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Do you like having a social life? Maybe not...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game, which I think is much like Diablo 2 (same general shutff), is addicting to no end. You WILL be playing this game all the time, and you will feel like crap when you are not. It is the same thing as tobacco withdrawl, expect virtual. Most of the people who play (yes, most) are jerks who care only about gold and items and raids. It is like a second life which gains importance over your first. It also is not cheap to play this game... $15 a month which is $180 a year, which means some people have already payed $375 to play this game for 2 years. Due credit is given to the developers however, because they created a immersive, enormous world plus a GOLDMINE! Use your discresion when considering this purchase.

Notes on WoW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The time in which you can play is flexible. I can play this game for a quick one hour session and still accomplish something rather than having to marathon to level up or to get a quest done.

Playing in groups to get a difficult quest done is fun and rewarding. You get to make friends from all over the world.

The thrill of getting a new weapon or armor from a quest or buying it is great after playing for so many hours. It really gives you a sense of accomplishment.

Competitive play in the PvP server is really fun and balanced.

Game content such as the size of the world, number of quests, and enemies to fight is huge even though the game is still in Beta.

Horrible PVP,Dull Character Development but SHINY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 58
Date: November 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really expected more. Buyer beware, there's a lot of hype to this game, a lot of it is unfounded. The Blizzard Fan Boy army is large, so as an expierenced mmorpg player, I'll give you the straight poop.

This is a very shallow game. Everything has been done before by other mmo's, most of the time even better. It's point and click. Combat is dull. Grouping is pointless as the quest sytem makes it possible to solo through large portions of the game. The much lauded quest system isn't that great. Deliver this here, kill 20 of that, yada yada yada. I would have at least expected the quest system to be on par with City of Heroes, sadly it's not. It's not uncommon to find six, seven, or even more people camping spawns to kill x number of baddies. If you like running around waiting for something to spawn, you'll love this game.

Character custimization is dismal. You have a handfull of choices to make regarding the appearance of your character. If you and a friend both want to play together, and you don't choose the same race, you'll often be on opposite sides of a continent, with no convenient way to reach each other. Not that there's any real point to grouping anyway.

The servers so far seem mostly stable with very little lag, but this is only the beta, so I expect it to be much worse on the release date.

There aren't a lot of class choices. The game across the board only offers a little over a handfull of classes. Skill custimization is minimal, going off a a tier based tree type system.

Don't really have too much to say. Just take everything you read with a grain of salt. Including this.

I'm not paid to write this, nor a blizzard cult follower

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 21
Date: October 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hmmm where to start. Well I played for almost a year trying to find that 'interesting or rewarding part', it apparently doesn't exist. After level 5 (of 60, it takes about 4 months of playing daily to reach 60) the game-play becomes mundane, generally you get abilities that are damage or recovery from damage and the attention of the enemy monsters and kill things, thats it... There is no way to lose level or stay dead other than game bugs (there are plenty of those). Essentially if you played up to level 5 you've encountered everything it has to offer, later levels just mean more buttons and slightly different textures. Oh and the characters and geometry appears to be designed by an anti-social teenager, like the ones the draw pictures of distorted muscle men with giant shoulders... Interestingly enough that's the target market and the main player profile. You will encounter quests that tell you to murder people, commit genocide, and of course steal from your victims, with lots of racist and factionalism dialog! Essentially this is a game that can only be described as 'for sociopaths' and the mundane. The actual game mechanics are built to make sure more sophisticated and intelligent gamers have no advantage, and the reward system is based on time spent playing rather than accomplishment or skill. there are hours of filler in order to extend playtime ( in order to extend your subscription ) rather than compelling content. Fillers include time penalties, effects that make you wait until they expire, absurdly long and very slow travel, very low loot drops for items required for quests, extremely long and boring battles, and of course lots of server downtime. In the end I only feel that this game was a complete scam, a waste of my time and money, I feel ripped off and I will under no circumstance buy a game from blizzard or anyone that has worked for them.

It's OK... but thats it....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 36
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played for 6 months before canceling my account. I enjoyed it at times until it became apparent that it is definately NOT for people that only play 2-4 hours a day; DEFINATELY NOT for player who don't play every day. You will be left in the dust.

All of the "quests" are grinding quests (hacking up monster after monster for no apparent reason)to gain insanely rediculous items that not every monster has. "collect 10 goblin ears for me" you go out and hack up goblins, yet only about 1 in 5 goblins has ears... the rest are deaf I guess. Needless to say, this can become VERY tedious and boring. Or worse yet the quest is to talk to someone in a far off area, that will take you 20 minutes (REAL TIME) to get to. ugh!

