I remember watching the WoW trailer on my War Craft III cd and being so amped. I then tried wow the month it came out and I was just so disappointed, I expected so much....more. Ah well.
Why do people hate people who play WoW?
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Iunno, I play WoW and no one really gives me shit for it (they hate on the game). But then again I'm a generally social person who doesn't neglect others for WoW. It's something to do in my spare time.
The sad thing is that even if we say it's about addiction, why don't we have the same attitude towards alcohol or weed. Almost everyone who I talk with that bring up this topic are drinking buddies or known drinkers/pot heads. It's interesting that people will criticize WoW for being addictive, damaging, and a waste of money only to watch them go drain over a hundred a week on booze.
The sad thing is that even if we say it's about addiction, why don't we have the same attitude towards alcohol or weed. Almost everyone who I talk with that bring up this topic are drinking buddies or known drinkers/pot heads. It's interesting that people will criticize WoW for being addictive, damaging, and a waste of money only to watch them go drain over a hundred a week on booze.
i don't really mind the WoW players it's the game it self i don't understand a game with no end "oh my char is at amx level time to start a new one and do everytihng over again" or maybe i'm just a different type of gamers
I hate WoW. I hate how it indirectly ruined several of my favorite multiplayer games with its endless required grind and viral popularity. I hate how it diverted many of my friends away; trapping them in an endless loop of dailies during the week and raids on the weekend with no end in sight. I hate how every MMO now emulates it in a vain attempt to beat it.
And yes, you can think of me as petty, but screw you if you even think about preaching to me about this; I saw the results, and they speak louder than any pro-WoW argument you can bang out on your keyboard.
Simply put, I really do not like World of Warcraft. At all.
Despite all of this, I've never found a reason to hate the people playing WoW, with a few exceptionally annoying discussions about the game (endless bitching about patches and balance, in situations I couldn't walk away from).
Their community isn't even on a top 10 list of "Awful Online Gaming Communities" for me, which is saying a lot. My friends' guild is even pretty cool to hang around with.
But that isn't enough to convince me to play; not while other, better multiplayer games exist (this is where someone quotes sales figures to me to "prove" how WoW is the best online game ever. Don't bother).
I would rather have some fucking GAMEPLAY in my cooperative game than a lot of nothing.
I apologize for the hostile response, but I've really had it out with certain parties elsewhere on the internet over this subject, and I somehow doubt it represents the WoW community as a whole.
And yes, you can think of me as petty, but screw you if you even think about preaching to me about this; I saw the results, and they speak louder than any pro-WoW argument you can bang out on your keyboard.
Simply put, I really do not like World of Warcraft. At all.
Despite all of this, I've never found a reason to hate the people playing WoW, with a few exceptionally annoying discussions about the game (endless bitching about patches and balance, in situations I couldn't walk away from).
Their community isn't even on a top 10 list of "Awful Online Gaming Communities" for me, which is saying a lot. My friends' guild is even pretty cool to hang around with.
But that isn't enough to convince me to play; not while other, better multiplayer games exist (this is where someone quotes sales figures to me to "prove" how WoW is the best online game ever. Don't bother).
I would rather have some fucking GAMEPLAY in my cooperative game than a lot of nothing.
I apologize for the hostile response, but I've really had it out with certain parties elsewhere on the internet over this subject, and I somehow doubt it represents the WoW community as a whole.
I hate WoW for the same reason I hate Second Life: because my roommate is an addict. She gets online on these things and ignores everything else. Me, our cats, even her boyfriend. Nothing else exists when she's gaming, and I fucking loathe it.
It's a hard thing to do unless you like staring at the back of someone's head for hours on end. I swear I know the back of my boyfriend's head better than his face because it's pretty much all I ever see of him. And when he's leveling an alt? I probably won't hear a word from him at all for a week or more.oranger said:
He's a great person and had the WoW playing under control until he lost his job a few months ago. Now it's just WoW 24/7 and his personality has changed into something like a zombie. He used to eventually get bored with it, but with Cataclysm coming I dread the near future.
I used to have no opinion of WoW at all really and I know it isn't the game or Blizzard's fault. But this experience is personally why I'm starting to hate the game.
