I only started playing about two months ago, and I'm having a great time. I think the upcoming pandas are silly tho.

/Did not RTFA, blocked at work

It's clear the last guy there will be LEEEROOOOYYY JENKINS!

quickdraw:
For the Horde!!!!

/Petopians/Nesingwary/Sallysquish


THIS!!

/Nazgrel

I never understood why someone would pay $60.00 for a game and then have to keep paying to play it.

Still has 10 million subscriptions. Assuming every sub is $15/mo (I don't know if they vary per country), that's $150 000 000 / month.

I think Blizzard is doing fine.

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I enjoyed playing WoW for a few years, but it just gets old. Same shiat, day in and out; quests are boring. PvE is boring. The PvP is repetitive. I like the holiday events and the crafting system, and my altoholicsm kept me playing long after the sizzle had faded.

Anyhow, Star Wars: The Old Republic beckons. I'm Beta-testing this Friday, and I am sooooooo stoked. Jedi Consular, Shadow spec? I came. Pissed that bothans aren't a playable race.

GAT_00: The extra noise makes me concentrate better. I know that's a mild form of ADD, nothing real serious, but is that serious enough to actually go get meds?

The decision to "go on meds", in my opinion, should hinge on whether you feel it's under control or not. Based on the little information you've given, it sounds like you have a handle on it. That's fine, if your loved ones and boss can put up with it.

Meds, I think, are a last resort if you're unable to function. If you can't sustain relationships or keep jobs, we got a serious problem.

Brandyelf: quickdraw:
For the Horde!!!!

/Petopians/Nesingwary/Sallysquish


THIS!!

/Nazgrel

Thank god I can't read basement-dweller. I'd have to punch the both of you via TCIP/IP.

madcan34: I never understood why someone would pay $60.00 for a game and then have to keep paying to play it.

Before I get off your lawn, you know my dad said the same about cable television?

On another note I tried Warcraft and had some troll dude I taught to be a blacksmith, and then remembered that I have a perfectly good MIG welder in the shed I do not know how to use. So I canceled my account.

Why teach a nonexistent thing to do something instead of learning it my self?

doglover: How can you kill that which has no life?

They didn't leave. They're just hanging out in the forest, killing boars.

RexTalionis: I don't get the appeal of MMORPGs that require a lot of grinding. I have a job. Why do I want another job when I'm at home relaxing?

WoW hasn't required grinding since they phased out material components for buffs a couple years back, and even before that you were just fine questing up to the level cap and then just doing dungeons/raids as you pleased. PvP isn't particularly balanced, but, again, it was never really a PvP game.

The only people doing anything remotely close to grinding are the gold farmers, and frankly the last couple expansions have rigged the NPC economy so that you can get all the gold you want with almost no effort as a side effect of just playing the game (dungeons/raids) so that's pretty much obsolete now too.

If you want to grind, you're going to have to go buy Dark Souls or Eve Online.

Ghastly: When I heard of Panderia I thought, "Really? Kung-Fu Panda?"

The original Pandaren unit from the RTS games was channeling Jackie Chan as Wong Fei-Hung pretty hard, so, while that was five years or so before that movie came out, basically yes. Same influences, more or less.

The game is over 5 years old, the fact that it's still a juggernaut is amazing. I wonder how big of a dent SW:TOR is going to be on it.

GAT_00: quickdraw: The key is to find yourself a good guild that you mesh with. And stay away from those wimpy Alliance.

I played Ally for 3 years, so bugger yourself with a stick. And it was back when AV was good too.

I do miss the original AV where the battles took forever to finish. Winning one of those was always awesome. Now they are so easy and quick to win.

I doubt I'll go back again, SWTOR will hopefully be good enough for my game fix.

valar_morghulis: I enjoyed playing WoW for a few years, but it just gets old. Same shiat, day in and out; quests are boring. PvE is boring. The PvP is repetitive. I like the holiday events and the crafting system, and my altoholicsm kept me playing long after the sizzle had faded.

Anyhow, Star Wars: The Old Republic beckons. I'm Beta-testing this Friday, and I am sooooooo stoked. Jedi Consular, Shadow spec? I came. Pissed that bothans aren't a playable race.

It's an amazing game. I played Sith. My Review just went live on IHC this afternoon. I was in the second Beta weekend.

I've been WoW free for over a year and a half, and I won't ever be going back. I will however, be playing The Old Republic.

/Sith Guild already registered and ready for launch.

moralpanic: The game is over 5 years old, the fact that it's still a juggernaut is amazing. I wonder how big of a dent SW:TOR is going to be on it.

Hard to say. TOR is pretty novel as far as MMO's go; story-driven, solo-friendly, yet still retaining all of the characteristics of a massively-multiplayer online RPG. It'll suck up the diaspora from Star Wars Galaxies and attract people sick of Warcraft, AoC, LotRO, and other stale games. And it'll pull in the Star Wars nerds.

There always seems to be a "WoW-killer" every few years that fails to live up to the hype; I think TOR will exceed its hype. There's a perfect storm accruing around it that makes conditions ripe for success.

moralpanic: The game is over 5 years old, the fact that it's still a juggernaut is amazing. I wonder how big of a dent SW:TOR is going to be on it.