Waiting to enter a dungeon is also a mind numbingly horrible problem. I waited 2 hours one time just to get a group together to enter a dungeon. What a waste of time; I could have been playing a better game with better results.

My last problem is just a personal one... The game is full of L337 d00dz... who actually type like that. I understand that this is a culture thing and that is how it goes, but it was the same on the Role Play servers.

If you want to play a game that is all about grinding away levels and the main goal of the game is just to gain levels. Then buy this crappy game.

If you enjoy the thrill of actual adventures and quests (like I do), buy something else.

Bad support, Characters disappear! excellent game if it work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 25
Date: March 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Bad support, Characters disappear! excellent game if it worked

First off bear in mind that's it's not only $50 for this game.. they want a monthly fee too.
The game itself is really good like the previous warcrafts it's a top notch game however it seems blizzard has no I.T. operations experience and the game goes down way to often.
I've spent week developing a character only to have it disappear!
Contacting support is not a pleasant experience expect to wait a week for a reply and it's bound to be a cut and paste answer that probably does not apply to your email.
I've sent four mails so far and have had the same cut and paste reply!
If your willing to put up with shoddy support, the loss of characters and lot's of downtime this is for you.

Addictive, Yet Promising, Gameplay from Blizzard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Like most MMORPGs, World of Warcraft is a very addictive game. Offering often simple quests, it still manages to enthrall gamers into investing much time into gameplay. Player abilities are simple to learn yet able to be tweaked in a plethora of ways, fulfilling any but the most hard-core gamer's desires for player-skill development. However, unlike most, I think that there is more promise in World of Warcraft than meets the eye.

The true promise of World of Warcraft lies in the immensity of Blizzard's vision for the game as it unfolds over its projected seven-year lifespan. It is quite possible that it is going to become the driving force for major changes which occur within the Warcraft Universe's storyline, instead of being the static-style storyline which haunts most MMORPGs.

Nevertheless, for the current iteration of WoW, the game plays magnificently (perhaps a little to magnificently). It offers the chance to investigate, at no additional cost, other races and classes by creating any number of characters. The world is immense and only continues to have the promise of growth. Most importantly, the fan base is always around to team up for quests, a true driving factor in gameplay.

Fun game when you can play it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game for over a year now. It has become my favorite past time. However they have an ongoing problem that happens most weekends and almost every holiday. The servers become to full and you have to wait in line 30 minutes or more to play. $14.99 a month is a lot if you want to watch a counter as your place in line ticks down. The good news is if you play during strange times of they day you probably won't experience much of this problem. So for this problem and thier lack of resolve in fixing it I give an overall rating of 1 star.

It is a nice game at first but extremely boring after a while

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I bought the game last January I was very optimistic, being a great role playing and fantasy fan, I thought the game was a lot of fun at first. The quests I had accepted was trivial and most of the fun was from looking at the Warcraft world while moving in it. But I was confident that the quests would improve and be more interesting. I am now level 26 (I know that is a low level compared to all the people who are level 60 and 70) but I feel that the game has to be fun even at this moderate level. It is not. The quests have not become more interesting. They are always collect X many of this and that, or kill X number of this and that monster. I never feel like I'm accomplishing anything while doing the quests. But what I am really SICK AND TIRED of is the running/walking. The extreme distances that I have to run is ridiculous, and I have to wait until level 40 to be able to buy a horse and that is extremely expensive, from what I have read on the net. What is the logic that a person has to walk/run from one city to the other? There is a minor transport system and it helps a little (only a little), but why people cannot get a horse to be able to get between two places is beyond me. One of my friends has a character that is level 70 and he says to me what I haven't even seen the game yet. All I keep think then is how long and how high level do I have to be to be categorized as having seen the game? I think you should have the feeling that you have seen the game from day one and not after you have spent hundreds of hours and dollars on subscription fees.

The bad game play is one thing, but another is the antiquated graphics. This game looks like the 5 year old game it is poor copy of (Warcraft 3). The graphics have not improved one bit over the years after many many gigabytes of updates. I feel that the money I have paid one month after the other is totally wasted because there is no visible update at all. I feel like I'm being charged for leasing a webhotel or something and there are webhotels with sql servers that charge one fourth of the total cost that Blizzard charge.

If Blizzard cannot improve the graphics and the extremely boring game play I won't be playing the game anymore, and I will advise people who is considering buying this game that it is extremely old looking and no speech at all in the game. I would think that all those gigabytes being downloaded would include some speech in the game, but no.

