World of Warcraft?

[Ghost9]

I've never played Everquest or World of Warcraft, but both of these games are immensely popular.  Anybody that plays, what's the appeal?

[jägermonsta]

not a fan.

My roommate pretty much went down the tubes after getting into wow. He would never leave his room to hang out, he would skip classes and work just to keep playing. The game pretty much fucked up his life. He moved out now and is still sucked into the game like a horrible herion addiction... He plays with a couple other people from where I use to work. One of them broke off their enagement with his girlfriend who has since left him and the other guy's girlfriend left him for me (how he managed to get her in the first place, me and her still don't understand). Thanks wow!

[Spawn.Ds]

LOL the game did not fuck up the guys life , that would be his own doings . I play wow now Ghost it is a excelent game give ya a short run down .

there is two player factions at war with each other the horde and the alliance . each faction has like 4 races and 8 classes for the players you start out at level one and can build up your toon until he or she is at lvl 60 buy doing quests etc... when your toon reaches lvl 40 he or she is allowed to buy a mount and train to ride it for a quiker movment speed to cross the maps etc...

when  you reach level 60 the game moves forward into end game instances building reputaition for npc factions to keep geting better gear for your toon.

once the expansion set gets released then there will be two more races and classes added to the two player factions a new realm etc.. and the level caps will be moved from lvl 60 to lvl 70 .

there is diferent types of server you can play on pvp and pve . pvp = player verses player and we are allowed to killl those in the oposit faction wile questing , pve you are only alowed to kill those i nthe other faction in battle ground instances .

Downfalls for the game , it can be addictive , it costs 30 dollors every two months for game play time . the cost is humble imo do the the size of the servers it would take just to run one realm .

I have updated my game card over the weekend and found that wow is only 20 bucks now so you grab wow and a game card to activate your acount with the purchas of wow you get one free month . it would give you three playing months . it took me a little less then that amount of time to hit lvl 60 .

Imho it a great game and alot of fun , plenty of group play and a great gamming experiance .

My guild Diabolical souljas plays on the sargeras server it is a player verses player server

[jägermonsta]

LOL the game did not fuck up the guys life , that would be his own doings . I play wow now Ghost it is a excelent game give ya a short run down .

there is two player factions at war with each other the horde and the alliance . each faction has like 4 races and 8 classes for the players you start out at level one and can build up your toon until he or she is at lvl 60 buy doing quests etc... when your toon reaches lvl 40 he or she is allowed to buy a mount and train to ride it for a quiker movment speed to cross the maps etc...

when  you reach level 60 the game moves forward into end game instances building reputaition for npc factions to keep geting better gear for your toon.

once the expansion set gets released then there will be two more races and classes added to the two player factions a new realm etc.. and the level caps will be moved from lvl 60 to lvl 70 .

there is diferent types of server you can play on pvp and pve . pvp = player verses player and we are allowed to killl those in the oposit faction wile questing , pve you are only alowed to kill those i nthe other faction in battle ground instances .

Downfalls for the game , it can be addictive , it costs 30 dollors every two months for game play time . the cost is humble imo do the the size of the servers it would take just to run one realm .

I have updated my game card over the weekend and found that wow is only 20 bucks now so you grab wow and a game card to activate your acount with the purchas of wow you get one free month . it would give you three playing months . it took me a little less then that amount of time to hit lvl 60 .

Imho it a great game and alot of fun , plenty of group play and a great gamming experiance .

My guild Diabolical souljas plays on the sargeras server it is a player verses player server

addict in denial.  just reading that gibberish I can tell you have a problem.

do you play the game everyday for at least 3 hours at a time? you have a problem then.

my roommate was a perfectly good guy untill he got into this game. that's like saying don't blame illegal  drugs for the addiction blame the person using them. if that's the case why are they illegal

[[BTF]Jehar]

I have a major beef with MMOs as well. I would be more interested in them if there was any sense of communal roleplaying at all, and the world presented wasn't ruined by the enourmous amount of idiots playing.

Too many friends have been wasting their time with this.

[Whirlingdervish]

I actually liked warcraft better as a RTS. And I liked starcraft much better than warcraft.
If I wanted to play a cartoony lookin MMORPG, it would have to be Ragnarok Online. hands down.

There's nothing out there quite like it, and it gives off a very oldschool Secret of Mana/Zelda kinda feel..
The levelling up actually takes quite a while, but there are tons of real multiplayer experiences
involved and you really need to be part of a party to have an easy time killing stuff, until you're fairly experienced. Everywhere you go there are bunches of other little japanimated characters running around getting smacked down by smiling blobs of goo and other relatively harmless looking enemies , and there are tons of people setting up little shops to peddle their wares, so the bartering is really quite interesting.

