The Joy of starting a new MMO

[joyfulmmo]

With all these threads of "WoW dieing" etc, i just wanted to post my experience with starting a new MMO.

I was too once a hardcore raider started in Vanilla, having multiple top 20 World kills through my WoW "career" and performed activities in this game that a normal player would think of as "impossible", but i want to state something..........as much as i enjoyed raiding and having that "exclusive" feeling of killing bosses before everyone else, this was not what drew me into WoW at all.

Open World adventure was wehat drew me in. Never knowing who or what you would bump into or what you would discover.

Some of my magical moments in WoW was

- Completing the Warlock mount quest back in Vanilla, helping other Warlocks do theirs. Helping Paladins do their versions.
- Discovering areas with elite mobs that would literally one shot rape you, figuring out how to kill them and seeing if they dropped anything
- Wall jumping through Ironforge into hidden areas
- Travelling to Orgrimmar, hiding behind rocks, making my invisible succubus appear and one shot people who had just lost duels, then running in glee as hordes were trying to find me
- Completing Atieshes for people and then seeing the epic storyline as you went through stratholme knowing the tank gets to wield magical legendary swords


Things like this were things that kept me playing WoW, and slowly over the years, they have all disapeared until i finally quit a few months ago. For the first time in 6 years i had plenty of free time on my hands, so i decided to do something new to myself.........actually try another MMO.


The one i picked was Tera. I can honestly say how surprised i am to find that it is actually..........rather good.


Starting zones are blazing with area chat with people who help each other and joke, just like the barrens used to be in early WoW.


Now i know where all the decent players from WoW have gone and why WoW is losing subscribers. They are all playing other MMO's.


I'm sorry to say that, just like in real life, i like playing with elitists, i like working to earn things, and i dislike playing with the masses of welfare scroungers who want everything handed to them on a plate.


I enjoy the fact that MMO-C and WoW seems to be rife with socialists and communists who think that because they pay to play, they deserve to have everything handed to them, because as i once enjoyed WoW, i am now away from the welfare scroungers and playing other MMO's where the "elitists" hang out who, like myself actually want to work at something and reap the benefits.


I dont care that everyone left here will disagree with me.


I am proud to say that i am not, and never will be a welfare scrounger.

[Deleted]

With all these threads of "WoW dieing" etc, i just wanted to post my experience with starting a new MMO.

I was too once a hardcore raider started in Vanilla, having multiple top 20 World kills through my WoW "career" and performed activities in this game that a normal player would think of as "impossible", but i want to state something..........as much as i enjoyed raiding and having that "exclusive" feeling of killing bosses before everyone else, this was not what drew me into WoW at all.

Open World adventure was wehat drew me in. Never knowing who or what you would bump into or what you would discover.

Some of my magical moments in WoW was

- Completing the Warlock mount quest back in Vanilla, helping other Warlocks do theirs. Helping Paladins do their versions.
- Discovering areas with elite mobs that would literally one shot rape you, figuring out how to kill them and seeing if they dropped anything
- Wall jumping through Ironforge into hidden areas
- Travelling to Orgrimmar, hiding behind rocks, making my invisible succubus appear and one shot people who had just lost duels, then running in glee as hordes were trying to find me
- Completing Atieshes for people and then seeing the epic storyline as you went through stratholme knowing the tank gets to wield magical legendary swords


Things like this were things that kept me playing WoW, and slowly over the years, they have all disapeared until i finally quit a few months ago. For the first time in 6 years i had plenty of free time on my hands, so i decided to do something new to myself.........actually try another MMO.


The one i picked was Tera. I can honestly say how surprised i am to find that it is actually..........rather good.


Starting zones are blazing with area chat with people who help each other and joke, just like the barrens used to be in early WoW.


Now i know where all the decent players from WoW have gone and why WoW is losing subscribers. They are all playing other MMO's.


I'm sorry to say that, just like in real life, i like playing with elitists, i like working to earn things, and i dislike playing with the masses of welfare scroungers who want everything handed to them on a plate.


I enjoy the fact that MMO-C and WoW seems to be rife with socialists and communists who think that because they pay to play, they deserve to have everything handed to them, because as i once enjoyed WoW, i am now away from the welfare scroungers and playing other MMO's where the "elitists" hang out who, like myself actually want to work at something and reap the benefits.


