Comments on: World of Warcraft: I fail at WoW.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:36:28 +0000

I just need a goal in the game. If I have a specific goal to work to, it’s easy to get deeply involved in a game again.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:35:11 +0000

Early days of KT were simply the reason why I play MMOs :) What was your character name? Some of my best times in game were with Prosthetic Feet…. My first Onyxia kill, all those Molten Core runs :)

By: Akura

Akura — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:17:39 +0000

I have to say: you sound so excited about restarting WoW perhaps it’s just me projecting the reasons I quit onto your blog post, but to me it sounds like you’re not all that enthused, even though you seem to want to be. perhaps time to try another game entirely?

By: Gwen

Gwen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:57:50 +0000

I discovered this blog a few months ago, so I haven’t been reading it for all that long. Imagine my surprise to realize after reading this that I knew you! I played a Forsaken priest on Kirin Tor and was in Prophetic Fate (but mostly, I pvped a lot). And I remember Snacks for the Horde! I guess it really is a small world…. I think those early days on Kirin Tor were the most fun I’d ever had in WoW. Nothing afterward ever quite lived up to it.

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By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:48:32 +0000

Curse.com’s AddOn manager is very nice. Nice enough that I gave them money, which is about the biggest endorsement I can manage.

By: Toldain

Toldain — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:45:03 +0000

I’ve had some other WoW characters over the years, but by far my favorite was the WoW version of Toldain: A blood-elf mage, with red hair, of course.

By: Trislan

Trislan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:17:11 +0000

I won’t debate the use vs. overuse of WoW addons, but I do want to highly recommend the addon manager available at wowmatrix.com for dealing with the technical side of addon installation and updating. I tried almost all addon managers and found the wowmatrix one to be the best for my needs, with minimal advertising and fast updates of most supported addons.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:01:16 +0000

@Bhagpuss – well, no other game I play uses add-ons to such an extent to ease gameplay. I do use a map add-on for EQ2. I figured if I were going to give WoW another shot, the least I could do is go whole-heartedly into the things that are uniquely WoW, like the pro add-on culture. I was fairly free of add-ons my first time through WoW (I did use a roleplay add-on) until I started raiding and received a list of add-ons I would be required to use and master if I expected to raid. Decursive, a healbot add-on, an add-on that warned me when raid bosses were about to do something of which I should be aware, etc. That made raiding very dull for me.

@Yunk – I LOVED that Arena fight! All us gnomes had this thing going on in the KT forums :) It was great. Best times in WoW for me were those few months we had the server to ourselves, before they opened up transfers.

@Friendly – *gasp* you’re back in LotRO?

@Jaye – :)

@Kaozz – I’m not sure I’m coming back to WoW — not yet, anyway. I’d been planning on checking things out when Cataclysm opened and lots of people would likely be restarting. But it’s nice to say hello to my old characters :)

@Longasc — yeah, I don’t remember every quest giving faction, but it sure seems like they do now.

@Tesh — you may be the first person in the world to ever compare WoW to Allods Online. Usually, it’s the other way around!

By: Bhagpuss

Bhagpuss — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:50:53 +0000

All this stuff about Add-Ons really flummoxes me. I only ever tried two Add-Ons for WoW, one to stop me getting Duel invites and another to, um, I forget. Something similar. Both of them broke after the first patch and I never bothered to update them.

Mrs Bhagpuss, who plays WoW more than I do, has never used an Add-On and indeed wouldn’t know what one was or even that they exist. She seems to enjoy herself just fine. I do know they do all sorts of stuff for you, but, perhaps naively, I thought those things were what I was paying money to be allowed to do for myself. Why would I want to be told where a mining node is by an Add On when I have an ability in the game that shows me? Why would I want to be told when to fire off an attack or a heal when I have a brain and fingers?

Same thing goes for Guides. The NPCs tell you everything you need to know about the quests when you speak to them. Why would you need someone else to repeat that?

Seriously, while I understand why Add-Ons and Guides have become embedded in WoW, it still seems to me that all they do is take the game out of the game. No wonder people find it too easy and boring if they automate away all the actual thinking and deciding.