I'm giving in... and getting WoW...

I was mildly entertained by RuneScape for a while but the graphics finally made me sick to my stomach so I quit it easily. Then MapleStory took 3 months of my life (like a year ago) and easily quit that. Some kids at school and numerous other sources whom own WoW state that it cannot be quit easily and is indeed addicting, plus the monthly cost, its like Ciggarettes!

In my bored summer of depression, I just requested WoW for my B-Day... giving into the tempation.

To get to a point, do any of you current WoW players have any pacing advice?

Noooooooo! Nerd!

Only joking, Ive never played the game so I cant exactly say 'it sucks'.

WoW was my first MMORPG and I definately learned a few things about the genre in the 100+ hours I played the game. First, I don't recommend trying to keep up with real life friends who have different gaming habits than you. I had a few friends that would put in 30 or so hours a week, while i refused to commit that time. Fora while when i played, i just wanted to level as fast as possible to try to catch up, which was impossible anyways; finally taking a hiatus before coming backbecause it was no fun. Take your time, try out the battlegrounds, and find some online friends that you can bs and quest with. Basically you have to come to terms that there are going to be plenty of people that literally devote their lives to the game; they are gonna whoop on you; and they'll have better gear than you and will probably belittle you for any noobish comments you make. From what I understand, WoW offers the worst aspects of MMORPG gaming in that respect. Ifyou just take your time and find a good core group of people to work with, than it can be very enjoyable. Another tip is the blue bar. Whenever you dont' play, your experience bar turns blue proportionally to how long you didn't play, so if you only play when blue barred, you are maximizing your play time efficiency and ensuring you don't devote your life to the game. To be honest, the main reason I quit playing was because I realized that I was using all my gaming time for this one game, andI missed out on a lot of great and diverse games to concentrate on what is basically at least 50% mindless, repetetive grinding.

WoW is a great game and for the person saying it gets repetitive, your character was only lvl 26 lol you barely expirencied the game.

WoW is a great game and for the person saying it gets repetitive, your character was only lvl 26 lol you barely expirencied the game.

blackjack1425

26, and barely experienced it? lol. I think what I'll do is pay for like 3 months or however long the pre-paid cards are, then take a break and when I want back I'll get another card for another while. Maybe take a week in between each card if I'm really addicted.

If I get B-Daymoney I might get the expansion, although I think I should take more time to get stuff done with the classic version before trying any of the new features.

Seriously, you'd be better off using that money to buy a dozen games from the $5 bin, there's a good chance that each one of ém is far more entertaining then WoW.

The only fun I ever had playing WoW was mainly due to the people I played it with, and the funny thing is, if you replace WoW with some beers and a good movie, you'll have a lot more fun for the duration of that movie then you'll have playing Wow.

That game is purely and solely meant to give you SOMETHING to do. It has nothing do to with fun whatsoever.
So go try some real games.

honestly as a public service, unless you are a true noob, then dont play WOW. Its the most overhyped, under delivering, plain vanilla game i can think of. Dont get me wrong i played it for a real long time, but honestly ANY other mmo would be a better choice.

The game is nothing but acquiring gear. Once you get that gear what can you do with it? get more gear. Thats not even mentioning the straight terrible character choices you have available to you. Shotgun Bunny has got it right m8, WOW is not worth the $15 bucks a month much less the game costs.

I was mildly entertained by RuneScape for a while but the graphics finally made me sick to my stomach so I quit it easily. Then MapleStory took 3 months of my life (like a year ago) and easily quit that. Some kids at school and numerous other sources whom own WoW state that it cannot be quit easily and is indeed addicting, plus the monthly cost, its like Ciggarettes!

In my bored summer of depression, I just requested WoW for my B-Day... giving into the tempation.

To get to a point, do any of you current WoW players have any pacing advice?

-shmelo-

Can I have your other games?

If your computer isn't very strong,I suggest you'll ask for a high end computer or something close to it so you'll be able to play the games that's getting released later this year,like Crysis,UT3,CoD 4 or Gears of War..

WoW is a game that if you'll get addicted to it,you're probably gonna play it a year or more,it ruins your social life,so it's not recommended..

try a girlfriend. they [...] don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

I wish that were true.

I was guild leader of a big guild... The only thing about WoW is that you spend a lot of time preparing raids, but when you beat a really strong boss you are so happy, so proud !!!

In fact If you got a lot of playtime, WoW is for you. If you are just a casual, it will be impossible for you to join big guilds and then to have some really good stuff.

Seriously, you'd be better off using that money to buy a dozen games from the $5 bin, there's a good chance that each one of ém is far more entertaining then WoW.

