I love playing World of Warcraft.
by Matthew Rossi 
Aug 26th 2007 at 2:11AM
I really, really do. And so do these people, it seems.
It's easy to forget in all the complaining about, say, flying mounts in Northrend or enduring the XP grind yet again or what have you... the endless discussions about rep grinds, or disputes about this feature of that class... that this is a game, and if you're paying for it, you're doing so to have fun. Now, I'm as likely to complain as any player about things that I don't like or find unfair, but in the end, nobody is forcing me to play and no one has to force me to: I play WoW because I enjoy throwing a Chain Heal off in time to save the run or properly timing a Shield Slam to keep from losing aggro. I enjoy running with the folks in my guild and our allied guild and reading or hearing the outrageously cocky things they say. I really dig getting two big crits in a row just as that Warlock figured he had me down and could turn his attention elsewhere. I like winning an AV match, and I don't even mind losing one as long as we gave it our all. I like flying on my mount over Shadowmoon Valley, looking for mats for potions.
I've leveled four 70's. I've played along side my wife, one of the best hunters I've ever seen. I proposed when we were raiding Molten Core. World of Warcraft is a game, and like all games, it only has so long before I'll stop playing it, but that time isn't here yet. I love playing World of Warcraft.
What do you love about it? Why are you still playing, if you are, and if you're not, why do you keep reading about it? What was the most fun you've had in WoW?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Social Conventions, Virtual selves
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
xdiesp Aug 26th 2007 2:59AM
Life-long grinding is for robots, reviewers and chinese farmers.
SwampFox Aug 26th 2007 3:00AM
Me too. Period.
Raspberry Aug 26th 2007 3:05AM
The game does not grow old fast. Its biggest annoyance is also its biggest trait. I love playing with other people, even though PUGs sometimes drive me to the brink of madness. Yet a few hours later I join up with a group of total strangers and our short pact turns out to be pure gold. Those are the moments that make me come back for more.
Work has enough stressful or busy days. Playing WoW (or any other game, I play a lot of games) allows me to kick back for a few hours and have a good time, very much like hanging out in the pub (which is my other vice, always hard to decide which one of the two I should be doing).
Apart from Guitar Hero there's perhaps no other game that keeps me coming back for more like WoW does. I'm happily paying for it.
I often wonder if the complainers have any fun at all. Taking a game too seriously does take a lot of fun out of it. People shouldn't complain about games at all, but quit playing them when stuff is going down that is not to their liking.
zedwards Aug 26th 2007 8:54AM
There are moments when in a new instance and everyone is working their tail off some big boss ahead and everything just works and I yell "god i love this game" and someone usually replies "we all do! :D"
Keylogger Aug 26th 2007 4:55AM
People think I'm crazy when I tell them I could care less about getting to 70. I have a 37 main and about 16 alts above 30. I love trying every class/race, and each feels like a new game to me.
Grendalsh Aug 26th 2007 5:39AM
Been playing for almost 3 years come December, highest char is 50, deleted more lowbies than I currently have, and I'm still loving the game. Maybe I'll make 70 some day. Who cares. I wanna see the content and take my time enjoying it. Northrend will still be there in 2 years..
Ghen Aug 26th 2007 6:37AM
I like the lore and my friends. Without my friends the game would have been old a long long time ago. Without the advancing plot I would have gotten too bored to play.
RogueJedi86 Aug 26th 2007 7:48AM
I love the lore! Even on some mundane quest(say any of the 2 or 3 Outland quests to pick up dog turds), there's a rich storyline behind it, and why I'm doing it. Seeing famed figures of Lore and staring in awe, like when I went to Southshore in Old Hillsbrad and saw figures like Kel'thuzad, Captain Sanders, and Highlord Mograine(that scene with the Ashbringer is just amazing). It's like those great movies and books(Lord of the Rings as an example), except you're living them, and seeing them firsthand. I love it!
Ceej Aug 26th 2007 8:00AM
Glad to see this, really. Because while I agree, I am also the first to complain about a class nerf or rep grinding, I still love logging into game and doing...whatever. My wife and I love to play together, our friends are guildmates are awesome, and I really don't care what I'm doing in game because they make it what it is. After 2.5 years I have countless characters spanning 4 servers of all classes and levels, both Alliance and Horde.
I guess I just tire of the b*tching and complaining I seem to see all the time. Even from me. It's a good game, and I enjoy it. If I am pulling an all night rep grind and the monotony is getting to me, I just log on TS and have a laugh with my guildmates. Makes the time fly.
