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Really ive been on it for 4 days now and all that it seams to be is wander around get ignored by real people, get a "quest" that all seam to entail killing or collecting a certian thing and taking it back to them, Oh what joy.

Maybe im missing something but even when i have played it with my friend thats been on it for months its no diffrent just wonder, kill, collect, take back and repeat.

Cartianly wont be paying for it monthly when the trial runs out in 7 days

That's what I thought at first too, it seemed the most exciting thing was the /dance emote. But I gave it some time and it's really grown on me; like really grown on me, it's actually symbiotically attached to my left leg. Past level 12 or so when you move into Westfall it picks up. After my first instance run in the Deadmines I was snagged. Then I joined a fairly competent guild that has weddings and gives me stuff because they think I'm funny. And PVP is fun.

Damn, now I need to go play.

It can be a little tedious and dull at first, but after level 10 it really gets it's hooks in you.  Around level 18 you start running instances which is the meat of the game, but level 10 is were you start customizing your character.

Whoa, I beat you by a second.

 ;D

PvP is much better than instances.  I just wish they would give you better rewards for the PvP stuff.

But damn did I make the wrong choice for being a PvPer. Alliance blows!

Me = Horde.
It doesn't matter any more with the new system though.  No one has to wait now that its cross server.

There is no one game that everyone likes, so everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However you may want to give it more of a chance.
Personally I've never played it, but might as well make the most of your free trial ey?

You may still hate it after that even, and fair enough. But I doubt the game is actually crap, we should save that description for games that truly are crap like ET on the 2600 and Perfect Assassin for PS1

ET...*shudder* brrr...the game that killed the industry in the early 80's...truly crap indeed.

I've never played WoW either. But a game would have to absolutely knock my socks off for me to be motivated to pay $10+/month just for the right to play it. I guess I fear that I'd feel that I wouldn't play it enough to get my money's worth out of it. For that reason I think I dodged a bullet with Phantasy Star Universe, I had it reserved but decided to take that $ out of it and put it to Gears of War instead.

I was worried about that too, but I was wrong.  I've been playing it for about 5 months now and I have over 250 hours on it.  It is very much like crack.

If you play WoW for 5 hours in a given month then it is cheaper than seeing a movie.

YES! I really don't like WoW. I've never played it, but the thing is that it sucked up the lives of many of my friends. Last year at school, all of my friends spent all their free time playing WoW and never did anything else. I was left alone without anything to do because my friends were all being stupid WoW addicts.

I never played it because I have a life. I have school, work, and other things to balance, and there just isn't a whole lot of time to play something like WoW.

For me WoW just takes the place of other games. I've said it before, even at $15 a month I spend less (nothing) on other games that I would normally be buying and playing. I've spent nothing on gaming since I bought WoW.

And I don't let it take over my life, I gamed just as much before I started WoW than I do now. I probably play 1-3 hours a day on average, usually at night before I go to bed.

When I started reading this, I thought your friends were some of those fatalities related to this game until I read further  :slick:

Doesn't PSU have an offiline mode to it too though like the original Phantasy Star Online on DC?

why was that BS related to this game as well?

I do think Tondog has a point with what he says i have a friend thats become obsessed by it pestering me to buy it and play it like him everyday ignoring all else.

The game per se may not be "crap" but as far as a good RPG it isn't, things like Zelda's and Panzer Dragoon Saga are much better with set goals and story aimless wondering and trying to battle people with massively powerfull weapons to me just isn't fun and paying monthly for it makes it even worse, in fact i cant even see what you are paying for, As in its free to pay Battlefield and other FPS games so why should this cost so much?

The cost associated with keeping WoW online is much, much more than a first person shooter.  There is a lot of money that goes into keeping the game updated and balanced.  They have added numerous new zones and instances, added a kick ass PvP system, and all that takes a lot to develop.   Do they have to charge everyone $13 a month to play it? Certainly not.  But the cost associated with WoW is much more than for a FPS.   Don't you have to pay for xbox live too?

Because lots of people are willing to pay the amount they're asking for.

yes i know the game is updated and the servers are running but dont other companies make patches for there games too and they dont charge for them.

