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Great game, but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: February 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, but it is not worth the monthly fee. I have played this game for months, the game itself is very fun, but the service, and the community events are terrible, simply because-there is none, 0 no events, and the gms are not helpfull at all, you can wait 6 hours for a gm to get to you, and they dont even help.
Also this game has bad server reliability, i have tried numerus times to log in on weekends, and they are down due to erver problems, these server problems can last days, and then, on they are fixed, they have log in problems, and that adds another hour (or 3) to the waiting time
The last major issue, is what your paying for, and what your not getting, mainly patches, they have had 1 major patch since the realease of this game, they themselves said that there would be one every month. personally i do nto want to pay $15 dollars for this.
Im not bashing this game, i am just pointing out the major problems that are never fixed, the gms say "we will look into this" and thne nothing is ever done, this has happened on many occssions, and class unbalances are so bad, that more than 1/2 of the gaming population are rogues (me, being one hahah)
I am not the only one who have this same feeling, and it seems, the only way for this company to see what is wrong is if enough people quit, on the forums, people say what they do not like, it is either ignored, or blocked for "not being consructive" when they are just trying to point something out.

well thats basically the current problem with this game, now i promise you, i am not exxagerating, just want to show the people a different perspective than the usual fanboys who would support this company, even if they somehoe killed millions of people

the cons of the game make it unplayable, or...unpayable

Good news for modem users!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very playable over a modem. I'm in the beta right now and, despite being riddled with bugs and crashing frequently, lag is rarely a problem. I was considering getting DSL just for this game, but now I'm thinking no, because I don't need it.

I still hate the monthly charge for MMORPG's, which is most of why this is the first one I've played and why I may not get this one.

Game is fun, beware of the people playing it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 24
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sadly, even though the game itself is great, if you're going into it with an idea that you'll be entering a different fantasy world be warned - it's exactly like real life, only more so in many respects. Both myself and my fiancee experienced almost nonstop incidents of harassment, sexual harassment, foul language, blatant racism, psychotics who've made the game their only interest in life (and believe the game belongs only to them, and you HAVE to play their way or they'll dog your every step and insult you constantly), on and on and on. The Blizzard game managers exercise almost no control over the situation, and do pretty much nothing to help players having these problems. Usually the only solution they offer is to recommend changing realms (for a $25 fee per character, gee thanks), change your character's name to chase the harassers away (for just a $10 fee per character - what a bargain!) or for you to put offending players on 'ignore'. But we found all realms equally bad, and after 'ignoring' up to 100 players per day for almost 6 months we just got fed up and realized there were better and more productive ways to spend our lives. If you're a parent thinking about exposing your children to this world, I strongly urge you to pass it by unless you want your kids to learn how to be abusive and foul mouthed.

40+ Hours a Week learning Nothing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 27
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a game that is extremely appealing. The graphics are nice, the gameplay seems very interactive and you get to fight huge battles against tons of other characters PvP mode.

I played Diablo 2 back in the day and this game somewhat reminds me of it (except for the $15 monthly fee for WoW). When I say it reminds me of Diablo 2, I say that in a negative way. Here is what I mean:

I played Diablo 2 for roughly 2 years. In two years, I got to the point where I was putting in 5-6 hours a day every single day of my life into the game. I tried desperately to level up my character and get the fanciest items but I never could. None of the elite players gave a damn about me and would not help me. I even got to the point where I was buying items on ebay.

DO NOT LIE TO YOURSELF FOLKS!! This game is no different in terms of its feel. If you buy it, you will be a guy playing new with people who played the game for years. They don't care about you. They don't want to help you. They don't want you on their team and they don't want anything to do with you. Even if you spend more than 40 hours a week playing this game (a must at lvl 60), there is no guarantee that you will make it big with any kind of guild, or have any kind of fancy elite items.

If you go on careerbuilder.com and you spend 5-6 hours a day every single day, you could probbably be a millionare in less than two years. You could learn a real life skill (maybe even lose your virginity!!). Who knows what you could accomplish?? I am not saying in any way shape or form that this videogame itself is bad, but is this really the best thing that we as human beings can do with our time?? Be honest.

