kingdome74
Emotionally Unavailable
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join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
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| What I Like Best...
We always hear about the negative aspects of World of Warcraft so I thought I would change it up a bit. Some of us have been playing the same game for over 4 years and longer and I'm sure to the non-players they must wonder what in the world keeps us playing AND paying for a computer game. Hence this topic. My bet is the answers will vary greatly.
What I like best about World of Wacraft is...
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liquoranne
join:2009-01-14 | Cheap entertainment that beats watching tv like a zombie...
There is only so much time i can spend at the gym a day...gotta have that relax time... |
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Grimcrusader
join:2009-10-21
Tampa, FL
| reply to kingdome74
I have always loved traditional RPG's. The one thing I hated was that they ended. You spent so much time leveling up and getting gear and then it actually ended. Final Fantasy got close to a never ending game (some of the last ones were not fully linear and you could mull around the world if you wanted), but didn't do it fully until their MMoRPG. So I love the fact that I can spend hours on a toon (or in my case multiple toons) and never have to worry about the game ending...that is until WoW fizzles out. |
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
·Comcast
| reply to kingdome74
I always liked the replayability. So many quests/characters/combinations of weapons and classes. Different factions and playstyles (PvE, RP, and PvP servers).
Just to explore all the possibilities and storylines of each class could take a long time. It's great  |
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Adalicia
join:2009-10-13 | Role Playing and most end game content (Raiding and some PvP). |
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Kulldar
join:2008-11-11
Warren, MI
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I enjoy just about every aspect of the game. In my opinion 95% of WOW's negatives are created by asshole people. I've been playing since launch and it's been a great ride.
I'll also second what liquoranne and Grimcrusader said above. It certainly beats watching tv like a zombie and I love that it never ends. |
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JesusBeamz
Lord of the Jesus Beamz
join:2009-05-14
Ontario | i like my guildies actually, to be honest, if i didnt have a mature and good guild i would have xferd off this server and went some where else by now. |
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Tehuno
join:2005-01-18
Bartlesville, OK | love the high end number crunching game, and min/maxing my toon.
love being in my guild, fun group of people i would probably hang out with IRL, if they all werent on the west/east coasts. |
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JesusBeamz
Lord of the Jesus Beamz
join:2009-05-14
Ontario | you mean if you werent in the middle of no where? :P |
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Tehuno
join:2005-01-18
Bartlesville, OK | hey we have running water and electricity. and no i dont drive a horse to work =) |
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drew
Reformation
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
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I like the people I play with best about WoW.
Traditionally when the group of people I'm playing with stops playing or something comes up IRL and I can't play any more and I come back and they've moved on, I don't really get excited. It's all about the people for me. I live on Vent.
My favorite thing about LK is that I'm finally what a lot of people consider "good" at it. I was bad in vanilla (Everyone was bad in vanilla...) very mediocre in BC (when I played) but I've really found a niche in LK.
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Zyncotl
Zed X
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join:2002-09-13
Wayne, MI | Everyone was not bad in vanilla. Only the bads were bad. |
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drew
Reformation
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
clubs: | Take the knowledge we have in LK and then look at what people knew in vanilla.
We were all bads. |
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Ghastlyone
join:2009-01-07
North Las Vegas, NV
| Yeah as far as I know, there was no Thottbots, Wow-heroes, Maxdps, etc. during Vanilla.
There was no clicking on a character and seeing what they were spec'd as, to figure out how they were doing insane damage.
A lot of Vanilla was figuring things out yourself, and going from there. |
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drew
Reformation
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
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| Thottbot and Wowhead existed, but they were item databases with ignorant comments and talent calculators.
The WoW community is much more mature (and not in the not-brain-dead-teenagers way) than it was then for obvious reasons. There were people who figured stuff out, and they were the best. You had maybe one or two per server, often not even that.
There was no one to tell me how to DPS properly on my hunter @ 60. People had some ideas, but it wasn't concrete. "Hit cap? Wth is that?"
The game is not necessarily more complex, however it was much more of a mystery to the vast majority of players.
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xenograffiti
join:2009-06-19
Dallas, TX
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I probably would have said the people back in vanilla and early BC when I was raiding, but they've all left and I'm still playing so I guess it's more than that.
I like the sense of accomplishment I get from building my character, mastering content and pwning noobs. I've tried the other mmo's but they're all lacking one or more things that wow has.
Wow is pretty much my hobby. |
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GemSnake
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join:2000-10-19
3rd layer
clubs: 
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I like having choices. I like having different factions. I like having multiple races. I like having various classes.
I don't know what I like best about it. It keeps me entertained?
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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join:2001-11-26
Earth
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to kingdome74
Everything but the assholes. The game is great. I love most everything about it. I enjoy the people I play with. The only real negative thing I have about the game are the jerks. I like everything else.
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drew
Reformation
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
clubs:
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| Jerks FTL.
Slow Jerk FTW.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWupeemOOR4 |
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Kilroy
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join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI
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| reply to kingdome74
The variety. I play 9 classes in the same zones doing the same quests, but each class plays differently. Currently I have 20 characters, 10 Alliance 80s, one of each class and 10 Horde 40s, one of each class, my Horde Death Knight is 71.
The cost. For $80 I have six months of entertainment. Not including the cost of my Internet connection which I would have even if I didn't play the game.
The ability to create your own gear. Playing 10 different characters at a time allows me to shift materials to where ever they are needed to craft gear that is helpful to the rest of my characters, saving me money since I don't have to buy it.
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