Actually, when I think of it i'd rather play RS than WoW for several reasons (I got addicted to Wow a while back, just got meself offof it.
1. Price- Pay £9/month in the UK along with game+exapansions = 30+....compared to £3.50/month for RS this is a big thing.
<5 pounds per month isn't much money.
2. Less depressing things in RS - in Wow, this applies to commited raiders or whatever- you constantly goto the same raids everyweek for a couple of months and do the same boss only to get your gear then have nothing todo afterwards- whereas in RS getting a whip for the first time for example in RS got you going and gave you so much happiness. Also you dont have to earn money only to use it on one nights raiding whereas in Runescape your weapons+armour are all you need (most of the time).
Anyone who blows all their gold on 1 night of raids has not got a lot of money. I was extremely happy when I first got a green item. And then blue item. And then an epic. And then, when I got my awesome epics. It goes on. There is an endless amount of things to do in WoW.
3. Quests have like 50x more likeability to them. I hate people who say "oh wow has those quests" well NO it doesnt and if it does there are not many of them (not as many as RS has). Ive got more than a few characters and 99% of quests relate to kill X of X/ collect X of X/take X to X etc.
[link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrMa_sU1Nnk [/link] Watch that. That is a cutscene that happens MIDGAME. After that cutscene you sift through the battleground searching for an item of your slain leader (of your faction). Then, you have to present this object and the bad news to either A) if Horde, the brown guys father, B) if Alliance, the lord's king and childhood friend. I don't know about Alliance after this, but Horde then discovers a huge coup has taken place in one of the CAPITAL CITIES of the faction. You go with your faction leader to this city, and see the city is under siege by your people, attempting to kill the rebels. You go inside with your faction leader, the leader overthrown in the coup, and the elite guard of the faction leader. Fighting your way through the now deserted and hostile city (which is a large population hub otherwise), you make your way to the throne room and kill the leader of the coup (the highest ranking advisor of the overthrown ruler). (Alliance kills the leader of the undead who catapulted everyone) Then the Alliance KING comes into the throne room of his enemies city, and attacks the Warchief (faction leader) of the Horde. They battle, and it is broken up by a powerful mage. In this one quest chain, 2 important lore characters died (I remember the Alliance hero back from when I started; he defeated a dragon in the Alliance throne room in a quest), an important military strategist for the horde, and a powerful undead faction betray the Horde, the Horde capital is turned into a refugee camp, the undead capital is turned into a war zone (complete with signs of battle) and the Alliance King declares full war on the Horde. Tell me again WoW has no good, inventive quests. This one quest tops all of Runescape's combined.
4. Personal Exp. - Before I played wow, I played RS. Things were great in RS, the quests were puzzling, the people were nice and if you found one doing the same quest as you (for example the monkey madness quest) you could both hand each other tips.
Group quests encourage teamwork.
5. The Graphics thing- pile of donkey [something]. If you only enjoy what the game looks like, you would NOT be playing an MMO. MMO's dont have the best Graaphics in the world. Period.
This.
6. Downtime + Patches n' stuff- Wow is down practically every week, and connection problems with a couple of people can ruin a night of fun with a friend/ raiding team. The constantly changing abilities of character just makes things so tedious and hateful at times- in Runescape the longest period I ever went offline for was around 5 minutes, and they were putting a new area into the map (I think).
You can't blame WoW for requiring heavier maintenance than a BROWSER game. And the difference made things tedious?
7. The Economy in RS is soo much more fun to use than in Wow, well maybe a little less fun than before, but yes very fun. In WoW the "im in the middle of nowhere and need to geto X city in 5 mins and have no hearthstone" doesnt help whereas in RS there is never an icredibly important time for getting items- you work at your own pace.
I have never had that situation happen to me. I have 1 level 80 and 2 level 70s, and none can teleport themselves (not including hearthstone). And I don't think you should make games TOO easy.
