Why do you still play WoW?

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As someone who has been playing since TBC, I’m curious to know why other people still enjoy this game. I would really appreciate if you guys could answer these Questions:

  • What first pulled you into WoW, and does that still keep you playing today?
  • Have your reasons for playing changed over the years?
  • Do you still play with the same friends/guild, or has your social circle changed?
  • If you could change one thing about the game, would you? If yes: What?
  • Do you see yourself still playing in 5–10 years? Why or why not?
  • Why WoW, and not another MMO (FFXIV, ESO, etc.)?
  • Do you feel WoW still offers something unique, or is it more about familiarity?
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Because its fun. Despite my issues with tww its still my fav game and ill continue playing it

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best mmo fit for rp hands down no contest

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  1. It looked fun on my mother’s screen
  2. Difficult question to answer. I played it when I was little, 20 years ago (Erk!) because it looked fun and it was amazing to talk to people from all around the world. Though I really think I should have had more supervision! Now it’s just… the same game I have played for 20 years, it’s my home, my main source of entertainment. Not nearly as social.
  3. You never keep the same social circle within 5 years let alone 20.
  4. Give me more Paladin options!
  5. Absolutely. It’s WoW. No other game holds my interest this long.
  6. I started with it I guess. I have played all the other MMOs but as I mentioned above - it just doesn’t hold my interest. I can replay it ad nauseum.
  7. Probably more on the familiarity side but I’ve always loved the art style and gameplay the most out of all the MMOs I’ve tried.
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My boyfriend at the time played and got me to try. I loved it and instantly bought my own game and sub. It was a completely new gaming experience for me, I had only played single player games on console before wow.

Not really, maybe somewhat. It’s still the social aspect and endgame activities that keeps me around and that was also the case back then. I did play more outside of endgame back in the day, mainly because it was new and exciting.

No, I took a break from cata to BFA, had to rebuild my entire social circle. I have one friend from TBC I still play with.

Depends, probably if the game is still around and my social network is still alive. Don’t think I will bother go looking for a new home if the guilds disbands or my friends all quit.

Because it was my first MMO. I haven’t really found another MMO I enjoy the same way. I can find some enjoyment in GW2, but I prefer to play that as a single player game, just doing my own thing working on my personal story and map completions. I have no desire to partake in the endgame group activities there. I di play other games that aren’t MMO’s though, WoW is not my only game.

Honestly don’t know as I haven’t tried alot of other MMO’s. I mostly play for the m+ feature and casual raiding.

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exploring the world really. Started as Night elf druid because alliance had all advantages but later switched to Horde in 2009 cuz of the mature community.

Doing an actualy main story and doing as much content as possible without progress raids and RP of course.

Most people I knew from school stopped playing around 2010.

Bring Kael’thas back to life.

Yes because the story keeps getting better every expansion.

GW2 is close but ESO doesn’t carry the true Skyrim feeling sadly.

Azeroth is a great world we play in and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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The setting, The company making the game and my IRL friends also playing.
The first one, the setting, is still a factor yes. The other two reasons; no, not anymore.

Yes, of course.
I’m not the same person nor the same type of player I was when I started at vanilla launch.

There’s 2 irl friends playing WoW atm, but their interests lie in mythic+ and raiding.
So I never play with them.
Other than them I have no ‘social circle’ in the game.

Yes: I would make world content into a new endgame pillar: The world should play a far more important role, imo.

If the game remains interesting enough and gives me enjoyment: Yes.

Tried many of them and none had the staying power that WoW has.
The closest I came were SWTOR and The Secret World. Both of which I played for multiple years.
WoW is like that old sweater that has a few holes in it, but still just feels so comfy.

The setting is still unique. There’s nothing quite like it.
Also, I’ve never played a class quite like BM hunter in WoW in any other game. I love it.

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What first pulled you into WoW, and does that still keep you playing today?
-This game was installed on this computer when my sister gave it to me 3 years ago, so I decided to see what was what. I tried to create a new account, but because not only the new player experience almost completely awful, but the 0/14678 collections completed made me want to just continue playing on my sister’s account. :exploding_head:

Have your reasons for playing changed over the years?
-Not really, im just collecting stuff, playing old content and RP, never bothered for “endgame” since i don’t like seasonal games and a constant loss of progress. :roll_eyes:

Do you still play with the same friends/guild, or has your social circle changed?
-RP was rough at first with them “friend” stuff, but surely i will manage to find courage to return to it and make some friends for suuure. :smiling_face:

If you could change one thing about the game, would you? If yes: What?
-Item/gear system. Current system is feeling kinda “artificial”, i prefer when every item in the game matter or have some sort of utility, not just few from the latest update, i think its called “horizontal progression”. :nerd_face:

Do you see yourself still playing in 5–10 years? Why or why not?
-Not really, but possible. Depends on the game itself, hope no one pulls the plug off. :dizzy_face:

Why WoW, and not another MMO (FFXIV, ESO, etc.)?
-Games like this is as huge commitment, WoW was just a random curiosity for me.

Do you feel WoW still offers something unique, or is it more about familiarity?
-Not really, not in the game mode i play at least (retail). Just a fine “background” game to grind while watching videos in popup window.

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There is nothing else worthy to kill my time.

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Family suggestion, also pretty and unique Draenei starting zone. I still love running around open world picking up everything if it is pleasant.

Not much, nice to be able to collect some current tier appearances and achieves. Also farm old ones.

Family don’t really play any more. Making new friends is pointless when your playstyle is a LOT slower than most want to do.