The only fun I ever had playing WoW was mainly due to the people I played it with, and the funny thing is, if you replace WoW with some beers and a good movie, you'll have a lot more fun for the duration of that movie then you'll have playing Wow.

That game is purely and solely meant to give you SOMETHING to do. It has nothing do to with fun whatsoever.
So go try some real games.

ShotGunBunny

very well said

edit: ironic that my gspot rank is a wow reference

try a girlfriend. they are much more fun than WoW and don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

No, they charge an hourly fee...

If you're bored and depressed, one of the worst decisions you could make would be to start playing World of Warcraft. Address your problems rather than compounding them with a game that causes a lot of people like that to become even more isolated and lonely, and ultimately leaves them, in "real life," withnomore than they started with to show for the hours and hours they sunk into it.

As far as "giving in to temptation," or WofWC being some sort of forbidden fruit, it's not like that. Drugs, crime, deviant sex -maybe. But this game? Yeah, give in to the temptation of sitting alone in front of your computer for hours and hours on end while your brain does the equivalent of staring at a blank wall.

try a girlfriend. they are much more fun than WoW and don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

LOL... I wish that was true. Would be SO much cheaper. Or atleast, you'd know how much you'd end up spending on a normal basis. Sometimes they just want to hang out with you and not spend anything. Other times, they'll want to go to the most expensive restaurant AND get the most expensive things from there.

If you've had a g/f you've been VERY lucky if they didn't "charge" you anything.

try a girlfriend. they are much more fun than WoW and don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

^ This guy's never had a girlfriend (WoW is much cheaper)

I'm still currently playing WoW. I and a group of my friends from work are all in a guild together. When we're not messing around at work, we're at the bar or doing something. WoW is for night time, and a day off during the week when everyone else is at work. Personally I agree that it's more a way to pass the time. There are different levels of play time you can consider to invest, but overall the "vanilla of an mmo" as someone referred to it as, is pretty rewarding in the long run. My guild runs the high level instances and clowns on eachother over Vent (VoIP service). It's much more a social experience than a gaming one at the high levels. Sure, there is some serious skill involved in telling 25 people in the same raid what to do, but for the first 6 months you play, you'll mostly be grinding out quests and collecting decent gear to take part in larger raids in "end game."

Consider the amount of time you want to invest in the game, and if your still living off birthday money to buy your games, expect mom and dad to hound you on those late nights when you should have been in bed 3 hours ago, but your wiping on the last boss of a raid you've been in since 7 o'clock.

If your still considering the game after you sift through this thread then good luck to ya.

PS.. If you want an easy play experience in the game: Pick a Hunter. They're ridiculously overpowered with crappy gear and can kill just about anything in battlegrouds without breaking a sweat. Plus they're one of the more fun classes in the game.

[QUOTE="BOOdist"]try a girlfriend. they [...] don't charge a monthly feeErlkoenig

I wish that were true.

LOL

try a girlfriend. they are much more fun than WoW and don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

More like a weekly fee. :)

Idiot down go into peer pressure... sooner or later your gonna start smoking chrysmethpotweedbaccococrackoherijuana. Just go pick up battlefield 2 or 2142 instead of a shiddy mmo.

WoW is the best MMO out there. Don't buy into the crap people are saying about it, like it takes your life and **** NOT TRUE, they probably haven't played the game and if they have they only got to lvl20 and got bored because they suck :P
There's no problem in quiting WoW either, I've put down 2500+ hours in WoW and didn't have any problem quiting, it's just like any other game but it stays fun for 100 times longer.

I was mildly entertained by RuneScape for a while but the graphics finally made me sick to my stomach so I quit it easily. Then MapleStory took 3 months of my life (like a year ago) and easily quit that. Some kids at school and numerous other sources whom own WoW state that it cannot be quit easily and is indeed addicting, plus the monthly cost, its like Ciggarettes!

In my bored summer of depression, I just requested WoW for my B-Day... giving into the tempation.

To get to a point, do any of you current WoW players have any pacing advice?

-shmelo-

I've played WoW for 3 years, but finally threw in the towel. Left a decent geared level 70 Druid on Alliance, two level 60's and a level 56 on the Horde. Advice...

My advice is, just have fun and don't get too tense about PvP (which was all I even played the game for). Get into a good guild, and try to find good community. I had terrible luck finding good community, but I'm glad I played the game because I met two of my best friends in there (which, they don't play now but we still keep in touch). Community will ultimately be your goal if you want to have as much fun as possible. Get involved, but don't get stressed with raiding.

It's all fun and games until end-game. Some people absolutely love end-game, but it's full of elitist 12-year olds now, mainly. If you have any questions you can private message me here...I'm active on these forums daily.

