My WOW experience

[Gibson12345]

To everyone who's saying that you can't or shouldn't judge WoW based upon a 30 minute trial, I have to disagree.

Every medium of art consists of a precious few gems surrounded by a sea of utter crap. My goal is to identify and enjoy those gems with as little fuss as possible. I give a book one chapter--count it, one--to hook me in some form or fashion. If it doesn't, I toss it aside; I don't have time to waste on things that might "get good after six hours." I'll usually sit through a movie because that's only a couple hours of my life, but you'd better believe I walked out of Peter Jackson's latest disasters (Return of the King and Kong) after an hour. And as for games, I give them anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours after the initial orientation phase (necessary but typically insulting to anyone who's played a video game before) is complete. Neverwinter Nights--just as an example--might be a decent game, but the opening is so boring and repetitive that I'm not going to waste my time finding out.

It's really a question of priorities. I have a book that is good immediately and stays good. I have another book that is horrible at the beginning, and people have told me that it improves. I'm not a betting man. If it starts out badly, I'm going to assume that it stays that way.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: skace
The area of the game that the OP writes about is the starting area quests. Basically the most simplistic of the entire game. These starting area quests were designed in this manner because games like Everquest did not properly create a world that could handle a massive influx of users all starting out at small levels. What occurs in a game like EQ is that you get 30 newbies and all of a sudden the low level monster pool has dried up and no one can advance. WoW attempted (pretty decently) to combat this extremely common mmorpg scenario with the starting areas.

Now, to rate the entire game on this is beyond flawed but I'm not going to discredit your opinion, although I do think it hillariously sad if anyone actually canceled a download or stopped playing the game based on this.

To put things into perspective, this would be like rating Oblivion off the escape from the prison cell.

actually, the excape from prison section is a very good representation of what the rest of the game is like. sure, its gets a little more intricate, but if you really think about it, thats all the game is.