Neosage's rant on WoW and life (don't pay any attention I just have to get this out of my system)

[Neosage]

[sup].....ahaha great. So after half of my rant gets deleted because I made the idiotic error of pressing backspace after switching from an instant messaging conversation ,conicidently backspace being the shortcut for going back a page (please for the love of something PM me if you know how to change that!)

Anyway to the rant. So I get a trial account of the highly esteemed world of warcraft (a game that my friends have been pestering my to play since the dawn of time) and think to myself "Hey 11 million people can't be wrong, right?" So I make my very first mistake, creating a Tauren (A race which I must hasten to add that is so ugly it makes Prince charles attractive.)

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Anyway you are probably asking, Why neosage? Why would you choose a race which makes the heir to the throne of England visually appealing? The answer of course is guns what else could possibly make the half cow half....well that is precisly it, Tauren are pretty much cows that can stand upright. So I make this Tauren hunter and after a few monotonous hours of grinding and fetch quests and looking at the large backside of the ugliest thing ever, I decide that maybe, maybe guns aren't that great after all and looking at something slightly more humanistic and cooler is probably a better idea.

My second mistake, I make an Orc hunter, I thought I would play it safe and pick a hunter again because I knew what to expect from the first few levels plus I had given them a go yonks ago on a private server. So this time grinding was more fun as I had a slightly more attractive character who, still not possessing the looks of say Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom had a slight rugged charm to him

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plus the reggae music I was listening to at the time makes everything easier.

So I had made a character that I was indeed quite proud of but by then my friend had found this "recruit a friend" thing which would mean that if we both started again we would get a triple XP bonus for a while, and being as in World of Warcraft it takes so long anyway, I though "what a great idea" and decided to buy the game and it's first expansion off amazon (my third mistake).

So I make my fourth mistake Draenei paladin (you are probably thinking what a great eye this eye this guy has for attractive races for those who don't know this

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is a Draenei) death to the heretics and non believers (and other warhammer 40k inquisitorial propaganda going through my mind) I would be the knight in shining armour. Sadly to say this was not the case so me and my friend (the one who subtly put the triple xp idea into my mind) who decided to make a warrior (possibly not the best combination but I did not yet know the ways in WoW worked properly yet) these both being tanking classes I got the image of a lot of damage being done (you know being an overzelous hammer wielding maniac and having a warrior for a partner) This was all well and good until about level 20.

So, you probably aren't thinking what could have possibly happened at level 20? Well, let me explain. I was having doubts about if picking a paladin was the right choice seeing as they didn't specialize in anything in particular and if they did they wouldn't be as good as other players that specialized in that area. So I decided to make a mage. He did not last long as I had not the benefit of triple experience as my friend was around level 25 by then and refused to help me so after killing thousands of these odd looking men with red pants on their heads named 'Defias Bandits' I got to level 6 and at some point after reaching level 6 I died and dieing is a little worse in WoW than it is in say...halo or call of duty you have to trek for ages in ghost form to find your corpse if you are unlucky. So after being thoroughly depressed with my recent loss of life I proceeded to wander aimlessly to the town of 'goldville' or something like that it was at this point that I saw "teh most awesum guy eva" who was infact a paladin.

As you probably guessed I logged out immidietly and tried my luck with the paladin again, so I kill some fish thing for a quest then trek all the way back through marshland to get my reward when the guy has the nerve to ask me weather I can go find his statuette. Minutes later I was back in the marshland searching for the bastard's statue. I wasn't having much fun really.

Anyway after the ungrateful pillock thought that that was only worth a pair of useless leather shoes (yes, he was offering this to a full mail clad warrior of light) needless to say I wished I had gears of war's renowned lancer assault rifle's bayonet attachement combined with fable's rather fun feature of letting you kill random people who are mildly irritating. So I thought I would do my paladin quest as I was so bored (fifth mistake).

So after flying to 'Westfall' and spending ages running around in circle to find some twat's wife to rescue. I get into an arguement with my entire guild it started off with some guy reaching level 60 everyone saying gz (this is wowspeak for gratz with is mmorpg speak for congratulations) I, trying to break the monotony offer a congratulatory (final mistake)"G mutha"$#!ing Z" this causes every single member of the guild to chastise me for "swearing" and yes. It was filtered.

