WoW to WAR and back again

[Alienenduro]

HAHAHA, just found out from a friend that used to play WoW with us is now quitting WAR to get back on wow. He was trying to persuade us to get on WAR too!

[Caspian]

Its movement and player reactions are about as fluid as fresh vomit.

In my personal experience, fresh vomit is usually pretty fluid. So is this a positive or negative?

[Kulzor]

I tried War, back to WoW again now.

[aNiMaL]

After the AoC experience in which I canceled my wow subs and reactivated them after 2 months of boredom.
I liked it at first, and A LOT, even tried dragging our WoW guild into AoC.
Dunno, there's something with mmorpg launches I love,
maybe it's the qq from less intelligent people which drives me ( explains my boxing aswell)
But, I decided not to go for War, maybe in some future,
but WoW is enough entertainment for now, especially with WotLK incoming.

Gief:
>24hours daily cycles, Less sleep needed and/or free necessities
maybe then I'll find even more hours to play games in

[Solon]

Gemstone 3 to FF11, got tired of waiting for hours for parties, to WoW, got tired of dealing with parties, to 5 box WoW. This is nice... If I ever get bored of WoW I will probably go 5 account Gemstone 4. Single boxing just seems so... Incomplete.

[elo]

I too did the AoC thing, even became a fan-boi pre-launch and up through level 20. Past level 20 it fizzled though, levels 20-80 just weren't finished out well at all and the PvE instances are so incredibly lackluster. Most were bugged like crazy and the loot was 'meh'. Along with that one of the big controversial things was nudity in it, but from level 2-45 (when I stopped) the only gear that could be found was some variation of a burlap sack.

Anyhow, the end result is I'm simply not jumping on the 'next hot MMO' again. I've got severe anghst with WoW raiding, and BG's at least on my server make me want to /wrists, but it's something I know well and boxing breathed new life into it (for about a year now). I got started on Arena's way late (like 3 months ago) and they are absolutely THE most fun I've ever had in an MMO. I think it's because of the similarities to counter-strike which I loved. Even with a bad combo (mage + resto shammy) and rockin' 1250 rating it's still crazy fun for some reason.

I'd really like to see another rockin' MMO come out, change the rules, do something DIFFERENT... but they just seem to /fail. I can't imagine how hard it must be to break into that niche right now, particularly with WoW's success, but I'm not willing to donate the days and days of my life (the cost isn't relevant) to learn/level/gear and then find out that the end game blows or doesn't exist.

[Lyonheart]

I got two CEs of WAR and I like it! BUT, it is not "better" than WoW. If there were NO WoW. I would play WAR. Although for PvE i would probably be playing EQ2. That game has improved leaps and bounds since it was launched, mostly from 'borrowing" ideas from WoW lol. The PvP in EQ2 sucks though.

I'm not sure what an MMO of the future would have to be like to beat WoW, maybe just time. At some point WoW will just be old news. And any decent mmo that comes out might benefit from that. But the next best MMO will probably be another Blizzard MMO 8\

A lot of people think something like KotR Online or Starcraft mmo will be the next best thing. I think that Si-Fi MMOs will always be limited. Fantasy is just what works well. I mean people play MMOs to escape reality somewhat right? I think the idea of "magic" vs "pewpew lasers" will always win our imagination. And for classes in Si-Fi, unless you mix magic in there, theres only so much you can do for class types. Fantasy themes leave a lot more to the imagination 8)

[oxxo]

Had 6 WoW accounts.
Got 2 WAR accounts.
All are currently active.

Will most likely cut down to 1 WoW account and 1 WAR account.
Max will be 2 WoW accounts, 2 WAR accounts.

Like I've said over and over. They target different audiences and do different things.

No reason you can't play both.

[80smetaldude]

I had a very long stint since playing WoW beta through about 6 mos ago. I had a long book typed but decided against it. My only comment here is that I play Warhammer and love PvP, it's built around PvP wheras WoW is PvE with PvP built on it. I loved my stay in WoW will always have great memories but War is it for me, hit the nail on the head HOME RUN Mythic.

It is only 1 month old vs. a 4 year MMO vet like WoW, if some of you have played it and missed out the good stuff I encourage you to take another look. I participated in a 200+ player battle last night across Praag and it was very intense and taking the keep at the end was very glorifying.

I'm not going back to WoW.

[krum]

I've picked up a copy of WAR a few weeks ago, but have yet to open it.