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The first single player MMORPG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 56
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't like groups? Hate groups? Love the thought of thousands of people inhabiting a fanstasy realm who ignore each other as often as possible? This is the game for you. Blizzard has done precisely what I feared: made a massively mulitplayer game for the battle.net Diablo kiddies. Within a week you'll max your level all by your self. You don't need them, they don't need you. Great concept Blizzard. (PS, you're graphics are already outdated and your art is the most laughable garbage ever foisted upon the world of online gaming.)

It's the most ironic thing. The "hardcore" EQ guilds are championing WoW and trashing EQ2 right and left. Yet, it's WoW that has ended up catering to the casual gamer and EQ2 that actually offers a challenging road to the end game. In World of Warcraft, the type of EQ player who managed to fully equip with Time gear is not going to be distinguishable from your average Sims player. Nothing wrong with allowing the casual gamer to have lots to do but there MUST be game content which demands dedication and skill. When everyone can do and see everything with little effort, games die.

Grats on your kiddy game Blizzard. People who like a challenge will be playing EQ2 once they realize the difference.

Good content.. but can never play.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: March 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

World of warcraft is quite fun to play (even considering when it takes about 200hrs to get to a resonable level). I've played this game for 480 hours... about 50 of them hours is waiting to join a server! The servers are all too populated and once i do get connected there is probably a server maintance or the server just crashes. This games is diffinetly not value for money considering when you pay 10usd a month when you cant even play)

Horrible queue to get into the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I prefer to change my star ratings to Fun=5 and Overall=3

I have reviewed this game before. In that review, I knocked the game hard because when I got online during a busy time, my spot in the queue when up and down. It was very, very frustrating, but I didn't have that issue since then.

This game is pretty fun. It is similar to Diablo in several major ways. I like that because I am a big fan of Diablo. It is pretty good to get in a group with other players.

The informational interface and hot key commands are well-placed and organized for ease of use.

Some of the graphics are outstanding. Casting many of the spells has a cool look to them, especially when conjuring up an imp, which is a small creature that can be conjured by Gnomes with the proper spell. This creature is your 'minion'. It is very useful.

I have set my graphics options at the highest level with no downgrade of performance. I have a 2.5G Pentium with 762M RAM and a Video card with 256M. My broadband connection works fine with it.

I see myself going through the whole game in a couple of months. I am already at level 7. There are 60 levels. I will cancel the game after I am through the first time. I heard you can go through multiple times, but I don't see myself doing that.

Give it a shot. Just remember, you need to pay a monthly payment to play the game and it can only be played online.

I give the game 3 stars overall because of 2 disadvantages:
1. A monthly payment required higher than $5 per month.
2. My queue issue described above.

It is a very fun game, though.

dreadfuly pointless

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 33
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it came out, that was my first mistake. I payed 60 dollars for this game when it first hit the shelves thinking it was going to be fun. I got fooled. With the lack of propper accounting support, they overdrafted my bank account for trying to delete my account. So now im out 60 for the game, 15 for a month of my life I can't get back, and 45 for the total over draft charges. So this game that cost me 60 dollars ended up well over one hundred. The repetitive game play is a huge turn off. Once you get your character to level 60, there is no point to the game. Start another character? HA! I've wasted to much time with the other character.

Could this be the game that everyones waiting for?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 28
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Blizzard has published many fine games such as Diablo series, Starcraft series, and finally, the Warcraft series. Many people played it like they were on drugs or hooked on it and many people still plays endlessly. Now, that a new Warcraft game is being developed and soon to be published, everyones excited. I know that I am excited but my only worry is that Blizzard might fail to make a classic RTS game to a MMORPG. Sure, Blizzard has made Diablo which is RPG but this game is very different from the game Diablo.
1. It is a Warcraft game, not Diablo.
2. It is a massively multiplayer online which can go up to thousands of people online.
3. It doesn't have everything that Diablo or Warcraft players are looking for.