It was at this point I decided perhaps WoW isn't my type of game. I am probably being unfair but I didn't think it to be worth forking out ten quid a month on the sort of game I wasn't really enjoying.[/sup]

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Congratulations, you have learned that World of Warcraft sucks worse than a vacuum with super powers! Spread the word, so that we may save some other poor soul from stumbling into that black hole of a game.

 

[smithy1234]

Congratulations, you have learned that World of Warcraft sucks worse than a vacuum with super powers! Spread the word, so that we may save some other poor soul from stumbling into that black hole of a game.

Seconded!

 

[Gxas]

Your first, and in my opinion, only problem was that you played the game at your friends request and not fully out of your own will. I respect your opinion and I don't hate you for it at all. as to Bored Tomatoe, WoW isn't a "soul sucking game" like you and others think it is. All of my friends thought that they'd never see me again after I started playing but I actually have more free time than they all do and have a 73 hunter who is well on the way to 80. So don't say that this game ruins everyone's life if they even create a character. You're way wrong and terribly biased.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Your first, and in my opinion, only problem was that you played the game at your friends request and not fully out of your own will. I respect your opinion and I don't hate you for it at all. as to Bored Tomatoe, WoW isn't a "soul sucking game" like you and others think it is. All of my friends thought that they'd never see me again after I started playing but I actually have more free time than they all do and have a 73 hunter who is well on the way to 80. So don't say that this game ruins everyone's life if they even create a character. You're way wrong and terribly biased.

To me it was a very soul sucking game...I played it and had a very bad experience with that game, My brother is still very addicted to it as well...
I am not saying that the game will "Ruin peoples' lives" as you say, I was just pointing out that the game gets more credit than it should and is really a sub-par online game.
EDIT: Ok, I read over my previous post, and I guess it came off a little nasty, so I apologize if it offended you, but we are both entitled to our opinions.

 

[Archereus]

Your first, and in my opinion, only problem was that you played the game at your friends request and not fully out of your own will. I respect your opinion and I don't hate you for it at all. as to Bored Tomatoe, WoW isn't a "soul sucking game" like you and others think it is. All of my friends thought that they'd never see me again after I started playing but I actually have more free time than they all do and have a 73 hunter who is well on the way to 80. So don't say that this game ruins everyone's life if they even create a character. You're way wrong and terribly biased.

i am on the same page as this guy right here, most of the time the people who hate the game are people who havent had the chance to fuly explore the game and only base themselves off the minority of wow players, yes it sucked the soul of a few players but the other 10 mill all have social lives and plays with their wives and girl friends and only play it for an hour or two a day where the wrong in this?

 

[Madshaw]

ok i wont pay any attention

 

[Avatar Roku]

Dude, you know that when you deleted half your rant, you could have just hit "CTRL + Z" to undo it, right?

 

[Dudemeister]

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Oh my god, he's a red.
I like him now.

 

[GothmogII]

I have to wonder, did you create all your characters blindfolded? I don't get how you could get through through that screen and click select without know what they were going to look like.

About the filter though...even if -yours- is activated it doesn't actually censor the word unless the other individual player has it activated too.

 

[Gxas]

To me it was a very soul sucking game...I played it and had a very bad experience with that game, My brother is still very addicted to it as well...
I am not saying that the game will "Ruin peoples' lives" as you say, I was just pointing out that the game gets more credit than it should and is really a sub-par online game.
EDIT: Ok, I read over my previous post, and I guess it came off a little nasty, so I apologize if it offended you, but we are both entitled to our opinions.

I agree that we are all entitled to our opinions. and yes, you did offend me but I am glad you realize this. Thank you for the concern.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

To me it was a very soul sucking game...I played it and had a very bad experience with that game, My brother is still very addicted to it as well...
I am not saying that the game will "Ruin peoples' lives" as you say, I was just pointing out that the game gets more credit than it should and is really a sub-par online game.
EDIT: Ok, I read over my previous post, and I guess it came off a little nasty, so I apologize if it offended you, but we are both entitled to our opinions.

I agree that we are all entitled to our opinions. and yes, you did offend me but I am glad you realize this. Thank you for the concern.

Thank you for forgiving me, sorry I spoke without thinking.

 

[badassteaparty]

oh no! this could be the end of the world... of warcraft.

