World of Warcraft = boaring :(

[Adsta]

The thing with wow is its all about the people you play with. For instance me I am in an excellent raiding guild with people who I've known for a while now and become very good friends with.

People might see it as being lame or sad, but I have made tons of new friends since being in WoW. Especially with my guildies where we have met up and gone out for drinks. When we raid sure some bits we get serious about because we want to kill bosses. But otherwise banter is a huge part of our vent chat and generally talking about random crap.

WoW is no different in my eyes to say those that play Black Ops, TF2, L4D or anyother fps for that matter online. Yet people seem to make the judgement that WoW = No life and Black Ops = you are freaking cool you play black ops.....

If anything my Real life is more socialable now than it was before I played WoW. Not only do I have my RL friends to go out with but I also have an online community of friends some of whom I have met and still do for that matter.

This year we are organising a guild meet in Brussels and some 20 odd of us guildies are going to Brussels to meet up and have a few drinks. Imo its this part of the game that makes it fun.

If I wasnt in this guild or was just playing this game on my own with no other people I would have quit this game years ago.

 

[DampCat]

Agree.

When you started playing WoW, you made a group of friends and were discovering something new together. Sounds a bit meta-gay but WoW was for most people (who didnt play DAOC or EQ) a pretty revolutionary beast. Over time, those friends diminish, the novelty wears off, and there only so many times you can replace ALL your gear before you start to wonder what the point is.

6 years is a good run. I just stopped renewing my sub having played since Korean Beta, my group of regular players from day 1 dimnished to just me and one other guy. There were new players of course, but it wasnt the same.

Sadly there's nothign to replace it either, but what to do. Im just hoping someone comes up with a new epic 80+ hour RPG followup for BG and BG2

 

[Destination]

as in fighting boars?
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LOTRo was the same, boars in each region to kill as part of some quest or other, it became a running joke, and when they added Evendim thee was a quest to find boars for a hobbits breakfast, timed quest and when the time ran out you had to go back and tell the poor unfortunate fatso that he wasn't having pig that day.
Then a couple of years later an expansion brought a boar of some form to that region, or a historical reference to one (i can't quite recall) and you could return to fatso to tell him.

Boaring in LOTRo was and is for the most part fun.

Thankfully it has a good story and thus isn't boring either.

 

[bhavv]

It was boaring in the first month I played it several years ago.

There isnt a single MMO out there that is worth paying a sub for, I'll never understand why so many people get sucked into paying fees.

 

[Rainagul]

It was boaring in the first month I played it several years ago.

There isnt a single MMO out there that is worth paying a sub for, I'll never understand why so many people get sucked into paying fees.

Well if you really enjoy a game enough then the money is usually not an issue, I'd happily pay a monthly charge if there was a game out right now that was good enough to keep me from getting bored on it after a week or two.

I myself started WoW right at the end of TBC/start of WOLTK and I had such a good time playing through WOLTK, especially towards the end with ICC. However Cataclysm totally destroyed the game for me, I can't even play it anymore for more then 30 minutes and I've tried 3 or 4 times to get back into it to without any success.

 

[bhavv]

Well if you really enjoy a game enough then the money is usually not an issue, I'd happily pay a monthly charge if there was a game out right now that was good enough to keep me from getting bored on it after a week or two.

I wouldnt do that because I can get games that manage to that for a couple of quid or less these days.

Money isnt the issue with fees, I'd pay £150 for a top notch MMO. The issue is that I only want to pay once and be able to log in and play whenever I want once I have puchased the content.

I dont buy a DVD or Music and continue paying a fee every month on top of my purchase just to be able to use what I have already purchased.

 

[Borrish]

i know a lot on the forum are/were wow players i am just curious as to see if many now share my opinion that the current WoW has nothing left to offer me as a long time player (6 years) i stopped playing just after cata tho i did clear most of its normal 10 man content before stopping
i still have time left on acc and log in once every couple of weeks but find it of no interest now miss the good old days

It happened to me to although it didn't take 6 years! Once i started to get bored I Just quit playing. I think the thing that killed it for me was that a lot of my IRL mates stopped playing it and that was half the fun for me.

