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PNM_Jennings
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I have been antiWoW for a reeeaaally long time. I hate it for how it has ruined people's lives through addiction, and for it's massive success which has stagnated the medium with copycats. But I just got a trial because I was hurtin' for (to me) a new MMO. And I like it. It's not terribly complex which irks me, and the quests are all fairly cookie cutter, but I love the world and how full it is and how simply entertaining the game is. Did I mention how much I love the world? So now I still hate it with a passion, yet I'm enjoying myself enough to think of subbing. I guess my biggest fear is the ridicule that comes along with being a WoW player from people, well, like me. So I have turned to the internet for guidance. Anyone have any insight or wisdom?
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I've played this game among many others. And I loved it on and off for 4 years. The world is nice, almost no bugs, no glitches, very polished and what not.
I say, enjoy it as long as you like.
Cheers
Different strokes for different folks!
Try it Before you Hate it...
You have no hope, best Thing you can do is hide in a dark room with a blanket over your head and play the game. It's how i cope with life.
Kids...go figure.
OP, don't listen to any of the WoW haters. You play what you want. Most WoW haters are just ignorant of much better WoW will be with Cataclysm.
i'd say about 90% of people on these forums or gamers in general have played/tried/scene WoW.
Its the best mmo still to this day, i don't play anymore but i did for 4 years. The only other game that I played for that long was counter strike.
You have to give yourself breaks in no matter what game you play, you can set yourself only to play a few hours or a little more if needed for a raid or a huge quest run with friends or guildies. You can't blame wow for addiction, because you create that all yourself any game you play can be addictive you let it be.
WOW has story, combat, gameplay, Colorful World, crafting system, Instances and raids and pvp...that ppl enjoy. Most companies out there only get a few things in there, but Blizzard manages to put it all together, if not perfect at least they try.
LOL, here's an additictive game that I will never, ever play. Farmville/FrontierVille/Zombieville/FarmTown = this is your addiction, i've known ppl that will play this 2 to 8 hours a day, every single day, I've known ppl to lose there jobs due to this game and not from an MMO ( which could happen). Social Network games, not realated to MMO's are becoming the most additive games in the world, they consume more ppls daily time then most MMO's will ever do. ( when you have a friend that has a nervous breakdown over dead crops in a game and has to take off work for two days, that's a problem)
Play a game, put a timer next to you or in the game, so you know how to control your time being spent. It may not be easy at first, but either was riding a bike ( for some) driving a car and so on.
Wildstar (2013) & Elder Scroll Online (2013)
Playing: Diablo 3, WOW, Far Cry 3 & X-Com.
Enjoyed: WOW 5 1/2 yrs, LOTRO 3yrs, GW 1/2yr, DFO 1yr, EVE Online 3yrs, and Huxley (Beta).
Failed to impress: GW2 3months, Tera Online 6 months (best combat system in any MMO I've played) STO 1/4yr, Aion 1/2yr, AoC 1yr, CO, Fallen Earth, DDO, EQ2 1/2yr, WAR 1/2yr, Lineage 2 and FF XI 1/2yr, FF XIV.
^ well crap...
I'm not really worried about getting addicted (I'm too busy for that) it's just the hypocrisy of it all. Oh well. My secret shame I guess. See yuz in Azeroth.
The amazing thing to me is just how bad the questing is in the old world compared to outlands and northrend. I am so lookign forward to Cata just for the upgrade of the low level questing.
The other thing is really a 'lore' issue. As lame as it sounds, quests are much better if you read the quests. Even in vanilla wow, there are some really 'interesting' quests that end up feeling like 'kill 10 of these' if all you do is look at the objectives.
For example, in Northrend there is a quest where you are trying to clean out a village full of infected bad guys. In order to do this, you are sent to collect shoveltusk (boar) skins. After you collect the skins (and some meat) the questgiver creates a costume that you wear, run through the village collecting badguys, then when you have enough beating on you, you self-destruct and blow them all apart. The fact that you have to kill 10 boars sounds pretty lame, but the reason and the quest makes it funny.
As to your topic. I think of it this way
1. There are people who only do things others are doing
2. There are people who get a kick out of being ' counter culture' and dissing everything that is popular
3. Then there are people who play games to have fun, and simply will play whatever they feel is fun no matter what others think.
I think this forum is particular is just filled with a lot of #2 (pun intended). WOW is popular, it is 'cool' to be a rebel, but it's better to play games you enjoy. it's funny, one of the biggest critics on this forum last year, after getting into a debate, slipped up and said the real reason he /ragequit wow was because his guild stopped inviting him on raids. Once that happened, then all of a sudden WOW became 'for kids' and 'easymode' and etc etc...
I am so glad the definition of addiction is being changed and/or eliminated entirely in favor of abuse and disregulation in the new DSM V. The term has lost all meaning these days.
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--John Ruskin