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Poll: What is your WoW Account Status?
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Topic: A Poll of Subscription Status
Lashanna
noob
posted 06-06-2005 12:32:56 PM
Paying even though I'm somewhat indisposed.

Motivation is kind of difficult as I don't really have time for Molten Core, and I'm not cut out for PvP, as a player, and being a paladin doesn't help that.

I had trouble making myself start an alt too, I just couldn't get into a new character.

Dad's going to kill you. Really. He is.
Sean
posted 06-06-2005 12:40:03 PM
I gave it up and cancelled about a month ago as well, after at least four weeks of logging in and not doing a damn thing but talking to the one or two guildmates that weren't complete douchebags/idiots.

I'd also stalled out at level 45 during all the talk of nerf Rogues' X and nerf Rogues' Y.

A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.

It's not something people hear about.

Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 06-06-2005 12:43:55 PM
quote:
Verily, Sean doth proclaim:
I'd also stalled out at level 45 during all the talk of nerf Rogues' X and nerf Rogues' Y.

The class forums are fucking depressing to read, given enough time reading them you WILL hate your own class somehow, no matter how much you liked them before.

I went to the priest forum ONCE, now I avoid it like the plague

Damnati
Filthy
posted 06-06-2005 12:49:34 PM
Still active; still playing. Having only played RO before WoW, all the experiences are entirely new. Coupled with that is the desire to try out all the classes. I got a warrior to 60, with which I do the usual raids (UBRS, Strat, Scholo, etc) and my guild is just starting to prepare for MC and Onyxia. I also have a priest and hunter I'm working up ( Hunter so much, it's hella fun) when there's not enough on to raid.
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides and life and death alike follow in its wake. -Phèdre nó Delaunay, Kushiel's Chosen

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Lashanna
noob
posted 06-06-2005 12:54:06 PM
quote:
Vorago had this to say about Knight Rider:
The class forums are fucking depressing to read, given enough time reading them you WILL hate your own class somehow, no matter how much you liked them before.

I went to the priest forum ONCE, now I avoid it like the plague


I found reading Flameplay during EQ killed a lot of my desire to play the game, and WoW's forums are even worse.

Dad's going to kill you. Really. He is.
Kaiote
Shot in the Face
posted 06-06-2005 12:56:43 PM
I try not to read any forums put supported by the game's maker.. they'll point out ONE TINY LITTLE THING, and it'll become your new pet peeve.. You shall see it every time you turn around, and it wont go away.
Henry had been killed by a garden gnome.He had fallen off the roof onto that cheerful-looking figure. The gnome was made of concrete. Henry wasn't. - Dean Koontz, Velocity
Densetsu
NOT DRYSART
posted 06-06-2005 01:06:04 PM
I played for a while, then ended up cancelling when it couldn't hold my interest due to being a normal cookie-cutter MMO.

I'd also like to point out that I don't actually play any MMOs right now. I'm burned out on the whole genre, and WoW doesn't change that.

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl, we ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over, and over?
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 06-06-2005 01:13:34 PM
I never played after the beta ended. How has it changed in the last seven or so months?
That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Damnati
Filthy
posted 06-06-2005 01:23:13 PM
quote:
Karnaj wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
I never played after the beta ended. How has it changed in the last seven or so months?

Some new high-end instances, PvP Honor System, Battlegrounds in a couple weeks...beyond that, not really.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides and life and death alike follow in its wake. -Phèdre nó Delaunay, Kushiel's Chosen

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 06-06-2005 01:23:24 PM
quote:
Hey Karnaj, I betcha still living in your parent's cellar, downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar, and posting 'Me too!' like some brain-dead AOLer; I should do the world a favor and cap you like old yellah:
I never played after the beta ended. How has it changed in the last seven or so months?

A lot of minor bits have been changed (Certain talents, how spells work, 5 second rule change), Strat/Scholo have been nerfed to a joke, even for a 5-man, and PvP has a point, even if it's still a zergfest in TM.

MC's fun.