Tester here....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a Night Elve Hunter on the stress server beta... in one word the game is EXCELLENT, the world is full of details I have no idea how many people were involved in the project but they have very talented people, every detail is there, the buildings are truly warcraft and so are the characters, the fighting and movements are fluid, there have been changes since and there are some still on the works but once the game goes gold you can be sure that you'll be getting a blizzard game... this means quality they don't rush their games "it will be out when it's done"

statistics and other details can be viewed on their website... see you soon in WOW...

Good and bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pros: Large world to explore
Large variety of gear upgrades
Role-playing
Eye Candy
Provides an unlimited time-sink.

Cons: Provides an unlimited time-sink.
You have to do the same thing over and over to get what you want.
Addictive
Especially high percentage of idiots in-game and on the forums
Badly written quests designed to waste your time.
Poor storyline behind the whole thing.

Prepare for serious relationship problems

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You don't get more addictive than this game. My wife hates it, family hates it. I love it. I've been playing for a year and it still surprises me with it's complexity.

As far as playability, make sure you have 1gig of ram and relatively good videocard.

Enjoy your newfound habit

The Relationship Ender

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What is more addictive than crack and more fun than beating children? Its 'World Of Warcraft'. I'm sure that this immensely playable online game has ended quite a few marriages and lost some players their jobs.

I'm sure by now that most people, even non-gamers, have heard of this online game. I won't go into to massive details here about the game because its been done numerous times before by other reviewers. But I will say this: 'World Of Warcraft' is probably the best RPG I've ever played and easily the most addictive game since 'Tetris'. You will whittle away many, many hours trying to get your character to that next level, looking for new equipment, or trying to finish that one last quest. It really is astonishing in the fact that you can sit down and start playing and not even realize that four hours have passed. It sucks you in like a Thai prostitute and doesn't let you go easily.

With its easy gameplay, very customizable characters(with seemingly more updates coming all the time), beautiful graphics, massive number of quests(with more constantly being added), and the fact that it is just flat-out the most fun game you will have played in a long time, 'World Of Warcraft' is a must-own. Even gamers who dislike RPGs will get a lot of pleasure out of this game. C'mon now: you can dress your male character up in a dress, turn other people into sheep, run around in your underwear, dance like Michael Jackson, so what's not to like? Then on top of that, you can get into some of the most intense video game battles you've ever been apart of and team up with other players to tackle the difficult epic quests, or any quest for that matter.

But be warned: this game has a very easy chance of ruining your life. You will ignore your significant other, your job, bathing... This is the video game equivalent of crystal meth. One hit and you are hooked.

BetaTester's opinion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

* The full game on both CD-ROM and >>> DVD-ROM <<<
* 1-month subscription to World of Warcraft
* The Art of World of Warcraft, 200+ page hardcover art book
* World of Warcraft Behind-the-Scenes DVD
* Exclusive in-game pet
* Cloth map charting the continents
* Official soundtrack
* Signed Collector's Edition game manual
* 10-Day Free, Transferrable Guest Pass

This is a great game. Different from many other MMORPGs of the same genre, it plays just as good solo as it does grouping or guild, which appeals to me since I don't have the time I used to have when I was single!

Two main pts of difference:

Wow Levels you prety fast, no more running around naked for weeks, killing vermin with a stick! There is a 'rest' state that gives you an xp bonus that's applied when you log back in.

Wow does not decay your weapons!

Paying the price for the "special" collector's edition pet/mascot is worth it, IMO, as I usually use the maps as dust rags and use the soundtrack as coasters. I like to make my character standout, and I know many will not want to spend the $$, so all the more better. Pets (non-combative) will be like a mascot (imagine Iago on Jaffar's shoulder).

Disregard Initiates' Bias

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 26
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think it's important to be properly acquainted with a game before it is reviewed, but in order to rate it it's necessary to be acquainted with the competition without having been stuck with the product for years developing a bias. Incessantly, World of Warcraft is reviewed, ranked, and revered as having 'charm' and 'fun' that its competitors cannot touch, and that the competitors are only mere clones. But in truth, World of Warcraft is a clone of many MMORPGs that came before it, and other recent games such as Guild Wars and especially Lord of the Rings Online do indeed have charm, beauty, and a level of detail that World of Warcraft cannot even come close to.

There are a few reasons why everyone and his brother, dog, and fish all play World of Warcraft: the game has a name that was already world famous for gameplay (Warcraft, which was a Real-Time Strategy game), the graphics are very, VERY low-end but with enough color and cartoony charm to appeal to an unusually wide range of ages of players, and as such the game targets the broadest common denominator.