 

[Hellsmk2]

Bored.

Boring.

Bored.

Boring.

Bored.

Boring.

 

[Deadbeat]

It was boaring in the first month I played it several years ago.

There isnt a single MMO out there that is worth paying a sub for, I'll never understand why so many people get sucked into paying fees.

I'm not surprised. Every time you post you're vitriolic and unsociable, why would it be a shock to people that you don't get the social side of MMOs?

It's all still pretty new to me, having only started playing since just before the release of 4.0.1 (aside from a month or less back on vanilla release). Being an achievement whore has kept me pretty busy, still enjoying grinding Argent Tournament dailies for mounts & pets, soloing MC once a week for rep/a shot at Sulfuras, not to mention I've recently completed all the Northrend quest achievements and really enjoyed the lore along the way. TBC content next .

But as mentioned, the social side is far and away the most important reason to play. Ban's Hammer formed for Cata release and it's worked out fantastically, a few of us had a guild meet recently camping down in Newquay and it was a great time. I'm going to Amsterdam with another guildie come September. My sister recently had a pop at me about how unsociable it was for me to spend time gaming when she was sat in the lounge on her own reading - remarkable that she pulled me away from a Vent conversation to do so, a few days before I packed up for the Newquay meet.

 

[JeffH]

I didn't try WoW till Cata and was sucked in by the casual approach I could take. Then the usual MMO thing happened where I got to max level with a group of friends, but then we had the choice of joining other for raids and having set evenings to play (never again after EQ) or grinding the same instance for gear to do what exactly?
Everyone quotes the social side keeping them playing, but what's to stop you playing other games with those same friends? Co-op gaming is booming right now.

 

[ShortWarning]

I was pretty obsessed for a while.

My problem is, I never have (and probably never will) the time to raid properly.

In WOTLK it was ok because pugs were doable. In cata they are a lot harder (and rightfully so). So I ended up getting everything I needed from hc 5 mans and then being kind of stuck.

However, I'm on my 7 day welcome back so I'm going to level a couple of my 80's and see what happens. Not sure if I'll be renewing my sub yet.

 

[Robbo]

The only thing that makes WoW worth playing are the people you play it with. The content and game itself are pretty bland now and it's relatively easy compared to the older content.

The ridiculous amount of idiotic children doesn't help either. I gave up on it quite a while ago.

I see bhavv is here shouting the odds as usual, despite having never played it properly or knowing very little about it in general.

 

[Adsta]

Everyone quotes the social side keeping them playing, but what's to stop you playing other games with those same friends? Co-op gaming is booming right now.

Why change a game that we are enjoying though ? the debate (as such) is that WoW is boring when imo it is far from it. Sure I used the social aspect as a reason but that is because its guilds and friends that open up WoW. To raid with friends or pvp with friends is much more fun that playing on your own or trying to PUG stuff.

There's nothing stopping me and my friends playing a different game but why play a different game when we are enjoying WoW ? I don't care what people are QQing about but the FL raids are pretty hard. On normal ok they was a joke to us but then we were outgeared for it. FL HM's are hard though... We have managed to do Shannox and Lord R so far and trust me Lord R is far from easy. Its challanges like these that keep us interested.

I mean even with the last tier I found it so funny how loads of people were screaming out saying we need a new raid as this content is being rinsed. Yet there wasn't that many guilds that had actually killed every single boss on HM. Sooooo how can you complain that content is bland or boring when you havn't even killed the HM bosses ?

edit PS: btw that last comment wasn't aimed at you Robbo

 

[Deadbeat]

The only thing that makes WoW playable are the people you play it with. The content and game itself are pretty bland now and it's relatively easy compared to the older content.

