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I think one reason may be that people burn out on it and then do not like what it has done to them and the lives they lead. I have heard of people that say they got to 60 or 70 in very short time then had nothing to do. So they get borred.

Using the McDonalds addage... if you have it for every meal every day for 3 month ... ya you will get sick of it. Try to take it more in style, play less and enjoy the ride rather than racing through it. Think of it like life ... it is not a race.

I think that may be part of the reason why people flame it. They overdid the enjoyment of it. But that means that rather than blaming ourselves for our overindulgence, we blame the cause.

Flame me if you will but as someone who knows a thing or two about addictions, this is very true.

Originally posted by knightaudit

I think one reason may be that people burn out on it and then do not like what it has done to them and the lives they lead. I have heard of people that say they got to 60 or 70 in very short time then had nothing to do. So they get borred.

Using the McDonalds addage... if you have it for every meal every day for 3 month ... ya you will get sick of it. Try to take it more in style, play less and enjoy the ride rather than racing through it. Think of it like life ... it is not a race.

I think that may be part of the reason why people flame it. They overdid the enjoyment of it. But that means that rather than blaming ourselves for our overindulgence, we blame the cause.

Flame me if you will but as someone who knows a thing or two about addictions, this is very true.

The game that USED to take all the hate before WoW was Everquest.  The WORLD, pretty much, began to call it "Evercrack" and it had tons of bad publicity because it was "causing divorces."  Which pretty much lends more credence to the ABOVE quoted post.

its hated at least by me because it sucks, it gives me nothing of enjoyment so i dont play it. The other day while at work i saw a 10 yr old kid with his mom, and we had a WOW ad up on the tvs they were playing, and he was like mommy mommy world of warcraft. Thats another reason I dont wanna play it, to mainstream and the most immature.

Originally posted by djnexus

its hated at least by me because it sucks, it gives me nothing of enjoyment so i dont play it. The other day while at work i saw a 10 yr old kid with his mom, and we had a WOW ad up on the tvs they were playing, and he was like mommy mommy world of warcraft. Thats another reason I dont wanna play it, to mainstream and the most immature.

So you hate it because it's popular and because kids play it?
You go you non-conformist.
(Also, feel free to hate GTA, Doom and Warhammer Online since kids play those and they are popular too)

It is like in any other field. Some people want to show they are the “professionals” the “conaisseurs” “the possessors of the truth”. They feel they are allowed to dictate what is good and what is bad. Of course under their point of view anyone that could enjoy, like, agree, feel any positive, different from what they think or just want to show is the “real quality” the “essence” is one moron, noob, ignorant and in the best case he/she not deserve any other think than a paternalistic smile.

They feel or at least they try to show they are way above of the common mortals, they have a desperate need to show, to mark very clear the difference. What’s the best way to do this? Of course, of course you are right … as more popular is one thing more attacked it will be for these “experts” that in another way tend to confuse their own tastes with quality.

Moreover they have a legion of followers that are trying to show how good students they are, how much they agree and understand the lessons of their masters. The problem with them is that they are going some times far beyond the opinions of their teachers and make them to feel ashamed.

A game is as good or bad to anyone just depending on his/her taste. Forget about the “experts”, they live in his resplendent Ivory Tower and their superior minds cannot be understood by us the ordinary plebes.

Go enjoy your game and forget if it is or not hated for someone.

By the way I don’t like WoW. I played it 6 months, got bored and left. It’s not my taste but I think it is a great game and I think than more than 10 millions of players are having fun with it, that’s great! No other MMO have done this ever and if things are not going to change a lot this also will be true for some time in the next future.

Have a nice day.
 

       Im not sure if so many people actually hate the game itself, but that they hate what WoW has done to the MMO genre......As a result of WOWs success other games are now trying to copy it and were getting a boatload of really easy mode MMOs.......WoW also brought in alot of newer players to the genre and while this can be a good thing it also can be bad.......What alot of people dont understand is that WoW didnt really do much new they simply took what was already out there and made it easier, not necessarily better..........

Originally posted by Theocritus

       Im not sure if so many people actually hate the game itself, but that they hate what WoW has done to the MMO genre......As a result of WOWs success other games are now trying to copy it and were getting a boatload of really easy mode MMOs.......WoW also brought in alot of newer players to the genre and while this can be a good thing it also can be bad.......What alot of people dont understand is that WoW didnt really do much new they simply took what was already out there and made it easier, not necessarily better..........

Pretty much what he said. The problem wasn't the game itself, but its main consequences, really.

The genre didn't really have a "core" before, the games weren't automatically compared to a pattern, there weren't necessary standards. Noone complained that DAoC didn't have tameable mounts when it launched. Noone complained that FFXI didn't have RvR when it launched. Hell, noone said that WoW HAD TO offer RvR, full looting, cross-classing, tameable mounts, etc.

And what we get now? Warhammer launches and people complain that it doesn't have flying mounts, stealth or 3 capitals. Not only that, but now we have a LEGION of people who never played a single MMO other than WoW and think they're part of the genre oldschool elite or something. "WoW created the genre!", they say. Trust me if you want, but I've already heard a user with over 200 posts saying that Dark Age of Camelot was a World of Warcraft clone on this very forum last year, and he wasn't joking, believe me.

Now every game has to start by offering EVERYTHING that WoW has to offer and more. Offering a kickass RvR isn't enough anymore, it also has to beat WoW's PvE. Now every single game is a WoW clone unless it didn't follow EQ's genealogical tree but UO's (like Darkfall). I know Blizzard didn't do that on purpose, that's obvious. That's why I don't hate WoW, I purely try to direct my hate only to those WoW players.

Just read some of the topic's just added and that should answer your question

Originally posted by Evasia

Originally posted by Chieftan

Originally posted by Flyte27

It's possible to challenge yourself even in a game like WoW.  For instance I have tried to play two characters at once and do an instance with just the two characters.  It's not an easy thing to accomplish if the instance is not grey to you. 

 

Yeah I love doing stuff like that in MMOs.  In WoW there's always a way to challenge yourself or try something different from the norm.  It really helps when the game's not a ghost town like some other MMOs.

 

A challenge in wow?

Omg they realy believe this:P

Yes you are simply blinded by your own hatred and lacking in imagination.

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