I've never found that my RL group of friends who play are competitive at all. We wait on each other to do group quests or instances, we level together and just generally help each other out. For us it's just a way to waste some spare time and have fun.
WoW - Should i..?
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I've never found that my RL group of friends who play are competitive at all. We wait on each other to do group quests or instances, we level together and just generally help each other out. For us it's just a way to waste some spare time and have fun.
I've not logged in for over a year now, my level 60 warlock is probably deleted, and I have two conflicting thoughts over that:
1. I'm sick that I spent so much time on it and have nothing to show now.
2. I miss the tremendous fun times I had in the early days with real life friends. Seriously almost the BEST fun I've ever had as a gamer for 20 years.
..but I don't have the time in my life now to enjoy the game's later aspects. So if you don't have much spare time, enjoy the ride while it lasts but accept your limitations and that you're going to have to quit in a year or so.
But I agree that defining it as a 'waste' is very relative. I've spent just as much time playing Championship Manager and Lords Of Midnight in my youth, reading, watching trash TV.
Fun is fun. You just have to be aware that fun has to be interrupted for the very real world we live in (for better or worse!).
1. I'm sick that I spent so much time on it and have nothing to show now.
2. I miss the tremendous fun times I had in the early days with real life friends. Seriously almost the BEST fun I've ever had as a gamer for 20 years.
..but I don't have the time in my life now to enjoy the game's later aspects. So if you don't have much spare time, enjoy the ride while it lasts but accept your limitations and that you're going to have to quit in a year or so.
But I agree that defining it as a 'waste' is very relative. I've spent just as much time playing Championship Manager and Lords Of Midnight in my youth, reading, watching trash TV.
Fun is fun. You just have to be aware that fun has to be interrupted for the very real world we live in (for better or worse!).
The comments people say, that you just level to 70 then raid\grind\pvp until you reroll and level to 70 again are true, but misleading.
Levelling to 70 is an entire game inself involving multiple dungeons and about 20 zones spread over 3 lands. levelling your 5th alt to 70 may be boring but there is a wealth of great gameplay before you get there, especially if you are seeing it all from the eyes of your first character.
WoW doesn't seem as grand or epic (in terms of land size, travel times etc.) as some other MMOs but the progression certainly makes you feel like you have come along way when you start hitting levels 50-60..
Levelling to 70 is an entire game inself involving multiple dungeons and about 20 zones spread over 3 lands. levelling your 5th alt to 70 may be boring but there is a wealth of great gameplay before you get there, especially if you are seeing it all from the eyes of your first character.
WoW doesn't seem as grand or epic (in terms of land size, travel times etc.) as some other MMOs but the progression certainly makes you feel like you have come along way when you start hitting levels 50-60..
I can't say I agree with anyone else here - I'm normally quite a compulsive person and I've been addicted to things before but WoW has never been something I'd spend that much time on. I did buy a 6 month subscription a while ago, and every now and again (sometimes every couple of weeks, sometimes much less often) I play for a few hours, maybe for a couple of days in a row, enjoy it for a while and then forget about it. I guess this is partly because there's no way at all in which you could really feel like you've got far or "completed" any part of the game without being completely addicted. I've been playing (albeit very on and off) for more than a year and I don't have a character above level 25.