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Who played WoW in vanilla that still plays?
raystantz
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and why do you still play? after all these years?
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Im sure most have left.
WoW has a huge turnover.
How long could someone watch all their progression reset before they get fed up?
I know TBC was the last straw for me.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
I have played since beta. This past xpac I was off and on for various times. Despite my bitching about certain points about the game I did enjoy it for a large part. However, I'm sick and tired of raid end games and wow right now is all about raiding.
You must have like 20 max level alts by now.
Without raiding (or heroic farming) Wow is kinda pointless.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
For me I stopped at TBC and would of kept playing if they didn't make previous progression worthless by so much for a single new raid 1.0 gear. I think I may try Cata when it comes out and start fresh, even though I said I would not return ever. I think Cata is new enough and makes the game refreshing enough to try new, playing a new class like Worg or Gob with other people might make it seem like old WOW again.
I have quite a few alts yes. And heroic farming and as a result of that, raiding, has drove me to hate the game (or end game) at this point. If Cataclysm doesn't offer some kind of variation to the end game then it will be the first wow xpac that I won't be getting.
One of my buddies still plays and have since launch, but he is a hardcore raider and rarely do anything else. He did try Aion but got bored fast.
Otherwise are all people I know still playing in since TBC or later and every one else from vanilla is either playing something else or not at all. And most of them are quiting more often than a fanatic smoker but gets back again.
I started at launch and continue to play today. I don't play nearly as much as I use to. There was a time in Pre-BC that I played 14+ hours a day competing for world firsts in AQ40 and Naxx40.
Now I log my 80s to shoot the shit with old friends, and occasionally raid in PRE-BC, 60 only guild doing the old 40 mans I sitll miss so much.
I've tried every other game on the planet, but nothing comes close to those first 2 years in WoW. The only thing that keeps playing even 5 hours a week are those fleeting moments when nostalgia becomes reality for just a moment.
Sigh....
I played at launch, and enjoyed it more than any other MMO I had played up until that time. Even the PvP was a blast back then. I quit at BC, and had really lost interest long before that. There was a direction that the game could have gone that would have had me still playing today, but it's not the direction they went. Looks like it worked out pretty well for them though.
A good endgame is rather hard to make actually.
They wont add some kind of Guildcity like in AoC. Crafting is probably still going to be mostly a waste of time.
Guild vs Guild or RvR PvP is also probably out (well, you could call battlegrounds RvR but you would be on rather thin ice because true Rv'R affect the game, not just gives you gear), to make that good you need to plan it from the start.
Of course they might try some kind of story or similar but that would also be unlikely.
So heroic farming, raiding and battlegrounds will probably be the endgame in the future too.
Let's hope they offer something more for their next MMO. I do believe that themepark games like Wow could use some sandbox styled endgame instead of doing the same raids over and over for the chance to get some gear.
I started when the game released. I just played today for the first time in awhile. I still play because my wife does.
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I started at release, took a lot of breaks to work on various projects, then played a very long streak from 1.11 to 3.2. I had a blast, especially in BC when raiding was fun and rewarding*. Then I saw this horrible mistake of ToC and stopped raiding. Came back few months later for 3.3, though I noticed most of my buddies were gone, on top of most guilds only raiding 2 nights a week... Naxx/Ulduar/ToC are obsolete content so all is there to do is ICC10/25.
Now I've quit wow again. I'll prolly play again with Cata though my expectations are low for End Game and I might just stick back with AOC or whatever new game is out (and fun).
*Rewarding as in sens of accomplishment, not rewarding as in killing various loot pinatas over and over and over again.*
I played off and on for a total of 14 or so months. I stopped playing after WOTLK came out since I ended up bored again... Its funny how I ended up playing the game so much but never got past level 50. I would either end up not liking a class or found out that different friends played and they talked me into playing. But the last time I played the game with my cuz and I just told him I just can't even log in because the game is just not what I'm looking for in a MMORPG.
I've played on and off for the past year, but I've really played since 2005.
As for why i still play? I just consider to it to have a compelling storyline, great friendships I've made through the ame that keep me tied to it somewhat, enjoyable gameplay and i dunno. I guess its really just the game i found myself having the greatest time playing. As for the comment on people who play vanilla don't play WoW today? i find that statement to be unfounded. I think chances are favorable that if you random a 5 man instance on the finder at least one person played in vanilla.
I'm also going to be selfish and say that i do yearn for the times when PvE was harder. I kind of enjoyed getting an elitist sense out of it. It made me feel unique. Aside from the PvE difficulty, arenas, and the absence of world pvp; I don't really have a problem with WoW.
I started my WoW life several month before BC came out. Which in my opinion was the last great expansion. Lets hear it for those long Kara runs going for that what was it T6 gear?? lol I forgot and of course BT runs though not as much considering The Attunement process was removed with Patch 2.4, So running that was more of quest in itself. When WotLK expansion came out it seems that it was more or less like buying a older car with a shiny new coat of paint on it. I started back up recently my third comeback since being bored to death. Only reason I came back this time was the simple fact that I'm hoping that CATA will be the sigh of relief for WoW fans.
