Well here is my 2 cents really about WoW. Not played EQ2 yet. I played EQ/Daoc for a long time and much enjoyment did I get out of them. Between the 2 probably 6 years of playtime. On to WoW. Barely into my 7th week of play time I am considering selling this account on ebay with all software, stratgey guide.
Sure sure sure, there is not much grinding, levels fly by fast and it CAN be fun at times when its fresh but, you will see what it has to offer very very fast if you like to spend any time with these games. It sacrifices depth and immersion for ease of use. 7 weeks and I have capped a 60 rogue with some of the best equipment, maxed trade skills, and I am quickly looking through each and every corner of azeroth for something left to this game. There honestly is not much to this game. Sure I could roll alts but, by the time battlegrounds comes out, I'd maxed every character to 60, max all trade skills, have countless amounts of gold, etc etc. And battlegrounds is comming out in a few months =(
Battlegrounds is supposedly going to be this big new addition to WoW similar to the zones of the same name in DAoC. Except, WoW lacks all of the siege aspects of DAoC which I loved. Basically, the addon will put a zone in the game that is suppose to better up pvp. There are several quests to complete by killing the enemy , to gain honor points to spend on special items. The problem is WoW's servers current do not support very intense battles at all. All big guilds on my server have ceased all pvp raids due to the last one, that was a big serverside lag fest. Bad network lag on any system. Even crappy ones, the graphics where fine... it was not a video issue, the graphics were fine, it was poor network lag. Instead of addressing this issue blizzard has ignored it completely. We all are curious about battlegrounds? Will it lag like this as well? Rendering pvp unplayable? Well I dont think so because blizzard has hashed out a statement that until further refining there will be POPULATION LIMITS and WAITING LISTS to zone into this battleground and particpate in pvp events. This is to keep the number of people in the zone VERY LOW so the servers don't break....again.
To sum up wow, I cant say many hardcore powergaming mmo fans will find much to do with wow. Like myself for a few weeks you will be killing through everything there is, then really not be left with much to do. It feels like a single player game since there is absolutely almost no grouping except for instances. Grouping outside of instances is never fun. The only thing you'd be focusing on is kill quests, or fetch quests. I hear there are many of them in EQ2. Well guess what, WoW has probably close to twice as many. Kill 10 weak bears, turn in, take follow up, kill ten starved bears, turn in, take follow up, kill 3 hungry *** bears, and get 10silver and GASP, Bear Hide Cloak.
To sum it up. WoW is...
Solo Questing for "x" mob, or "x" item.
Solo killing mobs for a few hours to level up, this is faster... 59-60 took like.... a couple hours lol.
Instances, the loot crawls. Good stuff drops in them, and there are a few quests for ok stuff.
PvP that right now lags if you do it large scale, the fun pvp in other words. Most people just complain that it has no point, then turn right around a rip EQ for not having it... makes 0 sense but its true. After Christmas the community took a severe hit. Before it was ok but now, its bad, oh so bad. This is the first time I think the majority of people playing are 15. Or at least act like it. Makes sense to me as well because I feel like WoW would entertain the same sort of people that play say, Grand Theft Auto with cheat codes on, blazing through it... god mode style
Edited, Sat Jan 22 07:31:13 2005 by Justariuss
Edited, Sat Jan 22 07:34:15 2005 by Justariuss