Thread: WOW

**Spike113** · 01-03-08, 05:53 PM

ok i have to ask is wow worth it every freaking person i work with playes it i know at least 30 people that are on it all the time, and they are trying there hardest to get me on. soooo is it worth it.

**QuickLightning** · 01-03-08, 06:03 PM

No, it sucks your life away...

It's a decent game but it's so damn addicting and the grind just drains on you. I'm happy to be WoW free now and I doubt I will ever touch it again.

**Toker** · 01-03-08, 06:04 PM

FUCK NO & FUCK THEM.

Ok, lets be logical here:
Do you have a life? Yes? Then dont play it..

Do you feel like getting addicted to something with minimal return? No? Then dont play it?

But, if you do enjoy a little kiddie environment, giving away your money, and never ever being near the top to consider yourself leet, then by all means go for it...

**Toker** · 01-03-08, 06:24 PM

Here's a decent list of why WoW sucks:

10 Reasons why World of Warcraft Sucks

1)Levelling is tedious - once you hit about level 35, it’s simply taking way too long to advance. I am a normal person with a full time job and I really can’t be bothered to do a repetitive task for hours at a time. It’s like having a second job I don’t get paid for.

2)Badly designed world - Weather was only introduced recently and it only occurs in some areas. Areas of wildly varying level requirements, and very different climate, are located right next to each other at random.

3)Repetitive monsters and quests - Every few levels you get to collect Murloc eyes or scales or fins. Or spider parts. Or bits of wolves. I realize that populating an entire world is difficult, but it feels like you run across the same 10 types of monsters all the time - just scaled up to show that “these guys are tougher!”

4)Comic book feel - The graphics of World of Warcraft are, for the most part, pretty horrible. I never liked the comic book style of Warcraft. WoW is simply not pleasant to look at; the absolute antithesis of Guild Wars

5)Blizzard is soft-hearted - Once reported players for talking about having sex as kids (”I started when I was 10 year old”) in Goldshire (Beginner area). They never were banned, as far as I can tell. The same problem applies to people with idiotic names and others who violate the rules; Blizzard seems to be relatively lenient on even clear transgressions.

6)WoW players can’t get laid - Or how else should I interpret the fact that I can get 3 whispered pickup lines simply by logging in and going to Goldshire with my female priest? Nevermind that they will insult you for “bad roleplaying” when you tell them off. The nerve!

7)Ignore list is limited - and there’s a nearly unlimited number of annoying people playing World of Warcraft

8)Horde sucks - One of the two factions, The Horde, contains only absolutely horrible races, who, on top of being horribly ugly, get stereotyped into being evil. Maybe that’s hot in Asia (or so I have heard) or with the little gothlings who also used be proud Vampire:The Masquerade players, but I simply can’t stand to play them. The Blood Elves of the expansion ought to fix this problem, but it just means that suddenly everybody will be playing a Blood Elf.

9)Infrastructure is horrible - I’m not even talking about the queues that happen on full servers; but it seems that every few weeks the master authentification server is down. Lag is a daily occurance, especially when I start new auctions. The software that powers their discussion forums is horrible, and suffers from hellishly slow logins as well. Maybe I am just spoiled by the great Bioware forums.

10)No character development - All characters that have a given race-class combination are exactly the same. Exceptions: Talents (skills) and equipment. You can’t combine classes, and you really don’t have much choice with the talens either. I greatly preferred the Dungeons & Dragons system of Neverwinter Nights, where players could build pretty unique characters. World of Warcraft is probably much better balanced than D&D, but couldn’t they have built a system that contained the best of both worlds? It was probably deemed too complicated for the players of insufficient intelligence who flock to the game.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons that make it an OK game, millions of people do play it. Trust TTP when we tell you, it's not really worth your time, because in the end the only thing really to reflect on is how much DAMN time you've spent on it...

**~~Cecil900~~** · 01-03-08, 11:51 PM

Damn dude you should send that to blizzard.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 01-03-08, 11:56 PM

The reason i wont play WoW is because I'd rather be in a squad of 6 guy's armed with M16's, M4's, MP5's, M249's, etc....rather than all the fantasy crap. And i have played WoW so don't say i can't judge it because i haven't played it.

**Keiron** · 01-04-08, 12:17 AM

Let's put it this way, it CAN be a fun game...but there are a lot of factors that I'd say make it fun.

Some things to consider:

1) You HAVE to have a good group of players to constantly play with. Friends, co-workers, guildmates, siblings, whatever, if you don't know anyone and just play with random people or a lone, you'll be bored out of your mind pretty damn quickly.

2) Realize to get to the "cooler, fun stuff" you have to be lvl 60ish + and spend countless hours playing the game at a time. I know, I've done it. I was in a great guild that raided all the lvl 60 end game content (pre-BC) and yeah it was pretty neat to do that stuff, BUT it wasn't worth it to me after a while. You spend way too much time actually in the instance because if you try to do it over a period of time, it'll reset (everything resets, the major end game ones reset on set days listed on the WoW site) and you're back at square one. There are a bunch of other factors to go with that as well but I'll leave it at that.

3) To actually do the end game raids and stuff, you will spend countless hours farming certain items to make those runs easier and sometimes to be possible at all. The amount of stuff many guilds want you to take with them to be successful is crazy. I absolutely did feel like I had a second job I was PAYING to do. Just too much time to do one instance for a few pieces of gear for a handful of people.

4) End-game content takes A LONG TIME to set up and get going, even if you are in a guild or go with certain people regularly. Sometimes an hour or 2 just to get people online and in the same group/raid to be ready for whatever you're doing.

5) Blizzard did not and still has not delivered on many things they said would be in WoW. I remember when I first heard about it, there were suppose to be seige weapons and everything building could be raided/destroyed, or at least on the PvP servers and it just hasn't happened. Instead they have these PvP "battlegrounds" where I think they are just now adding in those features, but still not on the world map.

Bottom line is Blizzard did not deliver the game many people wanted or were expecting from Blizzard's claims.

Also take into acccount, yeah they have millions of players, but do you know how many of those million are gold farmers/sellers? Blizzard claims to have cut down on them but they can't since it is nearly impossible to stop them without hurting their regular subscribers.

Finally, I agree mostly with Toker's list.

**Ragoo03** · 01-04-08, 01:21 AM

It is a big time sink as people have said.
Download the free 10 day demo from the wow site if you are really interested in playing/buying.

**MacDre707** · 01-04-08, 04:11 AM

IMHO, get Oblivion or Morrowind. It may not be online, but it is still fun and the graphics are infinitely better. Oblivion is an awesome RPG; Morrowind is 10x better (Morrowind in much more in-depth and it takes a lot longer to get things done).

Originally Posted by Ragoo03

It is a big time sink as people have said.
Download the free 10 day demo from the wow site if you are really interested in playing/buying.

Do this first off.

I played it for a few months, and it was quite entertaining. But it is repetitive, you are constantly fighting the same looking beast with a different name (i.e., a wolf is the same as a rabid dog, or a murloc is the same as a [insert stupid name]), you will grind for hours to get what/where you want, and it is addicting.

It has its pros and cons, but ultimately I stopped because I just didn't like shelling out $15 a month to fight the same creatures that I'd been fighting since day one, or to kill 1,000 wind elements to get 10 Core of Earth's so I could make a certain axe.

If you decide to get it, be prepared to GRIND for hours and hours and hours on end. You'll find friends along the way, so you won't need friends to start. Join a guild, they'll help ya. Its stupidly addicting.

Its like crack; you'll hate it, and you'll want to quit, but you'll stay up all night on it time after time.