whats wrong with wow?

[Abriael]

What's wrong with wow?

Simple: It's the same re-heated, stale soup we've been swallowing since 10 years ago (since it just re-enacted trite mechanics from previous games). I have a fairly long attention spam, but after that much time playing the same stuff, I can't help being bored to death by it.

[Sushi]

WoW is actually harder than XI in a lot of respects, it is just that XI was much more curel.

speaks the truth!

wow is harder but everything is faster including questing ,boss killing , and leveling

ffxi is the opposite easy mode and everything is slow!!!

ppl always mix the concepts of slow and hard. they think slower = harder

not it's not. cruel is a better word for FF11

[Keith_Dragoon]

I played WoW a few months prior to Burning Crusades, I got 70 I did the endgame and it was just dull you level you raid you pvp. Aside from PVP everything was done the exact same way week after week and its got really boring I quit just after BT released.

I returned to WoW for Wraith and the exact same thing happened except I quit b4 IIC released.

Finally I came back for Cataclysm, by far the best expansion of them all but the game remained the same, I got 85 I did heroics, I did pvp, I did raids all still boring all still exactly as before.

After 3 tries I have given up on WoW. Its not a bad game but its not the game for me, I need a game that constantly evolves that everyday/everyweek the content isn't rolled out the same way to the T. In XI I found that, I was able to level do sky/sea/limbus/dyna/abyssea/etc and stuff seemed to refresh itself in a way I guess cause you can fully ckear dynamis then limbus then abyssea then salvage, einherjar and everything in a single night only to repeat it next week.

So content seemed to be more exciting. in wow you get like 2-3 raids that after a few months become farm mode where you just go for the hell of it or aim for the 1% super rare drops.

Summary: WoW to me is too repetitive and easy therefor I dislike it.

speaks the truth!

wow is harder but everything is faster including questing ,boss killing , and leveling

ffxi is the opposite easy mode and everything is slow!!!

ppl always mix the concepts of slow and hard. they think slower = harder

not it's not. cruel is a better word for FF11

How is WoW harder?

[Betelgeuzah]

How is WoW harder?

It may be easy at first but once you hit endgame it is no longer. There is simply no competition in that department.

Not that it matters aside from the argument advantage when comparing the games. Most people don't care about challenge in their MMO's (or RPG's). Those who are looking for a challenge don't usually play these games, because there's so much crap to go through to get to the good stuff.

[Abriael]

I got to have a chuckle seeing people defining any MMORPG "hard". Every single MMORPG is rather easy compared to other genres.

WoW is nowhere harder than any other MMORPGs. It's twitchier, but twitch is not a measure of difficulty.
Want a "hard" game? try a racing simulator (online, of course).

Oh, and I forgot one of the major problems with wow. It's community (partly generated by the childish art direction, popularity and by the fact that it caters to the minimum common denominator of the gaming scenario). MMORPGs are made or broken by their community, and WoW's is the most immature, grating and simply unbearable online community I've ever experienced.

[Chardrizard]

How is WoW harder?

lol im not trying to defend WoW, but how is FFXI any hard or challenging XD?

in FFXI, as long as your tanks knows how to count shadows, you will be fine.
as long as your RDM can stick debuff on NMs, you will be fine.
i can keep going but i hope you get my point, FFXI was very gear dependant.

if your gear sucks in XI, no matter how good you plays, it will makes the NMs harder.
is it because the NMs are hard? no.

way back then, Kirin was considered hard.. if u looked back, it wasn't because Kirin is hard, its because the gear at that time SUCKED compare to how it is now and there was no merits.

MMORPGs are made or broken by their community, and WoW's is the most immature, grating and simply unbearable online community I've ever experienced.

FFXI has bad apples too, it just didnt seems THAT many because FFXI didnt have THAT many players compare to WoW.

[Betelgeuzah]

WoW is nowhere harder than any other MMORPGs. It's twitchier, but twitch is not a measure of difficulty.

No, WoW can be just as hard as any other game. The problem here is that these situations are so few and far between that it doesn't really matter. For people looking for a challenge, MMORPG's are not really a good option. The developers should focus on making the gameplay mechanics fun and flexible instead of controlling the game so that challenging content can be made. WoW for example sacrifices player freedom so that it can control the players better and create more challenging content. I don't think this is necessary and that XIV can go much further with freedom. The developers have less control over content but who cares. The upside is worth it.

[Theon]

Wow is the perfect game for extreme casuals who want everything easy and fast,a paradise for gaming rednecks.

Wow is the reason this genre is slowly dying,everyone tries to copy wow with wow clones. (WAR,AoC,Lotro,Rift,SWTOR).

Of course,i could care less if the western market dies,all western mmos are the same,thank god we still have the east,with epic games like FFXI,FFXIV,,L1,L2,Aion,B&S,Tera and ArcheAge (first AAA sandbox mmo in a looong time).

Resume:
Western mmos are all casual wow clones,a shame to the oldschool genre.
Eastern mmos have more depth,more featuers,better graphics,gameplay and they all try to innovative with new core mechanics.



WOW ENDGAME HARD? hahahahaha please don't make me laugh,it's the same old gear grind made for ppl with 2 brain cells,even the hard mode instances are easy mode.

FFXI easier than wow,LOL thanks for the laughs.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

"I dislike how they pretty much killed off the social aspects of the game by making it solo heavy in the part that matters of an MMO which because WoW got popular and sparked interest in the mainstream crowd in the west, became the "standard" for MMOs to follow, thus basically killing off what MUD/MMOs used to be about. "

I played WoW for a year on 2 of the biggest (well only) RP servers with RP on it. WoW has several RP servers and pvp-RP servers. And no one really rps very well. Everyone chooses off lore things, or does ERP and tries to justify it.

Getting for help or getting friends to join you on quests is non existant. Even my boyfriend who was farther then me said, "why bother you can solo" I just didn't want to play alone.

That mentality is leaking into ffxi and ffxiv. It shouldn't be weather you can/can't solo. It should be about the fun of doing it with friends or ppl who end up your friend. I much rather do things with others (solo able or not) then to play an MMO by myself.

[AlexiaKidd]

I just started WoW about 2 hours ago to see what all the fuss is about as I had never played it. Don't think I will be giving FFXIV up for it as I am so used to the graphics of FFXIV I was really shocked when I started WoW, it's a big difference lets just say that ^^

I am enjoying it I guess, got to level 6 and have just been running around doing quests trying to get to grips with the basics for now. Strange not being able to change class unless you make a new character, I wonder if that is why so many people think the whole weapon=class thing is good in FFXIV because they think that is the only way to be able to level every class/job on one character. I don't think many realise it was something we could do in FFXI, well not on the fly but from any Moogle so easy enough.

One thing I do like is being able to set all my graphics and resolution setting in-game that is so much better, hope it is something SE can get worked into FFXIV as it saves a lot of time.

Well I got 10 days free trial so it should keep me occupied until the servers go back up for FFXIV at least, hope they go back up soon though I miss my Archer ; ;