[QUOTE="BOOdist"]try a girlfriend. they [...] don't charge a monthly feeErlkoenig

I wish that were true.

Yeah lol they are much more expensive than wow unfortunately..... Wow is an oki game you'l have fun with it :)

I've been playing for over 2 years and over 1500 hours (which isn't that much if you think about it... 2 hours a day average :P), and I gotta say, in my opinion, everything up to the max level is just one big tutorial, and the REAL game begins at 70. Up until then you're doing quests and whatever to level up - but once you get to 70, you join a raiding guild, and that's where the game REALLY begins (IMO). Killing things while watching a number go up... meh, w/e, some people like it, but to me I spend most of my time at the max level because it seems like it's all about fun. :D

If you're bored and depressed, one of the worst decisions you could make would be to start playing World of Warcraft. Address your problems rather than compounding them with a game that causes a lot of people like that to become even more isolated and lonely, and ultimately leaves them, in "real life," withnomore than they started with to show for the hours and hours they sunk into it.

As far as "giving in to temptation," or WofWC being some sort of forbidden fruit, it's not like that. Drugs, crime, deviant sex -maybe. But this game? Yeah, give in to the temptation of sitting alone in front of your computer for hours and hours on end while your brain does the equivalent of staring at a blank wall.

SmallPower

Before I played WoW, the highest mark I'd gotten in school was a 90, which is pretty good but meh, mostly my averages in school were low to mid 80's. After I got WoW, my marks shot up, recently ending grade 12 with a 98.8% average, including 2 100's in Calculus and Geometry. Coincidence? Maybe. But I think WoW affects your brain much more than than staring at a blank wall. :P

And I hate how people talk about the game like: A) It's a drug, and B)Everyone who plays it plays for 10 hours a day. WoW has the largest casual fanbase of any MMORPG out there. And there's no "requirement" to play a large amount of hours. When someone says "I played 5 hours of WoW last night", I doubt they didn't have a blast. After all, why else would someone put so much time into a game if not for fun? The person playing for 5 hours a night isn't playing because his brain has become chemically dependant on the game - he's playing because the game is providing more fun than the other options available to him that night. In other words, the people who play it alot play it alot because of choice - because they enjoy the game. So saying things like "that game ruins peoples lives" is nonsense - if they get more fun from the game than watching TV, what right do people have to say thier life is ruined?Especially considering that they're probably having more fun than the average adult has.

I was mildly entertained by RuneScape for a while but the graphics finally made me sick to my stomach so I quit it easily. Then MapleStory took 3 months of my life (like a year ago) and easily quit that. Some kids at school and numerous other sources whom own WoW state that it cannot be quit easily and is indeed addicting, plus the monthly cost, its like Ciggarettes!

In my bored summer of depression, I just requested WoW for my B-Day... giving into the tempation.

To get to a point, do any of you current WoW players have any pacing advice?

-shmelo-

No. Just play it to your hearts desire since you are on summer vacation. School starts soon enough and you will then be forced to pace yourself. WoW is a great game and I bet you will have loads of fun with it.

First of all, you will have fun, and create some fond memories.

BUT

All the little things you used to have time for (cleaning up after yourself, playing other games, eating, sleeping) will be forgone for just a few more minutes of WOW. Unless you are flying from Orgimmar to Gadgetzan, then you've got 7 minutes to do any one of the aforementioned things. If you are good at moderation, go for it. If you go overboard with things and have little restraint, might as well check yourself into rehab for a few months. (Luckily I started during a month long college Christmas break where I wasn't working).

Don't do it!

Nah, just kidding, go find out what all the excitement is about. WoW stole about 7 months of my life but it was worth it, but I'm proud to say that today I'm WoW free.

try a girlfriend. they are much more fun than WoW and don't charge a monthly feeBOOdist

Anyone saying stupidsh1t like no....They charge a weekly/hourly fee....You are whiped shut the hell up. Obviously youb1tches got no GAME HAHAHHA.

I've sucessfully pulled myself away from wow 2 times in my life. It's hard, Just don't think your mage can make food for yourself in RL and you should be fine.

I've sucessfully pulled myself away from wow 2 times in my life. It's hard, Just don't think your mage can make food for yourself in RL and you should be fine.

Seriously, you'd be better off using that money to buy a dozen games from the $5 bin, there's a good chance that each one of ém is far more entertaining then WoW.

The only fun I ever had playing WoW was mainly due to the people I played it with, and the funny thing is, if you replace WoW with some beers and a good movie, you'll have a lot more fun for the duration of that movie then you'll have playing Wow.

That game is purely and solely meant to give you SOMETHING to do. It has nothing do to with fun whatsoever.
So go try some real games.

ShotGunBunny

Totally agree, WoW is just full of grind.