Kael
Whistlepig
posted 06-06-2005 04:49:05 PM
Still playing, althought I think I made it to 50 a little too fast. Although it was a much better pace then getting to 65 in FFXI. I too was one of the hardcore EQ raiders, so I'm acutally looking forward to MC and the new Blackwing's Lair or whatever it's going to be called. Shamefully, I can only say that the only lore that will catch my eye is Human and Undead.

I think Blizzard has a good game here, but I think all the bnet kiddies need to stfu and let them work. I'm embarrassed by the lack of respect shown by the players.

Blackened
posted 06-06-2005 04:49:26 PM
quote:
Maradon! had this to say about Knight Rider:
A lot of these reasons are incredibly unreasonable

Black, you quit because there's not enough high end content? Don't you have multiple level 60's? Don't you think that maybe there's plenty of high end content, you've just seen it all because you played the shit out of the game?


That's right I played the shit out of it. I played it to hell and back in beta, then played it some more. But the fact remains there isn't plenty of high end content. There is only Molten Core. That's it. And it has been that way for 6 months now.

This would be fine, having a sizable zone like MC being the only place to go for end game encounters... Except for the fact anyone with a lot of spare time could level a character to 60 in two weeks and waltz right in there. Grinding Molten Core for months on end is not fun. It's stale, repetitive gameplay which does not make for a good game.

But, but... Blackwing Lair is coming in "a few weeks"! That's right. So now you can look forward to grinding BWL and MC for a few more months, since Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom, is going to produce a "raid-lite" 20 man instance next. Nevermind the fact that even casual gamers are at/approching level 60, and looking torwards raiding to keep themselves busy in game.

But I get the feeling that explaining all this is for naught, as I know how you get when you form your opinions. Hell, you started out by saying my reasons for not playing were unreasonable. Though, of course, you haven't experienced the game like I have. But yet you know they're completely unreasonable.


Although my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,
what I'm about to do isn't personal.
Kael
Whistlepig
posted 06-06-2005 04:52:15 PM
quote:
Nobody really understood why Delphi Aegis wrote:
A lot of minor bits have been changed (Certain talents, how spells work, 5 second rule change), Strat/Scholo have been nerfed to a joke, even for a 5-man, and PvP has a point, even if it's still a zergfest in TM.

MC's fun.


What has been changed regarding Strat/Scholo? I was looking forward to those places. I love going to places that I've been to in WC3/TFT

Mr. Gainsborough
posted 06-06-2005 05:56:04 PM
Was totally addicted to it until I hit 60. Then grinding in raids over and over got really stupid and un-fun. Just collecting items is something I could do in a different game, so I stopped playing.

It's still active because my dad plays and I'll probably start again if a friend or two of mine decides to pick it up.

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 06-06-2005 06:05:24 PM
quote:
ACES! Another post by Kael:
What has been changed regarding Strat/Scholo? I was looking forward to those places. I love going to places that I've been to in WC3/TFT

In scholo, there were curses that did 1100 damage after 60 seconds.. Got halved. Ghouls, after dying did 700hp/sec damage to you with their green ooze.. halved. As for stratholme, the baroness encounter (Arguably the one most frustrating) was nerfed four times before they figured it was okay for newbs. She could either be obliterated by a 5-man, or chew up and spit OUT a 15 man raid with her mind control (She dissapears, charmed person does 100% damage, when they got low on health, she unpossessed, usually the person died. Now she posesses, but unposesses at 50% health and heals them to full).

The encounters are still essentially the same, just nerfed in small ways to make them easier.

Ragabash
Pancake
posted 06-06-2005 06:55:15 PM
I'm on the verge of quitting I think. The only thing that has really kept me in the game this long is being an officer in my guild. But my guild is fairly small and I'm getting sick of setting up raids and having them either fall through or have to pickup more than half the group outside the guild. I'd join another guild, but I'm loyal
Feed my hungry soul.
Flea
Pancake
posted 06-06-2005 06:58:11 PM
I think one reason I'm still enjoying the game is that I took my alt out of my high end raiding guild my hunter is in and had him join up with a lower level guild. This made it 100 times easier in finding instance runs at places like ulda/ST/Maura. Also I have a buddy of mine in real life that plays on the same server, and if he wasn't there, I'm sure I would have cancled back in february.
Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 06-06-2005 07:07:00 PM
quote:
Maradon! had this to say about Optimus Prime:

New content is coming along too slow? Compared to what? Every other MMO I know of takes just as long in between content patches, if not longer.


