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Virtual Drudgery

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 43 / 51
Date: June 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Loved this game until I hit 60, then it all fell apart.

This game requires that you make it the number one priority of your life. It's also true that you don't have to, but you won't have fun when you hit 60. As a casual gamer, I found post-60 to be depressing.

The battlegrounds suck, and on the server I played on, be prepared to wait at least an hour before you can even get in.

The rank system is a joke, and be prepared to spend at least a couple hours every night to maintain your current rank (if you don't play pvp you'll drop rank so it takes time in the bg's to even maintain the current rank you have).

Guilds are a joke. If you don't belong to a high-end raid guild then be prepared to join one, unless you want slaughtered by someone with epic gear/weapons. Be prepared for elitism, a $ $ kissing, and for your gameplay to be dictated by a guild leader with a god complex. Also be prepared to spend 3-4 hours a night at the very, very, minimum to satisfy your guild. You also have to get DKP points to even be eligable to go on a raid, so you're enslaved to your guild (otherwise there isn't any point being in it, and the point of being in a guild is to get top end items).

PvP is a joke. If you join a PvP server and go into contested territory (which is something you will find yourself in the majority of the time) be prepared to get ganked by higher levels alot. Stranglethorn Vale anyone?

The Community is a joke. This is by far the worst community I've ever seen. If you're new and ask any question, or if you're a vet and ask any question, be prepared to suffer the consequences. The elites of WoW were born with knowledge of how to play this game encrypted into their DNA, and anyone who dares ask a question is a "noob". Oh and learn your acronyms!!!!

You also have thousands who stand around and don't want to group, and those that do usually bail after THEY complete what THEY have to do. This game is full of self-absorbed, greedy, little babies.

Grinding sums this game up perfectly. All you do is grind, grind xp, grind honor, grind faction, grind for gear, grind your life away. With all the time this game requires to learn a virtual skill, you could pick up a real life skill and be somewhat proficient at it, or at least to a good start. Whatever you practice at 3 hours a day, most every day, you'll become good at, and it's a real-life, tangible skill.

But the bottom line is that this game REQUIRES you to spend hours a week, to the detriment of your love life (unless you can't get one), your job, and your social life. Don't get hooked, pass on this one.

As Frustrating and Addictive as Online Gambling

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 36 / 73
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing WoW for some time now, and just today realised how I've wasted valuable time from my life. WoW seemed awesome at first, but after a while, the effect wears off & you realise that the quests are incredibly repetative, spending most of the time travelling from town to town, accomplishing absolutely nothing.

To quote someone on the Gamespot Forum, there are three types of quests in this game:

1) Go kill stuff
2) Go kill stuff and bring stuff back
3) Go see someone and bring stuff back

The community is the main reason why I stopped playing, who are really an arrogant and stuck-up lot. Sadly, it probably was not this way at the game's launch, but as certain players spent 20+ hours a day playing, neglecting their jobs, spouses (if they ever had one in the first place), many put themselves on a pedestal and refused to help or even acknowledge new players (branding them as "noobs," a strange and deragatory insult.) For players just starting out, the chat is filled with WoW language, which is incredibly overwhelming and difficult to decipher for the newcomer. What I find personally entertaining is the Role-Playing server, in which characters must speak only in the role of their character, e.g. orcs say things like "Me want to smash you!" and elves, "I shall smite thee!" The most ridiculous aspect of this whole scenario is that if one speaks out of character, or speaks of any non-game related subject, he is approached by the game police, or GM for short, promptly warned and then banned from WoW if the infractions continue. So, while the game is somewhat entertaining at first, it's the community that ultimately take the fun out of the game. In all seriousness folks, games life Half-Life 2, Quake 4, and even Age of Empires III offer a fun diversion, not an addictive and ultimately frustrating experience.

Hidden Costs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 27 / 150
Date: February 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

PARENTS BEWARE-when you buy this game you are unaware that in order to play it the way it was intended, (according to all the kids that have it) you need to subscribe to a service for $15.00 @ month to play with others. Nowhere in the descriptive elements of the game was this stated; if it had been, the game would not have been purchased as a Christmas present. I feel cheated and duped. Your kid may want it, but do you want to pay a monthly fee for him to play it-CAVEAT EMPTOR! Buyer beware.

