Anyone here NOT enjoy playing World of Warcraft (WoW)?

With WoW having over 10 million members now, I am having a hard time wondering why I haven't found it all the much fun. Anyone else not enjoy it? I tried it when it first came out, since I love the Warcraft and Starcraft universe. I didn't care much for it then.

Then I tried it a year ago or so again, and still had a hard time getting into it.

What is it that I'm missing? Is there anyone else out there that DOESN'T care for WoW? So many people convinced me that once I play it I will get sucked in. I got bored real quick, and couldn't see spending $15/month.

Help me understand, please.

 

I don't care for WoW. I tried it out for 10 days, found that the jumping and exploration was much better than FFXI (previous MMO I played) and the world was much more... "free" but when it came down to it... an MMO is an MMO, and I guess after playing them for so long I just tired of the genre. Needless to say the first 3 days were fun, but after that I realized that all the quests were really similar... and it wasn't all that fun to play.

 

Just be glad you're not one of the 10,000,000.

 

Me and my brother got bored of it too. The only reason i played cause my friends kept bugging me to play.

Dont know how they got addicted though. I actually find diablo 2 more addictive

 

Never played. Installed it, but never played it.

 

Never played it, and never will, lost of my friends to the world...of warcraft...very sad, haven't seen him in months . Used to hang out almost everyday...

-TNK

 

I hate WOW and that is an Overstatement.

 

Looks exactly the same like me, I just hated the (for me as a total nap in that game) slow lvl time and that there was just nothing that brought ASCTION in that game, for pvp there were good groups needed and you would have to be an pro anyway to have fun and for dungeons you needed groups too that took a while to find and the stuff was crap anyways...

I didn't like the game and i am happy about it. Therefore I like other games, so WHO CARES?

 

Well, I personally dislike WoW, ALOT. I bought WoW and WoW:BC out of an impulse by. I installed it and played it for a few days, the graphics were nice and the fantasy world was awesome. However the gameplay sucked IMO. It was very repetitive and boring and it felt like I would never level up to the level of other players. I felt left behind and as if I had no chance. I also didn't like the fact that you could not move characters between "worlds/severs" as they put it.

I'll stick to FPS's for now.

 

I like CoD4...

and half life!

 

I'm beginning to think that WoW's audience is more high school students who can have a social hour while playing a mediocre game online. That's fine, but they shouldn't make it sound so spectacular, well, because it isn't...

 

I played WoW for like 2 years before I went off to a University ( was in a community college so I had plenty of free time ) and most of the reason I played it was because I spent a lot of time on my computer, and it was something that was easy to play. I had CSS and enjoyed that a lot but I could never play that all day like I could with WoW. Now that I'm older it's still an alright game, I played it over Christmas break with some friends and had a good time, but if I would have gotten into it seriously again, grinding rep and honor for some pixels, yeah, it would have gotten old fast. Plus TF2 is fun as hell, so when I have free time to game it's usually that.

 

I was jaded by the time I tried it on launch. Everquest and UO are really hard to compete with. WoW was really fun for about a month, and then I got bored. I stopped playing for 4 months. Then I played it again for a couple of months and had lots of fun again. Then I didn't play for about 6-8 months. Then I played it again for about 6 months, hit 60, and did a little bit of Raiding...then I got bored and stopped playing... Haven't really gotten back into the game yet.

I don't know how to explain it, but somehow games like Everquest and UO held this intense feeling of adventure and depth. WoW is VERY polished and well made, but it has NEVER given me that same feeling. I feel like I am in a very safe and controlled environment, even in the middle of a high-end dungeon all alone after a wipe. Anyone else ever experienced the same feeling?

Anyway, best MMO of all time (heh, mostly) was Planetside. You would have liked it. It still runs, but there are only 3 servers and it is showing its age. Also, I still enjoy playing EVE:Online, and a little while back I enjoyed a little bit of City of Heroes.

Anyway, I am not the type that can really become addicted to MMOs...I can enjoy them for several months and then I inevitably become bored. My friends will continue grinding and leveling and I'll be like, "Eh, time to see what else I can play."

Thank God for that too, otherwise I would have missed out on some classics this year like Orange Box, Mass Effect, Bioshock, CoD4, Dawn of War, GTA4, etc.

I don't hate the game, and at some level for some periods of time I enjoy it, but it just doesn't last and it doesn't have the same visceral pulse that Everquest had.

Thoughts?

 

I've never played everquest, but it looks good. I watched wow and got bored, okay? I played Guild wars (i think a monthly fee for a game is a stupid idea) and found it fun, but I find clicking, waiting, then clicking very boring.

