So, I started playing World of Warcraft again this weekend ... 😁
I've been playing it on and off since just after its European release in 2005. My oldest characters have reached legal drinking age. 😅
I stopped playing in 2021 as I really disliked the Shadowlands expansion. The one before was excellent, and I'm now playing Dragonflight from 2022, which also seems good so far. There is a new one coming after the summer or thereabouts. We'll see how long I last this time!
@veronica I relapsed to wow classic for couple of months.
I think it's the best game but the lack of moderation from blizzard made me quit paying subscriptions.
Happy for you.
P.s.For the Horde 😉
@veronica It's a waste of time (as you already know). Once I realised how computer games work by addicting people through the brain's reward system, I felt like a complete idiot levelling up or grinding or whatever you may call it. It doesn't matter if you play WoW, Minesweeper or Tetris. I've been clean for at least 15 years now, and I never looked back.
Instead, I picked up bass playing again. Playing in a band is the best cooperative multiplayer game I can think of. #gaming#MMORPG#music
@jotho I totally get that people get addicted to games. I've played with people in WoW whose lives fell apart because of it.
However, it doesn't have that affect on me. For me it's just entertainment. It's pointless in the same sense watching TV is. I still do it. I find storytelling rewarding, and WoW has plenty of that, and it is a beautiful game from an artistic point of view, which is mainly what captured me in the first place. Even if the graphics was relatively simplistic, and still is.
@veronica Granted, I have to admit I never took notice of the artwork other than as a vehicle to facilitate immersion. Vs. TV, you still have interaction, which usually is simplistic (or at least in can be seen as simplistic). I'm glad it's enough for me to auto-suggest myself out of playing.
@mattontech@jotho His opinion and experience is perfectly valid. We clearly get different things from the game, and that's fine.
I agree that the achievement itself is pointless in the grand scheme of things, but that's not even close to why I play the game. It is just for fun, and that itself has value. At least to me. 😊
@mattontech In any case, interactive story telling is a nice entertainment form, and I've been following the Warcraft story since the third strategy game.
Battle for Azeroth was excellent story telling. I loved every moment of that expansion. Maybe the best one yet. Such beautiful design and artwork too.
@markus I played a fair bit of adventure and strategy games back in the day. Monkey Island, Dune, Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic, etc. So World of Warcraft was perfect for me when it arrived. I've taken a number of long breaks for expansions I disliked, but I've played it for about half the time it's existed I guess.
The reason I started now is that I ran out of interesting TV series to watch when I have some time off, so I thought I'd check out WoW again. 😊
I'm not really a gamer, and I'm too old to bother learning new games. The fact that World of Warcraft is still around after almost 20 years suits me just fine!
World of Warcraft still runs smoothly on Linux too, which makes me very happy. I hate having a dual partition setup with Windows because then I have to reboot to access my regular stuff.
Also, it looks so much better in 24x9 ratio as opposed to the previous 16x9 format, or shudder 4x3 like back when I started. Now all my action bars, chat windows and quest log widgets are out of my way. I opted out of running full 32x9 as I had to turn my head to read things. 😋
@cvennevik I got the double wide for work (home office), but it really was too wide for such an information heavy game as WoW. Since I mostly run in windowed mode anyway, using 1.5 x Wide was the sweet spot. It leaves a regular wide screen worth of free space in the middle.
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