Why I Left WoW

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

It's obvious that the MMORPG genre is not for you. WoW is actually the fastest leveling and most technically impressive MMORPG that I've played. Its quest driven gameplay beats the living sh*t out of level grinding.

Maybe its not, but I actually think that there are still more than a few faults in the MMORPG genre as a whole. Whether WoW is the best there is (it is the best I've played) or not, there are some problems with the game.

Looking back on my comments, I think the its the time it takes to play and get anywhere in the upper levels that bothers me the most. Travel time is a killer. Also, people say how much easier it is to solo in WoW than other MMO's, but what constitutes "easy"? I'd spend an hour just trying to get a decent group for an instance dungeon.

Having to commit so much time to any game to make a miniscule amount of progress is rediculous to say the least, IMO. Hard-core gamer or not, after hour 4 of not killing anything I start to get antsy in the pantsy. Also, if I never see one more idiot dwarf dancing naked in the auction house I'll be happy as hell.

One other thing that bugged me was how difficult communication was for the most part. I know that there are voice programs available, but few use them. All the stopping to type and trying to communicate during a battle was frustrating. If voice com becomes more commonplace in the future, I might give MMO's another shot.

[KillerGremlin]

I remember the D2 days...those were sad times. I had friends that would have turned down sex to acquire rare items. I was fortunate to get the game a year or two after everyone stopped playing it, and I was still on 56k I believe…so I didn’t play online.

If time wasn’t such a factor, I might have bought WoW. But the thing is, I got stuff to do. In retrospect, I think the reason why Half-Life multiplayer has been in my repertoire for 5+ years is because you can play it for 15 minutes, or for 7 hours.

WoW seems like a fun, huge game. But I gotta be honest, I can't commit.

[Canyarion]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

(The most fun I had was sitting around the opposing force's towns... A crowd would always gather, there'd be dancing and laughing and communicating through the emotes... Until someone at a high level had to go and ruin the fun)

What I did was enter one of the enemy cities and just hang out and watch the reactions you got.
You wouldn't believe how easy it is to walk into Undercity and sit on the old throne. And once you're on the roofs in Ogrimmar, nobody will notice you untill you attack them (I never killed anyone, just teased them).

I also loved emoting a lot. This was my 'trademark': /fart /smell /point /lol

[MuGen]

whenever this happens I always tend to regress to older RTS and older games. When I get tired of Raven Shield, I play Ghost Recon and my love for the game is rekindled. I got tired of Generals and went back to the classic C&C Gold, and was really fun for me to go back to.

EDIT: I forgot my suggestion........ go back to an older WoW and pwn in that game. I always go from UT2004 to 2003 and have so much fun playing classic games.

[Canyarion]

An older WoW. Interesting.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Or a worse MMORPG, my suggestion? Lineage II....a good game, but so hopelessly flawed.....but there's free servers


ask either myself or happydude for the sites.


and then msg me or him if you want to go questing

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

What I did was enter one of the enemy cities and just hang out and watch the reactions you got.
You wouldn't believe how easy it is to walk into Undercity and sit on the old throne. And once you're on the roofs in Ogrimmar, nobody will notice you untill you attack them (I never killed anyone, just teased them).

I also loved emoting a lot. This was my 'trademark': /fart /smell /point /lol

I used to sit up in a window right next to the Ironforge bank, which of course is right next to the Auction House...
Dressed up in my sexy tux and stylish hat...

On a PvP server, mind you (of course they could attack me either way, but people on PvP servers are generally out for blood)...

It was great... I left my 60 rogue in there as I leveled up my priest... Each time I'd pop on, I'd see some of the same bored lvl 60s, they'd gather round... Yell at lowbies trying to kill me... Etc...
One was a wee gnome called pigglywiggly, another was some guy who was always a morphed into a furbolg, holding this neat staff that looked kinda like a torch...

Then when I finally left Ironforge (on foot, BTW), 2 or 3 of the lvl 60s that sat around with me rode all the way from Ironforge, through Loch Modan, and down to the Badlands before they turned around...

It made me extremely happy...

I also used to go to Auberdine and Teldrassil (Night Elf starting area and capital) and help out the (very confused) lowbies...

That's the kind of stuff I loved about the game... The gameplay was very addicting, but the truly memorable moments to me came from just dickin' around, or to a lesser extent, PvP...

[Canyarion]

I once was in the Barrens and /duel-ed a newbie of lvl 12. He duelled me, but he attacked me before the actual duel began, so he triggered PvP. It was great to see his fear after the duel when I could have killed him. But I didn't, which was very funny.

And helping out enemy players is fuuuuuunnn.....