 "WoW is still the best" | 2009-11-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A97ZO2E9XHHF9 |
| Have played this game for a very long time... 3 years and counting. Have tried many others with free trials and still cme back to this one. |
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 "I'm sure others will disagree with me.." | 2009-10-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3VOVPBKGYVTUJ |
But, this game is an absolute waste of time, in all senses of the word.
It is not fun, it is not addictive, the only thing it manages to do is simulate work while you're supposed to be enjoying your leisure time.
I completely regret making this purchase, and have canceled my account a LONG.. LONG.. LONG time ago.
Countless players tried to dissuade me from doing so while I was still playing - just wait until 60, just wait until 70, just wait until 80.. That's all that this game seems to be - a waiting game. Watching a bar roll across the screen as you dispatch a monster arbitrarily over and over again, then finish the quest that asked you to kill ten of that monster, only to get a tiny bit of vendor trash from it, sell it, buy better gear, get a skill, move onto the next area.
From Level One, the amount of time it takes to kill a single monster, stays consistent throughout the entire game. You basically just use more skills and smash more buttons while doing so - some players in the game equated this to 'skill', rather then sitting there and watching the equivalent of an interactive 'press the button now!' TV programme.
Playstyles between classes seem to be a 'color filter' over the same rigorous process. Instead of dispatching the ten Ettins you needed with a sword, you can use daggers, claws, arrows, or magic. The difference is essentially null.
Please, heed the advice of an old gaming enthusiast. Save your life, don't even start playing this game. Find something more valuable to do with your time. Read a book, write some fiction, read some philosophy - go to college, it'll do you some good. Just DON'T PLAY THIS GAME. |
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| "It's the biggest MMO for a reason..." | 2009-09-23 |
| - Reviewed By meepers |
I left this game back in 2004 to pursue other MMOs. Well I'm back after 5 years off and am I glad I returned. Not much for me to say that already hasn't been said.
Deep stories and engaging quests.
Fantastic character development.
I find the graphics to be very appealing.
An old system can run this just fine..My rig can run this at nearly 500 frames-per-second. So old or new, doesn't matter. It just looks good with major attention to detail.
I've been wanting to come back to this game for a long time, and as with you read up on reviews and in forums as to whats going on. And as with you have read over and over about all the childish nonsense that goes on and how the culture just makes for a miserable experience. Allow me to dispell some of that.
I rejoined expecting just a ton of BS and to not play for more than a few days. I also expected it to be dead dead dead. Any one who has played an MMO then quit, then comes back years later knows that lower level zones are barren for the most part which really sugz.
Well, this game is very active. Low level zones have a descent amount of people in them that are level appropriate, and usually a few high level players around to lend a hand.
Now as far as the brain-damaged teenie bopper crowed. Yes they are there BUT!!!! But...it's easy to squelch their idiotic babble. All you do is right click their name then chose ignore. BAM! You just muted an idiot! I've done this for the past couple of weeks and I must say that the bulk of the chatting I read is on subject and appropriate. My ignore list is HUGE. When in a mjor city just watch the chat, you can spot the 'tards from a mile away. Right click their name/ignore. Those that respond to the nonsense? Right click name/ignore. Works like magic! Even in doing so, I still manage to find plenty of good people to group with and have fun with. There is the occasional a-hole but that is by far not the norm.
Seems it's never a problem finding a high level to help out on something you have no business doing on your own. Or like a said, groups are fairly easy to come by.
Hats off to Blizzard for keeping this game alive. To me it's all new again and fun. Also kudos for having regular events and polishing this game every chance they get.
Now is the perfect time to rejoin or sign up for the first time. You'll have plenty of time to move through the current content and come next November, the entire world is going to be redone. So you'll see it pre and post "cataclysm".
One more thing, choose your sever wisely. They have data centers all over the country, choosing one near you might be a good idea. Also choosing one in your time zone is a good idea as a lot of things are planned on server time. Go online and look up where the data centers are and go from there. Blizzard does not share that information and you wont find it in game.
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| "the best Computer Game ever" | 2009-08-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2RXBI0218201Z |
This game is great, good graphics, music and story line history. Over the years I've played many Video games from the classic Arcade games of the 80's to verious games on the playstation systems and ect ect. When I moved on to computer games I was looking for something interesting and fun to play....I thought I found it in Everquest and while it was a good game, I found World of Warcraft to be better. I've enjoyed this game more then any other I've played..
If you haven't tried it I recommened it. |
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| "A poor excuse for a game." | 2009-07-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: AKFOI0YBIWQI8 |
So, I have played six or seven MMORPGs in the last 12 or so years, all of them had their own twists and turns, ups and downs, things they shined at etc. World of Warcraft on the other hand has NOTHING in-game that shines other than a huge population, and why? Blizzard is great at marketing and sucking people in. Compare the in-depth playing of a game like Anarchy Online or DAoC to the at best weak grind and quest snooze-fest that is World of Warcraft.
Yes, World of Warcraft has slightly better more cartoony graphics than those games; but when did that start making a game the best?
If you want to play a game that is weak on quality and in-depth gaming, then this is your game! |
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