I regret WoW not being my first MMO. I feel that WoW has made a whole generation of gamers more savvy about how they spend their money on particularly P2P MMOs. I got burned hard on The Secret World as my first. I would not have subbed a single month in The Secret World if I knew how many features WoW had. 

From playing WoW, gamers have come to expect from their MMOs:

• Deep and varied classes and  having many ways to play the game.
• Being able to level through PvP, through instances via dungeon finder and,even via traditional questing being able to pick a different side and many different zones to level in.
• Achievements, collecting pets and mounts, plenty of appearance customization. Real ways to define your character where your personalized avatar shows up alongside your forum name and you can even order a FigurePrint mould of your toon.
• Where the level of mod support is so great that you can completely change how the game looks and feels via addons and macros.
• A smooth lag-free loading-free gaming experience.
• A massive world to lose oneself in which everything seems possible: where one moment you're riding the carousel in Darkmoon Faire as a dwarf rides past on a reindeer, and the next you're participating in a full-scale battle between undead and a knightly order (in the Death Knight opening sequence).

True, not all those features were in the game at the beginning. But that's what make WoW great and a true MMO. It keeps on evolving and adapting, growing with each expansion and listening to the community to add new features. Because that's what makes a MMO a living breathing world - its community ; the players - all 10 million of them.

Everyone should play WoW at least once, to learn what to expect from a top-tier MMO. If they use WoW as a stepping stone to other MMOs and find one they like then my congratulations - it must be a great game indeed and I hope you tell what you found to the world.

I did for 3-4 years since BC. It is a great game. However, no matter how great a game is, eventually it will get old and boring. I  just cancelled my WOW sub and probably will not be back.

There are plenty of other good games (note .. games, not just MMOs) out there.

I spent a week playing WoW! Well, technically, five days.   I found the world building to be poor, the writing to be haphazard, the community lackluster , the humor not to my taste, and the fantasy elements pedestrian.   From playing other games that tend to be called WoW-clones I've found I don't like the end game elements.  

So, I might agree with you that people should play WoW, but mostly to see how it's done, if it's done badly.  

I think WoW's success was a one time affair, and it's big now because it's big.  Tastes differ, so some (like yourself) may see it as the best thing since sliced bread. 

Originally posted by banzai014

I regret WoW not being my first MMO. I feel that WoW has made a whole generation of gamers more savvy about how they spend their money on particularly P2P MMOs. I got burned hard on The Secret World as my first.

Secret World being your first, with your comments on seasonal mounts I can only assume WoW being your second... that really is all I need to say on the matter.

Varied classes and many ways to play the game... spilled my coffee...

You should not be sad that TSW was your first mmo, if anything you should be sad that you have not played a mmo that had truly varied ways to play the game, had a 1 minute maintenance, had really plenty appearance customization, didnt drop to single digit fps when there were 20 players behind the wall you look at and a world that you could really get lost which was not just a nice background to see from the city while waiting for the lfxyz popup.

Not saying that many of them featured more than one of those, or that even some feature the level of refinement of wow, but some perspective is always positive.

Flame on!

:)

Originally posted by Banaghran

Varied classes and many ways to play the game... spilled my coffee...

 

This is true though.

Originally posted by strangiato2112

Originally posted by Banaghran

Varied classes and many ways to play the game... spilled my coffee...

 

This is true though.

What is?

Flame on!

:)

Originally posted by Banaghran

Originally posted by strangiato2112

Originally posted by Banaghran

Varied classes and many ways to play the game... spilled my coffee...

 

This is true though.

What is?

Flame on!

:)

Well for one, of the games that try to balance PvP and PvE it does it the best.  Yes, the PvP is subpar compared to pure PvP games, but its the best battleground-style PvP on the market, and it also has the arena PvP.  It is the only game that has raiding for super-casuals, it also has regular raiding and hardcore raiding.  You can do the daily thing if you really want, or you can do the dungeon grind thing if you want, or you can just play pokemon all day (which is way more fleshed out than anyone would have expected).  The low level dungeons have short queues unlike any other game as lots of people like to level alts through them, and the same as true for battlegrounds.

And as for the classes, there are basically 28 different classes.  While a game like Rift may have more ways to build an ability set, half of its classes are reliant on the same mechanic (combo points), WoW has a wide assortment of mechanics, and no two secs play the same. Its far from the best on the market, but its above average.

I actually played WoW for like maybe 2 months when it first came out. I went to WoW after playing FFXI since its realease. So basically i didn't like soloing everything in WoW, i tried being a healer role in it, but didn't change nothing. I went from supporting groups while leveling, to basically solo questing as i leveled, and didn't like it one bit.

Maybe if i actually stayed with it back then it mituve got interesting at higher level, but now i'll never know.

Glad you found your game, should provide you with many years of entertainment.

I played for a few years back in 2004-2006, but IMO you missed the golden age of MMORPG's that preceeded it, their like will not likely be seen soon again.

Sometimes it's good not to know what you missed.....