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[Tellemurius]

Yea im starting on WoW again

[Max White]

Better question: Should I start on crack cocaine again? I mean life was getting better in every possible way, but I hear that the drug deals have modified their crack so that it is even more addictive and only the slightest tingle of a high, might be worth a shot, right?

Seriously, that is what this thread sounds like.

[alexandertnt]

cocaine got boring and went out of fashion ages ago.

[PanH]

The thing with MMOs, and what disappointed me with GW2 is that it's always the same thing, repeated n times. "Been there, done that". Mash of buttons. Grind doesn't appeal me anymore. There's nothing really new since the start of MMOs.

[Darvi]

I stopped playing about halfway through Wrath, came back for Cata and it was never really the same.

Qft.

[Brotato]

Try Castle Doctrine.  It's basically a cheap, perma-death MMO since the entire idea of the game is pitting you against other people.  It's also very different, which is the main complaint with most MMOs.

[Hanzoku]

I really don't understand the sheer amount of hatred towards WoW that I'm reading here, but to each their own.

I've been playing WoW since classic, and I'm still enjoying the game, though I am playing far less per week then I have in the past - it's simply a case of not having enough time to do all the RL things that need to get done.  I can understand the people who have burnt out on the game, but as long as you're having fun playing, what's the problem with doing so?

Has every decision Blizzard made been great? Nope. There have been many I've disagreed with heavily, but I still find the game itself worthwhile to play.

[Lightning4]

Vanilla WoW was fun but had some issues.  Burning Crusade was good but also had some issues, my personal favorite being the absurd spike in the gear curve when you went into Outland combined with the look of the available greens.  Anything less than Naxxaramas purple gear was outclassed by the level 61 greens you got in the first zone of Outland.  I came in looking fly as fuck and within an hour I looked like a level 15 again.

Yeah, I saw this too. Kind of sad, but it's the way of the beast. WoW is a loot treadmill, expansions just shake things up for a little while until the process begins anew. It's not something I really minded, just something I accepted as part of the new content.
Though, I had a few pieces of my warrior's AQ40 gear survive all the way to 70...
WotLK was actually better in this respect. I can't count how many pieces of Sunwell and BT/Hyjal gear I saw on others starting Naxxramas.


WoW was fun, probably still is, but I can't see myself going back into it anymore. Mostly because Blizzard has kind of neutered the server I played on. It's a ghost of its former glory, and they're not showing any signs of fixing that. What they did kind of snowballed into what killed off my raid guild too, so I don't really have anyone to return to either.

[claes]

If you like SF I agree with the above poster - go EVE.

[Orangebottle]

What exactly is so terrible about World of Warcraft?

Time to throw my rock.

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I have always played games for the lore. Always. I played Warcraft III, and it's expansion The Frozen Throne, and the lore in those games was great, if a bit bloated by the time the expansion came about.

Then you had WoW come along, and in shrinking the scale of the player, they utterly destroyed their lore. The scope of the lore increased to cover every single speck of dust on both continents, and I found the world a lot less interesting when a newly created orc warlock had to walk all the way to Orgrimmar to deliver the Great McGuffin to Thrall, or something similar.

Which brings me to my next point: the stories were less interesting. There was no personal motivation for your character's actions in quests. Everything you were doing was at the behest of some person you barely knew. I suppose this is an innate flaw of MMOs, though; there's no character development. You play the same damn person through eighty or so levels: a person easily replaced by a flat cardboard cutout.

