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End of the WoW
Dickey \| 3:54 PM on 05.15.2008	20 comments

So i was sitting here, thinking about what gear i'm going to waste hours upon hours i'll never get back when my Rogue dings 70 in WoW when it hit me. How interested am i in the endgame of World of Warcraft? From everything i've been told, the post-70 world is a lot of repetition, gold-farming, gear whoring, repetition and raiding with little bits of fun thrown in for flavour.

My main problem is this: I don't want to spend the rest of my life playing only World of Warcraft. There are so many more awesome games out there these days than ever before (like i really needed to tell you people that), and World of Warcraft is such a huge timesink. Right now, i'm playing WoW a lot because i'm goddamn sick and tired of not having a 70 after THREE FUCKING YEARS for various reasons, but there are a lot of things i really want to do with the games i already own. Things that WoWtime eats into.

I want to finish Mass Effect. I want to finish my achievements off in BioShock. I want to figure out messed up shit to do in GTAIV multiplayer. I want to grab Lost Oddysey and have the time to actually enjoy it. I want to finally beat Raining Blood on Expert in Guitar Hero III, although that last one is probably more of a pipe dream than anything else and if you think different, you're a mutant.

The point i'm trying to hit here is that World of Warcraft takes a lot of time to do anything that could be construed as fun. Yeah, there's a lot to do in WoW, but Daily quests, raiding and PVP can only get you so far. And lets be honest, most of the instances are pretty similar (Enter Raid, Kill Boss, Wipe, Kill Boss, Wipe on Trashmob, Kill Boss, Get Phat Lootz, Rinse, Repeat) so what's keeping me interested after 70?

Anyway. Dickey Out.

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19 comments | showing # 1 to 19

Too Much Coffee Man

this is why i stay far far away from MMOs. theyre designed so you spend so much time that you dont want to quit because you cant face the fact that all the time you spent was for the potential of having fun in the future that never comes. you're chasing the dragon.

eBAY it.

DaedHead8

I'm not even interested in hitting level 2 in WoW. Never have been.

Dickey

@Too Much Coffee Man: One of the only reasons I'm still playing is sheer hard headed determination. I want to hit the damn cap.

@DaedHead8: Good. Stay that way.

Dickey

@brainderailment: That's when i stopped the first time. Took a year and a half off, and then started again around 6 months ago.

EternalDeathSlayer

My wife recently hit 70, says it's a lot of farming and Battlegrounds or some shit. Whatever that all means to you WoW addicts with your moonspeak, I'll never know.

Fuck WoW. It's not even remotely fun. I've played it, and I cannot for the life of me understand the appeal. Quit that shit.

flaming burrito

get out while you still can

having been there and giving up 3 years of my life to WoW i can just say that all the pretty purple loot wont make the game any better. In the end its exactly that repitition and farming... i still dont get how blizzard manages to make it so appealing.

Toneman

Funny, I recently reinstalled WOW because I found a decent private server. Paying for MMOs is for losers.

naib

I quit playing WoW at around lvl 35 a few years ago. It's just too much like work.

Schmo0zle

I got to 60 once on WoW.

Once.

Getting to 70 when BC came out nearly killed me.

Like with all MMO's, I only played it seriously for about 6 months.

Now I've sworn them off entirely.

Teta

I spent a lot of time in World of Crackcraft.
After hitting 60 (when it was the top lvl) it was just me and my guild being morons, killing lowbies citizens and trying to wipe cities that can�t be wiped.

sleepingagain

yeah, wow brings me nightmares... cause of the fact i have 3 70s and one 60.... yeah...

biggest time sink ever..

Rockvillian

My friends moving on from WoW to AoC. I've given him great games for Christmas and his birthdays like Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2, and other great titles with multi player, and still haven't played any online games with him in over 3 years. And to top it off, he started playing by borrowing my account, then buying it off me when I could never get on (cause he was on).

WoW = lameness.

GeneralWong

You could not let WoW ruin your life?

DaTgUy

I stopped playing WoW after 5 minutes of my 15 day trial

Wexx

I liked the end-game in Wow.

Wait, I like thet people I did endgame in wow with. I'm still friends with a lot of them after about a year of not doing endgame hardcore.

What's with all of these WoW posts lately? I don't want to play anymore, make it go away!

Xenophilius

I'm same with brainderailment and naib, i quit when i got to 30 something. I wasted so much time in that one horrible month.

Skribble

I LOVE TO RUN AROUND WHILE CLICKING MY SCREEN AND LOOKING AT ELVES

IT IS FUN

manta

I actually just recently started playing again and got a Orc Shaman up to 66. I froze my account though and will probably renew it two weeks before Wrath of the Lich King comes out so that I can be 70 when it hits. I love when the stuff is new and people are discovering new things. Once everyone's seen and done stuff, it's not nearly as fun.

I don't know if those last two sentences were coherent, but yeah.

Dickey

Thats kinda how i feel. I'm sure i'll enjoy it for a week or two, but after that...who knows.

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