WoW and should people play it.

[Chrissyluky]

i dont play it. i dont find it fun at all im into fps though thats all pretty much. so trying to get me to derive from an extremely bloody extremely violent title is pretty difficult.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

If you want to, play it. If you don't want to, don't play it.

I don't really see what's to discuss.

 

[jackbriggs18]

^ agree
I play it but i spend most of my time on eve, i find wow a bit softcore to be honest. I prefer shooting noobs and scamming people.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

I've lost to many good men to WoW!
damn you mmorpg

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

its taking over the lives of over 10% of the worlds population.

Assuming there are 6 billion people in the world 10 percent is 600 million. about 11 million people play World of Warcraft.

Whoops I mean over 1% of the world's population.

You fail at math.

It's like .02% of the world's population.


I personally don't see any problem with playing WoW. In fact, I plan to start once I get a way to pay for the monthly subscription.(Debit card is taking foreeeverz to get here)

 

[halflobster]

Ok ill admit i almost failed english this year because i was playing WoW way too much, but its really all about self control when it comes to MMO's. people without any shouldnt be playing them.

 

[Lexodus]

OK, I play World of Warcraft, am in college and get all my work in on time. I also raid and have an active social life both in and out the game.

Do you know how I achieve this miracle? I remind myself it's a fucking game and turn it off when real life comes first. Yes, dropping Kel'thuzad for a decent staff is fun, but so is having a job you enjoy and getting laid. If you can't do that, it's your own fault.

Also, in response to your question, yes. Everyone should play it. It would seperate the strong minded from the rest of the herd and stop chavs and rednecks reproducing.

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[Lexodus]

Ok ill admit i almost failed english this year because i was playing WoW way too much, but its really all about self control when it comes to MMO's. people without any shouldnt be playing them.

Must ask, how does somebody fail English due to WoW? Do they show up and write 'lol papers are 4 n00bs' on their exam scripts?

 

[Sharpeye42]

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You fail at math.

It's like .02% of the world's population.

.02 is about 1.2mil there is about 10mil people playing WOW which is just under 1%.

 

[halflobster]

Ok ill admit i almost failed english this year because i was playing WoW way too much, but its really all about self control when it comes to MMO's. people without any shouldnt be playing them.

Must ask, how does somebody fail English due to WoW? Do they show up and write 'lol papers are 4 n00bs' on their exam scripts?

Well for starters my exam saved my ass. and almost is because i had like 4 projects i didnt do
so i passed with a 71. this is not so much due to WoW ,but instead my want to play WoW rather than doing my homework. Laziness is key.

 

[halflobster]

Well, being someone who played for upwards of 3 years I can honestly say this. It was a fun game, absolutely addictive but fun nonetheless. I found myself quitting out of complete boredom after a while though. Blizzard was continually making the game easier in order to accommodate the amount of incoming players with brain function equivalent to that of a gerbil. The leveling became far too fast, Naxxramas had already been cleared in the beta before the actual game hit the shelves and PvP combat was one sided toward whoever had the right combination of endless time to grind honor, cheapest class, and physical stamina (for the face rolling on your keyboard). For my last 2 months of play I started to research account selling websites and also subscribing to about 15 different private servers so I could just dick around with whatever class I wanted to. Overall, yes it was a decent game, but I can't say that it's really worth the money anymore. It just doesn't provide enough of a challenge to keep me entertained. Set it back to pre-BC then we may be able to get the game back to its former glory.

I think there are a few pre-bc private servers. ive seen alot of people say this and i gotta agree with you.

 

[undeadfly]

Ill admit I was addicted to Wow for about 3 years. I started playing it cause all my stoner friends played it and it sounded fun. I made a bunch of characters, spent days worth of time in my room doing literally the same thing over and over again. When I met my wife we played together for a while till she lost interest. And my friends all leveled up to max level while I was stuck playing solo.

In short I canceled my subscription because WoW started to feel like a part time job that I had to PAY to do. Thank god. Should other people play it? whatever floats your boat. If you got days worth of your life to flush down the toilet and no real ambition Wow is the game for you.

 

[WrongSprite]

You can't really play WoW in moderation. At least, you can't play it and have a lot of fun in moderation.

Bullshit.

I play it in moderation, and I have loads of fun.

 

[Grayl]

Don't worry, I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm just telling you you're wrong.

I'm wrong? Hmm... the last time I checked, an opinion can't be "wrong" unless the person stating the opinion was lying in the first place. And I, alas, was not. I expected WoW fans to respond to my post, and I put that little disclaimer to make people think: "Well, I disagree with him, but it is his opinion, just as I have my opinion." Clearly that didn't work...

I can't even be bothered trying to explain myself. WoW is known to have one of the worst communities online, so trying to point out why WoW isn't particularly casual friendly is just like digging a grave for myself.

Yeah, you can play it casually and find casual guilds to do casual raids, but the game itself wasn't designed around casual play. 6 hour raids, for example, is something Blizzard introduced after saying that they wanted to make the game more casual friendly. And sometimes you have to wait 30 minutes to get into the game, which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard (who, in the right mind, will wait to get into a game that they're paying for monthly!?).

Casual play isn't a few hours everyday; it's split up. You come home from work, play for 15 minutes and your child wants you to do something with them. You get back to playing for 10 minutes, then the wife wants a massage. Then you play for 25 minutes and the baby starts crying and your wife is napping. Back for 30 and you need to cook food, etc etc.

People get the wrong idea about casual playing; real families don't have a specific 1-2 hours a day set apart to play, and this is why WoW isn't casual friendly.

 

[Jaythulhu]

To be honest, I use WoW as a pay-by-month 3d chat application that lets me keep in touch with friends in the armed forces and out-of-state, without involving something as shite as windows live chat.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Don't worry, I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm just telling you you're wrong.