Ex-Hardcore wants time wasted back

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 46 / 58
Date: April 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So I played this game religiously when it came out, and over time even leveled 3 level 60 characters, and as sad as that is, it gets worse. When you do reach the highest level in the game, yif you dont want to fight other players with ridiculous gear that can kill you in one or two hits you have to join a guild of 40+ players who can get together sometime during the week (yes all 40+) and go to a dungeon for 5-12 hours. I did this forever, I played a priest and after raiding a place called Molten Core about 15 times and getting two items that were just 'ok' I had to call it quits, anyone with a life can see that virtual items are NOT worth the 90+ hours spent to get them, do yourself a favor and go read a BOOK!

It isnt as easy to get into a guild as you think either, if you don't personally know people in game and are 'cool' with them then you basically have to kiss their rear to join, and most guild's entry requirements remind me of a job application, here's a sample:

How many hours do you play a week? Are you available Mon-Fri and Sat if needed between 5pm-3am PST? Are you willing to change your character to fit the guild's needs? So on and so forth.

Basically, you have to be an elitist jerk to enjoy this game at the top end, otherwise your left in the dust.

Fun, easy to level. At level 60 you better have 40 hrs/week.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 52 / 62
Date: May 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game starts with the premise that the casual gamer can advance relatively easily and in a fun, meaningful way. You can, even as a casual gamer, reach the current level cap of 60 (Will be 70 when the expansion comes out later this year). The quests are fun and grouping is fun. The scenery is wonderful and the animations are quite good as well.

All of that changes at level 60.

Thanks to the game designers Jeff Kaplan and Alex Asfrasiabi, 2 ex-EQ1 hardcore guild raiders, this game shifts into overdrive at level 60. These two 16hr/day EQ1 idiots have managed to turn this game into a HUGE timesink raidfest at level 60. To put it mildly: If you don't have a hardcore raiding guild and aren't willing to put in anywhere from 4-6 hours nightly EVERY night, you'll be sitting around the capitol cities with your fingers up your rear doing absolutely NOTHING. Let me state that again: If you don't have 30-60 hours per week at level 60 to put into this game, you will be running the same low level instanced dungeons over and over...and over..and over..and over..and over..and over..and over again.

They keep adding content but for whom? You guessed it: The hardcore elite. There is a ton of content that you, if you are a casual gamer, will never see. Nice of them to introduce new dungeons, bosses, loot etc that 80%+ of the playerbase won't see, eh?

Thanks Jeff! Thanks Alex ASSfrasiabi!

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.

Too easy , too much sugar

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 75
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing MMOG since 97 - UOL , EQ , AC , AC 2 , DAoC , AO , SWG , WWIIOL , EQ2 , NWN ... you name it .
Besides every off line RPG there ever was - from Ultima 2 to Morrowind

I knew already before buying WoW that I would not like this game but have wanted to make the experience anyway .
The game box wandered to the garbage bin as expected yesterday after 1 month of playing .

The griefs are so many that I will only take the most importants .

1)
The biggest grief is that the game is too easy .
There is no challenge , I can solo whatever I want .
Dying is not a problem (Ah ? Wasn't this thing supposed to be an RPG ?) , levelling is not a problem , winning any fight is not a problem , being stupid is not a problem , being asocial is not a problem .
Nothing is a problem .
Ok I have nothing against games being designed for very young kids , but I happen to not to be one .
I want my RPGs challenging , leveling difficult without being unfeasible , a minimum of thinking required , I am not afraid of failing from time to time .
WoW is failing here - it treats the players like somebody mentally handicapped , unable to face a challenge , unable to support the least frustration .
Yet it's because the things are sometimes difficult that overcoming them creates a very strong feeling of happiness .
Of course the DOSE of difficulty is important - 100 % leads to discouragement but 0 % is ridiculous .

