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The WOW "snowball" effect
thej6m
Member Posts: 38
Does anyone else play wow not because it is their favorite MMO, but because they have friends/family that play it or because they have made in game friends that they wish to continue playing with? It seems that one common theme on this board is that most veteran MMo gamers who play WOW do not view it as their favorite but continue to play anyway. For me I continue to play WOW because my friends all play it and my favorite MMOs (Shadowbane and City of Heroes/Villains) are seriously lacking in the number of players online at a given time. Does anyone else fall into this camp?
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Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Unlike many it seems i was not a sheep i found my own online game not through copying my friends but by activly trying out free trials till i got one i liked below is the list of game si ahve tried and rejected.
NEOCRON
WoW
GUILDWARS
COH
COX
FINAL FANTASY
RF ONLINE.
EVERQUEST
EVERQUEST 2
ANARCHY ONLINE
SECOND LIFE
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
WOW is a great game until you get to 60 but I wouldn't expect an Eve fanboi to understand that. Just curious but how many Eve fanbois are Star Trekkies?
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
WOW is a great game until you get to 60 but I wouldn't expect an Eve fanboi to understand that. Just curious but how many Eve fanbois are Star Trekkies?
No idea on the star trecky thing im afraid But most of us do understand the fun till level 60 thingy as most of us have done it aparently. Not me tho i only got to level 27.
besides whats wrong with being a star trek fan anyway or a star wars fan.
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
So after reviewing the list of MMO's you've played and seeing you have never played AC it's apparent you have no idea what you were/are talking about and this was just another lame attempt by a dedicated Eve fanboi to take a stab at the #1 MMO on the market.
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
So after reviewing the list of MMO's you've played and seeing you have never played AC it's apparent you have no idea what you were/are talking about and this was just another lame attempt by a dedicated Eve fanboi to take a stab at the #1 MMO on the market.
Ahh so becaue i never palyed AC that invalidates me as a person does it
And why would i make a stab at the number 1 MMO on this site if i paly it
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
So after reviewing the list of MMO's you've played and seeing you have never played AC it's apparent you have no idea what you were/are talking about and this was just another lame attempt by a dedicated Eve fanboi to take a stab at the #1 MMO on the market.
Ahh so becaue i never palyed AC that invalidates me as a person does it
And why would i make a stab at the number 1 MMO on this site if i paly it
Because you have never played AC that invalidates your comment of WOW being a downgrade to AC. Your extremely poor spelling invalidates you as a person.
I loaded and played Asheron's Call after my boss told me I had to try it. I was immediately hooked and we spent most of our work days talking about new items, spell research, leveling spots, etc.
Heh i be t that was an interesting experience.
So if you found AC so good why do you play WoW then id have thought that would ahve been a bit of a downgrade?
So after reviewing the list of MMO's you've played and seeing you have never played AC it's apparent you have no idea what you were/are talking about and this was just another lame attempt by a dedicated Eve fanboi to take a stab at the #1 MMO on the market.
Ahh so becaue i never palyed AC that invalidates me as a person does it
And why would i make a stab at the number 1 MMO on this site if i paly it
Because you have never played AC that invalidates your comment of WOW being a downgrade to AC. Your extremely poor spelling invalidates you as a person.
petebourough, United Kingdom
Ever stop to think that English wasn't his first language.
I like EVE so you can begin to flame me too, you child.
playing eq2 and two worlds
wow is just evidence on how crappy most mmo's really are.
Most wow players i bet, would play something else if there was something else better to play.
sadly there is not.
I weep for mmo's, especially lately.
Off the top of my head I've played or beta:
UO, AC1 & 2, EQ1 & 2, Neocron, AO, AA, WoW, L2, LOTR, DDO, SB, E & B, Vendetta Online, Jumpate, DAoC, CoX, GW, Matrix Online, Planetside, SWG, and WW2 Online.
Out of all of those I played at least a month in retail or beta.
WoW is popular becuase it satisfies gaming needs of millions of casual players.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
Cool man, Gratz. nice to hear people from all walks are playing. More the merrier. Keep em commin
I've never played an MMO on the suggestion of a friend/family member. I always play whatever game I feel like trying out. Eventually I usually turn a friend onto it, as has been the case in EQoA, SWG, EQ2, WoW, and CoH.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
SnowWhite and dwarves hands down. SnowWhite will flash them and daze them both since neither have seen tits IRL. After that the dwarves will just goto work on them.
I'm not Nostradamus or anything... just my predictions.
The process of getting from 0-60 certainly had it's fun parts but they were nothing special, and I can certainly see why people who've only played the wow trial or played from 0-60 and not invested time into their character at 60 would find WoW dull. It doesn't offer much for that brief bit of play that other MMO's don't. But for me and for a lot of other people (e.g. many of the people who frequent theorycrafting forums like EJ), 0-60 is a pretty irrelevant part of the game, and figuring out end-game PvE content is the draw. And you really can't get that from doing anything in WoW other than raiding at 60 for several months at least, because content can only be figured out when it's new, and you're not geared to do new and challenging raid content unless you've got a raid group geared and experienced through months of the previous content. The initial raid content you can experience soon after hitting 60 is pretty dull and simple, and even that's complex compared to how basic the pre-60 PvE content is.
To clarify, I'm not saying that's something good or bad about WoW, it's just a fact about it. Unless you've actually done it (raided extensively after hitting 60 in WoW), you're lacking a pretty basic part of the understanding of what holds people to WoW, and hence aren't really qualified to say WoW is a bad game. You can talk all you want about the problems WoW's 0-60 levelling content has, but will continue to be dismissed by people who actually play what amounts to a different game - WoW's raiding forefront.
If you've raided a lot in EQ say, you probably know what I'm talking about, and the same goes for other raiding games. I haven't played other MMO raiding games myself, but I'd guess their raiders also don't really give much of a damn about the pre-end-game content.
For the record, I've tried out a bunch of asian mmo's and never really got into any because they never showed me much of interest PvE wise - not that I gave any of them as much of a chance as I did WoW though. EVE has many intriguing things that I might try some day, but the late-game PvE isn't one of them.
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