Ask the question again when CATA will be launched:
Guild levelling in PvP and PvE.
The promised rated BG competition with guilds and a new world RvR system (Lake Wintergrasp “changed”).
A new end game levelling system (PoT) that would be updated with each new content patch and is based on world exploring.
Reforging (changing) the gear stats to your own personal taste and redesigning the classes and their talent setting.
Enough to not quit or come back.
I think that this new PvP system could be the steady backbone of WOW done right after simply too much repetitive PvE content in these last years.
The fact SC1 and WC3 are still being played is based on their PvP status. WOW's future life is based on a casual but expansive PvP competition.
I might be wrong but I think this is the path Blizzard will be walking in future years with WOW. The basis of all their other long lasting games has always been the PvP competition. Casual and hardcore e-sport is so much easier to design.
Its embarrassing when an NPC compliments you in an MMo, the only relevant, cool and epic things come from players whispering you Grtz, mate, we did it. copyright Pilnkplonk
I still play although I am on my annual WoW break I am only really subbed for 6 months out of the year, I'll resub when the expac hits and roll a horde (never played horde) goblin hunters.
Goona be like my first days in vanillia WoW with low level zones packed, lots of new sights to see, and who knows the classic xroads <> ashenvale and southshore <> tmill world PvP might make a return for a time.
I stopped when they let you join Battlegrounds from anywhere in the world. Killed world PVP that did.
I started in Nov 2004. Still playing. Highest level char is 58.
I'm not motivated by loot, maybe that's my problem. I have a huge friends list on my main server though (although more are gone than not) and I am (and have been) a part of some great guilds.
Alt-itis is a problem too. I have one of almost every race/class combo across several servers.
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"Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit"
I played since the start ... and I'm still playing.
Why, and what gets me going - for me it's simple - the people I play with (of course they come and go (and come back sometimes)).
I've tested this on several other MMORPGs as well ... all in all - it's all the same - if you like the game AND you find good bunch of ppl to hang around with in that game - then it's fun ....
On the other hand - no matter how good the MMORPG is - I loose interest in it if there is no Allegiance, guild, kinship around (LOTRO in my case - LOVE the game, the Lore, to graphics (- character models/movement) ... but never found a good bunch of ppl there to hang around with).
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hmm.. Yes i still play wow but I'm having more fun with AoC right now. I think wow is great, the art is incredible and the quest are fun especially when you consider the limited game engine and the trade off that blizzard has made in order to make the game play well on the larger number of computers it runs on. I think a lot of people just fall in the trap of rushing the game. I have a career and a family which has limited my wow playing time but I think that has also allowed me to enjoy this game for such a long time. I just can't play the game all the time or near as much as other people seem to play it. I believe the people who over play the game are same people most likely to bitch about all the problems in wow. Just DONT OVER DO IT. For me, the fun in a mmo is in the discovery of new content, completing quests which are challenging and or tell a story and in teaming up with other people (which in itself is a challenge) to over come and beat challenges. I don't play wow as a device meet people or use it as a facebook social site and I believe if you are playing it for those things you should look for some else which will be a better fit.
Lastly, I could care less about showing off my achievements or having the best in slot gear or having the top dps or the most powerful heals or in been the best priest you have ever group with. Those things and my reputation are just a results of me playing, not what I play for.
So now for my question: Why do you guys play mmo's?
I've been playing since feb 2005 .Why ? Because I still have friends who are playing it ,I enjoy raiding and the nice world.
Not thinking about quitting anytime soon
Later edit: PURPLEZZZZ
I played from 2005 to 2008. Its been going downhill ever since TBC launched. I cant understand why anyone who played at launch are still playing, the game sucks so bad now >< Alot of my irl friends still play, always trying to get me to join again, meh.
WTB vanilla WoW servers! But we all know that will most likley NEVER happend.
Currently Playing Path of Exile
Playing since US closed beta here, with some extended periods of inactivity during TBC and WotLK.
Not as hyped about the game as I once was. Raiding in particular has become a drag. I still feel there is nothing better out there at the moment though.
Yo. WOW vet reporting for duty. Been around since the game came out, didn't take part in beta though. Quit once, probably gone for good with Cata...doubt I'll make it another 2 months even. Tha game has been headed in a way I very much do not like, and if they do not make good on their promises by the end of this expansion (dance studio, aerial pvp combat on the game box) I and many others will quit, and some will actually sue the company for false advertisment.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/ - proof they promised new dances.
After playing Eve i just have no patience for a game that resets my progression.
All that time i invested to be like a newly leveled character ever year or so?
It kills it for me.
I think if blizzard found a way to add in content without making old progress and content obsolete none of us would have left.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP