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Btw you should probably watch this video, it's exactly what WoW is like and one of the reasons I quit. 
Make Love, Not Warcraft - 1008 - Watch - South Park Zone
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Btw you should probably watch this video, it's exactly what WoW is like and one of the reasons I quit.
Make Love, Not Warcraft - 1008 - Watch - South Park Zone
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My 18 year old has been playing for 2 years now 
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great game, but as has been said it can take over. and will do if you want to see the end game content.
i played a lot with Iwan when we started back when WoW was first released.
its not the sort of game you can really play casually and get much fun out of imho - you need to have a large group of people to play with, ie a guild. and be able to see the end game raid/dungeon content.
just not run around on your own.
give it a try....we'll see you back on here in a couple of years !
i played a lot with Iwan when we started back when WoW was first released.
its not the sort of game you can really play casually and get much fun out of imho - you need to have a large group of people to play with, ie a guild. and be able to see the end game raid/dungeon content.
just not run around on your own.
give it a try....we'll see you back on here in a couple of years !
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I've avoided getting into WoW as I know it would be seriously addictive! My girlfriend's father is CEO of NCSoft in Europe (look them up!) - they are a Korean company and produce similar games to WoW -they have a huge following (many many millions of players). They had a new game go live over the weekend and the bandwidth and server consumption at their Frankfurt hosting centre was simply staggering! It's a seriously big business now.
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great game, but as has been said it can take over. and will do if you want to see the end game content.
i played a lot with Iwan when we started back when WoW was first released.
its not the sort of game you can really play casually and get much fun out of imho - you need to have a large group of people to play with, ie a guild. and be able to see the end game raid/dungeon content.
just not run around on your own.
give it a try....we'll see you back on here in a couple of years !
i played a lot with Iwan when we started back when WoW was first released.
its not the sort of game you can really play casually and get much fun out of imho - you need to have a large group of people to play with, ie a guild. and be able to see the end game raid/dungeon content.
just not run around on your own.
give it a try....we'll see you back on here in a couple of years !
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thanks iwan.
By all means give the game a try. but if you wish too see all it can provide for your money then you'll be committing a lot of time per week to it.
Its a great game tbh. But one that requires real dedication to get much out of.
By all means give the game a try. but if you wish too see all it can provide for your money then you'll be committing a lot of time per week to it.
Its a great game tbh. But one that requires real dedication to get much out of.
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To be honest i have tended to stay away from this game as i know i will get sucked in bigstyle and it will probably wreck my life.
i tend to get sucked into a game and just hammer it even when its finished recently its been live for speed (i1m part of a racing team)which i have played for years and years and only stopped when the latest update patch screwed a few things over. I have missed scooby meets/nights out/etc etc with my mates because i had a team or league race
on the 360 i have been hooked on gears since i bought it, completed the campaign 2 times already, upto level 3 on insane (taking my time with this) and also completing the campaign again on casual with another SN member just to get the 30g dom achievement) throw in a massive dollop of the mutiplayer stuff and i wouldn't dare how many hours i have wasted on it.
i can quite happily "stop in" on a friday night instead of going out and just playing the multiplayer all night, the G/F hates it she says i have a problem, i have recently started to think the same to be honest!
i tend to get sucked into a game and just hammer it even when its finished recently its been live for speed (i1m part of a racing team)which i have played for years and years and only stopped when the latest update patch screwed a few things over. I have missed scooby meets/nights out/etc etc with my mates because i had a team or league race
on the 360 i have been hooked on gears since i bought it, completed the campaign 2 times already, upto level 3 on insane (taking my time with this) and also completing the campaign again on casual with another SN member just to get the 30g dom achievement) throw in a massive dollop of the mutiplayer stuff and i wouldn't dare how many hours i have wasted on it.
i can quite happily "stop in" on a friday night instead of going out and just playing the multiplayer all night, the G/F hates it she says i have a problem, i have recently started to think the same to be honest!
