Meh, I guess you've had too many bad experiences with WoW. In any case, I like WoW, my sis plays WoW, and my bro plays WoW. Lots of nerds play WoW. Lots of nerds play BF2. I'm afraid you'll have to live with it, because WoW isn't going anywhere for a long time, my friend.
I used to be hardcore CS. Then my friend got me into D2 with him and I lost 2 years to that along with constantly programming and improving D2jsp bots.
Then I moved on to FFXI at my other friends urging. I lost two years of my life to FFXI. Spent many long days programming for it too. The challenge of programming kept me into it, fully automating all your accounts so that the could perform all the functions a human could, but 24/7 with no rest was an engineering challenge I enjoyed greatly.
In the end, it cost my lifestyle too much, and I have moved to BF2 and HL2/CS where you can play as little or as much as you want, without sacrificing the time of 5 other players. Conclusion, stay away from MMPORGs, or it will become a vice like chain smoking, drinking, and gambling. Lets not forget whores too.
That is all.
Then I moved on to FFXI at my other friends urging. I lost two years of my life to FFXI. Spent many long days programming for it too. The challenge of programming kept me into it, fully automating all your accounts so that the could perform all the functions a human could, but 24/7 with no rest was an engineering challenge I enjoyed greatly.
In the end, it cost my lifestyle too much, and I have moved to BF2 and HL2/CS where you can play as little or as much as you want, without sacrificing the time of 5 other players. Conclusion, stay away from MMPORGs, or it will become a vice like chain smoking, drinking, and gambling. Lets not forget whores too.
That is all.
I played World of Warcraft on Blackrock as a 60 Troll Mage and a 60 Undead Rogue alt. I've cleared Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Zul'Gurub, killed Onyxia more times than I care to remember. World of Warcraft is a great game, very user friendly, fun, community based (abuse based on blackrock), very laid back and very competitive when you want it to be.
Then you quit for a week and realise what it really is from a different perspective. World of Warcraft, as unfortunate as it may seem, was my entire life for 13 months. I deliberately didn't attend an entire semester of University just so I could play the game. It's a money-sucking time-sucking addiction to a game where you basically sit around and do next to nothing.
Sure theres battlegrounds. Compare this to having to wait 20-30 minutes in the Battlefield 2 menu before being able to connect to a server and play for 15 minutes. Sure theres the PVE aspect that whilst fun and enjoyable with friends, really gets tiresome once you've mastered every single boss and it becomes merely a farm-fest for ungeared members of your guild. I hate the game.
HOWEVER, after playing my mage for 106 days collective in the timeframe of 1 year (thats right, 1/3 of the year entire year, day and night, my character was logged on), and gearing him up in full epics and the best of everything, reaching rank 10/14 in the Honor system, grinding various reputations, increasing tradeskills and making sure I had my character the best he could possibly be, the one thing I learned from what I still look back upon as a lot of fun was, community.
I will never forget my asian guild-leader singing the Asian remix of Tupac - Changes. I will never forget down-to-wire games in Warsong Gulch against the best Alliance teams our server had to offer, where it came down to matters of seconds as to who would capture and return the flags for the win.
The one thing that WoW was really about was making friends, and after doing so, I learnt that everything is an absolute fuckload more fun when you're doing it with a bunch of mates with microphones. Amen.
Then you quit for a week and realise what it really is from a different perspective. World of Warcraft, as unfortunate as it may seem, was my entire life for 13 months. I deliberately didn't attend an entire semester of University just so I could play the game. It's a money-sucking time-sucking addiction to a game where you basically sit around and do next to nothing.
Sure theres battlegrounds. Compare this to having to wait 20-30 minutes in the Battlefield 2 menu before being able to connect to a server and play for 15 minutes. Sure theres the PVE aspect that whilst fun and enjoyable with friends, really gets tiresome once you've mastered every single boss and it becomes merely a farm-fest for ungeared members of your guild. I hate the game.
HOWEVER, after playing my mage for 106 days collective in the timeframe of 1 year (thats right, 1/3 of the year entire year, day and night, my character was logged on), and gearing him up in full epics and the best of everything, reaching rank 10/14 in the Honor system, grinding various reputations, increasing tradeskills and making sure I had my character the best he could possibly be, the one thing I learned from what I still look back upon as a lot of fun was, community.
I will never forget my asian guild-leader singing the Asian remix of Tupac - Changes. I will never forget down-to-wire games in Warsong Gulch against the best Alliance teams our server had to offer, where it came down to matters of seconds as to who would capture and return the flags for the win.
The one thing that WoW was really about was making friends, and after doing so, I learnt that everything is an absolute fuckload more fun when you're doing it with a bunch of mates with microphones. Amen.
Last edited by junkpi1e (2006-03-20 06:49:01)