 

Back when I was playing ffxi I tried WOW for a few days...needles to say I stopped abruptly after that, way to much time involved in my opinion for a video game. >.> I'm sure someone's gonna say well why where you playing ffxi? I quit that game because it was just way to addicting, paid off though because the account sold for almost 2k$ on ebay. Suppose it was fun for a while, but again those games are like crack. I still recall what the guy at gamestop said when I first bought the game "Kiss your life goodbye"

 

WoW is ok, I had EQOA for PS2 a while back but the community was dead so it wasn't fun. I cancelled my sub. for the past month because I wouldn't have much time to play it, but in the spring ill be back into it. Its addictiveness is more in the social/raiding/dungeon aspects, unfortunately the quests and grinding are boring as heck but once you get past it it's very fun. Better question is does any body not like HALO? All my friends are into it, i don't think its a bad game, just not as good as everyone thinks, COD4 is better IMO.

 

Don't like the genre, playing Diablo 2 and expansion games is for me a single player experience. At least I can claim I've saved a lot in credit card bills compared to the WoW fans.

 

Halo doesn't deserve to sc**** the gum off the bottom of CoD4s boots. lol.

EDIT: anyone else hate that the filter blocks that?

 

WoW is a boring game, doesnt really engage me..i feel like i am doing a task ..Although Chinese guys are heavily addicted to it.. many have died playing it for 4 continous days due to exhaustion.. its funny they died playing that Game. which i can't even play for 4 minutes..i tried playing it due to the fame but didn't enjoy the theme of weird characters speaking in heavy bass voice
For me COD4 is the best game of the year, The CS will always be THAT ADDICTIVE game which i can play for hours.

 

What's interesting is that most of you people have given upon on WoW before the real game even starts - lvl 60-70, which is when the game starts getting incredibly boring. If you thought it was horrible before then, wait until you hit cap Then it gets REALLY boring (think - farm for material, raid raid raid, pvp pvp, farm, repeat ad nauseum).

What made WoW boring for me was the lack of depth and plot. Blizzard games are fun to play in a cartoonish kind of way, but they never seemed to have very immersive stories. There's a certain enjoyment in simply lvling up and getting the next piece of equipment ala Diablo-style-gameplay, but that gets real old without an engrossing storyline, at least for me (of course, that's also why i find most FPS uninspiring). What I did like was the warlock class - not many games have strong dark mage/summoner type class that's balanced so well.

FFXI was the opposite really. Whereas WoW, despite all its faults, was quite polished in the gameplay, FFXI was a mess - the interface was clumsy, movement was clumsy, auctionhouses were horrible, but the story was absolutely amazing. You'd put up with hours of horrible gaming punctuated by a few minutes of absolute epicness every so often.

Overall though, all MMORPGs are annoying IMO. The maturity level seems to be on par with elementary school, except with a lot more drama.

 

WoW sucks.

Halo sucks.

Val Kilmer sucks.

George Clooney sucks.

I'm Batman.

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In all honesty, I can sort of see why WoW is popular in that it has this sort of Pavlovian "kill the monster, win a treat" addictive appeal to it. But the art style doesn't appeal to me, and mechanically, it's just a bunch of timers. It's almost more of a slave to mechanics than the Magic: the Gathering card game is; when I play WoW, I don't see a thrilling fantasy game, I just see a lot of waiting. Bars go down. Bars go up. At least to balance a shotgun in a shooter you get to actually see yourself reload.

Also, as a die hard single player, the idea of areas in a game that require upwards of forty people to go co-op seems downright insane, a sort of logistical Hell that ruins the game for the casual player. I found WoW remarkably unfriendly in general to the casual player.

Oh, and as for Halo, the way I figure it, the real value of the game became evident when it got ported to the PC and had to compete with real shooters.

 

Well said. FFXIs story was really the only thing keeping me playing for so long (and the great community). After hours upon hours of grinding the same monster with the same 5 people you get to take part in a great boss fight, with pretty good cut scenes, even if they lacked voice acting. And buying a new expansions was basically like buying a brand new story line. Gameplay was bland, but the story was really in-depth.

 

I've played WoW to death. Part of it was due to friends playing, the other part is, There's really no other game (MMO that is) worth playing at this time. But, it got boring, if you've taken one character to 70, it's boring to do all the same quests, rep grinds, attunments, keys, etc again..

PvP is about as dull as you can get. Sure it's fun at first, but the game is about GEAR. Those who have it and those who don't. And those who have gear, have it so much easier to get MORE gear, and even further increase the gap from those who don't.

Conclusion: Game rewards lifelessness and time wasting, not skill, thought, or other.

