Why Do You Play?
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LZ
Legend
i have nothing else to do all day..
i'll probably quit when i have something else to do all day. f2p is only fun once in a blue moon in WSG, and don't get me started on 90. At 90, you grind for fucking hours just to be able to play on a competitive level gear-wise. A full pvp set is something like 30k honor, which is 60k justice, which is 500 boss kills in heroics. it's fucking ridiculous how grind-dependent wow is, because blizzard needs you to pay them for months and months. Progression raiding is crap, every raid is fun once, but once you learn where to stand and when to jump and what order to cast the same 7 spells in, you have nothing left to learn. I keep rolling new classes with RAF to see if I'll actually have fun playing one of them. I wish I lived on a lake, I'd go canoe and listen to music for 7 hours a day and enjoy myself a hell of a lot more. rant over.
When it's fun, I enjoy the game because of challenge, because of critical thinking required, and because of the feeling you get when you outplay someone because you made a smarter decision than them. The thrill of victory and the growth you get from challenging pvp.
i'll probably quit when i have something else to do all day. f2p is only fun once in a blue moon in WSG, and don't get me started on 90. At 90, you grind for fucking hours just to be able to play on a competitive level gear-wise. A full pvp set is something like 30k honor, which is 60k justice, which is 500 boss kills in heroics. it's fucking ridiculous how grind-dependent wow is, because blizzard needs you to pay them for months and months. Progression raiding is crap, every raid is fun once, but once you learn where to stand and when to jump and what order to cast the same 7 spells in, you have nothing left to learn. I keep rolling new classes with RAF to see if I'll actually have fun playing one of them. I wish I lived on a lake, I'd go canoe and listen to music for 7 hours a day and enjoy myself a hell of a lot more. rant over.
When it's fun, I enjoy the game because of challenge, because of critical thinking required, and because of the feeling you get when you outplay someone because you made a smarter decision than them. The thrill of victory and the growth you get from challenging pvp.
Brov
Legend
umm...try max lvl 3s
Piotyrian
Legend
I play partly because I'd already spent years on the game and developed habits that make important decisions and action choices obvious and second nature in wow pvp, so it's not very stressful or particularly difficult to do well and enjoy myself in games, especially if you recognize when your team is not very objective oriented and just go along for the ride instead of being angry at every deathmatching team. That auto-pilot mentality makes the game easy to enjoy in a general sense, but conversely it's when you recognize people on your team that you know have at least as much experience and knowledge as you do and as the game goes on you mesh super well and everyone's playing like we're a pre-made on vent even though we're really just a bunch of randoms vs a competitive p2p guild or something that really make me glad I play.
Even if those games only happen once a week or so it always feels incredible.
Even if those games only happen once a week or so it always feels incredible.
LZ
Legend
I will. I like max level pvp but the gearing is hella tedious, and there's nobody to pvp with on AP Horde, so I've been sitting on my hands until I got my ally mage to 90
allahkazam
Legend
i play because i'm 600 HKs away from a title I always wanted. After that I'll stop
Phrontistery
i was making waves u was surfing in 'em
Revlo
A Sentient Pyramid
Oddly enough, for me it's not for fun times with people. I'm fine with people, they just aren't the main reason I play. As silly as it sounds, I play because I like to push buttons in reaction to stimuli. I enjoy having to pay attention for several things at once while needing to react in a particular way with a particular paring of key presses, heh. In general, I like classes that have several balls to juggle. It's the reason I like playing a resto shammy and a cc demo lock. I think I'd really like playing a hunter, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I used to like my rogue until he became way too simplistic and OP. A few years ago, I enjoyed PVE rotations with an Afflock at 80 for similar reasons, managing DoTs, cooldowns, and the like. PVP ended up being more enjoyable for similar reasons, but was much more dynamic. Max level PVP would give me quite a bit more buttons to push, but really I enjoy the simpler amounts at 20. When burst or healing isn't out of control, this bracket feels pretty good.
In a sense I suppose this means people could be the main reason I play, for playing against them and reacting to their decisions. I think I would really enjoy the coordination that takes place with arenas and premading, but my situation in real life doesn't lend itself to getting heavily involved in them.
Interesting to read the responses. People play for all sorts of different reasons.
In a sense I suppose this means people could be the main reason I play, for playing against them and reacting to their decisions. I think I would really enjoy the coordination that takes place with arenas and premading, but my situation in real life doesn't lend itself to getting heavily involved in them.
Interesting to read the responses. People play for all sorts of different reasons.
Kiri
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The cops made me do it...