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Never liked it. It's just a silly idea to pay to play something you can play for free somewhere else (there must be at least five free to play games that do the same than WoW and sometimes to it 'better.')

It's the same concept that I apply to Ragnarok. There's 300 other MMORPGs out there that are better and free, why bother with that one?

i never liked that game i don't know why

s**t.... u know u'r facts

There are games out there that give you all WoW can offer and more... Even some with better balance of classes, more skills and bigger mapping... And they give all that for free. And if you decide to pay (key word being decide) an extra fee, you get a lot more advantages in-game.

So, seriously? Blizzard is the new Squaresoft. People plays their games and holds them in a tall pedestal simply because they can't be bothered checking other, better games made by other companies.

Try Conquer Online then... It's old, and it's (OMG!*) not WoW-style 3D, but it's got the best item system I've ever seen, knocking off that stupid need to change your gear every 3 levels other games have...

Heck, I've been using the same freaking armor and dual clubs for like two years now in that game (OMG the second!)

Of course there's enhancements for those who pay, but all those can be sold for gold, which helps keeping the free players interested and able to buy stuff (if they (OMG the third!) gold farm enough.)

Only bad point of the game is that it condones PKing. As in, big bad bully beating the s**t out of people thirty or fifty levels below them. As in, the game's got one too many lifeless n00bs of level 100+ rolleyes

*My OMGs in this case mock the usual reactions of online players.

I was kinda lucky, I was in before the income of massive idiot PKers. By the time idiot PKers started polluting the game, I already had enough friends around to kill any PKer I couldn't beat myself.

Nowadays, I use a quite different strategy, though. If you don't like burning, stay in the shadows. I am an unknown, I only log in for the game, anyhow, but ya know, if you don't have anyone who knows you, then you won't have anyone after you just because you're friends with their enemies.

Actually, using World of Warcraft as a portal to the MMO world would be like watching Epic Movie to know what comedies are about. It's actually one of the worst MMORPGs out there nowadays, and it's not even free to play. Whereas other much better ones like 9Dragons, Grand Chase or even Conquer are at least partially free, and you can level up and enjoy the game without spending a single buck on it. If you do need the OMG SHINEY! gear to get to a high level in any such game, then you should try Pac-Man instead, I say.

Also, all that OMG SHINEY gear can be bought with in-game gold, they're expensive, yes, but never as expensive to me as dishing out real money for something that might possibly be gone tomorrow after you get 'hacked' (aka: idiot wants an in-game girlfriend, idiot gives a 'girl' his password, idiot gets everything stolen by the intelligent man playing a girl to fool idiots.)