Quest to Find WoW Replacement: Failed
After much surfing, reading, downloading, trying, and disappointment, I’ve decided that for now, I can’t replace WoW. I can find something to occupy my gaming time when WoW is being cranky, but a replacement it is not. The reason why I love WoW so much is simple: there’s a lot to do that does not involve fighting.
I love killing baddies as much as the next gamer girl, but I admit that it gets boring after a while. The “grind” is not something I’m into. In fact, I left WoW the first time around because I just didn’t know how to get more out of the game.
Currently, fighting and questing are secondary to me, though my Druid (now my main) is up to level 32. I also have a level 21 Rogue, a level 14 Mage, and a level 36 Hunter. Oh and a level 5 (male) Tauren Shaman, just for kicks.
Mainly, however, I spend my time looking for herbs, fishing, and leveling up my various professions. I spend time at the Auction House shopping for bargains (what can I say? I love to shop), and selling my trade goods. At first glance, this may sound boring, but for some reason, I love it. I love signing on to see that I have mail and successful auctions. I get annoyed when my auctions expire, though I run over and put them back again. I love finding new drops that sell really well. I’m baffled by how rich I’ve become in such a short period of time.
So I’ve dropped my WoW Replacement quest, and picked up another: convincing my non-gamer friends to try WoW. If only I could turn my in-game money into real-life money, I’d buy it for all of them.
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4 opinions for Quest to Find WoW Replacement: Failed
Duncan
Apr 23, 2006 at 10:44 pm
For me it was SecondLife again, only due to the fact that to as much as I found WOW addictive, I just didn’t have the time to spend on it, where as at least with Second Life I can do 3-4 nights in a row then not go on for 3 weeks without a problem. Also I falled off an Island in WOW and it took me 6 hours to find land again :-)
Lisa
Apr 27, 2006 at 9:38 am
I’m hoping Oblivion will fill that gap for me.
eventhorizen
May 2, 2006 at 3:07 pm
“The reason why I love WoW so much is simple: there’s a lot to do that does not involve fighting.”
In my (short) time seeing what all the fuss was about with WoW, it was my opinion that there was very little to do that did not involve fighting. Herbs are picked to be turned into potions.. for fighting. It seemed to me that there was very very little content, if any, that wasnt an add-on to the cartoony, group fest fantasy-em up combat.
There seemed to be little ‘point’ in WoW. The game was fun, but there isnt enough in it to justify paying monthly for it.
You claim that the reason you cant find a replacement to WoW is because it has so much in it that has nothing to do with fighting.
Have you ever come across Wurm Online? http://www.wurmonline.com
This ‘game’, if you can even call it that, certainly is not for everyone, but if you are looking for ‘things to do’ in an online community that doesnt involve fighting, then there are VERY few, if any ‘games’ that in my experiance and opinion can come close to scratching the depth of this game.
Or try Roma Victor, this is another wildly ambitious MMO, attempting to break the mould and mundanity of the current incarnation of online gaming and online communities.
What these two games have in common is at their core they present a world to the player, with options, and from those options it is up to the player community to ultimatly build whatever they can imagine, within the confines of what the game can let them build.
Dont expect fancy graphics, (infact try not to shudder when you first see Wurm online, give the game a chance) but do expect to see wildly ambitious projects of online, virtual, multi-user world building.
The popularity of games like WoW, compared to say EVE-online, and the two I previously mentioned, is to me a sad but rather glaringly true criticism of both gamers and game developers alike. They are content to charge you megaprices, top dollar infact, and offer some of the content light, trully uninspired games. And these games succeed, because of power-marketing to younger gamers, in a field of games that once was the realm of trully geeky adult males only. The number of age 20+ playing a game like WoW trully astonishes me, because its not challanging, enviroments are rarely mature, and the content is not there.
However all the other places older gamers can ESCAPE to online are simply unknown and near impossible to find.
Blizzard are essentially farming your desire for community and escapism. If grind and pretty pictures are your thing then I cant argue, but there are mmos out there that are so far beyond WoW as to no longer actually be games.
Cal
May 4, 2006 at 12:06 pm
WoW that’s some spiel!
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