Having bought gw2 an age back but never bothering to install it due to still being into wow at the time i can now highly recommend it to anybody wanting a good mmo to play since installing it a couple of weeks ago. Its bloody excellent i kind of regret not trying it beforehand.
I need another WoW experience
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I bought the GW2 expansion and honestly wish I hadn't. Game seems to have no direction and they still haven't made much end game content. Legendary weapons, woop de do, slightly higher stats and nothing to really put them to good use after a ridiculous amount of boring grinding.
Blackburrow was awesome, no doubt. But there were other awesome places, and many different experiences available in EQ.
Firstly, the best thing about EQ was the community it spawned. I have never seen such an amazing community in any game that came after.
As for the zones, well Crystal Caverns was amazing. Lower Guk was awesome. Karnors was fun. The Kunark dungeons were great, esp Dalnir. The Hole was good.
I could go on. Sooooo many excellent zones.
But again, the most amazing thing about EQ was how it brought people together and demanded cooperation.
Around PoP tho, people started having trouble finding groups, as the game started to reward power gamers above all else. People started getting fussy about only taking the best geared players in their groups.
Indeed, PoP and everything that came after was not the same EQ we'd had since 1999. They changed the whole dynamic, and power gaming became the order of the day, rather than this amazing immersive world they'd created with Kunark, Velious and the base game.
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Some excellent perspectives and posts in this thread, especially concerning the factors that now influence game development.
Played WoW when it was free for a week but I couldn't get into the feel of it. Maybe that was because I was an avid GW fan in my younger days - now that was a great MMO. Glad to see some positive comments about GW2. I would try and recover my account but I'm sure I remember reading an email from AreaNet saying it was removed for some reason or other, perhaps inactivity.
Between then I played a select few games in my youth - KalOnline which I remember to be quite entertaining but ultimately lost interest.
Since then I've not played an MMO's. Mainly FPS (the entire BF series), RPG's (Elder Scrolls series), Fallout, Tomb Raider (thought that was excellent) and GTAV. Looking forward to games like The Division which will incorporate an MMO aspect to gaming. Let's hope they deliver.
Played WoW when it was free for a week but I couldn't get into the feel of it. Maybe that was because I was an avid GW fan in my younger days - now that was a great MMO. Glad to see some positive comments about GW2. I would try and recover my account but I'm sure I remember reading an email from AreaNet saying it was removed for some reason or other, perhaps inactivity.
Between then I played a select few games in my youth - KalOnline which I remember to be quite entertaining but ultimately lost interest.
Since then I've not played an MMO's. Mainly FPS (the entire BF series), RPG's (Elder Scrolls series), Fallout, Tomb Raider (thought that was excellent) and GTAV. Looking forward to games like The Division which will incorporate an MMO aspect to gaming. Let's hope they deliver.
To add a bit of context to the above post, my 'engrossing' games consist of:
- Mechwarrior 3 - my first online battles...
- World of Warcraft - loved it, but lost interest after WOTLK
- Guild Wars - now my 'touch stone' for engrossing games. Complex and comfortable at the same time...
- Jumpgate - played with lots of mates from Mechwarrior 3
- Mechwarrior 4 - I loved it but didn't quite reach the heights of MW3. But still superb for online games...
- Far Cry - lost myseld exploring it for days.
- Oblivion - a game that just drew me in. I may reboot a character.
- Guild Wars 2 - I persevere with this, I enjoy levelling, but the endgame is just not there..
- Elite Dangerous - hmmm, dip in and out, want it to work...
World of Warcraft did feel 'special'. The MMO model seems to have disappeared as 've tried the Secret Worls and Rift but nothing clicks.
The SandBox model also involved me (Far Cry and Oblivion) but now this just seems aimless.
RPG games still drag me in like Titan Quest and The Banner Saga, but...
In the last few days I've installed Star Wars TOR, Everquest 2, Diablo 3, Wildstar, Secret World, Guild Wars 2 and Neverwinter. Nothing hooks me the way WoW did, not even slightly. I was fortunate to be in some good, sociable and fun guilds throughout my time in WoW and I think it's the 'community feel' I miss most. If I could find an online game similar to WoW with a decent community, I'd unsubscribe in a heartbeat.
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I'm a bit the same, but for me it was City of Heroes. I think after I finished playing that I'd sort of burnt myself out of MMOs. Nothing I tried really seemed to hold my attention. I think now I see them for the grindfests that so many are.
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I think its just a first time user experience and you will never feel that again, next experience is gonna be 3d like oculous and stuff
Thats why half life 3 is holding out on it, then BAM! Got ya
Thats why half life 3 is holding out on it, then BAM! Got ya
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I miss the 'community feel' of vanilla. Where people would be active on the server forums, the guilds/players that were good were known across the server on both factions. You could get rivalries going between guilds and in battlegrounds etc when you recognised a good enemy player. Having to build up a list of friends that you trusted for dungeon runs and making sure to blacklist and make others aware of ninjas etc. That was when the game truly had a community.
