Fed up with WoW

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I've been playing WoW for a couple of years now and have grown bored of it. I'm not usually interested in computer games, but this one hooked me (even though I'm completely rubbish at it). Can anyone recommend anything that might interest an old technophobe like me?

Not really, when it comes to the rubbish pile that is the current game industry; WoW is on top of the heap.

You should try Maplestory. It'll be a sort of shock therapy that makes you realize how good you had it with WoW. Then you can just get back to enjoying the best MMO there is. =/

I tried WOW once and didn't like it.

I'd recommend Runescape except the quality is declining with every update, it's full of bots, and they are adding more and more microtransaction type stuff after many years of not having any at all.

On the 6th of April, Jagex removed a previous block of text from the RWT Rule:

"We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape."

Apparently now they want people to buy their way to success in Runescape because it will make them more rich.

So how would you describe Runescape to a complete novice gamer who doesn't understand half of your last post as it's written in gamers gobbledygook?

When I started I found it to be fun. It has a lot of skills and quests. There are 25 different skills in the game and I like that there are many non combat skills. If you like doing simple repetitive skill training for long periods of time you'll probably like Runescape.

What I don't like now is that there are many bots (people that use a program to play the game for them, some are just lazy, some do that to make money to sell for real money) and there are microtransactions when before there were none. You can now spend real life money to buy some cosmetic items and to spin a wheel where you can win cash, items, and lamps that give experience.

Well it makes sense that you're tired of WoW since you've been playing it so long. Any person would get tired of a game after playing it that long. Recommending something even more grindy like a korean mmo isn't a good idea. I'd halfway recommend Guild Wars 2 since it has no monthly fee and is suppose to be very casual friendly but after playing all the betas it made me want to go back to WoW after half a year and now I'm getting Mists of Pandaria. Its still fun and you might enjoy it.

You should try GoG.com, it has a labyrinthine amount of truly classic games to buy for VERY cheap prices that are awesome. I'm talking Might and Magic 1-5 for 10$, Wing Commander for 5$..sheesh, then there's tons of deals on steam. Just go to GoG or steam and I'm sure you can find something really good at a very budget price. Warcraft 3, all the Starcrafts and Diablo 1 and 2 are lots of fun as well. I -like- Diablo 3 but acknowledge its problems.

My personal favorite free, grindy, korean mmo is Ragnarok Online. I just started back and I'm finding it pretty enjoyable.

Star Wars: the Old Republic (SW:TOR) will be going free to play (F2P) in a few months. It has a decent ammount of content for a casual player. It's atleast worth a look for anyone who was a fan of the movies.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I quite like things with a bit of a puzzle in them, but not too much of a strain on the brain. I loved the tomb raider games.

Guild Wars 2. I think you will get a good bang for the buck, no monthly fees. Feels kinda different from other MMOs, lacks a bit of complexity though.


Star wars 2 going f2p? Guess I can come back and roll a trooper or smuggler. Hope they fixed the crappy fps engine.

A couple articles:

Star Wars: The Old Republic going F2P.

WoW looses 1 Mil Subcribers.

Maybe you should try Rift. It is basically a clone of WoW except the enviroments and lore and stuff are more sinister. It has better graphics than WoW, a worse PvP system i think. And everywhere in the world are "Rifts". Like portals with layers of enemies to kill. Example: Kill 4 skeletons, next stage. Kill 4 necromancers. Final stage is some weird small dragon. Anyway it's completely free untill level 20. So you can install it in 5 minutes, and learn alot about the game and then make a decision.

Me personally? I tried it out and it was too much like WoW. Maybe if i had loads of money but 20 euro for the game + 15 euro a month is too much. A second suggestion, the Elder Scrolls series. I spent so much time in the Elder Scrolls, a little in Morrowind, alot in Oblivion and some in Skyrim aswell

I heavily disagree about the graphics statement but I know my opinion is purely subjective, biased and not fact . I played Rift when it was in beta and even considered subbing to it but ultimately decided not to. The graphics are more..photo realistic but combat is not very fluid and the game's graphic and art design is kind of uninspired, World of Warcraft trumps it here. I don't think Rift is a terrible game and I'm glad a non-WoW mmo has some kind of following but I defininetly think WoW has the better graphics because what they lack in shere realism is made up for with a very unique, timeless style that has aged exceedingly well for nearly 8 years. Compare that to games like Everquest 2 that look like dog s**t now.

Wow, to me, also trumps Rift because combat in the latter feels very floaty, I've said this time and time again but World of Warcraft is to MMOs what Street Fighter 3 is to the fighting game genre..sort of. Its old but still very, very fluid and plays well.

I think Guild Wars 2' dynamic quests are a lot like Rifts but done better. I recall the rifts annoying the hell out of me because no one was around and monsters invaded all the quest hubs.

I never understood the appeal of WoW, and I tried to multiple times. Seems like a massive grind fest and not a fun one. For many reasons I am glad I never got into it, a lot of people seem to have incredibly unhealthy addictions to it.

I like massive grind fests. Doing the same thing over and over to level up is something I enjoy. I still didn't like WOW though. With Runescape I didn't even have to do combat all the time. I could fish or chop trees all day if I wanted to.

If you think WoW is grindy then you probably never played EQ1. Try camping one spawn point for a month or more just to complete one part of the quest for your epic weapon. Yeah! Those where the days.