My friend gave me a 14 day trail for wow but i got so bored i never played it again. I don't get why so many people pay for something like that. Can anyone explain
Why is WOW so popular
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I'll respect others opinions on this topic, but I'm curious too. How the hell is mindless grind to level up your fireball once a week in any way fun?
It's fun and those of us that loved Warcraft 3's story enjoy the closure that WoW has and will continue to offer.
You don't find it fun and that's ok. WoW doesn't care. It has 10 million others to feed off of.
You don't find it fun and that's ok. WoW doesn't care. It has 10 million others to feed off of.
Because it has a near never-ending world that is populated by millions of people they can interact with. And most of them bring along real life friends and they go on raids/missions and just have a good time playing together. Essentially anything can be made enjoyable with friends.
I don't play myself (I'm not to big on the idea of paying $15 a month for one game. I already pay for X-Box Live), but that's the most common answer my friend who does play gives. Sounds logical. Maybe if the combat system was better and they didn't charge per month, I'd give it a shot.
I don't play myself (I'm not to big on the idea of paying $15 a month for one game. I already pay for X-Box Live), but that's the most common answer my friend who does play gives. Sounds logical. Maybe if the combat system was better and they didn't charge per month, I'd give it a shot.
Except...Amnestic said:
Amirite?
Yeah, some people find it fun.
Some very, very strange people.
Yes a strange 15 million people. The game is easy to pick up and you can be causle or hardcore. There's something for everyone just about. They game also keeps update with constant patchs and tweaks and the upcoming expanison is going to fix alot of whats wrong with it. If you don't enjoy the game, then its fine just not your type of game. I can't find a reason why people enjoy fighting games or racing games, but if thats what they like and find fun no reason for me to try and "understand" it.PoisonUnagi said:
ROFL, no offense man, but every other MMO was like it. Ever hear of Everquest as a prime example? WoW once upon a time was reffered to as an "Everquest clone" the same way that so many other games are called "WoW clones" today. Everquest wasn't the only one though. Many others used that same system... actually almost all of them did.Bretty said:
It is true that WoW had a somewhat more polished approach to the system. But the polish was not near as much as most WoW fans would have someone believe. The polish didn't really come until later when it had already blown up.
OT: Dude, WoW is the Paris Hilton of gaming. It is famous for simply being famous. It was smart marketing is what it was. Don't let anyone fool you by saying it has to do with attributes to the game or anything of the sort. I was there when it was released and followed it all the way. I was playing Anarchy Online when WoW came out and to this day remember when WoW started getting popular as it was when I started to pull away from MMOs. Everyone was going to WoW because, ironically enough, everyone was going to WoW. I did not like WoW, so this left me in the cold. I found my way through on CoH and Guild Wars to scratch an itch when I wanted the MMO experience. (Both are games that tried to pull away from the things I didn't like in old MMOs... the very things WoW embraced.)
But my point is basically, people really grew interest in WoW when WoW started spouting how large it's "community" was. Which made it grow, which drew more people, which made it grow, etc. WoW took a big step by advertising on television. That may seem small but WoW was the first game to fervantly advertise their game on television. And you are now seeing other companies start to catch on with more and more money being put into television commercials for video games.
This whole topic has given me an idea to branch off into a different thread about MMOs in general that I may toss up here later this week.
I love the bolded line.Arisato-kun said:It's fun and those of us that loved Warcraft 3's story enjoy the closure that WoW has and will continue to offer.
You don't find it fun and that's ok. WoW doesn't care. It has 10 million others to feed off of.
Ironically though any MMO can offer this, not just WoW. It is actually the very concept of an MMO.Just_A_Glitch said:
I am not knocking people who like WoW here, I just want to point out. But I point out the irony (sometimes straight hypocracy) involved in WoW whenever I see it.
Oh. I thought I read something in the original post that grouped all MMOs together, not just WoW. Must have been mixing two different threads or something.Savagezion said:
Well... Everything I said. Just add that WoW was the real MMO innovator, therefore the most popular, and the one that most people start with.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
I can't speak to WoW's merits. I, too, got pretty bored after a 2 week demo and gave it up. However, I've heard good things about it and its community.
Chances are, you played your 2-week demo alone (as if an experienced player [your friend] will go all the way back to "noob" areas just to play with one friend... or re-roll to try something *gasp* different!), and therefore you got little out of it.Me said:
I can't speak to WoW's merits. I, too, got pretty bored after a 2 week demo and gave it up. However, I've heard good things about it and its community.