I spent most of my life (Well, when it was released) until about.. December last year hating it. Still not a great fan, just play it when there's nothing else to do. However, after reinstalling RA2 and Yuri's Revenge, I've been having a lot less time to have nothing else to do it :B

It's good for wasting countless hours, but really isn't all that rewarding in the same way as other games.

I got to like lvl 42 and quit. I still pay for the account but I don't think I've logged in in probably over 4-5 months. I even got the Xpack. It just got boring.

I used to be a complete WoW addict... like, had a whole intervention and shit (I know, I was lame middle-school kid who had no life).

Now I only play because most of my friends do, and when we've gotten bored of the same LAN games, it's fun to have WoW parties and lvl racing... but that's all the entertainment it has for me now really... or just to kill time...

yeah i used to be a heavy wow addict im just a big blizzard and RPG fan but after a while into the xpac it just got old i stoped raiding and evrything. the big wakeup call was when i went on vacation for a week and wehn i came back i logged on and found out i had been kicked out of my guild because i failed to fill out some dumb "wont be attending raid form" and then i realized how seriously people can take a game kinda crazy if you think about it

I quit because of too much drama within raiding guilds and the pvp is rigged.

I have found Hellgate london more fun and more social than any mmo I have played. About 3/4 of the players say the game sucks, yes it dies (till next patch 1.0 Stonehenge), but its more about the community and everyone isn't a complete 4chan ass hat. Yes they all make jokes, but at least when you ask an honest question you don't get spammed with like "haha HE SAID GOLD PIECES STEAD OF GOLD HAHAH" they correct you politely and then tell you. Plus, Flagship made Diablo2, and I just became a Diablo fan about a month ago when my teacher gave me a cracked version of the game.

Lessons for MMO's:

1. Don't Rely on PVP
2. Do not allow ass hats into the game
3. Make it so that the devs care about the community and players.
4. Do not try and make it a "wow killer"

My view on WOW:

Leveling is absolutely a blast in that game. Getting from 1 to 20 is not difficult, and they recently made it much easier to get from 20 to 60. From there, you go to Outland for 60 to 70 and Outland is an amazing place. The zones are a lot better because Blizzard, despite what people say, learns from their past mistakes. While leveling is fun, it eventually ends at 70 and forces you to choose one of two paths or be mediocre at both. You either become a PVP'er focusing on grinding Arena's all day (which from experience can be hours of the same teams over and over due to their matching system putting like-geared and rated players together) while hopping in and out of the various battlegrounds, or you become a Raider and have a set schedule with a raiding guild to get together and go to the hard end-game dungeons.

PVP'ers dislike PVE'ers and visa-versa. PVP players tend to say that scripted encounters are not difficult and argue that it's just an encounter in a game with a predictable path and solution. They think that because you know what will happen at 20% means you can actually get 25 people to pull it off sooner or later, and that's not always the case. PVE players say that all PVP players do is complain about nerfs, dots and various other problems. They say it doesn't take too much skill to be a PVP player because all you need is the right class balance and you will have the leg up on most matches, but not all (especially if you're Horde thanks to their racials). For some reason, the two kinds of players cannot find a happy medium and get along. PVE players say PVP gear is overpowered while PVP players say they need PVE gear to survive in arena's (which is ridiculous due to resilience ratings).

There's also the majority of WOW players, being the Casuals. They run 5-mans and sometimes 10-mans, mostly Karazhan and the new Zul'Aman. They don't care too much about their gear or character, they just enjoy playing or logging on to chat with friends. When I played, I hated these people. They are the reason for most of the nerf beatings in the game. They cry about everything and think everything is too hard. I pretty much hate them and wish I could wash my armor in a tub of casual tears.

I was a hardcore raider from Molten Core to Naxxramas, Gruul's Lair to Black Temple, 6-days a week from 7pm to 11, sometimes midnight if we didn't get the goal completed, other times it ran past 1am. I mentioned all of these groups and explained them as I saw them because collectively, they are all why I quit and why I chose a different MMO. I broke my ass to re-roll a Draenei Priest and rushed him to 70 in 13 days /played. I started Karazhan a little late, halfway through it with my guild. I started to see Tier 4 armor items dropping right around the time the Arena Season 1 gear was being introduced. Low and behold, they just recolored how Tier 4 looks so PVP players could "look cool like the raiders."