Yes, I have tried the beta and it is NOT like Diablo and of course, not Warcraft. Since the originals were RTS, it would've have been better off sticking to RTS elements but hey don't get me wrong, they are trying something new and it might be better than anyone expected.

As results from the beta, I can tell you this game is somewhat similar to Guild Wars and Knight Online but this game is one of the top MMORPG that is about to be released. Best way to make sure if you want the game or not is to just try the beta first and make your decision. Hope you like it. See you online!

Over-Rated, but fun anyway.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: October 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

WoW is by far the most over-rated and over-hyped game I've seen. It's a pretty standard MMORPG. You start out as a low-level warrior, mage, rogue, paladin, etc... You complete quests which usually involve killing a certain number of a particular beast... Then you can level up so you can get better weapons and armor to complete more quests.

It is more fun if you know a group of players that will join you to complete the quests. You can solo through but many of the quests are intended for groups. The problem is that most people will not group with you. You'll find 10 people trying to complete the same quest you're on but none of them want to form a group and finish the quest together. As a result you end up basically waiting in line for a chance to complete a quest.

What exactly do I mean by waiting in line? I'll try to explain it. Ok, you're playing WoW and you're given a quest to kill five gnolls. Now when you first get the quest you notice several players who are the same level as you, or close to it, getting the same quest. So you message all of them asking if they want to group up and complete the quest together. Well, 90% of the time none of them will answer you. Instead they'll run off to the spot with the five gnolls and try completing the quest on their own. So you end up doing the same. But when you get there you find ten different players all trying to complete the quest solo and now you have to wait for each one to complete the quest before the gnolls will respawn for you. Once you finally get a chance at the gnolls you have to try to lure one of them away from the group because there's no way you will kill all five of them at once by yourself. This gets boring really fast.

Overall there is a lot to do in WoW. You will never run out of quests and the charatcter customization is very in-depth. But as I said before, unless you already know a group of players willing to group with you, you'll get frustrated pretty quick.

unbiased review from credited game reviewer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 29
Date: August 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

irst off, this game to some people can get obsessive. To people like me, this game is really boring and overrated. It isn't worth the money to buy it and pay $15/mo. Here are facts that Blizzard does not tell consumers before they buy it:

WoW has different realms(or servers) that appeal to a certain kind of player. If you're into adventuring, you would join the Role playing (RP) server. If you're into fighting other players, then you would join the Player versus Player (PvP) server. If you would like both worlds, then you would join Player vs Environment (PvE) server. The very annoying flaw is that servers have to go through maintenence. Lasting one to two hours of server shut down. Sometimes even more. Another of many flaws is that servers lag. Not just hiccups, but horrible lag that would make you wait 2 mins every 5 minutes. Sometimes these lags would cause players to lose priceless weapons and/or items. There have been many complaints about that but the Game Masters(GMs, game officials that watches over WoW community) never do anything.

If you are planning to buy this for a child, I recommend not buying this. First, kids will get obsessed and lose concentration in school. Second, there are many immatures players in WoW are often swearing and talking inappropriately (sex, prevertedness, what have you). I have mention this to customer service and the GMs and nothing is done to enforce their policy.

ere is what I think of WoW's customer service and GMs: I do not like them. Horrible service. I often received generic answers. I sent an email many times and had to wait for more than 2 weeks for a response.

GMs are no help at all too. Topic "naming issue" shouldn't have been locked.

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"Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a World of Warcraft Game Master (GM)"
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Sorry GM Berghe, buy you misread your own company's policy. I am not discussing actions taken by GM, but by account admins. GMs report infractions, and Account admins execute the orders. So according to the policy, I was discussing the action taken by Account Admin on my character's name.

Anyways, I am not here to point fingers at one individual, but at the whole group. People always say China doesn't allow free speech and lacks social rights. Well, WoW is no different, if not worse.

