Thinking of trying WoW.

[Charli]

Dear Everyone,

I was actually enjoying my trial last night. The set pieces are pretty fantastic looking and was the void I needed to have filled. However, the gameplay is.boring.as.hell. It really is just a click marathon.

Does that change once you level up or should I try a new class? (current class = Night Elf Warrior)

This will change as you realize that clicking will not cut it in dungeons. You can bind everything to the keyboard... And you'll quickly find you want to as well.

I'd say if you want some interesting gameplay early on, Warrior is not exactly going to enthrall you... But if you stick with it they're very very reliable class to have around in all 3 of their talent specs.

 

[Aerograt]

Dear Everyone,

I was actually enjoying my trial last night. The set pieces are pretty fantastic looking and was the void I needed to have filled. However, the gameplay is.boring.as.hell. It really is just a click marathon.

Does that change once you level up or should I try a new class? (current class = Night Elf Warrior)

No, at least not until you fight a boss that requires you to move around a little or unless you're into PVP which (once again) just so happens to suck in this game.

 

[Baneat]

Dear Everyone,

I was actually enjoying my trial last night. The set pieces are pretty fantastic looking and was the void I needed to have filled. However, the gameplay is.boring.as.hell. It really is just a click marathon.

Does that change once you level up or should I try a new class? (current class = Night Elf Warrior)

You get more buttons as you go along.

My personal favourite is feral druid (Basically, you play a cat, and all your attacks are things panthers can do) <- And it requires the most attention to do the best damage.

 

[Wuggy]

Doesn't hurt to try it. If your friend is paying, then why the hell not? If it's not your cup of tea, you can simply stop.

Also, don't buy the battlechest. You won't need an expansion before you get around level 58, unless you absolutely want to make your character a blood elf, draenei, goblin or a worgen. Or want to make a death knight in which case you won't need an expansion before you leave lvl 55.

I'm a former wow player, quit couple months ago. Been a semi-hardcore raider for the last few expansions. The end-game content is fun enough but I've lost interest for now.

 

[TheEndlessSleep]

Someone convince me in or out of this.

Let me tell you what will happen:

You will play wow for a while and think "OMG this is pretty good"

However, when you reach the top level (unless you are one of those fanatics who play for hours and hours every day) you will get rapidly bored of the endgame content as it requires a major time commitment.

I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it's quite unlikely that your enjoyment of it will survive past the first playthrough.

Beware; this game is a time sinkhole, and unless you feed it many, many hours it will begin to drain the fun out of itself instead.

P.S: If somebody tells you just to make another character, bare in mind that, after the first hour, you will be replaying the exact same game again. But, hey, you might find sufficient fun in a different character class to pull you through a second time.

I didn't, but then that's just me.

 

[M Rotter]

yes its as addictive, and hey drugs are addictive, but to be fair, wow is less expensive. A nice healthy heroin addiction can cost way more than the wow subscription fee.

 

[Hamish Durie]

just take it in small doses and when your freinds are going to the movies and you would rathere stay at home playing WoW take a look at yourself and run out the door to the movie

 

[Ninez]

I actually bought the expansion for 10? so was thinking of plowing through the remade world at sometime. That's a movie ticket price for 1 month of gametime so. Hopefully I don't start renewing my account.

 

[standokan]

It'll be awesome all the way, until you quit, then you'll back and think "why did I waste my life?"

those are my experiences btw

 

[Weslebear]

Played for one week trial then paid for another month, even spending £10 on it wasn't enough to convince me to even play to the end of the month.

I was enticed in by a friend and it was such a waste of my time after levelling to 40, I don't see how it's addicting personally. All of the really rare interesting stuff has such insane drop rates I just could not care, too much time for not enough. I mean in the time some people spend getting worthless fancy looking items you could probably actually achieve something with your life, you could get fluent in another language, teach yourself new skills or anything it is such a massive time sink and people know that it takes this kind of time, I cannot fathom why you would willingly put yourself in for that.

The ONLY reason I would ever play it is if my PC wasn't able to handle anything better and even then, Guild Wars I think is a much better MMO which almost anyone can run.