This is true. This whole summer I found myself trying to build my schedule around my guild's usual Wednesday and Sunday raid time, and I think the reason behind that is because all of my guild mates are really nice people and just fun to play with... and of course killing the occasional mean alliance is fun too ^__^Lineoutt said:
Because it's Blizzards attempt to create a zombie army to take over the world. That what the gaming industry is: each company's bid on making a zombie army for world domination. Of course Blizzard is the most successful so everyone wants to make it less popular so we aren't ruled by them. Though a Blizzard run world wouldn't be too bad. Things would move slower but the end result would be pretty satisfactory despite the long long wait.
I dislike the people proliferating wow due to the game making gaming into a job.
I play games for fun, and while I pay for entertainment I feel it a necessity to then get my money's worth. My moral compass of not wasting money makes wow the opposite of fun to me.
If fun is spending $15 a month on a game that they love, then good for them. I just don't like the idea.
I play games for fun, and while I pay for entertainment I feel it a necessity to then get my money's worth. My moral compass of not wasting money makes wow the opposite of fun to me.
If fun is spending $15 a month on a game that they love, then good for them. I just don't like the idea.
Probably because they play another MMO that is less popular than WoW and feel the need to compensate. Personally I could care less if you waste your bloody time grinding all the live long day, it's your time and money to toss down the drain. I really dislike WoW for taking what was, admittedly, extremely unoriginal material that Blizzard had actually gone about growing into a universe that felt like it was more than just ripped off wholeheartedly from Warhammer and D&D, and then killing it dead by setting it in a static universe populated with jackasses.
But I see no reason to hate you for playing the game, anymore than I hate people who play all the other games I think are stupid or otherwise not worth my time.
But I see no reason to hate you for playing the game, anymore than I hate people who play all the other games I think are stupid or otherwise not worth my time.
I hate them because they are, mostly, casual gamers, and I don't hate casual gamers because they don't devote the amount of time I do to video games or because the only games they play are WoW, Halo, and Grand Theft Auto. I hate them because they made my hobby "cool."
Gaming used to be a very esoteric hobby, and I loved it back in those days. Games were more challenging, unique, required pen and paper for notes, came with awesome "feelies" like maps and junk. I was the key demographic because the key demographic was geeks. Now the name of the game is to appeal to the average consumer. Overall, gaming has become more corporate and mainstream. It's almost uncool to not play video games. Almost.
Obviously, WoW didn't invent casual play. I'm just mad about what the fans WoW represent: a cultural phenomenon that has made me hate Mr. T. I could go on, but I've already expressed myself thoroughly on this subject here: http://www.gamelemon.com/article_30018.jsp
Gaming used to be a very esoteric hobby, and I loved it back in those days. Games were more challenging, unique, required pen and paper for notes, came with awesome "feelies" like maps and junk. I was the key demographic because the key demographic was geeks. Now the name of the game is to appeal to the average consumer. Overall, gaming has become more corporate and mainstream. It's almost uncool to not play video games. Almost.
Obviously, WoW didn't invent casual play. I'm just mad about what the fans WoW represent: a cultural phenomenon that has made me hate Mr. T. I could go on, but I've already expressed myself thoroughly on this subject here: http://www.gamelemon.com/article_30018.jsp
Meh. I don't really.
It's an alright game, but what it needs is constant variety. This is what brings down all MMOs, except a very specific one that involves no grind...
What I'm really saying is that from levels 1-20 (usually), any MMO is a great game, you have alot of fun, etc. This is only because things change alot at that point. Then it goes back to grind. I'm okay with grind as long as something new is implemented at regular intervals. Also, levels should take exactly as long to get to the next as the one before, etc. So the gap between levels 1 and 2 should be the same as the 89-90 gap.
See, not a single MMO except the previously mentioned one does it right, which is why I'm sticking to Morrowind and TF2.
It's an alright game, but what it needs is constant variety. This is what brings down all MMOs, except a very specific one that involves no grind...
What I'm really saying is that from levels 1-20 (usually), any MMO is a great game, you have alot of fun, etc. This is only because things change alot at that point. Then it goes back to grind. I'm okay with grind as long as something new is implemented at regular intervals. Also, levels should take exactly as long to get to the next as the one before, etc. So the gap between levels 1 and 2 should be the same as the 89-90 gap.
See, not a single MMO except the previously mentioned one does it right, which is why I'm sticking to Morrowind and TF2.
I think personally that its not just WoW but MMOs in general. The nature of them is massive grind and a lot of people who don't find that to be fun can't understand why people want to play those games for 10 hours a day. Also it is one of the first MMOs to hit mainstream success on the level that many non gamers started to play so the idea that its for casuals gets tossed around.