 

[Zac_Dai]

So after flying to 'Westfall' and spending ages running around in circle to find some twat's wife to rescue. I get into an arguement with my entire guild it started off with some guy reaching level 60 everyone saying gz (this is wowspeak for gratz with is mmorpg speak for congratulations) I, trying to break the monotony offer a congratulatory (final mistake)"G mutha"$#!ing Z" this causes every single member of the guild to chastise me for "swearing" and yes. It was filtered.

This is because WoW is full of Carebears.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

So after flying to 'Westfall' and spending ages running around in circle to find some twat's wife to rescue. I get into an arguement with my entire guild it started off with some guy reaching level 60 everyone saying gz (this is wowspeak for gratz with is mmorpg speak for congratulations) I, trying to break the monotony offer a congratulatory (final mistake)"G mutha"$#!ing Z" this causes every single member of the guild to chastise me for "swearing" and yes. It was filtered.

This is because WoW is full of Carebears.

Seconded. Carebears is boring I griefed the shit out of people when they would actually go PK red. I sat on one guy for a half hour best half hour I ever had in WoW ever.

 

[DirkGently]

Wilson presented me with this little (albeit useful) add-on for Firefox called AutoSaveTextToCookie [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6419]. It's really a life saver because if you have the unfortunate event of hitting the back space or your browser crashing or even your PC locking up, it will save the text you already inputed on the reply box.

Anyway, maybe WoW isn't for you.
And your biggest mistake of them all was playing a game which you didn't wanted to play.

Funny, my Firefox saves stuff like that automatically. I don't know if it will recover it after a crash or anything but if I go back a page and then forward it will remember it. Or not. Huh.

On topic, I'd have to say, yeah, WoW's just not the game for you. Try playing it when you want to play it, and then you might have fun. And if it ever gets dull, take a break and try something else. Go play some Call of Duty or Gears of War.
[quote="GothmogII" post="9.80619.1056659"About the filter though...even if -yours- is activated it doesn't actually censor the word unless the other individual player has it activated too.[/quote]

Yes, but it's on by default which means you have to want to see swearwords to see what it says, and navigate the maze of option windows to find it. Which just further proves that point that people in WoW seem to take a few four letter words too seriously. Also, why is it that the internet seems to perceive swearing as "I AM SERIOUSLY EMOTIONALLY INVESTED IN THIS CONVERSATION!"? I swear a lot because I can, mainly and it's how I talk in informal situations, as do my friends. But whenever I'm in a typing situation, everyone seems to think I've got some kind of serious emotional investment in the game and need to be told to calm down.

 

[meatloaf231]

Your first, and in my opinion, only problem was that you played the game at your friends request and not fully out of your own will. I respect your opinion and I don't hate you for it at all. as to Bored Tomatoe, WoW isn't a "soul sucking game" like you and others think it is. All of my friends thought that they'd never see me again after I started playing but I actually have more free time than they all do and have a 73 hunter who is well on the way to 80. So don't say that this game ruins everyone's life if they even create a character. You're way wrong and terribly biased.

i am on the same page as this guy right here, most of the time the people who hate the game are people who havent had the chance to fuly explore the game and only base themselves off the minority of wow players, yes it sucked the soul of a few players but the other 10 mill all have social lives and plays with their wives and girl friends and only play it for an hour or two a day where the wrong in this?

Yeah, WoW isn't "Zomg all grindz!" like everyone seems to think. If you ever need proof of this, try, oh, I don't know, joining a group or running a dungeon. Oh man, heaven forbid you should even try the two things that make the game popular!

Face it: a grand majority of WoW critics only ever play solo and only grind, while the biggest, most important and fun parts of the game come from both being in groups with people and doing instances. Even monotonous quest grinding can be made enjoyable when you're doing it with other people.

Even so, the "grind" in WoW isn't traditional grind. It's not simply killing a single type of monster for two hours and moving on to the next one. The leveling is done by "grinding" quests, and the endgame "grind" is running the higher-level dungeons, which are very pretty and full of large bosses. Bosses are - dare I say it - fun.

If all you've gotten from WoW is grinding, my condolences, but you really haven't experienced anything the game has to offer. Most of the time, bias drives these little rants, so people go into the game expecting nothing but grind, so that's what they do. They grind intentionally, because they don't think there's anything else to do. It's like playing an FPS and just standing in the first level and shooting a wall. Sure, you're still shooting things, and technically you're playing the game, but don't say that the entire game is just shooting walls just because that's all you did.