Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

[Remathilis]

They have become people who can only cease talking about WoW for a very short period of time.

I lost three good friends to WoW. One I could converse for hours with about D&D, Doctor Who, comic books, Star Wars, and a plethora of geeky-things.

Now?

"Did you see last week's Clone Wars? Man it was great!"

"Nah, we had a raid that night. I got the level 75 shoulder armor!"

"..."

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Never have played WOW, never will. I hate MMOs passionately. That said, I'm a JRPG addict, especially ones with a great plot and intrigue (like Suikoden titles) or really fun gameplay (Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG). Generally, if it feels like I'm playing a good novel or theater production, awesome!

I have plenty of friends like that . . . that play tabletop D&D and have a fear and loathing towards online rpgs! I've also had Trekkie friends talk people's ears off about Trek minutae . . .

It's a geek thing, not a WoW thing.

Indeed. I and some of my friends do this with D&D characters. Not to non-gamer friends, but we will spend hours talking about it around them, to which they usually get irritated. On the other hand, I have suite-mate who was a half-hearted casual gamer when it came to D&D, but would never shut up about his WOW characters.

So yeah, nothing to do with WOW there.

 

[Darkness]

No WoW for me. I never managed to convince myself I really wanted to play it (and trust me, I tried) - so I didn't.

However, if they ever end up making Pandaren or Murlocs a playable race, all bets are off.

 

[The Little Raven]

It's a geek thing, not a WoW thing.

My brother by another mother, Dire Bare, is 100% correct here.

IT guys can't stop talking about recent hardware/software upgrades, whether professional or personal.

WoW players can't stop talking about the fact that 'IM IN UR AKOUNT SHARDING UR PURPLZ."

Vampire players can't stop talking about their 4th Generation Malkavian antitribu Mokole Abominations.

Geeks like to geek out whenever possible, even if it's only talking about it. It happens whether your geek fetish is D&D, WoW, model airplanes, disco music, or existentialism.

And I used to be a big WoW player. I quit around June 2008, due to changes in living situation and concerns about my employment future with the political wrangling going on in my company.

 

[SHARK]

Greetings!

I play Wow. I have one lvl 80 character, half a dozen alts between 60-70, and another half a dozen characters under 60.

I am the Guildmaster of my own guild on Argent Dawn (Alliance, U.S.)

Wow is outstanding. Lots of fun.

However, it is not ideally suited for *Roleplaying*--the medium and the mechanics simply mitigate against much RP at all. Table-top RPG's are far superior to Wow especially in regards to *Roleplaying*, Immersion, story-telling, and so on.

I love D&D though. RPG's, and MMO's are just different beasts.

Wow is great fun though.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[The Little Raven]

however, if they ever end up making pandaren or murlocs a playable race, all bets are off. :d

mrglr glmrglmr rrlggg!

 

[SHARK]

I lost three good friends to WoW. One I could converse for hours with about D&D, Doctor Who, comic books, Star Wars, and a plethora of geeky-things.

Now?

"Did you see last week's Clone Wars? Man it was great!"

"Nah, we had a raid that night. I got the level 75 shoulder armor!"

"..."

Greetings!

*LOL* Too funny, there, my friend!

I sympathize.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[Teflon Billy]

I have plenty of friends like that . . . that play tabletop D&D and have a fear and loathing towards online rpgs! I've also had Trekkie friends talk people's ears off about Trek minutae . . .

It's a geek thing, not a WoW thing.

If you say so ...my experience differs hugely.

None of my weekly RPG group bore others with endless descriptions of the game or long lists of possible plans for next session.

I'm about as big a Star Trek nerd as you'll find and I seem able to avoid boring people with endless Star Trek minutiae.

I don't know what it is about MMO's, but the behaviour is noticeable, replicable...and goes away once they aren't playing for hours every day.

 

[SHARK]

mrglr glmrglmr rrlggg!

Greetings!

*LOL* The baby Murloc quest in Borean Tundra....very, very popular. People have a very passionate love/hate thing for Murlocs!!!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[The Little Raven]

*LOL* The baby Murloc quest in Borean Tundra....very, very popular. People have a very passionate love/hate thing for Murlocs!!!

I rolled a Horde character in Burning Crusade specifically so I could do the Horde-only quest where you introduce Murlocs to Zangarmarsh for that troll. I leveled the character to 62, did the quest, then never played him again. Murlocs rule!