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What level are you in WoW???

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woodworker420

I dont think i could ever really get into WoW, just b/c of the fact that you pay for both the game and the online subscription. I mean pick one, and ill pay it, but i refuse to pay both.
Thats just my 2 cents

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Nacht

I used to have the same attitude about monthly subscriptions. After doing it though, its really not that expensive. You really do see the differences in upkeep too. Server problems/solutions/support are godlike compared to D2.

BulletTheory

I felt the same when I started to play WoW, but its only 13$ per month, which is nhot really expensive. The problems/solutions/support is, like u said, GODLIKE!!

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CaptainAmerica

Beware, game is extremely addictive especially if you find a good guild. Last year of my life is missing because of that game. Had to cancel so I could learn to socialize with civilization again.

Nacht

Haha, amen to that. I canceled when I came to Uni. I'm much to busy with real life to mess with it now.

Katatonia

anyone know where i can get a free test trial. i tried fileshack and fileplanet and could not find a demo of the game :/ i want to experience the hype to!!!!!

SSXeon

Dunno, nice name, love the new cd BTW.

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kelston

If you're going to bash a game, give a reason. You simply claimed it as hype. Why? What makes it suck? Did you pick a PvP server and get killed by someone a billion levels higher than you? Really, if you're claiming immaturity, your response to the poster's request about information is anything but mature. After all, if it was nothing but hype, 6 million people around the world disagree.

It claims itself as roleplaying because it is. Last I checked, when I played WoW, I didn't get teleported into Azeroth. I am playing the role of someone else. What do you expect out of roleplaying? What makes Oblivion more RPG-ish than WoW? How can you even compare the two when Oblivion isn't even out yet? Seems to me like you're just believing the Oblivion hype.

WoW is a good game. It's a MMORPG which you already know, and by default, already know that you're going to have to pay to play. It's biggest draw isn't that it introduced anything new to the MMORPG genre, it's that it took what works and polished it. Whereas other MMOs like EverQuest require you to invest huge chunks of time (2+ hours worth) to accomplish anything, you can spend 30 minutes on WoW and feel like you've advanced your character. It's what allows the less hardcore players the option of playing an MMO, an option not previously given.

It's pretty easy to pick up, another reason why it's so popular. You don't have to be super hardcore, you don't have to download a billion addons to play the game properly and there is a ton of information available across various websites and in the official forums if you dodge the trolling, which i'm sure you're used to by now being on the internet.

True end game content, however, is still more for the hardcore. Yeah, there are some things you can do once you max your level (level 60) but like most MMOs, you simply won't be able to access the best of the best, which is understandable. You need to be rewarded for investing chunks of time otherwise, there'd be no reason to do so.

I've played WoW since late February of 2005. Got it for my birthday. Been playing ever since. It's pretty strange since I played EverQuest for 2 years and when I quit EQ, I swore I would never touch an MMO again, but after enough pestering and someone else paying for the game and the first month, I took to it.

I'm level 60, in a high end guild. We raid 4 days a week (some consider that a lot, some hardcore raiders consider that to be pansy). There's just something unique about going at something with 39 other people who you would probably never have met in real life, putting any differences aside (race, age, wealth, education, everything) and just clicking, having fun, and taking down a challenge.

It's a unique feeling that you'll never get in Diablo 2 or even Battlefield 2.

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kelston

Unfortunately, there isn't a "demo" available. In fact, I only remember one instance in the past year i've been playing that Blizzard gave players a trial code they could give to their friends to try the game.

I think this was due to the fact that at one point, people using trial accounts went and griefed paying players.

It's pretty hard for one company to moderate 500,000 players (see EverQuest 2's hacking fiasco), but imagine moderating the 6 million WoW has.