Adventure Beyond Imagination

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played many D&D games over the last twenty years. "Defender of the Crown" was the first color game I played on CGA. After all I date back to Monochrome green and amber monitors. We use to play a text one called "Adventure" on those computers. Argh, that tells my age. Anyway, World of Warcraft is a highly immersive game and very easy to lose track of everything else. The first five levels went pretty fast. Fortunately I had Gnarlwhite (Gnarlfang's 19th Level Dwarve Paladin) watching my back. Although I made several mistakes on my first outing, Gnarlwhite only made one. He let me lead the party. As party leader you must watch out for your party. Decide who joins and leaves, et cetera. When a young lady found our funny shenanigans of us dancing and playing around in town, she asked to join our party. It was left to me, and I thought sure the more the merrier. Wrong! If you are new to the game you DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, want to be responsible for someone else. Velod joined us and followed at first. I was too enthralled with all that was going on around me and in the heat of one of my first quests. I was to recover some of Millie's grape harvest. As I entered the vineyard I was attacked by thugs. Now Gnarl was intent on not letting me get killed.

He watched my back like a hawk and when needed cast spells to improve my chances of survival, ACTUALLY INSURED MY SURVIVAL IS MORE LIKE IT. I would have died at least once otherwise. Only problem was neither of us noticed that Velod had not stayed close and got into a battle of her own and died. I feel partly responsible, but not entirely. Let me explain. When I was following Gnarl at one point later in the game, I was attacked from behind, and I was getting hit badly. I bolted away from Gnarl, but for good reason, to avoid my attacker. When I was behind Gnarl I could not move as fast as when I side stepped and ran, and swam as it were. A good part underwater. I was then able to get away and then regroup with Gnarl. Gnarl was upset with me at first. Moving as I was he couldn't throw a heal on me, but had I held still for that heal I would have been dead. My point being is when you start dying you don't stand there and let them kill you. YOU RUN! Velod didn't run apparently. Therefore I don't feel that we were responsible entirely for her death. Now that said I still apologized to her profusely. The old adage of "the blind leading the blind" applies here aptly. I certainly had no business leading her, and she had no business following.

Well anyway other than that one incident the game was a complete joy. After all I got to kill a wolf with a fish that Gnarlwhite gave me. I laughed so hard I was rolling on the floor. Not only that I got to see Gnarlwhite dance. Ever see a Dwarve dance? It's a hoot. The graphics in this game will amaze you. The music is incredibly mystical and beautiful. Meeting real people and NPs throughout many lands and villages is fascinating. The villages range from small worker villages to castles that are amazing. The inhabitants and creatures of these lands are so vast in type I would have to write a book to tell you. Seeing people riding all kinds of animals in the sky, on land, or walking with them is phenomenal. Games like "Baldur's Gate I and II", "Diablo I and II", and "Neverwinter Nights" were great, but this is so much better you won't believe it until you see it. All I can say is, if you can afford this game and the monthly fee, by all means get it! This game is what I wanted in so many D&D games before. It doesn't get much better than this. At any rate there is no doubt in my mind that Gnarl and I will be playing this nightly for a long time. I hope Onslaught and anyone else that decides to get it will join us soon. Oh by the way, this makes Diablo II look like that game Adventure I use to play on those Monochrome monitors.

I bought this only yesterday and although it took running around to several stores to find it, awhile to get 5 discs installed, and to download a large patch (around 230 MB I think), it was well worth it. This game goes well beyond what I can describe to you in this review. Suffice it to say the graphics and sound are phenomenal. The music beautiful and the non-player characters enchanting. Most of your time you will spend wondering around admiring the countryside, fighting whom and when you choose, and selling your cast off items. Very rarely did I get attacked unless I got to close to an overly aggressive animal or character. Most the time they don't attack unless you attack them. This makes for a more believeable fantasy world. Not all the hack and slash required in previous games. You can just interact as much as you want. Interact with other people in this world is half the fun. Most gamers are quite kind. One generous fellow, Korky, gave me a two handed sword and axe. They had added pluses so I was beside myself. Being only a 5th level Paladin, Korky the Gnome made my week. If I had anything to give in return I would have, but I will forever be in his debt and not forget it if I might repay him someday.