When is the next expansion slated to come out? I ask because I know that EQII's first is coming in September. There has been one content-adding expansion pack and another planned I think before the new expansion although I'd have to look.

I think that's keeping in line with current MMOG trends. Does Blizzard have a similar schedule?

Note, I'm not trying to troll the thread. I offer that as a basis of comparison of what the same Generation of MMOG as WoW has in the works


Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin

Damnati
Filthy
posted 06-06-2005 07:12:41 PM
quote:
When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Lyinar Ka`Bael said:
When is the next expansion slated to come out? I ask because I know that EQII's first is coming in September. There has been one content-adding expansion pack and another planned I think before the new expansion although I'd have to look.

I think that's keeping in line with current MMOG trends. Does Blizzard have a similar schedule?

Note, I'm not trying to troll the thread. I offer that as a basis of comparison of what the same Generation of MMOG as WoW has in the works


Sony has a schedule for their stuff that people get to know about? Nice...

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides and life and death alike follow in its wake. -Phèdre nó Delaunay, Kushiel's Chosen

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 06-06-2005 07:42:31 PM
They announced the Desert of Flames expansion a few weeks back and the new Adventure Pack, The Splitpaw Saga at the same time. I can't remember when SS is coming exactly but I know it's before DoF.


Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin

Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 06-06-2005 08:04:31 PM
I think WoW is awesome for a casual player who does mostly solo or in small groups of friends. Unless something amazing comes along, I'll probably stick with it as long as I did EQ. I'll probably try the Alliance side next time.
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

DarkDragoon
Pancake
posted 06-06-2005 08:09:49 PM
Canceled... Got fed up with multiple things including: PvP Imbalance, Not fun at end game, Lagfests, Known class issues that Blizzard refuses to address, General boredom. Feels like paying to play a game thats still in beta =P

Sorry... it's simply not that great of a game in the first place. They really needed another year to put all the stuff that was originally promised in the game so they aren't going to be permenately playing "Catch Up" and fucking the game up along the way.

"What is Light without Darkness?"
"And to think I could kill every man, woman, and child here if I wanted to. The power of death is intoxicating"
Shadow Knight of Tarew Marr
Eternal Lurker of the Boards.
Lechium
With no one to ever know
posted 06-06-2005 08:10:58 PM
Active account, but not playing because my computer is still in Windsor and my mom's computer is ancient and not more useful than web browsing.
"The MP checkpoint is not an Imperial Stormtrooper roadblock, so I should not tell them "You don't need to see my identification, these are not the droids you are looking for."
Kegwen
Sonyfag
posted 06-06-2005 08:19:28 PM
Canceled. I can't get in to the game. It is not addicting for me. I don't know why. I liked the game and its style, but I can't seem to get addicted to it.

Or any other MMO, really. I guess MMOs just aren't for me anymore.

Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 06-06-2005 08:22:25 PM
Currently, I still pay and play.

My mage has reached 60, and I'm finding myself at the same crossroads as many of you - not much to do high-end but collect items from MC, and take guildies through Scholo/Strath. I still enjoy it, but each time I go through these places, I get a little more bored with them...

PvP is nice, being a mage, but I really dislike the TM zergs. Not much point to them. I'm going to give the battlegrounds a try and make a choice about staying, or putting WoW on hold for a bit to play SWG or CoH while I wait for new WoW content to come out. I doubt I'll leave for good, though

Naj
I asked for a title and didn't get banned!
posted 06-06-2005 08:57:38 PM
Got to 60, bored now as I have no intention of playing EQ with WOW skins aka the level 60 PVE content.. About to quit unless BGs come out soon* and don't suck.


*tomorrow

Naj fucked around with this message on 06-06-2005 at 08:58 PM.