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As above this game can get seriously addictive. I`m lucky I haven`t got into the whole end game stuff yet. Still struggling to get Kara attunement ( small 10 man end game instance (dungeon)). It took me over a year to get to lvl 70 from lvl 1, 10 weeks from 60 to 70. But getting into a guild does make it a lot better, just knowing that you have got guys there to help if you get stuck on things. Also the sharing of resources is always good. Or you can go solo and try and slog your way through. the reason I`m not that addicted to it is I make sure that wow is the last thing I do in a day. I get everything I need to get done, done first. So I most probaby ever see the big end game stuff in the game. But with an expansion coming out once a year, then it isn`t that much of a problem.
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BTW : The expansion pack - 'Wrath of the Lich King' will take it up to level 80 and add an entirely new continent.
Blizzard estimate that from level 60 to 70 it took most players as long as it took them to get from 1 to 60. They reckon from 70 to 80 will be a lot harder than that.
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I was really into WoW for a while. The graphics and music are so immersive. Starting getting bored at lvl 40, as it seemed very samey, so started cheating (gliding) my way to lvl 60, which took no time at all. Just as boring up at lvl 60 too.
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Glider
You basically have a program play the game for you. The idea is to take the 'grinding' out of the game, so you can get enough cash / resources to do the next quest etc quicker
You basically have a program play the game for you. The idea is to take the 'grinding' out of the game, so you can get enough cash / resources to do the next quest etc quicker
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I used glider on one of my accounts for a while. It's very good for jobs like power-lvl'ing an alternate charactor up to high level, or for farming gold/leather/herbs etc.
Basically it plays your charactor for you, but can only cope with simple to moderate tasks. What it's superb at is grinding away at mobs 24/7 where a human player would lose interest or be pulling their hair out. You can leave it going overnight or all day while you're at work, and you come back to find you have several hundred more gold in the bank, or a stack of green/blue/purple items to use/sell.
I glided a hunter I wanted to use as an alt for raiding, and got it up to lvl38 in about a week purely by gliding, virtually no quests other than ones to learn talents. I abandoned it in the end though.
It's a bit pointless if you haven't already done the quests on other charactors, as you'd miss a lot of the game out.
It's also quite easy to get caught if you use public domain gliding profiles, or glide in high traffic areas as other players will report you. You certainly wouldn't want to do it on your main account if you valued it.
Basically it plays your charactor for you, but can only cope with simple to moderate tasks. What it's superb at is grinding away at mobs 24/7 where a human player would lose interest or be pulling their hair out. You can leave it going overnight or all day while you're at work, and you come back to find you have several hundred more gold in the bank, or a stack of green/blue/purple items to use/sell.
I glided a hunter I wanted to use as an alt for raiding, and got it up to lvl38 in about a week purely by gliding, virtually no quests other than ones to learn talents. I abandoned it in the end though.
It's a bit pointless if you haven't already done the quests on other charactors, as you'd miss a lot of the game out.
It's also quite easy to get caught if you use public domain gliding profiles, or glide in high traffic areas as other players will report you. You certainly wouldn't want to do it on your main account if you valued it.
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I played from release day of original WoW, up until approx when TBC expansion came out. I'd guess 2 years or so?
I started playing after a recommendation from a guy on here oddly enough, and joined his small guild. Basically we had a small social guild of 10 - 15 players and we worked our way towards getting our charactors to lvl60. By then we had a very close group of friends, and we'd play pretty much every night and all weekend (single - IT type job ).
When we exhausted the content for small groups of players, I started trying to get myself into a hardcore raiding guild, and after a trial I was accepted. As I was well liked, they let my mates from my old guild (the ones who wanted to raid regularly) join too. It was pretty intense, and great fun. We were raiding every night of the week, usually for 4 hours and sometimes more. On weekends we'd be doing unofficial raids or preparing for the coming weeks raids.
It's hard to describe the amount of effort we put in as players, let alone the folks organising a raiding schedule for 40-man raids every night of the week. We started and cleared Molten Core, Zul Gurub, AQ20, Onyxia, Kazzak etc. Then started on Black Wing Lair and AQ40.