Here are some examples:
1)A big issue is an unplayable issue in the server Thunderhorn. Many people complained about it on the Thunderhorn forum and no response. I thought this is a community where if there's problem, an official responds to it. Well, players at Thunderhorn has yet received a response nor an improvement in the server's performance.

2)Freedom of speech. I wouldn't be suprised if this post gets deleted and not get any explanation on why.

I do not get why a name not even remotely close to an inappropriate word violates naming policy. Words that people in society find appropriate. But actual swear words used in channels never gets reported and GMs never take the initiative to take action.

3)GMs take forever to respond to tickets. Before the estimated time for a open ticket was "unavailable". After an email to Blizzard regarding the lack of response from GMs, I finally saw the time of how long I have to wait to get a response. But had to wait one to two hours more than the estimated time for response.

4)WoW will delete anything that will give it a bad rep as well as suspending/terminating accounts. I am not scared that this post will get deleted for I have not violated any policies. The forum is about Customer Service and here is my opinion on what kind of service I am receiving as a customer.

WoW will not care what its customers think. WoW's popularity is recessing and losing many customers because of these flaws. What actions are being done to eliminate these flaws? Well, first they take your money and then say they can do anything about it.

Why EQ2 is better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

1.The World of Warcraft can't compair to the elegance and seamless graphics of Everquest 2. Everquest 2 was released two years ago and the graphics are still top notch by today's standards.

2. The average age of the typical Wow gamer is in the mid teens,indicating the low level maturity throught out the community. While Everquest sports an average age of mid to high 20's, thuse creating a friendly and always helpful environment.

3.No challenge - The game stlye of Wow is by far to easy. A gamer can easly attain the most "Uber" gear in the game with little or no trouble. Therby characters are un-unique and rather boring. In Everquest, you must work hard to attain best quality gear avaible.

4.WoW has no depth to it. The quests are lame and repetitive. Once level 20 has been achieved, the game gets quiet boring. The EQ world is constantly expanding, new quests and items are added almost weekely.Even up to level 70, Everquest is still fun and challenging.

Granted, Everquest 2 has its flaws, as little as they are. However, its pros far exceed its cons. And all in all, is a much better game then World of Warcraft.

p.s. I have played both games. I know what Im talking about.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been following this game since 2001. I must say, it has come a long way since that time. Recently, myself, my fiancee, friend, and cousin all got to play World of Warcraft for just over a week in their stress test (they let 100,000 people in the test and over 300,000 applied). I must say, we all had a blast. All of us have very different tastes when it comes to games - and all of us found something that we enjoyed. My fiancee found the great scenery to seek out. My friend was able to 'power level' while doing quests the whole time. My cousin was able to get a taste of what the whole plot and story was really about.

Personally, I enjoyed every second of it. The game was easy and fun to use and yet hard to master. My fiancee and I even had an encounter with a bit of Player vs Player action when the land we were exploring was under attack. We made out dent against the unexpected (real people here) oncoming horde.

In summary, it had something for everyone. Literally, there are things in the game that make you gasp - due to fear and beauty. We all have very different tastes in games and we all thoughourly enjoyed it. Good job to blizzard. I can't wait to get back into the World of Warcraft.

- Sclark

World of Warcraft Withdrawal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played all of Blizzard's previous Warcraft games, starting way back when with Warcraft I: Orcs and Humans in the early 90's. With each new game the series got deeper and by the end of Warcraft III it was clear that Blizzard was getting too deep storywise for another RTS game to adequately handle. I'm going to *greatly* miss playing Warcraft RTS games, because I've a sinking suspicion that they're not going to ever make another. World of Warcraft, for better or worse, is the wave of the future. More like a tidal wave of pure gaming heroin. This game builds upon the lore already laid down in the previous games in the franchise and immerses the player into one of the most well-thought out online games I've ever seen.

