MMOs for dummies

Azisien · 02-14-2011, 04:14 PM

The Cataclysm patch improved WoW 1-60. Sucks after that because BC slaps you with an older, decayed grind. But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things.

Oh was the thread title a trick question? All MMOs are for dummies.

bluestarultor · 02-14-2011, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Azisien

But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things.

Pretty much true. When my "brother" (very good old friend who we basically adopted for a while) ran out of money and was forced to quit WoW, he went through some pretty serious withdrawal for a media addiction and had to re-acclimate to real life (he called going out for things like shopping going on raids for like a month afterward). After that he bumped around to pretty much literally every free MMO on the market until recently to help fill the void. Now he's back on WoW, spending money he knows he has no business spending again.

It's not like he doesn't even know the dangers of addiction. The guy's not stupid and just managed to quit smoking late last year. He just got into WoW because he had friends join up. Those guys all still play, too.

WoW: more addictive than nicotine. :T

synkr0nized · 02-14-2011, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bluestarultor

he went through some pretty serious withdrawal for a media addiction and had to re-acclimate to real life (he called going out for things like shopping going on raids for like a month afterward).

lolololololololol

bluestarultor · 02-15-2011, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by synkr0nized

lolololololololol

In all fairness, while that example is humorous, he's back to planning his life around raids, still talking about how "casually" he plays it. His newest account, which is specifically the one he "didn't waste half his life on" already has 15+ days on it and he's bitching things aren't dropping anything his guild can use anymore and he has only nine purples and how his blue main-hander is holding back his purple off-hander and limiting him to a DPS of only about 12k and making him look bad when he started as their best DPS.

Mind you, he's also in Villains, which is ranked 7th on the server and is the #1 Horde (would be higher, but they lost three guys and had to take another week to plan) and oh, God, I'm starting to sound just like him now.

This is why I really don't trust myself with WoW.

02-14-2011, 04:14 PM	#1
Azisien wat Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,177	The Cataclysm patch improved WoW 1-60. Sucks after that because BC slaps you with an older, decayed grind. But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things. Oh was the thread title a trick question? All MMOs are for dummies.