8. Community- Getting caught up in a community is less fun than slaying monsters alone, while I was "in the zone" on WoW, I often met and befriended many a guild member- but it was annoying the fact that I considered them friends and that I wanted to chat with them everyday- it evertually gets depressing.
I disagree with your opinion.
9. Group stuffs(in raids)- Hard to manage, and even if you get someone capable of the job it is tedious waiting and helping all in your raid group.
Group work takes an element of skill (not even much pre-raids). It is much more fun to have a challenge than just a simple tank and spank solo fight. If things are too easy, there is no appreciation for it.
10. Mounts- I DONT NEED A F***ING MOUNT I CAN MAKE MY OWN RINGS THAT CAN TELEPORT ME AROUND THE WORLD!!! basically, the mount thing [insert "urinates" synonym] me off.
I don't need a ring that can teleport me around the world. I have a mount. Besides this, mounts look great, make more sense game-wise, and caters less to the lazy scrubs.
11. Don't let me hear ANYONE saying about free worlds having no armour/weapons- there is a massive selection of weapons in RS in members (if you talk about free and comparing to Wow you are stupid) and and just because you dont get a new one every week doesnt mean there isnt plenty of weapons.
The amount of weapons cannot be compared. I don't even find that an important point to discuss though.
12. PvP- the PvP in RS was messed up a while back, but now it has improved vastly and I for one DESPISE PvP in WoW (Even though my main has a full set of PvP gear).
You die, you lose everything. Great PvP! Blizzard is picking up their game in regards to PvP. The new battlegrounds are fun.
13. Individuality- Someone said above that it is stupid you can have all skills and I disagree completely, if you are going to be a Hero, why can't you do everything. Just because someone likes having a class advantage over another else doesnt mean that being able to be all "combat types" is bad. When I played RS, I enjoyed missions where it demanded some magical powers to kill enemies, because it makes the game more challenging. If you have ever played WoW, you know all youhave todo is Hundreds upon hundreds of quests to get 80 whereas for doing a harder quest you dont get (7000-12000) exp per quest, you get a large amount.
How many olympians do you see that are nuclear physicists? It makes more sense for people to be specialised (mage can't melee well, warrior can't learn decent magic). You aren't playing a Mary Sue, deus ex machina, you are playing a person with great skill. I think Blizzard has done a pretty good job with balancing classes (sometimes things slip through, however), and the game favours a more 'rock paper scissors' approach to PvP. I don't even get what you're trying to say with the last quest point, so yeah... k.
--Oh and if you try and come back at me saying but what about killing 1000s of things in Runescape to level up! I will call you stupid, because they are both the same thing, only Runescape involves quests that have "MEANING". This means that Runescape get fun out of quests, whereas Wow quests are a front for grinding the enemies just the same as RS.
Again the quests. Refer back to my previous point about quests. RS you grind more mobs in a more basic, boring manner, than in WoW. WoW's common quests give the grinding structure, and tell a story while doing so. The Warcraft universe has very in depth lore.
14. Skill Capes- Similar to achievements in Wow but more public someone sees someone with a cape in RS its usually "Wooooow youre amazing! Whereas in wow you have to Tell people you have it and it seems you are gloating.
You have titles and special mounts (certain dragon mounts, bear mounts, etc) for some of the harder achievements.
Main Point: Runescape is cheaper
not by much
subjective.
£40 for a year of runescape compared to nearly £100 more (138-assuming each expansion of wow is £10) for a year of Wow.
Main Point: "Good" Graphics does not make WoW the best thign since sliced bread.
Main Point: Quests in Runescape ARE a big pro for the game.
OK.
I agree.
I disagree.
Conclusion: Wow has a few minor things that are better than in RS but overall RS whoops Wow bad.
The amount of 'disagree' I am feeling could blot out the sun.
/rant end
I hope you do not try to toss my points aside, as they are VERY fair, and I have played both games extensively and know alot about them and what is good/bad about them.
I obviously did take RS's side here, and after thinking about it, I might just see what RS is like these days...
/thread
You don't get to /thread like that.
