I have been feeling really bored with WOW, and just cancelled my acct. I
might be back, but maybe not.
I have numerous minor complaints, but that is not why. It's just that I
have been playing it for five years, and I am bored. I need a fresh game.
A lot of games are now Free To Play , which often means Pay to get
anywhere.
Most aren't too bad , BUT don't expect anything like the support, bug fixes
and response of wow.
Play for a while, see how it goes then decide if you want to pay.
Then you find how truly awful that games payments system will be.
Look up their forums and look for any complaints on payments.
Usually short lived locked and deleted so check a few times.
A quick rule of thumb based on personal experience and therefore
incredibly biased
avoid anything by Gameforge/Frogster.
In wow endgame = end of game start of job
in F2P endgame = end of content end of game
Play them as a game , look to spend $200 or so over a couple of months and
they are good entertainment but don't expect
longevity. E.g. some you rent extra , huge compared to wow bank space, pay
monthly or your very large bank and items in it disappears.
Being a grind monkey I quite like softcaps some have
Wow equivalent reach 90, kill 5000 things -> 91, kill 10000 things ->92
20000 ->93 40000->94 80000->95
when you and 2 others are the only 95s you know you are the pyscho elite of
this small universe :-)
then the game folds or undergoes some fundamental change, miffquit, next
Wow makes it very easy to come back and you are exactly where you were.
So long as you don't treat it as a job and just resub a month a year it is
as viable an interlude as most other games.
I have been trying unsucessfully to schedule a few weeks game playing Wow
since last November , the grind monkey games you can logout any second or
just go AFK and not care if the character gets stomped suit me.
A large problem with new games is they expect you to have spent $3000 last
week on a gamer rig, and have low ping.
Wow is very very cheap for non elite level entertainment, it is a job if
you want to epeen.