None. If no one has realized it by now, the only thing that will kill WoW is another Blizzard game.

/Wife and I are currently not playing. Mostly due to lack of time and money, but we would still love to be able to be playing.

GAT_00: I know that's a mild form of ADD, nothing real serious, but is that serious enough to actually go get meds?

STAY OFF MEDS UNLESS YOUR CONDITION IS PREVENTING YOU FROM DOING THINGS YOU WANT TO DO.

Docs will just throw a dart at a board of pharmaceuticals and give you one to see how it works. You'll probably be stuck with a bunch of side effects and no real benefit.

Finding a med that works for you is a long and painful process. We don't know why people have ADD or why they get depressed. There is no test you can give to say "Oh, you're low on this neurotransmitter. This drug will fix it"

Most psych meds are targeted to work on only one or 2 neurotransmitters. Say serotonin receptors for example. If serotonin levels aren't your problem, then the med can only fark things up by giving you too much or to little serotonin. Then there is the matter of side effects that can also make your life hell.

If you are happy with the way your life is. There is no need for meds.

If you are sad and crying for no reason every day, or cant pay attention to the things you want or need to, then going down the garden path of medications CAN be beneficial in the long run, but as i said, its a long and painful process.

/my advice is you need to smoke some weed.

StochasticLife: valar_morghulis: I enjoyed playing WoW for a few years, but it just gets old. Same shiat, day in and out; quests are boring. PvE is boring. The PvP is repetitive. I like the holiday events and the crafting system, and my altoholicsm kept me playing long after the sizzle had faded.

Anyhow, Star Wars: The Old Republic beckons. I'm Beta-testing this Friday, and I am sooooooo stoked. Jedi Consular, Shadow spec? I came. Pissed that bothans aren't a playable race.

It's an amazing game. I played Sith. My Review just went live on IHC this afternoon. I was in the second Beta weekend.

I've been WoW free for over a year and a half, and I won't ever be going back. I will however, be playing The Old Republic.

/Sith Guild already registered and ready for launch.

Nice. I originally wanted to play Sith as an Inquisitor, but I like melee-heavy talents like Shadow. Maybe we'll see each other on the battlefield.

/Republic guild ready to go -- "My Aim Is True."

StochasticLife: valar_morghulis: I enjoyed playing WoW for a few years, but it just gets old. Same shiat, day in and out; quests are boring. PvE is boring. The PvP is repetitive. I like the holiday events and the crafting system, and my altoholicsm kept me playing long after the sizzle had faded.

Anyhow, Star Wars: The Old Republic beckons. I'm Beta-testing this Friday, and I am sooooooo stoked. Jedi Consular, Shadow spec? I came. Pissed that bothans aren't a playable race.

It's an amazing game. I played Sith. My Review just went live on IHC this afternoon. I was in the second Beta weekend.

I've been WoW free for over a year and a half, and I won't ever be going back. I will however, be playing The Old Republic.

/Sith Guild already registered and ready for launch.

I'm in SWTOR beta and it feels like WoW in Space to me. I have not done their version of raids however, so I can't speak authoritatively.

Where wolf: My fear for the old republic is stability. The name star wars will bring millions, servers will crash. New servers will be bought. Two months later, several servers are barren wastelands.

See also: rift, aion, et al

I believe that servers have been rented from Blizzard to forestall against such a possibility. See also: a staggered launch with early access. I doubt it'll be seamless, but neither will it be a train wreck.

Most of the cancelled subscriptions are likely in China or folks with multiple accounts...but that's just me.

Just like EverQuest (which somehow still has people playing it and content developed) WoW will never completely die out. With 10.3M subscribers left, I don't think Blizzard has much to worry about financially :P

it was a fun game for a few years, but it got a bit repetative.

SW:TOR is quite fun, although its mechanically pretty similar to wow. guess it will depend on how varied they can make it- there is a massive, massive amount of content and it works really well for whats ostensibly still a beta. i expect it to do well, but i don't see it as killing WoW. only WoW will kill WoW

madcan34: I never understood why someone would pay $60.00 for a game and then have to keep paying to play it.

Compared to spending $60 every month for a new game to retain the same level of interest?

Where wolf: valar_morghulis: Where wolf: My fear for the old republic is stability. The name star wars will bring millions, servers will crash. New servers will be bought. Two months later, several servers are barren wastelands.

See also: rift, aion, et al

I believe that servers have been rented from Blizzard to forestall against such a possibility. See also: a staggered launch with early access. I doubt it'll be seamless, but neither will it be a train wreck.

But how do you build a server community when you know transfers are a month after launch and you're sever ghost Towns a week after that?

I should have clarified. I know the servers will be stable, but can you build a community and have a "healthy"game?

I don't have the answers, and I share your anxieties in that regard. I remember Warhammer Online ballooning up and then deflating, leaving the desiccated carcasses of servers everywhere. My wow server, Hakkar-US, was dead last I checked -- only 250 or so active Horde players.