Why DO YOU STILL Play World of Warcraft?
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Given the state of wow today (which is good btw) I had a burning question for some time now: why do you still play world of warcraft? Is wow worth it? Especially these days when there are so many other games you could be wasting your time! Is wow dead because people are growing up or is it better than never now because it’s so segmented, serving so many different audiences?
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I love WoW and always will. I’ve been playing WoW for 20 years, and the memories I’ve made are some of the best times of my life. However, as I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed that this is no longer the same game I played when I was younger. Everything is so focused on ‘min-maxing,’ and the community has become extremely toxic.
For example, I tried tanking a +8 key recently, and one player told me, ‘Be faster and know what you’re doing. If we wipe even once, I’m leaving immediately.’ Unfortunately, we wiped once, and that was it-they left.
My point is that doing M+ has become incredibly stressful, even though it shouldn’t be. The game is supposed to be fun and relaxing, but in WoW these days, that’s just not possible.
I feel like M+ and how its designed around a timer is just always going to be a toxic waste land the idea was fun for a little bit back in Legion but i just don't think that type of gameplay loop fits wow or any MMO for that matter hard content should be all about trial and error and you just can't do that with a timer its just stressful for the sake of being stressful and i hope they either try and find new ways to make M+ work or find a new gameplay loop for players that everyone can enjoy
Edit the wow community has always been little on the toxic side but M+ is just bringing out the worst in people and its just not heathy for the game
Agree, gearscore started to put me off, then m+ introduction. Rio is toxic, groups are rude, noone talks or invites you to a group unless you are doing keys 10 levels higher than your item level etc etc. I feel the younger generation have severe adhd and can’t just play the game for enjoyment. Wow is still great as a solo levelling experience but at this point, F its community.
Me too😊
If you go into a +8 and cause a wipe i would leave too. Its 8 not 2.
@@tharilz LoL I tried M+ with my guild 3 times and I had to say it for me. I don't play games for stress. Challenge ok , stress? Got over that the first 3 years I played. It is fine. Again, diversity in play is what keeps me there.
I still play because i carry the memory of my brother who passed away 2 yeras ago we used to play all the time so i will never quit
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My brother and I played for years, and he's been gone for twelve years. Told my wife I'll probably never stop playing; every time I log in, it's like I'm saying hi to bobby. I take breaks, and maybe one day I will forget to come back, but for now, I'm having a conversation with my bro.
Sorry for your loss. God bless
My brother and I used to play he also passed 5 years ago. Condolences me
Hey, it's the guy from FlameOnline!
Yeah. fyi i think he was the guy who started the channel. If you watch the old videos its him and the channel is marcelian. which is his nickname and flame is the other guys nickname. I might be wrong though, and has just flipped the hole script in my head somehow.
For me it's a memory playing with my brothers in 2004-WOD.
Irreplaceable!
Simply put, it's the world I wished I lived in. I feel like I'm not only watching one of the greatest stories ever told play out in real time, I'm able to be one of the many characters integral to the plot. I know my choices can not influence the story, but for the most part, I can approach every problem how I see fit and become whatever part of the party suits my chosen play style. Above all else, I love the lore of this Universe. I'm not saying every story told has been perfect *cough* Shadowlands *cough* ... but you can't tell me stuff like the Azure Span storyline isn't absolute gold. I have been playing since Vanilla in 2004 and I'm not ashamed to say that a lot of the characters in the game mean something to me. I'm not just invested in the part of the story I get to participate in, I'm invested in many of the character's individual stories. That, to me, is the tell tale sign of an epic work of art. I am so appreciative that I am around to be a part of this and I can't wait to see where it all goes. GLHF and I hope to see you all out there! ⚒️
Eh I do play it because I find it fun, Like do I need something else ? If you need to find a reason to play something outside of fun remember that its a video game. Kinda lame to find other reason
Best part about playing retail WoW is the specs/rotations. Classic is something I play when I don't need to be stressed by mythic+ or raids.