Seriously, if people are not enjoying it, and find themselves complaining more often than not, perhaps unplugging and finding something that they enjoy might be the best thing for them.
lordfrikk Aug 26th 2007 9:01AM
@8
Yeah, the Old Hillsbrad was simply amazing - seeing all the famous characters from Lore as they were in past... unforgettable Ashbringer scene;)
But I love the game because it has very distinctive feel to it, it's not like many other games around.
Morrigän Aug 26th 2007 9:12AM
I also love this game. I just can't enjoy it...
I rush to 70 like most of people, because I don't have people around to do lowbie stuff with me. My free times are too funky, my friends ended up getting TOO ahead of me and I ended up leveling and playing alone. So at 70 at least I can get into PuGs, since almost no one is interested on pre-BC stuff anymore: neither instances nor areas.
And I recall some (if not most) of my memorable moments are about silly things, like fishing at Auberdine's bay watching the sunset, running around with my druid friend when she got the cat form or discovering Ashenvale on a PvP server, running as far as we could go.
Fletch Aug 26th 2007 9:20AM
If reading the official forums ever gets you down about the WoW community, just go read the Starcraft 2 forums for a minute. The WoW forums look like Shangri-la in comparison.
nirikun Aug 26th 2007 10:33AM
About time somebody said it. :P
I love playing WoW. Glad to see there are people who aren't afraid to declare it. This thread made my day. :)
xcb Aug 26th 2007 11:07AM
WoW is great fun, but my only problem is this:
Too many ex-CounterStrike players and not enough ex-GURPS players.
Milktub Aug 26th 2007 11:43AM
I don't get the complainers.
I like the game. That's the key word there, "game." I like the process of building a character. Right now I have three mid-level characters that I play while watching for an opportunity to PuG something in Outland with my main.
Funny thing is, PuGs are what I like the most about WoW. In a guild run, you know who you're dealing with. Oh, and you've got politics too -- gotta be careful not to badger the hunter who refuses to turn off growl, since he might be the GL's good buddy! But PuGs are pure fun. From the warlock who insists his staff dps is better than his wand dps, to the druid who is really taking to the variety of his class and switches from cat to bear to caster every fight.
dotorion Aug 26th 2007 12:00PM
Yay for positivism !
I like playing WoW or I wouldn't be reading this.
I can complain about it sometimes, just like in real life.
ubu1968 Aug 26th 2007 12:34PM
I'm so happy that someone finally is saying positive things. We get far to often bogged down in the "negatives" of this game to realize we much love it soooo much to be bitching about it that bad!
For me, this game came at a good time. I resisted it for sometime because I know when I start something like this it would consume me. But I desperately needed something because for the last 3 years my mother and I had become the primary caregivers for my father, who was dying of Pulminary Disease. I needed something to take my mind off of that, and this game was my escape.
I love exploring. I remember the awe I felt the first time I made it to the Airfield by Ironforge, or the idiocy of swimming from the Sunken Temple to the Wetlands (ya know their's a Dwarven farm on the Eastern Coast of the Arathi Highlands?).
There is so much to do in this game other than just leveling to 70. So much to see and do. There are no other MMO's this rich and inviting, believe me, I tried them all!
kunukia Aug 26th 2007 12:49PM
I LOVE this game. I am in a marvelous guild with many family in it, and some RL friends and in game folks that are also now friends. I am older, so not as computer savvy or quick, but folks have been patient with me and my hunter got the bow from the first Boss in Kara this weekend!
Yet, at the same time I mostly solo, and I have many alts across several servers, have deleted more chars than I now have. I love playing several lowbies together in the same faction, supporting each other with professions. They will never make 70 or 80, but who cares?
prudychick Aug 26th 2007 2:59PM
I love this game too. I started playing because my hubby was describing it one night to me at dinner and it basically boiled down to it can never end. There is always something more to do. It has become a vice of sorts. I have a bad day at work and all I want to do is come home and kill things. As someone else stated I've gotten into the lore as well. I'll alt-tab out when I'm flying to read up history on things in WoWWiki.
haust Aug 26th 2007 2:07PM
I like to play WoW just because I've played WC 1, 2 and 3 and enjoyed them. I'm not interested in MMO games, only the name Warcraft made buy and play the game. I don't regret it :)
I like the Warcraft lore too and from the lore point of wiew returning to Azeroth and Northrend is a very good thing.
Outland is cool and seeing the orc motherland is great but going to Northrend is really really great.
And I WANT my undead Death Knight !!