Willias
Pancake
posted 06-06-2005 10:02:34 PM
quote:
Naj stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Got to 60, bored now as I have no intention of playing EQ with WOW skins aka the level 60 PVE content.. About to quit unless BGs come out soon* and don't suck.


*tomorrow


The battleground are okay. Maybe they'll be fun once I play in them with people I know, but on test, it just didn't feel like there was enough there to warrant a patch taking so long to come out.

Willias
Pancake
posted 06-06-2005 10:06:41 PM
quote:
Flea had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
I think one reason I'm still enjoying the game is that I took my alt out of my high end raiding guild my hunter is in and had him join up with a lower level guild. This made it 100 times easier in finding instance runs at places like ulda/ST/Maura. Also I have a buddy of mine in real life that plays on the same server, and if he wasn't there, I'm sure I would have cancled back in february.

Lucky, the only RL friends that I have that play MMOs play DAoC. Albion on the Kay server (which, now that Mythic has clustered servers, you can no longer play any race on any server, but you must now stick with one realm on 3 different servers, Kay, Isuelt, and Pelinor are all part of the same cluster, and I'm not leaving Midgard on Isuelt.)

Snoota
Now I am become Death, shatterer of worlds
posted 06-06-2005 10:39:53 PM
I canceled my account. I just kind of stalled out at level 42 and got a little bored of my Paladin and had no desire to start over after investing so much of my, as well as Rosa(I totally owned her when that chick in SM charmed me) and Addy's in particular, time building up my Paladin.
Fox
Loser
posted 06-06-2005 11:08:17 PM
Canceled: I was low on funds at the time, so decided to cancel all my MMO's. I have some friends that still play, that've been trying to convince me to play it again.

I'd so pick up Planetside again if I could find the cd's. Vanu Pwn u!

"It takes an idiot to do cool things, thats why its cool."
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than to be loved for what I'm not."
Drysart
Pancake
posted 06-07-2005 02:21:03 AM
Under a year and it's already sporting only a 36% retention rate on a forum full of MMOG players!

I guess the honeymoon's over. WoW wasn't the second coming everyone thought it was... exactly as I predicted.

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 06-07-2005 02:26:26 AM
quote:
Drysart had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Under a year and it's already sporting only a 36% retention rate on a forum full of MMOG players!

I guess the honeymoon's over. WoW wasn't the second coming everyone thought it was... exactly as I predicted.


To be fair, EQ only lasted as long because it was the only real one of it's kind at the time to play. AO had massive problems to start that jinxed it, and AC, though innovative, sucked.

On top of that, there was much spooging over WoW on these boards in the years (!!) leading up to release, along with CoH, Guild Wars, EQ2 and the like taking their toll.

Mention putting up the ECET server again; after a month of the forum drooling over it, they'll play it for 2 weeks, rape your bandwith in the ass, complain about this or that ability for another 2 weeks, and then stop playing.

Edit: btw, 37%. I didn't vote.

Delphi Aegis fucked around with this message on 06-07-2005 at 02:27 AM.

Noxhil2
Pancake
posted 06-07-2005 02:27:59 AM
quote:
Drysart got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Under a year and it's already sporting only a 36% retention rate on a forum full of MMOG players!

I guess the honeymoon's over. WoW wasn't the second coming everyone thought it was... exactly as I predicted.


Actually your numbers are off (you can't include people who have never played the game in retention rate)

The people still active and still playing is 47 percent, and the important number, paying accounts, is 67% of those who bought it.

Edit: Fuck you Delphi for messing up my quick math. Oh well, my numbers are still close.

Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 06-07-2005 at 02:29 AM.

Fizodeth
an unflattering title
posted 06-07-2005 02:32:23 AM
quote:
Delphi Aegis wrote this stupid crap:
To be fair, EQ only lasted as long because it was the only real one of it's kind at the time to play. AO had massive problems to start that jinxed it, and AC, though innovative, sucked.

On top of that, there was much spooging over WoW on these boards in the years (!!) leading up to release, along with CoH, Guild Wars, EQ2 and the like taking their toll.

