10 REASONS to pay 15 bucks to play WoW?

[SakuraKira]

There's only one reason you should: you like it.

QFT.

There is a 10 day free trial that you can play. So play that, do some questing, experiment with a couple of different classes. If at the end of the trial you really like it and want to take your characters further and see what things are like at the higher end of the game, go ahead and pay for more.

I do have one suggestion though. Make your first character on a PVE server to get a feel for how things work. That way you can go about exploring without being molested. Later on make a character on PVP if you want to try it, and by that time you will have learned about the game and can have a better response when some random person just starts to attack you.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Now that WotLK is released here are some reasons not to pay $15 dollars a month, and some reasons to also do so.

1) It takes 15 million exp to get from 70-80. Now imagine how much it will take to get to 1-80.

2) By the time you hit 80, everyone will severely overgear you, if you play in moderation.

3) There are TONS of 14 year olds that cannot understand how to play, and are extremely annoying, and mouthbreathers....

4) I played for 2 years. I just recently quit, here is what I lost and gained due to this videogame:

Lost:

1) 2 Girlfriends.

2) Didn't see several movies in theatres that I had been waiting for, for years.

3) Time spent with my dying father.

4) Several very good friends.

5) I use to be able to create extremely intricate ink pen drawings at the drop of a hat, I now can barely draw stick figures.

6) I'm quite sure my IQ went down while staring at my monitor constantly & doing the same thing ingame, over and over, and over again.

7) Lost roughly 450 dollars over 2 years due to subscription fees & character transfers.

8) And overall, about 9,000 hours of time better spent doing something to better my life, and get me ahead. ( 12 hours of playing a day, 7 days week for 2 years. )

Gained:

1) Lost 60 pounds over 2 years.

Thats about it for gained, I cannot think of anything else remotely positive after playing for 2 years.

If you plan on playing, I recommend using the parental controls and setting time limits for hours of play a day... If not, odds are a lot of my negative outcomes from playing will happen to you as well. Play in moderation for the love of yourself.

Thats just a issue of self control. I have made sure that my RL friends come first. Also yeah its 15million for 70-80 but its like 5 or 6 for 60-70 and maybe the same for 1-60 overall not bad.

[RAID 0]

I've never played WoW. Now, I kinda want to. All these stories about addiction, I want to see how good this game really is. Up until this point right now... I've never wanted to play. Ever. I might download it tomorrow. :)

[perochan]

I've never played WoW. Now, I kinda want to. All these stories about addiction, I want to see how good this game really is. Up until this point right now... I've never wanted to play. Ever. I might download it tomorrow. :)

noooo! dont go in the dark side!

[Dance.]

Mwahahah! Another unsuspecting player whose going to be corrupted! ANOTHER INNOCENT SOUL! MWAHAHAHHAAA! :devil:

[DDStriker]

I started on an actual account, played for 2 weeks and got bored. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

Yeah i don't see the fuss wc3 all the way! :p (actually l4d all the way god damn its a good game)

$15 a month for entertainment at your finger tips or.. two trips to McDonalds for a "meal" in a month.

I choose entertainment.

you and i are two very different people :D

Some crazy stories. I knew it was bad but not that bad. My girlfriend would see me play it (for free on a private server) and told me to stop so I did, so I still have her and more time for myself with WoW out of my life. :D

see i'd tell her to go jump off a bridge

i don't like the game and i don't believe its addictive its just something to do and because people usually have nothing better to do they make it their life (i believe someone was saying earlier the game requires you to level up your char so people are willing to do that even if its not fun which is quite true)

The reason i say she should jump off a bridge is because who is she to tell you what you can and can't play? if you want to play the game and your have control over your life (to an extent) then you should be able to do it otherwise shes going to start controlling your life and then your no better off then you would be getting addicted to wow :p (both screw you in the end)

thats just my $0.02 don't take any of it to personally no harm intended :)

If you suffer from lack of discipline then this is definitely not the game for you.

+1

Thank you Cliched thats the word i was looking for

lack of disicpline definetly going to use that over addiction :)

my mate has tried to get me to play he let me play the 10 day trial (which was repetitive and boring) then he let me tried one of his level 10 accounts which i leveled to 15 and...i have never been so bored in my life havn't touched the game since i'm not sure what people see in it to be honest i like a good deal of games but this just isn't one of them its ok for a game to have bad graphics as long as the gameplay is good but..it seems to be lacking both

again its just my oppinion i know the gameplay is fun for some people i myself just don't like it :)

[Wazooty]

These people who let their life waste away because of a computer game...

I'd blame them personally, not the game. If you can't discipline yourself because of WoW....

