Is World of Warcraft worth playing?

I wanted to get a new pc to play wow because friends of mine play it

Is this game worth getting > ?

No, Jonathan Blow has some interesting comments on it:

* You are a schlub that has nothing better to do than repeat repetitive, mindless actions.

* Skill and shrewdness don't count for much, all that matters is how much time you sink in.

* You don't need to do anything exeptional, because to feel good you must run the treadmill like everyone else.

No, Jonathan Blow has some interesting comments on it:

* You are a schlub that has nothing better to do than repeat repetitive, mindless actions.

* Skill and shrewdness don't count for much, all that matters is how much time you sink in.

* You don't need to do anything exeptional, because to feel good you must run the treadmill like everyone else.

Wikipedian

No, Jonathan Blow has some interesting comments on it:

* You are a schlub that has nothing better to do than repeat repetitive, mindless actions.

* Skill and shrewdness don't count for much, all that matters is how much time you sink in.

* You don't need to do anything exeptional, because to feel good you must run the treadmill like everyone else.

No, Jonathan Blow has some interesting comments on it:

* You are a schlub that has nothing better to do than repeat repetitive, mindless actions.

* Skill and shrewdness don't count for much, all that matters is how much time you sink in.

* You don't need to do anything exeptional, because to feel good you must run the treadmill like everyone else.

I'd suggest LotRO over WoW atm.

I'd suggest LotRO over WoW atm.

FragTycoon

how much ram do you need for the game ? is 2 gb enough ? Rdiz

yes

Processor:

Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2

Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)

Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 ****card or better
Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT ****card or better

I am sorry to be a bother but, this thread is full of noobs who have never played alot of MMOs. I shall not even bother to give my two cents because I know I'll get mindless kiddy rage as feedback. -.-SparkyProtocol

I would like to know your two cents what is wrong with WOW?

I am sorry to be a bother but, this thread is full of noobs who have never played alot of MMOs. I shall not even bother to give my two cents because I know I'll get mindless kiddy rage as feedback. -.-SparkyProtocol

[QUOTE="Senor_Kami"]I've heard on a couple of podcast that Burning Crusade and Litch King are really great. But then I also hear that you have to be at like a high character level to access this content and that the stuff before you get there is kinda crappy and really just grinding. That wouldn't be bad if I could do the crappy parts for free and then pay monthly for the good parts. Is the case. Litch King, from what I've heard, is like an amazing RPG story, but you have to be like level 60 or something to access it. How many months is that going to take to get that high a level? I'm not the type of person who can force themselves to play a game they don't like for like 4 hours a day for two weeks just to get to something great. Skittles_McGee

Burning Crusade does add 2 new classes (Blood Elves and Dranie(something like that). Wrath of The Lich King adds a new class (The Death Knight). You do need a lvl 55 character on the server you want to create the Death Knight on.

Once you hit max lvl the game really does just begin. It is still fun in my opinion leveling with a group of people.

[QUOTE="SparkyProtocol"]I am sorry to be a bother but, this thread is full of noobs who have never played alot of MMOs. I shall not even bother to give my two cents because I know I'll get mindless kiddy rage as feedback. -.-Skittles_McGee

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="SparkyProtocol"]I am sorry to be a bother but, this thread is full of noobs who have never played alot of MMOs. I shall not even bother to give my two cents because I know I'll get mindless kiddy rage as feedback. -.-SparkyProtocol

[QUOTE="SparkyProtocol"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] I've played Ultima, Everquest, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Guild Wars, WoW, WW2 online (Sadly), SMT Imagine, and SW Galaxies. Not that you had much of a point to begin with, but yeah I figured I'd prove it wrong anyway :|Skittles_McGee

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="SparkyProtocol"] Well I'll start out slow. Firstly some one said LoTRO is World of Gandalf and it's inferior and that already grinds my gears.SparkyProtocol

but games shouldn't take that long to pick upDeathScape666

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

krp008

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

krp008

I used to think the same thing... Until i tried it.

[QUOTE="krp008"]

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

Skittles_McGee

Yet people complain that paying $50 a year to play 100's of 360 titles online is too much.. :roll:

[QUOTE="krp008"]

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

RyanShazam

I used to think the same thing... Until i tried it.

Yea i know. I used to play RuneScape when i was like 13 and had hardly no social life at that time. Dont want to make that mistake again :P

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="krp008"]

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

krp008

Yet people complain that paying $50 a year to play 100's of 360 titles online is too much.. :roll:

[QUOTE="krp008"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] $15 a month is nothing.Skittles_McGee

Yet people complain that paying $50 a year to play 100's of 360 titles online is too much.. :roll:

$180 a year to play one game online is pretty tremendous, especially if you dont play it like a religion like most do

[QUOTE="RyanShazam"][QUOTE="krp008"]

For $15 a month, **** NO!

