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So overrateed....
Sealcow
Member Posts: 10
I hate to follow the path so many others undoubtably have, but I just
have to warn/complain...this game is so overrated. I have been a
blizzard fan since warcraft 1, and fairly hardcore as well, but this
game is just not worth it's sallt. So many players are incredibly
obnoxious, the end game content makes me want to cry, and it was
frustrating to do basic things in game. Thank you.
have to warn/complain...this game is so overrated. I have been a
blizzard fan since warcraft 1, and fairly hardcore as well, but this
game is just not worth it's sallt. So many players are incredibly
obnoxious, the end game content makes me want to cry, and it was
frustrating to do basic things in game. Thank you.
Comments
Good for you, dont get invlolved with this game at all.
What you say is true and I could tell this right when I started.
Whether it true or not WoW is the most addictive game I have ever played. If you have alot of time to play this game then you get good and then you get hooked, then addicted. then when you quit and you think about all the time you wasted living WoW it makes you sick.
Good for you, dont get invlolved with this game at all.
What you say is true and I could tell this right when I started.
Whether it true or not WoW is the most addictive game I have ever played. If you have alot of time to play this game then you get good and then you get hooked, then addicted. then when you quit and you think about all the time you wasted living WoW it makes you sick.
or if your like me, u just skip the middle part about getting addicted to WOW and feel good about yourself knowing you didnt waste all that time playing it.
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what your saying is, 7 million people are currently paying to play it,
but you didnt like it, so that means they are all ....idiots or
something? Well, you didnt call them idiots, but obnoxious. Still,
calling #1 rated MMORPG overrated when the facts are shown right in
your face is a bit ignorant I think. Thats ok to NOT like WoW, but
thats not OK to stirr trouble. What does overrated mean? It means that
the rating for a game is set too high. Who sets the rating up? people.
What you say is you and several thousand others rate this game low, but
7 million people rate this game high, but you are right and they are
wrong?
I dont play WoW for over 4 months now, but I gotta give credit where
its due. Just like I give credit to L2, even though i cant stand the
game, but millions of people cant be wrong.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
actually the 7 million thing, thats just 7 million accounts. not 7 million players. many of those r asian, and alot of ppl have multiple accounts. and that doesnt even include the bots.
Oo and yes, millions of ppl can, indeed, b wrong. it has happened b4 and it will happen again.
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but thats the case with every game, so im generalizing it a bit and
assuming the numbers from the press release are unique non-botting
players for evey game.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
also true, but i think that that number is way more misleading then other games on the market. i mean, i personnally know 5 different players on that game that each have at least 3 accounts, 2 of them actually have 4 accounts. im not making that up. thats crazy misleading. if you go strictly by the numbers then thats 23 accounts, big numbers until you realize that thats only 5 ppl.
yes other games have players that do that, but i personnally dont know any. not saying that they dont do it, just i dont have any examples of it. And the 7 million is not current playerbase, thats the number of copies of the game sold worldwide. huge difference.
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accounts in SWG (God I hate myself for ever doing that), but only 1
account for all other games, including WoW. I understand that some, or
many players may have 3 or 4 accounts, but it is impossible to say what
percentage actualy does dual or tripple boxes WoW. The rule of thumb
is, if we dont have exact statistics then we shouldnt guess. Any guess
in regards to what WoW percentage (unless we do a vote but with 7 mil
customers we would need to get hundreds of thousands of voters to get a
more or less clear picture) is speculation. To give a better example of
what I mean, if we want to get a general idea of our population mood
its a bad idea to ask in one city. Your example may be true (im not
doubting your words) but it may not be true in global scale. None of my
friends dual box, so I guess my statistic somewhat offsets yours, but
thats very very small information compared to WoW subscribtion numbers.
It would probably be a great idea to know how many "unique" people are
currently paying, but that information is impossible to get. Statistics
rule!
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
The game is ovverated. ok.... in what way? What made you go away?
players being obnoxious? well, there are a loads of them, you HAVE to get bad guys. join a friendly guild and you will have much less.
End game content: well, in the category beside PvP, questing and raiding there ain't much, so what gives? No, politics and world conquest are NOT part of this category.
Frustrating to do basic things: like what??? of all the points this is the most ridicolous as WoW is famous to be very accessible even for a non-gamer. so what basic things were frustrating to do?
Look, bottom line? we get such posts as yours like.... 20 a day. if you wanna to show yourself different, then make a coherent post and explain what was wrong in it.
Most of the time it is because you were seeking a World Simulator, like UO or EVE, not a CRPG like EQ and so they go all ballistic.
Well, guess what? they are 2 different kind of games! one centered on the global situation, so the individual lose importance, the other centered on the individual, so the global situation lose importance. Can't have it both ways so far.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
I hate the raid culture and the deceptive bait and switch of the designers it truly disgusts me, but the game is fine. It is not the be all end all most super awesomemest thing out there that invented and defined the entire genre that fanbois often try to say it is. But all Blizzard games are overhyped both by their marketing team, by the press, and by rabid fanboys. Its been that way since diablo.
Its an ok game. Most MMORPG are just ok games. Not sure why people try to pin MMORPG on a game like its a badge of honor. Frankly its a badge of mediocrity. Almost all MMORPGs are mediocre due to all the compromises. WoW is no different.
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http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
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And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
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It IS overated and contains NOTHING that hasn't been done before - and in a lot of cases, better. So 7 million people are playing WOW? That means there is 6,550,019,364 people that are NOT playing WOW. Now 6,550,019,364 people can't be wrong!!
