Why do you play WoW?

nightelf08

Hey,

So, I just got 2 people's input out of 62 views of this discussion...lol

I wanted to say thank you to the 2 people who took my survey. My surveyors number went from 12  to 14.

Yay!

I only need about 30 people to take it. If anyone else could take it - that would be awesome.

It takes about 5 minutes. It's about the reasons why you play WoW.

 

Here is the link:

http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=WoW_Motivations

 

If you have any questions of comments...let me know.

Thanks,

Jenny

 

Nightsorrow

Sorry the reason why I started playing WoW is just because I love and trusted WC3 and Blizzard, everything else are not important. After reading 3 pages of your survey I closed the page....

I don't think there are many people out there started playing because of all those "I want to own people" stuff, maybe those are the reasons why they keep playing after reaching lv cap, but never the reason they started playing and hence relatively minor reasons.

nightelf08

Hi,

Thanks for your reply....

Yeah, I tried to come up with as many reasons as possible.

I had to use other SCHOLARS research - what they discovered

AND

incorporate my own into the survey.

I broke the survey up into 3 sections: Achievement , Socializing , Immersion - the end.

You had only hit the 1st page of questions all about achievement - that is why it might sound like trying to "own" people.

I know I started playing because of friends...but there are many WoW players and many reasons to play WoW.

I had to put them all in the survey to get the best results.

Please re-take it if you have time.

Thanks,

Jenny

Artaios

...cos it hurts NOT playing it

SonofSeth

I started playing because I wanted to play an RPG, but I hate those single player ones because they almost always make me control 4-5 characters. I want to have my own alter ego to control him and make groups of 4-5 people where each character is controled by another person.

Then I found out there is this thing called MMORPG, then I found out that Blizzard (one of my favourite companys, played SC and W3 for many years) made one. All of this was when I was kind off not playing any games for almost 2 years, only game playied was few SC matches here and there in a friends apartment who had 4 PCs hooked up that were so bad that only games runing on them were SC and CS  (hehe, pun intended).

I started playing and I had some mad fun with the world, and the people and PVP and questing... I kept playing untill I learned that raiding isn't my thing and PVPing lasted only so long before Epic geared raiders started steamroling my every man blue gear.

I took a year off and came back for Burning Crusade, got a friend in and had almost more fun than the first time, this time on Alliance side. I'm still playing, very casualy, taking my time with gear and gold. I have a feeling of unmatched freedom compared to the preBC WoW. I can get gear by any means I find fun, I can PVP, quest or group and i don't get instant owned in PVP anymore and I'm not alone in there, it made all the diference.

But not just that, WoW resparked my love for gaiming all over again, WoW is my only MMO, it became more of a hobby, something I always come back to, even if it's just poping back in and throwing something in the AH before loging out again. It's my PC game and for other games I got a PS3 and games for it come just often enough so I can enjoy them and have time for WoW and you know, that other thing we like to call a life.

Waiting for: Starcraft 2, Spore, Litle Big Planet and Starcraft Universe

ValiumSummer

I started playing because I was curious about it.   Initially unimpressed I almost canceled after the first hour or so.   I jumped off the edge of teldrasill to my death.    I ran my ghost to the edge where I fell, and managed to re-spawn on a branch only to jump again (to my death).   It was a very long trip (down) and was fascinating to me.   I was so curious as to where I would eventually end up.    Well I eventually ended up at the base of the island on the shore.    There was no mobs, or other players anywhere.   So I decided to swim towards the horizon.   I did so until I died from fatigue.   I ran my ghost out to where I had drowned,   rez'd and swam until i died again... eventually my ghost re-spawned on the other continent and I was able to make it to the other continent after that. 

The seamless world, with a lack of artificial borders is what hooked me.    My trip to Ironforge after that is what cemented the deal.   I left a couple times only to come back .

I felt as solo, non-raiding player I would always be gimped.   PvP was not for me as I found it chaotic. 

I read now that a solo player can obtain "greatness" at his own pace (with the expansion), but I have spent so much time in wow that I have lost interest and I'm ready to move on.

definitely a great game.

 

gath

I dont play WoW (anymore) and i gave up on trying to fill your survey when i came up with stuff like:

 

"I started playing World of Warcraft because I wanted to advance my computer game skills in this virtual world."

"I started playing World of Warcraft because I wanted to be well-known in this popular, virtual world."

"I started playing World of Warcraft because I wanted to challenge my computer game skills by competing with other WoW players."

 

And the others... i mean... what? We are talking about a game, just a game, to have fun, nothing else... right? When did it became a competition? I didnt got the 'memo' about it...

wicked357

I started playing WoW a year after it released and surprisingly I like it a lot! After playing it for so long it just doesn't do it for me anymore. I don't play it because I am just bored with it, but I can't be mad it has brought me years of enjoyment and now I have moved on. That is the course of life to evolve. The reasons I played WoW:

 

It played so smooth on my machine at the time.

The huge world and colorful graphics.

Fast action fighting. Compared to some this is a good thing for me!

All in all it was good and to many many it is good!