I’ll admit, I’ve only played World Of Warcraft for a few days but those days coupled with the stories revolving around WoW have been more than enough to fuel this article. Many of the points that are brought up in this article can also be attributed to other MMOs, however as WoW seems to enjoy sitting in the limelight as being one of the “best” and “most subscribed” MMOs out there, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be able to take the flak.
I’ve played quite a few MMOs out there, both free and ones with a monthly subscription yet none of them have made me hate them as much as WoW has. Well maybe Vindictus has, but that’s purely because it took Nexon close to 18 months to refund me for a billing error on their part. I’ve worked my way through massive and difficult games like FFXI and fast-paced shooters like S4 yet I’ve always ended up re-installing these games and playing for a few more hours. What is it that makes me hate WoW so much and wish it had never been created or reached such fame? I’ll be telling you my top ten reasons in this article.
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“If you want to join some of the top guilds in WoW you can expect to make an application similar to a top CEO job application.”
Exactly :D I remember this… And in some guilds, if u missed older expansions, u are automatically denied :) No matter how good are u if u started playing just in the newest expansion.
Also, it means that Blizzard might never again release a single player Warcraft.
About the only thing I can agree with you on is #6. While there are some “Top” guilds out there that require a pretty extensive playing time, but rightfully so. Those guilds are sponsored and paid to play the game. There are a lot of decent guilds that are easy to get in. And every community has it’s trolls.
Frankly, while many of these are (kind of) valid, most them are not issues with WoW so much as they are issues with MMOs in general.
If I hadn’t looked around this site a bit I would have called you out on a number of inaccuracies in your article. All of your reasons are entirely debatable. Maybe part of the game is simple, but to claim the end-game dungeons and raids are simple is lazy. It’s fairly safe to say you haven’t played the game, and I’d go further to say that you don’t know what difficult is.
Difficult is writing your own article. An article titled “10 Reasons Why Guild Wars 2 is Better than World of Warcraft” (http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-reasons-why-guild-wars-2-is-better-than-world-of-warcraft.php/6) has almost the exact same reasons that you do, albeit the inverse of them. It’s also older by almost 5 months.
Now I don’t know what this site is about. I wandered here as I was searching for the WoW official site and saw this on the news section that appears with the search results on google. I don’t know if you’re paid for the articles you write or what happens. All I know is you should be ashamed for copying another person’s work. Not to mention your writing style is boring, your research is non-existent, and your opinions are worthless. Your pictures also have nothing to do with what you’re talking about. Thank you for reading.
Graphics, Monthly Fees, levelling and the community are the only points that are similar; That’s 4 points out of 10, wouldn’t exactly call that copying. Copying would also imply that all I did was copy and paste the other author’s article, which is not the case. If you actually look around on Google you’ll find that a lot of people all over the web bring up some of the points that I’ve brought up here. If CNN and BBC News report the same news story does it mean they’re copying each other? I think not.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time playing FF11 and it’s well known as being one of the most difficult MMOs out there, I didn’t play WoW for months of end at the higher levels but I did spend a few days raiding with friends and all I can say is that it’s rather simplistic, repetitive and boring. Whilst I can’t really reply to your opinion on my writing style, I can reply to your baseless attacks on my research and opinions.
I take pride in never baselessly attacking a game without researching it first and making sure I’ve got nothing wrong. All of the points I’ve brought up are completely true and can be verified with simple Google searches, it is of course my opinion that the game is terrible but isn’t everyone allowed their own opinion? You like the game? Good for you, I found it to be a horrible game that’s an insult to the gaming industry on the same level as CoD.
Dude this is the same crap that is said every year about WoW. You have said nothing new. Especially when you Google reasons to hate WoW. I was expecting ten different reasons.
Wow this author is a joke, the game is old it has been to update and over haul the graphics engine is no small task, blizzard must look at how many users it would loss by changing this requirement, btw back in the day you could play wow on a dial up. try that with terra. Please before you, Idris Aylwin, write I am a idiot and list 10 top reasons your incompetent please research it prevents alot of the issues you have like making your self look like a idiot. I understand your not a real gamer and have not played video games for a while. I will never respect another article you write because you lack any credibility or any background in the subject.
Both Tera and WoW suggest the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT under “Recommended Requirements”, now compare WoW’s graphics to Tera’s. As for running on dial-up back in the day? Back in the day I could pop into Tesco and do my weekly shopping for under £10, thing’s change and Blizzard even state that “the constant flow of data required are beyond what dialup can typically handle.”. What a game used to be able to do doesn’t compare to what it can do now. I’m sure that if Tera, or even hundreds of the other MMOs were around when we only had dial-up they would have been designed for dial-up use.
I’m fine with flaming, but at least try to point out WHY I’m wrong rather than douse me in flames and serve me up with a side of insults.
The only thing I got from this was that MMO’s are not for you.
You must be a hipster. If a lot of people like it, you must hate it, based on your other writings.
I hated Journey, CoD and Dishonored ergo I’m a hipster?
If we’re just willy nilly throwing out stupid stereotypes then he must be a hipster and you must be a friendless, WoW loving virgin who has never kissed a girl is most likely in yout mid to late twenties.
Looking at your other articles you are just a contrarian. If it’s popular it must suck.
It’s a common misconception that if someone dislikes something the vast majority like, they’re only doing it to be against the grain. Has the world changed so much that if you don’t agree with the majority then your opinion is wrong and worthless? Quite a few people out there don’t like WoW, or CoD, or Dishonored or many of the games I’ve mentioned.
In fact, if I were a “contrarian” 5 of my articles wouldn’t be up at all, since according to logic I can only hate games.
I was in a top raiding guild on Stormscale Eu, since gates. to be fair I cancelled my sub last week, and for the most part I totally agree with this article, if you want to be good at the game, don’t expect to have much of a life, you can’t just play 1 hour a day and be “pro”.
I think blizzard need to change a few things, a lot of the people who started in vanilla / tbc now have families and a lot less time to play. I don’t mind paying 8.99 a month to play a game. I spend that on Diet Coke every week and more than that on coffee. and since it doesn’t allow you time to have other hobbies, 9 quid isn’t much to scoff at, it’s a fairly moot argument unless you’re unemployed in which case you have bigger problems and need to get off WoW and get a job.
In World of Warcraft today, Blizzard has made it possible to casually play the game. You don’t have to dedicate hours on end to the game anymore to have fun, they have put models in place so everyone can enjoy it. When you’re getting into MMOs, you should already know you have to dedicate at least a decent amount of time to the game. And, it works the same way in other games, In CoD, you can’t play an hour a day and be “Pro” either.
One of the redeeming qualities of Warcraft is Ventrilo Harassment
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