It was at that point that things caught up with me, I was getting high blood pressure - partly from stress and partly from lack of exercise (I **** you not!). I'd be healing the main tank in MC or BWL (I was a holy spec priest) and simultaniously monitoring my blood pressure. It got to the stage where you'd get a 5 minute 'bio break' every couple of hours, where people would bolt to the toilet and stock up with coke/water/food from the kitchen - then rush back to the PC. It had to be pretty strict as coordinating 40 people across europe was a nightmare otherwise. Sometimes I'd alt-tab out to Internet Explorer and order a pre saved pizza order on the Dominos website in another window whilst trying to heal my allocated players.
One day I just woke up and had a reality check, and thought wtf am I doing.
It was so addictive I'd be logging in at 6am, playing for 2hrs, shower then off to work, pop home at lunchtime (worked 5mins away) to check the AH or do a few things, back to work, zoom home as soon as work finished, switch on PC, go make toast or a sarnie (no time to cook), back to PC, prepare for 6pm raid start time, raid, log off at midnight or sometimes 1am - 2am. Several weekends I'd play from like 6am till gone midnight, both days.
And the crazy thing was, there were people who played sh!tloads more hours than me, some were students and some were unemployed. One guy who worked as a civil servant only slept for about an hour a day (or sometimes not at all) and played every waking hour that he wasn't working. Another guy I knew was about 22 and was invalided out of the Finnish army on a pension after damaging his spine, he played about 20 hours a day as he had fvck all else to do. He was a really nice guy too.
I think the reasons I liked it so much were the gameplay, but combined with the social aspect too. I made friends all over europe, quite a few ended up as real life friends who I'm still in touch with.
In the end I gave my account (lvl60 priest) away to someone and walked away from the game. After 6 months away, I cracked and started playing again, and lvl'd a Shaman up to lvl65 and re-joined my guild. But it had lost its appeal, most of my friends were quitting and it just wasn't the same anymore so I stopped and sold my Shaman account for $120.
A few months after that I started again, but it had totally lost its appeal to me, and after a couple of weeks (got to about lvl22 IIRC) I quit again for good.
Great game, but too addictive for some. Wierd thing was that previously I'd never really been into games at all before WoW, and same again since. The only really good thing about it apart from the friends I met, was my entire social/entertainment outgoings were about £8.99 per month for the subscription - I literally never went out anywhere else so it was a super cheap hobby!
I started playing after a recommendation from a guy on here oddly enough, and joined his small guild. Basically we had a small social guild of 10 - 15 players and we worked our way towards getting our charactors to lvl60. By then we had a very close group of friends, and we'd play pretty much every night and all weekend (single - IT type job
).When we exhausted the content for small groups of players, I started trying to get myself into a hardcore raiding guild, and after a trial I was accepted. As I was well liked, they let my mates from my old guild (the ones who wanted to raid regularly) join too. It was pretty intense, and great fun. We were raiding every night of the week, usually for 4 hours and sometimes more. On weekends we'd be doing unofficial raids or preparing for the coming weeks raids.
It's hard to describe the amount of effort we put in as players, let alone the folks organising a raiding schedule for 40-man raids every night of the week. We started and cleared Molten Core, Zul Gurub, AQ20, Onyxia, Kazzak etc. Then started on Black Wing Lair and AQ40.
It was at that point that things caught up with me, I was getting high blood pressure - partly from stress and partly from lack of exercise (I **** you not!). I'd be healing the main tank in MC or BWL (I was a holy spec priest) and simultaniously monitoring my blood pressure. It got to the stage where you'd get a 5 minute 'bio break' every couple of hours, where people would bolt to the toilet and stock up with coke/water/food from the kitchen - then rush back to the PC. It had to be pretty strict as coordinating 40 people across europe was a nightmare otherwise. Sometimes I'd alt-tab out to Internet Explorer and order a pre saved pizza order on the Dominos website in another window whilst trying to heal my allocated players.
One day I just woke up and had a reality check, and thought wtf am I doing.
