highest rank PvP gear. You raided, you did the soulcrushing PvP grind, or you were cannon fodder. And in raids, all Paladins were Holy, all Priests were Holy, all Druids were Resto (to Innervate the Priests), and your only tanks were Warriors. And the hardest part (pre-AQ40 and Naxx) was getting 40 people. That's it.

You might have found it more amusing, and I can certainly understand the nostalgia factor. But Vanilla WoW was waaaay worse than it is now. I've been doing the old-world quests for my Loremaster title, and jeez louise, the old quests are awful compared to the new stuff.

At the risk of this getting of topic, I yet again, respectfully, disagree. I'm quite certain that I was crushed just as much by players wearing the blue dungeon gear as people who raided BWL. Ofcourse I played mage and was not particularly skilled but I managed to get by. I never had problem getting 40 people for a raid but then I was in a large guild and having 39 other people with you was just that much more fun. As a multiplayer game I never paid much attention to the fact that the quests weren't all that epic but I fail to see a difference between the first quests and the new ones (limited experience on the WotLK quests). While I'm certain that the quests in no way have gotten worse and that there are a myriad of improvements that will certainly have followed the second expansion and numerous patches the fact remains that ever since blizzard started releasing more and more content for those hardcore players they have inevitably given them an even greater advantage over the casual players and nothing in any of the expansions served to remedy this.

And back to topic
Completely agree with Bigeyez WoW is not at all expensive if you stop to consider all that an MMO factors into the equation.

 

[Nox13last]

You really like asses eh?

I had a vague feeling that someone was going to call me up on that.
I guess it's me subconsciously tying this game to something which comes from the ass. Work it out.

Bad, bad, bad.
On other notes... £102 a year (last time I checked)?
If you want to get rid of your money quicker, go to the bathroom and stick it all up your ass. It'd probably be more pleasurable than this game in any case.

For 100 bucks a year WoW is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around...how many $60 games do you buy a year? How many movies do you go see? Do the math yourself man. I'd rather drop my 15 a month and have something that gets new content added to it, with a large population of people then drop $60 bucks on a game for a console....then drop $20 bucks when DLC comes out....then not be able to play the game in a year cuz no one plays the ***** online anymore. Rinse and repeat with the next console game. (People who buy Madden games baffle me...their buying the same pos year after year...go ahead and add up those costs).

WoW is only tedious if you do nothing but play the game every damn day. I only play about 3 days a week (raids) for maybe 4 hours each day...Thats a lot less then what most peoople spend playing on their average console game. As far as complaints of it being a grind...hello its an MMO...grind is the name of the game in MMO's.

I didn't say it was a 100 BUCKS. I said it was a 100 POUNDS. Note the little £
You know, British Currency?

From where I come, it costs more than your life. It costs an arm and a freaking leg.

Edit - Added: The Expansions for Warcraft aren't free. In fact, they cost about as much as World of Warcraft itself does. Where I've seen in shops. 'Wrath of the Bit--' uh... '--Lich King' and 'Burning Crusade' are still pretty expensive. For your argument to console DLC, our games cost £20~£40, with DLC costing a maximum of £10 (if you're unlucky and can't buy 'just enough' credits). I'm referring to XboxLive because they make a lot of their revenue on game addons.

No gamer in their right mind would buy Madden games for the purpose of playing it online (at least, not those with an everyman's income), because their online service is obsoleted every new release. It's intended to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence].

And WoW is so addictive (to those who are) BECAUSE it is so big and immersive. Yes, we know that you are supposed to grind it. But something clearly slips the mark when the more 'hardcore' players consider their characters more important than themselves. People play themselves to death on these games (I refer to EverQuest, though, which close enough).
Is it REALLY that worth it?

I understand that, given moderation, World of Warcraft COULD be a good game. I just hate it with a BLAZING PASSION, because it wrecked one of my friends who fits the above demographic.
His grandmother died, and he was told he had to restrict his gameplay so they could pay for the cremation.
He actually NEEDED TO THINK ABOUT IT.
Eventually, he decided to continue his subscription.

When it comes to showing a relative (someone he loved a lot, actually. More than his mother) respect and a decent final rest, and getting your fix over a silly game, something is SERIOUSLY MESSED UP.

 

[Sev72]

Uhhh... I played it for a while but it got boring so... undecided? I guess I am an independent, it can be fun. To each his own.

 

[Blow_Pop]

terrible terrible game. with amazing graphics.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Of all the MMOs out there WoW is the most polished, seamless, and glitch/problem free in my opinion. It just wins by default, and when i was playing it i thuroughly enjoyed it. Having said that i think some people take it to seriously and have no idea of the term moderation. They don't call it World of Warcrack for nothing though.

 

[malestrithe]

I do not care about WoW. I just prefer my online crack to be of the free kind.

 

[pcload1etter]

WoW was fun, but I got bored with the raiding of the same instances over and over and Arena/Battlegrounds suck. I enjoyed mass pvp much more.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Work it out.

See, I was just having a joke. However I did have a feeling you'd be unnecessarily rude somewhere -_-