A fantastically beautiful and exceedingly friendly MMORPG. It's also nice to finally have a good-looking 3d RPG that doesn't suffer from terrible lag and massive server load-times.
As solid an experience as can be found online. This game will absorb your life once you start playing, and crusty pizza boxes will become an all too common appearance around the house.
Part of what makes this game so remarkable is it doesn't assume that all you have to do in your busy life is play this one game, and so it delivers a high-quality experience regardless of how much or how little time you're able to invest...A stunning achievement that will make you feel privileged to be a game player.
Broadly speaking, in MMOs you hit things, then fashion things to make your hitting more effective. World of Warcraft does that better than anything else on the market at the moment. [Jan 2005, p.96]
It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]
Delivers great atmosphere through simplistic stylized environments, suited music, relevant quests, massive PvP raids, and party adventuring. With their customizable user interface, chat channels, and guild system, it is easy to build strong communities for rich gaming relationships.
Fix your game, Blizzard. Listen to your players, actually cater to the high end, fix bugs that need fixing, and don’t leave your playerbase hanging for months on end. Then I will give your game a higher mark.
I have been playing all kinds of games from the age of 4 (I'm 22 now) and for me WOW is not only the best game of this genre, but the best videogame I have ever played. It never gets boring, you always have something new to do and it's very fun. 100% recommended.
What the game offers is polished and fun. Sadly there isn't much to offer aside from grinding gearscore in a few dungeons and a raid, to do the same stuff on higher difficulties.
While there might be a gigiantic world to discover, it's mostly dead and empty, aside from the newest city in the current expansion.
For a full price title, with a subscription fee and microtransactions that give you ingame advantages, it's difficult to recommend.
I played WoW for almost one year, and liked most of it.
Until I started doing team quests and raids...
There you are, with 24 other players, most of which have done this raid before. Some of them have done it many, many times. But for you it is a first time. And even though you watched a youtube video or two, chaos breaks loose around you. So you run around, try to do something useful, and most likely are killed off quickly.
Do the other players care? They certainly do: They are P***ED that you are not performing as well as they are, and they let you know it. In very harsh, vulgar language, which will not be repeated here. Use your imagination.
Repeated complaints and reportings of some players lead to exactly nothing. No reaction whatsoever from Blizzard.
And some raids just cannot be avoided when you follow the story line...
So if you wish to play WoW, be prepared of this. And if your kids want to play, consider this from their point of view. I am 50+ years old, and found this a humiliating experience. This does not bid well for kids in the same situation!
In more than 30 years of online gaming I have never met so many rude and arrogant players as in WoW. But I hasten to add that in every raid there were also people behaving in a polite and civilized way. Either a minority, or not concerned enough to speak up stronger.
The game itself would get 8 points, but because of the behaviour of many players, and Blizzard's lack of action, it is a 4.
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