This is from a long time player.

[draelas]

wow is like a drug.

the people who play and are addicted will tell you its the greatest thing ever.

the people who are off it will tell you never to try it, it will end your life.

luckily the drug dealer. (blizzard) gives you a free trial to get you hooked.

personally i used to play it a lot. pretty sure you could call it an addiction. then i stopped for a year. now i play again, however im able to keep it to a moderation, maybe once a week, if that. basically i avoid the stuff that got me addicted in the first place. now i play for fun, by myself for the most part.

[Blindlabel013]

the people who are off it will tell you never to try it, it will end your life.

This is where I come in!

I played hardcore for 4 years straight. I completed every instance, every raid, every faction grind and had almost every rare item in the game. No matter where I was/doing, the game would be in the back of my head. Instead of thinking something along the lines of "Oh man, I'm totally going to bang this chick tonight." I was thinking something more like "Oh man, when I get home I'm totally going to kill 1600 Penguins to get a mount." Perhaps others can play it far more casually, but for me it took over.

My recommendation is to try it out, but try not to get addicted. Play in moderation as mentioned in the loading tips :).

[Benjo85au]

Now that WotLK is released here are some reasons not to pay $15 dollars a month, and some reasons to also do so.

1) It takes 15 million exp to get from 70-80. Now imagine how much it will take to get to 1-80.

2) By the time you hit 80, everyone will severely overgear you, if you play in moderation.

3) There are TONS of 14 year olds that cannot understand how to play, and are extremely annoying, and mouthbreathers....

4) I played for 2 years. I just recently quit, here is what I lost and gained due to this videogame:

Lost:

1) 2 Girlfriends.

2) Didn't see several movies in theatres that I had been waiting for, for years.

3) Time spent with my dying father.

4) Several very good friends.

5) I use to be able to create extremely intricate ink pen drawings at the drop of a hat, I now can barely draw stick figures.

6) I'm quite sure my IQ went down while staring at my monitor constantly & doing the same thing ingame, over and over, and over again.

7) Lost roughly 450 dollars over 2 years due to subscription fees & character transfers.

8) And overall, about 9,000 hours of time better spent doing something to better my life, and get me ahead. ( 12 hours of playing a day, 7 days week for 2 years. )

Gained:

1) Lost 60 pounds over 2 years.

Thats about it for gained, I cannot think of anything else remotely positive after playing for 2 years.

If you plan on playing, I recommend using the parental controls and setting time limits for hours of play a day... If not, odds are a lot of my negative outcomes from playing will happen to you as well. Play in moderation for the love of yourself.

With all due respect mate. that's not really the GAME'S fault. We are governed by our own actions. The game doesn't really demand you play it for a certain amount of time. But our basic human right is choice.

Regardz :)

[Mercellus]

I can't say I have a reason to play WoW, I've tried it and didn't really like it so I couldn't justify paying a subscription for it. Try it and if you like it, subscribe... if you don't, then save your money for something better.

I've seen too many people get hooked on WoW, a friend of mine lost their job, their girlfriend and their kids, and by the time all was said and done probably about $600 because he was playing the game 24/7 like it was his life. When it gets that bad, it's time to pull back and do something better with your time than raid in a video game.

[I am Redbeard]

See.. you hear all these stories about people losing things.. how tragic.. yadda yadda.. but unlike other addictions, WoW does not cause the user to suffer. Alcoholism is synonymous with depression for example. If you look at the person who has "lost" all these things.. you have to assume that the things they lost were actually once there..which the apparently never were if a game overrode them on the significance scale.

Not to mention how WoW has become a yet another scapegoat for people these days.

Let's say John plays WoW casually.

Let's say John is laid off of work.

Let's say John begins to play WoW more now.

Even if John were to get another job people would talk about how John lost his job because he was addicted to a video game.

[Crompee]

There's multiple reasons to play WoW or even not play WoW.. yet it only comes down to, did you enjoy the trial? or do you think you'll enjoy the game (knowing what End-Game is roughly about)?

Although, if you want to go into more detail, from someone who played the game hardcore for 2-3years (7days a week, up to 12hours a day).. here's afew things although i guess most have already been covered.

Reasons to play the game:

1. WoW has a huge community, you'll make online friends fast and its highly likely that at least one of your real-life friends already plays WoW. It has a huge social aspect to the game, just like people love to surf on MySpace all day.. alot of people simply love to login to WoW and chat (doing nothing else).

