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Is WoW (World of Warcraft) really worth it?

PoisonMushroom — GMT

My friend recently showed me some screenshots, and I have to admit. It looks pretty cool. If anyone has played this please let me know your opinions.

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Tyrone — GMT

i have some friends that always play it and they love it. i dont really want to get into another online game so thats why i dont play it.

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The_Shrike — GMT

i have to say i've been tempted to check it out, having been an avid Warcraft III player. i love the universe and the design&style is definitely cool. BUT, i already spend too much time w/UT2K4 and the DC server, so, don't think i'll be checking it out any time soon...

Is WoW (World of Warcraft) really worth it?

LoneTiger — GMT

My overall opinion on pay-to-play games is: They suck bad. Sorry, dislike that kind of games with fervor; great graphics, sound, play, but all is for naught if you have to pay continuously for that "privilege"

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edomingox — GMT

that's right. pay to play? you already spent $40 on a game and then have to pay another $10 a month? after one year, that is $170 you spent to play a game that you maybe put 20 hours a month on. plus, it's not UT2004. I rather play this than that. Guild wars is trying to do away with the monthly fees. I wonder if other games will follow suit.

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onwer — GMT

wel Guild Wars is AFAIK not completly free :( they are going to release expansion packs [patches] witch you have to buy who knows how many they are going to release also you dont have to buy them but people who do get new areas, new items etc etc inventualy meaning you better do buy it or you get into trouble not sure if it is true myself i got WoW and i think it is worth the ?26,99 i pay for 2 months thats becouse i play pre-pay style :P the game itself it is true, it is a insane game to me the price is worth it, especialy since i play more then *20* hours a month i play about.. 8 hours a day or something atm, sry vacation :D usualy its a avarage of 6 a day i think EDIT: yes, i know i am a crazy gamer :) and modder/coder ofcourse :P

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JaggedMarble — GMT

Every game has expansions like that.... Of course you're going to have to pay for it man, without monthly fees they gotta have some way to keep the servers running and make a profit, since they ARE a business.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

WoW? You mean the World of Walking? Blizzard and I haven't been on speaking terms since they killed my last two online characters in one of their games, so I'm afraid my view would be a bit slanted.

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JaggedMarble — GMT

I know that all to well druid.. They did the same to several of my accounts :(

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edomingox — GMT

TheDruidXpawX wrote:

Blizzard and I haven't been on speaking terms since they killed my last two online characters in one of their games, so I'm afraid my view would be a bit slanted.

Sounds like a story that needs to be told. :)

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PoisonMushroom — GMT

Yes Dru, please elaborate upon your previous post. I would like to hear this story....

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

Well I'm of the opinion that Blizzard cant run an online world, based upon their history with Diablo II Round 1, my Necromancer. I built him up in to the high 70s and then Blizard nixed the skill (Corpse Explosion) that he was based around. That in and of itself was fine, sometimes balancing tweaks have to be made. The problem was that they didn?t offer any sort of ?Here have your points spent on that skill? back, or anything, so essentially that character became useless. Round 2, my Javazon I decided to build a character that no one (at least that I had seen) in game had built. I built an amaozn that used javelins. It was a rough class to play, since you always had to pick up more ammo, and you spent all your skillpoints into some unusual skills, and have very specific equipment that was hard to come by. It ended up she was a character that couldn?t kill a single monster to save her life, but if you had an entire cluster of monsters, she could level them, as long as she was with a party who could protect her. I got her up into the low 80s before Blizzard made a game tweak that killed her. They made it so you couldn?t leech mana off the magic damage done by her weapons. Once again, it was a ?Thanks for playing, your character is now useless.? Round 3, Clan Zonation Shan and I used to run a Diablo II clan channel with a couple of others. Clan Zonation. With Diablo II in online play, unless you wanted to end up with a bunch of hostiles PKing you, or you just wanted to run with a good group that didn't snipe all the items, you had to get a clan together, and put up a bot in your clan channel to moderate who was allowed in the channel. I put up a bot that moderated the channel, and everything worked really well? until Blizzard decided that bots wouldn?t be allowed in clan channels anymore, at which point, the whole thing went right in the can. Pkers and item thieves started showing up like mad. People we had told to get lost kept re-appearing? What a load. So yeah? Blizzard has illustrated to me that their ability to run an online world is full of crap. In case you ever bumped into us, My account was TheDruidXpawX, but my characters were (necro) Banfiz (Amazon) Griannie, and Shantara's characters were (Amazon) Kaileel and (Amazon) Shantara Dru

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PoisonMushroom — GMT

I never played Diablo so I have no idea what you just said :shock: . I like WoW (yes I bought it) it does have some downfalls (no chat filter) but I haven't had any problems (unless you count some minor lag) and I think it is really fun. I just have to get more experience with the gameplay to see any real flaws...