Storymode to focus on the story, I am there for the drama not busywork, being yeeted off some daft dark ledge or unexplained mechanics in the guide.

No idea. Left in Shadowlands. The Maw was horrible, hardcore in crap gear and bad for mental health. Discovered cosy games existed.

If there is somewhere pleasant, relaxing and has fun tasks to do will stay - if punishment, grunge and everything gets hardcore, then no.

ESO - Clothing mostly every shade of brown. Combat got hard and ran out of bag space.
GW2 - Zones nice. Racial n story structure good. Weird swapping weapons. End levelling zones hard wo groups, end dragon story awful while trying to fight off an army by yourself.
FFXIV- Heavy Anime theme. Female animation embarrassing.

Familiarity. Wow has complexity which is nice to gradually get into. They keep trying new stuff and increasing accessibility which is good.

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Hmm, why not :man_shrugging:

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The continuation of the story from the Warcraft series.
I had all the games on my PC as a kid, and was slowly getting into MMORPG games.
When World of Warcraft was announced, I basically jumped in during the closed beta.

They have. Mainr season always was raiding for me up until Mists of Pandaria.
Then I took a break, and now it’s mainly roleplay and experiencing the world.

Has changed several times over.
I am still battle.net friends with a few people from the old guild I was in, but interests have changed, e.g some of us are on retail, others went to classic.

Switch back to the old crafting systems

I don’t know, really depends on how my guild will progress.

Played them all, just came back cause I wanted more roleplay.

Don’t really know, guess a bit of both?

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I keep asking myself this question.
I keep playing WoW because it has a good implementation of Paladin as a class. (Holy and Prot)
All right I confess I also enjoy annoying people as Rogue in PvP.

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Habit. I’ve been playing it so long that I don’t see myself not playing it. Even if I don’t actually play it much these days. Mostly a month or weeks after new content releases, then I kind of stop.

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In 2005, the game was pretty amazing, a whole world to explore and spend time in was a massive upgrade from other PC games I had in my collection.

They have, I met several friends throughout my time in WoW, and my objectives became more aligned with theirs.

Most of my friends remained the same, my guild has changed, though the guild I’m in now contains many friends, so I don’t expect that to change again.

I have written about this before, I won’t bore people with more essays about it lol

If the game is still around after “The Last Titan” sure, this game is the reason I met my current partner, so as long as she plays, and we both enjoy the raid / m+ seasons, I can’t see why I’d stop playing.

There wasn’t much competition to WoW when I started, and WoW looked the best out of that competition.

WoW is the only MMORPG that behaves the way it does, some people say that’s to it’s decline, and if you value certain things, that might be true, but as I enjoy the seasonal progression (even if from time to time it feels a bit hamster wheel) I find wow offers me something that I can do with my friends and my partner, I can’t do in other games.

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A friend showed me the game. Was a MMO and looked fun so why not. He doesn’t play anymore but he ask me from time to time how’s the game.

No. Still fun.

Changed for the most part. I think it has become bigger than before as I used to play alone for the most part (and I still like to play alone sometimes).

Yes. How the season roll out in terms of PvE, M+ pushing has become quite boring.

No idea.

Style of the game. Not anime stuff or hyper-realistic models, the models in WoW are exceptional for my liking.

I think WoW offers a really fun and unique combat style so that’s that.

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  • What first pulled you into WoW, and does that still keep you playing today?

The world of warcraft. It was huge, a game so big that I have never seen before. And, multiplayer, I saw lots of other players running around, and it wasn’t just a LAN party.

  • Have your reasons for playing changed over the years?

Yes. Next to role playing, I used to be a raider between BC and Cataclysm. After that, my full focus is on RP. I still enjoy questing and delves though, and I can hardly wait for player housing.

  • Do you still play with the same friends/guild, or has your social circle changed?

No, I have played with more than one communities. Guilds disband over time, people move on but I get to know new players, so it’s all good.

  • If you could change one thing about the game, would you? If yes: What?

More variety in levelling alts. I love the journey up to 70, as it is not repetitive, but after that, we are streamlined into that one single campaign of the expansion. And, since it is the same for both the Alliance and Horde, it does not even worth replaying on a character from the other faction. Adding a skip is already a huge improvement, maybe delves could get an XP boost, not just the first delve per week. Alternatively, let us level our alts up to max in the old world. At least the old world would be more lively and we would get some variety.

Please get rid of knowledge points and different quality of materials in professions. Professions used to be a fun side activity, now they are a massive, time-gated chore.

  • Do you see yourself still playing in 5–10 years? Why or why not?

Yes. As long as there is a role playing community in WoW, I’ll stick around. Unless another MMORPG dethrones WoW and the RP community moves there.

  • Why WoW, and not another MMO (FFXIV, ESO, etc.)?

I spent years in SWTOR but once that game became free-to-play, it got less and less content updates and people left it. The RP community is small there, and mostly focuses on the Empire. There was a bug which wasn’t fixed for months and destroyed cross-factional RP, a lot of people shifted to the Imperial side as they had more role players.

In ESO, there are no dedicated role playing servers, you have to join a mass guild to end up on a layer which has role players. The game itself couldn’t catch me.

I tried out Lotro but that game couldn’t catch me either. The role playing community seemed to be small but nice.

I gave FF14 two tries then I gave up, Asian style MMOs are not for me. I prefer the Western style, it is more realistic.

  • Do you feel WoW still offers something unique, or is it more about familiarity?

WoW is still the best MMORPG for me, that is why I play it.

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Because it has an active forum.