Who Plays WoW, Addiction or Just for Fun?

[Taladrea]

Yes, I ask this to you my fellow RIA'ers....answer, debate it. Make merry!

[invincible13matt]

not yet. Someone offered to let me borrow a demo, so I might get into it.

[dester55]

i will die before I play WoW.

[Taladrea]

not yet. Someone offered to let me borrow a demo, so I might get into it.

Its worth getting into, if you decide to stay and play I could give you a level 60-something Priest that I don't want anymore. You'd just have to pay the transfer fee.  

I'm on the Pernolde server if you wanna start from scratch too. Alliance and Horde. ^_^

[invincible13matt]

I probably won't start, due to the fact that I have little money of my own and couldn't keep up with paying it. I need that money to afford college in about a year.

[Taladrea]

I have the same problem, however...I spend 20 bucks ever 2 months for a prepaid card. Kinda gives leeway.

[Citan]

I have played since the week it came out and don't plan on quiting. Had to stop back in December though because my computer blew up and I got left with this crappy one, that'll end soon next month when I get my new one. I plan on buying Burning Crusade now and playing it until I either burn up another computer or a new one comes out.

[Taladrea]

I have played since the week it came out and don't plan on quiting. Had to stop back in December though because my computer blew up and I got left with this crappy one, that'll end soon next month when I get my new one. I plan on buying Burning Crusade now and playing it until I either burn up another computer or a new one comes out.

Black Temple patch is coming out soon, Illidan goodness come with it *is a fangirl for him* Sucks that your comp died before the expansion.  Outland is sooo pretty in some places. Just don't...for the love of your own character ask to be summoned to OL at level 5. Deford did and well, it wasn't pretty.  

[Perc]

I played rogue to 60 pre-expansion..
WoW is a sorry imitation of what everquest was pre-moon.

[Taladrea]

I played rogue to 60 pre-expansion..
WoW is a sorry imitation of what everquest was pre-moon.

I play currently and pre-xpac. Tried FFXI and hated it, went back to WoW. Its really better now that the expansion is out and less bug ridden. As for an imitation of EQ, eh..not so much. Just a compliment of what it was in its former glory.

[Perc]

Well, imho, its a pale imitation..
I was in a fairly hardcore raiding guild in each game, and though I have much more time into eq, I raided successfully to Vaelstrasz before I quit..

Nothing wow has to offer can compare to an underpowered raid to the 5th level of the plane of air..(pre velious), or battling other guild alliances for the choicest spot to farm or raid..  Nothing can compare to working together with people in a constant state of flurry for 4 hours straight with nonstop FD monk pulls in the plane of hate or or kael or that badass dragon valley only to be trained from the entrance by a rival guild, which causes you to have a NAKED CR raid....what a nightmare lol, but soooooo much fun.

[Perc]

Alas it all ended with the moon expansion, and uber-guild-politics killed any fun that eq used to be..

WoW started with the guild politics bit and then worked its way out from there, so it is inherantly not as cool to be in a guild when thats what you're supposed to do in such a structured way (set # 20 and 40 man raids) vs joining a guild toniculated with people you like and trying to either run zones underpowered or with a massive amount of people

[Taladrea]

I like the current guild system and the raid system has changed since the expansion. Plus instances have 2 settings, Normal and Heroic. So, its not that all of a loss to play WoW. Mind you...you are not taking into account the arena and PvP setup now. Both have evo'd past what EQ has in that aspect of the MMO systems.

[Perc]

I like the current guild system and the raid system has changed since the expansion. Plus instances have 2 settings, Normal and Heroic. So, its not that all of a loss to play WoW. Mind you...you are not taking into account the arena and PvP setup now. Both have evo'd past what EQ has in that aspect of the MMO systems.

Having played on a pve (only a dabble into pvp in eq) server in eq, and a pvp/pve server in wow, I dont really think i can compare the two pvp systems adequately, but I know that I tried a little to play in pvp on eq and it sucked and was hard, but i LOVED playing pvp in wow..  I was night elf chick rogue on pve server to 51 then changed to undead male rogue on pvp...wooow
also the bgs in wow are sick, i have to give it that...i wish more of the actual game was like the bgs
but as far as raiding intensity and the skills the PLAYER had to have vs the skills a TOON have, eq owns wow pretty hard..

[Perc]

I don't like how in wow you have to have a certain combination of people to take down a given boss..

Let me clarify:

In eq, the devs would design a cool monster and then wildly increase the strength to make it a raid mob..you had to strategize how to use your people efficiently, and after a couple wipes you would get a strategy (or borrow someone elses strategy, but some person could just have a good idea and save the raid) that would deeat that mob with *the people that you have*  In wow, the devs had a specific strategy and combination of people in mind to defeat the monster and variation from that strat is almost impossible without the benefit of being overpowered for the encounter.  Don't get me wrong, going through the motions is fun and everything, but not enough fun to keep me for longer than one or two raids in bwl

[Taladrea]

The systems for bosses have drastically changed for the xpac. Especially in heroic runs. Mind you, I have yet to do them since I do not have a level 70 character...but from what I heard its well worth it.

Arenas are set up so then you can go after your same faction or the other faction. PvP in the most hardcore fashion. I have also yet to do this, but from what I hear...its brutal.

Battlegrounds are now multi-realm. Which means you can team up with others of your faction and spank not only the other faction but other realms as well. Its a wonderful thing. Plus, it speeds up the time you have to wait to enter into a particular BG. The new one "Eye of the Storm" is supposedly a pain in the butt to do, but fun.

My chars are: 26 Dreani Pally, 8 Dwarf Hunter (Pernolde Server - PvE)
                     62 Undead Priest (Stormreaver Server - PvP)

[Perc]

The systems for bosses have drastically changed for the xpac. Especially in heroic runs. Mind you, I have yet to do them since I do not have a level 70 character...but from what I heard its well worth it.

Arenas are set up so then you can go after your same faction or the other faction. PvP in the most hardcore fashion. I have also yet to do this, but from what I hear...its brutal.

Battlegrounds are now multi-realm. Which means you can team up with others of your faction and spank not only the other faction but other realms as well. Its a wonderful thing. Plus, it speeds up the time you have to wait to enter into a particular BG. The new one "Eye of the Storm" is supposedly a pain in the butt to do, but fun.

My chars are: 26 Dreani Pally, 8 Dwarf Hunter (Pernolde Server - PvE)
                     62 Undead Priest (Stormreaver Server - PvP)

my ne was on scilla, the undead on the forgotten coast

[Kaiser]

I was going to get into WoW then I realized my computer didnt have enough RAM. But with all this talk it sounds super confusing so when I get a new comp I might not even play.

[Perc]

I was going to get into WoW then I realized my computer didnt have enough RAM. But with all this talk it sounds super confusing so when I get a new comp I might not even play.

Probably a good decision.

[phoenixrisers]

Apprently approximately 0.008 percent of deaths are caused by WOW