Now you just get teleported into a dungeon/raid/bg with people from other servers that you will never see again. No-one bothers talking, people be as stupid/rude as they like because there are no repercussions on the server with you getting a bad rep. There is hardly any interaction now.
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You just need to join a raid friendly guild and hope you don't top them
Guild's in wow can be really reasonable and very helpful
seriously tho you just need to find the right guild, else it makes the game feel hollow
i stopped playing 6 months ago and now you are giving me the itch
Guild's in wow can be really reasonable and very helpful
seriously tho you just need to find the right guild, else it makes the game feel hollow
i stopped playing 6 months ago and now you are giving me the itch
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It was a weird few years in WoW golden era. Still friends all over Europe (folks I've shared a weekend/drink/bed with) as a result. It's going to take something head and shoulders above everything (like wow was at the time) to pull enough people into it to gain critical mass and have everyone pile on the bandwagon. Might happen again...
Just over 14 months clean of WoW
(even tried a quick look when WoD dropped and hated it O.o)
Some decent games with good gameplay/some with community (depends what you like):
Planetside 2
Tera (actually touched the wow nostalgia nerve)
Otherwise get buried into other single player stuff. Take a look at games that won awards over the last 3-5 years and give them a look. A lot of those had to garner mass appeal to get their silverware (X-Com enemy within and dishonoured being a couple that spring to mind).
Fallout 4 is likely to scoop awards (as is X-Com 2 next year).
Just over 14 months clean of WoW
(even tried a quick look when WoD dropped and hated it O.o)Some decent games with good gameplay/some with community (depends what you like):
Planetside 2
Tera (actually touched the wow nostalgia nerve)
Otherwise get buried into other single player stuff. Take a look at games that won awards over the last 3-5 years and give them a look. A lot of those had to garner mass appeal to get their silverware (X-Com enemy within and dishonoured being a couple that spring to mind).
Fallout 4 is likely to scoop awards (as is X-Com 2 next year).
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I heard that it is possible to do something so you don't have to pay monthly for Wow so it would be like a free game
How do you do it?
How do you do it?
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Buy game time tokens for gold.
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What about farming. I heard someone do that.
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I was a huge WoW fan during vanilla and TBC and a bit during WOTLK
My guild was the top raiding guild on the server, cleared to 4HM in Naxx, cleared all content on TBC pre nerf etc etc
I have recently returned to play vanilla on a private server and i am absolutely loving it, i raid once per week (sunday night), we are currently farming BWL in prep for AQ release in the coming 2months. will prob raid twice per week once its released
The commitment to retail vanilla is not nearly the same, i raided 5 timers per wk back then, no way could i do that now
even if u dont want to raid id still recommend it, the server has a pop of up too 9k at any given time, meaning lvling characters is extremely fun as there r always groups for anything u want to do
Ohh yes and i play is @ 1440p on a 34 inch super-wide screen, great for immersion
in my time since retail vanilla i have yet to find anygame that can hold my attention for long (apart from Med total war 2) so i bit the bullet and rerolled my tank once i heard this server was being released... i like urself have always looked for something similar but nothing has ever come close
and they have recently released a 2nd server (pve) approx 1 month ago
If u enjoyed it back then ull enjoy it again now
My guild was the top raiding guild on the server, cleared to 4HM in Naxx, cleared all content on TBC pre nerf etc etc
I have recently returned to play vanilla on a private server and i am absolutely loving it, i raid once per week (sunday night), we are currently farming BWL in prep for AQ release in the coming 2months. will prob raid twice per week once its released
The commitment to retail vanilla is not nearly the same, i raided 5 timers per wk back then, no way could i do that now
even if u dont want to raid id still recommend it, the server has a pop of up too 9k at any given time, meaning lvling characters is extremely fun as there r always groups for anything u want to do
Ohh yes and i play is @ 1440p on a 34 inch super-wide screen, great for immersion
in my time since retail vanilla i have yet to find anygame that can hold my attention for long (apart from Med total war 2) so i bit the bullet and rerolled my tank once i heard this server was being released... i like urself have always looked for something similar but nothing has ever come close
and they have recently released a 2nd server (pve) approx 1 month ago
If u enjoyed it back then ull enjoy it again now
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I started playing GW2 again and I love it. One of the best MMO's I played. I am thinking of getting the expansion pack. I might when Ill reach level 80 with my elementalist. Such a good class.
Elder Scrolls Online if you don't mind it being less social and have played the single player games of the series. You can get it for 13 quid too. 
But since quitting WoW, i've gone back to it about three times, barely make it past a few weeks of playing it before I find it repetitive ****. The spark has been well and truly lost. Very little to be interested in on there now.
But since quitting WoW, i've gone back to it about three times, barely make it past a few weeks of playing it before I find it repetitive ****. The spark has been well and truly lost. Very little to be interested in on there now.
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