EPTQuitting WoW (after 6 years) for SC2, I LOVE IT - Page 17
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Meldrath
United States620 Posts
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On July 23 2010 10:06 Two wrote: Most people spend more time playing WoW than they would playing SC2. Wasting is well worth it if you're having fun, so why not? It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about you, just do what you want and play what you want. thing is many people have very little "fun" in the game. yeah raiding can be fun. ya arena can be fun. but most people absolutely hate all the grinding (be it leveling,honor grind, gold grind, rep grind,badge grind...) that needs to be done to do the funstuff. apart from simply not having enough time anymore and getting bored with the game overall i quit because i couldnt stand this shit anymore. i always was the guy that afkd battlegrounds, convinced others that paying for my reps/enchants/flasks is good etc. if i had to grind all the shit i needed to be "succesful" in the game i wouldve stopped way way earlier. note that i started playing mid BC so i didnt even see the "hardcore" days of vanilla wow where it was even worse. sure there are many of those guys that really enjoy flying around a zone for 4 hours to mine/herb whatever, that love doing the same daylies 150 times ,that love leveling up their 5th char. but also there are many many people that hate 80% of their playtime but still do it because they want to have fun in the other 20%. | ||
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smurfdevil
Kosovo38 Posts
 rpg's and mmo's live from the pseudo feeling of success... and that is why the gamers are playing this... you won't find a vicarious satisfaction in longer term of playing sc2 as you played wow. wow is your life! | ||
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SpavaM
Croatia175 Posts
On July 23 2010 22:43 Copes wrote:SC pros talk about playing 12 hour days. Some WoW players will play 12 hour days The bolded parts made me lol. The reason I dislike WoW players is the same reason body builders dislike Greg Valentino. When you see a ridiculous news report / talk show / whatever about gaming addiction, guess what game will be shown... | ||
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Two
United States95 Posts
On July 23 2010 23:28 smurfdevil wrote: all switchers from wow will fall back anyway... at least when cataclysm comes rpg's and mmo's live from the pseudo feeling of success... and that is why the gamers are playing this... you won't find a vicarious satisfaction in longer term of playing sc2 as you played wow. wow is your life! I'm pretty sure I won't be going back to WoW anytime soon. That game is a drug. That's why im destroying my account ;D | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
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Copes
Canada80 Posts
On July 23 2010 23:43 SpavaM wrote: The bolded parts made me lol. The reason I dislike WoW players is the same reason body builders dislike Greg Valentino. When you see a ridiculous news report / talk show / whatever about gaming addiction, guess what game will be shown... I used that as an example because people here respect SC2 pros and wish they could be them. But then the same people will turn around and say "lawl 12 hours at a video game get a life". There are lots of SC2 players who don't make a dime who play it as much as people play WoW. I'm not standing up for WoW. In fact I'm not standing up for either, I think 12 hours at a video game in any day is unhealthy. I rarely do that, and feel greasy when I do. My point is that one isn't more addicting then the other. And in regards to cost I've never minded paying a monthly fee, because every patch is like a new game. That's why you can play it for so long, there's always something new to do. That being said, bring on the SC2, I'm losing my mind waiting for it. | ||
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rasers
Sweden691 Posts
On July 23 2010 23:45 Two wrote: I'm pretty sure I won't be going back to WoW anytime soon. That game is a drug. That's why im destroying my account ;D yup its the game not you. | ||
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Two
United States95 Posts
On July 24 2010 00:01 Amnesia wrote: I quit SC2 long time ago and am playing WoW now. WoW is easily the better game. You quit SC2 a long time ago? The game isn't even out yet though!?! =] | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
On July 23 2010 23:03 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: thing is many people have very little "fun" in the game. yeah raiding can be fun. ya arena can be fun. but most people absolutely hate all the grinding (be it leveling,honor grind, gold grind, rep grind,badge grind...) that needs to be done to do the funstuff. apart from simply not having enough time anymore and getting bored with the game overall i quit because i couldnt stand this shit anymore. i always was the guy that afkd battlegrounds, convinced others that paying for my reps/enchants/flasks is good etc. if i had to grind all the shit i needed to be "succesful" in the game i wouldve stopped way way earlier. note that i started playing mid BC so i didnt even see the "hardcore" days of vanilla wow where it was even worse. sure there are many of those guys that really enjoy flying around a zone for 4 hours to mine/herb whatever, that love doing