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The reason people hate WoW
Aguy
Member Posts: 561
Yes, I've finally solved it.
Like all games in this world, WoW will keep our interest for a certain period of time, then we will eventually become bored of it and move on. This is what has happened to WoW haters. They played the game for, say, 6 months - 2 years and got sick and tired of it, and they moved on. However, after this period of time, they seem to think the game sucks because they got bored of it, and they ignore the fact it held their interest for quite a long time.
In short, WoW haters don't hate WoW, they just went through the game cycle and don't realize it.
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I no the true reason.
True reason:
People hate its p2p element
People hate its retail element
That is it nothing more.
Exactly. I quit WoW after 3 years of playing, because I got bored and in my personal opinions TBC kinda destroyed it. And I also hated raiding etc, all my friends never wanted to play with me cuz "OMG KARA RAID!".
But after quitting, I never started yelling "WOW SUCKS! WOW IS GAY!" etc, I just said I dont like it anymore - end of story.
But I do hate WoW-Fanboi's that think WoW created it all and every other game sucks and wow is the best
Played almost everything...
Currently playing nothing...
Waiting for: Darkfall, WAR, Guild Wars 2.
So your saying only cheap people hate it?
p2p doesnt make people hate wow, only make them not play it because they dont have the money to pay for it, or dont think it is worth
IF PUSHED KILLING IS AS EASY AS BREATHING
Actually I had a group of about 5 friends who all refused to play WoW because it cost money. As soon as they tried it they liked it though. I think people's distaste is more gameplay related than this reason or the "got bored with it" reason. I played EQ for 3 years and I got bored with it. I don't hate the game or bash it. I think its more because people feel like they are working on their character than playing a game.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
I played wow about 1,5 years i quit since i didnt like the outlands(TBC) that much. I don't hate it, its a great game.
now SWG, devs destroyed the game totaly with their new game enchanmets crap (NGE), I lost my profession, my equipment, my good guns, all friends quit. That is a game i truly hate, or maybe just the devs.
We fanboys don't believe that WoW is the first MMO ever, don't be silly! We just believe that it's the best thing ever created by the human race, thousands of years of human endeavor, science and artistic brilliance has culminated in Mankind's most noble achievement; WoW and it's immaculately conceived child: TBC.
Praise be to Blizzard.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
I have never understood the mentality of people who refuse to pay for entertainment. It just boggles the mind, as though we are all entitled to free stuff made by the sweat of others. While I no longer play WoW, it, like many other games, is well worth the $15/month considering it entertains the average player for 50 - 200 hours per month. A movie entertains you for 2 hours and $15 might get you two movies, or 4 hours of entertainment. However, few people piss and moan about paying for a movie at a theatre.
Oh well, I guess we all have that cheapskate friend who whines about spending anything. He is also usually the one who mooches food and beer and never repays the favour.
How about the "WAR is ripping off WoW" post? Most of them have NO IDEA how long Warhammer has been around, like them saying "WAR is cheating the orcs and goblins from WoW"
OH MY GOD. Warhammer has been there for like decades, maybe 2 I guess, but w/e. You get my point.
Maybe you dont, but majority do.
Played almost everything...
Currently playing nothing...
Waiting for: Darkfall, WAR, Guild Wars 2.
Plus, I would have HATED WoW if it were F2P, you know... the community (which kinda is... childish) would have been worse.
Plus why would blizzard add all this cool stuff to a F2P game anyway?
Played almost everything...
Currently playing nothing...
Waiting for: Darkfall, WAR, Guild Wars 2.
no.....
People hate WoW because it's popular. The irony of this is that the only reason it's popular, is because it's popular. It was the same way when EQ came out and it will be the same when the next major MMO comes out.
I don't hate WoW, Dislike it yes but not hate. I played during Beta and never bought the game for many reasons. Just a few are the Graphics, the childish community, the being led like a dog on a leash through the content, the fact that it poses no challenge at all to play and the total lack of any meaningful PvP. There were lots of other smaller reasons but those were the main ones. As I said though I don't hate it, it just wasn't for me. I just personally disliked it.
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people dont like wow because it isnt what they are looking for, or it is different than what they thought it was or simply they saw something that they dont like or make them angry enough to hate the game and remember the scene every time they play
IF PUSHED KILLING IS AS EASY AS BREATHING
lol, its not JUST liked because its simply "popular"...Warcraft is a cult status game. Its been here longer them most kids playing on the net today. For most of the OG WoW players we enjoyed it for its storyline and amazingly diverse content that holds true to the original game. I no longer play WoW, its just not my thing anymore.
