• Mists of Pandaria sells 2.7 million copies, ten million subscribers
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[QUOTE=lemonskunk;37912322]I'll stick to Guildwars 2 thank you! Rather not waste my time grinding the same creatures over and over again. Why people find that fun is beyond me...[/QUOTE] lol the entire final half of the game is killing risen for a very shitty story where you aren't even the main character anymore also grinding for cosmetics
[QUOTE=lemonskunk;37912322]I'll stick to Guildwars 2 thank you! Rather not waste my time grinding the same creatures over and over again. Why people find that fun is beyond me...[/QUOTE] But GW2 makes you grind the same creatures over and over again. If I had a nickel for every time I killed a skale I'd be able to buy you WoW. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Protocol7;37912352]lol the entire final half of the game is killing risen for a very shitty story where you aren't even the main character anymore also grinding for cosmetics[/QUOTE] I didn't want to comment because I didn't even make it that far but yeah from what I hear the endgame right now is killing risen.
[QUOTE=lemonskunk;37912322]I'll stick to Guildwars 2 thank you! Rather not waste my time grinding the same creatures over and over again. Why people find that fun is beyond me...[/QUOTE] Lol, complaining about grinding and glorifying GW2. Don't get me wrong, GW2 was a lot of fun, but once you had felt the experience it was nothing but grinding left.
I would rather grind and see that I'm making decent progress than grind and make very little. GW2 has grinding for items as an option not a requirement.
[QUOTE=jiggu;37912385]Lol, complaining about grinding and glorifying GW2. Don't get me wrong, GW2 was a lot of fun, but once you had felt the experience it was nothing but grinding left.[/QUOTE] i have absolutely no problem with the gameplay, GW2 is solid in that department, but to say it isn't grindy i agree is simply silly [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=lemonskunk;37912392]I would rather grind and see that I'm making decent progress than grind and make very little. GW2 has grinding for items as an option not a requirement.[/QUOTE] grinding in GW2 is as much an option as it is in WoW the second you want to stop, your endgame is over
[QUOTE=lemonskunk;37912392]I would rather grind and see that I'm making decent progress than grind and make very little. GW2 has grinding for items as an option not a requirement.[/QUOTE] Uh, you make progress in both games by grinding. And I find it to be pretty equal the amount you can do at max level in both games.
GW2 and WoW are two very different games. I would totally play WoW again if I didn't want to invest the time I spend in that game doing something else. I had my fun times in WoW and they are done now. I casually play Guild Wars 2 about 1-2 hours a day to get 100% map completion. I used to overplay games till they got stale but I don't do that anymore. For a casual gamer, WoW is a rip off if you are only playing an hour or so a day. If you want to put the time into and make something out of it it is one of the best entertainment values ever. A part of me misses the game and a part of me doesn't. With the expansion coming out, I have had memory relapses of the game and how much fun I had but I figured it wasn't worth it. I have dedicated 80% of my time to working/school/studying a foreign language and I don't think WoW deserves any amount of percent of that despite it being a great entertainment resource. From an outside point of view, it seems like MoP has a lot of steam now, like Cataclysm did, but it will die out within 6 months and suffer the same fate Cataclysm did. The never ending resubscribing cycle will continue until WoW is discontinued.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;37912183]Actually I think Storm Legion will kill it. Or The Elder Scrolls Online.[/QUOTE] Who cares. Why does some other game have to kill WoW. Let people play what they like. I play Guild Wars 2 and I fucking love it. My cousin love's World of Warcraft and he plays that. What is the damn problem? Why does one have to kill the other? People can play different games you know. [QUOTE=Raidyr;37912367]But GW2 makes you grind the same creatures over and over again. If I had a nickel for every time I killed a skale I'd be able to buy you WoW. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] I didn't want to comment because I didn't even make it that far but yeah from what I hear the endgame right now is killing risen.[/QUOTE] I actually haven't had that issue, but then again, I don't care about reaching level 80. I play all the zones I come across. And am I the only one who finds it amusing, and I see this all the time, people buying a game and going "BEST GAME EVER" then they won't do anything but play the game for two weeks straight and then call it crap. It baffles me, the game is still good, regardless of what it is if you enjoyed it from the start. You just play too much.
If I had the time to dedicate to WoW like I used to, I would consider resubscribing. But with college and work and everything else, that's not happening for me.
I restarted my sub. just the other day to play again. Made a human Monk, I'm enjoying it. Whacky as fuck
I wish I could still afford the time to play WoW.
To be fair, people love pandas. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] And I've still never played world of warcraft
weren't pandas more about alcohol and pyrotechnics in warcraft 3? I don't remember this much martial arts emphasis. And the fact they had pandas before the Kung Fu Panda movies doesn't mean they couldnt have ripped it off anyway. Just sayin'.
I play this with my 8 highschool buddies who are all over the UK at universities using WoW as a way to keep in almost constant contact. I personally think that it's worth every penny.