[Punk_FAS]

I'm actually playing Everquest right now as we speak    That's why some may have noticed I've been MIA on the Q2 servers as of late.

As for the game, it's quite fun, but is a HUGE time sink, moreso than WoW I believe.  The games are quite enjoyable, but definitely are very addictive.  I've played hookied from work more lately since I started playing so there are definite downsides.

[hieronymous]

Never played any of those kind of games.

But as for the quality of game and addiction to them --are we not all addicted to what hobbies we do (q2 for sure ). I am inexplicably interested in nascar --not proud of it but not ashamed of it either.(i watch it while

 i play tastyspleen ;-) .   

wow and others probably have great facets for those who play ---it's just not my bag, baby.


p.s.  punk _FAS please play more q2 (come on, it's always fun, q2dm1 for the 5,324th time against the same players day after week month after year,come on, who could need anything more than that. 

girlfriends can come and go but quake 2 is always there for you

best reason to play -- you own -- hope to see you in

[jägermonsta]

having a hobby and having a addiction is not the same thing. sure playing a mmorpg can be your hobby but when you make it a priority over important things to be delt with like school work, job, girlfriend/wife, children and of course SLEEPING. Then it's an addiction and it becomes a problem. Unfortunatly the case with these games, that happens very very often to people.

Never played any of those kind of games.
I am inexplicably interested in nascar --not proud of it but not ashamed of it either

Not proud of being a Nascar fan??? wth is wrong with you! Nascar rules dude, be proud! (24 is GAY)

[X'tyfe]

the only 2 MMOs iv played is SWG and EQ2

SWG used to be cool, but its ruined beyond repair now
EQ2 is pretty cool, however you need alot patience to play it
and it can get pretty competitive, which is why i quit

[ĄƦçɧąɳɠҾԼ]

The only ones I've played were Guild Wars and Hero Online.

Mainly because they are free to play. (i.e., no subscription)

I got bored with Guild Wars pretty quickly.  The only reason I got it was because I tried it during an open beta/preview they had and liked it, but they changed it too much in the final product and I lost interest in it.

Hero Online is free to get and play.  It seems ok, but I'll have to give it more time before I decide to drop it or not.

[[BTF]Sigma]

I sunk many hours over a couple months into WoW when it was first released.

Teaming up and handling quests was the best part...I could do without the PvP though. The interface was too tedious to get into that type of battle.

Boosting characters and obtaining the blue listed items was where it was at. That and the naked women elves. Dance dance dance...skeet skeet.

[Spawn.Ds]

Jagger how many years have you played q2? uhmm yea addict in denile As any gammer sinks many countless hours into the games the prefer to play it dont mean their wasting their time doing it . I could say I wasted 5 years playing a game that built nothing for my charecter in umm q2 , but I wouldnt say its a waste considering some of the cool people I met online . I was answering Ghosts question and not foaming at the mouth wile doing it , he wanted to know what the game was about , I am sorry its much more huge then some glitch jumps and spamming shit all over a small map for you to understand.

 Sigma it is cool to find a group of peeps especialy those who can play their toons well and run instances with them etc.. PvP is cool though I dont duel much but I do like ganking the unexpected player at times , kinda pay back for all the times they got me wile questing hehe .

I dont know much about everquest other then what some hardcore players in my guild have spoken about , They claim its simular to wow but at low levels it kinda blows until you reach end game , were in WoW there is much more to do and gain at low level . Like I said I havnt played it so im not posative but thats how it was explained to me .

P.s Ghost's post was for those who have played them games and can enilighten him a little more about them and the game play , So if ya havnt played them then dont say negative shit about them because in all honesty you are freakin clueless.

[jägermonsta]

Hey Spawn, the new South Park tonight. Yeah you starred in that didn't you? Pretty sad! 

[[BTF]DeathStalker]

having a hobby and having a addiction is not the same thing. sure playing a mmorpg can be your hobby but when you make it a priority over important things to be delt with like school work, job, girlfriend/wife, children and of course SLEEPING. Then it's an addiction and it becomes a problem. Unfortunatly the case with these games, that happens very very often to people.

Never played any of those kind of games.
I am inexplicably interested in nascar --not proud of it but not ashamed of it either

Not proud of being a Nascar fan??? wth is wrong with you! Nascar rules dude, be proud! (24 is GAY)

DAM STRAIGHT MAN !!!
NASCAR rules !!

Any game can be addictive, too addictive in fact. But you know what's really sad. People come here to play Q2 and wind up hardly playing it all anymore because the've gottin addicted to the Forums.