How Long WoW lasts???

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I got WoW from a friend but I did not enough money to keep my account up. I really liked the game. I hope that once I get a job I might get it but I don't know how long WoW is going to last. How long do you think it will last?
 
NightBlade2011 said:
I got WoW from a friend but I did not enough money to keep my account up. I really liked the game. I hope that once I get a job I might get it but I don't know how long WoW is going to last. How long do you think it will last?
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A long time, but according to most news stories about gamers deaths, it could last a lifetime, depending on how addicted you get.
 
Depends on how much of a life you have. I don't mean to sound sterotypical, but unless you can donate A LOT of time to endgame material, chances are you'll get bored with the post-level 60 game pretty fast. Leveling up is a blast though, and it takes a good 500-800 hours or so to get there depending on what class and spec you are, and you don't really have to dedicate a whole lot of time to leveling up, it's the kind of thing that you can do over any given period of time and not really get penalized.

So yeah, take that as you will.
 
Guys, Meridian59 is still around for god sakes! WoW will probably be around for a LONG time to come
 
Well a pretty long time, i've been playing nearly every day for the past 10 months.
 
It lasted me over a year, at which point I was raiding end-game instances.

The game can last forever if you really have nothing else to do, it's just becomes a cycle of getting better items once you hit 60. (And the almighty farm-fest to get your epic mount.)
 
Hopefully they wont screw it up like SWG. Thank God SOE isnt going to buy it out. YAY Blizzard! :D
 
Slacker is absolutely right. Unless you have a lot of time to devote to endgame content (or really like messing around in world PvP) then it might not last you long beyond level 60, depending on your attention span.

The other thing that can keep you addicted is roleplay, if you engage in it. That takes a lot longer to get boring because if you get bored of the game itself, you can participate in player-made plots, events, or just random small-scale 'tavern RP' - and if you get bored of that, you can go farm honour or something.

It can keep you interested. I know a fair few people who hate the game but stay because of the roleplay. Judging by your three question marks, however, you don't seem like the type that would enjoy it.
 
I've been playing for about 2 years now :x. Although after getting my tier 2 armor I've calmed down. Mostly because when BC hits level 65 gear is going to be the same or better as the Tier 3 thats out right now. Plus all the new raid dungeons are going to have 25 people caps instead of 40 . Thats going to be interesting. But yeah the game can last for a while. I can see myself probably playing it for another year or two :O
 
Sulkdodds said:
The other thing that can keep you addicted is roleplay, if you engage in it. That takes a lot longer to get boring because if you get bored of the game itself, you can participate in player-made plots, events, or just random small-scale 'tavern RP' - and if you get bored of that, you can go farm honour or something.

It can keep you interested. I know a fair few people who hate the game but stay because of the roleplay. Judging by your three question marks, however, you don't seem like the type that would enjoy it.
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Meh, I tried RP servers and just couldn't totally get into it, it just felt so odd typing in Troll dialect. RP-PVP servers exist too, but they sort of suck because no one really roleplays.
 
I have been playing for over 1 year now. To tell you the truth I think this game will be around forever. Especially now that they are coming out with the expansion pack all of the lvl 60s are going to be trying to get to the next highest lvl (I think it is lvl 70 but I am not 100 percent sure). It took me a little less than a year to get my 60 and I am still playing every day to get my pvp rank up and everything. I guess we will just have to wait and see!
 
It can last a month, or years.

If you have any obsessive tendencies you're ****ed.
 
That South Park episode owns.

:LOL:
 
How do you kill that which has no life?

:LOL:
 
my mate has been on it around 3 yrs now, he has no life anymore.
 
lol, you're telling him to chill the fuck out?

Slacker said:
Meh, I tried RP servers and just couldn't totally get into it, it just felt so odd typing in Troll dialect. RP-PVP servers exist too, but they sort of suck because no one really roleplays.
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Hmm, never been on an RP-PvP (although always wished Earthen Ring, my native server, was PvP) - but looking at the forums of some other realms that didn't seem to be the case. A lot of the RP seemed to be PvP-based, though. Wars and so on.

Personally, I'm a fundamentalist atheist modernist industrialist rationalist journalist...night elf.
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Haha.

Well I have a friend (who ironically is the one of two females I know who plays WoW) who plays on an RP server and loves it. Apparently she has a crapload of time invested to her character who's only in its 30s, and the vast majority of it is roleplaying. She even talks about civil wars on her servers between various races, which sounds hilariously cool.

Meh, I may have to give it another shot, I just hate fantasy dialect with a passion.
 
It's the same with me as with your friend: John Barlowe (clearly a fake name, as Night Elves don't have names like 'John', or indeed 'Barlowe') is level 31 and I've been playing him since early this year.

We had a civil war recently where the three biggest criminal families of Stormwind joined forces and laid claim to Old Town, the Dwarven District and the Park. Predictably, it all ended in tears. And blood. Lots of blood. There was a 'massacre' event where the Stormwind Guard (an actual player guild) stomped Old Town into dust, killing everyone who didn't submit instantly (many people created alts for the occasion).

