World of Warcraft

[NightDancer]

Time to get my nerdgear on, alright here it goes!

I got into this game end 2006/beginning 2007 and ever since then I am hooked! I don't really have a side that I prefer but if I had to choose I would choose Horde because they have more fantasy characters. I was wondering if any of you share or shared my addiction? Don't worry I don't play it non-stop, whenever I have game-time I play an hour or two in the evening but not every day. I quit for months lots of times.

[Optic]

Well here is my WoW story:

 

I started playing WoW during my university years, my first foray into the game was vanilla WoW, shortly before the Burning Crusade expansion came out. It was my first MMO game and I soon got addicted! I almost always played Alliance, my first character being a Human warrior. Tried a few different classes but then came back to Warrior as a Night Elf.

 

The novelty wore off and I joined various small raiding guilds doing the first few raids in BC (Karazhan) and Lich King (Naxxramas). Fun and awesome lore wise but can be more stress than fun sometimes on the boss fights since you do have to coordinate carefully with 9 other people. And of course finding a common raiding time due to time zones... so I stopped raiding. And eventually I stopped playing and deleted my account as it was taking up way too much of my time which I needed for university. I stopped at Lich King.

 

It's amazing and bizarre at the same time seeing how successful this game is given its age. I do wonder if the latest expansion Mists of Pandaria will be the last...?

 

[ankokuryuumugen]

I would play a new MMO if it had mecha in it. I wonder how fun it will be if the AN ppl got together in one game and formed a guild.

[FearInCube]

I would play a new MMO if it had mecha in it. I wonder how fun it will be if the AN ppl got together in one game and formed a guild.

Aion has a mecha class that you might like

[drill]

Aion has a mecha class that you might like

That post is two years old, and the member hasn't even been on in a year.

[FearInCube]

That post is two years old, and the member hasn't even been on in a year.

Didn't know that

haha

[SanguineTear]

I had a friend who played WoW a lot and suggested I try it, but the paid subscription sort of thing really turns me away. Can't always have free time to play games, and there are any other games I would want to play too, so the fee seems like it just wouldn't be worth it to me if I would only be playing the game on and off.

[Optic]

...but the paid subscription sort of thing really turns me away.

Indeed. I found the gameplay became stale after a year, but the new content they were releasing did kept me going for sometime. Unfortunately the nature of MMOs is with each new major patch your class abilities can change significantly (due to PvP balancing) and well - community pressure.

 

To top it off every Tuesday they shutdown all the servers for maintenance. This was done at a decent off-peak time for those in the US (3:00 AM PDT to 7:00 AM PDT) but for those in Australia and Southeast Asia (e.g. Singapore) that effectively meant Tuesday evenings were a no-go due to time zones. Add that up every week and you sort of feel a little ripped off...

 

Those two factors really broke the immersion for me compared to a traditional RPG game.

[SanguineTear]

Oh that's really lame that they'd be doing the maintenance at a time that would be really convenient for you to play. That's the problem with a lot of games; maintenance always to seem to happen at the worst time. Or the servers end up going down permanently eventually.

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New Expansion lol