I'm wrong? Hmm... the last time I checked, an opinion can't be "wrong" unless the person stating the opinion was lying in the first place. And I, alas, was not. I expected WoW fans to respond to my post, and I put that little disclaimer to make people think: "Well, I disagree with him, but it is his opinion, just as I have my opinion." Clearly that didn't work...

Of course an opinion can be wrong, if the opinion is made as a factual statement instead of a value judgment. If you had said "WoW isn't fun to play" or "WoW is too time-consuming for my tastes," well, how could I argue with that? "WoW cannot be played casually," on the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of arguing against.

I can't even be bothered trying to explain myself. WoW is known to have one of the worst communities online, so trying to point out why WoW isn't particularly casual friendly is just like digging a grave for myself.

Especially since I rather doubt that all, or even most, of the 11.5 million players are compulsive raiders or the like, but go on.

Yeah, you can play it casually and find casual guilds to do casual raids, but the game itself wasn't designed around casual play. 6 hour raids, for example, is something Blizzard introduced after saying that they wanted to make the game more casual friendly. And sometimes you have to wait 30 minutes to get into the game, which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard (who, in the right mind, will wait to get into a game that they're paying for monthly!?).

Why should casual guilds do casual raids? Raids and PvP aren't the be-all and end-all of the game, there's still 70 or so levels before endgame content becomes a viable choice. The bulk of the game is in that first 70 or so levels.

As for the waiting, I've never actually heard that. People with really slow computers or something?

Casual play isn't a few hours everyday; it's split up. You come home from work, play for 15 minutes and your child wants you to do something with them. You get back to playing for 10 minutes, then the wife wants a massage. Then you play for 25 minutes and the baby starts crying and your wife is napping. Back for 30 and you need to cook food, etc etc.

Of course you can. That's the wonderful thing about a mostly non-instanced MMO, you can easily pick up where you left off.

People get the wrong idea about casual playing; real families don't have a specific 1-2 hours a day set apart to play, and this is why WoW isn't casual friendly.

How about 5 or so non-consecutive hours a week? Nobody's forcing a casual player to play for

 

[Grayl]

Of course an opinion can be wrong, if the opinion is made as a factual statement instead of a value judgment. If you had said "WoW isn't fun to play" or "WoW is too time-consuming for my tastes," well, how could I argue with that? "WoW cannot be played casually," on the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of arguing against.

I never said that WoW cannot be played casually; I said that it cannot be played casually and enjoyed, in my opinion. Just the same as how I don't like turn-based games, I don't enjoy WoW when you only play it by yourself because, as I've stated, it wasn't built around casual play. The only thing I did say close to that is "WoW isn't particularly casual friendly", and I'll try to prove that in this post. Note: Of course you can play it casually. You can play anything casually, but whether or not you'll be penalized for it or whether or not you'll have fun is another matter.

Especially since I rather doubt that all, or even most, of the 11.5 million players are compulsive raiders or the like, but go on.

I don't really get your point. I barely did raids on WoW, but that wasn't my point... WoW is known to have a horrid community. If you play another MMORPG for a few months, it's quite apparant. There are a lot of players, and considering there are more idiots in the world than smart people, the chance of having a bad community are increased. Games like Everqest 2 have really nice communities.

Why should casual guilds do casual raids? Raids and PvP aren't the be-all and end-all of the game, there's still 70 or so levels before endgame content becomes a viable choice. The bulk of the game is in that first 70 or so levels.

As for the waiting, I've never actually heard that. People with really slow computers or something?

Er... there are casual guilds for people who can only play casually, but once again the game isn't nearly as much fun, in my opinion. That and these guilds are very hard to find. As for the queues, if a server has a very high server volume, you have to wait to join it. And when the game first came out over here in the UK, server wait times could be up to 45 minutes. From what I know, some of the servers are still like that.

Of course you can. That's the wonderful thing about a mostly non-instanced MMO, you can easily pick up where you left off.

If you're on a PvP server, then leaving your character isn't really somethng you can do in the fray. On a PvE server, it's still a little dodgey leaving your character in the middle of somewhere, as you can get attacked by any random enemy around. And if the baby is crying, you won't have chance to even click logout, because you just have to go. And instances aren't gonna work at all if you can only play in non-consecutive parts. No group is gonna wait for you.

How about 5 or so non-consecutive hours a week? Nobody's forcing a casual player to play for

Once again, you can't really play like that and enjoy yourself, in my opinion. On TF2 you can jump on a random server, kill enemies for 20 minutes then disconnect and do something in your real-life. Then you can re-join or join another server when you come back. And, really, even TF2 isn't casual friendly, but it's still a heck of a lot more casual friendly than WoW.



But this is sort of going off-topic now. My original point was that I think WoW could be bad for you if you get addicted. Of course, that's really up to you, but my other point was that Blizzard aren't helping because they make you want to play more. And why wouldn't they? The more you play, the more money they make.

Realistically speaking, no game is "good for you", as such. Sitting staring at a TV/monitor isn't gonna make you a model human, and unless you're stuck in the house for some reason or have trouble socializing with real people, games are probably bad for you. But that's a whole other kettle of fish...

 

[Hitman 43]

No, because it's a useless game. Nobody's ever going to win the whole thing.

 

[Deadman Walkin]

Erm, why? They apparently have fun with it, so why shouldn't they play?

EDIT: Dammit, I double posted again. Sorry...D=

I was one of those people who lost their life to WoW. Just... it really takes your life away and isn't healthy if you are one of those people. It also ruins the game for others, seeing as they often yell at people who have better things to do then play WoW all day long for making a mistake.

 

[similar.squirrel]

No thank you. I like a little variety.