 

[RADlTZ]

I tried the WoW trial with another friend, to make a different friend of ours happy, we tried to get into it but the only fun we could have was dicking around and dancing in stupid places.

Right from the start the quests were mundane and boring, we thought they'd get better as we leveled up, especially as this is when cataclysm came out and everyone was telling us they'd revamped the quests we were doing so theyd be more fun. They just got more mundane and pointless.

The gear we got from every quest would be useless 10 minutes later so I ended up running around naked the whole time.

It really seemed like whatever fun the game had was walled back behind a few weeks of play time (and subscription fees), like youd have to invest a lot of time in a character before you could start enjoying things.

For me though the game degraded into running around with no clothes, dance-thrusting my crotch into the christmas gmomes faces while my friend who plays the game long-term gathers questsf rom NPC's.

 

[Alucard788]

Meh if I were you I'd give EQ2 a try. WOW just isn't the same and the new expansion made it , (in my opinion), a theme park gear grind for 'l33t raiderz'. I'm serious the game is 'raid or die' towards end game. It's frustrating and no longer 'fun'.

I suggest EQ2 because it has loads upon loads of content to explore and find. If you are not into a gear rat race, you can quest to your hearts content. It also has ton of fun complicated raids if, that's your itch as well. All in all the community is very relaxed.

No one is mocking anyones 'Gear Score' or iLevel. No one worships the 'guy with the rare mount' or the 'fella decked in raid gear', and hell you even get a home to decorate with items that you can craft or get from quests. *shrug* I think thats cool. ^_^

Just my 2 copper...that I spent in Freeport.

 

[mcnally86]

Well, after people have been harassing me and I've been throwing them on ignore, I actually wan to play World of Warcraft. I have a free trial, a friend who threw me another trial, and a friend who told me he'd pay for the first three months.

Here's the thing, I honestly have never been able to stand WoW. I looks utterly boring and a war of clicking. However, recently I've had the urge for an MMO, but Vindictus, Dungeon Fighter, and Maple Story aren't cutting it.

Someone convince me in or out of this.

Wow has a great stylized world. It is really cartoony but pretty fun. Lots of great jokes and references.

Rift has a great combat system. Every class can do almost every role. Its easy to swap roles and fill any nitch in a group or try a different strategy.

Eve has a great economy system as it is very open what you can do. Just like in real life you cannot learn how to do everything. But just like IRL its boring, then when you are not paying attention and end up in the wrong part of town bullies will break your knees. You play this game to get a bigger ship but the bigger the ship/more cash you have the more con artists/pirates will target you.

DC universe if you are playing a console. Ive seen that game and its makes no sense on the PC but for a controller its the best.

 

[hecticpicnic]

Its kinda outdated(in 2007 i thought it as outdated) wait till they make a new one,i heard guild wars is good and didn't they(or aren't they) making a No. 2.I'd say don't bother theere is loads of better games.

 

[Anjel]

Thinking of trying WoW

It's been said before...

Don't do it!

 

[DYin01]

You know what I don't understand? I don't understand why WoW is the only game that gets threads like 'Should I play this game?'. For every other game, people just play it. WoW is just another game, and like a lot of other games, it's a little addictive sometimes.

If you want to try it, just frigging try it. All you need is time, just like with every other game. Ever.

 

[mew4ever23]

Do the trial. If you don't like it, don't continue.

 

[Aeshi]

It's definitely worth a try, there's a reason the only real haters are the "MMOs are evil" crowd who parrot the term "Skinner Box" and other fancy words they only know from Extra Credits.

 

[John Funk]

Also, I really get the feeling people have never played a game with actual grind if they think WoW is "grind-y."

That's kind of like saying people who haven't had a root canal with a an ice pick don't know what a root canal is even though they've had one with a dental drill.

Grinds are archaic mechanics. Believe me I've played every Final Fantasy game that's not a MMO. Grinds in any form suck. The world is better off without them.

My point exactly. WoW has done its damnedest to reduce grinds in the game since day one. And it's better off for it.

 

[Red Charlie]

I suggest trying it, if you have any self control at all you stop when you want or need to.
And WoW isn't actually a bad game, it is quite balanced and fun.

I laugh at how serious you are taking my post. Compare playing a game to smoking or crack? Riiiiigghttttt