Mention putting up the ECET server again; after a month of the forum drooling over it, they'll play it for 2 weeks, rape your bandwith in the ass, complain about this or that ability for another 2 weeks, and then stop playing.

Edit: btw, 37%. I didn't vote.


I stopped playing on the ECET server because of Weigen. I never quit inbetween the first two fads, and the only reason it's uninstalled now is because I have trouble finding a decent server.

Willias
Pancake
posted 06-07-2005 02:37:21 AM
quote:
There was much rejoicing when Drysart said this:
Under a year and it's already sporting only a 36% retention rate on a forum full of MMOG players!

I guess the honeymoon's over. WoW wasn't the second coming everyone thought it was... exactly as I predicted.


Actually, I think it was a coming in a different way. It pulled TONS of people off of EQ, and after playing WoW, I just don't have the patience to play it again.

I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way.

While WoW isn't the game thats going to replace EQ, it did knock EQ off of the #1 spot.


To be honest though, I feel that WoW could be doing a lot better if Blizzard made some quests that made you feel like you were part of Warcraft's story, and actually put out content at a decent rate. For example, there is a little fact stated by a Horde npc in Azshara, that the tauren (she named a leader, and I can't remember her name, Elder Crone or something like that) are trying to find a way to turn the undead back into humans (curing the Scourge's taint and restoring life). There is no mention of this anywhere else in the game, and it actually gives a good reason as to why the Tauren don't mind being with the undead. WHY IS THERE NO MENTION OF THIS ELSE WHERE AND WHY ARE THERE NO QUESTS THAT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT? ARGH!

Willias fucked around with this message on 06-07-2005 at 02:40 AM.

Drysart
Pancake
posted 06-07-2005 02:59:49 AM
quote:
Willias came out of the closet to say:
While WoW isn't the game thats going to replace EQ, it did knock EQ off of the #1 spot.

It broke the EQ addiction for many people, yeah. For that reason alone I've crowned WoW the official "EQ Killer", but not because it enraptured people better than EQ did (can you believe it appears that most people were anticipating WoW longer than they actually ended up playing it?), just that it distracted them from EQ long enough to stop them from going back to it.

Do keep in mind, everyone pointing out that WoW has a lot of competition from the likes of Guild Wars and such, that EQ outlasted AO, DAoC, SWG, SB, Horizons (*snort*), E&B, TSO, CoH, and a few others I'm probably forgetting. Yeah I know some of those weren't direct competition with EQ, but several of them were.

WoW's still healthy (for the time being), don't get me wrong I'm not eulogizing it, but it's quite clear by the poll results from this group of people that it's failed to live up to the lofty standards the fanbois were predicting.

Blackened
posted 06-07-2005 03:03:32 AM
quote:
Drysart's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
it's failed to live up to the lofty standards the fanbois were predicting.
Not that games ever live up to the standards of fanboys in the eyes of the masses.

Although my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,
what I'm about to do isn't personal.
Mr. Parcelan
posted 06-07-2005 03:12:01 AM
This fanboi isn't so disappointed.
Drysart
Pancake
posted 06-07-2005 06:16:10 AM
quote:
Blackened came out of the closet to say:
Not that games ever live up to the standards of fanboys in the eyes of the masses.

You were one of the people most excited about the game, and you've quit. I'm not talking about the eyes of the masses, I'm talking that even fans of the game are showing disappointment with it.

And goddamnit this genre is not going to advance any further until I can use catapults to fling the fetuses of unborn player characters at my enemies!

Alidane
Urinary Tract Infection
posted 06-07-2005 06:18:39 AM
quote:
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Fox was all like:
I'd so pick up Planetside again if I could find the cd's. Vanu Pwn u!

I'd tell you how to download it off the Station LaunchPad, but you play Vanu. Fucking spammy, backhacking assholes.

change a launchpad shortcut target to '"C:\Program Files\Sony\Launchpad\LaunchPad.exe" /game:planetside' and it'll download

Alidane fucked around with this message on 06-07-2005 at 06:19 AM.

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