Why in the Hell do people play WOW? - Page 2

I had a lot of fun when I played. When I started, The Burning Crusade was already out. I tried to play a warrior and a pally (got to lvl 50 before deleting) - damn what a total waste of cash I though. Then I played a Mage. Now THAT was real fun. I lvl'ed to 60 (read: quested to 30 and grinded to 60 - more than painful) then got the expansion. Got to 70 and just got bored and quit. I tried to go back last month and I just couldn't do it anymore. It is WAY too repetitive and its all about gold (like any other pay-to-play MMORPG).

Don't get me wrong here it was fun, but the lack of variety is what eventually made me quit. And its the same if your Horde or Alliance...

I did like helping low levels with the Deadmines though. I like watching VC drop with a quick nuke while the stupid mobs keep hitting me when I have Molten Armor on - Good Times.

1.) Cost of a movie at a theatre for 1.5-2 hours of entertainment. - $9.50

2.) Cost of a single drink at a nightclub (here where I live) - $8.00 - $12.50 (Yes yes.. ONE drink.) Oh and dont forget cover charge ($10-20).. oh and coat check during winter time ($10.00).

3.) Cost of a single plate of dinner out at a decent restaurant. - $16.00 - $26.00 (on average) Oh and maybe you would want an appetizer and a few drinks? Cant forget that.

4.) Game of pool at a poolhall. - $10.00 + $5.00 per hour. Oh and you may want some snacks from the bar. And a few drinks?

5.) Cost of a comedy club ticket - $25.00 up to $75.00 (depending on who is performing).

6.) Cost of a theatre play here where I live. - $25.00 up to $125.00.

All of the above listed liesure time activites do not normally take more than a few hours of time before boredom sets in. These are all activities that you do with "others".

If you want to justify the cost of entertainment.. there it is. If you spend at least 2-3 hours playing WoW each month.. you have used the appropriate time cost wise on par with other entertainment activities.

Just because MMO's were the first games to really charge a monthly fee; doesnt mean its a travesty. Heck.. to play even some FPS games now you have to sign up for an Xbox Gold account and pay a monthly fee. This is the new age of gaming.. more and more you will see subscriptions for being able to play a game. $16 a month as an entertainment expense is virtually nothing. No pun intended.

From playing both WoW and Oblivion and I'd say they fall into much different catagories then just (MMO)RPG vs RPG. So I could see if you're expecting one you wouldn't necessarily like the other. Not to try and be some sort of WoW advocate and try and convince you to play, but the first hour of WoW is by far the worst part of the game.

Translation: WoW is the MMORPG for gamers with a life outside of the game. You're right, there's no REAL challenges like 48hr instances or having to learn some Elvish tongue in order to speak to others in the game.

From this statement we can assume you've played through all of the available content and found no difficulty, correct?

Every thing that you said in your rant was incorrect. Nearly everyone I interacted with ingame when I played WoW had played MMOs previously. You do "loose" things when you make bad choices (wiping a raid and having to spend five minutes running back to the boss on top of the seven gold repair per death). If you pvp in Arenas, chances are you'll do a lot more lose lose losing than win win winning. All of the vet gamers that I know play or played WoW in end game raiding guilds.

L2P

What's wrong, everyone leave your EQ guild and you felt like crying on the forums?

You know ... before WoW, I usually buy one or two games a month. That works out to be $50-100 per month after the currency conversation. After I sign up for WoW since feb 2005 (have I got the year right? ... first launch) till last year, I have probably only bought a couple of other games for the entire period because I played WoW and nothing else for a long time. So, the subscription fee is really not that excessive. That, answers to your "why ppl are willing to spend that much a month".

Just purely from the monetary point of view while ignoring all other factors ...

Here's the great irony of this thread. You have a bunch of people on an Online Game Forum bashing WoW players for the exact same character attributes that somebody else could bash people who spend time posting on an Online Game Forum for having.

