I feel like you’re just being purposefully obtuse here.
Some things in videogames can be accurate to reality while others are not
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If a tree falls on you, you might survive…if you don’t eat you die, nothing obtuse about that.
Doesn’t Valheim have a Forum for its players?
Felling trees on top of stuff on purpose, or by accident, is funny. Managing a hunger meter is not fun, it’s tedious.
Besides, not eating in Valheim regularly makes you obscenely weak, so you’re still practically forced to find food, and from varied sources too because you need 3 different types to get the most out of sustenance.
I’d personally like a more lenient hunger system than the game already has honestly.
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So. peeps complain that WoW is like an IRL job… then they flounce off to play, a Survival game… where not eating makes you obscenely weak and you need to cut down trees for wood, etc.
I hear Second Life’s also popular.
Afaik the premise of the OP wasn’t very specific about what they prefer in Valheim over WoW, so conflating the ‘job-esque’ feel of WoW to that of Valheim is a little suspect to me, but also having played both games and a bunch of other games that have, at least ostensibly, a similar progression structure, I think WoW’s is pretty mediocre, and Valheim, particularly in the early game, has an expertly paced one.
Though to be fair, for me at least, the iron age/swamp period kinda drags on, so it’s pacing is certainly not perfect either.
Despite the sales pitch, I’m still not buying.
Never heard of it
I’m not really trying to sell the game, I just like mulling over this stuff.
People like what they like, you are free to disregard any product you find little interest in, and frankly, that’s for the better.
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I’m also free to point out that a thread titled ‘Valheim a bit more fun than SL’ on the WoW Forum, is asking for flak, it’s not an MMORPG in the style of WoW, its a Survival Game you can invite your mates to join…not to mention ill-disguised evangelising for a single title.
Also reminds me of all the evangelising for Cyberpunk2077 and FFIV.
The question for me is always: If thread creators so much prefer those games… why are they not playing them?
Rather than trying to be an influencer, using a platform provided by a competitor.
I have played titles in the past, from games companies that banned people from evangelising other games on their Forum.
That I can agree with, what I was going to originally post on the thread was to say that I think that the games offer such a vastly different experience that you can’t really coin Valheim as a WoW-killer, and more to the point, I think seeking games to explicitly “replace” or “take over” another game in your repertoire is kinda dumb.
Depends on how cynical you wish to be. I personally just like to talk about media products that I like.
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It does look like a fun game, but honestly its a entirely different genre than WoW so you cant compare the 2 of them.
My gametime runs out tomorrow tho, and i havent touched wow the last month since i saw the crappy new patch wich we will get. So i might try valheim soon anyway.
I wish warhammer total war 3 was out already. that might give me something to do for a while until the second or 3rd patch when shadowlands actually gets some content besides a handful of mythics
or i should play the witcher games again. I have the witcher 3 sitting in my l steam library for a while now without ever having played it
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no interest in playing flavour of the month game said streamer told OP to play.
cant wait to hear in a month the next game all the zoomers are quitting wow to play
remember fall guys or among us wich everyone was hyped for maybe 2 weeks?
I dont watch streamers actually, it was in the steam charts and looked the game up
You’re right, but the main mistake you’re making is assuming volume of content and complexity equal fun. I like Shadowlands, I think overall it is better than BFA. I really enjoy covenants, too, but that may be because I am a venthyr paladin and I just got lucky.
But fun is incredibly subjective. My main problem with WoW since Legion is that the game no longer makes sense. You have modes and systems existing for the sake of being modes and systems, and not enriching the game’s world. We’re getting more and more divorced from Azeroth and now in Shadowlands we barely ever set foot in it. This is not a problem of Shadowlands.
The reason I personally find a few survival games fun is that they make instinctive sense. You get wood, you get rock you build stuff. It’s simple, it’s instinctive. You don’t have to go to a specific zone to collect stygia and what even is stygia, to use to buy holes in your rings. WHAT.
WoW doesn’t have systems that encourage fun. WoW has systems that encourage a very metered progression. And this is where the problem lies. There is about only one goal that matters in WoW - get better gear. Sure mount and pet collections might matter to some, but… why bother collecting mounts if you already have your favorite one? The motivation is flawed. Same with pets. Why bother collecting them when pet battles put you to sleep? And by the way - that’s it - gear, mounts and pets. There’s nothing else to WoW. And this is the problem.
Valheim is great for sure but not mmo.
Rather tell me what mmo is better.
Yes, but I’m saying that judging a game by it’s graphics is ridiculous, considering content is always what’s going to keep you playing. Not standing there standing staring at your character all day.
Unless you do. I don’t know
But there’s plenty of people choose gameplay over graphics. I mean, we play WoW, which ain’t exactly the greatest graphics.
Yes and no. The graphics is the first thing people see. Unless its a very unique and specific game(minecraft example mentioned). It acts like the game’s “business card”. I also play from time to time some very old games like Morrowind, HMM3, Fallout NV. They are simply spectacular games! Love to to every bit…but if I tried giving it younger 16-18 year old guy then he would just 
and say that he will not play the “calculator”.
Indeed. We play WoW simply cause either we have played it for a very long while and/or we know what to expect from a 2004 game. But if somebody gave me 2021 new game which looks like it was made for Win95…then yeah.
You can put the most fastest engine, the most comfiest chairs and the most stylish dashboard and stuff…but if its all in a old rusty Lada carcass then it will still scare off peps. 
I do, doesn’t matter how cool the content is, if I hate the graphics, that’s what I’m looking at, the entire time I play the game…so yes, it’s a deal breaker.
Its not its streamers hyping it up so they can get money, it’ll die out.
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