Is WoW really worth it??

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#1 PS2_PC_FAN
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I want to play it but I fell like i'll be wasting money. Blizzard has been shutting down many private servers and I don't know what to do.
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#2 MrNacaa
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Its definately worth it as a gaming experience since its a really really good game. However, time wise, its not worth it. Going to take alot of your time.
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#3 KalDurenik
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I want to play it but I fell like i'll be wasting money. Blizzard has been shutting down many private servers and I don't know what to do.PS2_PC_FAN

If you like it: Buy it

If you dont like it: Dont buy it, but stop going on private servers also.

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#4 bigLLL
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I dont think it's worth it, my mate went from a gamer to a Wow junkie and now plays nothing but wow, I ended up getting to a level 66 warlock and just thought what is the point and quit. Takes up way to much game time and costs to much money
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#5 swazidoughman
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I want to play it but I fell like i'll be wasting money. Blizzard has been shutting down many private servers and I don't know what to do.PS2_PC_FAN

Blizz stopped trying to shut down private servers.

And the ones that they shut down will just reform.

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#6 Hewkii
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It almost sounds like you just want the game to play on private servers.
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#8 PunishedOne
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Alrighty, what have you heard that makes you want to play?

Because at 80, it's the same grind-heroics-to-get-badges, oh wait, emblems-to-go-to-raids-to-farm-for-hopeful-drops that was at 70 in BC.Once I saw that, I just said, "Not this **** again. I'm not going to do the same thing under a different skin." Granted, a few days after I hit 80, I was doing heroics like mad, but then I stopped and thought about just why I was doing the same damn set of instances every day.

Some people like this, for some unknown reason. I don't.

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#9 BladeMaster84
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Play the demo. If you like the demo it's worth it. If you don't like the demo it isn't worth it...
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#10 jrabbit99
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it's definitely worth it. it's the best mmo i've ever played, I would have kept it up, but instead I got a 360.
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#11 capital_rpg
Member since 2005 • 77 Posts

its a pretty awesome game if u have the time to play.
even if u only play four hours a week its only a dollar an hour, which is much less expensive than most other hobbies

the only problem is that it can be pretty boring without some buddies to play with so u r only gonna have "fun" if u can get some friends to play or make some friends at a low lvl...


the game's replayability is great and u can play it all sorts of ways (PvP, PvE, etc etc.)
Of course... not everyone enjoys some of the social interaction that goes on, and there can be some real @$%@& that play... but other than that it is a good game to try even if u just play the demo

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#12 techie45
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Alrighty, what have you heard that makes you want to play?

Because at 80, it's the same grind-heroics-to-get-badges, oh wait, emblems-to-go-to-raids-to-farm-for-hopeful-drops that was at 70 in BC.Once I saw that, I just said, "Not this **** again. I'm not going to do the same thing under a different skin." Granted, a few days after I hit 80, I was doing heroics like mad, but then I stopped and thought about just why I was doing the same damn set of instances every day.

Some people like this, for some unknown reason. I don't.

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I second this. I quit playing wow the same day I got Wotlk, the recent expansion. I was a hardcore player (pvp'er and pve'er) for a few years. It's a lot of grinding, a heavy reliance of several other players for gear, and therefore, a huge time investment. It will always be that way; no changing that. Quitting that (addicting) game was a definite smart move.
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#13 fdsfgs
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its worth it if you can control yourself and not become addicted liek 60% of the wow population. otherwise, you're paying 15 bucks a month to throw your life away
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#14 MrLions
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If you can handle it sure. :P Yea it's worth $15 a month if you have the time if you don't then just don't bother.
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#15 stele29
Member since 2008 • 551 Posts

Lol.. just setup your own private server on your pc. Contrary to popular believe, servers that use mangos are not illegal because they use no actual Blizzard code. All you have to do is install the freeware server and it uses all the database info from your client. Thats why there are so many out there.

That being said, yes..it is worth it. In fact my primary recommendation is to just pay and play, because the free servers are no where as good as the first party ones. Clipping problems, broken quests...blah....been there.

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#16 CrazyFanboy
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i just hit 80 and all im doing is running heroics to get badges to do 25 mans for more gear, hmm i was doing that in bc. im gonna play some l4d now. imo i dont think its worth it, it becomes the only game u play.
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#17 nicknees93
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say no to WOW. Hugs, not WOW.
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#18 Drosa
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Unless you enjoy repetition, don't bother. However, if you want see what all the fuss is about there is a two week trail that is free to play. I strongly discourage it.
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#19 -Unreal-
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But Warhammer has better PvP. And you can play it monthly using foodstamps so if you found WoW too expensive, go for Warhammer.

I don't play WoW anymore, my friend and his friend's family all died from it.

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#20 xwolfghost
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First off, don't play private servers. They are full of bugs, and are hardly anything like what the actual game is like. If you consider that a Pre-paid card is $35 and all the play time you get in the two months, you save money instead of just going out and buying a new game after two weeks. I myself found it took too much time to play.
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#21 Johnny_Rock
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[QUOTE="PS2_PC_FAN"]I want to play it but I fell like i'll be wasting money. Blizzard has been shutting down many private servers and I don't know what to do.SEANMCAD
Its a cartoon...try EveryQuest 2 instead.

Why trade in a cartoon for a bad game?