Personally, I play it for the collectable things in it :
Transmog
Mounts
Races and Heritage Armor
Right now, I'm farming on Dragonwrath and Shadowmourne questlines
You're that guy I see in Dornogal with the mog I can't have....
i like it ive been wanting to get more into this and i probably will after i hit 2100 in arena
100% me. I'm burned out on m+ since Dragonflight S2 and I was never a Raider. Collect Tmog, mounts, achievements, maybe some casual pet battle. That's what keeps the game alive for me
Also. I swear keys 6 and under are FAR harder than 7-10. I was apart of a group last night that a +4 “alt run” took over an hour. I wanted to leave a few times but something about these players immediately running back without talking smack wanted me to keep going and help them complete it. But believe me it was ROUGH. The worst thing that happens on a 9-10 is YOU KEEP MISSING KICKS! and unless someone really really messes up, one wipe but we still time it. I feel for the low ilvl characters that don’t play much. Game is way harder
Another proboem is that wow can’t reach and retain new players, it needs a breathe of fresh air
Been playing since 2006. Started as a teenager with my friends, sharing one PC and playing in shared 30min blocks for hours and hours.
Now I’m a father of 3 and it’s still the same escape for me, a place where I can feel relaxed and in control of my own path.
I hold so many fond memories from over the years, to many to count and in a strange way I’m forever thankful for having wow throughout my life.
Been playing since 2008. 1055 Mounts 930 Toys and 1864 unique pets. Over 42k achievements so it’s not wanting to give up all that time collecting for me I guess
My answer to this has been the same for the past 2+ years which is: All the Things. The All the Things addon has completely changed the way I play this game and my enjoyment of it. I do not know if I would still be playing WoW without that addon as switching from hardcore raiding to collecting everything has made the game far more enjoyable for me and with so many different things to do I never really get burned out.
Great list there! For me, It's a mix of escapism, friends/community as well as the amount of time sunk into it. While, yes, my EU venture is minimal compared to my NA account, it doesn't make it any less valid.
Side note: I now have "Still I Play WoW" stuck in my head. Thanks for this, haha!
Hey, that's why I'm here for :)
YOUR RIGHT , i started playing wow becuase it was an awsome game , But over time it has become so much more for me , Not only did i meat alot of really awsome people but i have found life more easy to cope with when i had this escape , even if i am not doing anything but finding a place to fish , this game has become so much then just a game for me , yes it pains me to see where it has gone over the years , But good or bad wow Has become a big part of my life .
I play for the storyline! I was with WoW at the start of launch due to a friend telling me about it! I left at 3.5 & came back in 2018 for a month then left again! I came back for Dragonflight & I am just chilling leveling my Alts!
As an arms warrior for like 18 years I feel strangely called out...
Well, since the title is a question, I'm going to reply to it. I personally still play WoW and will probably do so for many years from now because of the lore, world, the vibe it gives me, and also, FOR ME, there's no other game that gives me that same enjoyment like when I do M+ with in-game friends that I get along with, and do mid to high keys together, or progress in raid with my guild that is also filled with friendly people. Also WoW is constantly changing, and I love that about it, there's always something new to do, to discover, to enjoy. Absolutely love the class fantasy and the freedom of choosing my specs, talents, skills, etc. (while other might tell me there's no build diversity, I'd say that more or less applies to harder content, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy your whacky build in Delves or Open World). Since I joined the game, two and a half years ago, I'm still in contact with the people that helped me along the way and we do stuff together, and we help eachother in need, be it with achievements, dungeons or something else. One last thing I will add, to be totally honest, the people I've talked to in-game, are usually much friendlier than the ones I come across on social media (fb,x,yt,etc.).
M+ rocks dude. Its not perfect and MANY issues with it, but it's a feckin thrill to flow through a dungeon when everyone is on point and you're cutting through swathes of enemies. I really hope Blizz address the issues it has and makes it awesome
....and btw, nice to finally hear someone say something positive about WoW for a change 😂
Yea, but it's mostly negative only on social media, cuz it attracts more attention...@@philmehrart
I dont play retail anymore, most of the time its just FOMO and when the honeymoon phase ends, its just not fun. Progging mythic raids is fun, everything else, especially mythic+, feels more of a chore and a full time job to support raiding.
Put in voice chat on automatic, like cs:go, apex legends. If people act toxic, kick/leave before wasting 30 minutes of your life.
Also more likely for better coordinations of interupts stun and defensives.
Put in a mechanic that bans toxic people on voice chat.
ALOT of issues fixed.
I keep coming back because of the fantasy of this world. Even when I got really mad for the $90 mount and wanted to leave the game and never come back, I … came back 😢 Hell I even wanted to sell all the WoW books I have, but I haven’t in the end.
