Do you think i should play World of Warcraft again?

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Hi,

Maybe a bit vague, i tried to make this topic on 4 different occasions but didn't because i couldn't get my point trough. I have played World of Warcraft since the start of TBC. I always loved it. I was, and still am a Altoholic and have a chronic case of Restartitis. Which basically means that you play 5 characters at once and HAVE to start new characters alot. So even though i almost never left the starting areas i still had a great time. In about 5 years i only gotten a Hunter to level 70 and a Mage to level 64.

Lately i have been growing up, i am 19 now and need to start thinking about my future. I am waiting for my school to begin and hopefully i will get somewhere. I still spend most of my spare time doing unproductive things. Browsing the internet, various video games and watching movies. I figured why not play WoW again?

A few things are in my way. For starters the whole game changed for me when they heavily increased the EXP. I remember the time where you simply could not afford the time to play a alt because it took SO long. Blizzard really made sure you did almost every quest there is in every part of every zone. This was amazing, because i had such an attachment to my characters. Nowadays you just make a character, do the beginner zones in a hour or two and you're on the fast lane to level 80 (a.k.a. LFG tool) Not to mention they defiled Durotar and Elwynn Forest, ripped away their sweet soothing soundtracks.

Second is money. I already spent money on buying my first account which i forgot the username and password for. Plus TBC when it came out. Then WotLK. Many hundreds of euros to monthly fees. And where am i now? Well i gotta pay 20 euro for Cataclysm, so i can be 85 instead of 80 and fly in Azeroth. 13 euro for a month and soon enough the Panda infection will begin. Leaving me at level 85 while the rest goes to 90. MoP probably will cost 30 euro or something.

Third is the elite players and their Heirlooms. Awful to see a level 1 in full Heirloom gear. Awful to know everyone who has it levels 300% faster than you. Horrible instance groups with elite players who make every instance a speed run. Because their gear is so good, or they prefer to say it's their skill that is too good. PvP is out of the question, there is simply none untill level 60 or something because of Heirlooms.

I would love to return but my mind says "no". For now i'm playing Lord of the Rings online, which is free. It's alot of fun. For some reason though i find myself creeping closer to starting WoW again. I just don't really want to try it anymore because i'll know i'll start to like doing pointless things like kill 10 boars. I don't want to play WoW all day just to get my virtual character a new level. And in a way i learned that there is so much more than WoW to life. I got a addictive personality aswell. What do you guys think? Should i mindlessly indulge in a video game, instead of mindlessly endulging in unproductive things all day in the hope that soon i will be doing productive things?

Dude,if you want to get anywhere in life, look at what your NT age-peers are doing (though don't be too angsty about it,just aspire and work hard)
Most "normals" start caring very seriously around 16-17.

My advice? Dream big, find real interests, *EXERCISE* and create productive habits (can't emphasize this enough)

Think positive, but don't get TOO comfortable.



Short answer: WoW won't get you anywhere,don't restart a bad habit.

I say if you want to play WoW, go ahead. Just try not to spend too much time on it. It's your life, do what makes you happy.

Noone should try to be normal. Normal is boring and should be avoided at all costs.

Nobody should start playing Blizzard Crack again.

WoW's like a hard drug it's great at first, then you start to wonder why am I using this ***. If you gotta ask, don't do it. Stay away. Find something else, something productive that won't have you questioning yourself.

OP I didn't even read your whole post but I'll answer with a resounding yes: Mists is going to be a much better expansion than cataclysm was. I really like pet battles and the new stuff, haven't tried challenge modes yet..I don't even think they' are in the beta. I've had my year pass going for awhile and only log on every now and then to check progress but after pet battles I pre-ordered my CE. I know I'll play the damn thing. Account linked achievements and mounts is nice too.

The big caveat is that I'm the kind of player who prefers to stick to one or two toons so it might suck for you if you're super OCD because they're adding class unique achievements and the whole monk class with its healing, tanking and dpsing. Pandaland is cool too.

Join us join us

Except this is completely wrong. I know maybe 1% of people who had their s**t even close to being together, figured out and with a plan at that age. If you're so worried about being addicted to WoW just don't play it. OP, I don't want you to play WoW if its going to ruin your life but if you don't have the willpower to stop it from doing that then you're just going to run into other road blocks in the future.

