Sell WoW to me

WOW is getting a lovely reboot when its new expansion is released later this year. This is due to completely changing every zone in the game to reflect the changing storyline of the "lore", which is prompting most of the player base to reroll either instantly or at some point after its release. Sure it might not have the best graphics ever or sound effects but the combat is still very good, the PVE content is probably the best in the business although the PVP still needs a lot of work as many don't find arena interesting at all and its packed with epeen rubbing kiddies.

if WoW is your idea of brilliant PvE then I truely pity you.
 
Play the trial, WoW seems to be like Marmite, you'll love it or you'll hate it, so give it a go for nothing and you'll soon be able to make up your own mind about it rather than listen to people like me who like it or others who hate it/got bored of it/whatever.
 
Well I'am a 5 year old WoW player now, started back in 2005, And I can honestly tell you...

Don't buy it.

Basically, things back in 2005 were a lot different than now. You see, there was this nostalgic feeling about the game, and a lot of the things were very hard to do, such as PvE where you need 40 players (Controll, distribution) And epic quality items were hard to get. Sometimes even IMPOSSIBLE to get. (I started Raiding in Dec. 2005 about every week and I got my first epic on July 2006)

This was liked by the players as stupid as it sounds, but when the 2 expansions came, Burning Crusade and the Wrath of the Lich King, blizzard started milking the game and a lot of people who were good players, left the game, and at the same time, new players came.

Now in WotlK, everything can be done by anyone. Hardest achievement ? Pay a guild to do it with you. Want a mount ? Pay a guild. etc etc.
Latest raid in Wotlk is Icecrown Citadel, and see how I said people didnt get epics till at least 5 months into raiding ? People with crap quality gear can be all epic in a day now.
Sounds good eh ? No.

I could keep talking but theres not much point.
 
As most people have said, Give the trial a go.

It is quite a good game, i played it for years. Its all about what you make of it really.
I know a lot of people that play it very casually, levelling up slowly with friends and then just raiding as and when they can.
But i also know a lot of people that play it pertty seriously and spend 4-5 nights a week for around 4 hours each night raiding. which as you can imagine is pretty time consuming.

the addictive thing with WoW is that it appeals to a lot of people, the casual and the competetive.

You'll also find that the social aspect will be a hook as well. I made quite a lot of friends whom i met in person through WoW, some on this forum too. Infact, I ended up travelling across Europe with one of them last year.

One thing it did to me was save me a lot of money, it was much cheaper to stay in and play WoW than it was to go to the pub after work a few nights a week. One thing it isnt, is a money sink! ^^

EDIT: as Garonazz said above, Thats WoW's one huge flaw, personally, its all too easy and given too you on a plate, which is the reason why i stopped playing. I too played back in vanilla and miss how challenging the fights were and how hard it was to get good loot
 
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It's a horrible time sink and you'll develop a vitamin D deficiency due to reduced exposure to daylight.
 
i too gave it a go years ago, on a non wow server in other words it was a 3rd party, so no per month fee.


I got very board. very quick....but than again it don't help that my mentor or so called freind left me, in his guild area and me trying to find a way out.........-_-


give the trail a go...I warn you if you like action games...you will be board.
 
Just to chuck my oar in, I started playing WoW about a month ago, and I won't say there aren't issues. The levelling process is, as many have said, a bit too fast & easy - I feel I've skipped a large part of game content because I outlevelled it, such as most of the vanilla end-game raids and a good half of the Outland BC stuff. The other pain in the arse is the twinks you run across - people who have been playing for years and lay out retarded amounts of gold to gear up alts and dominate battlegrounds, and heirloom items to boot - a constant blue equivalent piece of gear that levels with the character who equips it, making other players about my level far superior even beyond their experience.

Saying all that, I'm still really enjoying it. If I'm not working I'll play maybe half the day, and an hour or two if I'm home from work about 18:30, I've found a guild of people I really enjoy chatting to and help me out if & when I need it, and for all that people whine (and my god, do they whine) about how good the game used to be, I still enjoy it a great deal.

