Northerngimp Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Its weng. Which of the following would you be referring to? Weng, Germany, a town in the district of Landshut, Bavaria, Germany or Weng im Innkreis, a town in the district of Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria or Weng im Gesäuse, a town in the district of Liezen, Styria, Austria None of the above, weng as in shyte. I know some people who play it at work. Its taken over their lives and moan about people in their clan like they would moan about work. Its like a second life for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Reminds me of that series 'The Guild' that's online.. crazy people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Its weng. Which of the following would you be referring to? Weng, Germany, a town in the district of Landshut, Bavaria, Germany or Weng im Innkreis, a town in the district of Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria or Weng im Gesäuse, a town in the district of Liezen, Styria, Austria None of the above, weng as in shyte. I know some people who play it at work. Its taken over their lives and moan about people in their clan like they would moan about work. Its like a second life for them. It's all about moderation. And if you think WoW is bad, at least you don't have to deal with people who play the actual Second Life... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmonkey Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I still don't know what you actually DO in this type of game. Level up doing what? What does everyone else online do? Is there AI at all? The game is set in a big virtual Lord Of The Rings type world. There are two sides (Horde and Alliance), each side has a number of races (e.g. humans, elves, orcs, cows on two legs, etc etc) you then pick a type of character (e.g wizard, warrior, mage, hunter, healer, and so forth). Your character starts off at level 1 for all attributes - so defence, strength, attack, speed, etc etc, are all within level 1 limits. The maximum level your character can get to is 60 in the original game (WoW), 70 in the Burning Crusade expansion, and now 80 in the Lich King expansion. There are also a number of non-combat skills that similarly start off at level 1 - e.g. mining (where you mine ore from rocks), blacksmithing (create weapons and equipment), cooking (make food with strong healing properties), etc etc - theres over a dozen of them iirc, and are called professions. You can only have two professions at one time, so e.g. mining and blacksmithing (can mine ores, create metal, then use that metal to create weapons, which you can either use or sell on WoW's in game auction place). You then run around in this virtual world doing one of three things - 1) fighting the various wild monsters/beasts/animals/creatures littered around the game world in order to gain experience points and level up your attributes. 2) do quests/missions that provide alot of experience points. These quests for example require you to get a certain number of items (usually by killing/fighting the aforementioned game world enemies as per the quest's requirements) in a specific area. 3) focus on your professions (e.g. spend an hour mining rocks and increasing your mining level, which then allows you to mine more "valuable" rocks which will give you better metals, e.g. lumps of silver). The aim for levelling up is that it allows your character to equip more powerful weapons/accessories (known as "gear"), allows you to take on more powerful foes in higher level grounds, opens us many of the in game enhancements (e.g. instead of running around you can get a mount, which is some kind of animal you can ride that allows you to run around quickly), and gives you the ability to do the end-level things like storming the other side's cities in large groups of other players, or run a dungeon where 5 to 25 people go in together and fight some uber high level AI boss who when killed will leave a uber high piece of gear for one lucky person. There's also a big tournament competition thing where teams/clans fight each other and get ranked. The "fighting" within the game is essentially similar to an RTS game (e.g. age of empires, C&C) where your character does the fighting for you but you perform all the movement controls and decide what spells or powers or attacks to use when. At the earlier levels, most of the fighting will be with game world creatures/beasts/animals/etc, because the two sides (Horde/Alliance) have their own areas on whatever continent you're on, and therefore noone with a low level will bother going into the other's territory as they'll be attacked. I personally found the game pretty shit and quit after a few weeks (got a warrior to level 30). The main gripe I had was that to level up, you were spending most of your time running around. Running around as in mind numbingly boring running around, a virtual character doing nothing but running around in a virtual environment. For example, to do Quest XZY, you have to run from A to B, kill 10 monsters, run back to A, then run to C, kill 20 monsters, run back to A, then run again to B, so on and so forth. Each little trip could take upwards of 5 minutes, which means that you're sitting on your keyboard holding the 'w' key watching your virtual character run around in a shitty virtual environment for 5 minutes every time (you can auto-run forwards, but then you usually end up running into a mountain face or something - basically you cant do anything else, the game will need your constant attention). And that was whilst I was "cheating", i.e. using a walkthrough guide on the internet to find out where I had to go, which probably saved me countless hours. Added to all of this annoying running, the amount of time it took to "level up" became insane. To get from level 29 to 30 took me severeal quests plus lots of fighting, a few hours worth of gaming practically. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Played it for a while when it first came out but got bored, but tbh I do that with most MMORPGS! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I have mainly been put off by the people who do play it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Azuremyst is full: Position in queue: 102 Estimated time 45 min My biggest gripe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 http://i40.tinypic.com/vyqg6v.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 No way is that the timeline of a player! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filflop1 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 is that maradonnas son Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxsln Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just got a new account with RAF, leveling is a joke, 300% for everything, did 5q's in ghostlands and got 2½ lvls Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parka Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I think I put on about 2 stone by the time I quit warcraft Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Is that seriously the same guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 God damn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northerngimp Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 This is what WOW does to people http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dZXbCe7iNEY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northerngimp Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kwql6_RJ348&feature=related This one is better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lazlo Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Love those vids. don't know why but this is my favourite: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bIVTT4fgPQI Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinotheprehistoricgeordie Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I've been thinking about getting back into this game but after listening to some of these vids I'm not so sure it's a good idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parka Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Dont do it. I got back playing again last summer and it took over my life. I went cold turkey, quit, met my girlfirend and 6 months on life is good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 £9 a month subscription multiplied by 9 million players worldwide equals £81 Million a month for the software company (and that doesn't include any sales of the actual game). Nice earner! I never knew anything about 'World of Warcraft' until I started working in the IT department at work. The people at work who play this game go on about it all day long. Unfortunately that makes them fit the exact stereotype of an IT geek - Going on about dwarves, elves, potions and shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 It's fucking shit. Used to be good back in the day when it felt like bit of challenge to level n that, and quickly turned shit when the add-ons became repetitive "Go here and kill 20 of these." and the fact that everyone the same class as you ran around in the same gear, with pretty much the same talent tree's just made it boring as fuck for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 World of Warcraft... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 That bit on Peep Show when they're sat in Mark's bedroom having a 'massive sesh' with those fucking headsets on. Man, kills me every time, without fail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinotheprehistoricgeordie Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I'm doing it, going to dive back in tonight. Anyone still playing? I haven't touched the game in 3 years I'm wondering if it's worth getting the expansions etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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