I'm loosing some friends for a while now because of that, and I'm sure GW will see some population decrease for a while as well.
So tell me... is it worth it? To get to the new areas and not have to fight for farming spots?|||Fight for farming spots? People in WoW have to fight for spots!?|||I have no clue, but I do know that I'm not big on WoW. I don't see what the attraction is - the storyline is hard to understand with all the different lore stories, the graphics are moot, the customization is too limited, it takes a month to level (unless you have the refer-a-friend bonus going on, and that stops at level 60/85), and it costs $15/month to play. I'll take Guild Wars any day. So if you have friends that like WoW, prepare for them to turn into antisocial brainless hermits for quite some time after this game's release.|||My pro-WoW buddy was just talking up how much it's improving with Cataclysm. Apparently questing & leveling are much more convenient. Dungeons can be queued up w/o having to travel long distances, more flight paths, etc. The graphics already received a serious overhaul, thanks to Deathwing.
If anything, I really admire what Blizzard has done with WoW. It's the MMORPG I'd play if I still played 'em. The thing is, I just can't do it. I've sworn them off, because I don't like being on a treadmill. (no matter how convenient it's been made) Too much time and having to pay to waste it. I'll stick to more contained experiences... like L4D2, Borderlands & Fallout.|||TBH, I thought this thread was going to be much worse. Turns out to be a normal thread.
Anyway, I haven't touched WoW for more than 5 years, so of course I wouldn't know if it's good or bad. But if there really are people camping Best Buy, then it must be exciting to those who are currently playing. I don't think it's as big of a deal to ditch whatever you are playing right now to pick up WoW though, unless the line outside of Best Buy is turning Black Friday into Green Friday with envy.|||Quote:
If anything, I really admire what Blizzard has done with WoW. It's the MMORPG I'd play if I still played 'em. The thing is, I just can't do it. I've sworn them off, because I don't like being on a treadmill. (no matter how convenient it's been made) Too much time and having to pay to waste it. I'll stick to more contained experiences... like L4D2, Borderlands & Fallout.
I'm with you there. I'd much rather use that time to play games like the ones you've mentioned. Although, when GW2 comes out, I'll make an exception.|||I've been away from WoW for the past 5 or 6 months, but came back because of the 7 days of free playtime to check out the updates that I've missed. Blizzard really streamlined the game now. It's not much of a stat-fest like it was before, they got rid of having to buy skill upgrades, and weapons no longer have to be 'leveled up'. A lot of other things changed as well.
I seriously doubt GW2 will release before the end of next year, so I was thinking about buying Cataclysm.|||Quote:
So I know a few people who are going camping around best buy tonight. I wonder if the mall will let them stay inside or if they have to camp out of doors for that.
They should. The Gamestop here let people in the mall, and they just roped off the rest of it. Then they just wait outside of the store for a few more hours. I bought it digitally though, I wasn't about to drive 45 minutes into town through snow and ice for a game.
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So tell me... is it worth it? To get to the new areas and not have to fight for farming spots?
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Fight for farming spots? People in WoW have to fight for spots!?
lolwut? Which version of WoW are you playing? People in Warcraft don't farm, unless they're terrible. You can make more than enough money from questing or playing the auction house. Soloing an instance might net you decent gold too, depending on drops.
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the storyline is hard to understand with all the different lore stories, the graphics are moot, the customization is too limited, it takes a month to level (unless you have the refer-a-friend bonus going on, and that stops at level 60/85), and it costs $15/month to play. I'll take Guild Wars any day. So if you have friends that like WoW, prepare for them to turn into antisocial brainless hermits for quite some time after this game's release.
-I don't find it hard to understand at all. Part of the appeal is that these characters have so much lore, dating back to the very first Warcraft RTS. It actually makes things interesting, and I'll admit that when they killed off Cairne Bloodhoof and Magini Bronzebeard I was actually somewhat annoyed, because those were awesome characters, with major importance in the story of Warcraft. Compare that to Rurik for example, and there's hardly any story to him. I didn't give a **** that he died, and gave less of a **** that he came back.
