I need another WoW experience

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For those that have played a fair amount of WoW and remember those good times, what do you mostly play now? Personally I havent found another game where I can immerse myself in such a rich world. Only problem is that amazing world has just become way too familiar and the excitement has gone.

I've tried pretty much every MMO out there but they do little for me. Also tried single player RPGs too but i think i miss other players buzzing around. I also prefer gameplay over story.

Now i'm thinking I might be burnt out on MMOs and RPGs and I need to just try something completely different. So I'm interested to hear other people's stories in a hope i'll discover something I can get into again.
 
Personally I love the fact that I no longer get that immersed in a single game, don't get me wrong I loved it at the time, but I now play a much larger variety of games. When I was playing WoW I didn't seem to find time for many other games, or would start one and never quite get into it because I wanted to go play WoW.
 
I stopped playing wow when MOP came out. Now i started it again and i really enjoy it. I recent played hours and hours every day of Destiny and went to wow and realised how boring destiny was. I always liked lore and story though. I love everything made from Blizzard and currently replaying WC3 TFT because i really liked the campaign. I also tried Bloodborne on PS4. Unfortunately thats not a game i can play without breaking the game pad and i am a really calm person. They say witcher is amazing and thats supposed to be a really good rpg and willbe my next buy once i get some time off wc3 and wow
 
You won't find another experience like WoW was, not currently at least.

I'd recommend picking up a few single player games (the new witcher game for example), get immersed and have at it. To satisfy any competative side Dota/lol/league/sc2 covers that!
 
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Never played WoW but know what you mean - sunk a lot of time into City of Heroes and there just aren't games like that at the moment :S
 
Dark Age of Camelot was probably the only other game that could match or beat WoW IMHO, it's still going but is an empty shell of it's glory days, now owned by EA so you can tell how it'll be milked for cash like Ultima Online has been.

Personally I'm glad I'm not into those games anymore, got more time for other things although I've no doubt Star Citizen will take up a chunk of time when it eventually comes out, assuming I'm still alive by then lol
 
My MMO experience really started in 1999 with Everquest (I did do UO on the side but this was the dawn of 3dfx and eventually quit UO with the Trammel patch).

Everquest is and still remains the best MMO I have ever played. From 1999 to 2003 I sunk hours and days and months into this. To be at the very top of the guild heirachy and to break content before anyone else requires two things :

1)No job
2)No social life

I had these two down to a fine art.

I eventually returned to civilization in 2003 and although I could play casually I couldnt face the fact that I was no longer relevant in the game.

I have played every single commercial MMO since (apart from Eve) and nothing has come close for me. WOW felt like a watered down version of EQ. Also the other issue I have is that if I start playing a MMO too far after release there is too much catching up to do. I hate this, the fact that whatever I am doing has been done before and noted down on some wikipedia site somewhere. The discovery has gone.In short, for me anyways, RL means I cant enjoy an MMO as much as I could be......

I still follow the games....I dont play them though.
 
I remember the WoW days well, coincided with the student/pre job days so I did get a good amount of hours on it (way more than I care to admit)

I'd done, pretty much all of it, (only) managed R13 in vanilla PVP days, best guild on the realm a few times over, raiding a ridiculous amount of time, realm firsts etc, no job or social life was definitely a requirement, had some good times though.

Quit after WoTLK, none stop raiding to get the 50 shards for Shadowmourne wore me out (Amusingly I acquired it about 3 weeks before Cataclysm came out making it useless anyway), never been back since. Can't say I've found a game to keep me half as amused as WoW did and I've given most of the big MMO's a go at one point but I don't think its for me anymore.

As for now, I'm just amusing myself with single player games at the moment, don't have as much time these days, still like my RPG games, Dragon Age Inquisition kept me going for a while and I picked up that PS4 deal that was on the rainforest the other week giving me a copy of Witcher 3 here sat on my desk which has motivated me to start Witcher 2 - Seems certainly worth a play.

Apart from RPG's I play the odd FPS (single player campaigns only), Racing games, currently Project Cars and the odd game of Civ 5 with a mate. Nothing to the degree of WoW but yeah I think them days are long gone.
 
