Ditto. My friends weren't just wasting their time, but their money too. Every month they pay a subscription fee, every time a new game pack (w/e it is they're called...the things lie "burning crusade", etc), every time a new game guide came out, every time there was a new bot to buy, there went their money. Most of them won't have money for college.
Lol,
Like i said you cant let yourself get addicted, its good and i think the server im on atm is good in my opinion ofc there's the idiots but they are everytwhere but theres a load of guys/girls who just want to enjoy the game. I dont agree with people leaving FL to go to WoW I mean its not exactly hard to do both, theres not subscription to FL so theres no excuse there except for that fact that they are too scared to come out and say they find FL boring imo.
Cheers
Lj
Strange. Personally I never really hated WoW, I did play it for almost two years straight. I left simply out of boredom with the game after seeing that developers aren't willing up to put changes into the game to keep interest going. Repetition and same old again and again killed my interest in continuing playing it, felt like the game has been catered for two groups only: casuals and hardcore players, but no place for people in the middle who don't want to have the game as a second job but still have fun playing, enjoying world events, global storyline and so on. Instead what I saw was simply a Diablo II gameplay on MMO rails, and nothing more than that. Envy-driven competitive factor of the game has never appealed to me. Unfortunately I saw much of what I wouldn't want to see people doing, even though it was just a mere computer game. It is also something that saddens me to see fragments of such behavior there in Discovery. Overall WoW is an incredibly static game despite enormous possibilities of MMO platform to expand gameplay into. I guess for as long as it stays hugely profitable they have nothing to worry about and therefore no reason to enhance the game and turn it into what it should have been from the start. Though I must say it has been interesting to analyze the game from inside, separate elements from each other, see how it works, game mechanics and possibilities that could have been implemented, through its various problems and issues the game has given me quite a lot of ideas. Whether they will be ever implemented I do not know, but regardless of that it has been fun experience. The game itself (apart from entire Warcraft lore, though I feel it took wrong turn with WoW and it has been much more interesting before, less spread out and better detailed), community and all that has been less of an interest to me, practically irrelevant, though I do keep contact with few people whom I played with.
In my opinion it's not the game that keeps people playing it, it's the community factor, somewhat similar to MySpace, etc, though on a different scale. Player guilds forcing their members to work like it's a slavery age, but they willingly do that and even pay monthly fee for the game. Why? Because it's the social ties that they receive in return, a communication with almost no restriction and little to no responsibility whatsoever, a feeling of being important to something larger than they are. A feeling we often miss in real life seeing ourselves as a drop in the ocean. True to that, we are just a drop, but it is also our nature to wish more and become more. WoW is like a mirage oasis, giving only a false feeling, an imitation within the boundaries of the virtual world. With little effort you can try that feeling there, but it is essentially a mouse trap where in the end you are just a little puppet trapped in the web of problems which not only affect you in game but also in your life and your relatives. I don't see WoW as a drug, instead I see it as a mirror of ourselves, our societies and what kind of s**t we became. It plays smart on our desires, it is practically a heaven for gossip/drama/emo queens, I had to deal with that a lot and it was one of the factors that turned me down on the game and MMOs in general. It also shows that people are caring less for real social relationships preferring to socialize through the MMO environments. And while I have nothing against such method it just saddens me that for some people it has become almost the only communication method with the world outside.
Love WoW, hate the fact that 70% of the comnmunity for WoW are a bunch of retards, unlike the disco community.
bleh, i now am hooked on EVE, wow was fun while i had it.
I hate that game. I've spent a few hours on it over the trial, but it couldn't stand to play it for more than a week or two. Things take too long, and it just doesn't "float my boat" much.
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