The ridiculous amount of idiotic children doesn't help either. I gave up on it quite a while ago.

Fixed. The population of WoW is amongst the worst I've ver seen in any online community, and it gets little better from one server/faction to the next. If I were ever to change servers/factions I'd probably go back to Argent Dawn Alliance, far and away the best WoW server community I've seen in my short time but still teeming with prats, and of course it doesn't help much for random dungeons/BGs.

 

[rosso5792]

wow has been boring since the end of tbc

right on the money

 

[Robbo]

Fixed. The population of WoW is amongst the worst I've ver seen in any online community, and it gets little better from one server/faction to the next. If I were ever to change servers/factions I'd probably go back to Argent Dawn Alliance, far and away the best WoW server community I've seen in my short time but still teeming with prats, and of course it doesn't help much for random dungeons/BGs.

The RP servers tend to have older people on, which is probably why it's better.

I really do think of WoW as a glorified MSN Messenger of sorts.

edit PS: btw that last comment wasn't aimed at you Robbo

Ok A lot of the hardmodes aren't really easy, but they are normally made hard by one or two things -

1. Hopelessly bad people (99.9% of the WoW population)
2. Bugs and flawed fight mechanics

 

[Frenzy]

I also feel the same as the op, I just got bored. After killing nefarian on hardcore (25m) in one of the top world guilds there was absolutely nothing left for me to do. PVP is too RNG/Flavour of the month so that didnt appeal to me anymore either.

I took a break during the burning crusade expansion aswell as I got bored at that point too but came back after it for wotlk.

I played since release.

 

[umboma]

I thought this game was the bee's knee's, but after a few month's as said so many time in this thred, got bored changed guild so many times hoping that it'll spice it up do more high lvl end game, so i quit 2 years clean now, but i do get the urge every now and then the only thing stopping me is the downloading times lol.....

 

[Frenzy]

If you have at least a modicum of control it's not an issue.

I beg to differ.

If you raid then some of the appeal comes from defeating a boss to up your guilds position in world ranking but to also improve your own ranking. Part of this comes from attaining better gear. Eventually you become so wrapped up in it you have to get the next best item.

This game is seriously like a drug at times.

To people saying its about the people you play with. I agree, but you can only do so much together before it becomes a grind. Unless you are a "fun" guild which decides to grief of pvp but even that becomes stale eventually.

 

[helin0x]

I wouldnt do that because I can get games that manage to that for a couple of quid or less these days.

Money isnt the issue with fees, I'd pay £150 for a top notch MMO. The issue is that I only want to pay once and be able to log in and play whenever I want once I have puchased the content.

I dont buy a DVD or Music and continue paying a fee every month on top of my purchase just to be able to use what I have already purchased.

No, but does your music take thousands of man hours to get it to you? If they decided to update the lyrics does your CD offer you that same track for free? Does your CD cost thousands in maintainence to keep going each month? If you decide you dont like their track, can you speak to one of their agents directly and sort it out? Does your CD host a tournement so you can try and play their tracks against other fans? Could you listen to your CD for 6 hours a day for 6 months and still be entertained?

Also what decent games are you getting for a couple of quid? I'll match their entertainment value vs wow anyday.

Trying to explain the subscription business model to people who dont get it is hard. Take it like this: Would you complain that you have to pay for your mobile phone each month? You paid for the handset, so why should you have to pay a sub each month? There's no difference.

Also another note, I totally agree that wow is who you play it with, the guys in my guild totally keep me playing. I struggle to get into any raids due to lacking the achievment that all pugs require as I mostly played it to pvp and have only just started to raid recently. Because of the new guild system everyone is super loyal and doesnt want to lose their rep they have aquired with their guild, also guilds get rewarded for only using players in their guild, so anyone who didnt just amass players on day 1 struggle with new players, effectivly cutting off content.

On side note, anyone wanting to join us on Kazzak-EU are welcome! (quick plug)

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