Anybody here play WoW? I just bought the Battle chest for like 20 bucks, and its World of Warcraft with Burning Crusade and the Lich King, and a monthly subscription (I think I get a free month of top of it also). I know of a few people that played it and liked it, and I figured it was a good deal. Do you guys enjoy the game? Anybody wanna play later on (probably tomorrow, because it takes me a while to download digitals).

You're late to the party. The game died at the end of BC, and since the end of Wrath has been absolutely horrible. Everything is so streamlined and terrible now, and almost all of the people who have played since vanilla or beta have left. If it wasn't dead by the end of BC and Wrath, the launch of Cata put the nail in the coffin for good.

No, the game isn't dead. The subscriber base is still over 10 million, and the latest expansion sold fine.

The biggest problem is that many players are higher level characters and the new player base is probably pretty low, which means you might have trouble finding other people to play with in the low and intermediate levels. Especially if you play in off hours, you might find yourself playing alone in some zones even if the server population is high.

I played WoW years ago, and it was a good game to pass the time with. I eventually got tired of the grindy nature of it and got busy with other things in life though. The game is best if you have some friends that also play that can help you out and that you can communicate with. Or join an active and friendly guild group.

I'd play if I could start at Max level with mid-high gear.

why?

The Elder Scrolls Online will kill WoW and be king of the MMO crowd.

Its not dead, but I do agree with you at far as what the finest moments of the game were (BC especially, but also Wrath). I began playing in March 2005 and quit July 2011. Cata just wasn't all that and MoP didn't interest me at all.

That 10mil. number is very misleading as it counts all the people who have dual+ accounts and all the hackers/botters/gold sellers/etc.

The game was in its prime during BC, even Wrath was very interesting, but Cata. and now ninja-pandas killed it for me and my friends.

The games gone downhill a lot since wrath.

Because I wanted to?

I love pointless posts.

ha so do I

I think it's a waste of time and money but to each their own

Im really bored of my current games though. And this game appears to have a lot of longevity, and it was only $20, so I thought, eh, why not. 21 GB download though lol gonna take me all night, and then some.

You're going to run into a brick wall unless you buy cata and MoP.


Not likely.

While the game no longer offers anything in terms of a challenge in PvE content and has a playerbase that has rather declined in the last two or so years (the lack of challenge has made it so people no longer think about any tactics or anything in dungeons, you just join and rush and yet still with no thought involved still come out on top) I still think it has some worth. Quite a bit of the time needed to level has been removed and I found myself at level 70 after 4 days of playing and that's while I've been attending to other things such as work, school, PnP sessions (both Basic RP and D&D) and even found time to play some Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and League of Legends.

What I'm currently playing it for is simply the scenery and the story. While no masterwork the story has some fun and cool bits and pieces to it and it's hard to argue that you could easily spend a day or two just traveling the world of Azeroth, just looking at all of the different places you can encounter.

If you're looking for something thought provoking and challenging, please steer clear of World of Warcraft. If you are just feeling bored on some fine evening and want a bit of mindless fun and some nice scenery and music then please by all means play World of Warcraft for an hour or two. I just bought MoP and a months worth of subscription but I'm not even sure if I'll play beyond that time. I'll most likely have experienced whatever content MoP has to offer me and any quests yet unfinished from Cata and that's just fine as far as I'm concerned.

However to be fair this is coming from the viewpoint of someone who didn't have to spend money on all the expansions in one go. Might be a bit expensive like that but the way I look at it if you're totally new to the game then you have also yet to do the quests of TBC, WOTLK and Cata, so it could be argued that it's worth the money you spend on it.

So not the greatest game but not quite the worst game you'll find either. Just a good amount of fun on quiet evening when you got nothing better to do. Just play it a bit and you'll be able to judge for yourself if this is something that appeals to you or not.

I never got into it because my friends that play it have always told me I don't have the time to make it worthwhile. I only get about 8-14 per week at most to play games and they told me it would take forever to grind up to a level that would allow me to participate in most of the things they do. To be honest, I don't want to play a game that requires that much grinding anyway...much less pay a monthly fee for something that I may not get to play much for weeks at a time. The only MMOs I play/played much are Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, which I'm able to have a lot of fun with despite my limited gaming time.

Never played WoW but the latest addition made me think, "Huh, is this Kung Fu Panda the game?"

Thats pretty much the reason I bought it. I play League from time to time also, but there isn't that much to do in it.


I was thinking about getting Guild Wars 2, and I will probably end up getting it sometime around or just after Christmas. That or Arma 2 so I can play some Day Z, which I hear is quite good.

It's pretty fun for a little bit. I played for a week and then stopped 2 times, I play other MMO's though. If you don't play any you might enjoy it more.

Feel kind of bad for so many of us being wet blankets. If the O.P. has never played WoW he has nothing to compare it to (like those of us who started when if first came out). Its a very well polished game with tons of stuff to do. I had a lot of fun for several years messing around with it (Probably could have gotten an MBA with all the time I invested in it! ). The O.P. probably will as well.

Stop making sense. This is BGSF. Get your hipster game face on!

Its not just the time its going to take to download each game, but then you have the patches which each game downloads before you can install the next one, last i installed it during wrath, after i had a format and it took me at least an hour, no idea what it'd be now.

But the one problem i found and wasnt any different when i played if your just starting its difficult to get any assistance, its rare to find anyone who is willing to help you, i fond the best way to play is to have friends join with you when you start, so you can play together, i found the endless grind with no idea what i was doing really frustrating, then the end game grind for gold, the game is pretty much dead, the 10 million isnt a real number, its been a constant 10 million for awhile now, and from what many gaming sites are saying even Blizzard mentioned that the real number is lower, that they hadnt given a proper accounting as when they lost China, plus given as someone mentioned the gold sellers and bots and massive amount of duplicate accounts.

I'm so sorry. If you wanted to throw $20 in the trash I could've given you my PayPal and you could've given it to me.

If I ever consider buying WoW... I'll keep you in mind.

Like a few people said... It will never be as good as it was in Burning Crusade. I just don't have the time to dedicate to the boring grind and doing the same raid 23 times to get the gear to get into a halfway decent guild to raid. Lots of fun if you play it with friends though!

In my opinion, the style of MMO that WoW is seems to be so overdone, and I'm just tired of them. Not many MMO's have a different playstyle compared to WoW. League of Legends is very different, and I adore them for that, but I'm just not a fan of it. I'm glad they are trying to do things differently, though.

I'll never play WoW again, from the start the game is nothing but take quest, kill *INSERT NUMBER HERE* monsters/creatures, return for experience, repeat. I'd rather play something that isn't so dull, all the time to each their own, I guess