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Alien1

I gave my reason to another thread in the forum that had to do with Wow
i am not going and i have not the time or the appetite to repeat myself 10000 times ...

as for maturity...leave the maturity lessons for yourself

Anyway
I do not care what the 6 million crowd does or if disagrees with me

I never buy games based on the crowd opinion or what the crowd does and says
Just because the crowd gets obsessed with whatever trash they throw to them and eat their money with monthly fees for just playing multiplayer does not mean that i will do the same with my money

i buy games for myself and i have my own opinion as a individual like it or not

All what you said about what Wow is for you just do not justify for me
the Monthly fee, the Low polygon graphic\animations and the swallow gameplay system as a "RPG"
because that's i see it

-- If game companies start adding monthly fees for just playing Multiplayer just like WOW then to hell with multiplayer

Game Patches and Support (as long as you own the game) are FOR FREE and i hope things continue be these way

WoW monthly fee exists for Blizzard just to suck your money not for the good of the support and the quality patches ...
but if you and the other 6 million believe that crap that you said about WoW oww well you can stay in to your "dream world of Azeroth"

Have you ever played day and night anything else except from WOW in you life when you are talking about the RPG genre

For Example have you played Morrowind ?
Play it and then maybe you will understand why Morrowind is clearly more "Rpg-ish" from Wow

Oblivion and Morrowind are from the Elder Scroll series so yes i know what i can expect from Oblivion
the same things from Morrowind just way better...and not a bunch of MMORPG hype asking you monthly fee for keeping you online

EcPercy

Every purchased copy of WoW should come with a guest pass. (Unless they have changed it recently) So, ask around. Maybe someone would be willing to give you their guest pass key and allow you to use their game cd's to install it.

Nacht

You aren't paying extra for multiplayer. WoW isnt multi-player. There's a slight difference to playing in a Diablo 2 game with 7 other people and interacting in WoW realm of 30,000. WoW is massively multi-player.

WoW is an RPG, end of discussion.

If you're a Morrowind/D2 fan like you say, then you should know that graphics and animation do nothing to help an RPG. Look at all the other great classic RPGs in the past.

WoW doesn't have shallow gameplay. I could see how you would get this idea if you only played the first 30 levels or so...

I would still like to know, Alien, how much of WoW you actually played.

Katatonia

ah sweet, i had no idea about this, theres only one problem....non of my friends have or play WoW So i guess i'll be going to my computer room class tomarrow and try and make some new friends only if they have WoW

Katatonia

indeed they rock, im seeing Opeth on the 14th this month im shitting my pants i can't wait.

I see on your Playing now: Kalmah \m/\m/ rock on

sorry i'll get back on topic, YEA WOW is the best game ever!!!!

kelston

You brought the maturity into question when you railed on Nacht. Turn about is fairplay. If you expect mature responses, then perhaps you should take your own advice.

Then why are you so obsessed with Oblivion? The game isn't even out yet. So what opinion are you going on? Crowd opinion. Strange. I thought you just said you didn't. How do you know how RPGish Oblivion is when all you've seen are screenshots of it and a minor demo? Lol?

Strange how some of the most respected roleplaying games in recent memory are exactly just that. Low polygon. Baldur's Gate series? Planescape Torment? Fallout? I don't remember these being high poly. In fact, I remember them being sprite-ish.

But if you think high poly translates to a great game, why aren't you spouting about EverQuest 2? How about RF Online? Why not start talking about the upcoming Vanguard: Saga of Heroes? How about Conan? All of those games are high poly. They must be good. Graphics makes the game!

What game that doesn't require a monthly fee actually adds content to the game? WoW adds content as does every other MMO. Last I checked, Battlefield 2 never added anything "new". Last I checked the only way you could get anything "new" in Diablo 2 was to PAY for the expansion and then after that the only way to get anything new was to hack in items you created with ludicrous stats.

So tell me. What game adds new content after you pay the 50 bucks and nothing more? None. Weird. So you expect companies to just give you new stuff for free? If that's your theory, why do you buy games at all? Because that game is new... but you probably bought a game from that company at some earlier time. They should be giving you new stuff for free.


Yes, I played Morrowind. It was the most overrated "rpg" i've ever played. What is it doing that WoW isn't? It has side quests. WoW has side quests.

Oh right, the only thing it does that WoW doesn't is that you have to sit there and run and jump around to raise your skills at running and jumping. So I guess mindless tedium is what makes an RPG an RPG for you am I right?

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