2. To expand on that, once you reach end-game PvE and find yourself a nice Guild. You will end up talking to your guildmates ingame on and vent ALOT more than you talk to your friends/gf(or bf)/family. You spend so much time with them, chatting with them and doing tasks/raids/quests/instances with them.. that regardless of weither you have met them or not, you will class the majority of them as your friends. You could argue that this is a bad thing but while you're playing, you certainly do not see it this way.. Mainly due to the fact that its unlikely you will ever meet them, so you feel free to chat to them about anything (things you might not want to discuss with your friends) which makes for alot of laughter.

3. While the game is new to you, even the most mundane tasks/grinds are highly enjoyable. Its been 2 years since i first logged into WoW, yet i can still remember my first days playing the game very well, i didnt see anything as a grind.. it was all fun. I even remember getting lost in elywen forest afew times, thinking just that zone was massive/too big.

4. The game is based on completing never ending goals (once you complete one, they'll be another one patched in).. So the average player always has something they can be doing when they login. Hence, the subscription.. People argue that they wont play the game due to a subscription but it actually works out alot cheaper. If you play WoW, its unlikely you'll have time to play any other games properly (Hence, you dont buy games as often as you would of before, offsetting the subscription cost) and the fact that you'll be playing more WoW in a month than you would any other game you might of brought. (?9.99 for a month of WoW, will give you 31days playtime with up to 12hours each day, while if you brought a ?50 game that month, how much time would/could you spend playing it?). The average user logs in for around 2days a week, for 4-6hours each time (im guessing, i did ahell alot more).. that gives you 40hours entertainment a month for just ?9.99, looking at it that way it makes the game a bargain.

5. If the cost really does get you, you could also look at it from the 2nd hand point of view. If i brought a game now for ?50 and decided to sell it once i cant be bothered anymore.. i would get ?10-?20 back from selling it? If after 1-2years playing WoW slightly above average (Slighty above average = 3-4 nights a week raiding).. you will actually get more money back from selling your chars than you paid to play the game. I played for 2years which is ?240 (roughly), when i quit the game.. i got ?2225 for all my characters.

6. Probably the most important, At times playing WoW.. you're enjoyment/fun goes through the roof, no other game can even come close to the amount fun you can have playing WoW. In TBC, every single player who got there first kill on Kael after weeks/months of wiping.. jumped out of there chair with joy, encouraged by the fact that the other 24people in your raid are doing the same. To stress that point, no other game comes anywhere near the amount of fun you can have while playing WoW.

Reasons not to play WoW:

1. WoW is a Time-Sink. Its takes time to get anything worthwhile in the game, while its impossible to argue that the Time-Sink style of WoW is downright bad, as alot of people enjoy doing them. Its quiet clear that it eats away at time you could or even should of spent doing real-life things. Its quiet clear that from IanPete's post above me, that he has never played WoW (or done high end PvE in WoW). As WoW isnt just a scapegoat, it can really make you lose alot of Reallife. The strange thing is, that while you're playing WoW.. you simply dont care what you lose in real-life.

2. To go further on that, WoW is a time-sink but to do the group activitys, you also need to be online at the right times. For example, to do high end raiding.. You basically need to be able to login between 19:00GMT-24:00GMT for 2-6days a week. In Average-High end guilds, you not only need to be able to login at those times but you need to do it every single time your guild has a raid (or the vast majority).

3. While i argued that you can have the most fun in WoW than any other game. The exact opposite is also very true, it can.. at times be the worst game you've ever played. The 2-6weeks before you get your firstkill on a end-game PvE boss for example, the nights of playing are full of frustration, anger, annoyance and hate.

4. The friends you make in the game, arnt your real friends. Eventually, they'll move to a different guild/server or even quit the game.. and you'll be left with nothing.

5. As you know, the game can be highly addictive. Once addicted, its incredibly hard to break. As not only do you have the addiction to break but you also need to give up talking to all the friends you've made over the past 1-2years which is incredibly hard to do by itself.

Ive quit WoW now for 7months, nearly everyday i still check the Realm Forums to see what everyone is up to and also check WoW Armory to see who is still playing and how well they are doing. I no longer miss playing WoW, yet i do miss talking to all the friends i had made and often just want to pay the subscription again to chat to them.

Anyway, my Recommendation: Play the trial, if you enjoy playing it.. then play it.

With all due respect mate. that's noGAME'S39;S[/i] fault. We are governed by our own actions. The game doesn't really demand you play it for a certain amount of time. But our basic human right is choice.

:)gardz :)

The game rewards you for putting more time into it, and to do the best things in the game.. you need to dedicate alot :) time :) While it is still down to human choice, it cant be ignored that its the way that WoW is setup which causes it.

[Hupp]

reasons to play wow:

1. its a time sink

reasons not to play wow:

1. its a time sink

its the game greatest achievement and its largest flaw