Freight Train
Winger
Never played WOW before...is it easy to get into as a beginner?
World of Warcaft - Warlords of Draenor
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Some Random Guy
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You could, but SA is class for for stuff like this. I wanted to try EVE a few years back. I asked in the EVE thread if I could join their corporation. I joined a guild that only top players get to join outside of SA. Ships, in game money, materials were thrown at me hand over fist for being new.To be fair though, you could save a tenner and just apply for a guild in-game
I went on an OP, which at the time turned out to be one of the biggest in game ever. I'd only been playing for a few weeks. I accidentally clipped one of the giant ships an knocked everything back by about 20 minutes (think about bumping the death star with a mini). My connection dropped out and when I logged back on and had a couple hundred messages, going from calling me a **** to laughing at the stupid new guy. Most of the mails had money included, I got enough in game cash to keep playing the game for about 18 months off the back of being a fuck up.
I didn't really enjoy that game so I stopped playing but if I ever want to reactivate it I have a low level guy, in a top guild who is space rich.
If I want to play an online game I always look at somethingawful first to see what kind of presence they have.
Apparently it's a piece of piss now.
mmmmmick
Midfield
It's very easy these days if you want to play for fun. Which now that I'm a bit older than I was when it launched (10 whole years, almost
), is a good thing. Job, life, etc gets in the way a lot outside of the weekends, and now theres footy. But it allows me to do everything I did back when I spent 16 hours a day on the thing, only in a lot less time.So it's really that good then? Might give it a go at some point. Never really had trouble back in the day getting into top guilds etc, but the thought of doing a whole massive application which is more in depth than any job interview, should I ever raid properly again, makes me feel ill. It's quite sad really.
Some Random Guy
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If it's a new game there's a good chance whoever is in charge will fuck things up or be a psycho, if the games been around a couple of years you'll be able to play at the top tier.It's very easy these days if you want to play for fun. Which now that I'm a bit older than I was when it launched (10 whole years, almost
So it's really that good then? Might give it a go at some point. Never really had trouble back in the day getting into top guilds etc, but the thought of doing a whole massive application which is more in depth than any job interview, should I ever raid properly again, makes me feel ill. It's quite sad really.
Most of the time as long as you have a couple hundred posts and 3-4 months as a member you'll walk in. It's a US site so you'll get a better guild on a US server over a European one in my experience.
I've been on there since 2002, probably the best $10 I've ever spent.
coyneeee
Winger
To be fair though, you could save a tenner and just apply for a guild in-game
RP-PVP, kinky
I'm PvE only sadly, currently Chamber of Aspects/Draenor. Lost interest in PvP realms when Azeroth was opened up to flying mounts.
DF is anything but RP - The realm is notorious for the Goon Squad, during WOTLK pre-patch caused an actual worldwide zombie epidemic.
YouTube is your answer to my claims, the fact which makes this realm unique is to the fact we're anything but we're can only be cross-zoned to RP realms thus causing absolute havoc and being restricted to RP realms in the more popular zones
We might be labelled as RP but we're brutal - Horde side here don't abide to the rules
Some Random Guy
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Are you a goon too?DF is anything but RP - The realm is notorious for the Goon Squad, during WOTLK pre-patch caused an actual worldwide zombie epidemic.
YouTube is your answer to my claims, the fact which makes this realm unique is to the fact we're anything but we're can only be cross-zoned to RP realms thus causing absolute havoc and being restricted to RP realms in the more popular zones
We might be labelled as RP but we're brutal - Horde side here don't abide to the rules
coyneeee
Winger
Some Random Guy
Striker
It's $10 manNa you gotta pay to join
Saying that, when I joined my Mam bought the account because I didn't have a credit card.
coyneeee
Winger
It's $10 man
Saying that, when I joined my Mam bought the account because I didn't have a credit card.
I take it you're a goon?
Just paying to join seems a bit, you know
Some Random Guy
Striker
Yeah, been on there for over a decade.I take it you're a goon?
Never played WoW, There are a few guild afaik depending on your play style. If I want to play any online game I always check there first, they tend to be a good bunch to play with.
The tenner thing is there at first because forum invasions were a pain in the arse, now it's there because it costs about a 5 grand a month to run the thing.
coyneeee
Winger
Fair enough. Might sign up although their WoW guild aint doing incredibly well it's food for thought for the next expansion.
