No real life goals, lack of friends or they just really love WoW! all those + the fact that blizzard throw in subliminal messages to make you stay.. until a girl distracts you long enough to evade it! .. 

 

Its because they have a large stick and a giant carrot that only swedish guilds can occasionally catch, but the other 99.99% of the game population see these things as achivable but never seem to get it. blizzard  THEN make it purchasable with your shiney pink donkey coins in the next patch and put another bunch of carrots on sticks around the pixel world for you to chase again and again! it goes on and on and on and on and on and ....  on!

Raids for story. Could care less about the gear these days considering how easy it is to get gear. After raids, nothing really. PvP in WoW is just retarded. Feel like you'd be better off playing an fps if you're into killing people or a MoBA if you're into killing people in a fantasy setting. 

I beleive its because they enjoy that type of game, with repeating quests/dailies and the gear grind. No one has ever stated that everyone hates this gear grinding endgame experience (when I say no one im discounting trolls). The problem is that if you like that type of gameplay, why would you play SWTOR or Secret world or "insert wow clone here" when you can play WoW.

People complain about it because its like the only option when it comes to mmos at the moment, you have to play a game that ends with a repeatitive gear grind that WE (do not read you/or everyone, Read people who agree with me) find boring and not entertaining at all.

I complain about this type of gameplay because there is no decent alternative and I'm not saying that WoW should change, I beleive WoW to be a brilliant game, im just done with that kinda game now. I just want new developers to start aiming at me instead of those people already playing WoW.

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by andypandyr

I have noticed lately that everyone and his dog is complaining about Engame / Level cap in other games especially SWTOR and hell even Secret World already !

So I was just curious to why people carry on playing WoW even though they have done everything , what makes it different from other games ?

Would be intersting to hear different peoples opinions and reasons for this phenomenon ! :-)

My opinion you dont need to know anyone to start endgame content. Example: in dungeon finder you can solo queue into a dungeon and get gear. Where as in every mmo that i have seen so far you need to actually know someone to do end game content. I could be wrong.

The difference is that yes now you can get into raiding content since about late or maybe mid lich king, but prior to lich king during burning crusades an earlier to actually do alot of the raiding you had to actually socialize, and be in a guild for alot of it. yet play for a week or two just doing the lfg/lfr, and then spend the same time running instances an raids with somme really good friends in the game, what you will find is that it is alot funner (an safeer alot fo the time) doing the content with friends then via the lfg/lfr. Kinda like what has already been said pror to these systems the lfglfr i mean having to be in a guild for raiding an such, would lead to actually creating ties an friendships in the game, and it is this fact of friends that make the game just funner an gives a feeling of being invested in it that keeps the players there. IT is like in real life you can live for the rest of your life alone, but if you actually are apart of the world around you, and interact with other people it makes life more interesting (for most not all.).

Originally posted by Asuran24

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by andypandyr

I have noticed lately that everyone and his dog is complaining about Engame / Level cap in other games especially SWTOR and hell even Secret World already !

So I was just curious to why people carry on playing WoW even though they have done everything , what makes it different from other games ?

Would be intersting to hear different peoples opinions and reasons for this phenomenon ! :-)

My opinion you dont need to know anyone to start endgame content. Example: in dungeon finder you can solo queue into a dungeon and get gear. Where as in every mmo that i have seen so far you need to actually know someone to do end game content. I could be wrong.

The difference is that yes now you can get into raiding content since about late or maybe mid lich king, but prior to lich king during burning crusades an earlier to actually do alot of the raiding you had to actually socialize, and be in a guild for alot of it. yet play for a week or two just doing the lfg/lfr, and then spend the same time running instances an raids with somme really good friends in the game, what you will find is that it is alot funner (an safeer alot fo the time) doing the content with friends then via the lfg/lfr. Kinda like what has already been said pror to these systems the lfglfr i mean having to be in a guild for raiding an such, would lead to actually creating ties an friendships in the game, and it is this fact of friends that make the game just funner an gives a feeling of being invested in it that keeps the players there. IT is like in real life you can live for the rest of your life alone, but if you actually are apart of the world around you, and interact with other people it makes life more interesting (for most not all.).