I‘d love to have Baldur‘s Gate wow edition 💔
Been asking myself that question for some time, I like the game but at the same time I often hate the experience during m+. Random leavers because they deem themselves too good for the group, people not knowing tactics at all, people not responding to questions or comments to improve the time we spend together in that dungeon. It's addictive but in many ways also a shit experience to be honest. Struggling to get enough valorstones and/or crests, struggling to get into groups, getting flamed because you fail at a mechanic. Sad times in wow :/
My brother has paused his subscription until siren isles or season 2 since he just plays M+ every time he logs on.
I’m still playing and making more alts since I just do delves with some LFG/LFR. I just find the game to be more fun when I have no commitments or real end goal and just doing whatever I find interesting. Doing old transmog runs are neat since I like playing dress up with some of my characters. My most recent one was farming the old Scholomance.
If only my brother would do something else other than M+ so that he doesn’t get burn out from all the PUGs.
What damage meter are you using?
I play for the people. But the content droughts seems to be longer and the time people play seems to become shorter. Mini raids use to be fun, raid gear vendors used to be handy, even borrowed power used to be fun.
To me its simply dead because the vibe has NOTHING to do with the WC2->WC3->Vanilla and to some extent TBC->WOTLK vibe. Thats why I started, they took that away
Agree - the storyline is woke now and it doesn't feel like the world I remember.
I like to reply on dead games too…
@@mboytek big brain moment, you might want to reflect on the "to me" part tho
@@ivanthespacebiker5390 wow classic anniversary awaits you friend
Opening the weekly chest gives dopamine enough to keep me addicted and do the same +10 dungeons over and over just to fill that dopamine 😂
20 years under my belt, I play very different than I used to mostly solo as I am older and not as interested in pushing myself, but that is one of the reasons I still play. Diversity in game play. Heck I somtimes just find myself fishing in a beautiful place enjoying myself perfectly when I am tired and board in RL. 😂
I've tried to quit several times with different MMO but always return to wow because it has something others don't and it just feels right.
i've been playing since vanilla off and on. Usually I will play for a couple of months, quit, comeback for a new expansion, rinse and repeat. Lately though since Dragon flight, Blizz has been good in pacing the release of new patches so I don't get bored right away. So yeah its an addiction and all.
I still play it because I find it fun. Also I'm interested in the lore and storyline of the Worldsoul trilogy. Now why exactly do you need justification to play a game?
Have had a period of longer breaks but i always come back to WoW, the raids and dungeons just speak differently to me. Class design is much more fun atleast for me than other competing mmos and rpgs. I've always had closer connection to my guild mates in WoW than similar games with clan systems. I like how they have started to experiment with different kind of server be it permanent or seasonal ones. SoD phase 1 was probably the most fun ive had in 10+ years except maybe Legion expansion. Always been an Arms warrior main and still coping, i want Legion arms back :).
Я играю с релиза в Америке, потом перешёл на Европу.
Несколько раз я переставал на полгода-год когда контент совсем приедался или оказывался неинтересным (Пандария). Но я постоянно возвращаюсь. Просто все остальные игры слишком "простые".
Сейчас я не могу оплатить подписку и новое дополнение, но всё равно захожу на 20 уровневых персонажей чтобы попытаться обновить мой аддон Hedd 😅
Escapism? Immersion? Where? In this full-instantioned, daily world quest machine?
Its still fun. The M+ doomers doom about the same stuff every season (except tank and healer nerfs which are valid) and they have largely left already so the pug experience has been better. Ill continue to play wow as long as it has M+.
I used to be able to keep up 3-4 toons as a solo only player now with M+ its a pain in the @$$ at +2-3 M+ because its just too hard for new people trying to come in fresh. That's literally why i log in do 1-2 PVP matches do a +7 then log off for the week. (I might do a couple profession crafts)
I love WoW, there is just no other game like it. The world, the lore and the gameplay is just unmatched in the mmorpg genre. But all this doesn’t matter if i cant play the game. Looking for m+ groups for hours just for the group to dispand after anybody fails. I hope we find a solution for this…
wow is my jam but i left a few weeks ago for a while to go play other game. once heroic raid was done, I had nothing to look forward to. Season 1 was terribad.
Bro I got banned for my language in the game because I spit drop facts that a healer is bad with 400k in a 12+ Key, players who fail mechanics AND - attention - replied "Clown?" to a guy who called me a clown. These gave blizzard a reason to ban me wtf. It's ridiculous this community and just 99% failers of easiest mechanics and toxic af. I deinstalled this shit now and was playing for years, I'm so done and the customer support is the cherry on the top texting "you abused the terms and conditions" beside the insane ridiculous reasons named above, dafuq?