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edomingox — GMT

diablo 2 was ok, until you beat it and then it starts over again and you continue doing the same thing over and over again. and then you get to create weapons with gems or something put into the weapons which gives it magical properties. but then you got hacks that can create just about anything. my best weapon i created was some kind of Maul that did over 200 damage, which was alot in that game, sort of like a flak +30. but anyways, it got boring real quick.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

edomingox wrote:

diablo 2 was ok, until you beat it and then it starts over again and you continue doing the same thing over and over again. and then you get to create weapons with gems or something put into the weapons which gives it magical properties. but then you got hacks that can create just about anything. my best weapon i created was some kind of Maul that did over 200 damage, which was alot in that game, sort of like a flak +30. but anyways, it got boring real quick.

Yeah. It was different when you played on the battlenet servers though since they stored all the character data and items.

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Chyster — GMT

TheDruidXpawX wrote:

With Diablo II in online play, unless you wanted to end up with a bunch of hostiles PKing you, or you just wanted to run with a good group that didn't snipe all the itemsDru

This is exactly why this game was shelved very quickly from my gaming portfolio. The PKers were horrible, especially for low level players. Someone comes into the game and asks where you are, any you, thinking that they want to help tell them. Next thing ya know, they kill you and steal all your stuff. Yup, didn't care for it much.

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Insane308 — GMT

how much does it cost a month

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Insane308 — GMT

Poison what is you'r WOW name

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macadamia — GMT

Its not just the name that you need to know, but what realm he is on as well. I do play the game, and I try to play UT as well, but now that I have upgraded the memory on my laptop I can keep both games installed at the same time with no more problems. My realm is Dalvengyr, and my name is Macadamia. Oh, and it costs around $10 a month.

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Titanium.wombaT — GMT

Well, after much pressing from my cousin, my sis & bro-in-law, and also a coworker, I gave WoW a try. Bear in mind I'm a firm believer in the "Don't pay for a game after you've paid for it" philosophy and thus I've been on Guild Wars for a couple years now. In any case, cracked open the 10 day trial and gave it a whirl. I must say I was disappointed. It was fun, true, but certainly not fun enough to pay the extra cash per month to play it. And graphics-wise, Guild Wars is superior, imho. Smoother aliasing, better textures, more fluid movement, etc... Aside from gameplay itself, you have to ask yourself, do you really want to be tied financially to a game? The nice thing about Guild Wars is I can step away for a couple weeks and not feel like I've wasted any time or money. And, now Blizzard plays it's true dirty card with their expansion....that costs as much as the regular WoW! That, in my opinion, is crap. As if their losing any money on the thousands of people who pay to play already. Another cool thing with guild wars is, with the expansions they'll build new abilities and system level things that they give to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have the expansion. So, even with out paying an extra dime since I got it a couple years ago, the game is radically different, and in a very good way! All in all, I'd say go with Guild Wars. You'll spend a lot less time doing pointless stuff like walking for 2 days, and have more fun killin baddies. And the best part is, you'll only pay once! W00T! cheers. t.

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deja_vu — GMT

Well, I am that Sis that Wombat is referring to >:) and I must say I am totally hooked on WOW, although I really hate the pay to play also. And I wont be buying the expansion anytime either, but I think the game is really fun to play. I have Guild Wars also, and each game has it's own awesome things about it. It all depends on what you like in a game. The down side is the time you put into it, which you have to pay for, because Blizzard is a greedy pig lol. So, WOW is a blast to play, but is a pain in the pocketbook. :-@

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Cloud34 — GMT

WoW is actually the game I've been playing for the last year and a bit. I do plan on getting the expansion, eventually. I play it to waste time, and boy does it deliver. I did play Guild Wars for a time, but I wasn't really satisfied with the "endgame" for PvE at the time- Fissure of Woe was meh, and the other one.. Underworld or something, was just more of the same. WoW, despite being pay to play, does get regular new content delivered every couple months- new dungeons with new gear, or events. So once you reach the highest level, there's many many layers of of content to sift through. It ends up being lots of hours of new content, whereas that's something you'd have to buy in the form of expansion packs for Guild Wars. Each game has it's ups and downs. Blizzard toys with class balance every patch, but unlike Diablo 2, most changes are "buffs" to a class to make it stronger in an area that it was considered weak in. Sometimes they swing the nerf bat, but it usually isn't very hard- despite what the avid forum goers on the WoW official forums say. To be honest, the class balancing that happens in Guild Wars I found to be 100x more frustrating. The main difference between WoW and Guild Wars, is that from my time in Guild Wars I interpreted the game as very skill based. WoW is very... gear based. Like Diablo II in that respect. Once you reach the maximum level, it's ALL about getting better gear. Unless you raid 7 days a week, there's always gear that's at least a little better than what you have.

