World of Warcraft

Time to take a trip to Blizzard land and tell you why you should and should not join the insane World of Warcraft movement. For those of you who don’t know World of Warcraft (WoW) is considered the ultimate MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) game for the pc. It has hundreds of realms and more than enough players to sate anyone who wants to waste hours of their time in front of the computer. So from what you’ve heard now I am pretty sure you must be thinking WoW must be epic. Now let me word this correctly or a WoW lover might kill me and spam my email and this blog with hate comments. WoW can be a great game. You can have fun playing WoW. To explain where this fun comes from I’ll have to explain how it feels to enter WoW for the first time.
You start off as a level 1 nooblet standing right next to a guard with a yellow exclamation point on his head (if you’re human of course). If you were like me you were just dying to kill something so you ran to the first thing you saw you could kill (usually a wolf). After killing a few of these unlucky animals you will hit level 2. Now you start thinking time to get serious so you pick up a quest or two. You will quickly go through the 3 most common myriad of quests: kill blank of these creatures, collect blank of these items and kill this person. Remember those three quests because they will come back to haunt you a lot. After you’ve done several quests you will hit level 18. This is the best time to go into your first dungeon (yes, I know you might’ve 4-manned VC at level 16, but level 18 is a good level to do it at). You will go through the dungeon most likely finish most of it without any issues and enjoy the core of the game. It is fun to do dungeons with other people (most of the time) and it is when your doing things like dungeons, raids, etc. that really convince you why you are paying 50 cents a day to play this game.
Now that I have sung WoW’s praises let me explain to you why WoW can make you want to quit from a few days of playing it. After you pass level 20 and go onto levels 30, 40 and 50 you will notice that those three quests I told you about before are almost the only three quests you will be given throughout the game. And yes I know that there are escorts and chain quests, but to be honest the multitude of your time is going to be wasted on killing the same monster over and over for a drop that might not even drop that many times. I once had a quest to get eight orbs it took me 20 monsters to get the orbs. As you might believe I didn’t really feel like playing anymore after that annoying quest. But I can hear the naysayers bring up the praises I gave to the dungeon environment. Yes it was fun to do dungeons, when you are in a good group. There are several ways a group can be ruined. It can range from noob who doesn’t know what he’s doing to asshole level 70 who has way too many characters for his own good. This part of the game play is a big turn off. And yes the people on ventrillo can be assholes; I’ve dealt with them before and the way I deal with them is by just leaving the channel. Half of those guys are losers anyways.
So should you get WoW? If you have friends who play the game I definitely suggest you get it. As long as your friends are half decent people you will enjoy playing with them. But if you’re joining the game alone be wary. You might have fun at first, but then realize doing the same repetitive boring missions just isn’t worth your time. There are alternatives to WoW though, I suggest Warhammer. Though I’ve never played it based on what I have heard it has everything WoW doesn’t. So that is WoW in a nutshell, you either hate it or love it.