So I Just Started Playing WoW...

[Mausthemighty]

If you have liked it so far you will like it even more if you get higher leveled. The game is still really fun to play and I loved my time in it. There's tons of stuff you can do: from going on raids to just adventuring with friends, going for the more unique achievements, hanging out with your guildies and chatting, doing fishing, archeology or cooking, playing PVP battles, arena battles or just doing dailies: there's always something to do in Azeroth.

But remember: it's only a game whatever they tell you.

 

[Bobbity]

My tip?

Join a social guild. Raiding is a trap; you get zombified and sucked into a routine that takes over your life. Joining an interesting guild, however, is definitely worthwhile, and having chatty guildmates is actually a lot of fun. Before I quit, I used to occasionally log in for five-ten minutes or so just to talk to them, and see what was happening, not even pretending to actually play the game.

 

[RemuValtrez]

It's definitely a fun game to waste time on. But it's a lot of repetitiveness. I would suggest getting out while you can.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Im doing arena and rated battlegrounds with some friends atm and really enjoying the pvp.

If you don't want to get too sucked into the game don't raid (I raided hardcore up until the end of Uldum), it's fun and it's a good way to make friends online but it's very time consuming and distracting. It will suck your life away like a creepypasta monster made of epics.

Consider yourself warned.

 

[Ruwrak]

First time playing it's still a good experience. But it will get repetetive later on.
Oh.. so very repetetive.


But you might enjoy it till something else comes along and I say by all means go for it. I played it for 6 years before I decided it was enough of a time sink.

 

[Normandyfoxtrot]

If this is your first time trying MMORPG I'd seriously pursue a free MMORPG first just to make sure that you can get past the first few weeks and still be ensnared before dropping the rather hefty sum for WoW+expansions+monthly fee.

 

[Chased]

I played WoW from the beginning of Wrath till Cata about a month ago and in my personal opinion I believe you should quit. Leveling up a character for the first time is probably the best part of the game since everything is fresh. Once you hit end game content you'll realize how much of a waste playing the game is. At the end of the day everything in WoW is a monotonous grind yielding little reward. The game is a massive time sink that will most certainly infringe upon your life. If you're desperate for a game to sink time into play Team Fortress 2, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Oblivion or Fallout etc. The difference with these games is that your results are immediate, as you play you'll be having fun. WoW will persuade you that you will have fun once you're geared to "raid" or once you have max level professions. I can assure you that you won't.

Any game that boasts you will have fun is not a good game. Listen to my warning, the warnings of these Escapist posters and of Yahtzee, "World of Warcraft is completely EVIL."

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2634-World-of-Warcraft-Cataclysm

 

[Qitz]

Firstly, don't listen to eveyone telling you "Don't do it!" It's your time and money, if you want to go for it.

Second, find a guild that you can get along with. Being in a guild with the right people can make your experience all the better. Even if you don't plain to raid hardcore or even do heroics being with a group of the right people can make it better.

Other than that, just have fun. Shoot arrows at things, poke them with sharp objects, send your pet to lawltank things and try not to be too stupid about things (they are called Huntards for a reason.)

 

[crono738]

If you're hellbent on staying with WoW, reroll...people don't take too kindly to Night Elf hunters, unless that's changed in the 8 months since I quit.

One of the many reasons WoW doesn't appeal to me. He can play what he wants.

I have trialed WoW about three times and have been completely unimpressed every time. It does not live up to the hype at all. I think because I've played quite a few other mmos before I even tried WoW I'd already seen it's style played out a hundred different ways. It may be the "original" but that doesn't mean anything to me.

Wait for SWTOR - I know people are saying its the same hype they give every new game but it is looking excellent. Where else are you going to find spoken conversations and cutscenes for quests or fully functional companions. Plus they're listening to the fans and the testers. It may not live up to the hype but I think it's going to be something special. Like Bioware games? SWTOR is one that will last you for years. Can you guess I'm excited?

If you can't wait play Lord of the Rings Online - much prettier and less annoying people - or City of Heroes which is just LOTS of fun. You can fly and jump over buildings and shoot fire from your hands - I don't know what more you could need. End game content is lacking but I played it for a good couple of years and I'm not easily entertained.

But then I'm a Wow-hater so I may be biased.

Yep, the amazingly shitty community was pretty much the biggest reason I quit...kind of hoping TOR/GW2 don't kill WoW...don't need that community ruining other games.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

You know what? People say this about every single MMO that comes out. Age of Conan, Aion, Rift, Tabula Rasa, and about a hundred other games.

And it never happens. Some people will play it, but since the basic model for new MMO's is WoW's gameplay and UI system, most people go back to WoW.

OT: Since the trail is infinite, keep playing until you hit the cap of Level 20. If you like it enough to see more, buy the game. It comes with a free month when you buy it, so there's even more of the test peroid. If you don't want to keep playing after that, well that's $30 gone. Still less than any other game out there.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa there, hero. I never said anything was going to kill WoW. I was just annoyed by all those foolish predictions as you were.

The "basic model" of MMO game play is actually from Everquest, not WoW, but I digress...

There's nothing wrong with WoW. It is, as of today, still the gold standard for MMOs. It's just aging past the point of primary relevance. If you think "most people will go back to WoW" after GW2, TOR, and Titan hit you're going to be in for a rude surprise. It started losing it's ridiculous momentum some time after WOTLK hit and has been in a slow but inevitable decline since. A game like Rift would NEVER have hit as many subscribers as it has in WoW's youth, Blizzard would have clubbed it to the earth with a frenzy of patches, expansion packs and feature stealing.

WoW will likely still be around 10 years from now. But not with 12 million subscribers, or whatever it had at its peak. He wanted to know if it was worth picking up SEVEN YEARS after its launch. Right before the new, fresh launches of the most significant competitors it's had during its lifespan. So I said "probably not, maybe get in on the ground floor of a new game instead".