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drincewind
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Firstly I Love WoW! I’m 18, have a GF, love to go clubbing and drinking with mates and work 5 days a week. In my little spare time I find nothing better than to lie on my sofa and play WoW. I find it relaxing, and I just love the game in general.
A friend of mine reckons its "sucks". He is constantly going on about it being a waste of time, and that I should get a hobby. TBH, what is a hobby? Something you do in your spare time to take your mind off the pressure and stress of everyday life? WoW? ......
I think that the stereotypical WoW player in most people's view is some 50yr old overweight computer programmer who is most probably still a virgin. Not at all a bleak out-look?
Why do people categorize everything and everyone? I’m hardly fat! Gym everyday and weight training....so what does that make me? An abnormal WoW player?
I'm not going to lie, I'm terrible at computers. I quite happily built my current PC, and can install programs and such, but ask me to do anything else I’m lost! The most complicated thing I can do on a PC is probably run an AVG Scan.
So why is there this narrow view on the WoW world..? This seems to be extending to all MMORPG’s. Oh, you buy an X-Box 360 and play a racing game you’re a proper BLOKE! Jack the Lad! You buy WoW, you’re a geek?
Here is a few points that are listed on a website that a anti – WoW friend proposed I read carefully:
You can never say: I’ve won. WoW never stops, it’s a fact that there’s not an ending.
Oh? So because Blizzard made this game never-ending, so that there was always room for improvements with the constant patches, updates, new items, quests etc its not worth playing? You would rather have a game that lasts a few days, and you through in the bin?
The real game starts at lvl 60. You can get to lvl 60 in about 3-4 months: $ 49.99 (box) + $ 41.97 (3 months fee) = $ 91.96. Isn’t it too much to start playing?
Obviously the person never played the game! And why talk about money? Who’s paying the gaming subscription?
Servers are full of lamers.
Again, taking the view of the whole WoW society and categorizing them. Slightly associated with racism?
WoW not only steals your money, it steals your time. Want to be a good and respected player on your server? Prepare not to sleep for months and months.
I play WoW now and again depending on work. Sometimes I’ll have a few hours, other times a few minutes, even if its to check mail / AH or even say hello to guildies.
It’s not about your free time, it’s about your life: the more you play WoW the less you can live your life.
Who’s life is it to waste?
Sorry for the rant. It’s just that over the past few years since I have been playing people are always saying how pants the game is, it ruins your life, its addictive, blah blah blah.
I’d rather be playing WoW than taking drugs or beating random people up outside pubs in a state of intoxication. For me it’s a hobby, and I love it, and if you don’t, why go on about it!
As the great Oscar Wilde once said “Muff Off!”
Edit: Thought you may be interested in this: sk00.net/downloads/movies/wowmovies.zip
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Some ppl think playing games a waste of time, some play it as favourite past time and some are hardcore gamers. Who do you say is right or wrong? None, they're all right in their own ways.
Like I always say, take it easy, relax and have fun
I thought most people thought as a WOW playing being 13 years old and not 50?
Nicely put. Couldn't agree more.
It appears this thread is more defending MMOs in general, almost every game out, as sad as it is, falls under many of those same arguments.
While I thought this was going to be another thread bashing WoW, which is fine I hate the game but not for those reasons more because how it is compared to other MMOs.
If you like WoW so much you should try other MMOs.
I agree with your arguments though, MMOs do have the mentality of being Geeky or nerdy, which is unfortunate. But I must add I hate WoW and think it's an insult to real MMOs.
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I'd like to know what got you into WOW ? What made you want to play it ?
For me I had a horrible addiction to Shooter games for forever then Diablo 2 came out.
The online Diablo 2 game was/is so much fun that it got me into mmorpgs.
Played tons of mmorpgs started with ultima which lasted only my free month of play went back to diablo 2. Then got EQ played that forever ect ect. And finaly Blizzard makes WOW which is to me a relief from the rest of the sluggish and awkward mmorpgs out there.
lol, i've been wanting to hear a comment like this for a long time.
There are men and women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and higher. Find a decent guild (of which there are many), and you'll wonder why you ever thought that most people were 13. I don't think that many 13 year olds are at all interested in MMOs anyway - though I'm sure there are exceptions - unfortunately where parents use games like this to pacify their kids instead of taking care of them properly, but that's another topic.
I'm 25 and I'm usually the youngest voice on our ventrillo channel.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
steal half the keys....LMAO!
and i really did lmao!
good schtuff
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OP: good post! I could not agree more and I'm in same condition as you (well... beside being 18 and going to gym everyday
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I play wow when I can, sometime more sometime less, but I do not feel any "rush" to be the best, got the best gear or the like... I play it because it is fun
"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"
That is a really good post Drincewind, and it's my thoughts exactly! I never owned a console, except for a Gameboy =P. I have always truely been a PC Gamer at heart, playing games like Little Big Adventure, Wing Commander, etc... Then my First MMO Ultima Online, FFXI, and now WoW! Though personally feel WoW is a game you LOVE or HATE to death, there seems to be no shades of grey...
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
i totally agree with the OP nice post drincewind!!! XD
There are men and women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and higher. Find a decent guild (of which there are many), and you'll wonder why you ever thought that most people were 13. I don't think that many 13 year olds are at all interested in MMOs anyway - though I'm sure there are exceptions - unfortunately where parents use games like this to pacify their kids instead of taking care of them properly, but that's another topic.
I'm 25 and I'm usually the youngest voice on our ventrillo channel.
this outright defending of WoW is becoming very tiresome... he's just making fun no need to make an essay tbh, just relax abit
I agree with OP.