WoW Love or Hate?

[mangadrive]

I said I wasnt gunna reply to this but can't resist. I played WoW from launch up until Thanksgiving last year. Thats right at 3 years. Raid leader. Guild officer. PVP champ/team coordination. The whole nine yards.

Social Enjoyment? -

More like social robbery. The time v/s reward scenario is the general forumla of gaming. When you were younger playing games on a 386/486 that were actually 10x better than most gameplay now you would imagine say ... Elite with todays graphics and think 'man a game that never really ends is such a great idea'. No.. its really not. Its a carrot on a string and rarely do you ever taste carrot and when you do its not even enough flavor to actually realize its a carrot.

What happens in PVE is you throw yourself at the same thing over and over and eventually it dies. You move your way through a neverending chain of progression. You yell at your raid group until they do it because its NESSICARY. This isnt a game where you can throw 25 (used to be FOURTY) people in a raid and just go beat up anything you want. Its a micromanaging NIGHTMARE. You have to distribute the loot evenly and actually equip your raid, but people DON'T FATHOM THIS and why the heck should they. They just spent 4 months standing in line for something and... you just gotta say no I'm sorry my DPS is failing and we need it for the next challenge, it does'nt suit your class, etc. DRAMA... that player leaves. You find another one. Rinse repeat and it never ends. You have one of your best healers/tanks go out and get drunk on a Saturday night. Grats you raid is a mess and 24 people had a hard time with the game they showed up to enjoy.

You do this for months, and years. Then oh look its patch/xpac time. START OVER LEVEL ONE! WOO!. All that stuff you went and busted your ass for? Its handed out like welfare now. It literally falls on the ground to anyone that can mash 1,1,1,1,1 without fail.

PVP is fun, exciting and great...until you realize you are running around in the same 3 maps to get tokens for gear that will be obsolete in less than a month. Its the same exact situation just you have a different enemy and that is class balance which is basically non-exsistant. You will have 'flavor of the patch' builds where its some kinda lottery. Maybe you luck out and your class get its. Maybe you NEVER get it (see: protection warrior) and are basically laughed at for PVP viablity.

Its not a game to play if you want to accomplish everythign in it. If you pay for all this content and expect to just run around and experience it, then the jokes on you because you CAN'T. I did about everything possible in the game, BETA tested all thier stuff and was pretty active in the class forums, but its pointless. They are making the game how they want. They refuse to come up with a cooeffienct system for PVP that actually works. THey just keep piling more broken stuff onto more broken stuff and I'm done with it.

If you want a game where you get immersed in a world, buy Oblivion and mod the crap out of it. If the argument is that 'you don't get to interact with people and RP', then forget it because it doesnt exsist in WoW. Your community is truly SPOILED to have such a good RP based game thats moderated. Trust me.. I've been through the wringer with a lot of them in Alpha/Beta/Launch/Retail and forward from there. WoW is criminal compared to most of them.

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