Finally, there's the incredible(and i mean incredible) plot discrepancies introduced by the expansions. Which was it, Burning Crusade? Introduced the blood elves on the side of the HORDE. With the UNDEAD, and the ORCS, who their people had been fighting for *centuries*. Against their recently broken-up allies, the humans, dwarves, etc. The Draenei somehow find a *spaceship* and smash it into Azeroth, somehow losing their strange carapaces and becoming beautiful blue space aliens with glowing eyes that bear a striking resemblance to night elves. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQPVFCR1m8   Check 0:00 to 0:40. The first guy that speaks is a Draenei.) Oh. Just looked it up. Apparently they had to make a massive retcon just to explain why the Draenei look different, saying that fel energies from Outland mutated them - despite them having originated from Outland in the first place! Wrath of the Lich King made it cool for /everyone/ to become a death knight! Whopee! Cataclysm added a race supposedly from a 'legendary kingdom'- one I've certainly never heard of before! Never seen a Worgen in any of the Warcraft games, as if their lore wasn't bloated enough. And then Mists of Pandaria. My god. They took the Pandaren, which were entirely a *joke*- no, really! The only Pandaren that ever showed up in either WCIII game were as a joke reward for beating the secret bonus level of the 'human' campaign of WCIII:TFT, and then they were hireable in multiplayer maps from the Tavern building. And they made these guys into a serious, full-fledged race. Not to mention adding an entire new continent for them.

TL;DR: WoW ruined the lore of my favorite RTS games, and did a really shitty job of telling no story whatsoever.
Yeah, no, never touching that game again.

[Darkmere]

WoW hasn't been worth playing to me since the end of WotLK. You know, right about the time the majority of the new content started to focus on new rep bars to grind, while  you work on grinding varlorous heroism points, so you can make it into new raids to grind longer to get gear for that guildie rogue that you hate, because he's a dick.

Oh, and now they have farmville and pokemon right there in the game, so you can grind in other games without having to leave this one!

Seriously though, I just lost interest around the end of icecrown, and their slash'n'burn method of game development (Yeah, we promised stuff, but coding it was hard and people didn't understand it soooooo it got axed) for all their franchises starting around then kinda kept me from getting back into it. I'd say it's not worth the hassle to restart.

[Sirian]

As someone who had never played WoW until a couple months ago, I figured I might as well see what the fuss was all about, in case I was missing out on something.

Boy, it was such a snorefest, I don't think that I even managed to reach lvl 20 before I called it quit.

There are so many better MMOs out there, I think that the only reason for WoW's success is it's popularity. So really, my answer would be : NO, instead try other games. They are not all fantastic, but at least some of them are worth playing for a couple weeks, up to a couple months.

[Darkmere]

The fun of it is directly proportional to how many friends you have playing it. When I started in college, there were about a dozen of us all leveling together. We had a great time and eventually built a 40-man raid guild that was near top on our server, and I actually enjoyed having a minor leadership role there. But as every expansion came and people left for real life or whatever reasons, the joy factor dropped off. By the time I quit there were maybe 4 of us old-timers left who could never be on at the same time anymore, and I can't deal with the endless stream of idiocy that pugs offer, so that was pretty much the end of it.

If you don't have friends, the game doesn't have much to offer besides grinding.

[Bluerobin]

So yeah. Bay12 somehow doesn't have a thread for the biggest MMO ever

After reading this thread so far, I'm guessing you know why now.

Personally I still have fun with WoW, but I play it with a couple friends and my dad/brother. As other people have mentioned, the fun is pretty much directly proportional to the number of friends you have to play with (and the scenarios they introduced with the newest expansion made it so that you only need 3 people to do a type of instance, which is nice for my smaller group). This is the case for me and MMOs in general, though, so I have a hard time recommending any MMO to play single player or entirely with strangers. *shrug*

Also the Pokemon are pretty neat.

[Gamerboy4life]

Personally, I say no.

The thing with Wow, (And honestly, a LOT of MMO's nowadays,) is that it lacks a sense of community. Everything is automated for you, and what made WoW so much fun sometimes, interacting with other players and doing a bit of light RP from time to time, is diminished. Hell, I even miss the "LFG - 21 TANK" or whatever they did back in the Human city, it's all so deathly quiet now.

I don't know, it just feels bland. WoW used to have color through it's players, it doesn't any more.