I have played WOW classis and left due to work related issues and I was also addicted to the game. I rejoined with a new account in 2021 again, but I was wondering about the mechanics of this game.
I know what a MMORPG is and in the olden days they were meant for hardcore player only who could make a massive time commitment. WOW was for casual players. The current version is much easier, as it is faster to level and much much easier to group. But on my server Barthilas PvP for Horde is almost impossible. Also much to my shame I thought I had done thorough examination of which sever will be the best and after that I choose this one. Now either I transfer my alt or start all over again a Holy Priest.
I mean the Quest are nothing to do with skill, just grinding and a time sink. PvE is fine needs some basic skill like having a hand and mugging like a nerd the NPC bosses fights. Just endless repetition. Another endless time sink, just better design. PvP which I have not experienced much has become to fast and now I am much older and slower than before.
Also to shift my alt I will have to pay $50.
In the end what skills does this game develop. At least other games require skill of player against other Players like PuG which I have not played or PvP Halo etc. Speed, timing etc.
WOW is a very round about way of getting there and painful grinding, but which has improved a lot from classic. Also buying gold which I think is insane for money, but is what I have done twice so far. This game has additive elements and unnecessary complexity in its design to prolong game play with no actual purpose. No quick way like DOTA 2 of testing your actual skill as a player, which I know I am crap at anyway (DOTA 2 and WOW).
So what do you get out of playing this game endlessly?
I am additive to this game, so may have to leave again plus I think this game is designed as a clever fraud on the player as I believe all MMORPGs and similar micro transaction games are.
Your thoughts
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i think it is to get the most pet !
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MMORPG don’t have high skill cap like League of legends
I don’t play WOW for skills test , just to waste my time and chill
PVP is pretty skill tho , you have 1600 achievement points, you did nothing in the game , you can’t judge the skill cap of the game imo
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This is the part where you get into end game activities. Mythic Plus, Mythic Raiding, going for Gladiator in Arena, etc.
If you can’t find a purpose, try one of those three avenues. And if you still can’t find a purpose, go collect transmog, mounts, pets, toys.
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Ive played wow since vanilla. when i was a little lad with a terrible home life. So wow was a escape. no one yelled at me or hit me. it was a place where I could put my headphones on zone out from real life and be left alone. Thats still holds true today besides im older have my own kids and work now. wow can still be a place where i can get away from real life stress and world issues. is the game play little more dull now a days yes. Though in the end I can still do a lot of random stuff that I do enjoy then when i get bored i just get off.
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It used to be for challenge, fun, adventure, and entertainment to keep subscribers…now World of Warcraft development is about parsing statistics and making decisions based on those statistics to try and keep subscribers.
It’s not here to build skills, it is to have fun. It used to be more fun. Fun peaked for me in Legion, dropped off in BfA and has bottomed out in Shadowlands. What I enjoy doing is soloing old content. They made old content (Legion) harder to solo in this expansion, so less fun for me.
Disclaimer: Everyone has their own definition of what is fun for them. Your mileage may vary.
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Am I the only one having fun?
lmao.
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I play it to have fun, which I do. Used to enjoy raiding, now I enjoy chasing achievements and collecting. It varies with time. I 've never considered it any more than a fun activity that my husband and I could do together.
As far as developing skills; It has allowed me to improving keyboard skills and hand eye coordination which is important as I age.
My daughter, who is now 21, is autistic and I have let her run around on toons since she was about 5 and it has greatly helped executive functions (adaptive thinking, planning, working memory, organization, etc…) It was not the goal, but has been worth every penny.
Edited for typo.
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The purpose is to have fun. Anyone who said otherwise well idk but it comes back to the root of it all to have fun
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Game is designed to keep players playing.
Blizzard don’t make enough content
So they put artificial wait time
I play the game to kill time, relax and for entertainment purposes.
I used to play it exclusively to hang out with friends and relax from work. I don’t play much anymore because most of my friends have quit and WoW is now a second job.
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You and maybe a few others. Everyone else is just addicted and unable to let go of a formerly great game.
I think it’s grinding for the sake of completion. You might be completing your gear for the patch, or completing your PvP ranking, or completing your character’s professions, or completing your mount collection, or completing all sorts of things.
Why do we complete things? I think it’s mostly to show off to others, whether that be in performance or in who’s got the bigger collection. That’s the cool part of an MMO, you can compare yourself to others.
Ok thank you for your valuable inputs, but it is too much for me, as I have a problem with addiction and I think WOW triggers some sort of addictive behaviour. I cant seem to break out of wanting to play full time which is not healthy, physically or mentally. I am a below average player who plays a few hours a day but does not have adequate knowledge of the mechanics of the game. I can’t make money out of the game as I am not in US or a European country and I have no capacity to do that.
I think the game drags out reputation grinding for lengthening game play and makes end game very hard, as if players get to the end game and finish it, they will leave. Maybe when I retire from work decades from now, WOW will still be there and I can play it then with more free time on my hands. It has done now about 17 to 20 years already.
I get confused with what I feel is a very complicated game with to much to do, apart from grinding for money which is also a pain and no fun. Daily quest to increase reputation is just a waste of time. PvP is fun but again I will require some vast amount of knowledge of Map strategy and player strategy etc. Every game has this learning curve, but for me this is becoming a serious hobby and time sink, which is not productive.
In the absence of WOW I will still waste time, but less likely to and maybe go learn things that I need to, which will help me. Anyway here’s to another 17 years of WOW.
Good Bye and Good Luck warriors of Azeroth, don’t play too much
I’ve been asking myself the same thing more or less in that, I played games that was finite, had an end, you felt good beating it at times. But WoW is endless and open ~ but unless you have a meaningful gameplay loop, where it’s like raiding → do things to get better things to defeat tougher things… rinse and repeat.
The rest it seems is escapism. Not really a matter of developing skills. WoW kinda helps, if you want it to, to develop a few things and get better at it. Whether it is pvp, pve, social skills.
It can engage the brain with even things like gold making.
I can’t say I play this game endlessly because my gameplay loop doesn’t give me a reason to even frequently play it.
its an mmo you play with others.
