OT: Star Craft Expansion ???

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12540614#post12540614 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by azhunter
is wow world of warcraft? i've never played it but all i've heard is terrible things about. mostly from wives, and parents or people that essentially become addicted to it. i heard that there was a petition to classify those kind of "never ending, always happening" games as an addiction to be treated by rehab. a buddy of mines kid dropped out of college and basically became a nothing loser because he didnt want to miss out on any "raids" or something to that effect? i'm not judging, whatever makes you happy, but if i started waking up at 1 am and my girlfriend couldnt stop playing cause her troop needed to raid something or whatever, i'd have to kick her out!
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LMAO :lol: Very true

It's only an addiction if you allow it to be when I played WarCraft 2 full time I'd play 6-8 hours daily (my days off from work) and when I was working I would only allow my self to play a couple games and be done with it.
But, you are correct it can and is an addiction for a lot of people for various reasons. Most are socially enept (sp) and feel they have no life or can’t make any friends in the world so they turn to online gaming to make “friends” which includes the PS2 and Xbox360.
The rest just love the game and all that can be done in it.
Now before I get burned from all you gamers I’m talking about the ones that play
12-16-20 hours daily and don’t move from there chairs except to use the bathroom and grab a soda.

As far as banning such things, perhaps Blizzard could come up with a time out function on the game at 12hours the game would auto shut down saving your progress and won’t let you back on the site for another 8-12 hours allowing enough time for the “addicts” to get rest sleep or otherwise do something else. But people would find ways to over ride this of course but if they do they would be hurting themselves. IMO
 
are you kidding!!!! what about my 16+ hour raid!!!





:rollface:

I kid I kid.... I agree with ya jay, there's always the good and bad out of everything.
 
i was just curious. another friend of mine was waking up and finding her husband in bed next to her with a laptop. he didnt play Wow but rather a millitary game of the same "never ending" format. never the less they are going through a divorce....
i think the problem is ultimately that the game never has any end, while your sleeping people all over the world are still going, and people have that "i cant miss anything" mentallity. i think it should be classified as an addiction that can be treated. before i get beat up for saying that, think about gambling addictions...same concept..not a physical addiction but mental. and both have the power to ruin a person's life.
 
Loved Starcraft. Can't wait for Starcraft II to come out.

Currently playing WoW. I aptly named my characters:

Diacanthus
Acanthurus
Maculosus
 
Before my son was born I would spend a ton of time playing online games, and back when EverQuest was still "new" there were times I spent 16 hours online for 1 raid. These days I play WOW about 4 hours every other Sunday and thats it

Its just a matter of where your priorities are and how your schedule matches others. If I worked 2nd or 3rd shift, I'd probably play for a few hours every day when I got home because everyone would be sleeping.
 
I remember the early days of Everquest, too. Back when your view of the world was confined to a rectangular window in one corner of the screen. When Kithicor Forest was a happy, tranquil place.

I never got into raiding. In fact, I've never reached the maximum level in any of the MMORPGs I've played, but I've had a lot of fun over the years.

After my divorce there were about 8 months when I barely turned on my television, but I put in 4-6 hours a night on MMORPGs.

My MMORPG Progression:
Everquest - Dark Age of Camelot - Star Wars Galaxies - Everquest 2 - Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

Just say no to WoW!
 
I think I went Diablo > Ultima Online > Diablo2 EQ > DAoC > WOW as far as online games and WOW will be my final destination.

You didn't miss much on EQ raids, except spending 8-10 hours just trying to recover corpses after the raid wiped out. I like the dungeons in the WOW expansion because they geard them to be 2 hour encounters which is perfect for people like me.

Heh, I miss LAN parties, lugging all my computer stuff to a friends house and playing Diablo or Starcraft with 4-5 friends =)
 
Hmmm... If there was a guild on WoW consisting of people I already knew, that just might be enough to entice me to try it.
 
Battlenet should log on for you
now just find the persons gamer name and you can whisper them and join up with them. that's based off of WC2 not WOW so I might be wrong but don't think so
 
Nope, not quite. WoW does not use Battle.Net. It has several (several dozen?) servers around the world. Each server is a self-contained copy of the world. You can interact with the people on a server, and you can make characters on multiple servers, but you can't bounce the same character from one server to another. Some MMORPGs have allowed you to move a char from one server to another, but the cost is exorbitant (on the order of $50 to $100). So, the best bet is to find out what server your friends play on and make a character on that server.
 
oh karl I think the char transfer fee on wow is like $25 to do and it takes about a day, and as for servers, there are several hundred servers and about 3 different backup servers of each :) talk about redundancy. but alas they still go down at times. I think jay was talking about starcraft though since he said it was based off of wc2 and not wow, which I thought it was based off of itself with the original idea taking from Warhammer :)
 
Corivus, you think Warhammer was the main inspiration for Warcraft I - III and World of Warcraft? They do both have gunpowder, which is unusual for fantasy games. Still, I'm not sure I'd rank Warhammer as more of an inspiration than Dungeons & Dragons.

The idea of high-tech gnomes traces back to Krynn (Dragonlance) gnomes. Everquest I and II took a similar path with their gnomes.

The orcs might be a closer link to Warhammer, if they've always had a British punk sensibility. (I haven't played Warcraft I-III, and haven't made an orc character in WoW yet.)

Of course, if Blizzard is a British company, it becomes much more likely that Warhammer was the main inspiration. Games Workshop has been the dominant game company in Great Britain for a long time.
 
oh I was talking about starcraft not wow :P

but for wow yeah I'd say D&D was definitly an inspiration

Sorry for the confusion.

Also Lightbringer - (4)Alliance (1) Horde
Doomhammer (1) Horde

but I play mostly on lightbringer I don't care for pvp servers to much as alliance tends to be predominantly younger people who like to camp with their ?? toons on newbies so meh.
 
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