Does anybody else play this?
I keep hearing how wonderful it is and have been considering having a go.
a) I’m on dial-up not broadband.
b) I actually want a life outside hunching in front of a computer screen. I suspect if I started, I’d have trouble leaving.
Apparently it is the New Ever “crack” if you want to continue having anykind of life outside your computer play cards instead.
WOW or the plague of the MMORPG world
WOW has its up side and its down side but in my mind it is often a grind just to go from place to place or meet the pre-requisites for a quest.
It is also open ended with no end goal except reaching 70th lvl and getting the top gear. It can be frustrating if your goal is simply to level up.
It can be fun played with a group, some of the “instances” require a group to be completed.
Being able to play on either side is quite amusing also.
You pay for a nice game but unless you wish to spend a lot of hours playing it will take you a long time to get anywhere.
Oh and people to play it on dial up.
Love it or hate it, get a trial version before you buy!
Jared
DON’T DO IT! It’s a life stealer!
what does MMORPG stand for?
is it the latest geek speak for computer game that never ends and robs you of all ability to interact socially without a screen in front of you.
or Mighty Morphin Octagenerian Rastafarian Power Grannies.
I hope it is the latter because its silly 
Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
I happily and comfortably balance WoW with a social life. When I first got it (Year and a half or so ago) I retreated into it for most of my spare time because I was going through some emotional difficulty, but now I usually play every other afternoon or so.
Rory and I play on the Shadow Council server. It’s the RP community there that keeps us coming back, less so than the gameplay itself. We refuse to join raiding or PVP guilds, so we manage to avoid the part of the game which tries to turn it into a second job.
My RP guild did get merged into a raiding guild at one point; it was when I found myself needing to set an alarm to wake up in time for a given dungeon raid (due to the time zone difference between me and the American players) that I decided they weren’t for me.
And in case anyone’s wondering yes, I do have an endgame-level character despite this.
Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game[/quote]
No Grannies then 
What does ‘endgame-level’ mean?
I just can’t get into MMORPGs. They bore me. I found the game ugly, slow paced and repetitive.
What does ‘endgame-level’ mean?[/quote]
Having achieved a level high enough to get involved in high-end raid content for top-level characters. Slaying Onyxia the black dragon queen, fighting Hakkar the Blood God, encountering Illidan the demon hunter turned half-dreadlord swordsman; that kind of thing.
So it sounds like it would be a whole lot more fun if it were a group of friends all playing together?
That also has it’s issues. Friends of mine have fallen out over dumb in-game stuff.
I’ve been playing MMORPG’s since Everquest came out in 1998. WoW is good. It’s bright, colorful, fun, slightly cartoony looking and easy progress compared to most other games in the genre. There are guides out there that can get you from lvl 1 to lvl 70 (max level) in like 2-3 weeks, altho why you would want to do this is quite beyond me. 
It’s also reasonably easy on the computer requirements, unlike Vanguard, which we tried to have a look at, but I would have had to spend $1000 upgrading to play 
whaaaa. Broadband is a very good idea, both for gameplay and patching/updates.
I like WoW. I would NEVER join a raiding guild, for the same reason as Cyclops. I play when I want to play and for as long as I want to play. Raiding guilds have timetables and schedules and you need to be on for at least X hours without interruption. UGH! I play on Proudmoore which is not a PVP server so you won’t get bored 12 year olds killing you just because they can, which can get really annoying, PVP is another thing like raiding, you’ll either love it or hate it, I hate it!
If you like computer games you’ll probably love WoW, if you aren’t a computer game person you will never get it! Simple as that really. 
if you have real life friends who want to play, that’s always more fun, altho i’m part of a 25+ guild called The Older Gamers and they are a pretty casual and helpful bunch.
Unlike real life combat groups tho, when you get done swinging your sword at lvl 70, you won’t be any better at it… I wish there was a way to really learn how to fight in a computer game, that would be cool, altho i’d need a bigger office!
That also has it’s issues. Friends of mine have fallen out over dumb in-game stuff.[/quote]
It is definitely a much more enjoyable experience when playing with friends. I’ve made some very good friends through the game, but having people you know from your area playing as well is thoroughly enjoyable.
In-game drama is not terribly difficult to avoid. Raiding guilds especially get enormous amounts of in-fighting over loot, and you get the occasional selfish idiot when grouping with people you don’t know, which is just more reason to avoid both of these things (not hard).
Yeah, I know a lot of people who live their second life through WoW. Some of them even lead their first life through it. I found the only reason I liked it was coz it was pretty and you could walk around in it but it can be blindingly dull if you aren’t playing with friends.
Oh and Cyclops, we all know why you REALLY play RP servers and hang around the Inns
[quote]Ohmurr the Unchanged says:
I need a picture of a night elf woman dancing on a mailbox
Gecko says:
hehehehehe
Ohmurr the Unchanged says:
JUST FOR POSTING PURPOSES >.>
Gecko says:
HAHAHAHA
Gecko says:
SURE[/quote]
Case and point!
Context clarification, I was going to use it to respond to her post
Would it be incredibly pathetic if my first real date with my first girlfriend was on Wow? We watched the sun rise from the top of the Tauren capital. Forgot the name by now. I have been resisting its insidious lure.