It was so addictive I'd be logging in at 6am, playing for 2hrs, shower then off to work, pop home at lunchtime (worked 5mins away) to check the AH or do a few things, back to work, zoom home as soon as work finished, switch on PC, go make toast or a sarnie (no time to cook), back to PC, prepare for 6pm raid start time, raid, log off at midnight or sometimes 1am - 2am. Several weekends I'd play from like 6am till gone midnight, both days.
And the crazy thing was, there were people who played sh!tloads more hours than me, some were students and some were unemployed. One guy who worked as a civil servant only slept for about an hour a day (or sometimes not at all) and played every waking hour that he wasn't working. Another guy I knew was about 22 and was invalided out of the Finnish army on a pension after damaging his spine, he played about 20 hours a day as he had fvck all else to do. He was a really nice guy too.
I think the reasons I liked it so much were the gameplay, but combined with the social aspect too. I made friends all over europe, quite a few ended up as real life friends who I'm still in touch with.
In the end I gave my account (lvl60 priest) away to someone and walked away from the game. After 6 months away, I cracked and started playing again, and lvl'd a Shaman up to lvl65 and re-joined my guild. But it had lost its appeal, most of my friends were quitting and it just wasn't the same anymore so I stopped and sold my Shaman account for $120.
A few months after that I started again, but it had totally lost its appeal to me, and after a couple of weeks (got to about lvl22 IIRC) I quit again for good.
Great game, but too addictive for some. Wierd thing was that previously I'd never really been into games at all before WoW, and same again since. The only really good thing about it apart from the friends I met, was my entire social/entertainment outgoings were about £8.99 per month for the subscription - I literally never went out anywhere else so it was a super cheap hobby!
I was a very casual player, never really had the attention span for games (I tend to play a console game for 10 minutes and bored enough to go and do something else).
WoW was different, I think in terms of whether Blizzard had intentionally or unintentionally built the best mmorpg game (massive multiplayer online role playing game) - there is no doubt and not many games can touch it, Blizzard are making $millions a day of the back of the game, fact.
The above poster sounds like the old WoW gamers, those who mastered the game right through to earning hero like status their regular raiding conquering the likes of Molton Core, Blackwing Lair, Ahn'Qiraj and Naxxramas, it's hard to describe the whole experience of WoW, it was revolutionary as it forced people to team up, to make friends, to organise their virtual character's day to day life and above all have fun (there are some hilarious one off moments in WoW - check youtube for some cool video's).
I was casual until I matured as a WoW player (i.e learn't the tricks and the trades) and got into a top raiding guild called Terra Dominus.
We were made up of mostly european players but had a small band of UK playes in the guild. We were totally focused on the game, becoming highly skilled with our players (mine was a level 60 Tier 2.5 Orc Hunter called Turrok on the Dragonblight EU server). It sounds funny but we all had a certain amount of fame for being ranked the number one guild on the server and people would often stop me in a place called Orgrimmar to ask questions or chat (lol drunk at 3 am messing around in WoW in Orgrimmar, comedy).
When the expansion pack came out it destroyed a lot of top guilds (we had 150+ active players in our guild). The game changed drastically which for me lost it's appeal (I was getting bored of it anyway as I have never been a hardcore game player).
With TBC WoW lost it's old faithful players however it gained fresh blood in the form of younger players who did not know the history of the game prior to TBC, these guys would probably never experience the events in MC or BWL, Player vs Player battles in the Crossroads or doing massive raids on the enemies castles (WoW has distinct racial boundries).
It has it's own economic system which is quite amazing, there are some very crafty players good at manipulating the virtual auctions to make lots of virtual gold - WoW is a game about status, it's very bling in that your armor and weapons define how well you have done in the game and thus give you a status.
As a social tool it works on many levels and I think that's the appeal, combined with a simple looking yet very fluid and open game engine you can literally do what you want and have a good time.
I will never go back, it's far too addictive and it's got to a point where old WoW veterans can't keep up with the new content or it takes far too much time now to get to level 80 or whatever.
Probably the one and only mmorpg game I will ever play but I have fond memories which is kind of weird and screwed up lol
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