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you now sht parkc

Amazing, amazing... hahaha

You play the game for so long that it grows on you; it becomes a huge part of your life, much like getting married.

This happened to me before, but in a different game... and man, I still can't say WHY I stuck to that. I'm just too ashamed.

Hey, I've never really played WoW, but this article still makes sense. It also makes me not want to play WoW... heheh

I wish some MMOs are different out there, unlike the ones being released now.

P.S: Why don't I want to play WoW? I don't want to pay month after month for a game...

I played WOW at launch and quit after Burning Crusade.  I got tired of my favorite character class being nerfed and the fact that you can't use your flying mounts every where.  These couple of things bothered me but not enough to quit.  I quit when I got bored.  That's the main reason for leaving for most ex-WOW players.  This article doesn't represent me or any of my friends that have moved on from WOW.

In my opinion, F2P games are nice because you have no financial commitment to it unless you want to.  If a F2P game sucks, you move on and you've only wasted your time.

eh WoW wasnt for me  now my bf and his freinds loved it ... good for them lol

MapleStory tops WoW with 92mil players global!!!!

y dont people just shet up about it.

its just a game

The reason some of us skip around games so much is not so much that a game may have flaws that ruin the fun for us, but rather that we are in a state in our own REAL lives that we want to change somehow. If you are not happy with yourself, you will never be happy with anything around you... I'm sorry, but that is a fact. Be it your health, your financial situation, or relationships, it is probably important to fix some of those before trying to escape into a game. 

I have, and still do check out any and every MMORPG that comes out, but at the same time I have a game that I come back to from time to time. In fact, sometimes it is just the genre of the game that might bore us... especially when it is re-used over and over and over for years. For me personally, what gets my boat floating are futuristic sci-fi games. I loved Cabal to a point, but it was kind of quirky for me (felt a little mindless after a point... yes, even after level 120... and I got tired of bleeding from the ears trying to pull-off a 999999x10^999-hit combo). My current "poison" is RF Oline. Yes, that game gets called a pile of crap by almost every fanboy of every other game out there (even got horrible and biased reviews from almost every source imagineable), but that does not stop me from enjoying the game. I played retail back in the day, although I have a problem with the current retail servers... so I play on private servers. So, even though I have started over and played on over 7 different servers for the past 5 years, I still PLAY the game. If you liked WoW so much, either start a new character on retail, or go to a different server altogether. The problem is that people place so much value into their uber-1337 level 9999 with Epic gears, that they lose sight of why a game was fun to them in the first place...PLAYING THE GAME, instead of grinding for hours on the same mob just to gain EXP at the fastest possibl

You ever noticed why the cities on the F2p games look plain and simple, and they try to fill the hole with great architectures and buildings,if the player is not inmmersed in the game, then the game design team failed on it, you dont recognize it,but it's there the terrain on Wow its bumpy, crutchy and well designed, character design FTW,game design, game programming evreything is a whole, and there are no flaws, the music,the community,game service and most importantly SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Nice article, UHHH REGARDING TO THE GUY THAT SAID "I NEVER PLAYED WoW BECAUSE IT LOOKED HORRIBLE" let me tell you something mister, YOU really wanna know why WoW successfull? is not because of the grafics(and there's an explanation for them),is not because of the hype, there's something that game designers call, VIDEO GAME COMPOSITION! and thats an essential term for blizzard since 1991, and that's why the three universes(the diablo,warcraft,Starcraft) are Unique, because evreything has a meaning, in Wow evreything is unique, from towns and all the way to the little details, like the design of the central Three of Theldrasil, I played WoW on the stress beta, but never played it on retail, what Koreans should take in count it's just not grind fest, but what else can you do creativly with it.

 True. -.- 

Im an ex-WoW player of 3 hardcore years, i dont spew bile when people ask me about the game, i must be one of the odd ones.

I never played WoW before because when i first saw the trailer it already look horrible.

