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WoW, is it still worth playing?
I played WoW in 2004 made a light purple haired gnome mage named Razimus and logged out 1 minute after gameplay, it wasn't my account but I wasn't too impressed, is it still worth paying to play? I did a search and saw some high lvl player named Razimus in WoW, must've saw my char and ripped off the name, I was a fan of Warcraft in 1994 that game ripped dune2 off so well that it's my 2nd fav rts of all time, and I liked the upgrades in warcraft2, but never liked the final-fantasy-ish storyline in warcraft3, so I am a fan of the warcraft world maybe not the storyline though. The only thing that I liked most about it was the gnome feature, no other mmo seems to have a playable gnome, but the monthly fee alone was the reason I never subscribed.
--- Razimus
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Ofcourse it's worthwhile to play. Ever wondered why it's the best online game of all time? If you only played for the first minute then ofcourse you don't know anything about it. To be honest, most of the exciting content starts at level 70, whereas there's still much to do while leveling.
It's up to you but i siggest you reroll horde and start playing again
If you have any questions about WoW feel free to ask me.
Jessixa <!--
* 70 Blood elf
* Rogue
* Darksorrow (EU)
To me personally if you haven't been playing it and already have a lvl 70 then no its not worth it...atleast on the couple of servers i play on. Lvling is nothing but quest and takes forever if you can't play 8 hours a day, and no one does lower lvl instances it seems like. And once you hit 70 it all about grinding gear. I would suggest holding of for warhammer online. played in the preview weekend and loved it, its hard for me to play wow anymore. In warhammer you can lvl by either rvr (either open world or instanced) and the lvling isn't slow at all and theres only 40 lvls) also there buttloads of content to be played in warhammer and it doesn't make you feel left out or alone in the lower content, also your gear looks awesome pretty much all the way through. anyways its ultimately your choice but im probably going to be leaving wow until wotlk comes out but def will be staying with warhammer throughout.
At this point, WoW isn't really worth Paying to play (the question he asked).
A few years ago, there weren't many options and F2P games had a lot of issues with in game hackering and account hacking/theft.
Since then, there have been so many F2P games released that offer many features that you find in pay games like WoW., EQ, DAOC and such. There is also the model where you buy the software for $29 and connect to the servers for free. This is also more attractive that a subscription model.
WoW has a large community, but it is fragmented and comparative to Earth being viewed as one community. Sure we all live on the same planet, but we barely interact with our neighbors let alone strangers. Finding a game with a more 'classic' community actually serves better for the gamer looking to find a good community to contribute too. If you have a group of friends that all play the same game together already, then it doesn't really matter where you go.
Blizzard is a very good company and understanding what the masses want and delivering it. You hit on that with the way they ripped off Dune II. That was one of the first RTS games that left an impression and then Blizzard came out. (research may prove they were just RTS gamers that wanted a fantasy version of Dune, who knows). Similar to how Bill Gates was just a kid who liked computers and wanted his own OS for the PC platform that could hold a candle to MAC OS. So he copied them and made Windows.
Check out Runes of Magic in December, Perfect World Online Open Beta on Sept. 2nd, Rohan, Shaiya or Requim - Bloodymary (horror/sci-fi based, but mechanics are MMORPG on a destroyed earth - you run around casting spells and using sword/shield/staff/etc.)
Try out Warhammer if you don't mind paying for a game and being at the START so you are even with everyone else.
WoW has the expansion coming out, that will relevel the playing field if you can get to 70 before December and join a decent guild. However, game engines have surpassed WoW. Unless your PC is really old, skip it.
I would have kept playing EQ when WoW came out, but EQ engine is terrible and I couldn't handle the laggg and SOE raping the game every expansion. WoW ran better than EQ on my new PC. Hell, Vanguard runs better than EQ1 on my newest PC.
Just as a note, not sure if youo're aware of this Razimus. Blizzard ripped Warcraft off of the Warhammer franchise. Story has it that a deal between Blizzard and Games Workshop soured at last minute, but Blizzard still pushed Warcraft out as a product. So if you enjoyed the Warcraft world, I'm sure you'd love the Warhammer universe. I'm not saying join Warhammer Online, I'm saying look into the Warhammer universe.
men you forgot one that got even more popular (if that was possible)since they lunched their europe side ,a lot of people love this game .a lot of peep can relate better with europe then asian mytho. so they dont have a choice(joymax)they lunch another server on september 2(gaia)SILKROAD ONLINE
im a bard in the europe side i dont understand the game fully yet but the way it stand(aion delayed till march 2009 )the rest for me is to mutch copy cat so i ll do like this guy say go f2p micro paiement route.wow is being left ,only hard pvper are there even with wotlk lunch i wont help it was a good game before but not now there are too many f2g out there.
i saw one way mmorpg might be saved.the guy was saying deep specialisation like inventor,explorer etc
but like he said in order to work you got to make it so that if they dont have lets say an explorer they go where the explorer can .i think it would be nice to have deep spacialisation cause now you gain exp throu fight why not through inventing or exploring or whatever imagination bring why does it have to be just and only fighting bring exp and lvling
I would say try Warhammer. WoW --- if you don't have a 70 it's quite useless. Now that the expansion is coming out there will be like absolutely no one may do lower level instances. Warhammer is new, fresh. Leveling is fast and easy. You can quest, PvP (scenarios/battlegrounds), RvR. You level by doing everything except capping out to 70 and sitting in Ironforge or Stromwind all day everyday. The mechanics are a lot of fun in Warhammer. Trust me, if you kind of liked the WoW world, you will love Warhammer. I played wow since closed beta. I've been in Warhammer closed beta. Warhammer has just been 10 times more fun. I'm not bashing WoW and saying it sucks, I'm saying it's hard to level because there will be people camping your corpse ... on PvP servers. On PvE you can have fun questing to 70 ... for a few months. WAR is that game you can play casually and you will never fall behind. And you cannot get camped ... because there are different Tiers. So if a level 12+ character goes to attack a level 1-11 character in Tier 1 ... they will turn into a chicken with 1 HP and a 1 HP attack called peck --- so don't be afraid to kill the chicken and watch them fly up into a cloud of feathers!
Okay I was looking at darkfall but since that game is never coming out, I'll play Warhammer.... I'm gonna make a dwarvish warhammer guild, check for it, the url is gonna be dwarvish dot com (surprised it wasn't already taken heheh), I really do like the screenshots of warhammer and after doing some research I did find out it is an older storyline so probably does have some depth, that's what I'm looking for along with good pvp and pve, I personally love getting pk'd and pk'ing in an open mmorpg world, in a non-cartoon setting, it really draws you in, I like roleplaying occasionally also, pk roleplayers, don't see too many of those, but I usually only pk when I feel they deserve it. If anyone wants to co-found my guild lemme know, my friends don't play mmos, they play playstation 2 and crap like that.
--- Razimus