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People might hate it because their idea of gameplay doesnt involve endless hours spent collecting items just to have to continually collect items.
people want more depth in games. its that simple.
Maybe they didn't play it long enough to find the depth that they assume is lacking because it's so accessible. They're wrong, this game has so much going for it. It grows on you.
I am ex-EQ player. I was totally in the "WoW is for kids it has no depth, it's so easy.. blah blah blah" camp... until I actually played it and realized that, as you know, it is actually the best MMO out there at the moment (imo of course).
And if you're level 70 you get to do funky quests such as:
www.youtube.com/watch
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
What he said.
And constantly hearing people talk about it. Got a friend who still plays and roughly 90% of his conversations involve WoW. I'm glad he's enjoying it but seriously, I don't want to hear about it anymore!
What he said.
And constantly hearing people talk about it. Got a friend who still plays and roughly 90% of his conversations involve WoW. I'm glad he's enjoying it but seriously, I don't want to hear about it anymore!
Well. It's an RPG. In FPS you constantly kill people. In strategy games you constantly build things. How is WoW different to any other RPG, single or MMORPG?
Oh and check out the video I posted!
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
The first portion of your statement is exactly why I don't particularly like WoW. That's perfectly fine, I don't particularly like a lot of games.
What gets under my skin are the developing companies that look at WoW's success and figure that if they copy portion's of WoW's system, they'll get tons of subscribers too. The market went from having 1 game with WoW's playstyle, to the point where games that do not use the EQ/WoW system are a rare event, an oddity.
As to the original post, unless 2 weeks of play constitute the normal game cycle... nope
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There's only so far a genre can go, without becoming a totally different genre. Roleplaying games traditionally, have stuck to standards and I don't expect MMORPGs to change significantly.
All of you praying for something radically different are probably better off hoping for more genres (other than RPG) to flourish online. Thus those unfortunate, vocal, bitter and jaded few who have become disillusioned with the genre, yet still hoping a new overhyped game will revive their lost love are doomed to be perpetually disappointed.
And to forever curse WoW of course. Lets not forget that WoW has popularized the genre and given birth to hope for many developers, that they can make a lot of money.
People should be thanking Blizzard for 1) creating an amazing game, or 2) if you don't like it, blowing the MMORPG genre wide open for new development. AoC and WAR probably would not exist without WoW.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
People dislike it for a variety of reasons. I have no idea why people are always looking for the "one true reason" people don't like a particular game. Are you just confused by the existence of so many differing opinions?
Because someone had to post this.....
The Guild is kind of a dark comedy about WoW players. Check out all three episodes and count how many jokes would have worked just as well with EQ1 before WoW came out. The same personality types are drawn to both games, so the WoW hate can only be explained by its popularity.
10 Reasons to "dislike" WoW:
1) Lack of challenge
2) Community
3) Grind
4) Blizzard selling out the Warcraft Storyline
5) Unfinished Azeroth (Gilneas, Uldum, Azhara, no flying mounts due to bad landscaping, unfinished questlines, missing zones that appear on the map, Hyahl, etc.)
6) you're a Holy Priest
7) Blizzard obviously being overwhelmed when the game released but never admitting it
8) 2 years for the first expansion
9) Waiting 6+ hours for a GM
10) (raiding) content in TBC never EVER tested by anyone before release
Every so often someone says that WoW is less challenging than other MMORPGs, but when drawn into a debate as to why, they're completely unable to explain themselves, and usually end up ignoring my excellent arguments to the contrary and insulting me.
And they're usually just getting the word challenge mixed up with the phrase "time consumed".
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
I loved WoW raiding prior to TBC. The only issue I really ran across is the fact that in order to press out new material they reuse the same scripted fight over and over and over and over and over and over and over and well to be honest over again. Prior to TBC they used very few recycled encounters. With TBC I quit due to Karazhan and Gruuls being all recycled garbage. There was nothing else out at the time since Blizzard ran out of ideas and then decided to recycle more content to make up for it.
WoW raiding was fantastic (Now I wish there were more outdoor raid events and such but owell), and time consumed is not really an issue as every other high end raiding situated game is very time oriented to beat content. In the end it is the recycled content that I would say that it is less complicated than other games.
That might be the reason why a lot of people I know in some of the top guilds on a few servers started dropping out of the game. Might be the fact that the next xpansion is out within 3 months or so and they feel the last year was a huge waist heh. My casual buddies can't wait for the expansion though so they have the equipment everyone else got early there dam procrastination payed off.