Hey buddy, I apologize for my initial response too. Didn't mean to be sacarstic. It is sort of like knee-jerking action when it comes to that raider vs. casual topic that has been debated so intensively in the WoW forum at one point in time.

I can totally relate to that. I got the same request for gold/water/food/instance run too. I think those are more of the immature players we at times encounter - not all the casual players are like that.

In fact, a lot of the casual players are solo-ists or stick with their own friends most of the time (hence not align to an elite guild?) and they seldom request for or accept help even if offered.

Anyway, like you, I have also sort of stopped playing. I just log in occasionally to advance one of my characters with my friend. And ... congraz on your little daughter Must have been a life changing experience.

There is truth in that. It is generally more socially accepted to be a sports nut and sit in front of a TV to watch sports. The only argument that can be used here is that you can do this while having friends over; which allows you to be social. Yeah, you can be social in WoW, but in my experience talking to people outside of the computer, socializing through the Internet isn't as seen as "rewarding" as being social with the person right next to you.

It is really boring to watch, but really addictive to play.

Damn Straight!!!!!!

Chill : Amen! sounds like you have time to play though, if you're stuck in a hotel while travelling for work...

anyhow, here's what i think:

people play WoW because its fun, its epic, and it never ends.

The cost per month is really a non-issue when you consider buying a crappy game like crysis for $40-50 and getting maybe 5-6 hours of mediocre play time out of it... and maybe being slightly amused a few times by blowing up koreans.

WoW, on the other hand... you're constantly improving your charactor and can buy, sell things . WoW is on a completely different level than most other games.

I played from september 2008 to December 31st. If we had 30 hour days I'd still play it, but I have things I need to do and 3-4 hours a day of WoW kind of throws alot of other things out of whack.

I quit playing in january right after I got cold-weather flying on my lvl 77 paladin. I might play again someday but who knows.

because i can. and thats all you need to know. so either slap on some gear and help me pwn this noob or get off my wow.

btw, honestly folks 15/16 bucks a MONTH is pocket change. learn to budget.

and wow does not require a lot of time to play to make progress. just get to level cap and do dungeons once a week and you will get your sense of false achievement. or however you people call it.

I played because I had played all the prior warcraft games and liked the story, + it looked fun. First Online RPG I ever played. Its rather simple to see why it is addictive, getting anything "good" requires a huge time sink, especially for me while I played, because I liked pvp. I liked the PvP but its really impossible to compete and be a casual player. So you end up sinking the time in to get better gear to improve your experience. The game just has an inherently addictive nature, I think of myself as a normal person, I served in the Army for 6 years, went to college like to socialize, but fell into the WoW consuming all of my time trap, until I finally said enough is enough uninstalled and threw the discs out.

On another note it looks rather defensive and egotistical to rag on other gamers, that they should be out drinking and chasing girls instead of playing a game. Whatever floats someones boat if they would rather play games they would rather play games, why do you care. Should the plether of female gamers be out chasing guys and getting drunk?

Its just annoying, it just looks like you are trying to build yourself up by ragging on people (who you really know nothing about, for all you know they could play wow 40 hours a week, tap ass and get drunk on the weekend) if you really have such an exciting life outside gaming, why are you wasting time posting on a gaming board instead of getting a BJ from some sorority skank.

You sound exactly like plenty of people I encountered while playing the game where all they talked about is what they do other tha playing wow (partying getting laid etc) yet they never ever seemed to log off wow.

I think some people just want to label some sort of loser status on people that play RPG's. I.E. they arent satisfied with their own life so they play WoW or whatever. Plenty of people probably play BF2 COD4 etc, every waking hour, but for some reason see a difference from themselves and a WoW addict just because they are playing an RPG. Games are an escape from reality TV movies sports even, all escapes from reality, ultimately you are doing something that doesnt mean **** in the real world. Seriously your average adult during the week probably comes home from work, plops on the couch and watches tv until they go to sleep, so someone is more of a loser because they played wow instead of watching tv all night? Its just a stupid argument.