$15 a month to sell your soul away to a video game, no, i will never touch that game and i look down upon each and every person that plays it like a religion

krp008

I used to think the same thing... Until i tried it.

Yea i know. I used to play RuneScape when i was like 13 and had hardly no social life at that time. Dont want to make that mistake again :P

Haha i hate MMO's for just that reason. Now i want to play Runescape again.

I learned to play play WoW in moderation now. I hardly play it anymore.

When you play an MMO like that, IT IS YOUR LIFE!!!

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="krp008"]

Yet people complain that paying $50 a year to play 100's of 360 titles online is too much.. :roll:

krp008

$180 a year to play one game online is pretty tremendous, especially if you dont play it like a religion like most do

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="krp008"]

Yet people complain that paying $50 a year to play 100's of 360 titles online is too much.. :roll:

krp008

$180 a year to play one game online is pretty tremendous, especially if you dont play it like a religion like most do

When you look at it like that yes it is.

I tend to look at things a different way.

Say you play WoW at least an Hour a day. Thats 365 hours a year. Thats 25 cents an hour.

Now one game=$60 you can get 3 games for the price of a yearly membership of WoW (180$)

Will you play those games for 365 hours? I dont think so.

It will take you about 7-8 games to rack up that much time. Now were looking at 350$ instead of 180$.

One other way to look at it. You spend 60$ a month buying 1 game a month. your looking at 720$ compared to 180$ WoW costs to play monthly.

[QUOTE="krp008"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] Yeah, and $50 a year is nothing too. I never said otherwise. What's your point?RyanShazam

$180 a year to play one game online is pretty tremendous, especially if you dont play it like a religion like most do

When you look at it like that yes it is.

I tend to look at things a different way.

Say you play WoW at least an Hour a day. Thats 365 hours a year. Thats 25 cents an hour.

Now one game=$60 you can get 3 games for the price of a yearly membership of WoW (180$)

Will you play those games for 365 hours? I dont think so.

It will take you about 7-8 games to rack up that much time. Now were looking at 350$ instead of 180$.

One other way to look at it. You spend 60$ a month buying 1 game a month. your looking at 720$ compared to 180$ WoW costs to play monthly.

If you would go by someone just starting out in WoW

To buy all 3 games is what $69

A whole year of supscription is $180

Thats $250 on ONE GAME to play for a year, if you play it for two years then thats $430, if you ever decide to quit WoW you just wasted almost $500 on ONE game

Also it will be more if you transfer to a different server which is $25 or if you want to change your name thats $10

[QUOTE="RyanShazam"][QUOTE="krp008"]

$180 a year to play one game online is pretty tremendous, especially if you dont play it like a religion like most do

Ballroompirate

When you look at it like that yes it is.

I tend to look at things a different way.

Say you play WoW at least an Hour a day. Thats 365 hours a year. Thats 25 cents an hour.

Now one game=$60 you can get 3 games for the price of a yearly membership of WoW (180$)

Will you play those games for 365 hours? I dont think so.

It will take you about 7-8 games to rack up that much time. Now were looking at 350$ instead of 180$.

One other way to look at it. You spend 60$ a month buying 1 game a month. your looking at 720$ compared to 180$ WoW costs to play monthly.

If you would go by someone just starting out in WoW

To buy all 3 games is what $69

A whole year of supscription is $180

Thats $250 on ONE GAME to play for a year, if you play it for two years then thats $430, if you ever decide to quit WoW you just wasted almost $500 on ONE game

Also it will be more if you transfer to a different server which is $25 or if you want to change your name thats $10

You can say the same thing about any other games. If I bought a game for 60$ then beat it and dont play it anymore, did you just waste 60$?

You also started to add extra fees. What if i wanted new maps for a game or DLC then your spending even more money on a single game.

If you don't feel like playing WoW anymore then you can cancel your account and continue it back up again whenever you like.

[QUOTE="Ballroompirate"][QUOTE="RyanShazam"]

When you look at it like that yes it is.

I tend to look at things a different way.

Say you play WoW at least an Hour a day. Thats 365 hours a year. Thats 25 cents an hour.

Now one game=$60 you can get 3 games for the price of a yearly membership of WoW (180$)

Will you play those games for 365 hours? I dont think so.