I thought that it would just waste my whole time playing a non sense game and I still cant believe you have to pay for it.

hmm okay. actaully.. good article.. very good  indeed *high fives*

I didnt played wow but seriously if its was not of the commentary of the troll I WOULD have played it seriously but the wow fanboy started to troll over every new game being released you said we play korean grindfest what is wow than its also a grind fest game like project powder are not grindfest ( snowboarding ) but every MMORPG out there is Grindfest like it or not the thing that keep us on those MMO we love and like F2P or not its the storyline and gameplay

saying asian MMO are grindfest or korean MMO are grindfest is playing the racist card saying american are better ultimaonline everquest and wow are also grindfest

iif you wnat an advice go play wow and don,t go trolling for other MMO

   To me it sounds lyk all the guy is doing is complaning. There was really no point in this article.

woah what crappy article, guy is crappy and crappy opinion toward other MMo games. Didn't even read it all, stoped when he started too much BSing

then you sucks no offense. Just to try like 4 other games maaan you did really hard work ! There are plenty games that kick ass of that wow crap. WoW is nothing special i did  play and its boring as hell. 4 quests to do over and over and oveeeeeeeeeeer (kill mobs, find something, use something, catch something). Try blade and soul or just google it, look on youtube or watever its grpahic just kick ass and makes wow looks like old crap if you compare, the animations are really good, classes are fine and each kave unique weapons, skills will be awesome, i just hope there will be good quests cause i just cant stand another grind type mmo. You didnt even bother to look for asian mmos (yea the ones that aren't in english and probally wont be for long time).

P.S. i never did like WoW and i did play it only to see if i was mistaken about it and guess what i wasn't. Cause when i try to find good mmo i look for the ones with good pvp but mainly with PLOT and QUESTS THAT DO NOT REPEAT,economy is vital too who dont want from time to time go fishing in game, bake bread and sell it in city, graphic is in my searches almost on last place

man....this means u did not tryed silkroad online or cabal online.they have the best pvp,pve and extremely good looking skills...i mean fluid,humna skills not like wow or other with robotic ones.

all this article is a pile of c***...

wanna know an ex-hardcore-wow player's opinion about the game and why i found smth else that for me is much better

yes...i did play wow for nearly 3 years(even more) and I enjoyed it and loved it....and been with warcraft since warcraft2...if by gathering materials, crafting, levelong skills and your chars u mean grind...then yes i did all this and at the moment loved and enjoyed doing it...and i still like the game...and check dev's page every now and than...talk with others about it...i just quit playing bcuz i 'grew' out of it...and ever since than i sticked to Lineage 2...and didn't play LOTRO or AoC or WAR....and never looked for a so called 'wow' killer...i did play RoM and most said it's a wow rip-off but i didn't care an never looked at it as such...and played the Aion CN OB and waiting for it's release in EU...and still not looking for a wow killer in it...

if wow should die(for me) it will die on it's own and it slowly does...i don't need a 'wow' killer game to do that for me...i'm not waiting for that fabulous, dream-like next gen mmo to do it

_  _lll srry about my earlier comment, my sister was be too playful

Personaly I can tell you why WoW wasn't a game for me and thats becasue how the classes are. This game is only good for people who can either go in with friends they already know or whatnot becasue there is no real good solo play. Before you get you underware in a bunch over that statment think of this, most of the classes in WoW if not all of them don't even in the lower levels of the game have good capabilities to even be good at being party supportive either, not to mention from levels in games like from maybe 1 to 10 maybe all the classes shoudl have good optionns of letting thier player get used to the game without having to hope for a party, and this exsample Priest is one of them this in the begining is the worst class ever and when I tryed to play it I never got a party and when I did it turned out to be some greedy ass ninja looter. Honestly Runes of Magic might be a WoW clone but I think it is personaly the better game casue it makes more sense than WoW in my opion.