Some Random Guy
Striker
Just had a look, they have a pretty active WoW sub-forum (never looked at it before). Couple of stand out threads from a quick glance:
There's a thread on the WoD expansion with 18k replies.
Recruitment threads for the big US and EU guilds. There are a few more guild threads for regular sized guilds.
There's a thread called "Questions you can't Google, Thottbot, Wowhead, Wowwiki, or MMO-Champion". I have no idea what most of that means but with 14k replies there's probably some good advice in there.
Didn't notice any gerld threads so it could be a bit spergy with a proper look.
There's a thread on the WoD expansion with 18k replies.
Recruitment threads for the big US and EU guilds. There are a few more guild threads for regular sized guilds.
There's a thread called "Questions you can't Google, Thottbot, Wowhead, Wowwiki, or MMO-Champion". I have no idea what most of that means but with 14k replies there's probably some good advice in there.
Didn't notice any gerld threads so it could be a bit spergy with a proper look.
Not going for the hard sell or anything, it's just this probably isn't the best place to start a guild. There are about 12k members on here, if we have 200 active users on the games forum I'd be shocked.
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nelford_safc
Striker
WoW going up to £9.99 a month in November. A price increase on a ten year old game ffs
SexyMackemBastard
Striker
Wouldn't mind too much if this wasn't the second expansion in a row to go a year with zero new content.
Some Random Guy
Striker
I don't know, seems like good value for money if your playing quite a bit. It hasn't really inflated over the decade either has it?WoW going up to £9.99 a month in November. A price increase on a ten year old game ffs
coyneeee
Winger
The £9.99 only occurs if you un-sub at anytime past November 13th.. It's still cheaper than anywhere in Europe except Russia
But they're not exactly sending out a positive message for a company who's lost 6.5 million subscribers to date. (Currently sitting at 6 million down from 12.5 million)
But they're not exactly sending out a positive message for a company who's lost 6.5 million subscribers to date. (Currently sitting at 6 million down from 12.5 million)
Some Random Guy
Striker
It's still the most popular MMORPG, Diablo 3 is very popular, net profits were $50million dollars higher this quarter than they were for the same period last year. I don't think Blizzard are crying into their cereal.
It's never going to be as popular as it was but it will probably be around another 5 years at least.
Considering I've never played I've posted in the thread a lot .
coyneeee
Winger
It's still the most popular MMORPG, Diablo 3 is very popular, net profits were $50million dollars higher this quarter than they were for the same period last year. I don't think Blizzard are crying into their cereal.
It's never going to be as popular as it was but it will probably be around another 5 years at least.
Considering I've never played I've posted in the thread a lot .
You can't compare to Diablo 3 though, they're different genre's for starters
- one's an MMO the other is a dungeon crawler RPG.The problem WoW has is that there's a lack of faith in the development team, on my top of my head there's about 5 features cancelled which were advertised to buy WoD and if you read their Tweets they're very oblivious and ignorant towards the problems - They released SOO raid in November 2013 which meant people have had to do the same raid every for a full year.
The subs will rise in the Fall 2014 financials but that's only because of the WoD release but once the initial hype has died down all of Q1-Q4 will see new record sub losses, the game has peaked.
Revenue's will still climb however.. They have 3 expansions planned within a 12 month period from November for each of their titles added with Micro-transactions from Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm but after that period they'll need another cash cow.
Some Random Guy
Striker
I just brought Diablo into it because that's Blizzard's too. My point was that WoW isn't their only cash stream.You can't compare to Diablo 3 though, they're different genre's for starters
The problem WoW has is that there's a lack of faith in the development team, on my top of my head there's about 5 features cancelled which were advertised to buy WoD and if you read their Tweets they're very oblivious and ignorant towards the problems - They released SOO raid in November 2013 which meant people have had to do the same raid every for a full year.
The subs will rise in the Fall 2014 financials but that's only because of the WoD release but once the initial hype has died down all of Q1-Q4 will see new record sub losses, the game has peaked.
Revenue's will still climb however.. They have 3 expansions planned within a 12 month period from November for each of their titles added with Micro-transactions from Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm but after that period they'll need another cash cow.
I've never played WoW so chances are I'd enjoy it if I had time to get my money's worth. I can understand why you'd be sick of them reading that post.
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