the same daylies 150 times ,that love leveling up their 5th char. but also there are many many people that hate 80% of their playtime but still do it because they want to have fun in the other 20%. Or you could just be like me and not do the other 80%. Basically I never did my dailies after I got my mount, not once, never did anything for proffesions, and mooched off my guildies and afked 24/7 in battlegrounds. I never showed up for progression nights, yet somehow still got slots for downing nights cuz our guild was understaffed. I got my Arena partner to level engineering 0-424 for me. He finished two week before they nerfed rocket boots. He promptly punched me irl. I got s5 deadly gladiator with a epic bracer from nax cuz I still hadn't finished grinding my honor shiz. Everyone asked me if that Bracer was super good for arenas, and why, and I once saw this guy on my server run around in full deadly except with my random bracer. It was pretty lulzy. | ||
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Sfydjklm
United States9218 Posts
On July 23 2010 09:51 rasers wrote: seems like iam a genius. since i had awesome gear and still didn truin my life OLOLO. and srsly...i didnt read everything but some people saying they waste time with wow and now they switch to SCII? WTF?! like u dont waste time playing SCII u dont get anything out of it either if u dont become a pro. if u become a pro u have 2 play alot more. gonna hart 2 here this blablabla wow so bad for u u play so much u HAVE 2 play so much blalal either ima lucky or just a freaking genius. not sure right now. maybe a ninja! | ||
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bebejugga
United States43 Posts
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Lysenko
Iceland2128 Posts
Basically I never did my dailies after I got my mount, not once, never did anything for proffesions, and mooched off my guildies and afked 24/7 in battlegrounds. I never showed up for progression nights, yet somehow still got slots for downing nights cuz our guild was understaffed. That usually doesn't work very well, because such guilds often get 30 players on farm nights and 22 players on progression nights. And with 30 players online, the progression night people are going to be favored.  | ||
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ApoNow
Luxembourg100 Posts
I've been guild and raid leader of a top50 guild for about 4 years now and for the last 2 years I've raided somewhere between 3 and 4 days on progression weeks. As the main raid leader, mind you. We never expect from someone to have 90%+ attendance (except for our MTs, but that was their personal choice) and it still worked out fine. We have 5 scheduled raids at most since the day our guild was formed (back in vanilla Naxx) and if we dropped out of top100 for a brief moment nobody gave a shit, everyone was glad that we didn't need to put in more hours to achieve good results. I strongly believe this whole issue about the harsh time consumption of raids stems from guild leaders who put too much emphasis on "how to extend your raiding hours to the max" instead of "maximizing your time efficiency". The same problem is actually apparent in games like Starcraft too. There are tons of players thinking if they put in the hours, results will come by themselves. Those people seem to be unaware of the fact that if you focus on analyzing your games and marking your mistakes, spent time will lower drastically for the same end result. It's much more about the approach, not so much about time investment as the masses seem to think. Of course this differs if you want to be at the absolute top, since those guys will analyze AND put in the hours. | ||
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wiesel
Germany727 Posts
Then came the absolute fail with Arena and E-sports, god i still have to laugh when someone talks about competetive e-sport in WoW almost as funny as console game e-sports. Just like where sc2 will end, casual here casual there. Putting 12 hours in WoW is like relaxing playing can't compare this to 12 hours of Broodwar ... | ||
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lovewithlea
168 Posts
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lovewithlea
168 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
On July 24 2010 19:27 azotic wrote: That usually doesn't work very well, because such guilds often get 30 players on farm nights and 22 players on progression nights. And with 30 players online, the progression night people are going to be favored. Yeah, inorite? Except our guild was perpetually understaffed after they cleared ulduar and started Hard Modes, so every other week they couldn't even get 25 people at all for Hard Modes, so they just yanked me from arenas to do a standard run with like 20 people lol. What was depressing was I outdpsed one of our other warlocks in my naxx gear and some arena stuff. But I guess to his credit he was a new recruit anyway. Wotlk raids were kind of shitty though. lol I started playing towards BC, <3 still running Kara one year into BC with my shitty guild. (Not the same one I was in wrath) | ||
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Mania[K]al
United States359 Posts
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Two
United States95 Posts
On July 25 2010 01:51 Mania[K]al wrote: WoW hasn't been out for 6 years. Yes it has. | ||
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