I will tell you what gamers I dislike, I cant stand playing shooters online listening to people arguing which weapons are better in real life when none of em have shot a bb gun let alone an Ak-47 or M-16. (I served in the US Army for 6 years 01-07) so it really grates on my nerves when people who never served in the military talk about it like are authorities on the realities of war.

There are some really judgemental people here. How can you judge a general ppopulation based on a few cases of abnormal behavior you've read somewhere? As someone said, any game (especially the good one) can be addictive. There is no difference in a person attempting to get a false sense of achievement in WoW than there is in a person attempting to get that same sense from play CoD, or Oblvion, or GTA IV, etc.

The key is the old adage, "All things in moderation." As long as you are taking care of your business (paying bills, spending time with family, whatever you deem to be something worth doing in YOUR life) why should it matter to anyone else how you spend your FREE time (lets not take that argument to the extreme either, I know there are certiain types that like to do that and will come in and say something silly like, "What if you spend your free time raping people?" You know what I mean.)? It's free time for a reason, you use it to do things you enjoy.

It seems as if you are a WoW player, you're in a no win situation. If you defend why you play the game, you're labeled as a brainwashed Blizzard zealot defending your religion, but if you keep quiet you have to deal with people who in actuality know nothing about you, calling you an antisocial loser. Also, I have to say, it's always funny to me when people list alternatives like drinking alcohol and fornication as things WoW players should be doing. Of course, why play WoW when you can be an alcoholic whore? Or should I not generalize everyone who has a drink as an alcoholic or everyone who has sex a whore? Yeah that would be wrong and ignorant, so why make everyone who plays WoW a antisocial, lifeless loser?

I just started playing WoW last year. Before that I played Guild Wars which was my first fray into world of online gaming. I can't say I was/addicted. I enjoyed playing them, and when I had the free time and inclination I would play them. I haven't played in just over a month now, I guess I will go back when Ulduar is released and there is content I haven't tried/completed. It's not about spending hours upon hours continuously in game for everyone. Of course, there are a lot of people that do, but it's not up to me on how they spend there time.

gz for replying to a post 13 months after it went cold

oof, well, I was looking for something else and this caught my eye. Honestly, look at most of the post here and they sound like they're from US/UK stereotypical 360 live mongers. Whats with all the posts talking about women and bars (obviously a large portion of you have not even reach that age yet, and I bet your parents do not approve of those actions either), really that self conscious about your anonymous peers?

if you don't understand completely this is a note on ignorance and stereotyping, not the defense of WoW players.

WOW is a great game and just like all MMORPGs released the game is highly addictive.

I shifted to Atlantica Online nowadays to save money from subscription costs (Atlantica Online is free to play btw) but i limit the number of hours i play online. Once i get focused in a game i sometimes forgot to eat and do the necessary chores. Also my social life becomes affected because is spend most of my time playing rather than socializing...

Well everything must be taken in moderation i guess...

hahaha funny...

i just cured my WOW addiction by being addicted to Atlantica Online!

Yay to me also...

I play World of Warcraft, and i definetely do agree that the gameplay sucks. Blizz doesnt even take the time to think up new monsters, every monster in expansions has most likely just been reskinned. but back to the actual questiong

I started playing WoW to have something to do after i finish my work, and i really like it while leveling, but now at 80 after having run every current raid its the same gdam thing over and over.
The only enjoyable thing in WoW for me now is PvP because its the only thing that doesnt change. But my favorite part is The comraderie that is built, (yes, lol loser on teh internets making friends) but talking to my in game friends in Ventrilo, is what i look forward to when i sign on.

I think this thread needs to be officially renamed "Why in the Hell do people KEEP GRAVE DIGGING THIS THREAD!"

Personally speaking, I don't play WOW cause, I'm not that into going around being some role-playing like charadter however, for those of whom find such game interesting & fun be my guest for, I'll settle for Rome:Total War thank you..


BeachHead

WoW sucks. It's not fun and is a complete waste of time and money.