That bothered me a lot because getting the Tier armors has always been hard and shown off a bit of prestige in the huge time grind that is raiding. You had to learn the boss, beat the boss, then beat him multiple times for the lucky chance of your token to drop. PVP had it's own cool armor before TBC with the Warlords stuff, so I didn't understand the need for the sudden "same graphics different color" half-assed bullshit of a solution espcially since, when it was implemented, all PVP players had to do was PVP long enough to save enough Arena Points. Epics for casuals as we called them. Then they started nerfing the dungeons for the casual players, which didn't bother me because we still had to do them on Heroic Mode for the Trial of the Naaru quest and still had to kill Magtheridon for attunments to Coilfang Reservoir and Tempest Keep. I think it was a mere three months after my guild got all 25 people attuned that Blizzard decided to let casuals and PVP'ers win again and completely lifted the attunement, that took weeks to attain, so that everybody could see the instances. Instead they put an attunment on Hyjal and Black Temple. Then they introduced Season 2 PVP gear, which was recolored Tier 5 gear from raiding dungeons. Now all the PVP'ers in Shattrath were starting to look like me and I'll admit, the pixels were an e-peen item. I worked my ass off to look that cool, wtf did the PVP'ers do other than grind away their day killing mostly the same people over and over again? I got tired of all that crap around Supremus in Black Temple. My old guild has gone on to kill Illidan and now Season 3 looks like their Tier 6 armor.

It's the same thing over and over and now with the heroics being nerfed into the floor, armor sets being re-colored and everything being tuned so that it's "easy for everybody" it's just not a fun game. I'm a competetive player and that stuff bothers me, aside from that I'm a Game Art and Design major and the thought of re-coloring a Tier of an important armor set in a game makes me throw up a little in my mouth. It's complete lazy bullshit and I can't believe Blizzard keeps on doing it. I'm not against everybody having an equal share in the game, I just wish if everybody was going to be able to do things, they should all start at the same time or put the same amount of effort into it. Making the hardcore players break their ass to farm consumables, money, and create crafted gear to complete hard dungeons only to remove the attunement right after they do it was pretty much the beginning of the end for me. They at least fixed some of the armor concerns by giving players personal ratings so it's not much of a grind, only the good PVP'ers get all the items now. Even so, they have spit in the face of hardcore raiders repeatedly because they are by far the lowest part of the WOW population (something like 2% of all players are in top-end raiding guilds). Since that was my niche, it was a bit too much to handle and I got tired of paying $15 a month to be disappointed, aggravated and spit on by the company I'm paying.

As for people who may be casual or PVP, the game is outstandingly fun and will keep you playing for a long time. If you're a hardcore raiding player, be prepared to have all your hard work given away for free after a few months have passed by so that softcore players can get the chance to do exactly what you worked so hard to do. Sunwell is coming out soon, so I'm almost 100% sure the Black Temple and Mount Hyjal attunements will be lifted shortly after the release of patch 2.4.

These are my confessions and views. My name is Lume and I'm no longer a WOW addict.

HaHa I just never Liked WoW. i saw the people at my school who played it and shuddered.

i like to give bjs

I wasn't a "gamer" when I started playing WoW. I was blindsided.

Friend of mine played it, and introduced it to my husband and I. Now, two years later, I'm still playing (although, I don't play often). Most of my friends play, and the ones that don't despise the game.. 'cause they're friends with zombies.

I... just reactivated my wow account after 4 months...

The reason wow is fun is because it's more addictive than crack. This is due to how Blizzard makes games. First they find a random sample of people. Then they get them addicted to crack. Then they give them a game to play and let them choose between playing the game and crack. They repeat the process until they want the game more and BAM Blizzard has made another successful title

-AS

I adore Blizzard. That company entirely makes me happy. Except for WoW. I entirely agree with Spot.

That game made my ex-fiancee into a nightmare to be around. His idea of spending time together became me sitting on the couch besides him while he raided. Not exactly my favorite thing ever. Then there was the anniversary we were supposed to go out to dinner. Which got postponed a few hours while he sat through a wedding on the game. I was like are you serious? I didn't even realise it went that far there. But apparantely so.

I think you can say that about any MMO. I didn't like EQ for that reason but WoW if your on a new server it's not so bad. I had the horror to pick a server that was old but I still stick with it. I may get into GuildWars but it scares me right now.