The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[overgeeked]

I tried it early on, so probably before the reboot. My wife tried it probably 3 years ago, I can't remember what she didn't like about it but it's possible it was just playing solo since I didn't want to play (we were playing vanilla classic wow at the time and I didn't want to play 2 MMOs). If the free trial is a good deal, it's probably worth giving a try again.

It’s absurdly good. Almost meme-worthy good.

 

[payn]

I keep wanting to like WoW, but man the community is toxic beyond redemption. I resubbed to try Dragonflight, ran a dungeon as a tank where I clearly said I’ve never run this before so let me go slow and figure out what the monsters do, had the healer respond “thank you, I’m new and have never healed so a bit nervous to screw up”. Immediately we had to have a DPS cause a wipe by being stupid and pulling the entire first wing of the dungeon because “my other group handled it fine”. One of the other DPS said we were all a homophobic slur and dropped group. His replacement? Rinse and repeat, down to the same homophobic slur.

I’m 44 years old. I don’t need that in my life. lol

This is why MMOs suck.

 

[trappedslider]

This is why MMOs suck.

people

 

[Reynard]

I had tried to like WoW for years but basically ended up bored. Finally over the summer I resubbed with the specific intent of playing with 4 or 5 IRL friends and the experience was GREAT. Unfortunately my wife got laid off so I had to trim some edge expenses, but now that she is working again I might jump back in. Unfortunately it also eats into my TTRPG time...

 

[MarkB]

I enjoyed WoW for a few years 'way back in the day (joined sometime after the Burning Crusade expansion, left a little after Mists of Pandaria), but always enjoyed the solo experience more than the group / raiding stuff, and the levelling more than the endgame content. All these expansions with their "Boost your character straight to max level!" enticements do very little for me, if I signed up again it'd be to experience the game from the ground up, not to jump in at max level and then spend days figuring out multiple toolbars' worth of abilities and how they synergise.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I've always hated playing anything, live or online, with people I don't know. I never played WoW, but I've been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic for the past couple months, and some of the peeps in that game need orbital bombardment with banhammers while getting Force-choked.
They're just endlessly grinding flashpoints and operations to upgrade their endgame gear, and they spend the whole time they're queued up in the group finder waiting for the next run insulting each other and talking crap about anyone who isn't l33t enough to have ten max-level alts on multiple servers. Then when the missions start, they take off on a speed-run, following the most efficient path directly in each other's footsteps like a pack of AI-controlled lemmings. If you don't know where you're going or if you die, they'll leave you behind rather than take the time to boot you from the group...

 

[MarkB]

I've always hated playing anything, live or online, with people I don't know. I never played WoW, but I've been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic for the past couple months, and some of the peeps in that game need orbital bombardment with banhammers while getting Force-choked.
They're just endlessly grinding flashpoints and operations to upgrade their endgame gear, and they spend the whole time they're queued up in the group finder waiting for the next run insulting each other and talking crap about anyone who isn't l33t enough to have ten max-level alts on multiple servers. Then when the missions start, they take off on a speed-run, following the most efficient path directly in each other's footsteps like a pack of AI-controlled lemmings. If you don't know where you're going or if you die, they'll leave you behind rather than take the time to boot you from the group...

Yeah, much as I like that game, it's been that way awhile. Pretty much forget seeing the plot of any of the flashpoints, if you don't skip the dialogue immediately people will either quit the group or try to get you booted.

On the bright side, XP flows swiftly enough from just the main story missions that you can easily ignore the flashpoint missions and group areas and still progress easily through the game, but it's still content you're missing out on.

 

[J.Quondam]

For the couple years I played WoW many years ago, I spent most of my time fishing while chatting with friends. My only real incentive to level up was so that I could survive the walks to new fishing holes in more dangerous territories.

 

[MarkB]

For the couple years I played WoW many years ago, I spent most of my time fishing while chatting with friends. My only real incentive to level up was so that I could survive the walks to new fishing holes in more dangerous territories.

I remember many an hour fishing the coasts of Northrend while chatting away. It was never my primary focus, but was definitely a pleasant way to pass an afternoon or evening.

 

[Reynard]

For the couple years I played WoW many years ago, I spent most of my time fishing while chatting with friends. My only real incentive to level up was so that I could survive the walks to new fishing holes in more dangerous territories.

I feel like this needs it's own bespoke RPG.