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What is fun about WOW (World of Warcraft)?
A lot of my friends are starting to play this World of Warcraft WOW game. Some of my friends stay on the game all day long. It's like they become absolutely obsessed with WOW. I know games can be really fun but I don't understand how you can spend literally days on one specific game, nonstop. Anybody know what's so fun about it?
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WoW is tuned to take time.
The addiction starts because the mechanics themselves can be pretty fun. One of the biggest draws is the ability to group up.
I used to do a good bit of raiding, so I'll illustrate how it works.
When you first log into WoW, you might play for a few hours. In those few hours, you might go up as much as ten levels. Whoo! New powers, new places, you're running all over the place exploring a new world and meeting random people.
You log back in the next day and go out again, playing for the same amount of time. This time, you only go up four levels, though you get some interesting new powers.
You log back in the next day and go out again, and you only gain two and a half levels. You consider logging off, but whats an extra half hour to gain the rest of that third level going to cost you? Nothing, right? So you go ahead and finish that level.
So on and so forth, until it takes you several hours to gain one level.
Ok, well you're doing fine, you can still play just an hour or two a day. Then one day you get a message asking you to join an instance. Killing shit with people? Sounds good! You've already been playing for three hours, but you've not played much with people, so you jump on it.
You stop what you're doing, and run your butt to wherever the instance is. It takes about fifteen minutes to get organized enough to start, and then another hour or two to clear the instance.
Hmm, you just spent more than 4 hours playing. Oh well, it was fun, right?
The insidious part about this, is that they're softening you up for being max level. When gaining levels, you can quit whenever, you still have whatever progress you made to call your own. Every experience point stays there waiting for you.
You get to max level, and suddenly it doesn't work the same way. You've got all the powers you can get, so now its all about your gear and random goodies. You've made enough friends to be in a guild, and the guild is raiding. So you decide you want to try raiding.
Oh wait, your gear sucks, so you've got to go run some instances to get better gear before you can go on the raid and actually help.
Oh wait, your gear sucks, so no one will take you on an instance, so you've got to grind rep and level some professions to make and buy some better gear.
So now you're off in the middle of nowhere killing things as fast as you can so that you can catch up to everyone else in gear. And because of the way its tuned, you're looking at 30 hours of investment minimum before you can even raid.
Now you're raiding. You spent four days playing nonstop to get the gear you needed (probably a severe understatement) and you want to raid.
Well, your guild hasn't cleared the raid yet, so you're looking at a 4-6 hour sit down. You go in and die seven times on the second boss. Two people got a new piece of armor, and the rest of you have to pay to repair your gear because dying breaks it eventually.
Crap, you're broke. So you go and kill things for money to fix your broken armor. You realize that you need money to play regularly, and you realize that in addition to the 4 nights a week of 4-6 hours raiding, you've got to get on for an hour or so a day to make money to pay for all the stuff you need to raid.
Oh, and you want a cool mount, which takes plenty of time in and of itself. Before you realize it, doing everything you want to in World of Warcraft is a 40+ hour a week commitment.
Which is why it destroys lives.
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I let myself play once, and I never let myself play again, because I saw the potential for addiction!
I played on my ex-boyfriend's account. I made my character, and got plunked into the world. I met a non-player character, and was asked to kill a certain number of boars. An hour later, I realized I'd been doing nothing but killing boars.
That's how it starts. It may not seem fun at first, but there are a lot of activities to do, a huge map to explore, and you can communicate with people from all over the world.
Also, the non-stop thing could be attributed to raids. Some raids can take up to 72 hours consecutively! You're working with a team, too, so you don't want to let them down by being off for too long.
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Oh my dang...
Don't even get me started "lol" .. I know a lot of people who love to play WOW exspecially guys. It is fun to them entertaining and a way to forget about things most people who play WOW "least the people I know" start off playing a little bit to the point where they forgot they were on the computer and 24 hours pass by and they forget to eat and take a shower "lmao" not trying to be funny.. but most people don't like admittion WOW can be an addiction. I on the other hand I've no clue what is so amazing about the game so I really couldn't tell ya.
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