um this is more of a oppinion, but game developers care more about the money rather than a good game. before they would compete for the best game, now they compete for the most money.
Tolerable. That's all I can say about WOW: tolerable. Other MMORPG's these days are not tolerable. But WOW, I can log into and play, and it's about enjoyable as eating a bowl full of cornflakes with no sugar (when you really want bacon and eggs). Bland, well done, and a droll way to pass the time. Like watching TV you really don't want to watch, but you can stand it and there's nothing else going on at the moment. Face it, our best gaming days are behind us.
Fun game this WoW, but the community, the community is killing me. If WoW comunity had a way to represent it's personality by a single picture it would be this
Fun game this WoW, but the community, the community is killing me. If WoW comunity had a way to represent it's personality by a single picture it would be this
The OP didnt say how long he played.. I think some people forget that even MMO's have a 'use by date' and think back to the days they played EQ1 for 4 years.. well you only played EQ1 for 4 years because it was 1 of maybe 3 MMO's at the time.
I got around 16months from my WoW experience (and still play my alt on my bro's accounts from time 2 time) and I had a great time, I quit when I felt I had too and had experienced all that WoW could offer... I intend to come back on the next expansion so I dont want to sour my WoW experience.
People stay in WoW and other MMO's and begin to hate the game and find them boring then come on forums and complain. There is no sticker on an MMO box saying "2 years fun guarantee", have your fun and move on... its what I say.
The OP didnt say how long he played.. I think some people forget that even MMO's have a 'use by date' and think back to the days they played EQ1 for 4 years.. well you only played EQ1 for 4 years because it was 1 of maybe 3 MMO's at the time.
I got around 16months from my WoW experience (and still play my alt on my bro's accounts from time 2 time) and I had a great time, I quit when I felt I had too and had experienced all that WoW could offer... I intend to come back on the next expansion so I dont want to sour my WoW experience.
People stay in WoW and other MMO's and begin to hate the game and find them boring then come on forums and complain. There is no sticker on an MMO box saying "2 years fun guarantee", have your fun and move on... its what I say.
Played WOW off and on since it launched in 2004. Highest level was 63. Played several characters into their 30's, 40's, and 50's.
The think the point everyone is missing here is there are many mmo alternatives to wow, but they are almost carbon copies of wow.
We desire feasible alternatives but there are none.
Its like being a beer conisuer from germany and being stranded in a city where all they sell is light beer.
You have bud light, miller lite, bla bla, but its all horribly bland.
In mmoland you have daoc, wow, and warhammer that are almost identical. Then you have tons of "carebear" mmo titles that I won't even bother mentioning. (seriously, why play a quest game and pay a monthly fee when you can buy a single player or multiplayer coop game and pay 30 bucks once and play forever) Conan has a different storyline, but the more I read about it the more it looks like wow.
Ok another anology..
Lets say you are obsessed with farari's, but ferari, lamboghenni, all of them, go bankrupt and you are stuck driving ordinary cars. To say an ordinary car is an alternative may be narrowly true, but in all other aspects, you may as well be driving a power wheels to work in your head. But, because your so addictive to sporty driving, you take your pow-pow-pow-power wheels (old school add jingle) on the track every saturday no matter how silly or how much you hate it.
Basically what I am saying is, take something you like the most, and replace it with the most bland alternative you can think of and all other alternatives to that which replaces your original are equally bland or worse.
They continue to play wow because its the lesser evil, not because its a good game.
Tolerable. That's all I can say about WOW: tolerable. Other MMORPG's these days are not tolerable. But WOW, I can log into and play, and it's about enjoyable as eating a bowl full of cornflakes with no sugar (when you really want bacon and eggs).
The OP is quite correct. WoW is a tolerable MMORPG. And the MMORPGs that came before it were intolerable. That is why none of them were able to sell significant numbers with the vast amjority of gamers except for a small market.
WoW may be like eating plain cornflakes. Previous (and most current) MMORPGs are like eating bowls of rusty nails with acid. And yet there was a small market of people who still paid for the tedious timesinks, wretched game mechanics and bad graphics.
Punishing players was the central game mechanic for previous MMORPGs and there were those willing to endure it. If those are the days the OP is fondly remembering by saying the best days of gaming are behind us, then I counter that by saying leave them in the dust where they belong.
All Blizzard did was try to make a game that was fun, instead of painful. Something that was digestible instead of gut-wretching.
Now that Developers have been shown that they don't need to punish players to sell their games, we can expect them to look into adding more depth than WoW might provide while focusing on the fun. Blizzard finally made the MMORPG genre open its eyes and evolve.
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Dont you work for SOE?
Fun game this WoW, but the community, the community is killing me. If WoW comunity had a way to represent it's personality by a single picture it would be this
I got around 16months from my WoW experience (and still play my alt on my bro's accounts from time 2 time) and I had a great time, I quit when I felt I had too and had experienced all that WoW could offer... I intend to come back on the next expansion so I dont want to sour my WoW experience.
People stay in WoW and other MMO's and begin to hate the game and find them boring then come on forums and complain. There is no sticker on an MMO box saying "2 years fun guarantee", have your fun and move on... its what I say.
Played WOW off and on since it launched in 2004. Highest level was 63. Played several characters into their 30's, 40's, and 50's.
We desire feasible alternatives but there are none.
Its like being a beer conisuer from germany and being stranded in a city where all they sell is light beer.
You have bud light, miller lite, bla bla, but its all horribly bland.
In mmoland you have daoc, wow, and warhammer that are almost identical. Then you have tons of "carebear" mmo titles that I won't even bother mentioning. (seriously, why play a quest game and pay a monthly fee when you can buy a single player or multiplayer coop game and pay 30 bucks once and play forever) Conan has a different storyline, but the more I read about it the more it looks like wow.
Ok another anology..
Lets say you are obsessed with farari's, but ferari, lamboghenni, all of them, go bankrupt and you are stuck driving ordinary cars. To say an ordinary car is an alternative may be narrowly true, but in all other aspects, you may as well be driving a power wheels to work in your head. But, because your so addictive to sporty driving, you take your pow-pow-pow-power wheels (old school add jingle) on the track every saturday no matter how silly or how much you hate it.
Basically what I am saying is, take something you like the most, and replace it with the most bland alternative you can think of and all other alternatives to that which replaces your original are equally bland or worse.
They continue to play wow because its the lesser evil, not because its a good game.
The OP is quite correct. WoW is a tolerable MMORPG. And the MMORPGs that came before it were intolerable. That is why none of them were able to sell significant numbers with the vast amjority of gamers except for a small market.
WoW may be like eating plain cornflakes. Previous (and most current) MMORPGs are like eating bowls of rusty nails with acid. And yet there was a small market of people who still paid for the tedious timesinks, wretched game mechanics and bad graphics.
Punishing players was the central game mechanic for previous MMORPGs and there were those willing to endure it. If those are the days the OP is fondly remembering by saying the best days of gaming are behind us, then I counter that by saying leave them in the dust where they belong.
All Blizzard did was try to make a game that was fun, instead of painful. Something that was digestible instead of gut-wretching.
Now that Developers have been shown that they don't need to punish players to sell their games, we can expect them to look into adding more depth than WoW might provide while focusing on the fun. Blizzard finally made the MMORPG genre open its eyes and evolve.