You call other people toxic while calling people "bad" and whatells "facts" you spill? 😂 if you are good, then you could tell the healer "save big CD's for this and that boss" or "use chain healing less, you are on 0 mana too much" or some other useful "fact" instead of being... well, toxic af 😂
Because it’s a reasonably priced form of entertainment with friends across North America.
Timespending, Wotlk era, cata and Pandaria, I was the most active on like also PvP section which I ignored since I returned in BFa, priorities made me miss the 3 in between, I now try to self-funded to play atleast some wow-tokens and thinking about Goldfarming till I never have to toutch my wallet?
Wow is in a weird state. Retail, on one hand, is always controversial amomgst players, with blizzard struggling to keep both the pve and pvp players happy. Classic, on the other hand (more specifically HC) is receiving wonderful feedback. Everyone there loves it. I love it. I can definitely see myself sinking plenty more hours into classic servers.
Nostalgia mostly. Dragonflight went a long ways towards pulling me back to the game. The changes they made to M+ in TWW S1 to the drop points for top tier crests and myth vault pulls really put a damper on things. M+ pugging had always been toxic and gatekeepery but its 10 times worse now and just not worth dealing with for so little reward. They need to immediately go back to DF S2/S3 format and drop points...dont wait for S2...do it now to save face with the playerbase before too many get gone amd ALL of DFs progress is erased. Then they need to start engineering ways to combat player toxicity in the PUG scene and the dps players complete and utter disregard for the tank and healer roles.
I havent touched retail in about 3 years now...
I play private servers these days.
I play wow casually for 15 years. Tried some mmo's and arpg's in between but i say wow is still the one i want. For me it's the best mmo overall
I love M+ and pretty much the only reason I play. I don't think M+ S01 is great, been a bit lame actually....but I still had a blast with the new TWW dungeons. Hit KSH and unsubbed/quit for now, will come back for S02. Lack of tanks and heals in general, there seems to be a general disappointment and apathy within the M+ community and it's current iteration.
I'm hoping Blizz listens to a lot of the feedback, tankier tanks being tough mofos again, healers feeling useful again instead of us always primarily relying on defensives, drop the insta recasts after interrupting, the list goes on.
Later seasons of DF M+ were given a lot of praise by players, I'd be excited to see if TWW season 2 actually turned out great
I play WoW just because i really like keystone core mechanic. why i played before Legion? I don't know, already forgot.
I started playing 7 years ago, and now I just want it to let me go!!! (And play other games again)
I really enjoyed the vibe of this video dog-I mean marcelian! I play for the challenge and the social aspect 100%! raiding will never not be fun for me.
Cheers homie
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I enjoy raiding in a guild team. That’s the only gameplay I enjoy. If I level or do quests it’s in order to raid. I also like reading lore.
You like the lore . . . But won’t do the quests unless it’s to raid . . . 🤔
You should appear more often Marcelian !
I’ll do you one better. I’ve restarted my account twice. Been playing since the start. It was a better version of EverQuest. I always play the new expansion. Sometimes I play for a few months. Sometimes only a few weeks. Seems like this time was the longest so far. I’m addicted
At this moment, for the purple murloc onesie swag LFG baby
I play wow because I like exploring and gathering mats. M+ is an example of the playerbase mindset that ruins other games, like league. I quit league because I had to sit through hours on end of bossy knowitalls causing mental breakdowns in strangers. At least in wow I can go fishing or just do something else. I'm not sure what any company can do to avoid a portion of the community thinking it's fun to ruin everyone else's time. This is a human problem.
Now that I think about this, it's probably my characters, my main sunwalker in red horde plate and favorite alt havoc they are just so much fun to play
Cuz the lore is insanely good right now.
I enjoy the gameplay and testing my limits. I hate the bugs and bad m+ decisions.
I love fantasy races. Openworld and cool looking armor on said races. im a simple man.
I went a lil too hard on the Mythics, Raiding and PVP - Break time, need to play something else LoL
Always good to take a break every now and again!
I got my new tmog from Big dig event,looks epic on my dwarf especialy with that big bag.Thats only thing that keeps me motivated to play wow atm 😢
Only reason why I play anymore is because the wife still likes it so that is our time together a few hours a day. Been playing since right before BC came out..
