For the 6 of you who don't have warcraft...

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 24th, 2010, 5:26

It's really cheap this week, go buy.

http://eu.battle.net/en/promotion/

friznit · Post by **friznit** » November 24th, 2010, 9:15

Shan't.

(Technically already have it, but I still get the 'grandparents over for Christmas' feeling every time I think about it, so zero desire to ever resub)

Post by **fabyak** » November 24th, 2010, 9:16

Post by **Grimmie** » November 24th, 2010, 10:03

Shada · Post by **Shada** » November 24th, 2010, 12:29

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » November 24th, 2010, 13:16

I'll give it a miss thanks.

Post by **Grimmie** » November 24th, 2010, 13:24

I guess it wasn't the box price that stopped us from playing?

Post by **deject** » November 24th, 2010, 13:59

fabyak wrote:No

Post by **Joose** » November 24th, 2010, 14:52

I dont want to trigger angrytiems, but I'm intrigued: why not?

I get why people who have playing it to death already don't want to, and I get why people who are more into shooty games don't want to, but I really don't understand why people who do enjoy computer RPG's don't want to. I assume there is more to it than some sort of inverse fanboyism?

I'm not being "OMG, U HATE THE GAME I LIKE, I HOPE YOU DIE OF AIDZ" about it, I just find it interesting that it gets such a strong reaction. I bet if it had been some other game you don't want to play, you would have just ignored it.

Post by **deject** » November 24th, 2010, 14:57

Aside from my general aversion to MMOs, I haven't seen anything about WoW that interests me. The story is some amateur fantasy shit and it just looks dumb. I'm not saying that you shouldn't play it, but I will never understand the appeal of WoW and there is no way I'm going to spend $15/month to find out.

Shada · Post by **Shada** » November 24th, 2010, 15:06

I've had enough of MMOs. A lot of games lately make me feel like I'm just wasting time, but none as much as "Kill 10 rats and bring me back their butts" MMOs.

I also hate MMO culture where the whole massively-multiplayer aspect causes immense competition, creating "flavour of the month/cookie cutter builds" with no variation, intense 5/5/5/5/5/6 pallykin jargon that everyone speaks like a second language and sounds plain stupid, and people with nothing else to spend their time on so it becomes like work rather than a game to them. This is mostly experience from EVE - but WoW is THE major MMO, and from listening to people talking about it is absolutely no different.

Basically, other people ruin games.

Post by **Grimmie** » November 24th, 2010, 15:13

Too much investment of time required to enjoy the game properly.
Subscription fee based MMO.
Repetitive fetch quests.

I think I played in a trial, and I played on a private server, neither time did I feel particularly drawn in to the universe.

Perhaps the visual style also contributed to my issues with WoW. If it had a more realistic, classical fantasy feel I might have warmed to it more - something along the lines of Guild Wars, or even some Japanese medieval MMOs at a stretch. I understand of course that it's based on the Warcraft art style, and that's fine, but I'm not endeared to it at all.

Post by **fabyak** » November 24th, 2010, 15:20

It's never really appealed to me to be honest and I simply don't have anywhere near the time I would need to play it properly.
Also I've had a major dose of MMO with Eve and I can't be arsed with another

Post by **Joose** » November 24th, 2010, 15:32

Huh, interesting.

I can understand the monthly fee, and the art style. Personally, I like the character that the WoW art gives things, which I often find lacking in games that go for a more "realistic" look, but thats just personal taste, so thats fair enough.

Seems like a lot of the other complaints are either things that were perfectly valid complaints several years ago that have since been fixed (quests are often a lot more interesting than "kill x number of y's" nowadays, for example), or complaints about elitist MMO twats. Surely avoiding elitist gaming twats in general is why 5punk was created in the first place?

Anyway, all of this kinda misses what I meant to ask (which I realise I didn't word particularly clearly first time around). Its not so much that I don't understand why anyone would not like WoW, that would be stupidly blinkered of me. What I mean is, what makes it have such a strong reaction, compared to other games you don't like? I don't see strings of "NO!" responses when people suggest other games to buy cheap, but that's not because nothing else ever gets suggested.

Post by **deject** » November 24th, 2010, 15:39

WoW is the largest game ever by miles, so rather like all big names it will tend to be polarizing.

Shada · Post by **Shada** » November 24th, 2010, 15:39

Because haters gonna hate.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 24th, 2010, 15:40

I stopped liking it when it became popular, I only play underground games.

The real reason(s) I'm going to try not to start playing again is because it takes up too much time and I have other games I want to play. However I would like to get a character to maximum level. I have a level 60-something priest but I've forgotten how to play him and I don't want to start from scratch with another character as that would take ages.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » November 24th, 2010, 16:22

Shada wrote:Because haters gonna hate.

Post by **deject** » November 24th, 2010, 16:24

Shada wrote:Because haters gonna hate.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » November 24th, 2010, 16:56

I had a post here that kept expanding as to why I didn't want to play it at all, but really there's four reasons:

1) I've seen a good friend play it a lot and what I saw such as how combat functions I really didn't like the look of, includes graphic styles.

2) Addiction. Wow is designed to be addictive, it's probably a shining pinnicle in terms of MMO design for keeping subs.

3) End game and the grind to it. Not interested in the slightest at having to grind up before I get access to most of the interesting content.

4) Any game that can spawn machinima videos like WoW has says to me there's far too much focus on superfluous rubbish from the Devs.