Just what constitutes a real interest anyway? I like prehistoric animals, airplanes, giant anime robots, insects, flowers, movies, art etc but I'm not talented nor do I aspire to be a grand director or artist. I don't plan on being a paleontologist or scientist either so my interests are just as real as OP's.

You SHOULD exercise though, but find a way that's fun for you. I jog right now because I don't have a bike currently, I LOVE bike riding out in the country where no one is around to harass me. You should find a physical activity you enjoy, like swimming, tennis, weight lifting is popular with guys I guess. Just make it something fun and not like work or you'll hate it.

Go for it man - you can enjoy your video games and do productive things at the same time.
I play ton of games on my computer and it's pretty much the only thing I'm good at, but I still like to exercise a lot.
Just what NeueZiel suggested, try to find something that suits you. I'm pretty much too uncomfortable to walk/run outside alone because I don't like to have people stare at me.
So I ride my bike almost every day while listening to my mp3, so I could go fast without having to worry about anyone looking at me.

Since you like to make alts a lot you could make a thread here or somewhere to find other people that are new/returning to start leveling up with you while on Skype or something.
There's always ton of veterans coming right before a new expansion to get ready for it and I'm pretty sure there are players without heirlooms so you would feel "equal" etc. with them.
This way your feel for repetitive boar killing would be more social.

MoP is looking quite interesting after the boredom of Cata.
I haven't played in a long time since Cata felt like Wotlk 2.0, but this time a lot of things are changing (PvP point of view hihi)
So I'll be damned if I don't pick MoP up when it's released.

Yeah i don't really get it. When i quit WoW i was happy to say that i now had lots of free time to achieve things in life. Then i played a variety of games almost as much as WoW. So basically instead of 100 hours of WoW i did 100 hours of different games. What's the difference? I guess it won't hurt that much to return. I don't like it though that i have to pay for Cataclysm. I probably won't, maybe if i play for a month or two and it really looks worth it.

It's just.. you know at the moment i don't really care about levelling or items or whatever. But i know if i pay the monthly fee i am basically forced to care again, or else i would have wasted money. I don't know if i want to care about trivial stuff like that again. I'll probably just play again though.. My decision making can be compared to waves. First it's calm then suddenly a big wave comes and i make rash decisions. And for some reason i don't want to pay Blizzard anymore. I don't think Blizzard is ever going to get another penny from me

Well mang maybe you shouldn't bother with WoW anymore... Blizzard has butchered the leveling experience and made it a race.
But really if you enjoy leveling despite the annoying things like heirlooms then sure hop back in, but if you feel like it's more of a forced habit then maybe you should just stay in Lotro and play other video games on the side without having to worry about that "job" feeling from the monthly fee.

God bloody dammit! Now this thread made me download WoW again.

I was thinking about free time and then i saw the Cataclysm 10 day trial on my account. It's the perfect way to see if i still like the game, if by the end of the 10 days i feel like i enjoyed alot i will resubscribe Maybe you should try it too BrokenEnvoke

Already on it - I already had a nice streak of 8 months without playing, might as well succumb to it again.

I need to level up my Warlock since they are going to be so much fun in MoP.

I'm kind of beginning to see why i quit in the first place. I can't really perform in PvP, this is due to the fact that i am constantly switching so i never get the chance to learn my class. Other people play one class for 50 or 100% of their game time so naturally they get good at it. So unless i am a healer, PvP is worthless to me.

Quests can be really stupid and repetitive. I am okay with the Nesingwary quests where you need to kill a total of 90 beasts (Kodo's, Birds and Stags) but Blizzard seems to have added those quests everywhere. I was in Winterspring the other day, some Goblin NPC told me some lame story about how he sells meat. He sent me hunting 15 bears, his two buddies both sent me hunting 15 other creatures. I didn't really like it but i was like "whatever". After a while i completed them and i was sick of it.. guess what my next quests were?

Kill 15 bears
Kill 15 birds
Kill 15 winterspring tigers

Only this time these enemies had a different name and a different color.

Another thing is my "restartitis" has reached a new level. I have a perfectly fine level 55 human female priest but i feel i HAVE to start over. I also have a 66 orc male warrior, had to start over as well. In short it's a never ending story. I still have not really figured it out, i love to play but i'm not paying 13 euro to play the beginning area a dozen of times.

Quests? They have the nerve to call that a quest?

In Runescape we call those "slayer tasks" and generally have much better quests than that.

Don't return to WoW. It's not worth it.