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How you feel about WoW (poll )
delete5230
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How do you feel about WoW. First feeling
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makes me sad...
lots of fond memorys
I miss venella wow. It's sad but its over
Better managed than any SoE game so it works for me. Then again, that's not saying much is it.
'has ruined the modern mmo genre' should be an option.
WoW is fine.
It's activision that tastes like shit when you log into WoW though. I stopped playing cause I don't like them,
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Man if I did not play a game because I "don't like a publisher" then I would not play any games ever.
It is strange that since I started to play post TBC, the game has undergone so many stupid changes I am bamboozled as to why the devs still have a job.
My main gripe at the moment is Heirlooms and how they have literaly ruined low level PVP and low level dungeons.
It seems all Blizzard care about is keeping the kids happy at all cost. The latest update, Cataclysm, is a bit dire really; yes they revamped the old zones, but you out level them so fast it's ridiculous- Blizzard basically took all the quests out and made 10% of what was there give more xp, so the player doesn't enjoy the zone they just level past it far too quickly.
The general attitude of Wow players ( Generalising here not all are like this) is, 'well I can be a idiot because the game is working as intended, so STFU.' In a sense they are not wrong as the game is a breeding ground for EGO maniacs, spoilt children and anyone else who thinks the gear is more important than human kindness and interaction.
Is saddens me when I go back to Wow thinking; maybe it's changed, maybe people are different, only to get rudely slapped in the face by the game and its idiot followers.
The game is not all bad but it's not what it used to be.
People complain about PVP not being balanced on the forums and the get bombarded with insults and remarks that have nothing whatsoever to do with PVP balance. The general retort is Blizzard cannot balance PVP as it would be too hard (That's right dude, it would be too hard for a game's designer to balance their own game!)
I only hope the new mmorpgs that are comming out will change the genre and push it into a new badly needed direction.
Although I am enjoying LOTRO again and have high hopes for its future.
I think Wow is dying and Blizzard are putting more resources into their new MMORPG; we will see what happens.
Furthermore, WOW was ruined before Activision joined in.
Vanilla WoW was something special, it will be missed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QFvMuO-8Q
Every once in a while I jump back in WoW for about a month. The graphics are just too dated and another game is out there that took the WoW game, gave it a graphics update, and brought it up to date: Rift.
Sorry Blizzard, but you will no longer milk $$$ from people with dated graphics and gameplay. Looking forward to your next MMORPG.
Wow is a hate hate relationship being a former player. But I still keep an interest just so I can take part in polls like this one.
Uhh I picked hate by the way. I don't mind admitting being a hater now. It kind of feels good admitting it.
I play it now and then, usually with a big update that lets me progress in the quests, lore, and see new dungeons. I cancel it right after resubbing though because I know after 3-4 weeks I'll be bored again and don't want to forget to stop the billing. I think it's worth the occasional $15 though to see what's new and goof around with old friends if their periodic return happens to coincide with mine.
Hating it serves no real purpose other than souring everything up. No, I don't hate it - but I don't like it either.
Source: http://www.rotpod.net/rotpod/activision-and-vivendi-gamesblizzard-merge-who-knew/
Try again.
Eleanor Rigby.
When WoW was first announced way back when it sounded a bit interesting. However, as more details came out I became less and less interested. When I looked at screenshots, I just thought "cartoony". So, I have never played WoW and never had a desire. Friends of mine have played WoW and they universally tell me that they have come to hate the community in game in WoW. Much of it has to do with a certain air of "elitism" among some clans and some other reasons due to the "gear elitism" (thier words) that they have encountered time and time again. They define "gear elitism" as players or clans running raids but will not allow you in their partial "pug" groups because you are not geared as they think you should be. Another negative they have told me about is the way some pug/clan leaders will not allow those not of their clan to roll on ANY loot.
I have also heard stories from many of these same people of how clans they have been in are not helpful at all. In fact, one person in our converstation even mentioned that his clan wanted to CHARGE him a huge amount of ingame cash in order to HELP him get a particular mount. He said this goes against what he and others feel should be a given that a clan should HELP its members and not charge theml
Let's party like it is 1863!
My wife still plays regularly, so I'll sub for a month and then play other stuff for a couple months and resub again to play with her for a bit. But overall I'm pretty burnt out on it.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Well, the poll is only as good as the tread is active. It still shows up in the main "recent threads" area, and the poll is about WoW, not gaming as a whole. Thats why you get the WoW section. Live with it.
