Poll: when did you start playing World of Warcraft

[godevit]

Something like two months after lunch.
It was the first MMO I've ever played and probably the last one as well since everything that came up (AoC and WAR) are just not for me. Anyways the first expantion really ruined the charm of the game for me although i continued playing until i finished the Pve content and I haven't played it for a year now.

 

[iJosh]

I think that's part of the reason I stopped playing - When I first started, I explored every area.
Literally, every area. At like level 20 I was running around in places where I would attract everything within fifty miles. But it was awesome, because it was a new and interesting experience the whole time.
While the gameplay and mechanics have gotten better, I guess I just don't get the same rush from exploring anymore.

Or maybe I just don't have the patience.

And you know what? That's perfectly cool. I totally understand people who were hooked on that sense of wonder and exploration, and now it's old hat to them. I understand people not liking WoW anymore, maybe they've grown bored of it, maybe it's lost the spark or whatever. That's totally fine by me.

But that =/= it being a better game.

It's not that it's lost its' spark, necessarily. But when I wanted to play constantly, I wanted to do so mainly to keep in touch with the people I'd met over the game. Once I could talk to them in other ways, I didn't feel that urgent need to play as much, and, after being seperated from the game for a few weeks, I lost any need to play at all.

Which is unfortunate, considering I had just bought WotLK.

To Max: Don't get me wrong I wasn't trying to pigeon-hole all Vanilla players into the "fat, obssessed, cheeto hoover" box that actually get annoyed when things move on it's just the general response I got when I asked the "Why was Vanilla better?" question was in flavour of my original statement.

No problems at all with me, I assure you.

I don't and for a perfect reason.

Game sucks. Sorry fan boys.

This would be the part where you're expected to back this up with examples of why.

I guess I just don't really want to give this game a chance now do I.?

I don't really want to spend money on it so yea. I've never spent money on games since about 2 and a half years ago.

 

[John Funk]

I guess I just don't really want to give this game a chance now do I.?

I don't really want to spend money on it so yea. I've never spent money on games since about 2 and a half years ago.

I guess you don't.

 

[hippykiller]

well if you don't frigging play then why the hell are you looking at this forum?!

 

[iJosh]

Because I frigging want to. It's a poll. Polls are fun.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

Because I frigging want to. It's a poll. Polls are fun.

So you're posting on a gaming forum... in a thread about a game you have apparently never played... when you are proud of the fact that you haven't bought a game in 2 and a half years.

 

[iJosh]

Because I frigging want to. It's a poll. Polls are fun.

So you're posting on a gaming forum... in a thread about a game you have apparently never played... when you are proud of the fact that you haven't bought a game in 2 and a half years.

True, True. I download games. To be exact. Sorry I left that little 'Detail' out.

 

[Talibr]

Screw that game. Wasted a good portion of my life on it. Far too much.

If you wasted a good portion of your life on it, you were having fun right?

I hope your thought process wasn't "man this game sucks I will keep playing".

Sure it was fun some of the time. But not enough to warrant the amount I played it, off and on from release. Familiar with the law of diminishing marginal utility? If not, wiki it. It's kind of like that, but with an extremely slight decrease in the amount of utils received each time I sat down to play. Slight enough that by the time the game was no fun at all, utils in the negatives, it still took a long time to stop playing because of habit.

So yeah, screw you, and screw WoW.

 

[IamQ]

Close to the start. I began in december 2005, and I'm still playing...barely.

 

[Random Argument Man]

A few months before BC. I had trouble leveling my first dude. BC came out. I decided to work on a mage. It's was so damn fun. I left a year after. Wotlk came out played it 2 months. Got bored after.

 

[Worr Monger]

Never did, never will... I never was too fond of Warcraft, and I'd rather play more games that don't take up all my time.

Plus... I refuse to pay monthly for any game.

 

[internutt]

I started playing when Burning Crusade was first released.

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

I joined it from the start but I no longer play it.

 

[Jaccklesby]

I joined about 4 months before TBC came out but I feel my time coming to an end - it just hasn't got the same appeal to me any more and I just can't face logging in to level up another character to 80, after getting 5 level 70s and 2 of which to 80, I'm really not up for any massive grind again.

EDIT: Wrote WOTLK instead of TBC >.<

 

[Sewblon]

Bought it when the burning crusade came out. Thank Christ I got out before wrath of the Lichking.

 

[Reep]

Started during the AQ event and played up to mid way through TBC, after that the game only got worse so im lucky i quit then.

I really, really don't get how anyone can think WoW was better pre-BC. The current version of WoW is *easily* the best content and the best design direction for the game there's ever been.

Maybe it's a sort of elitism?
"Man, I like [band] before they sold out!"
Or nostalgia, or something.

That's pretty much all I can think of. Sure, I admit that there was more of a sense of awe and wonder pre-BC, because the game was still new and hadn't yet been distilled to an exact science yet - by Blizzard OR the players. Like when casters went just for stamina and intellect on their gear instead of spell damage, or when the 31-point Survival talent for Hunters was a weak physical DoT, or when the 31-point Warrior Protection talent allowed a fraction of your natural Spirit health regen to work in combat.

But the game's design is so much more intricate and varied now. I just did 25-man Flame Leviathan with my guild last night. Something like that would never have been in Classic WoW.

Right now, the game is better in some ways. It looks better, it plays better and there's much more content. But what made vanilla so much fun was seeing "X city is under attack" in trade chat, and then seeing 30 or so people making their way to defend that place.
Vanilla was like a territory war, there were constant attacks on cities and towns. If anyone remembers TM vs SS battles then they will probably get nostalgia. I certainly do.

 

[NeedAUserName]

On of my friends started playing a few months before The Burning Crusade came out, and I loved it, but unfortunately I couldn't get it for my computer, becuase it was Awful! (I will give an example, It couldn't play music videos on iTunes...).

Although as soon as I got a new computer, it was the first game I got for it, and been playing it ever since. Level 80 Night Elf Hunter, Thunderhorn.

 

[KaiusCormere]

I started playing between the release of Blackwing Lair and AQ40. I hit 60 around the time the gates opened on my realm. I quit playing after 2 weeks of hitting 80 in Lich King, when the content was no longer fun and I was just too damn sick of the WoW community.

 

[shakeslol]

US Beta