All in all, I'd suggest getting the trial. Avoid PvP servers, they're full of crackholes. I personally play on RP servers because the community itself tends to be more mature, though you're bound to get a well-populated ignore list after a couple of days in any of the big cities, and on Argent Dawn stay the hell away from Goldshire - ERP happens there, and it's dark & perverse because you know it's a bunch of kids letting their imagination take the place of experience. RP servers also seem to be less elitist than non-RP servers, especially PvP. I can't stress enough how PvP servers are full of dicks.
 
can of worms opened

advice - get trial, if you like it get full game.

stay casual though, dont let it eat your life. Keep yourself to just a few hours here and there and play for fun. Its when it takes over your life its time to quit.

im on a wow break at the moment till cata, but even then i wont play it like i used to, it really did eat my rl up massively.
 
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though you're bound to get a well-populated ignore list after a couple of days in any of the big cities

Yeah thats my single biggest complaint about WoW. The people that play it.

The game itself is quite good, not as good as it was when it was released, but still a good game. What killed it for me was the types of people who play it and of course those people increased and increased until they were just everywhere. I have to deal every day with a couple of thousand immature childish idiots at work, so needless to say that I dont particularly find myself enamored by the idea of coming home to game and having to deal with another several hundred online. With a different userbase I might still play WoW, but with its existing subhuman crowd its a no-no.
 
The game is worth a try I'd say, but how much you enjoy it and stick at it will depend entirely on who you play it with.

From my experience of the game, at first you'll have to do random pick up groups (PUGs) as you won't know anyone, around 90% of the people you meet this way will be terrible, disgusting, sorry excuses for human beings, but the other 10% will be good people. Talk to them, get to know them and see if you can join a guild that they're in. Once you're in the right guild for you the game can really become great, but know that it won't last forever. I quit when my last guild had a major falling out, but contemplating going back for Cata when I'll have to go through PUG hell again.
 
I tried the WoW trial and it was my first MMO, it was so retarded I cannot understand why anyone plays it...

Go to Middle Earth and collect two carrots! *Returns to wizard* now go collect 3 carrots!! *Me: FFS* *uninstalls WoW*
 
I love how all these non wow players spend their time reading these threads and post about why you should not to play it. I for sure don't waste my time reading warhammer and lotro boards telling players it's not the game they wanna play.

It's your opinion what counts at the the end of the day. Go trial it.
 
I tried the WoW trial and it was my first MMO, it was so retarded I cannot understand why anyone plays it...

Go to Middle Earth and collect two carrots! *Returns to wizard* now go collect 3 carrots!! *Me: FFS* *uninstalls WoW*

I lolled at this
 
(Not literally)

WoW fans - sell the game to me; WoW haters - tell me why I shouldn't play it.

Go. :eek:
Unless you're satisfied with relative mediocrity you will never be as good or have the best stuff as the people who play it every day for hours upon hours. You will literally waste your life playing it until the day Blizzard decides to switch off the servers wiping out forever the sum total of your efforts & time.
 
Unless you're satisfied with relative mediocrity you will never be as good or have the best stuff as the people who play it every day for hours upon hours. You will literally waste your life playing it until the day Blizzard decides to switch off the servers wiping out forever the sum total of your efforts & time.

I was under the impression all end-game loots are easy to get now apart from maybe the top-tier arena stuff. Even the casual gamer is completely epicced out now
 
It's true that epic quality items are not hard to come by anymore. But there are different tiers of epic items. Casual players would not have heroic raid epic gear.
 
If you want to play, seriously start during cataclysm expansion, albeit you won't have access to some races with vanilla WoW, things will be much easier and/or more fun.
 
I love how all these non wow players spend their time reading these threads and post about why you should not to play it. I for sure don't waste my time reading warhammer and lotro boards telling players it's not the game they wanna play.

well the OP has asked for both sides of the coin, and tbh with you, this thread hasnt been the 'DONT PLAY FFS!!' type i was thinking it may erupt into.
most of the posts have been pretty fair imo.
 
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