Being able to roam about undisturbed for the most part lets you appreciate all the detail that went into this world. Jump in the moat and you will find fish you can catch. Wonder in the woods and you will find an assortment of wild creatures that you can watch or kill if the need arises. Want to ride a giant Eagle, you can in this game just like Gandalf did in LOTR. You can visit the cat woman who has cats in cages for sale. You can shop till you drop at all the shops, smithies, taverns, and more. You can visit beautiful castles or dark forbiding lands. You can swim underwater or soar in the skies above. The game does not have the limitations that have stifled so many before it. You will find it hard to tear yourself away from it to go to bed.

Three buildings I want to mention are the Auction House, Bank, and Post Office. These buildings are amazing, and not only for all the activity. The Auction allows you to sell items you no longer want, items you make yourself from your skills, or anything else. The Bank allows you to store items you don't want to carry around with you all the time, like items that you aren't high enough level to use yet, or even extra ingredients you use to make things. Whatever you store, you have numerous slots for storage. The Post Office allows you to keep in touch with other players and even send them any items as attachments along with messages within the game mail. I have never seen these features before this myself and I found them all very impressive. One other tip. I figured out that instead of trying to cast heal or whatever on your allies in your group directly at them you should use their picture icon on the top left of screen when possible. Apparently not everyone knows you can do this and in a battle when you don't have line of sight it can be critical.

Get it and get your friends to join in the fun. You won't regret it. I almost forgot to mention that many dial-up players have no problem playing this one. I have a friend in Oklahoma that only gets around a 40K connection and he runs smooth except for slight lag in the large cities. I just ordered this game, the strategy guide, and two month online card from Amazon for a friend. What are friends for? Even though there is a fifteen dollar monthly online account fee, it is well worth the expense.

Here is what happened after my initial review:

26 days passed and I am now a 28th Level Paladin and halfway to 29th. So it is possible to move up quickly if you like. I even created an Elve Hunter that I got up to 8th Level too. The game amazes me more each time I play it. I actually took a ship to another continent and walked a great distance and saw the Horde cities and then swam along the West coast to the Elve cities. The bottom line is there is an immense amount of area to explore in this game. I am intimidated by many of the creatures and the areas are sometimes quite spooky. Since some creatures suddenly attack you must constantly be on your guard. The high level Horde make fun of me and are anxious to kill me in a duel.

2 months passed and I am a 45th level Paladin. I have loved this game since the start. My only concern for awhile was I would hit level 60 and start farming items as I see many high level characters do. They hit dungeons to get unique items to sell or they go to areas lower levels find difficult and grab herbs, ore, et cetera and sell. If I got to that point I think I would quit the game. However, the latest news is there are new areas to explore, mounted flying beasts, and a 70 level cap coming soon in the expansion. So perhaps they will continue to breath life into the game. Not only that there are battlegrounds you can volunteer to go to where you fight an opposing group, Alliance vs Horde. Some battlegrounds last about an hour and some up to four or more. If you leave early it hurts your reputation a little. If you stick it out it helps your reputation and can help you gain access to receiving or purchasing very nice items. I am not nearly as intimidated as I once was but I still am not anxious to fight the Horde.

5 months passed and I made it to level 60 and there is a great deal more to do. I am not farming as I thought I might a couple months ago. There are some players that do however. It makes the lower levels so mad they have a tendency to accuse any level 60 RPC killing lower level creatures as farming. I have been accused several times when I was working on quests to improve my reputation to get better equipment. I can see now that the game has much more to offer than you can imagine. I still need to work on reputation with the Alliance so that I can buy better equipment, improve it with other factions so that I may do quests for them and receive rewards that are rare (e.g. blue letter item such as ring with 3 attributes) or epic (e.g purple lettering with attributes and special ability). Two great resources for helping you do the quests are the WoW Atlas and www.thottbot.com. Both are invaluable in finding a person or items that you need. I highly recommend this game and I suggest you get the Atlas for it. It is also a good idea to join a guild so that you will get help from others when you need it. I have found my guild exceptionally helpful for getting materials we need or to help each other to complete very tough quests. If you join a guild and only ask them to help you all the time and you never help others expect to be kicked out. Last night me and the other leader of the guild kicked someone out for that very reason. They asked for materials and help with quests all the time but not once did they offer to help others, not even when they were asked to several times. I am not intimidated at all by anything. As so aptly put in Conan the Barbarian, "Do you want to live forever?" In fact I have gotten a little payback on the Horde for being obnoxious to me when I did not provoke them at lower levels. I even taunted a few when they singled out magicians to fight since they knew they were easier pray for them. They usually won't fight me because they know I can see them if they are a invisible and I can stun them and use holy spells that tear them up. Bring it on!

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