It will take you about 7-8 games to rack up that much time. Now were looking at 350$ instead of 180$.

One other way to look at it. You spend 60$ a month buying 1 game a month. your looking at 720$ compared to 180$ WoW costs to play monthly.

RyanShazam

If you would go by someone just starting out in WoW

To buy all 3 games is what $69

A whole year of supscription is $180

Thats $250 on ONE GAME to play for a year, if you play it for two years then thats $430, if you ever decide to quit WoW you just wasted almost $500 on ONE game

Also it will be more if you transfer to a different server which is $25 or if you want to change your name thats $10

You can say the same thing about any other games. If I bought a game for 60$ then beat it and dont play it anymore, did you just waste 60$?

You also started to add extra fees. What if i wanted new maps for a game or DLC then your spending even more money on a single game.

If you don't feel like playing WoW anymore then you can cancel your account and continue it back up again whenever you like.

Lol you forgot a few things

You can rent games and who said you had to buy games at $60?, seriously I just bought Mass Effect at Gamestop for $14 used.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[QUOTE="RyanShazam"][QUOTE="Ballroompirate"]

If you would go by someone just starting out in WoW

To buy all 3 games is what $69

A whole year of supscription is $180

Thats $250 on ONE GAME to play for a year, if you play it for two years then thats $430, if you ever decide to quit WoW you just wasted almost $500 on ONE game

Also it will be more if you transfer to a different server which is $25 or if you want to change your name thats $10

Ballroompirate

You can say the same thing about any other games. If I bought a game for 60$ then beat it and dont play it anymore, did you just waste 60$?

You also started to add extra fees. What if i wanted new maps for a game or DLC then your spending even more money on a single game.

If you don't feel like playing WoW anymore then you can cancel your account and continue it back up again whenever you like.

Lol you forgot a few things

You can rent games and who said you had to buy games at $60?, seriously I just bought Mass Effect at Gamestop for $14 used.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Even if you can buy games for less money it still averages out to where WoW is more affordable than other games.

So you bought Mass Effect for 14$, your gonna get a week or two of play out of that game? Then What? You have to buy another game. Thats another 15$.

Im not even gonna comment on renting games, considering my whole argument was about buying games.

Seems to me like the door already hit you.

God no.

1. Too easy, most of it is mindless repetition. The only challenge is seeing how many hours you can go without sleep. Quests follow too many patterns, fetch this, kill 10 of those, repeat.

2. Too many annoying people run guilds, unless maybe you like taking orders from 12 year old brats and cranky fat housewives. This game has waaay too many casuals playing it. Just check out the videocompiler pranks for a preview.

3. For some people it is too addictive, even if they admit that it isn't that much fun. Kind of like gambling.

4. Takes too much time. This is probably the worst aspect of it. The game is designed to keep you on as long as possible. Half of your time is spent waiting for your group to show up. Watch your weekends disappear.

5. The monthly fee sucks.

6. The graphics are cartoony and dated.

7. It never ends.

If you are going to play anything I would say go with warhammer. It seems to draw a better crowd. But I would stay away from MMORPGs, especially if you aren't very social in real life. For such people it often becomes a life replacement which then ends up destroying their real life.

[QUOTE="Ballroompirate"][QUOTE="RyanShazam"]

You can say the same thing about any other games. If I bought a game for 60$ then beat it and dont play it anymore, did you just waste 60$?

You also started to add extra fees. What if i wanted new maps for a game or DLC then your spending even more money on a single game.

If you don't feel like playing WoW anymore then you can cancel your account and continue it back up again whenever you like.

RyanShazam

Lol you forgot a few things

You can rent games and who said you had to buy games at $60?, seriously I just bought Mass Effect at Gamestop for $14 used.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Even if you can buy games for less money it still averages out to where WoW is more affordable than other games.

So you bought Mass Effect for 14$, your gonna get a week or two of play out of that game? Then What? You have to buy another game. Thats another 15$.

Im not even gonna comment on renting games, considering my whole argument was about buying games.

Seems to me like the door already hit you.

Yeah the 14 bucks for Mass Effect will get more play time than a month of WoW cause you know what I can pick up ME any time in the day or week and not feel like I need to play "catch up" or listen to a bunch of 16 year olds run a half *** raid, don't have to worry about boring grinding to get up to the actual game content, wait for 24 other people to log on so I can actually play the game I pay for.

So no WoW is not worth $15 for a half *** game.You can rent 3 games a month for $15 and get more satisfaction on playing more than one game.