That said, World of Warcraft is NOT the game for you if you're looking to push a new 512MB VRAM GeForce 7/8 series video card to its limits. There's nothing graphically spectacular here. Apparently, that's not the point of WoW.

It would seem that WoW is about peer pressure and hanging out with friends and being "cool" and developing biases about a now-archaic game to pre-judge all other viable games, no matter their merit, as "clones". Certainly, WoW has made itself a legend in gaming history. And newer games (such as LOTRO) do indeed reproduce a lot of trivial elements that are seen in WoW. But it's far too easy to forget that WoW itself was a rip-off of 3D MMORPG legends before its own time, including Asheron's Call and EverQuest. In fact, most of the gameplay elements in LOTRO were taken from Turbine's own original legacy Asheron's Call, not WoW. Only a few trivial touches seen in WoW were cloned, all other "cloned" elements derived from other sources.

The gameplay in WoW is decent, but the mechanics can be annoying. WoW has every bit as many grinding as the worst grinding moments of every ther MMORPG out there. The level of sophistication of the initial quests are rediculous: Kill 12 [breed of monster]s. No not those identical twin monsters directly adjacent to them. And wait your turn--everyone else is doing the same thing.

Getting lost in WoW is as boring as in any MMORPG. Given the outdated graphics and obsolete AI, you may find yourself severely uninspired to keep moving. Combat situations in WoW are unoriginal, and actually quite flawed. I don't know about what the other races are like or if you can turn it off, but every time I try to use a skill and don't have enough energy, my character shouts, "I don't have enough energy!" That is extremely annoying to me. I could tolerate a short and simple musical note or something, and would prefer nothing to happen at all. Equally annoying is the fact that visual feedback for this is isolated from the skills toolbar other than the fact that the skills are simply disabled / dimmed; one must monitor the Energy bar at the top of the screen. Most MMORPGs have this wrong; in Guild Wars, I rearranged my user interface so that the "mana" / "magic" (blue bar, whatever it's called) is directly adjacent to the skills bar. If WoW supports UI rearrangements, this would be necessary to me. I haven't checked yet.

I mentioned that the graphics are low-end. This is true; they do push systems of 2004 or so, but this is 2007. To make up for this, theming is very heavy--buildings are lopsided, players are shaped with exaggerated features, and colors are painfully solid (solid green flora, solid blue sky, solid gray brick buildings, etc.) If you dig that or don't care, great. I for one prefer to sink in my chair and inhale the beauty of Lord of the Rings Online, with the incredibly detailed sky, the flock of birds in the sky, the rainbow, the very organic-feeling grass, the beautiful moon, and so on. If I'm going to stare at a character's butt all day, I also prefer to stare at my quaint Hobbit in LOTRO or my beautiful character in Guild Wars over WoW's low-polygon cartoony ogre thug or lopsided human.

I don't doubt that those who have played WoW for a long time are thoroughly enjoying themselves. My frustration is with the fact that most WoW players are first-time players of MMORPGs--a fact proven by numbers alone--and they have no idea of how unfairly prejudiced they are about the game that introduced them to the genre when they judge other very fine games. *Of course* they will look down on them. It doesn't matter that they supercede many or all elements of what makes WoW great (other than sheer quantity of players). People will always be biased for what they have been playing for a long time.

My review of WoW, then, concludes with this: WoW is popular because of viral marketing, not because it's a spectacular game. Is it a good game? Sure. Does it stack up to other MMORPGs? Well, if you forget numbers for a moment, WoW stands on its own but it really does not overcome them all. Do I think it's worthy of 5 stars? Absolutely not, I reserve that for Lord of the Rings Online. 4 stars? No, I was annoyed and frustrated when I tried WoW.

So if your friends or family are playing WoW and they're trying to get you to join them, by all means, sign up and join the party. But if you're on your own and you have a good gaming PC and you just want to enjoy an MMORPG experience, WoW is nothing to be ashamed of, but I would recommend that you consider the alternatives--especially those alternatives that most of the MMORPG newbies (i.e. the bulk of WoW veterans) dismiss as "cheap clones". You might find as I have that the dismissal is with little merit, and that they aren't cheaply implemented at all but very well made iterations of a MMORPG genre that has a decades-old legacy.

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