Oh World of Warcraft...you good game, you.

Alright.  World of Warcraft is arguably a great game.  To me, it was an amazing game when I played it.  I started playing in October of 2006, months before the release of The Burning Crusade expansion pack.  I absolutely loved the game.  Almost too much.  My first character was a Dwarf Paladin, whom I leveled to 70 and raided A TON!  But, I loved it and I loved my guild!  It was unlike any other game I had played before.  The downside was, I played so much a nearly never saw my family outside of dinner, my morning ritual before school, and walking downstairs to get something out of the kitchen.  I started feeling bad about it, but I loved the game.  To be clear, I wasn't playing with complete strangers all the time.  I promised myself I would never play WoW unless my friends agreed to play, as well.  Lo' and behold, two of my friends (brothers), picked up the game (downloaded, actually).  So, the next thing was for me to give it a try.  As I said, I loved it.  Eventually, I had more and more of my friends playing the game, too.  It was great!  I could log on after I had done my chores, homework, etc. and there would be my friends whom I could play the game with.  Some were more into the PvP aspect of the game, some on the PvE aspect.  I defiantly leaned more on the PvE side, but when my guild wasn't raiding, I logged on to either do some PvP for fun or one of the many other things there were to do in WoW.  I guess my point that I am progressing towards, as I write this blog post, is that I loved World of Warcraft when my friends played AND before the release of The Wrath of the Lich King!  That expansion was just awful when compared to The Burning Crusade.  To defend myself, I did not do any raiding in the original WoW.  I had gotten to level 58 the day The Burning Crusade was released.  So I proceeded to the expansion content (Outlands) and got on leveling.  But, when I was able to compare the Burning Crusade to something, that being The Wrath of the Lich King, I was terribly dissapointed.  The new continent, Northrend, was just boring, bleak, and a change in the wrong direction for me, compared to Outlands.  Outlands had my favorite instanced dungeons, favorite zones to level in, and favorite raid dungeons.  Now I just hope that the next thing Blizzard has coming for WoW will be more in the direction of The Burning Crusade.  I really want to get back into playing it, but I just hate the current expansion.

Alright.  World of Warcraft is arguably a great game.  To me, it was an amazing game when I played it.  I started playing in October of 2006, months before the release of The Burning Crusade expansion pack.  I absolutely loved the game.  Almost too much.  My first character was a Dwarf Paladin, whom I leveled to 70 and raided A TON!  But, I loved it and I loved my guild!  It was unlike any other game I had played before.  The downside was, I played so much a nearly never saw my family outside of dinner, my morning ritual before school, and walking downstairs to get something out of the kitchen.  I started feeling bad about it, but I loved the game.  To be clear, I wasn't playing with complete strangers all the time.  I promised myself I would never play WoW unless my friends agreed to play, as well.  Lo' and behold, two of my friends (brothers), picked up the game (downloaded, actually).  So, the next thing was for me to give it a try.  As I said, I loved it.  Eventually, I had more and more of my friends playing the game, too.  It was great!  I could log on after I had done my chores, homework, etc. and there would be my friends whom I could play the game with.  Some were more into the PvP aspect of the game, some on the PvE aspect.  I defiantly leaned more on the PvE side, but when my guild wasn't raiding, I logged on to either do some PvP for fun or one of the many other things there were to do in WoW.  I guess my point that I am progressing towards, as I write this blog post, is that I loved World of Warcraft when my friends played AND before the release of The Wrath of the Lich King!  That expansion was just awful when compared to The Burning Crusade.  To defend myself, I did not do any raiding in the original WoW.  I had gotten to level 58 the day The Burning Crusade was released.  So I proceeded to the expansion content (Outlands) and got on leveling.  But, when I was able to compare the Burning Crusade to something, that being The Wrath of the Lich King, I was terribly dissapointed.  The new continent, Northrend, was just boring, bleak, and a change in the wrong direction for me, compared to Outlands.  Outlands had my favorite instanced dungeons, favorite zones to level in, and favorite raid dungeons.  Now I just hope that the next thing Blizzard has coming for WoW will be more in the direction of The Burning Crusade.  I really want to get back into playing it, but I just hate the current expansion.

Wow, I am really surprised, you being a professed WoW addict, that you don't like the Lich King. The greatest problem with the Lich King, as far as I am concerned, is that the content was rushed and put onto shelves before it was truly "ready." However, patch after patch has fixed this issue, ensuring that content in the Lich King is fleshed out and provides players at the highest levels new challenges. The Argent Tournament and Ulduar are probably two of the most incredible additions to the Warcraft franchise and both of them are a result of the Lich King. How long has it been since you played?

I enjoyed WoW for a couple of years, but it became stale after a while for me.

It was garbage then and is still garbage now.

Note: I hate WoW with a passion. Shittiest shitty shite EVER.

could we be less on topic? talking about kissing mothers and all?

aaaaaaanyway...
I do like WotLK... being the casual gamer that I am... it's tons of goodness for me.

I like WOTLK, lots more fun quests, improved graphics, Wintergrasp. All the content when leveling up feels more solid, more condensed.

Warcraft 3 > WoW

Wow, so many replies lol.

All MMOs are time/life vampires.  Any game where you just can't hit pause to go do shit shouldn't be played.  It should occur to you that something is shit when you're not seeing your family because you "have" to raid, or do a heroic for that piece of gear.  When in the next fucking patch the "new" piece of gear with 5 more spell hit will make the gear you got now look like shit.  I'm a former wow addict, and totally glad I quit that shit.  Now when I go on vacation, or go visit my family i'm not worried about some stupid shit like losing my raid spot, or not doing dailies.


Also TK/SSC being your favs? Are you sick in the head? 

I stopped playing because I don't enjoy raiding as a rogue anymore.  I never did, honestly, because it seems like people hold rogues to an extremely high standard.  I was a fairly casual WoW player, so I didn't necessarily care about damage meters and junk.  I mean, I try really hard to complete most of the games I buy, and I like to chase down achievements as well with multiple playthroughs.  So it's not that I don't like to "work hard" in my games.