Poll: when did you start playing World of Warcraft

[Skeleon]

Ever since I got over UO I've stayed away from MMORPGs.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Joined shortly before the release of TBC, played for about a year, got tremendously bored, stopped playing.

 

[Abedeus]

Does it count if I tried the trial 3 times and I got bored after 3, then 1, then 0.5 hours?

 

[Clirck]

Started long time ago and finised a long time ago.
Haven't tried any new expansions.

 

[suhlEap]

i just couldn't do it to myself...

 

[Arcyde]

I got the 10-day free trial and deleted it after about 10 minutes.

 

[Zydrate]

A couple of years ago, around the time of BC. (Can't remember, it was either shortly before, or shortly after. All I know is a Draenei became my main).

 

[Flour]

Started with 1.10
Stopped playing a few days after BC release, I used to have screenshot of half the server standing around the outland portal because people thought there would be an opening event at the gate. I stopped playing bacause I hated the game I had no guild, and everybody I knew was on a different server in different guilds.

I started playing again 3 months ago, and now I'm loving the game. I still haven't bought WotLK, which made the game horrible, there's just nothing to do when you're not 80. At least I have a good guild which makes the time I spend in-game until I buy wotlk a bit more fun.
Most people are elitist bastards though I mean, why refuse to take a level 70 to the old raid instances? A group of 10 level 80's is able to kill Hakkar with all aspects still alive, which leaves 30 raid spots that are never used.(I've never seen raids larger than 10 people for those instances, don't know why though)

 

[toapat]

Started with 1.10
Stopped playing a few days after BC release, I used to have screenshot of half the server standing around the outland portal because people thought there would be an opening event at the gate. I stopped playing bacause I hated the game I had no guild, and everybody I knew was on a different server in different guilds.

I started playing again 3 months ago, and now I'm loving the game. I still haven't bought WotLK, which made the game horrible, there's just nothing to do when you're not 80. At least I have a good guild which makes the time I spend in-game until I buy wotlk a bit more fun.
Most people are elitist bastards though I mean, why refuse to take a level 70 to the old raid instances? A group of 10 level 80's is able to kill Hakkar with all aspects still alive, which leaves 30 raid spots that are never used.(I've never seen raids larger than 10 people for those instances, don't know why though)

ZG is a 20 man raid, not a 40, thats why people can 2 man it with all aspects up (10 means they are not caring hard enough to work). the thing you are complaining about with WotLK is what happens when a new Xpac for WoW hits.

 

[Rack]

WoW has insanely shoddy games design. There's absolutely nothing remotely fun in it till level 40, and at launch that was about 120 hours in. Even then to do the enjoyable parts you need someone to play the healer, and since every 5th player has to be a healer, and every 2000th player wants to be a healer a bit of a problem develops. Plus they have a backwards reward structure, the more boring something is, the more rewards you get for it.

WOw still has some good aspects, but they're really, REALLY well hidden.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

I played it a little during the beginning but never got that into it and came back when TBC was released.
Thats when i really got into it.

 

[PersianLlama]

I bought it a few months after it first came out. Quit around the time TBC came out.

 

[Flour]

Started with 1.10
Stopped playing a few days after BC release, I used to have screenshot of half the server standing around the outland portal because people thought there would be an opening event at the gate. I stopped playing bacause I hated the game I had no guild, and everybody I knew was on a different server in different guilds.

I started playing again 3 months ago, and now I'm loving the game. I still haven't bought WotLK, which made the game horrible, there's just nothing to do when you're not 80. At least I have a good guild which makes the time I spend in-game until I buy wotlk a bit more fun.
Most people are elitist bastards though I mean, why refuse to take a level 70 to the old raid instances? A group of 10 level 80's is able to kill Hakkar with all aspects still alive, which leaves 30 raid spots that are never used.(I've never seen raids larger than 10 people for those instances, don't know why though)

ZG is a 20 man raid, not a 40, thats why people can 2 man it with all aspects up (10 means they are not caring hard enough to work). the thing you are complaining about with WotLK is what happens when a new Xpac for WoW hits.

Never got to 60 before BC so I got the instances wrong.
I assumed ZG was also a 40 man raid, and if a friend(who actualy did those raids) was online I could have asked him before posting

The thing I'm complaining about is 'normal' for WoW.

 

[Talibr]

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

 

[meatloaf231]

Started during Vanilla. Quit after a while, then came back again. Quit, then came back for TBC. Quit again, came back again. Quit and haven't bought FT.

So technically, I started in the old WoW, but the periods of me not playing are longer than me playing.

Almost exactly this.

 

[Khazoth]

I started in Vanilla Warcraft, then they bent the story over the barrel with The Burning Crusade.

Then they finally slit its throat with the addition of a wildstorm comic.

I quit when they announced Blood Elves for the Horde.

Then I rejoined with Wrath of the Lich King and quit a while after I saw the "art" from the Wildstorm comics that they were promoting on their website... Garona in a bikini.

 

[MjrShake]

I started playing during Vanilla. I take small breaks every once and a while so to not get totally burned out on it. I find the lore to be very interesting and thats what really has be hooked to it.

 

[headshotcatcher]

I have only ever played it once on a friend's account. It isn't that great.

the thing is, no one who hates WoW has ever experienced enough to find it fun. starting on an account with a high level character loses the feel that the character is your own, and that you start with too much. other people are not dedicated enough to get past the uphill battle against your sanity that occurs from lvl 40-45 to lvl 58, so they never get to the fun parts of WoW. and the people who hate the $15 a month charge, dont realize that that $15 a month allows Blizzard to stay awesome and own its own publishing company.

i got WoW 3 months after TBC came out

Don't be so closeminded, a lot of players who hate WoW have played it for a year or more and then realised the waste of time it is.

you understand the only reason why people quit WoW is they dont have the time to commit to it, they found one of the brainwashing Xbox games, or found an MMO they find more fun. if you have played it for over a year, you do not quit it because you hate it. you wouldnt have played that long if you did

Then why do I have enough time, don't I have an Xbox (nor am I addicted to any other games) and I don't play another MMO. You sir are close-minded.

I did quit because I hated it, the being able to get stronger and tackle larger monsters hooks you, but if you manage to see past that all you see is a bad game. (Yes I know it has lore and the like, but real life does too)

 

[Pyro Paul]

i don't play wow, it is too comical and sanatized for my tastes.

i though WC3 was a decent choice of art direction because of the limitations of the engine when it was produced... and it was nice that they tried to keep the viseral type feel to it despite the exagerated charictures. but the direction they took it with WoW, making these charictures the highlight and sanatizing it to make it more kid friendly... just a let down in my oppinon.

besides, i'm over my mmo desire after DAoC and EQ... i've sunk too much of my life into them.