[Apomonomenos]

After months and months of less and less playing, I think that I've finally decided to quit playing World of Warcraft. I closed my subscription and I think I am going to have too much time on my hands.

[Mythos_Ruler]

There's always Empire:Total War.

[Cassador_Chris]

A refugee who has fled from the evil empire! Tell me, sir, for national news, what was your experience like? How did you survive? What hellish things did you see on the other side???

Welcome back to this dimension! Time to partay!

This post has been edited by Cassador_Chris: 30 March 2009 - 03:12 AM

[Apomonomenos]

I love the 3rd dimension. I which my brother could say the same.

He's level 80 (I wasn't even level 71 when I quit) and is playing almost every day.

What the problem is about WoW:

• The "Guilds" require applications, which is like a job, but only you can have one at a time.
  
  
• You need to learn a totally new language of slang, not the Facebook/Myspace kinda thing, like Org (Orgrimar, a big city) or TB (Thunder Bluff, another big city)
  
  
• There are porno dancers almost everywhere that there is a mailbox (I'm very religious).
  
  
• There are ingame racists. No, really. I played as a Hunter for about a year or 2, and just recently, people have been calling me "Huntards" for no reason what so ever. Yes, you can choose your own race & class, but you can't change it.
  
  
• There are people younger than me talking about Hannah Montana, spamming the trade channel. In one place in certain, if you say "Chuck Norris", you are bound to get a reply. A random Reply.
  
  
• Most people spend their money on Mounts (like cars), which have no combat use what so ever, cannot be bought by players so it screws the economy.
  
  
• People also complain when their gear doesn't look fashionable. Really, just the other day, my bro was in a group when this one battle mage (I think Battle is a spec, I forgot, i never played Mage) said that this tier 8 Gear (I'm guessing that's really good, since I never got tier 1) wasn't a robe, but a tunic. So People buy gear that matches for roleplaying (even in non roleplaying realms), which also screws the economy. Well, I guess they both even themselves out...
  
  
• There are 3rd party ads where ever I go, even on non WoW websites.
  
  
• What was a lot before the ex pack (which was 100) is now Avg (A lot is now 1000).
  
  
• There are mostly Male players in game. I've seen Male players playing Female characters. Even the ugly ones.
  
  
• If you've seen one music video about WoW on youtube, you've seen them all.
  
  
• People break the Seven deadly Sins of Video Games on a daily basis (As I said, I'm very religious).
  
  
• And more...

This post has been edited by Apomonomenos: 09 April 2009 - 08:16 PM

[Apomonomenos]

You know what? For the first time in Two Years, I started a little game of Wall-Ball (a little game we play down in suburban Chicago), and, well, I started crying. It brought back memories, that I haven't had when I was playing WoW. I just realized how much time it has taken away from my life.

I haven't played European Football, Basketball, Baseball (much), Kickball (much), Dodge ball, American Football, Swimming (Much), Table Tennis (Much), Board Games with family (Much) when I was playing WoW. It was just great having those feelings come back to me. It reminded me of the Song "Cry like a Baby" by The Box Tops's first lyrics.

"When I think about the good times I used to have, I cry like a Baby."

I had no Idea how much Time I had lost forever...

[Cassador_Chris]

Amen brother.

[Apomonomenos]

Which makes me realize, don't make this game TOO good.

[feneur]

[Silver]

Your list for Wow basically described most internet users, forums and most games.

[Apomonomenos]

Wow, now that I looked it over, yea.

But that begs the question: Why the Hell is the Economy for World of Warcraft still good when the economy in real life took a dive?!?

EDIT: Shouldn't people have learned by playing with an economy, or are there really only 7 year-olds doing the unthinkable in their head and in game.

This post has been edited by Apomonomenos: 16 April 2009 - 09:22 PM

[Ykkrosh]

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Why the Hell is the Economy for World of Warcraft still good when the economy in real life took a dive?!?

The real life economy is full of loans and debts and credit and interest rates and all that complicated stuff. WoW's economy just has pieces of gold, and there aren't so many complex ways it can fail.

WoW proves we should go back to the gold standard. Ron Paul 2012!

Uh, sorry, not sure what came over me there.

[Mythos_Ruler]

There are others who advocate monetary reform besides kooky Ron Paul.

[Silver]

Ykkrosh, on Apr 17 2009, 08:02 AM, said:

The real life economy is full of loans and debts and credit and interest rates and all that complicated stuff. WoW's economy just has pieces of gold, and there aren't so many complex ways it can fail.

WoW proves we should go back to the gold standard. Ron Paul 2012!

Uh, sorry, not sure what came over me there.

WoW doesn't have politicians either.

This is the key in my opinion The Great Depression was in part caused by the 'Own your own home' spewed by politicians in the 1920s. That's about the time when the people stopped SAVING before BUYING.

There was of course inflated stock values.... and that came crashing down because it was all pure speculation.

George W. Bush was a big pusher of the Own a Home programs and Clinton, Bush (many other presidents, I'm sure) and Senators had de-regulated markets over the past few decades.

That put inflated prices on homes, which caused more and more people to default, which caused stock prices (mortgage backed securities) to drop next to nothing. Surprise, Surprise, consumers in debt again just like in the 1920s, this time it wasn't wall-street that burst with overinflated prices, it was the housing market which in turn brought the whole house of cards down.

I don't agree with the gold standard completely... but I guess when you see the Fed, government and Treasury boards fail time after time with their monetary and fiscal policy, it's much better than the alternatives.

This post has been edited by Silver: 17 April 2009 - 09:16 PM

[Apomonomenos]

What I do remember from WoW...

Don't trust people with your Money

Or in WoW

Dont trust noobs with ur G

darn I wish I could use that spot for an ACTUAL language, like Old English.

Above has been Edited so it would look less like crap.

This post has been edited by Apomonomenos: 16 May 2009 - 07:05 PM