As for Xbox Live yes that does cost money but its a much bigger system with alot more content supporting any type of game BUT even that should be free as Nintendo's and Sony's apper to be with there new systems.

 

The patches in WoW are much larger and more frequent than for any other game I have ever played.

If you don't like the price of WoW don't go near Final Fantasy XI..they even charge you more per additional character!

WoW kicks X-Box live's ass.

Oh look...the Fanboy Sony-san Leon takes a potshot at xbox...big surprise.  ::)

Sony-san, I like it.

P.S. Death to Micro$oft.

then you better sign up for THIS (http://www.blizzpub.net/petition/) then.  :P

Why? I don't use Linux.

ah a Mac man, good stuff  ;)

I signed it, heck maybe if it were on Linux I would play it, who knows.

Mac, heh heh, I'm sure he uses Microsoft's OS despite hating them.

WoW works on Mac too.

Awesome, now we wait and see if he's a Mac man,or uses Windows then.
But when you say works, do you mean it's on Mac, or you can run it through emulation?
Cause Linux users can already play it through various Windows emulation/compatibility software too.

I have to agree with you that WoW isn't as good as more story based RPG's.  The story behind WoW is practicaly non existant in-game, but I guess that's the problem with a game that is as non-linear as this.  It's hard to make people follow a particular plot path.

I think the reason that I am so into this game is because even in games like Final Fantasy, I get obsessed with maxing out all of my characters stats.  With a game like this, where that is the driving force behind the game, that spells instant addiciton for me. 

I also always wanted a Final Fantasy to be released where you could take your party and fight against a freinds party.  MMORPG's in general give you the chance to do this.  Gives me that much more incentive to play.

I use windows and I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate it. But I can game with it...

I hate Micro$oft for many reasons, and I is wish it would die.

I was a huge Everquest Junkey for 7 years, then I purchased WoW...I kinda like it =)

I support the Linux of today in hopes that one day it will be a strong gaming platform ;D
After so many years of XP. I become beyond board of it, as well as constant Vista delays.

That's just a super quick outline of my situation, in all honest I too hate M$ for many reasons. Like making me put up with Windows Me on my 1st ever PC  >:(

The good thing about Micro$oft? It unifies people giving them common grounds. How so? With our hatred of them. Being anti Sony you'd think The Maligned Samurai-san Leon and I wouldn't agree on much, but M$ has a way of making most people that know of them to hate them.

er how did this get turned in to a rant against Microsoft and a crusade for Linux?

[img width=338 height=360]http://www.killmicrosoft.com/i/killbill.png[/img]

WoW PWNS!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, anywhere the Fanboy Sony-San Leon is allowed to express his opinion on anything that's not explicitly praising Sony products, he will flame Microsoft at every opportunity for the sole reason that he can.  

As far as the Linux "crusade", I don't know.

I drive a Microsoft Windows XP because it has widespread acceptance and compatibility much like a gas-guzzling SUV or a station wagon for it's versatility. But I let loose and have fun behind the wheel of ubuntu, it's fast, custom and sexy. 
:king:

I imagine i'd enjoy WoW if i tried it as i've always enjoyed the Warcraft series and Blizzard's games as a whole, but unfortunately I'm not a big fan of games that never take their fingers out of my wallet. I'd always feel obligated to get my money's worth for the monthly fees, my loss i guess.  :P

  :laugh:

Thumbs up to Tan Ubuntu is a nice ride  ;D but I'll avoid going too off topic.

Yeah, I loved Phantasy Star Online on D  ,cause you payed for the game, and that's what you got, but then you also had a whole online community to adventure 'n' play with at no extra charge. I miss that kinda setup. But in a world here you can't even host an adfree website without paying for it, I guess there is no surprise we have to pay for them to host our alter ego.

p.s. One more post to go  :banana: :beer: :banana:

Yes PSU does have an offline mode. But it is different then the online mode.

That's very good news, unlike PSO BlueBurst witch had all the entire offline version of PSO 1 + 2 and a new 4 (BlueBurst) but you had to be online to play them  ???