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emetakleze — GMT

I have been sucked into the wortex of walking! Had to try it out, so i've got 1 month to decide if it's fun or not. ;) Names Moshka and I'm a night elf.

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Cazius — GMT

I played WoW for a while. I generally got bored around level 20. I'm too used to Everquest where it was common for groups to assemble and last 5+ hours. In WoW it seems like most groups pull together for one 20 minute quest and then immediately split. It just didn't seem to have the sense of community I look for. Cazius

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Grizzled_Imposter — GMT

played guild wars, played wow, decided I did not like paying to stand in line (wow) guild wars did not have the comunity I like, or a shock rifle [-( I think if there were a guild for wow made up of DC players all on the same server I might give it a try again...

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emetakleze — GMT

to answer the original question, no it's not in my opinion. Played long hours over the past 2 months, much of it was laggy, patches were weekly and if you really want to dl them you have to have p2p enabled which dragged badely. The play got really old around lvl 25 (made it to 30 before i called it quits) and groups/players were very "me" oriented. All in all, not for me.

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MAX PAYNE — GMT

I play Guild Wars (Frederick The Third) and i play WoW (Maxpayne...on the Horde) i pay $14.99 a mounth to play and i love it guild wars had a very good story line... and wow has a lot of quest to do but you have to think alot for them but you can do battlegrounds and much more the arena wich guildwars haves but Wow has a lot more PvP and if u want to get to a high lvl and raid wich we call it you can go in to a PvP server where u can kill any one you like on the other team... i enjoy both games tho love em both...but i would choose WoW over guild wars WAY! more to do in WoW

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MAX PAYNE — GMT

ooo and Guild Wars is COMPLETELY FREE! to play you just got to BUY it some one said its not that free to play yes it is....you want free go play that play doe game RuneScape.com

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Sneaj — GMT

PoisonMushroom wrote:

I never played Diablo so I have no idea what you just said :shock: . I like WoW (yes I bought it) it does have some downfalls (no chat filter) but I haven't had any problems (unless you count some minor lag) and I think it is really fun. I just have to get more experience with the gameplay to see any real flaws...

There are chat filters. Also if you spend a lot of time putting your points into your talent tree and blizzard makes a change to the class tree in general, they refund you all of your points for free. Or if you decide you dont like the way you spent your points, you can pay a very small amount of gold to respend them.

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Swimy — GMT

I just recently quit the game.. It is very addicting and sucks up a lot of your time.. There really isn't anything to do at level 70, except raid and I'm not a big raider. I couldn't stand being there waiting for my officers to say " OK HUNTERS DO THIS" blah blah blah.. :-@ I mostly quit because of me being hacked 3 times in a row after I hit 70. I was a 70 hunter on Sisters of elune, came from Scarlet crusade. Name was Skylena 3rd time the Gm didn't give me back my Leather working and skinning skill nor my money.. 300 some gold since i was hacked so many times.. so i had to start from scratch... in my opinion i say it isn't worth it.. 20 bucks a month.. is usually what is is.. or you can pay every 2 months and stuff.. but i finally noticed there was no point in the game. thats all the advise i have.. if u want to play it go ahead man. but when i played that game i missed out on a lot of good things Peace.

Is WoW (World of Warcraft) really worth it?

-Jason_x- — GMT

hey swimmy nice to see u on the forms....badger..<--- new page..:D

Is WoW (World of Warcraft) really worth it?

Swimy — GMT

-Jason_x- wrote:

hey swimmy nice to see u on the forms....badger..<--- new page..:D

lol.. well im wanting to contribute to the forums. I am playing on their server after all.. lol.

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Tryck — GMT

World of Warcraft is a awesome game imo. I played it for 2 years. Just recently tired my lvl 70 full tier 4, partial tier 5 Fury Warrior. The monthly fee really isnt that bad. I'd still be playing but I don;t have the time to raid 5 hours night 5 times a week anymore and pvp disgusts me.

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weylin — GMT

Ya, I would try and not make the mistake I made and not buy WoW. Its kinda cool i guess, but all there really is to do is grind. If you want to play for free, go to a private server, although they are very buggy and some abiltys don't work correctly, its free, and alot of them are instant lvl 70 servers so you can get down to the PVP action and ditch the long term grinding nonsense. theres so many private servers out there that arnt bothered im not even sure if its against blizzards contract to play on them, its a matter of changing a single line of text in your WoW directory.