World of Warcraft OB!

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:19 pm

Aight guys, time for you to join me in blizzard's new crack MMORPG. I'm rerolling on Central server 6 as a priest, send me an in-game mail or tell when you get there

sign up

edit: dur, my name is Jhov
edit: dur #2, I'm Horde side

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:14 pm

Isn;t that game like $50 bucks out of the box, and then $15/month on top of that?

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:25 pm

yeah, it is. which is why you should play it NOW while its free...

OB = open beta

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:31 pm

Gah, i tried to sign up but never got through

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:44 pm

I'm gonna go with ignorence is bliss on this one. $15/month is just B.S.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:22 pm

If you like RPGs and have never played the MMOG versions, take my advice and stay away.

Scary, scary. FFXI sucked up too much of my life before I quit, and it sorta spoils the single player RPGs for good. I got an invite to WoW awhile back and deleted the email.

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:28 pm

I'd like to second Jmeat's statements.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:34 pm

well, WoW seems to be more geared to casual players, so it's time consumaton should be way more controllable...

I'll see after open beta for myself, i guess (if i can get in, that is)

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:44 pm

Noo J come to WoW! You can't resist its siren call!

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:48 pm

Phoenix Red wrote:Noo J come to WoW! You can't resist its siren call!

Sorry bud, no more MMOG's for ol' J. One per lifetime.

Now Warcraft 3 sure! We used to play quite a bit.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:14 pm

Vertigo wrote:well, WoW seems to be more geared to casual players, so it's time consumaton should be way more controllable...

very true. ive been in the beta since the beginning of august, and ive put a TOTAL of 50 hours into the game, which, all things considered, is not a lot, especially for an mmorpg...

however, that may just be because i dont like the whole "mmorpg" thing.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:27 pm

When I quit FFXI I had 70 *days* in the game...

Not all of it was play time, a lot was sitting in bazzar mode selling crap or just letting the game run overnight, but still. It had to stop, and it did, for good.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:51 pm

Gooberman wrote:I'm gonna go with ignorence is bliss on this one. $15/month is just B.S.

Good choice- I went over to a friend's a played for about 4 hours last week- got a mage up to lvl 5, and left sure that I could get myself really addicted to the game, and that I shouldn't buy it. (my GF agreed with the second part- she almost got mad at me for just considering it)

JMeat- when I stopped Camelot I think I had about 17days on my main, and probably another 17 across my other characters.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:59 am

Well i'm ont test server 12, under the name Valaquent

Gimme a /tell if you're online sometime

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:49 am

Ohh, I've been in the Final Stresstest since last week. And oh god. What JMEaT says is true. I just can't stop lpaying it. It's sucks up your life and shits in back out in the form of feelings of guilt and regret.

The scary thing is, I'm actually considering buying this game. BUT I MUST RESIST THE TORTURE! OH JESUS GOD!!!

You know, it's just a matter of time before they get rehab type programs for obbesssions with games like this.

And I'm on Test Server 6 under the name....... Sage!?

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:52 am

vertigo: come to 6!

sage: I'll drop you a line when I'm on next. I'm leveling all out, I only have 5 hours played on the new priest but he's level 11. If you are around my level, I'll take you for a ride through the quests

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:55 am

I got a level 15 mage. But I still need to do a load of the beginner quests.

What's your name in the game btw?

I must admit these games are VERY fun. I've never played an MMORPG before this, and this is one of the funnest games I've played. That's why it's so addicting.

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:11 am

Level 15? Are you in the barrens or silverpine?

Gain 2-3 levels tonight, I'll have you caught up by tomorrow evening or so.

edit: name = Jhov, as I said in OP

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:35 am

Oh yeas. I didn't read.

Anyways. I've been doing stuff in the Stormwind/Elwynn area, but I am now exploring around the Ironforge and Loch Modan.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:24 pm

Poor Sage.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:44 pm

Indeed. Help.... Me.....

I CAN'T GIT OUT!!!

oh wells, I'll probably stop playing it once you have to pay monies for it. U know, I don't think I'll pay $12 a month.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:58 pm

Anyone know how much/month this is meant to cost?

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:01 pm

http://www.blizzard.com/wow/faq/

Will there be monthly fee to play the game?
Yes; however, we are still investigating our business model and have not yet determined what the fee will be.

Traditionally MMOs are between 10-15 dollars. Although given that it's blizzard and they've run battle.net for free for years now, that figure may drop down to even 8 or so, but I doubt it.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:07 pm

they've realised the official cost for it, tetrad.

http://www.blizzard.com/press/040411-street-date.shtml

Blizzard wrote: After the initial free one-month subscription ends, players of World of Warcraft will be able to continue playing under one of three different subscription plans. The month-to-month subscription plan costs $14.99 per month, the three-month plan costs $13.99 per month, and the six-month plan costs $12.99 per month. World of Warcraft subscription fees can be paid by major credit card, PayPal, and pre-paid game cards, which will be available in stores where World of Warcraft is sold. World of Warcraft has received a Teen rating from the ESRB.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:25 pm

Too much.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:37 pm

punisher wrote:Too much.

If you get addicted, not at all. I knew people who had like 4 accounts.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:56 pm

its too much if you have to drop 40 bux in a store to get a box first.

Trackball · Post by **Trackball** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:07 pm

Its Lineage II all over again...

Flop. Play Descent.

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:14 pm

"too much" from the guy who will blow $150 on paintball AMMO every time he goes out for an afternoon of fun? It's not free but it's not expensive either.

Anyways, sage you're alliance. I'll have to kill you instead of quest with you sorry.

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:22 pm

Agreed. If you play games much, it's not that big a price to pay.

I'm no marketing expert, but it does strike me that they could lower the price a little and get a higher adoption rate (i.e. 10/month, 8/month for 6 months, etc). Or maybe it's better for the real fans of the game to pay a little more and keep the servers less crowded.

Still on the fence about buying it... not just because of the price, but because it was so damn addictive.

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:03 pm

Mehyam more people = more servers = more money, lowering the price adds people but it doesn't add profit. The monthly fee isn't really profitable anyway, it goes to GM staff, bandwidth, hardware maitenance, and "free" new content, the balance team, bughunters etc.

OB signups are closed. Yall flooded our servers and it's unplayable :p

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:33 am

Played it for a bit. seems boring.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:54 am

I've played 2 different characters to level 8 so far, and I have to say I like it a lot more than FFXI. They seem to be really liberal when it comes to leveling up just in general. Very little failure when it comes to job abilities, it's just you can't buy the better stuff until you are more skilled, which is really nice (nothing more annoying than mining for a while then losing it because you "failed" making something).

Also seems very conducive to soloing overall, unlike FFXI. Only time I joined a party was because there was a group of us trying to kill a boss for a quest, and by banding together we wouldn't have to do it one at a time.

And just overall the quests are good. Or rather, there are a lot of them. So far there hasn't been a single time where I was walking around looking for something to do, I've always had quests to keep me busy and to slowly move me from town to town.

And damn the game looks pretty.

If I'm not bored with it by the time it goes retail I'm going to have to pick this up.

Currently I'm playing a Troll Shaman (Horde of course) on Central Test 28.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:17 pm

me and some friends are on East server 20, alliance.

i played the hell out of the horde, and they wanted to be ally, so i figured id give it a shot.

long live the horde

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:00 am

I just spent an hour, and went up two levels.

wee, level3 rogue