I dont care that everyone left here will disagree with me.


I am proud to say that i am not, and never will be a welfare scrounger.

Had me in tears of laughter. Can't tell if serious or insane.

[joyfulmmo]

Can't tell if serious or insane.

I am both.

[Deleted]

Rule 1: Never trust an insane person.

[jackofwind]

Rule #2 - Never trust anyone who would claim not to be insane if asked.

[Deleted]

I somewhat agree with this.
I never got all the cool stuff in vanilla (busy with study), but thought it was awesome that a lot of people were wearing different armour sets etc. I knew I'd never get them, but it didn't matter. Now everyone has the same mount (or at least the FotM mount) and same gear (up until the transmorg stuff, but I quit before that). It just felt bland to me. Content getting nerfed repeatedly etc.

EVE online might be something you might enjoy
Nothing's handed to you, and everything you have you have to work for (and you can lose it).

[joyfulmmo]

Rule 1: Never trust an insane person.

Seems a logical statement to make.

Especially coming from someone who expresses his location as "space walrus"

[Deleted]

I'm not crazy, that's just the Green Space Monkey Apples talking, ignore them!

[joyfulmmo]

I'm not crazy, that's just the Green Space Monkey Apples talking, ignore them!

Ha.

Well i am just a person that has experienced observational changes in WoW and these forums for the last 6 years.

Both of which have had a large shift towards socialists and communist points of view being expressed openly.


Im not saying this is wrong, im merely stating that it is something i would rather not be a part of, mainly because i do not agree with things being handed out on a plate to people.


This attitutude in MMO's much like socialism and communism in real life, in my opinion, leads to de-volution rather than evolution.

Even in largely socialised/communistic areas such as Scandanavia or China the only reason they thrive is because they are a bubble that is supported by a thriving business market that is preventing them from being burst.


In WoW, you do not need a thriving business to sustain its exisitence, and all that is left is the complete devolution of it.

[Csnyder]

With all these threads of "WoW dieing" etc, i just wanted to post my experience with starting a new MMO.

I was too once a hardcore raider started in Vanilla, having multiple top 20 World kills through my WoW "career" and performed activities in this game that a normal player would think of as "impossible", but i want to state something..........as much as i enjoyed raiding and having that "exclusive" feeling of killing bosses before everyone else, this was not what drew me into WoW at all.

Open World adventure was wehat drew me in. Never knowing who or what you would bump into or what you would discover.

Some of my magical moments in WoW was

- Completing the Warlock mount quest back in Vanilla, helping other Warlocks do theirs. Helping Paladins do their versions.
- Discovering areas with elite mobs that would literally one shot rape you, figuring out how to kill them and seeing if they dropped anything
- Wall jumping through Ironforge into hidden areas
- Travelling to Orgrimmar, hiding behind rocks, making my invisible succubus appear and one shot people who had just lost duels, then running in glee as hordes were trying to find me
- Completing Atieshes for people and then seeing the epic storyline as you went through stratholme knowing the tank gets to wield magical legendary swords


Things like this were things that kept me playing WoW, and slowly over the years, they have all disapeared until i finally quit a few months ago. For the first time in 6 years i had plenty of free time on my hands, so i decided to do something new to myself.........actually try another MMO.


The one i picked was Tera. I can honestly say how surprised i am to find that it is actually..........rather good.


Starting zones are blazing with area chat with people who help each other and joke, just like the barrens used to be in early WoW.


Now i know where all the decent players from WoW have gone and why WoW is losing subscribers. They are all playing other MMO's.


I'm sorry to say that, just like in real life, i like playing with elitists, i like working to earn things, and i dislike playing with the masses of welfare scroungers who want everything handed to them on a plate.


I enjoy the fact that MMO-C and WoW seems to be rife with socialists and communists who think that because they pay to play, they deserve to have everything handed to them, because as i once enjoyed WoW, i am now away from the welfare scroungers and playing other MMO's where the "elitists" hang out who, like myself actually want to work at something and reap the benefits.


I dont care that everyone left here will disagree with me.


I am proud to say that i am not, and never will be a welfare scrounger.

if you play tera as long as you played wow then you will feel the same about it, then start another game and the cycle will continue, its not wow its most likely you

[Sj]

Closing as there's no discussion to be had based on the OP.