World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

ok, not football but this seems to be the best place to ask. The World of warcraft, any good? Monthly fees? btter similar type games/ your opinions please. Kinda got me interested since I saw the South Park episode, "Make Love not Warcraft.

Snoooooooore. Ya either hate it or love it (as in play 24/7) it seems.

Oblivion FTW.

Don't bother mate. It will... ruin your family / marriage / anything else.

Plus its sh*t, also I refuse to buy games that make me pay monthly. Plenty of games out there run their own servers and don't require the users to pay every month.

Don't head towards it, I know some people who play and lets just say they don't see a lot of sun.

Cheers fellas for the advice, given me something to think about.

If it gets to the point where you want to try it, there is a 14 day free trial i think, luckily for me when i tried this game i hated it.

Troll? Is Joel Griffiths in WOW?? OMG!!

My brother, his wife, my uncle used to play it regliously. I started playing it as it was the only time I could communicate with them.
Sucked me in though. It's very clever (well it was) at making you spend HOURS at a time achieving what is in hindsight, very little.

It does things very well in some aspects, but got too big for its own good in my opinion. It took me about a year to earn enough gear to have a semi decent chance in player vs player battles (I was on PvP server), but there is no way I could compete with people who spend 5,6,7 - sometimes 8 hours a day playing the game. Then once I finally got some gear, the rules changed and a new set of gear became available.

Lost all interest after that. A year wasted. Cancelled account and uninstalled. Started playing Battlefield 1942 again instead. Too many hardcore dicks and too many scammers on WoW. Plus I really don't like spending more than 2 hours a day playing video games.

Haven't played it for nearly 2 years now. Things might have changed.

Interesting. Think I might just stick to watching the South Park version.

On a side note though, the technical acheivement of the game is absolutely amazing. To be able to run a game of that size, using as few resources as it does, with no loading screens between zones, whilst giving the user the abillity to tailor the interface to how they like it - with a shear mass of people using those 40-odd servers (probably a few more by now) is trailblazing.

Basically, for the engine it runs on - it looks amazing.

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