So, finally waking up to that fact, I let my accounts expire and on to something new. Lord Of The Rings Online. *sigh* I need to stop wasting time in MMOs...

 

I want to try it but $15/month? Come on...no one in my high school can afford that, and playing the trial is lame cause you can't play after that.

 

As with any multiplayer game, unless you only expose yourself to FPS's the amount of fun you have depends on the people you play with.

As much as I hate to admit it, out of any "newer" MMO on the market (using the term newer lightly) it is the most polished and delivering game of it's, or even all time.

The major quark with the game is time involved. But from a business standpoint, that is in Blizzards best interests to keep the money flowing.

I have played many MMO's and have gone back to every one of them. I enjoy RTS, FPS, and MMORPGs most of all games.

Multiplayer is what makes or breaks a game for me. And the immersing and social worlds of many MMO's is what makes it a diverse and fun experience.

I have played wow three times now, 2 times for a month each (getting bored each time) and now once again to try and catch up to my guild for some PVP fun.

PvP is what I yearn for, and WoW does deliver a decent PvP system. It's not UO... But it will do.

The guys I play with are guildmates of 4 years now, and the game is more on ventrilo and guildchat than anything. Leveling sucks... It's blan and stupid. But hey.. The pvp at 70 is what I want.

Oh and by the way. I am a university student with good grades, and a girlfriend of about 2 years.

It's not the game that ruins people, it's their self control.

Real life fun > video game... Any day.


EDIT: Sorry for my list like format...

And no... It's not really all that fun, but the people I play with are.

 

I have never played WoW on the simple fact that the hype factor is huge and I tend to dislike all those things.. That, and the fact that the addiction rate is quite tremendous..

 

There is no "wow factor" in WOW for me. Games that make me say "wow" are COD4, crysis, command & conquer 3, company of heroes, and longtime favorite - starcraft. Can't wait for starcraft 2 to come out, if they ever decide to release it.

 

*shrug* I played WoW for a couple of days, and it's sorta ok.... But not something I'd want to pay for. I had fun goofing around, levelling a bit,checking out the skills... And then I let my account expire.

 

Only show up at school, decline invitations at the last moment, not even answering IMs. Do not care about warnings. It is really frustrating... I hate that. But I find the game boring, the quest are the same with minor differences and the environment is not the type where you can just sit down, look around and say : "WOW!"(pun intended.

 

The only reason I dont play it is the monthly fee. Thats the one thing i dont like about it. I dont pay rent on my laptop so i can use it, I dont pay to play any other game online.

This is the main reason I like GW so much.

 

I don't, used to, got bored.

 

I like the game, but really resent the time investment required for it and games in the genre in general.

It seems to be designed for people with a lot of time on their hands in sustained chunks, where you close your door and dont answer the phone.

 

I was a WoW addict and one day broke away from my curse and stoped playing cold turkey. After time to recover and relfected back and saw how much of my life I was waisting away and said I would never play agian.

I kept that promise for about a year, and just recently my boss at work kept trying to get me to play and with the new expansion pack I was abit curious what the new stuff was like so I ended up playing again.

However there is a catch!!!

The problem was back then when I played it ate my life, soul, and anything else because I couldnt just play "casual" at the start of the game in low level you can just fine by solo questing at your leasure, or maybe a small party to do a few things. 1-3 hours at a time was totally doable and if you had to leave for anything (dinner, kids, sleep, work ect) it was not a big deal.

However the problem is end game where you have nothing to do but raid, things like a 40 man Molten Core raid took HOURS and you were so engaged and dedicated to your guild that you actully have to put things off to do it, and cant leave without repercautions. Battle grounds ruined the game alot for me too. Anyways getting off on a tangent there, without going more into why the game was bad and what I didn't like about it. Here is my solution and why I play again.

Private Servers!

I found a great private server to play on, its a "fun server" with a 60x drop rate 60x xp rate, ect.

So now those end game places dont take hours because people are much stronger, everything is light hearted and you dont have to donate organs to get your end game gear. You can actully enjoy all the cool stuff like the epic flying mounts and end game dungions and be a casual player. Also I dont have to pay to play the game anymore.

I really like it so far. Ultimatly it will probably get boring because you can do everything and see everywhere so fast and easy but thats ok. I would rather get bored of the game and quit again than play like I did before and have playing WoW as an actual priority in my life.

Plus the PVP aspect of the game keeps it pretty entertaining even if you do manage to get everything in the game.

 

I played it at a friend's house and never thought it was interesting. I'm not a big fan of RPGs anyways.