-Graphics are moot? lol???
Not to mention the texture resolution of many new armors and especially those of the enviroment are far higher than anything found in GW today. It's safe to say you don't like the art style, sure, but the Cataclysm graphics overall surpasses GW1, technologically.
-Why does it matter how long it takes to level? Personally I wish the 1-60 experience was longer now, because it's actually fun now. Westfall plays as an episode of CSI: Miami, with an NPC called Horatio Laine. Redridge is like a cross between Fight Club and The Expendables. You play as a raptor in Northern Stranglethorn, and become a Bloodsail pirate to sabotage their attack on Booty Bay, involving you actually defending the town from an attack, swinging on a rope from pirate ship to pirate ship.
-For $15 a month you get a ridiculous amount of stuff. I would list a lot of it, but that would make the post three times the size it already is. So the cliffnotes version: usually three or four updates bigger than gw's sorrow's furnace update per expansion at no extra charge, along with various smaller patches thoughout - and by "smaller" patches I mean 10 pages of changes instead of 30, tons of inventory/bank/guild storage, 24/7 gm support including getting your account back to how it was if you're ever hacked, pve that's actually challenging, addons and ui customizability, a world that actually feels alive - with no restrictive invisible walls as you run, jump, fly, and swim.
So to answer Noa's original question, is it worth it?
lol, **** yes.|||Quote:
They should. The Gamestop here let people in the mall, and they just roped off the rest of it. Then they just wait outside of the store for a few more hours. I bought it digitally though, I wasn't about to drive 45 minutes into town through snow and ice for a game.
lolwut? Which version of WoW are you playing? People in Warcraft don't farm, unless they're terrible. You can make more than enough money from questing or playing the auction house. Soloing an instance might net you decent gold too, depending on drops.
-I don't find it hard to understand at all. Part of the appeal is that these characters have so much lore, dating back to the very first Warcraft RTS. It actually makes things interesting, and I'll admit that when they killed off Cairne Bloodhoof and Magini Bronzebeard I was actually somewhat annoyed, because those were awesome characters, with major importance in the story of Warcraft. Compare that to Rurik for example, and there's hardly any story to him. I didn't give a **** that he died, and gave less of a **** that he came back.
-Graphics are moot? lol???
Not to mention the texture resolution of many new armors and especially those of the enviroment are far higher than anything found in GW today. It's safe to say you don't like the art style, sure, but the Cataclysm graphics overall surpasses GW1, technologically.
-Why does it matter how long it takes to level? Personally I wish the 1-60 experience was longer now, because it's actually fun now. Westfall plays as an episode of CSI: Miami, with an NPC called Horatio Laine. Redridge is like a cross between Fight Club and The Expendables. You play as a raptor in Northern Stranglethorn, and become a Bloodsail pirate to sabotage their attack on Booty Bay, involving you actually defending the town from an attack, swinging on a rope from pirate ship to pirate ship.
-For $15 a month you get a ridiculous amount of stuff. I would list a lot of it, but that would make the post three times the size it already is. So the cliffnotes version: usually three or four updates bigger than gw's sorrow's furnace update per expansion at no extra charge, along with various smaller patches thoughout - and by "smaller" patches I mean 10 pages of changes instead of 30, tons of inventory/bank/guild storage, 24/7 gm support including getting your account back to how it was if you're ever hacked, pve that's actually challenging, addons and ui customizability, a world that actually feels alive - with no restrictive invisible walls as you run, jump, fly, and swim.
So to answer Noa's original question, is it worth it?
lol, **** yes.
Do MMORPGs grant a subscription model?
Not for me.
P.S. And I could be buying 100 of them at the same time, I don't care for one.
EDIT: You, and 100 billion subscribers need to grow up.|||Quote:
So to answer Noa's original question, is it worth it?
lol, **** yes.
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