2)
Low life duration .
I suppose that in some 6 months , everybody will have done about everything in this game .
What then ?
Garbage bin ? Then I won 5 months .

3)
No cooperation .
Playing this game or playing a single player off line game is about the same .
WoW somehow missed the M from Multiplayer part .
Well , yes there is still this (stupid) PvP part that I guess could be called Multiplayer .
But then there are better games if it was PvP I was interested in .

4)
Really s...y , ugly graphics and colors .
It is surely a matter of taste but there is a part of immersion and credibility involved with playing RPGs .
Nobody can get an immersion feeling with a world that looks like a cartoon with colors that come from some bad LSD trip .
Not to speak about credibility .

So has WoW no merits ?

No there is at least one .
WoW is to MMORPG what Harry Potter is to fantasy litterature .
Harry Potter is a (very) bad litterature in general and subpar fantasy at best .
However it's easy to read and a good introduction for kids who without that would probably finish like most people by reading 1 or 2 books a year .
So there is a hope that beginning by the easy part , they would come to appreciate later some more difficult reading .

Same with WoW .
It's the best way to get introduced in an easy way to RPGs and MMOG for those who are little if at all familiar with it .
Once they ate this huge sugar cake , they might begin to appreciate some more subtle meals later .

THE WORLD OF LAG!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 49
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

IM NOT SAYING THIS GAME ISN'T GOING TO BE GREAT. I'M NOT SAYING I DONT LOVE IT. IM SAYING THIS GAME SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RELEASED YET. I AM SAYING DO NOT BUY THIS GAME "YET!"
I am a bit of a MMORPG buff I have played many many many. I bought and played Star Wars Galaxies, Final Fantasy XI, and City of Heros the day that they hit the shelves. All MMORPG have bugs and glitches that need to be fixed and can only be ironed out when the game is actually in use. The problems that World of Warcraft has are 100 times worse than any of the other game I have played from the day they were realesed.
I have been playing for several hours today, I have had to log in and out over 20 times! The lag in this game is Unbearable! Often it is so bad that you are unable to interact with non-player-characters like shop keepers. Keep in mind that this is a stationary character, they don't even move. Thus fighting or any activity that requires movement... is impossible.
Repeatedly when I or my friends will zone, the game freezes on the loading screen. The only way you fix this is to minimize WoW and close it from windows. The great part about that is for the next 20-30 minutes as you repeatedly try to log in and it tells you your character is already logged in and disconnects you.
I have made 6 characters on 6 different servers. The problems are the same in every single one! Tonight Blizzard is shutting down 7 servers at 7pm eastern time for 2 hours each to preform maintenance. At 7 pm eastern, during peak gaming hours! This shows you how serious the problem are, that maintenance can't wait til the middle of the night or early morning when other companies usually do it. Any way all I'm really saying is give it 2-4 weeks before you buy, when it runs, the game looks terrific and I think this will be a game that I play for a very long time.

Super addicting, life ruining, not worth the risk to buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 39
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my 13 year old for christmas last year. It has now been smashed to pieces, my son has be banned from the computer for who knows how long....WHY.......
Sneaking up and staying up all night to play
Skipping school to play
Stealing credit cards to reinstate account after child restricted and account terminated.
Lying beyond belief
Personality Changes
Shirking responsibilities, friends, family, school work
Grads went from A's & B's
to D's & F's
The child nearly had a nervous breakdown from loss of sleep playing this stupid game, and then again when the game was taken away from him.
I WARN YOU....DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR YOR CHILD, you will live to regret it. They become creatures you don't even recognize.

Don't buy this game unless you want to give up your social life.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 28
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is horribly addictive, I've logged 35 days played time on my level 60 character and I've only been playing a little over three months. That's not even counting the total played time of my alternate (alts) characters. My total played time for this game is about 45 days out of three and a half months. I've lost all of my friends (except for the ones that play too) and I never go out anymore. I'm in the process of quitting, but it's better to never get started.

Don't play this game unless you're unemployed with a lot of free time and you have no interest in a real social life.

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