It IS overated and contains NOTHING that hasn't been done before - and in a lot of cases, better. So 7 million people are playing WOW? That means there is 6,550,019,364 people that are NOT playing WOW. Now 6,550,019,364 people can't be wrong!!
rotflmao, now thats true.
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Why not, it is his opinion...that it is overrated. 7 million people don't rate the game high, they play the game. Also, in my opinion I'd also say the reviews it got were overrated. I see mmorpgs as the whole experience, not just 10 days of play which reviewers would have done. Not saying WoW is a bad game though.
Why WoW is so damn popular and dominates the MMO market by miles:
1) It had a massive fanbase to begin with, thanks to all the previous Warcraft titles.
2) Its extremely accessible. Easy to pick up and play to those who have never experienced an MMORPG and amazingly runs smoothly on the crappiest computers. EQ2 needs a monster of a machine to look decent.
3) It's marketed really, really well.
4) Anyone can play for small periods of time and get some satisfaction out of it. It caters to casuals very well (well...until end-game that is.)
That's it really. Basically WoW grabbed the Everquest mold, ripped out all the tedious bits and polished it. Unforunately, they were too-short sighted to look at all the biggest weaknesses of the EQ mold, particularly the raiding-only end-game.
WoW really does has its merits, including some really beautiful level design, and simplistic but fun gameplay but anyone whose played any other MMORPG knows how shallow it quickly gets. Let's not forget the shitty raiding-only end-game which ultimately fucks the game up. Oh yeah and it's community of insane Chuck Norris fanatics. And oh yeah like an earlier poster said it does absolutely nothing to progress MMORPGS. Killing x number of creatures and delivering whatever objects gets dull very, very quickly. Then again every other MMORPG has the same problem.
I'm by no means dissing anyone who likes the game. I generally enjoyed my four months of play-time until I hit a brick wall with Blizzard's dumb decision to continually cater to minority raiders more then their larger casual player-base.
It
IS overated and contains NOTHING that hasn't been done before - and in
a lot of cases, better. So 7 million people are playing WOW? That means
there is 6,550,019,364 people that are NOT playing WOW. Now
6,550,019,364 people can't be wrong!!
Thats a
stupid comparison. 6 billion people ... tell me, how many of those even
own a computer? Its like saying 6 billion people dont like to eat
"parketoma"... even though they never heard of what "parketoma" looks
like. If you want to be reasonable and pretend to be intelligent (like
I pretend to be), then you will add up the player population of most
popular MMORPGs, divide that by the number of MMORPGs, and there, you
got an average MMORPG population. Now compare that to 7 mil and see if
WoW is the more popular game or not.
PS: to all who tried to google "parketoma", i made that word up.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
same here, very well put. the only thing id like to add is that its the chutes and ladders of MMOs, lol.
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same here, very well put. the only thing id like to add is that its the chutes and ladders of MMOs, lol.
Meh whatever. I'm not a big fan of the class system/holy trinity stuff and certainly a game like Eve has more complexity. But come on these are games not rocket science. I do complex thinking at work and if I really want strategy etc there are plenty of other games. It fills its niche fine. Some stuff, specifically the tank and spank stuff, is rather stupid and unimmaginative in my opinion but its fine as a game.
I don't play these games to prove I am smart. I got a couple pieces of paper from some guys at colleges for that. You know just like that scarecrow in the wizard of Oz, but with a lot of people in black gowns and funny hats.
same here, very well put. the only thing id like to add is that its the chutes and ladders of MMOs, lol.
Meh whatever. I'm not a big fan of the class system/holy trinity stuff and certainly a game like Eve has more complexity. But come on these are games not rocket science. I do complex thinking at work and if I really want strategy etc there are plenty of other games. It fills its niche fine. Some stuff, specifically the tank and spank stuff, is rather stupid and unimmaginative in my opinion but its fine as a game.
I don't play these games to prove I am smart. I got a couple pieces of paper from some guys at colleges for that. You know just like that scarecrow in the wizard of Oz, but with a lot of people in black gowns and funny hats.
i hear that.
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WoW is overrated, but what game on this site isn't? Eve? No. Its fanboy's keep it at the top of the list. SWG? We won't hear the end of how "good" it was before CU and the NGE. Most of the games here have a fanboy base of some size... The ratings shouldn't be weighed too heavily in any players opinion.
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my jump was very high. I thought that WoW was the 8th marvel or
something like that. I was so excited and looking forward to play it,
so yeah in my opinion WoW is awesome and extremely fun to play if you
are new in the MMO's world, because the "Collect 5 paws and kill 8
kobolds" does not threat you because is the only type of quest that you
have ever seen, so it's pretty cool that far.
After WoW I had the chance of play SWG before CU and NGE a couple of
months, and if you see my xfire profile I enjoyed it a lot, and with
this I agree with a poster above me; WoW had the best marketing in
stores in those times, I have never ever heard about on TV or saw a
poster about SW:G, EQII or any other MMO but WoW so they in someway
monopolized the market, I don't know now because I don't go to gaming
stores now, If I want to buy a game I just digital download it, maybe
that is one reason why it has so many players and fans because if you
ever played a more complex game and you enjoyed it and you play WoW
again it will never have the same taste and level of enjoyement that it
had the first time you logged in.
Just my opinion, Wallo.
Wallo