WoW is an Excel spreadsheet with strafe keys. The game itself is almost nonexistent, with the majority of your time being spent looking at what seems to be loading bars. It's boring, full of people with fevered egos and mental problems who completely suck at games, and it has little to nothing in the way of actual roleplay or content that would amuse someone neurologically sound and above the age of 8.

Probable Muppet wrote:

What this leads to is unhealthy anonymity, where most likely you will run dungeons/raids with people you have never met before and probably never meet again, and some people use this anonymity to treat others like shit (4Chan?).

I have a group of friends that specialize in this and show me screencaps of angry people in chat

putting my actual critique in a separate post for readability and context

I'll admit I played the fuck outta WoW, I had a hunter during the last expansion back in 2010. I even met one of my ex girlfriends on there, as pathetic as that is. So all my critique comes from actual experience.

The game consists of hitting a few keys in a set rotation while occasionally having to react to a passive ability activating. The rest of it is extremely slow paced and simplistic waddling around to avoid danger. The game mechanics are pathetically rudimentary yet players will still die to ridiculously stupid attacks by either failing to notice or refusing to move out of damaging spells on the floor (or any number of incredibly simple and easy to counteract gimmicks).

The player base is comprised almost solely of the most unskilled at videogames and the most ignorant of video gaming culture, let alone unskilled at social etiquette or general life knowledge. The people on WoW love to be seen and heard, love to collect shitty achievements and useless items to show off with to a degree that would make an obsessive TF2 hat collector cringe, and they hate to show any sign of being proven wrong, be it the damage table consistently showing you at the top, a verbal argument about the game itself, or how you should be playing your character (the best way to upset people is when you combine these).

I was kicked out of a guild for refusing to play my character the way THEY wanted. They supposedly needed me to change my entire talent tree and gear just so I could provide shitty mana replenish for them that they didn't even need. The problem was NEVER our heals, it was our DPS being shit, and they wanted me to go to a lower DPS spec so they could "heal more". The only reason we needed more heals was because we had morons who couldn't avoid taking damage and tanks that sucked balls at surviving. The problem wasn't me, I.E. not that one person wasn't giving 3% of the casters mana back every 20 seconds or some bullshit, it was because these people suck donkey cock at videogames. Besides, replenishment was a fucked and shitty stat that was only designed to shoehorn garbage specs into raiding so that you could be fooled into believing you had variety in your playstyle / raid composition / whatever the fuck. All it served to be was another set of training wheels for diaper shitting babies who can't play games.

The real kick in the balls here was that I was the highest DPS in the entire guild, and the only hunter around. The reason they wanted me to change my spec was because they got a new hunter that was buddy buddy with our guildmaster. The new hunter was in complete shit gear, but he was gemmed for armor penetration whereas I was gemmed for agility. Armor penetration was a broken, stupid, tryhard loser stat (so much so that it got straight removed from the game in the new expansion) so I refused to use it. Due to the gems alone in his shitty blue items, I was being harassed about swapping specs, and I refused. I asked the guildmaster, why not just play my character for me, obviously there's no point in being there to help if my free will isn't taken into account after I give and give.

So despite the fact I've showed up to every raid and showed up on time (even taking extra time beforehand to gather materials for potions etc. to help prepare for the night), despite the fact I've consistently played my role as a kiter / silencer / whatever they needed me to do for bossfights instead of whining and saying BUT I WANNA DO MAX DPS AND STAND IN PLACE like every other retard, despite the fact I was consistently doing max DPS whenever mechanically possible, despite the fact I consistently PASSED on gear that would be legitimate upgrades for me in favor of new guildies getting geared so the overall group can do better, I get shit on and told that I have to change to the "mana restore" spec. Fuck that. Protip: If the boss fucking dies faster, you don't need to heal as much.

WoW is a game for powerless shitstains to lord over people and feel good about themselves. There's no sense of loyalty, teamwork, or any real accomplishment. The hardest amount of work and dedication will amount to fuckall in the end regardless of how well received your actions and intentions are in any event, because all it amounts to is a gigantic void in your life where you can look back and say you have no meaningful memories whatsoever.

I AM knocking WoW and 99.99% of people who play it

Not only that, but you can't do jack shit of the end game content WITHOUT being in a guild, so it's a total catch 22.

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

And yet, the only time I ever downed the Lich King back when I played was in a PUG, not with my guild.

None of those people had ever met one another and none of them were current or prior guildies despite being from the same server, right? I mean it totally wasn't like 15 guildies looking to randomly fill spots in a group.

I meant consistently having access to end-game content in any sort of meaningful way. You don't consistently have access to end-game content with a PUG, as much as your completely random lucky group went against the rule that one time.

Either way, you must have had a hunter using replenishment, no other reason you won. Right? No but seriously, you got 1 in a billion odds of an actually competent pick up group, everyone on that game sucks balls at basic coordination. Then you get none of the gear because the leader is a ninja looting piece of shit, oh wait the entire game is terrible and downing the litch king would be a 10 minute ordeal if it was all people of my skill playing! Besides, it was probably a million years after everyone already stopped giving a shit, had gotten the best gear in the game, and had already killed the lich king ad nauseam with no chance of losing.

I mean it really doesn't matter whether or not guildies or pug members are what comprises your group, if everyone could simply do their job and play the game properly, every fight would be a joke. You're just not likely to get to the point where you can do end-game raids as a properly geared player in a timely fashion without the use of consistent raiding with the same group, as people get saved to instances, shit gets out of whack with people's schedules, etc.

You could do a shit ton of daily quests, get your badge gear, slowly move up...but it's such a completely obvious carrot on a stick scheme by that point, it's not even fun. If you didn't get geared before downing the litch king, you got completely carried and "you" didn't do jack shit. If you did get geared in the slow manner or with a guild, you still wasted time playing a shit game and still accomplished nothing, pug or not.

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Wow, good thing you didn't fly off the handle like a jackass or anything. I thought you said you grew up when Syd let you back in here?

What part of my post was flying off the handle? I took your original reply as a rote statement of irony, nothing more. I really only wanted to discuss the caveats of this "game", not deride anyone's opinion. I even threw in a joke about my guild's shitty reasoning to lighten the mood (replenishment bit).

Your tone suggests that you're actually offended by something I said which could only indicate that you feel upset and called out for writing what amounted to a contradictory and worthless passive-aggressive trollbait post in the first place. Why else would anyone be upset over my reply (a reply which only states facts that are gonna be statistically true the majority of the time)?

How the fuck am I the one that needs to grow up when you're acting like a crybaby who can't accept a difference of opinion? Seriously, why are you so upset? Did you lose a game of magic or were you really that proud of beating a shit boss in a shit game?

All I was doing was rationally discussing the topic at hand. The only person being unreasonable is you, with your single sentence reply non-contribution thread shitting. You can speak like a mature adult and face facts or your bullshit will be met in kind. You're acting like a toddler trying to argue with his science teacher about the sun shining all day by bringing up an eclipse, then when I explain the relevant phenomenon you shit your pants and start bawling. Please leave me alone and cut the shit, no one is a victim here.

The point I was trying to make is that the game forces you to be a co-dependant retard if you want to even play the endgame shit, which I find lame. Blizzard ruined Diablo 2 with that mentality and WoW is more of the same, just multiplied by a thousand.