Poll: Is WOW any good?

[DaMullet]

Its crap crap and more crap.

I played it. I wandered around for about 3 hours killing boars... that's it.
I confronted the people who dragged me into this game and they said "It gets better later"

Why am I paying $15 a month for a game that doesn't even bother to make the first 90% of it 'fun'?

If you want to play an MMO, try City of Heroes. Its awesome from level 1! You don't spend hours just looking for a piece of armour. You can RP anything and it works!

Try it!

 

[Elivercury]

Yeah, well I highly suspect this entire thread is just flame bait....but what the hell I'll bite anyway.

I can't comment on endgame, as I only played to around 45ish on my main character and played various others to 30 or so, but I can give an impression of my experiences to date.

As other people have said, it all depends on you. I'm not a huge fan of WoW personally, as firstly I think it's a stupid idea to split your entire playerbase in half and make each half unable to interact with the other half in any manner that doesn't involve blades, spells and other varieties of maiming eachother.

The PvP IS horribly unbalanced. It was that way every time I tried PvP through-out my time playing and from the opinions i've seen and read (and friends I know who play), that doesn't change at later levels. If you are a big PvP fan, then I'd highly recommend Guild Wars if you still want some MMORPG goodness, or otherwise pick up a game like League of Legends (it's free!), or just about any other PvP orientated game, if the levelling/exploring aspect means nothing to you.

You will get frequently ganked by people who are dozens of levels higher than you, but luckily for you have nothing better to do for the next three hours but sit on your corpse and kill you again every time you try to flee. Granted there are non-pvp servers that somewhat solve this problem.

I found the community aspect to be terrible personally. I've played several MMO's and WoW is the only one I've had zero success finding someone likeable in, who wasn't already an existing real life friend. I tried multiple guilds - all full of annoying children who only just learnt to swear and found it the most entertaining thing ever, or adults pretending to be said children so they can act like morons. I think the most conversation I got out of anyone random (ignoring gold sellers and beggers) was "kek" from people corpse-camping me.

Anyway, the game is bright, colourful and so mindnumbingly simple that just about anyone can play it to a fair degree of success with ease. The only part that really requires any skill is PvP and that most often comes down to Level->Gear->Class in that order, thus removing the need for skill.

As a first MMO, i'd probably highly recommend it, just because it's easy and gives you a flavour of what they are about. But there are much better ones out there. I'd consider giving Lord Of The Rings Online a go, as at some point over the next month or two it is becoming free to play, and is pretty much the same as WoW, but with a better storyline, better playerbase (in my opinion), and slightly more involved gameplay mechanics.

Anyway, that's just my opinion.

Elivercury.

 

[GeneticallyModifiedDucks]

If you like MMORPG's, then WoW is the best one out there.

If you don't like MMORPG's, then WoW won't do anything to change your mind.

 

[LandoCristo]

If you have a lot of extra time laying around (Exchange "time" for "money" if you need to), then WoW is definitly a good game. True, endgame (IMO) sucks compared to leveling, so I just made ten alternate characters and leveled those. I wouldn't recomend it to anybody doing school and a job, because unless you're able to sit down for at least an hour and a half, you're not doing it right. You need to be able to devote large chunks of your life at a time to feel like you're going anywhere with it.

 

[Rakkana]

I've played it twice. The first time for about a year. The second time for a month. It gets boring very very fast. Not worth the money. It's too repetitive.

 

[Lewieroo0]

if you want a good mmorpg then you should get ur hands on Guild Wars 2 when it comes out. It has alot of promises and it's free.

 

[WrongSprite]

It's pretty good, give it a go!

 

[tyriless]

I will offer you some strength and a weakness of the game at let you decide for yourself.

Strength:
Cooperative play.
Ask yourself this: do I know anyone that is currently playing this game other than me and if I make a character will there be someone to play along with me? If the answer is yes then most certainly give this game a shot. WoW shines brightest when played with other players, but especially your friends. Success in the game is more meaningful when accomplished with those closest to you. I have played for almost a year now with two high level character experiencing premium content, but nothing was as fun as when I was low level and doing dungeons with people I loved to hang out with. Now most of them have gone and moved on, and the game is lost some of the luster.

Social Medium:
There are lot of people who play WoW and they all have different approach to how they run the game. You can see this is in player teams called Guilds. There is a variety of guild styles from the completely laid back and fun loving (my old guild) to almost militaristic and serious (a way a lot of successful guilds are run). In a good guild you have a team of players that will hopefully back you and supply your character with means of leveling up. If you choose to upon creating a character enroll him in what is called a "leveling guild" or at least join a guild with folks that are willing to commit time playing with your newbie character.

Alright here is where the game does not shine.

THE GRIND
I hear some of this will be fixed in the new expansion coming out but WoW is the benchmark for what we players like to call The Grind. The Grind is when your character has to complete repetitive tasks for hours at a time to accomplish near meaningless goals. One example of this is how I raised my blacksmithing skill. First, I had to mine minerals which meant going out into the wilderness (outside of questing) and finding nodes that I could mine. Next I had to gather components for the equipment I wanted to make which meant I had to barter for it, pay through the nose in the auction house, or go out into the game and find it too. Finally, I wound up making 1-3 pieces of gear thus raising my skill by 1-3 levels. Thats great, now only 300 more levels to go.I swear that 1/3 of my time was spent just raising my blacksmithing skill. Even worse was that my skill was made utterly useless when a recent patch made getting better gear and equipment than what I can make available by quick run in a dungeon.

 

[DoctorObviously]

At the start the game was kind of crap. But Blizzard was generous with patches, and now WoW is a very enjoyable experience. Just don't play it for too long, because you'll find yourself doing things you shouldn't. (like grinding endlessly for a piece of armor in a dungeon.)

 

[Talux]

It's a decent enough game - the world is pretty varied and interesting and I kinda like the art style of it. It's also pretty accessible and caters to a fairly broad audience, although if you want to do the highest level content then joining 10 or 25 man raids regulary is pretty much mandatory. WoW is mostly designed as a PVE game so you might be better off playing something else if you want pvp (and in my opinion MMO's suck for pvp so go for an RTS or FPS or whatever if that's your thing).

Of course it grinds a lot like any mmo and the levels from 40 - 58 are a bit tedious. It also requires a fairly hefty time investment. I'd say about 120 hours or so to reach level 80 on a single toon.

In response to the Eve people... well, Eve is a pretty strange game. I can't decide if I like or hate it. It certainly gives you an adrenaline rush like no other game, but on the other hand it's mostly the dullest thing on earth and unless you get some satisfaction from ganks or griefing (yes, I mean that seriously) then I really wouldn't recommend it. Don't go into Eve expecting to get many good fights.

 

[Salmaras]

As MMOs go, WoW is certainly one of the best, though if it seems awful during the first 60 levels, that's because it is, fortunatly a massive overhaul in that are is currently happening.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Well I don't know, seeing as I don't and never will play it.
The reason for that?
I can tell that if I did start playing it, it would suck away what little life I have.

 

[sanchez taco]

ok well i see some of you think this is flame bait but its not, i just wanted to see what other people think of it and i'm actually really surprised at how many replies i got but thanks again and byeee

 

[Liberaliter]

I don't think so because I don't tend to enjoy repetitive games. But you might like it, I dunno.

 

[RanD00M]

It WAS good. But now, not so much. It's kinda just meh as it is. And Cataclysm is doing nothing to redeem it.

 

[AugustFall]

no its a joke... take your money and burn it.. you will have more fun and get more respect

lol I can't say respect has ever been a factor in my gaming choices.

There are free trials everywhere, give it a go.