I found GW2 10x more fun than any other MMO I have spent more that £200 on including WoW in the past. I really hope in the future subscription fees either lower or are removed completely. Congratulations to blizzard for the big numbers, though.
Subscription fees are simply a relic of dial up days where it was quite literally really expensive to run servers that can handle a large number of players (hence the subscription - you pay for their servers and the huge bandwidth it took to run an MMO at the time). Now that we live in the age of broadband, the subscription fee you pay for in an MMO is almost 90% pure profit. They are totally unnesicary since bandwitdth is so cheap that you can easily support a large number of players on one server in an MMO enviornment. But the reason why WoW still has it, is because people still play it, and people don't care about spending a monthly fee to play the only game they play. Most people who play WoW these days are the massive army of hardcore addicts and fans of the universe who pretty much will buy anything made by Blizzard, and pretty much only play WoW as their main game of choice while totaly ignoring the rest of the game industry - its why they can get away with charging $15/mo, and why other MMO's that try and copy WoW always have and always will fail. Because they haven't really seen enough profit loss to warrent not having it. Once WoW's subscription base truely drops to low levels, is when we'll see it go. And that probably wont happen until WoW is flat-out so outdated and so overdone that people just don't care anymore. And you bet Blizzard would never let that happen, we'll probably see "WoW 2.0" before that.
The way people say "Well yeah, it's not fun until the max level" pretty much sums up what I think of WoW If you have to force yourself through the actual adventuring aspect because it's so boring, then it's pretty much a failure in my eyes. But I'm more about the journey than the destination so I preferred the original GW. It felt like I was actually playing through an adventure rather than working a job to get to the fun part.
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;37914442]The way people say "Well yeah, it's not fun until the max level" pretty much sums up what I think of WoW If you have to force yourself through the actual adventuring aspect because it's so boring, then it's pretty much a failure in my eyes. But I'm more about the journey than the destination so I preferred the original GW. It felt like I was actually playing through an adventure rather than working a job to get to the fun part.[/QUOTE] I have more fun leveling in the updated zones than most MMO's including GW2. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] The 1-50 Undead loop in northern Eastern Kingdoms is I think something Arenanet tried selling because that's actual fun questing with cool events and good storytelling, unlike GW2 where it's typical MMO style "Help farmer joe kill skales" to fill up a bar.
Why would I buy this? I can watch Kung Fu Panda, pretend I'm Po and practically get the same experience.
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37915011]Why would I buy this? I can watch Kung Fu Panda, pretend I'm Po and practically get the same experience.[/QUOTE] For the same reason you watch porn.
Game is still heavily subscribed too but it is definitely showing its age.
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37915011]Why would I buy this? I can watch Kung Fu Panda, pretend I'm Po and practically get the same experience.[/QUOTE] In WoW you get to wear a cape too [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/921242003882927303/781B435D5A458926E0D5124A8832CE7E307C87A5/[/t] Also $15 is an hour of work or so a month
[QUOTE=metalhand;37911284]The difference is, in warcraft 3, VERY FEW, specific characters were Panda's. In World Of Warcraft, you will now see 1/5 of the players being panda's.[/QUOTE] Maybe if the other character models weren't so shit and ugly looking people would play less of them. They've also got really good racials.
I played WoW for two years, until one day, when I realized that I was actually doing the same thing over and over again, but with different graphics. Wrath of the Lich King was awesome though, since it had a big epic storyline implemented into the usual "kill x mob/retrieve x items" gameplay. Where I simply logged out and quit, was when they started implementing daily quests in WOTLC.
[QUOTE=Steff;37916129]I played WoW for two years, until one day, when I realized that I was actually doing the same thing over and over again, but with different graphics. Wrath of the Lich King was awesome though, since it had a big epic storyline implemented into the usual "kill x mob/retrieve x items" gameplay. Where I simply logged out and quit, was when they started implementing daily quests in WOTLC.[/QUOTE] Wrath of the Lich Cing?
Dammit I just want to to die already. Blizzard and mmos in general wont move forward until then.
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37915011]Why would I buy this? I can watch Kung Fu Panda, pretend I'm Po and practically get the same experience.[/QUOTE] LOL!! WoW is a Rip off of Kung Fu Panda!!!11 XDDD I thot i was wachin the kung fu panda 3 trailer1!! XDD
[QUOTE=Timarley;37917698]LOL!! WoW is a Rip off of Kung Fu Panda!!!11 XDDD I thot i was wachin the kung fu panda 3 trailer1!! XDD[/QUOTE] I left /v/ to get away from this shit.
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;37917651]Dammit I just want to to die already. Blizzard and mmos in general wont move forward until then.[/QUOTE] Have fun with Blizzard's next planned MMO, Titan.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;37917861]Have fun with Blizzard's next planned MMO, Titan.[/QUOTE] Titan will have gnomes in space. Calling it.
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