 

The reason wow is so popular is because it's simple. The quests are similar, the crafts system boils down to collecting items(many of the quests are exactly the same) PVP is simplistic in that, once you realize what class can beat what class and in what way, you can modify your outcome manually to win every time, by simply avoiding 'this' or 'that' in PVP.

the PVE is addicting in that it required 25 to 40 people to get to gether and do one thing, Megalomaniacs get off on it because they gain a sense of control, addicts can enjoy it because there is a sense of belonging towards a greater goal. "We downed *So and so monster*"

When in actuality, if you were intelligent enough, you could program a mod to do the workload of your class in a raid invironment relativly easily, Every class in wow eventually boils down to about 4 or 5 main skills and the rest are usually forgoten.

It's got flashy provocative graphics without being TO resource hungrey and at the end of the day, the fact that computers from early 02 can run this thing is pretty appeasing.

Pay for wow? I wont ever again. I will likely pay for another online game, but it'll be EQ2 and thats only because that game seems intense enough to warrant it.

I play wow for free, on a private server. Where the experiance of geting to 70, collecting awesome gear and PVPing for long enough to make it seem boreing can be shortened from about a year of play, to a month of play(due to the high experiance and drop rates of these custom servers) I've been playing on the free server for about a year now, and it boils down to this, you trade stability for expedited game play. The servers crash a lot more, there are more technical problems and less technical support, but it's faster(Very very much faster) and it's free, which is also hard to beat.

If you want more information, just PM me, I'll give you a link.

 

I just froze my account last month. I might start playing it again when the expansion comes out. Honestly...I don't like the community at all which is one of the reasons I stopped playing. I'm an old MUDer at heart and the commercial MMOs just don't do it for me.

 

I always hated Warcraft games, can't explain it.

 

Well, maybe I'll give it a whirl on a private server. I don't have a lot of free time anymore, at least not for 2,3,4 hour chunks due to new baby. But I still get time to play for an hour or so at a time.

I just want to see what's so appealing, as I never got very far before my 10 day trial expired.

 

I agree with a couple of people mentioning the community. It could be a lot better.

Its a whole lot better experience when you play with friends, although I guess that could be said about any multiplayer game.

 

WoW sucks. I never liked any of the MMORPGs.

 

I found WoW to be ridiculously repetitive. You go to area A, kill monster B praying to high hell that they drop item C, return to person D. Repeat. Over. And over. The only time you break that monotony is if you group to instances. The logistics of that can be a nightmare and you can end up spending more time standing around than actually gaining exp. Even then, what are you leveling up for? There is nothing waiting for you at the end of that road except bragging rights. If there was a story that I wanted to finish then I could justify the time spent playing, but there isn't.

When I get my new laptop I'm going to try Tabula Rasa. Looks interesting to me and I like the third person shooter style that it has.

 

You wont find any new quests there.

You were describing all modern MMORPGS.

 

me too never played it dont know why fps rulz

 

I have always been a big fan of MMORPGs. Not hard to guess I enjoyed WoW and started playing when it first came out. It must had been at least 3 months that I played every day (yeh I was hooked). Then I went abroad for 2 weeks, came back and completely lost interest in WoW. I'm glad I did, looking back what a waste of time / life.

I have since avoided playing any MMO games, particularly MMORPGs since knowing myself I'd probably get hooked again

Now my only interest is occasional single player games, short but sweet.

 

Right, but the story and environment can put it into a different context and make it somewhat enjoyable. As others pointed out, FFXI has an interesting storyline that can serve as motivation to complete quests. I played SWG when it first came out but it had the same problem as WOW, no story to hook you. I like Sci Fi so Tabula Rasa might be better for me. Or I'll hate it and wait for Conan, The Day, or some of the other upcoming mmo's.

 

what ruined wow was the expansion, when it was just out,, it was like wow, you have one epic! omg!.... now it's everywhere, everyonees the same, everyone is geared, makes it less rewarding getting stuff.... (i had 100+ epics @ lvl 60 pre-bc :/ )

and then you have blizzard... making the leveling "faster" and retard-proof... i mean really.. quest objects SHINE AND SPARKLE incase you can't see em..... totally retard proof, less challenging, less exploring.......

battlegrounds/dishonrble kills completely ruined world pvp too.... i remember 80 man raids into sw... those were the days.

 

I am a high school student and know many who play WoW.

I hate it though.

 

If they make "World of Starcraft" (WoS almost sounds like Wuss - lol) they better make it more challenging. I like Starcraft and Sci fi stuff. Would be a bummer if it ended up being WoW with Starcraft skins.

 

I'd play World of starcraft in an instant.

In fact i'd go spend money I don't have to play it...

 

I'd give my left you-know-what for World of Starcraft. They'd have to mix in some twitch based gameplay though. I think that'd be more fitting.