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For all you people arguing about WoW...
Jaggernaut
Member Posts: 22
I thought it would be interesting to figure out who is the majority... the WoW haters or the WoW lovers. SO i devised a little poll... HEHEHE.
May the best faction win,
Jaggernaut
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Im a lover
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
The WoW lovers just don't argue because they know it's a hopless cause.
They play the game because it's mind numbing. I can't blame them, maybe if I still smoked weed I would like WoW. Just zone off into another world for hours on end doing absolutely nothing.
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'Tis be a pointless topic.
Besides, there are 7.000.000 WoW players, yet only.. 400.000 or so users, or old users, second account, forgotten accounts.. It wouldn't paint a proper picture.
Most fans don't even bother. its the most popular mmorpg, so the most hated.
just point out the facts, and all haters will be quiet.
Also SnaKeY, stop the mind numbing comment. MMORPG's have been like that since Everquest, and WoW is no diffrent, heck, what do you think those 30 seconds lasting combat in EVE (+ another 10~20 seconds just to pick up your loot) is? if your theory was correct, EVE would now be the most popular mmorpg to date.
Geez.....
picked me like a snotty nose.....
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
WoW is oriented on the majority type of players who hated old concept of MMOs. hard core players of WoW are usually good at FPSs and other similar type of games. For them it has good solid gameplay which is what rest of us need to respect and accept.
However, for us (gamers, of first MMOs, who groved the genre, who had met friends for life in those games, who has been playing them for over 10 years) it is primitive, linear time waste. Not to abuse anyone, but just to point that WoW is not targeted to meet OUR expectations. It is different and apeal to a different audience and it has been successfull in achieving that goal.
There is only ONE thing I can say that I hate about WoW:
It made most of the developers to turn away from working on the improvement of the old concept and design similar clones of WoW believing that it IS successful gameplay system.
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Played:
AC, AC2, UO, AO, EQ, EQ2, Shadowbane, DAoC, Horisons, SWG, EVE, L2, GW, WoW, DDO, LotRO
Beta tested:
AC, AC2, EQ2, SWG, Horisons, WoW, Archlord, LotRO, Espado Granada, Vanguard
Currently playing: AoC
1) Blizzard believe that people grew tired of EQ1's pointless grind. So they made a PVE system that is packed full of quests to mask the grind... but thats all they did. WoW is fun the first time around. But the 2nd time around and the end game are usually game killers
2) They adopted EQ1's end game raiding concept because they believed that would satisfy the hard core gamer.
What we see today are EQ1 clones and not WoW clones. The two statements above have been adopted by just about every MMO out there and were being adopted before WoW came along.
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I love MMorpgs..
A poll like that will never give us a true picture either, especially on a site like this. Where WoW hate and WoW love have a 2:1 ratio respectivily. Current subscription numbers and market shares are the only thing that really tells us that more people enjoy wow rather than hate it.
Frostreaver Clan
Thanks, that was perfect. I was going to say the same thing.
I tried Eve ... twice. It is different, but it is absolutely mind numbing boring.
Grogg
"Will work for Ale"
WOW not going so well on the polls as of 44 votes
But hey i hate the game
1) Blizzard believe that people grew tired of EQ1's pointless grind. So they made a PVE system that is packed full of quests to mask the grind... but thats all they did. WoW is fun the first time around. But the 2nd time around and the end game are usually game killers
2) They adopted EQ1's end game raiding concept because they believed that would satisfy the hard core gamer.
What we see today are EQ1 clones and not WoW clones. The two statements above have been adopted by just about every MMO out there and were being adopted before WoW came along.
Actually you are also partly wrong. WoW is only 1/3rd clone of EQ. It is also 1/3rd DAOC, and 1/3rd AO. Blizzard took the time to steal quite a bit of the more popular features from those games.
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1) Blizzard believe that people grew tired of EQ1's pointless grind. So they made a PVE system that is packed full of quests to mask the grind... but thats all they did. WoW is fun the first time around. But the 2nd time around and the end game are usually game killers
2) They adopted EQ1's end game raiding concept because they believed that would satisfy the hard core gamer.
What we see today are EQ1 clones and not WoW clones. The two statements above have been adopted by just about every MMO out there and were being adopted before WoW came along.
Yes you are right. WoW have very little original content and most of it as you said clone of EQ1. Just mind that I didnt mean to say that Blizzard INVENTED the gameplay. My point is that their success (which for other developers simple determined by the number of game accounts) made Blizzards commpetitors to go in the same direction as WoW. The bottom line is that EQ1's worse parts of gameplay wouldn't have as much impact as it has now, since they are targeted hard cor gamers mainly, if it would not be because of WoW.
Cheers!
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Played:
AC, AC2, UO, AO, EQ, EQ2, Shadowbane, DAoC, Horisons, SWG, EVE, L2, GW, WoW, DDO, LotRO
Beta tested:
AC, AC2, EQ2, SWG, Horisons, WoW, Archlord, LotRO, Espado Granada, Vanguard
Currently playing: AoC
1) Blizzard believe that people grew tired of EQ1's pointless grind. So they made a PVE system that is packed full of quests to mask the grind... but thats all they did. WoW is fun the first time around. But the 2nd time around and the end game are usually game killers
2) They adopted EQ1's end game raiding concept because they believed that would satisfy the hard core gamer.
What we see today are EQ1 clones and not WoW clones. The two statements above have been adopted by just about every MMO out there and were being adopted before WoW came along.
i think ligner and i were meaning the same thing, not that WoW was groundbreaking and invented MMOs, but that its success as a fairly generic game is unfortunately leading developers to create a third wave of generic games, if it wasnt for WoW exploding, EQ clones on the horizon for 07 wouldnt be recharged
I liked EQ for a little while, and i tried WoW and it was ok, but we dont need 100 more of them named "guild world of evercraft 34: this time the clouds are slightly different!"
It's tough to compare WoW with something like EVE. EVE is great because you get out of it what you put into it. It is not as easy of a game to pick up, but if you're willing to put the time in, then you will probably never leave.
like wow but hate wow..
well, I'm just waiting patiently till wowkiller comes out but haven't seen one yet..
vanguard? I don't think so...
AL? hell no...
WAR? may be may be not .. not sure yet..
Heh, I feel your pain my friend.
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Played:
AC, AC2, UO, AO, EQ, EQ2, Shadowbane, DAoC, Horisons, SWG, EVE, L2, GW, WoW, DDO, LotRO
Beta tested:
AC, AC2, EQ2, SWG, Horisons, WoW, Archlord, LotRO, Espado Granada, Vanguard
Currently playing: AoC
I don't hate WoW, I just don't like EVE!
Hey diddle diddle, mucus and the spittle...
Hate WOW or Love WOW you have to give it to them..
Name one other MMORPG that was in beta and had no NDA....
Name one other MMORPG that would be so cofident about there product that they dropped the freaking NDA way before beta was over.
As far as I know they are the only MMORPG to do that so far out before release. Maybe its because they new they had something special on there hands..
Only things I think WOW failed at were BS pointless PVP and Raiding!@!!..
Thats why I feel WAR is going to become the new WOW, it is being built up around PVP (RVR hell ya!!) and doesn't look to be as Raid dependent.
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