Taking a break right now. I will come back in s2 but I feel like m+ is the worst it has ever been. I don’t wanna play it. Plus if they see more of us doing them they may think it’s good. I don’t wanna be a metric 😅
Mythic plus is fun..
Pop a couple beers, get on diacord when kids are in bed and play with the same guys i played with a launch. Sometimes, ill even pug.
I hear its broken tho. I dont see it
11s and below are honestly great this season. Once you go 12 and up you will see why people hate the current state of m+
@riddert4966 i have done all to 13 and dawn on 14.
I still have fun... got to be much more coordinated tho
Why ask questions when one does know the answer?
Thank you :)
I am still playing WoW....hoping that someday Blizzard would revamp PvP reward system and I will have something really nice incentive to chase and win. I am also playing hoping that someday, WCIII essense would come true in the game and I will get to play my Orc looking like the way Orcs did in WCIII and God I still repeat watch the Orc campaign ending movie.....
I do my weeklies then go on mount/pet farm runs for the rest of the week
Marcelians alive! ❤ playing just because of all my friendships i found :)
I’ve played for over 16 years but this xpax has not been fun so far. I switched to FF14
I play for a month at the first of expansions and then the last two months or so of each expansion. get the flavor, and get out.
You guys are awesome but Wow is dead for me. I miss raiding but “m+” started to erode my experience in the game back in MoP when it fragmented my top guild at the time. I had loads of fun levelling, exploring and doing some achievs in TWW, but i have no desire to join the gear grind by running the same dungeons over and over and over again after q’ing eons. Obviously wow is great and if i had no job/kids/life/badback/butt problems from 10 years of wow then i would 100% be still be playing hardcore af.😅
Stupid game mechanics is not what a MMO is supposed to be about, there's plenty of other types of games for that.
WoW retail today caters to people who play games that makes them mash buttons and see high scores, not RPG players who want to experience another world.
I play the game to be "in" the world, to be part of the story. To 'make believe', basically (something that maybe new generations have forgotten how to do?).
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yea, i havent been playing since March 12th of this year and quit due to how bad the game is, and really it is not that entertaining as much but did play it back in the 2000s
I play so I could stop drinking alcohol
Who say i still play WoW?
Not playing right now...Path of exile 2 baby!
So happy i quit this game with the DF/TWW Wokism shit. So much more time to play actually good games
And that's why you're here, commenting on it 😂
Ye i don't get whats more sad. Quitting a game because of 'wokism shit' or watching and commenting on a video about a game that you apparently quit lol
Flame got older
oh no
😂
Because it's fun.
To be honest, WOW gives me a plausible excuse to stal... I mean WATCH Marcelian and Flame online....
Hehe, and we appreciate you for it Longwealker!
I no longer pay
i love wow and my guild "Le seigneur des Ombres" ding 10 years this friday! on khaz Modan EU server! For the Horde^^
because I have no life
Boring Solo Pugging Community Perception Meta Picks for High Keys.
Doesn't like a single meta pick spec.
No time to wait long for a group invitation.
Because for me its the best game . Simple
Bro what is this video script, it looks like it's written by chatgpt or something. You have said literally nothing that has any value bro.
Appreciate the feedback, what kind of value where you expecting from a video titled "Why do you still play World of Warcraft?"
@@MarcelianOnline Maybe something new, because all these stuff you are talking about are the stuff we heard a gazillion times already.
no other game feels like home
Marcelian appearance 😁 you should go on camera more 😄
Stockholm syndrome
Over complicated garbage, full of toxic elitists that forget they are playing a video game. where in 3 months the gear they just so proudly obtain will be worth diddle squat. The game is a joke. Players are a bigger joke.
Wow got super fun pvp that you can't get in any other game. I've only ever played to pvp from day one to the current.
Classic.
I am clean for almost 3 years bro.
The Woke bs is ruining the game.
its over dude, WoW is dead. They killed it with killing m+ pugging.
So what's with us playing then?
No, its dead for YOU. And for you to feel better, you say it as a general fact for everyone. Its over for YOU, goodbye
@@jayquillen3225 Its dead cause all of the metaslaves shitheads. People that just enjoy their class are on queue simulator.
@@MarcelianOnline you cant let go, cause it cannot be what must not be.
@@jayquillen3225 soon you will awake and see that it wasnt a nightmare, nightmare is your reality.
_im just kidding . jesus.. his face lol.. what a tool :-)
says the anonymous tool 🤦🏻♂️