WoW Love or Hate?

[Tikonov]

After years of playing retail WoW on and off im finally back but playing a private server atm.

WoWscape is prolly the best private server out their(since their the ones actually developing the emulation software that any of the good servers run on) It has 4 servers with varying rates - with one being pretty close to blizzlike (Legion) but with slightly accelarted rates ( half the grind mechanics in WoW is their to keep you paying anyway ) Theirs usually about 3-4k people on with the most ive saw being 15k

The playerbase their tends to be a lot more mature than your average blizz server, but their isnt an online game that doesnt have screaming kiddies on it regardless:P

I know private servers get a lot of hate for not being ultra perfect ( their is consantly things being broken or fixed, mostly due to a complete emulator overhaul for private servers that was basically starting from scratch on the all the scripting etc) others complain that the endgame stuff becomes too 'easy' but for me retail WoW had become a pointless grind up the tiers of sets to get slightly incremnetly better stuff to do slightly incrementaly harder raids to get other stuff - after T4 this is really just a hugely visible money/time sink.

Playerskill can factor into the game on private moreso than retail oddly, since equip difference at 70 on retail can be monumental between two players, but since anyone half decent is running around with most of the best stuff then you can finally get those even matches you always wanted:)

If anyone fancys coming and playing on WoWscape give me a shout and ill be happy to help you out with whatever.

If you have never played WoW before id recommend retail till you get sick of it:) It really can be quite magical, but when you have the knowledge of areas/quests/etc embedded in your brain for years it really loses its charm to grind your way through areas that havent changed in many many years.

Oddly enough ive always hate the WoW lore and universe, i just dont like how it looks but omg - i love stats, if their was a way i could play DnD several times a day with a vast variety of people in different scenarios then id do that instead but otherwise WoW is my RPG fix.