I moved to dark souls. I know its action RPG but its a good game, with a very cool multiplayer mechanic
 
Don't look for an mmo, check out some original award winners like Life is strange or Wolf among us or something really well set like the metro series.

If like me you only ever played mmos because your mates did and you never read any of the quest text and just aimlessly complete quests and skip story as fast as possible then do not look for mmos. If you don't skip all that lore and like to spend hours reading tooltip style quest text then give ff14 a go - new addon is out soon. I'm currently levelling up to 50 in that and skipping cutscenes and not reading quest text - I'm level 42 and not yet bored because combat and large world events are exciting. I have no idea what the story is but it's generic as ****
 
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WoW was never that good anyway. You're just craving for the 'good old days' because your brain is better at recording good memories than bad/boring ones.
 
Rifte said:
To be at the very top of the guild heirachy and to break content before anyone else requires two things :

1)No job
2)No social life
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Yep, can't argue with that at all. I think thats what it boils down to for most people. Their life outside of gaming develops and it slowly starts to eat into their MMO time - before they know it they're out of the loop and its just not the same anymore.

I don't think I'll ever play a traditional MMO ever again. Its much easier to just play a lot of different games now which dont needs thousands of hours.
 
A few of us on here started off on Ultima Online back in '97/98, still in my opinion one of the best and most under-rated games of all time, one of the few games which had a proper player economy.

I think many of us these days simply don't have the time for MMOs, I wish I did in many ways but I also know I wouldn't sit at the PC for 8 hours a night playing it either even if I could!
 
I went into WoW with a couple players I knew through Ultima Online, I'd played in the late 90's "Golden Age" of the game, and had a bit of a second wind when sphere/runuo emulation thrived, to a point I actually got myself involved in development with one of the more popular shards which was pretty fun

Pretty much stuck with the same core of players through out wow, a lot of them are still lurking in the game today (in the same guild even) so when I do make a cameo appearance theres always someone about I reconise

So I'd definatly say the community aspect.. I get more enjoyment out of the long game, i.e. building up/working towards the goal than simply taking the easy route and having it handed to me

Thanks to those new fangled tokens I have a wow sub for life now (working the auction house before it became a "thing") but don't really feel like I could go back to playing it anywhere near as much as I used to even if I wanted

Gaming wise I'm in a bit of a limbo I get some joy from world of tanks but thats in jeapardy what with the EU mismanagement/attitude towards mods and the impact thats having on gameplay... the community is very toxic

I would say the whole WoW experience was a one-off in much the same way UO was, they are games which suited the times and target audience when concieved but the stakes change and things move on, something else eventually takes their place, I'm just waiting to bump into that something
 
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Over the last 10 years the world has moved on in so many ways, and MMOs are simply unable to recapture the 'magic' that only those who played them during the glory years would be able describe.

Being in an MMOs used to feel like being part of 'the next big', (sad as it may sound) it was almost like leading a second life and because of this they really used to feel like something important or a big deal. They made you feel part of a community and connected to so many other in ways that had preciously not been possible. They made you really care about the success of your character and getting gear/boss kills or whatever used to feel like such a big deal.

15+ years later however and the world is now much more connected with the rise of social media etc. people no longer feel the draw of a 'second life' and as such apathy towards these games has increased massively.... Whereas once things like getting gear, taking down raid bosses etc. really used to matter, now people feel its just virtual pixels etc (which it of course is!). and in the grand scheme of things doesn't matter a jot... Expansions will come and go... gear will get replaced... its all just the same, rinse and repeat ad-nausea. Put simply it really does't matter anymore (some will argue it never did and they wouldn't be wrong).

As others have said MMORPGs are only going to decline further. Blizzard realised the world has changed which is why they stopped development on Titan.
 
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I think you're right.

WoW was good, I was a GM of a top 50 world 25 man raising guild for many years, many hours dedicated to the game. So many of us quit around the same time, for the same reasons.

Still, many millions play the game.
 
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