I should mention that while it's not necessary to have played the game's forebears it definitely adds to the overall enjoyment. You can visit famous battle sites and view some of the leftover relics of said battles in Loch Modan and Hillsbrad, be it destroyed Alliance ballistas or Horde watch towers . Swim around the sunken wrecks of Elvish Destroyers. Follow Arthas' path to insanity from Strahnbrad all the way to Stratholme, and see the aftermath of his actions in the ruins of the capital city of Lordaeron. Great pains have obviously been taken to provide previous Warcraft players with lots of detailed eye candy of historical battle sites that the players themselves commanded in the previous game installments.

The game itself allows you to play in one of two factions; Horde or Alliance. Horde faction allows the player to choose from several races; Orc, Tauren, Troll, Undead, or Blood Elf (if you have the Burning Crusade expansion). Alliance allows you to play a Human, Gnome, Dwarf, Night Elf, or Dranei, the latter if you, again, have the expansion. Each race has it's own starting city. Each major city has an adjacent "Newbie zone" which allows new players to gradually advance in level in phases, without dumping the uninformed player right in the middle of things, much like Ever Quest did. In addition to the race selection players can choose your standard class types, from Paladin, Warrior, Shaman, Mage, Priest, and the usual assortment of types.

As the player advances from the earliest levels they'll have the opportunity to engage in certain tradeskills. With this set of alternate "jobs" players can craft new swords, make rifles, brew potions and tinctures, manufacture leather goods, and the like. This is not shoved down the players throats and is completely optional.

At it's root this game, like many before it, is a game about favors. You, as the player, are constantly doing "favors" for various NPC's. "I need you to kill X number of X for me", or "Gather X number of this raw material for me" style quests. The quests themselves are not *nearly* as complex as they were with Ever Quest, where making a simple Soulfire paladin sword involved something near 20 individual steps and 5 or 6 unique actions. The quests in WoW are overly formulaic and one is nearly identical to the next, and that may eventually drive some people to boredom. Personally I am a big fan of solo play and don't like to be bothered with grouping unless there's no other way around a quest. WoW caters to my type almost perfectly, but also rewards those that like to group. In fact you'll find that the best weapons, armor, and items drop during group excursions, prompting even soloers like me to engage in group quests when the need arises.

World of Warcraft does provide ample rewards for the player that make up for any weaknesses on the quest side. At level 40 players can acquire their first "mount"; horses for Humans, Kodo beasts for Tauren, etc. Players can ride these mounts at a faster speed than they would normally traverse on foot and it saves for a lot of travel time. At level 60 one can get an upgraded mount for substantially more money, but a greatly increased travel speed. And if you get your mitts on the Burning Crusade expansion you'll have access to flying mounts and gyrocopters, although they're only usable in Outland.

The game, graphically, is very easy on the eyes and will run on the majority of PC's without any major issues, provided you're not in one of the major cities during peak hours (Ironforge is bad with lag, but Shat'rath is almost unbearable until 4am). The major cities each have their own unique feel about them, from the industrial motif of Dwarven Ironforge, to the shamanistic Tauren dwellings of Thunder Bluff, to the overly nature-themed Darnassus, home of the Night Elves. Music is also very well done with zone specific themes that play. And much of it is pretty catchy stuff, truth be told.

If Blizzard has one glaring weakness with this series it's that it doesn't release expansion packs in any manner that resembles timeliness. Expansions are made about once every other year, and given that there is a point where players will hit a "wall" where they can no longer advance in any substantial way, that's not at all a good thing. The next expansion is due for release sometime this summer, and it's already feeling long overdue. If Ever Quest I had any one advantage it was it's constant release of new material on a regular basis, almost like an "Expansion of the Month" kind of feel.

This game is a great value though and will provide you with many, many countless hours of enjoyment. It is addictive to a fault and will have you ever craving for more. Blizzard will even give you the first two weeks on a free trial basis to try out. There's nothing wrong with that.

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