I agree with you i just feel thats why its still the top grossing revenue MMO. Me when I play MMO's they are on off times of when my friends play now and I really lost the luster to find new friends after leaving Everquest. The sense of adventure has left all mmo's so when i play its just something to pass time as nothing out there is worth playing anymore if you really just think about it. Games are easier, so you finish a new game in less then 2 days, replay value on games other then sports games have all but disappeared. These are just my opinions but i could see alot of people feeling the same way i do.

Shiny shiny mounts. Killing big bosses. 

I fondly remember when we did a 4 man Naxx on 25man difficulty at level 85. Sometimes it's just the stupid things you think up that keep you playing.

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by Asuran24

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by andypandyr

I have noticed lately that everyone and his dog is complaining about Engame / Level cap in other games especially SWTOR and hell even Secret World already !

So I was just curious to why people carry on playing WoW even though they have done everything , what makes it different from other games ?

Would be intersting to hear different peoples opinions and reasons for this phenomenon ! :-)

My opinion you dont need to know anyone to start endgame content. Example: in dungeon finder you can solo queue into a dungeon and get gear. Where as in every mmo that i have seen so far you need to actually know someone to do end game content. I could be wrong.

The difference is that yes now you can get into raiding content since about late or maybe mid lich king, but prior to lich king during burning crusades an earlier to actually do alot of the raiding you had to actually socialize, and be in a guild for alot of it. yet play for a week or two just doing the lfg/lfr, and then spend the same time running instances an raids with somme really good friends in the game, what you will find is that it is alot funner (an safeer alot fo the time) doing the content with friends then via the lfg/lfr. Kinda like what has already been said pror to these systems the lfglfr i mean having to be in a guild for raiding an such, would lead to actually creating ties an friendships in the game, and it is this fact of friends that make the game just funner an gives a feeling of being invested in it that keeps the players there. IT is like in real life you can live for the rest of your life alone, but if you actually are apart of the world around you, and interact with other people it makes life more interesting (for most not all.).

I agree with you i just feel thats why its still the top grossing revenue MMO. Me when I play MMO's they are on off times of when my friends play now and I really lost the luster to find new friends after leaving Everquest. The sense of adventure has left all mmo's so when i play its just something to pass time as nothing out there is worth playing anymore if you really just think about it. Games are easier, so you finish a new game in less then 2 days, replay value on games other then sports games have all but disappeared. These are just my opinions but i could see alot of people feeling the same way i do.

Well i have always seen that many players that play mmos now are nalot more interested in well instanct action, and not needing that fact of wel aving to be in a guild to actually do content. I know some of the reasons why though as it is pretty common knowledge that in pre-lk wow most of the highest content was not cleared by a vast majority of the players, either because they could not get into guilds that were up to tackling the content, or they could not proform well enouph to actually even be able to have the chance to get close to it, and this need for having a guild to see the end game well kinda annoyed alot of the players. yet when wow dev's took out this need for being  in guilds to see alot of the content, nerfing the content to where most pugs could do it pretty well, to me they took out that driving force to actually socialize an find people to play the game with.

People have established groups of friends in WoW over the years and even though WoW has less end game content then some games (IE Rift,EQ2) since they usually only put out a new tier of content every 6-8 months now the fact that they have such a big community helps keep people there. I can tell you right now that people playing WoW are not playing it because they have loved doing Dragon Soul for the past 10 months..

The other thing is that WoW does alts very well and it is easy to get them to a good point to be able to play them at end game if people like that kind of thing. They also gate content in ways that force you to essentially play for around 2-3 months to get completely geared. (Lockouts, gating content by delaying it, max valor / conquest points each week) Blizzard is just really good at getting people to play the same content over and over for various reasons, not because they have a ton of content cause they really don't. WoW is also very casual friendly and caters to people who don't even normally play games.

Gear, shineys, carrots