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Topic: How is WoW Nowadays?

Zulusi Posts: 168 Registered: Jun 25, '11 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 168 User ID: 1,422,889	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	I haven't played in a long time, how is the cata expansion? -----signature----- (none)
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Rezzinu Posts: 3,920 Registered: Apr 17, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,862 User ID: 915,409	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	I'd first check and make sure your account isnt banned first before posing any interest. Seems like they ban accounts due to inactivity -----signature----- DAoC, CoH, WoW, AoC, Warhammer, LoTR. Rift, etc... ..Played one, played them all! . Keeping your knowledge a secret leads to arrogance... ...Sharing your knowledge with others leads to your demise.
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Isoke Posts: 2,433 Registered: Apr 26, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 2,398 User ID: 672,720	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Rezzinu posted: I'd first check and make sure your account isnt banned first before posing any interest. Seems like they ban accounts due to inactivity Ack, no. They don't ban due to inactivity. But it's certainly true that for whatever reason, accounts that have been inactive for a long time seem to be way more vulnerable to hacks. It's not unusual to see folks take an extended break from the game only to return and find their 'inactive' account was taken over by gold farmers and subsequently banned. On the bright side (if there is one to such a yucky situation), Blizzard resolves those problems quickly when you contact them. One friend of mine not only got his account back intact, but also had a bank full of ore and herbs that the farmers had gathered but not yet sold, and his alt Hunter - apparently the character used for the farming - had been leveled from 45 to 75 and had purchased mounts. He got to keep the herbs/ore as well as maintain the extra levels and mounts on his alt =P. Edit to answer your question: I have mixed feelings about the Cata endgame content, but I can say this much...it is totally worth it to start a new character at level 1 and check out the new quest lines and zones. Even if you aren't crazy about questing, etc. Blizzard did a fantastic job of revamping the old world and the leveling experience. It'd be worth it to return just for that even if you don't stick around. Shoot me a PM if you want a scroll of resurrection, btw. Or there's usually a thread going somewhere on these boards with folks offering scrolls. -----signature----- (none)
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Voqar Posts: 8,454 Registered: Mar 12, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 8,255 User ID: 73,152	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Zulusi posted: I haven't played in a long time, how is the cata expansion? Depends what you're into, IMO. Lots of new/revised content for leveling. Super fast 81-85 leveling, then same faction/heroic/point grinds as wotlk, but they go very fast. Talent trees mutilated (happens ever expac but they REALLY gutted everything this time), lots of core game design changes that nobody asked for, and so on. WoW still crushes all other MMORPGs into fine particles of dust but the current "B Team" of GC and the clowns keeps making questionable design decisions and moves as if they were trying to sabotage the game. -----signature----- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that - George Carlin
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Fedup23 Posts: 2,271 Registered: Jul 14, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 2,265 User ID: 1,155,204	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	It is hooo0rrible.. just ask all the people that hate it, but still play it. -----signature----- (none)
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Spookysheep Title: Lieker of Cheese Posts: 21,595 Registered: Jan 9, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 21,166 User ID: 601,475	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Yeah, just ask those 600,000 subscribers that blizzard lost in the first quarter alone after the expansion. -----signature----- I liek cheese Pirates > Ninjas .....................................
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Fedup23 Posts: 2,271 Registered: Jul 14, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 2,265 User ID: 1,155,204	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Spookysheep posted: Yeah, just ask those 600,000 subscribers that blizzard lost in the first quarter alone after the expansion. Yeah, but they all went to Rift.. but are now coming back!!! -----signature----- (none)
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-Peo- Title: Caveat Lector Posts: 3,208 Registered: Feb 2, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,155 User ID: 1,024,262	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Not as fun as it used to be, despite what the bleating fansheep say. WoW is currently worse than it has ever been, full of arrogant devs, clueless and completely out of touch with the playerbase. It really depends on who you listen to, the devs and their drivel about how the game is dynamic and fresh. Or the people who actually play the game, they talk about the recycled content, boring classes, homogenization of all the classes, useless changes to mechanics and talent trees, every class is either 1 button mashing, autoattacking waiting for a proc, or uses clunky alternate power sources like holy power. Not a game I would come back to, wait for the next game to come out and play that. Or you could listen to people who yell from inside the devs ass how good the game is (when they have lost 100's of thousands of subs and have now institued a "Here is a free full account to give to your friends" program, becuz the loss of subs is starting to get noticeable) -----signature----- SWTOR, Maybe in a year. Back to WoW for now. With a lil f2p CoH.
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Shenron_ Posts: 8,665 Registered: Dec 8, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,513 User ID: 746,590	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
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NukeMage Posts: 3,856 Registered: Apr 7, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,821 User ID: 666,051	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	LOTS of changes with xpac, I personally felt the cost was worth it to play, however I find myself not nearly as happy with the game as I was when WotLK came out. -----signature----- I need a new hobby . . Ten level 85's (one of each class) in WoW Back to try out the Feb patch in AC
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Ansithe Posts: ???? Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 0	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Wow now sucks so bad I'd rather play Duke Nukem Forever. -----signature-----
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only Posts: 17,806 Registered: Sep 18, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 17,157 User ID: 968,129	Subject: How is WoW Nowadays?
	Fedup23 posted: Spookysheep posted: Yeah, just ask those 600,000 subscribers that blizzard lost in the first quarter alone after the expansion. Yeah, but they all went to Rift.. but are now coming back!!! -----signature----- â€œA painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.â€ ~Leopold Stokowski
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