I quit for multiple reasons...
1.) I'm burnout, hardcore.
2.) All my friends are gone, my guild has been gone since TBC.
3.) Chain nerfing classes that did not deserve it is unacceptable.
4.) Moving the "A-Team" off of WoW to develop a MMOFPS (Titan) is unacceptable. Why a MMOFPS? So they can try to capitilize on the CoDownie FPS-playerbase with more monthly fees.
5.) I now put Activision & Kotik up there with Sony on my personal shitlist.
1, I can work around - I can usually find something to do no matter what, that I'm not tired of.
2, Very boring, but I'm used to playing alone, so not too bad - and single serving friends are abundant.
3, Unacceptable. I loved my warlock, they were MY class. I put work into all of them (3 70 warlocks, one 80, one 85.) Seeing them even touch Fel Armor was enough to make me rage, silly, but I put REAL hours into those characters. Arbitrarily reducing effectiveness of my character is supposed to be acceptable? No.
4.) MMOFPS = Trash. Cataclysm was a halfassed expansion. Bad, boring, lifeless instances. Drab, linear quests. Ugly armor, ugly mounts, boring "new" abilities. It was a glorified patch and nothing else. The old world revamp is 100% worthless for those of us with 2,000 levels of characters under our belts.
5.) Blizzavision decides to shove half of a bad expansion out the door. A substansial portion of the playerbase dislikes it for one reason or another, subscriptions drop. Instead of rectifying the issues, giving us a reason to go back or attempting to restore "faith" in them - Bob decides to knickle and dime for more gimmicky online "services." Say hello to your "new" 8 year old Korean Itammall MMO with a mega-corperation funding it. The Blizzard I didn't mind giving money to is dead.
I for one am excited they moved the "A Team" to their new IP (assuming they actually did). Leaving their "A Team" on an aging product like WoW just to squeeze another couple years out of it would be a travesty.
And a well done MMOFPS will save the MMO industry from it's doldrums in my opinion, at least regarding PVP. Finally something to look forward to from a AAA developer that isn't another hotbar extravaganza set in Elfworld and geared towards battling moronic AI controlled bosses.
The FPS gurus at least understand what makes great PVP. MMORPG developers have all but given up on true PVP.
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
Or at least add one like "people spend so much time talking about WoW in other MMO's, that I resubscribers (bought it etc)"
I don't really feel one way or the other about WoW. Well I think as an MMO it was decent enough compared to other games. What bothers me the most is the fact that every game I play.. that's all general chat is about
wow sucks
this is better than wow
wow is better than this
Its like... well anyway I just turn general chat off pretty much so I can focus on the game I'm actually playing.
Got burned out a month after Cata released. Was playing semi-casually (raiding twice a week) since the release of the original, what seems like a decade ago. While the streamlining of talents was good the re-inventing of the world was always going to be a hit or a miss thing and it didn't click with me and my guild mates.
A lot of my guildies quit, and theres no point in playing a multi-player game if you don't have friends to play it with. So yea, i quit for good about 5 months ago, but looking back i have no hard feelings and nothing but fond memories. This was easily one of the best games i have played and definitely the one iv'e played the longest.
Playing some single-player RPGs now and looking forward to Guild Wars 2.
Nothing goes on forever. The game is now what 6+ years old? I started playing a month after launch I'm done with WoW.
There trully is nothing new that would make me want to play it again
True, I know that I ll never come back
Which is a shame, at least, for me - I'm bored out of my skull.
play it now and again, but it just doesn't appeal me for any amount of time. Bizarrely of my mmorpg past I am one of the 'casuals' and you see just how nerdy it is like talent trees- yes they've done a great improvement of them to make them more 'accessible'- but it's just what do I care about +0.1 less cooldown on this spell or that? I honestly preferred Warcraft 3-none of the levelling up (other than the pedigree of Dota)- just pure gaming. Does that make me a non-mmorpg player now? Possibly.
WoW was a great game really.
It's too bad Activision moved in with bobby nickelanddime kotick.
I'm just burnt out on the whole casual friendly, zero consequence, zero impact on the world, quest-grinders and WoW is the king of those. It is a great quality game and does what it was designed to do better than any other MMO, I'm just sick of that playstyle.