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

[Oni]

I play a lot of different video games but I have found that I really dislike MMO games. RPGs or otherwise. What really amazes me is people who consider it a valid form of socializing - they count their WoW friends, whom they have never met in person, as close intimates. That is something that is just alien to me.

Talk to a person a few hours a week for a couple years in voice chat and you might begin to feel like you know them pretty well.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Talk to a person a few hours a week for a couple years in voice chat and you might begin to feel like you know them pretty well.

I'm sure plenty of people on this forum would consider others friends, even if they've never met in person.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

My wife and I both play World of Warcraft, and we both play tabletop games.

Nearly all of the people in our small guild, which is entirely composed of people who know each other in real life (though not everyone knows everyone else - you know what I mean!), are tabletop gamers or have been in the past. In fact, three of the players, including the guild leader, have run tabletop games in which I've played, and I've run a game where all four of my players were in the guild.

World of Warcraft doesn't seem to interfere with our ability to play D&D or Vampire or any other tabletop game.

 

[Wootz]

Don't play WoW. Don't want to. There's something about sitting at a computer for hours at a time playing some game that makes me feel....useless.

 

[Teemu]

I play WoW and I also roleplay in it. It can be better than tabletop because of the anonymity factor and the freedom to choose from a large pool of potential good roleplayers. It can also be worse because of players who are either bad roleplayers or don't roleplay at all.

 

[SkidAce]

I play WoW and I also roleplay in it. It can be better than tabletop because of the anonymity factor and the freedom to choose from a large pool of potential good roleplayers. It can also be worse because of players who are either bad roleplayers or don't roleplay at all.

Well said...

 

[Ktulu]

I've never played any MMO (well, that's not true, I did try out guild wars for a few days). People in my group play them from time to time, but I just never had time to try them out between work, wife & child, and my weekly game.

 

[JDJblatherings]

I don't play WoW. I don't let my son play WoW. We play enough computer/console games as it is, there are plenty of other things to do for fun...like play real RPGs.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Not having a D&D game makes me want to play WoW.
Playing WoW does not make me not want to play D&D.

AR

 

[Crazy Jerome]

As far as I'm concerned, video games (online, multi-player, or just me at my PC) are a (superior) substitute to the dreck on television. ("Monk" is the exception that proves the rule.) So such games compete for my leisure time in front of the tube and with other such games, not my tabletop time, which is completely separate. I got over my mildly addictive MMORPG phase with the original Asheron's Call, but even at the height of my interest, it didn't interfere with my tabletop).

I played WoW casually for 18 months or so, right before the first expansion arrived. I had fun, but it was rare to play more than 10-15 hours a week, and only close to that if I could get a good weekend run through one of my favorite places with people I liked. I seriously doubt there will ever be an online MMORPG that really caters to my tastes sufficiently to garner more dedication. Apparently, my tastes are an odd combination now, that lacks popular support.