I've played EVERY F2P game that is out right now (seriously every, no joke) on a quest to find a substantial MMO to quench my MMO thirst when i stopped playing WoW. Why did I stop WoW? Because I had to stop paying for it. After trying all the F2P MMOs, I decided to play some P2P MMOs like Guild Wars, and Warhammer. Guild Wars was O.K., but i stopped playing in less than a month; Warhammer was fun but I something was missing, so I stopped playing it. After about a month of not playing MMOs, guess what i decided to do? play WoW again. WoW is fun, yeah that's right, fun. People dislike the game because they hear all the haters on it, so they dislike it. Yes, people are influenced like that, even when they do not realize it. Now some of you will say, "I tried the trial, didn't like it." or something close to that; then good for you, at least you gave it a try-- 1 game isn't for everyone, just like Halo 3; loved by millions, disliked by millions. Haters hate it because it's a good game and they don't want to it to be good,  like this blog poster, or they really do not like it (only people that have tried it with an open mind have the right to not like it, everyone else can fuck themselves, sorry.)

BTW, WoW doesn't have bad graphics when you have it maxed out, most computers can't even max out the graphics without their computer lagging. I'm not saying it has awesome graphics like let's say AoC or Aion, but they're still good.

I'm just getting sick of all these stupid blogs/posts hating against WoW when it's the most played MMO out there. GTF over WoW, ignore it. People only post "WoW Clone" because it pisses all you guys off, I would know, i played all the F2Ps and looked at all the posts on like the previews of the games and what not.

Send me a message if you want to insult me or something, cuz i'm not coming back to this blog.

i used to play WoW. got along with it pretty well too. there was so much to do (and ive got 2 lvl 60+ characters before anyone says anything).

like many many others, i used to be a WoW hater.. didnt see the appeal. Until i decided to give it a go one day, and i loved it.. i still do actually. Im thinking of going back to it in fact.

the main thing you need when you start WoW is friends! ...its bad otherwise.. like most MMO's

i played wow before and never did find it interesting. i guess it wasnt just my taste.

I tried WoW and never really got into it... it just wasn't really fun enough to draw me in. I'm not saying grind or graphics does, since I'm still looking for A fun game to play. So far my hopes are riding in custom private servers :/   Hopefully something new will pop up in the future once a game's files are released onto the net

i still dont understand what's so great about WoW (never played it never will)

well that's how mmorpgs are rinse and repeat.

i liked war better then wow but every1 went back to wow so i stopped play war :(

war had easily the best pvp(rvr) was so good yet to find another mmo that has better pvp then war

 The horrid bunch would be the WoW haters. They make unbased statements, fail to reason and fail to explain in detail why their Korean grindfests are better in any way. Think graphics is everything? Think twice.

10/10 good article *nod*

After quiting WoW I had to find another MMO. I tried Cabal Online, Requiem, Matrix Online,Vanguard Online Lineage 2, Age of Conan, and a few others. The only one that I did like was Cabal and I got banned for harrasment (WTF). Before I ever played WoW I had played many f2p mmos, they weren't for me. Most of them require item mall purchases to have a normal MMO experience, not all, MOST. I vowed never to play another f2p after playing SRO and Shaiya; on my hunt for a better MMO. All I really have left is EVE online and warhammer.

Great article btw. :D

This article is multiple piles of shit all put together in a boring wall of text.

This is a bit to much from my point of wiev..... im an ex WoW player to and i dont "****" about the game if they ask me how it was.... maybe im a rare person but i liked the game and still like to play a little PvP on private servers. It takes away a lot of your time to play WoW but if u play it and u enjoy it then who cares about the time if your having fun :)  this is my opinion of the ex WoW players ..... maybe some have the opinion of the upper poster bust i think a lot of them think back as a good period of there lives that they have spent whit some great online guild friends

try looking harder than at p2p games you might find what your looking for.

I LIKE THIS ARTICLE GODDAMN IT