| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
SoftRevolution
   |
Posted - 2007.11.30 14:16:00 -
[1]
My Planetside outfit moved to WoW because we were generally bored of PS and fancied a change of pace.
PS is a game where you can be effective from day one. A good FPS player can be every bit as good as a three year vet inside of a week or two and can certainly kill those players from day one. There is no ingame currency. It's also entirely non-instanced so if you can drop by for an hour or two and find something to do in the context of the permanently ongoing war. Just look at the map and see what needed doing (my outfit were quick reaction so that worked doubly - if in doubt just let the enemy pick something for you to do). Ideal game for "casual" players and people with too much free time to be able to play together.
WoW by contrast you needed to level up at the same rate as everyone else and play at the same times as everyone else - or solo. We had players in three timezones and with vastly differing amounts of free time. Two or three of us made secondary characters to help people level up if they missed the main "push" but eventually that got too much for people.
We also predictably ran into issues with "loots" despite best efforts to run the guild as a communist state. Running the same instance several times trying for a particular item is just painful. Most of them we ran at least twice anyway to allow for people to "catch" up if they couldn't play on instance night which made it extra irritating. People whinging about you having items they want to sell when you can actually use them inspires the urge to strangle.
Those factors and the split between people who liked BGs and hated BGs probably did it for the guild and made them not fun to play with for me.
For me personally I think the real killer was the realisation that I was doing a slightly boring thing to level and afford better gear so I could do different slightly boring things more efficiently. Seemed like a vicious circle. I ended up evaluating the chunk of my free time it was eating up vs how much I was actually enjoying playing and there was quite a deficit.
I think the most fun I had in WoW was probably soloing as a hunter when I was in the TBC beta.
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 14:38:00 -
[2]
I just told you why I "hate" WoW. It's a ****ty computer with lots of dull design decisions that promote catassery. It's "gameplay" is pretty much a timesink.
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 14:44:00 -
[3]
 Originally by: Kayna Eelai
Originally by: SoftRevolution
Edited by: SoftRevolution on 30/11/2007 14:39:08
I just told you why I "hate" WoW. It's a ****ty computer with lots of dull design decisions that promote catassery. It's "gameplay" is pretty much a timesink. It turns mildly irritating people into raging spoogepouches.
Most of the problems I listed arise from that.
and that affects your eve-online playing exactly... HOW?
I don't understand the question.
I have to be playing a game to have an opinion on it? What?
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 14:50:00 -
[4]
Edited by: SoftRevolution on 30/11/2007 14:51:21
Quote:
you have any personal negative experience with a wow player inside eve-online, and if so, please explain it and tell me if that is reason enough to HATE WOW.
If that's your question you should have probably said so to begin with.
Don't blame us for your **** poor communication skills <3
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 14:59:00 -
[5]
Edited by: SoftRevolution on 30/11/2007 15:01:54
Quote:
one thing i really really hate on this forums, is the total hate towards world of warcraft, or the jelousy towards it or the hate to it's players or whatever, i don't really want to know the details about that...
This is the only part of your post that specifically talks about hating WoW players.
It is before the bold text.
Is this or is this not what this thread is supposed to be about?
I truly didn't hate WoW players when I started reading this thread but I think I am now building up an entirely rational prejudice 
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 16:40:00 -
[6]
Originally by: Kayna Eelai
Originally by: Rialtor
Do some people openly criticize WoW? Yes, the game has insane success and the game itself is mediocre at best.
i am yet to see ONE solid argument backing this up.
the closest thing i've got so far is "you can shoot through trees" from a eve player who is "shooting though asteroids"... so not much of a valid argument.
and then, you claim it's a mediocre game... may i ask you for how long you played, how many hours/week, how your guild was and what you aimed for that the game didnt give you?
because most of the people doing this critics either didnt play at all, or just played 2-4 weeks half an hour a day and were disgusted because they didn't get instant satisfaction (aka: EPIX)
a) You are trolling
b) You are simple
Which?
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
SoftRevolution
|
Posted - 2007.11.30 22:17:00 -
[7]
Edited by: SoftRevolution on 30/11/2007 22:19:28
Originally by: Kayna Eelai
Originally by: Kehmor
my problem with WoW is we get their player here who can't hack eve and so whine on our forums
this my dear gentlemans, this is the ONLY answer so far that actually has replied to my questions.
other ppl. loaded the post with 5 pages with their (mostly clueless i might add) yadda yadda about wow, about wow vs other games and whatelse crap their mind farted...
and this guy, with one single line, has actually answered what i asked for: how do wow players affect HIM in eve-online (which includes the forums)
That wasn't your question. You mentioned it in your first post but it wasn't your question. You tangentially mentioned it but that was not what you asked.
Please stop trying to sound clever. It's really not doing you any favours.
EVE RELATED CONTENT |
| |
|