General Discussion

Soo far, I've played lots of mmorpg.

Recently, I've tried WAR and AoC

both got the same value for me 7.5/10 ... Good, but not enough. Both got good point and bad one. Both doesn't give make me addict and leave me a bleh feeling.

Now, I'm really thinking of resubbing WoW, I love playing my Troll priest there, and, soo far, WoW got the funnest Raid I've played. Lotro wasn't far from these, but the reward in lotro are meaningless. Raid are fun, but not as fun as WoW.

the fact is, I've got a lifetime account of lotro, and I'm still disgust about Blizzard ways, taking soo much money from people and give soo less in return. Gooddamn, they got over 100million (probably more closer to 200m) per month and they can make an free expansion, WTH ! Turbine gave hell a lot of content before making us pay for more, and even, the expansion is as big as the game was at release.

But still, I've got some strange feeling that make me wonder, should I got play WoW again, do some nice raid and .. see the new content coming soon or should I try to deleted every tinny part of WoW in my memory .... I'm all confuse ...

Delete McWow. You will thank yourself when the alcohol wears off.

I've got a 25 year subscription on WoW after GM'ing for them for six months, but - I still won't go back. While WoW may be aestheitcally pleasing and rewards the player with epics it is still missing fundemental elements which should be present in all MMO's. At this point it is no longer Blizzard dictating the fate of the MMO, it is the horde of players still playing an MMO that is for all intents and purposes in a constant state of recycling.

Why not decide for yourself and not let WoW haters make the decision for you.

If you wre having a better time playing WoW than you did LotRO, AoC and Warhammer then you should probably play WoW.

The 3.0 patch is supposed to be released in just over a week so if you do come back to WoW you should probably wait until then.

I'm giving another try to WAR.

Rerolled a new toon, Destruction this time, was a bit funner, and at least this time I've got some scenario. I tried for about 5h on my other server and never got on one, first 20min got one run, was hard a a low level without any skill ;)

Truth is, WOW is an amazing game. I'm still playing it, not much but I really enjoy doing an instance now and then, healing with my priest in a good group. And questing with my brother.

Originally posted by altairzq

Truth is, WOW is an amazing game. I'm still playing it, not much but I really enjoy doing an instance now and then, healing with my priest in a good group. And questing with my brother.

That it is, but it has also been extremely lucky. Back when it launched it was only just before it that Broadband and Cable services became standard and affordable, this is why it has been able to attain such massive subscription numbers. I'll be the first to admit that Blizzard know how to make attractive games for the general masses, but somewhere deep in my heart I think they're clueless as to what to do with the older players, people who may just want that little bit more. Maybe I'm just jaded, but these are my thoughts.

Hmm, AoC and WAR didn't really catch your eye, and you are tired of Wow...

Resubbing to wow is probably not going to help then, why not try something new instead?

Spellborn is coming out soon for one and theres a few other intresting game coming in the not to far future like Aion and Guildwars 2. Neither of those games are classic Wow/EQ clones.

Kind of sounds to me like you may need to take a break from MMOs for a few months.  Easiest way to do this is reformat your PC and stash the boxes out of eyesight.  Sooner or later you will foroget all about them and when the time comes the urge will be back.

WoW happened to be the first mmorpg actually fully polished, to where the teeth was shining, compared to the normal and regular teethless, skinny mmorpgs, which we oh so gladly accepted back then.

When i 1-2 years before WoW release got a chance to play the closed beta when it was very young, i couldn't believe my own eyes, with all the current standards back then, WoW was already decades ahead of all the others both content and polish wise NOT TO MENTION THE COMBAT/MOVEMENT DYNAMICS.

Other companies should for a second, MYTHIC/EA ESPECIALLY, look at how fluid and smooth WoW's combat/natural movement dynamics are, couple of years have passed, and WoW is still the best one in that department as well.

It's not about luck with internet being more accessible, i bloody played mmorpgs few years before WoW was released on cheap cable/broadband net.

Blizzard got so many subs because they made a mmorpg that wasn't "in present standards", it was the big thing because it moved that standard, upwards and beyond, sadly this means many mmorpgs released in this year have all fallen victim to the fact, they were possibly only able to compete with WoW 3-4 years ago but not today's WoW.

Blizzard expected 125k subs max at the US release, 1 week later they had over 350k people playing, Blizzard underrestimated WoW once again at the EU release, expecting like 350k-400k players, they got A LOT more.... Which explains their massive server problems back then.

Who can blame them, they were looking at the numbers currently at their table, on how many good mmorpgs back then had, and they obviously thought that WoW might be really great if it also hit those numbers, that being 125k and possibly 200k+ including EU. Hell back then 10k people in a mmorpg was plenty.

I will probably resub to WoW, when the patch is released, since it's the time where you can have lots of fun with new builds, and certain new places, as they are putting in some "freebies", and boviously getting to tune your interface once again, since that alone can take several hours, if you have deleted your old interface folder.