World of Warcraft

I like the fact you can enter instances seemlessly while doing some quests and the area actually feels like changing that is awesome.

WOTLK was amazing for about 3 days, then I got used to it, and then I remembered why I had quit 6 months ago. The self absorbed community, the annoying and long checklist of things to do with no REAL reward at the end.

The only thing I can say about WOTLK now is, Excellent music, art design and zones. The rest is more of the same and just isn't worth a monthly fee.

I'm finding LOTRO to be my game of choice all of a sudden, for numerous reasons, 1 being the communtiy is ultra friendly and helpful, and 2 the graphics and story and complex crafting and trait system are just fun as hell.

The game is terrible.

Last night almost 80% of NA servers had a queue.  The game is so bad they've now released almost 20 new servers in the last week to handle all the players.   Server populations are through the roof... terrible terrible game.

Originally posted by Azrile

The game is terrible.

Last night almost 80% of NA servers had a queue.  The game is so bad they've now released almost 20 new servers in the last week to handle all the players.   Server populations are through the roof... terrible terrible game.

lol

10/10

Yesterday Blizzard opened up free character moves to those of us (myself included) who were concerned about long queues.  I won't be moving though, pretty much all my characters are on an RP server or RPPVP and the transfer is to a Normal server...so I'll be staying put.  Hopefully those who say "lol? wut iz rp? lol" will move.

Originally posted by saint4God

Originally posted by pewtpewt

 Most of the crap that is now WoW doesn't make any sense at all, especially the factions.

Although I do like and play World of Warcraft daily, I will blame 'shock culture' for this one.  When the game came out, it was a big deal to us RP'ers that Warlocks and Shadow Priests were alliance...just didn't make sense and our guild stuck to the idea that either you serve The Light and reject shadowmagic or you do not (hence neither class permitted in the guild).  Then, as more shock and awe there was the Death Knight...also alliance.  Spin the story however you wish, it's the same idea repackaged cold and with glowing blue.  *sigh* I thought a hero class would be a hero...but perhaps gone are the days of consistent truth.  Even the Lich King story (and dare I say physical appearance) seems recycled from the Lord of the Rings books/movies.  Magic item, used, corrupts user, now they're the ultimate evil.

Maybe you never played Warcraft 3, but the alliance were never the good guys, and the horde never the bad guys.  The alliance betrayed, connived, and destroyed things.  The Orc campaign in the expansion clearly showed how the Alliance betrayed the Horde first, breaking the treaty that had bound the two together for no provocation - just profit.  The Alliance betrayed the high elves, condemning them to death.  The high elves were their greatest allies!  And they left them to die. 

As for shadow magic, the alliance never had their hands clean there.  They were always willing to use anything they could lay their hands on.

In terms of honor, the horde were always the honorable faction - keeping their word, working with others.  The only odd point there is their alliance with Sylvanis, but her hatred for Arthas and the scourge is so great that she would do anything to get her way, and frankly the horde needed allies.

Thanks for the background, that does explain a few things.  True I hadn't played Warcraft III much (maybe about a half hour).  I was into Warcraft II for quite some time but III didn't really do anything for me compared to the other RTS games out at the time.  Our focus as a guild primarily was moreso on the Light versus the Scourge, which is a classic good versus evil.  Despite justifications, using Scourge magic wouldn't be appropriate for a follower of the Light.  Within the game, one can see the corruption it lends the user to.

Originally posted by slask777

Originally posted by Pepsipwnzgod

Originally posted by donjn

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by donjn

Originally posted by xaldraxius

I play an integral part in the forum game.

I'm a villain.

Good to see a real "roleplay" poster however....lol I liked the villain thing :) 

Ooooh Oooooh, can I be the fanboi?!!!  Please?  Pretty please?!!!!  I can do it, I KNOW I can. :)

Okay I nominate you!

Gratz!

I Second that!
 

 

I third it  I like Pappy even though he/she is a little bit on the manic side now and then. Not like I've been there too now and then though. If WoW is the best mmo, is a matter of taste though. I feel WotLK is just more of the same old shit I've done a thousand times before Just looking at ingame videos from WotLK give me reason to believe it, but...Hey, if it works, don't fix it and it obviously work like a motherfucker for Blizzard.

Thanks all.  I'll try to keep the mania under control. :) 

It's okay to be a fanboi, as long as you realize you are a fanboi.  Now I just have to get the haters and trolls to accept their role....LOL

Oh and btw, it's he, but I play a she on WoW sometimes.  Edit:  Um, that sounded bad.  I mean I play a female toon on WoW sometimes....nothing more than that. :)

I am a fanboi for Wow I admit.

One more thing, roleplay freaks me out. I tried it once in AoC...it was awkward. That is all.