Sell me on WowFollow

Geez...for that amount of information just call Blizz and get their marketing material on the game.

Or just get a 10 day pass from someone who bought the CE and play for a bit.

To be honist we should have to SELL you Wow you should ether want to play it or not. I used to be a FFXI player for quite a while, and I left due to the people that played it.. I just came away pissed off time after time so I quit. Now on pvp if we get the same kinda stuff that you have from some ps2 noobs on ffxi then you can kill them.

Um, if you try it the game will sell itself to you.
Trust me you can't resist the warcraft so don't even try

Wait, no.. don't sell anybody on it...

I WANT to play, so I think if you are unsure, wait a month or two, let things settle-down, get some good long-term reviews...

Yeah, that's it...

I left FFXI for a reason, I don't want them all coming here to try the game for a couple days then complaining about all the things that aren't exactly like FFXI, or about the lag... The lag will normalize as soon as every single person who bought the game isn't on at the same time. I'd guess, on an opening night, over 90% of the people who bought the game were on, actively playing, and most in the "newbie" areas.

It's the exact same type of thing that happens in other MMORPGs when they have an event. (such as FFXI coming to a screeching halt during the first few hours of the Haloween event)

I will say, between all my friends (r/l and in FFXI) that tried it, just about every one of them are in the process of shutting down their FFXI account.

There are guilds. Your name is whatever you choose it to be, as long as that name is available on the server. Each character is unique, so you will have to level/train/quest with each character individually.

With each account you get 9 [i think] characters per server. You can only play one character per account at a time.

You really should just give it a try.

I dont believe anyone has the answer to this one because no one has gotten to the cap in the retail version. Though I am sure you could get there in no time if you are insane enough to spend a couple of weeks without going to sleep or work and just play.



There are several ways of playing each type of class. You are not restricted to doing one thing to be effective in your class. If you are a Rogue you are not limited to SATA+Viper and then waiting around for the timer to do it again. You have a wide combination of abilities you can use instead.

Also, you can quest for most of the valuable for your level and xp at the same time. So you can get all the equipment you need while advancing. They don't neccessarily have to be seperated from each other. You dont need to put aside fun stuff to farm for your new boots or whatever.



You can solo at any level. So you dont have to group. Some quests will however require grouping, but not that much of it. Also, you'll want to group for raids, but that's an optional part of the game. Imagine that, not being murdered by stuff that rates Easy Prey at 50th level. Wooo!



Probably, why would you want to leave the game then? Seems like you are having fun and hve plenty invested in it. Maybe you should consider this when you get bored with FF so you dont feel like you gave up something to play WoW. Might taint your game experience less.



You get 50 characters max for $15. The price goes down to $14 per month if you take three months at a time and $13 a month if you buy half a years worth. I believe you are limited to 8 or 10 characters per server and no characters on the opposite side from you first character on a PVP server. This is to limit spying issues.

A new job does equal a new character, but that also makes jobs more unique. For example, you can be a WHM or whatever in FF but you really arent special. That WAR you are partying with could be a 55th level WHM for all you know. I imagine you can take a lot more pride in your job in WoW. All a matter of taste really.

Hope this helped.

Hmmm, I'm an avid FFXI player as well, but I thought it was time to try something new, so I picked up WoW.

At a glance, this game is much simpler to figure out from the get-go. The graphics are...well I wouldn't say better, but different. It's more cartoony and the framerate is MUCH smoother, and there are more character features to choose from (how they look, etc.)

As I ran around trying to figure things out I noticed that there are a lot more monsters to kill and they spawn at a rapid rate.

The few quests I did try were ridiculously easy, and I haven't even come close to dying yet. But I only played about an hour and a half so I can't say much as to the difficulty, just that it really is easy in the beginning.

The emotes are fun too, I especially like the /dance emote, my undead warlock dude jams out. :)


But, as far as selling the game to you...? Well, I don't think that's possible. The only way for you to know would to be to try the game yourself. What I can say is that this game is very different from FFXI.

So, if your a little tired of FFXI give this game a try. If you and your wife still have a massive hardon for FFXI, don't even bother. I haven't decided whether or not I'll leave FFXI yet, but I'm sure I'll decide within the month.

Sooo, it's your money and your choice, good luck. :)

Edited, Wed Nov 24 11:13:00 2004 by DRTACO

One should not be sold on an MMO. You read about it and try to find if the game is for you or not.

FFXI is the only MMO I've played where one character could do every job. Most you pick a class and stick with it. Of course in FFXI while you had the option to do every job you really couldn't without someone complaining, if you picked any type of mage but TaruTaru for example to get into groups you had to have the best gear and down the top end food or groups would kick you, same with other classes or races.

So what makes each class different in WoW? Well first there are many overlaps between what race can do jobs and each race has slightly different abilities that make them play a little different. Also there are talents in this game, three different trees that focus what your character is good at. It is impossible to learn every talent so you will pick and choose which specialty you go down, so each character will be a little different. You may have a Hunter who specializes in beasts, with a little melee boost, while the other Hunter is focused on boosting his traps and Melee skills. Another thing that makes this game different is the items, this game doesn't focus on 300 average items and 5 must have items. While it is true that some items are better then all others in it's class, they are not so much better you will tell people to go away if they don't have them. People will use different weapons and armor to boost their stats and abilities in different ways.

As for time sinks, every MMO is a time sink, this a fact of MMOs. What makes WoW less of one is you can Run off alone and fight monsters your level, meaning you don't spend hours LFG. Decent items drop of random mobs so you don't spend 10 hours camping bubbu the sword dropper along with 50 other people to get a sword. Monster spawns are frighteningly fast. I've watched five people kill their Named Mob for a quest in the course of 10 minuets, because it spawns that fast, no waiting 3 hours to finish your quest. On the point of quests, they are worth comparable experience for their level. You do a bunch of quests in your level range and you end up near level or even leveling up, this also equals less grind.

Of course take what you see up there to decide of the game is a fit for you. Look at Blizzards official site it very detailed without a lot of hype.

As to how many accounts you can have. Never seen a game yet that allows you to have more then one account without buying multiple authorization keys. In this game that means two retail boxes. As to the number of characters you can have 50, 10 per server.

So that is my 2 cents.

Note if you really are not sure of the game a month, things are crazy right now, this was not a smooth start day, though it isn't the worse I've seen. In a couple weeks things will have settled in and starting the game will be smoother then trying to get in now.

Actually I do have a couple more questions that would have impact on my decision.

1. Can you play in a window, or quickly alt-tab switch out to other programs? (without 3rd party addons)

2. What is this queue system to get into a server? Are any waits temporary, and expected to quickly be non-issues? FFXI's server design is far superior by spreading members accross time zones, you avoid peak lag, and permit off-peak hour players to find team mates from other continents.