As for dialect, it depends what kind. I dislike Blizzard's lazy 'make-everybody-use-long-words-and-no-contractions-so-it-sounds-old-fashioned-but-we-don't-have-to-invent-plausible-language' method. On the other hand, 'old' or invented dialects can be pretty cool:

19th century slang
Planescape: Torment slang
Thieve's cant

Sounding 'old' is or should be far more about interesting linguistic constructions and sentence structure than saying 'twas' and 'twasn't' all the time. That said, most roleplayers don't bother to sound archaic anyway.

"Pike it!"
 
Saketi said:
Whats ur problem man, chill the fuk out, ok i was wrong, big fuking deal.
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I advise you just cool it a bit ;)

As for how long WoW lasts, i started my main character a few months ago, currently lvl 48 on a PvP server with people i know in RL and lan with etc, Will continue to play it for years yet i imagine, however it hasn't taken over my life, i make sure i play it when i know i have nothing better to be doing, or if i just want a little bit of fun before going college etc :)
 
Absolutely fantastic South Park episode, that'll probably recruit another few million people alone.

I'd say WoW will last about 3/4 months, before it becomes just too repetitive for any sane person to continue.
 
Liar ! .. i need to watch this SP episode actually, think i'll do it now :)
 
Simple. WoW is an addiction that canNOT be cured unless you move to Uni and your halls' internet connection has WoW's ports blocked...****ers.

Once you hit 60 and join a raiding community, and start earning 'DKP', the game becomes a JOB and nolonger a GAME. Every Friday, Sat and Mon night for me at 6/7pm, i was online and hoping i got invited after signing up on a website earlier in the week. Getting DKP = getting items that arent THAT much better than you have but have 'I killed Boss X written all over it'. If you didnt go to the raid, you got no DKP and someone later that has more DKP than you will get the item even if you worked in that instance for longer than him/her. It becomes a fashion statement because we all LOVE when people whisper with you with 'damn, nice gear man'.

Yes its an epic game. BUT you become stupidly addicted, have no life, will no longer eat at the table with your family (if you do that anyway), have no life, be addicted, wake up at 4 in the morning on the weekends so you can have a session of un-interrupted farming of an area with no other competition from players, have no life...and yeah, have no life.

Oh and youre NEVER the first person to accomplish something. When you want to cheer to the world that you killed the elite 62 mob by yourself, someone will go 'yay, did that 2 weeks ago' etc.
 
ĐynastҰ said:
Simple. WoW is an addiction that canNOT be cured unless you move to Uni and your halls' internet connection has WoW's ports blocked...****ers.

Once you hit 60 and join a raiding community, and start earning 'DKP', the game becomes a JOB and nolonger a GAME. Every Friday, Sat and Mon night for me at 6/7pm, i was online and hoping i got invited after signing up on a website earlier in the week. Getting DKP = getting items that arent THAT much better than you have but have 'I killed Boss X written all over it'. If you didnt go to the raid, you got no DKP and someone later that has more DKP than you will get the item even if you worked in that instance for longer than him/her. It becomes a fashion statement because we all LOVE when people whisper with you with 'damn, nice gear man'.

Yes its an epic game. BUT you become stupidly addicted, have no life, will no longer eat at the table with your family (if you do that anyway), have no life, be addicted, wake up at 4 in the morning on the weekends so you can have a session of un-interrupted farming of an area with no other competition from players, have no life...and yeah, have no life.

Oh and youre NEVER the first person to accomplish something. When you want to cheer to the world that you killed the elite 62 mob by yourself, someone will go 'yay, did that 2 weeks ago' etc.
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...Bad experience with WoW? :p

I got my gear at a pretty good pace and never got tired. The secret to keeping interest in raiding it too have a good guild mates :| Soon I didn't care so much about the gear as much as I did the hilarious conversations I'd have with people over ventrillo
 
ĐynastҰ said:
Simple. WoW is an addiction that canNOT be cured unless you move to Uni and your halls' internet connection has WoW's ports blocked...****ers.
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Actually, it was very easy for me to quit, and I raided everyday but Tuesday.
 
Danimal said:
Actually, it was very easy for me to quit, and I raided everyday but Tuesday.
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Yeah i dont care about it anymore (quit 3 weeks ago). I just miss my guild and the people in my community more.
 
My account expired a week ago, but I'm staying active through someone else's account playing his character when he's not.

It's actually a decent fit. He has a well geared druid (best healing gear from MC / BWL / AQ, healing AQ staff, full stormrage) and I enjoy playing him, plus I don't have the obligation I had on my own characters.

I got a rogue to rank 13 with some tier 2 and tier 1 level gear. Plus a warrior in full tier 1/2 and AQ epics, exalted with all three battlegrounds. Suffice to say, I was pretty hardcore. The thing is...I couldn't play the game casually. I had to be doing something hardcore, whether it be raiding, or pvping. But this way I have no obligation to play this character, it's just for fun here and there, raiding when my friend isn't, or pvping, whatever. It's a great fit for me.
 
OMFG BAAL!!! Its me, ur bro!!! DIABLO!!! :D


Btw sry for interupting the thread, just couldnt hold it!
 
Ravioli said:
OMFG BAAL!!! Its me, ur bro!!! DIABLO!!! :D


Btw sry for interupting the thread, just couldnt hold it!
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If I didn't like being registered here since September 2003, I'd have changed my account (and name) long ago..

;(
 
The expansion is sure to add another year or more to WoW's lifetime.

Its going to be awesome tbh.
 
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