Ok, I've bought the game. I I just got the normal one though since I just want to ease into it. While my best mate teases me since I've teased her for playing it for ages:(
If you do play it, find people to hang with and talk to.
And ignore everyone else.
No, seriously.
If you talk to people on the basis of "they're here" you will go insane and possibly slay those around you.
While this is likely to get you away from WoW, it is... sub-optimal.
If something keeps owning you or people keep being average WoW players, then take a break. Do not get mad at it. Go play Freelancer. It will destroy you if you let it, but can actually be kind of fun if you make sure you're in control.
Also, you may be interested in the pros and cons of Alliance/Horde.
Alliance-
Pros- Fight against the Horde, who don't grief too much (by comparison) and are usually decent sports. (Not attacking people thirty levels under them and such.)
Cons- You will be affiliated with the Alliance and the various people who play as it. They'll probably grief you.
Horde-
Pros- The Horde is mostly cool chaps. You won't need to look hard to find decent parties, and in general that traveler on the road will drop you a buff rather than grief you.
Cons- The Alliance will grief the everloving crap out of you. You're the bad guys and they're the good guys, crushing in the skulls of babies in the name of justice.
At first, it's great. You walk around in a huge and detailed world, with quests to do, levels to be gained, crafting to be done and friends to be made.
And then you hit the dead end that is level 80. Nothing else to do but to run the same bloody heroic instances over and over and over again. Day in and day out. And even though some of them have an interesting story, beautiful artwork and hordes of enemies, everyone else has seen them countless times before and will bitch and moan at you, if you don't perform flawlessly on your first run.
This game on this server is about RP. Not powergaming. WoW is nothing BUT powergaming. It's all the game has to offer. It's an over-developed, over-graphical and over-estimated... Calculator.
Victor.Mace - Miner, trader and wanna-be researcher.
' Wrote:Ok, I've bought the game. I I just got the normal one though since I just want to ease into it. While my best mate teases me since I've teased her for playing it for ages:(
Well... my priest will be happy to be used!
Bad decision man. Im telling you from experience, quit the game now. It will seriously make you become addicted, even if you deny it. You'll go from playing an hour a day [if you can] to a few hours, to more hours, to a day of free time, until you spend your whole weekend playing it, then all your time off, then you'll start thinking about it during non-free time, which causes you to suck at everything cause you cant concentrate. In the end you will have to quit, why not now? This game will ruin your life, im lucky i got away from it early on. Speaking from experience, throw it away before it consumes you. Even in your early posts i have seen its effects "Ive decided not to buy it" And now your getting it! Nooooo! Another soul lost....
I played WoW from the time it first went retail, for over 4 years, and here's what I have to say about it:
Originally, it was one of the best games I'd ever played. After the first year, when they started to do class revamps/balancing, everything started to fluctuate. At first the rebalancing made everything better, then the pissing and moaning from the players started, and the game began to crash (not in a literal sense, of course).
Past that first year, starting primarily when the first expansion was released, the game became worse every month. Stupid decisions were made by blizzard to appease the vocal minority, and these werent just class balance decisions - the way the game fundamentally worked was changed. It went from being a game you could have fun playing a few hours a day or less, to a game that required near constant attention to get anything done.
Every single change that blizzard has made to WoW in the past 3 years has been to improve profit, nothing more. They're burning themselves out trying to leech every last bit of cash they can from the players by making everything take more time and more effort to accomplish.
In the end, it's not a bad game, at least for the first 60 levels. You start getting into expansion content (60-80), and that's where things really take a dive, the time investment becomes astronomical. If it werent for that, perhaps I'd still be playing... but my biggest complaint is that WoW has turned Blizzard from a company that actually cared about it's products into a bend-you-over corporate raping machine, which nowdays cares about nothing more than getting the last pennies out of your pocket.
MMO's ruin gaming companies, and I'm seriously hoping that SW:ToR doesnt do the same to bioware =/
I won't consider this grave digging, hasn't been that long since the last post.
Anyways, I agree with Tenacity, as this happend to me exactly.
The other thing is, I played wow real young, it basically taught me how to read ( me playing it made me want to read, because of the quests) I played it when I was real young, much like Freelancer, when I was 7 years old. I am 13 now.
But every once in awhile, I want to play again. My dad plays and I log on, play for an hour, get bored. Ignore for a few months.
It will never be the game it used to be. Some people say it would be better if there were Pre-TBC servers. It wouldn't as it was already ruined.
Another thing, I always was mad that they never revamped the old places, make then different and kill the monotony.
That is why I am kinda excited about cataclysm. So I am playing again, maybe an hour every few days. getting ready for the expansion, which may take awhile.
By the way, the addiction thing, only happens if you don't know how to ration time, DOn't play it hours a day, reward your selfe after work by playing just a little. After you finish a test, just play a little. Don't play 8 hours a day or more. It'll get more boring, and you'll waste so much time.
Cheers.
Ok, well I played WoW from day 1 (due to that was the same week the EQ2 servers went down for a week and I went FTW on EQ2), I played for about 2 years, and if you play with people you know in RL it's not bad 'cause you always have support. If your just gonna dive in and go it alone--good luck! The people in that game are mostly douches who are also 12 y/o kids that have nothing to do all day except play WoW (especially in the summer) and grief you b/c you may have a life outside of the game. On another note SW: ToR is going to suck, I see it already. You have a choice of 8 classes (4 on each side), and more or less turned it into a FPS/RPG. I used to thing that BioWare/Obsidian couldn't do no wrong... I was wrong. Here's the website.