A lot of people are always telling me to try World of Warcraft for it’s amazing 1-80 leveling journey and great economic activity. Finally I’ve caved in and decided to give it a shot, and here is what I’ve found on my incredibly open-minded and 100% unbiased exploration of the game.
The first thing I did was buy a lvl 60 character, and I must say WoW does a terrible job explaining how to play at level 60 when you first start up. For example, I had one quest which asked me to go into an instance, and when I went inside I found the place impossible to finish. What kind of terrible game design is this? Why even give me the damn quest in the first place if I can’t possible complete it at the level that I received it at?
Since I could not make any progress with leveling due to the broken quest design, I went exploring. I went into a large city only to be killed instantly by some level 80 player. Now it’s very obvious that I had no chance versus this guy, but he grief killed me anyway. When I asked why, someone mentioned something about me being a different race. OMG, racist! How do the GMs allow such horrible griefing racists to continue ruining my gaming experience? (I know I know, this kinda breaks down here since it involved interacting with others, but just go with it)
Since PvE was impossible and obviously you can’t explore in WoW without getting to level 80 and bringing tons of people to protect you, the only option left was to try the economy game everyone was telling me about.
But instead I quit and wrote this post to share my experience with the world, hoping someone will pay attention to me and address these horrible, horrible issues that clearly all you WoW fanbois are just trying to keep out of the spotlight. I mean if news ever gets out about this, I’m sure everyone will instantly quit and WoW will go under. Plus I mean how good can the game be when the PvE is broken and every player is either a griefer, a racist, a chat spammer, or all of the above? What terrible game design! I’m going back to online Tic-Tac-Toe, where I dominate the economic game and do really, really well in PvE. (I have the epics to prove it!)
Hardcore Casual 
Heh :)
Best. Post. Ever.
lol
You captured Tobold in Eve perfectly.
No idea what you are talking about, I don’t read his blog anymore. I swear. Hell the only reason I’m aware that he even blogs anymore is because I saw a link to a link to a post about a post of his on this one website I just happened to come across hitting “I’m feeling lucky” on Google.
*tears up* so. much. win.
LOL! I read this just after reading Tobold’s latest whinge-fest about Eve. Nice one. :)
I laughed a bit. You see so many people write stupid posts like that to the point where it’s gotten really annoying and I just don’t bother with them anymore.
Great post though :P
lol, well done.. Oh and don’t forget to comment saying how everyone commenting to ‘disagree’ with your opinion is a wow fanboi griefer.
Tobold is losing my respect the more he writes about EVE.
What you said earlier about entitlement, and now this… you pretty much sealed the whole deal.
There are dozens of incredibly well argued comments in the post that completely tear apart Toboold’s argument, and he just blatantly ignores them to go after the less thought out shorter responses. His conclusion statement that “good game design produces a maximum amount of fun for a maximum number of players,” was pure lolz considering the other comment he has said in this and dozens of other posts, “I *tend* towards having middle-of-the-road opinions.” Ergo, his opinion is the average gamer opinion and since good game design produces a maximum amount of fun for a maximum number of players, any game that he does not find fun is bad game design. His bloated sense of self-importance is off the charts.
To be fair almost every player in WoW really is a racist spambot. Just to put things into perspective.
To be fair, is it really racism if it is part of the natural order? Those filthy orcs would be perfectly fine if they would just learn their place in the world and stop trying to insist on being equal with ANY alliance race. Elune made Azeroth to be ruled by the pure races and not by such vulgar races such as those in the horde!
Does anyone else feel that sometimes Syncaine thinks about Tobold a little more than is healthy? :)
Syncaine is the remora feeding off the table scraps of Tobold’s shark.
i lol a little but enh, borring, lets hear more about Darkfall, been awhile. I’ll never play it but enjoy your posts about it. I prefer the patrolled sand pits LOL
Just a lot of PvE and character dev in DF for me lately, but a shakeup is coming in the next few days that should lead to some more exciting stuff happening in-game soon.
9/10
Only a close-minded racist like yourself would deny me that final point, but I would expect nothing less from WoW fanbois.
I see what you did thar
Ah, but you see, sandbox games are evil as they force you to socialize, join in guilds, communicate with other people and get along with them and all do sorts of other antisocial activities. Proper games like WoW encourage social behavior by allowing massively multiplayers to play the game solo, the way massively games were meant to be played.
You sandbox players are playing your game wrong and you should stop it immediately. But I know you won’t, because you’re all just antisocial bullies and institutionalized gankers.
This post made my day, thanks!