MMO Gamers

Some comments recently to my PQ post, a number of topics around the blogosphere, and a conversation I had with one of my co-workers, a WoWbois, got me thinking about Warhammer and World of Warcraft.  I shall relay parts of this conversation I had with this WoWbois, who I shall refer to as Pimply Pete, not because he has pimples or because his name is Pete, but rather the opposite, and should you happen upon him returning from the convenience store you won’t assume that this is THE Pimply Pete made famous by this incredibly popular blog <waves to Mythic>.

So Pimply Pete asks me about Warhammer.  He’s interested in playing WAR but in his words he “has a lot invested in WoW” and he’s also pre-ordered WotLK.  I told him about the wonderful time I’d been having and went into detail about our exciting, but failed, keep assault.  I spared him nothing and went into detail about the battering ram, the burning pitch, and the storming of the keep once the door had been turned into nothing more than splinters.  I told him about renown ranks, about public quests, influence and more. 

And then he asked me about questing.  Now I’m not a huge fan of questing, which I find to be a grind.  And that’s probably one of the reasons I like WAR so much, because I can play the game for days and not have done a single quest, yet I’m still getting XP, I’m levelling up, and I’m getting phat lewt.  And I’m not a fan of solo gameplay, another reason I enjoy WAR; lots of grouping opportunities.  Questing is what I do when it’s the wee hours of the morning and it’s quiet, I’m sick of RvR and I just need to mellow for a while.

As usual I digress, so I’ll try to get this topic back on track.  Pimply Pete (not his real name remember.  Anonymity is crucial) asked me about questing.  And I tell him yes, it has quests, they’re like other quests. <shrugs at Pimply Pete>.  And then I made this comment, and why I said it I don’t know, and where it came from I’m not really sure.  But I said it and it’s out now.  I said “If you like to solo you’ll probably get bored of WAR pretty quickly”.  I know that I would.  If I spent the majority of my time doing solo quests I probably wouldn’t have lasted a month.  If I mixed it up with some solo RvR then I might last longer.  But if I had another game I enjoyed and had an “investment” in, then it’s unlikely that WAR would be able to hold my interest.  But for the style of play I enjoy, WAR has plenty to keep me going.

Whether I can convert Pimply Pete to WAR or whether he is lost to WoW forever will have to be told in a later instalment.