i'm getting the shakes again, The MMO shakes, i need someone to please PLEASE tell me that WoW is a shit game that is definitely not worth me spending a monthly fee for. 
i'm going through an addon list already i'm too far in, please help.
I played wow for a large part of my life and have been both happier and more successful since I stopped playing. (It also was how I didn't go insane boymoding for all of college though so take that for what it's worth)
Play path of exile or something free.
Will they give you a free month? The last time I had the MMO shakes, all I had to do to cure them was login to ESO and try to do literally anything - all the popups about new "opportunities" that were just loot boxes and micro-transactions gave me the ick, and I logged right back out.
Had a similar experience with Diablo 3 but instead of a popup spam, it was a friend that was practically foaming at the mouth with how obsessed he had become with the game. All I had asked from him was to level me to cap so I could gear and play with him for that season. He began to practically play the game for me, telling all the stuff I need for this and that and blah blah blah and it reminded me real quick why I left the online gaming community. There's no fun in it anymore and I don't have time to worry about minmaxing and deminitioning returns. I just wanted to casually click shit on a screen and chill with my friendo.
I feel you I was contemplating getting into WoW classic due to nostalgia for WoTLK but I already lost over two entire years of my life to that game. And no, I didn't just play it for a couple years seriously. I mean my main character had nearly 700 days played time ~15,000 hours. 100 entire days of my life, every year, for 6 years.
Go ahead and resubscribe. Right now.
Your entire quest log is going to be filled up with disjointed story quests that in no way interact with each other.
If you manage to navigate through that slop, enjoy literally nobody willing to invite you to anything, because the last raid of the expansion is already over, and if you aren't Ahead of the Curve, you're trash.
You're welcome.
Many indie games that are much better, play Outer wilds or Disco Elysium.
Not worth to play a subscription based game.
Gross, the company that did this to its own employee on a business retreat?
CW: Bullying, extreme sexual harrassment, suicide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/03/04/activision-blizzard-employee-suicide-lawsuit/
I play sometimes for old times sake in a free pirate server. I'll never give them another dime.
Oh man, there's tons to choose from! I play on truewow.org ( i don't actually recommend them, but just as an example so you can see what one looks like)
You pick your favorite expansion first, then start googling around for pirate servers.
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GOOD SERVERS ARE FTP with donations allowed for QoL and vanity items
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Pay attention to population levels and community vibe, they can vary.
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There used to be a great resource on Reddit, what was it called? brainfart
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Oh yeah /r/wowservers/
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Feel free to ask any other questions, i am not up to date on new servers but have played various private servers for years
No, though since i recalled wowservers ive been lurking and see glowing reviews of it. \Scowl maybe too glowing...lol.
Hmm, It's a classic server with modified classes and new quests, open since 2019 i guess? Looks like they have a strong pop ...
The modified classes and quests look really fun. You didn't ask my opinion (sorry) but as long as their server is located outside the states, they are FtP and they don't have PtW, I'd say give em a shot!
you can also start your own server if you want to play single player, but you should probably install either the auto balance mod or the janky playerbots https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk
I thought it was a fun coding project and I hate playing with random people (wow community is scary and stressful imo) so my partner, parents and I play on the server and are having a very relaxing time.
I'll have to look into this because that's precisely what i want in WoW nowadays. Thanks for the tip!
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“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.” - CS Lewis’ Sci-fi Trilogy
Your nostalgia for the game is just as much a part of your experience of the game as when you originally played it. Enjoy feeling the good memories and that desire to go back to them, but know that you can never go back. Remembering good times is just those good times becoming “fully mature”.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.
God damn CS Lewis has a way with words. the last line in the Narnia Chronicles is so beautiful it makes me want to believe in god
This quote is new to me but I've gotta read that story for sure.
Damn, deep shit.
I can’t recommend his scifi trilogy enough! The first book (“Out of the Silent Planet”) is my favorite, but the 2nd is also pretty good. The 3rd book is COMPLETELY different from the first two, but still enjoyable.
There are clear allusions to monotheistic faith in each of them, but I believe he was a philosopher first and foremost. Great reading for over winter holiday if you get a break from school/work at all.
WoW is a shit game that is definitely not worth your you spending a monthly fee for
WOW sucks, Runescape sucks, Star Wars Galaxies sucks, Black Desert sucks, they all suck. we deserve games that respect our limited time on this plane
I’m sure Star Wars Galaxies was good and definitely the exception to the rule
nuh uh no game i spent more than a month playing and didn't achieve jack shit is a good game
Technically you don’t achieve shit playing any game. Oh no, I’ve talked myself out of gaming :(
Remember: the only thing worse than a disappointing video game is a disappointing video game you have to pay a monthly fee for.
It could be worse. I've gotten the shakes for EVE Online again
"THE HOLES, THEY CALL TO ME!"
- Man thirty seconds from getting ganked by 30 cloaky Lokis on the other side of a C2 static wormhole
I just an unsociable amount of time in WoW in the first month and only month despite the warnings of my friend who did the same in WotLK Classic. Let me tell you something, GenderIsOpSec, he was right and I'm right in that you have better things to do. There are better games to play. My friend is somehow a mastermind of ingratiating himself into communities and does it during his leisure time. He used that to get into a top tier raiding guild, getting glad titles, etc. He still called it a waste. My ass was anxious to join a discord to talk to people having a laugh. The game by itself is a flood of text you probably won't read, cutscenes you end up skipping, and a gameplay loop that isn't that bad. You heard me right, it's not that bad. Killing shit in WoW is kinda fun. But there are other ways you can spend that time that rocks. If you're going to be alone, you can play a single player game. If you can socialize well, play lethal company, or do cold calls or whatever extroverts do in their free time.
It's cheap entertainment. It's stimulating, but not engaging. The best part of it would be the community building and you're better off building that community over something that isn't fucking WoW.
WoW is a shit game that is definitely not worth spending a monthly fee. You'll waste so much time doing dailies or queueing for raids and dungeons that could be spent actually playing other games. You're blinded by nostalgia and trying to recapture the time you played your first MMO all over again but you never will.
Think of all the drugs you could buy with the monthly fee
It's not much, but probably better for you
