The hubby and I play wow though we didn't start as far back as some of you guys have. We have been buying and experiencing the expansions one at a time. We're up to WOTLK now, At some point we will
buy cata as well. But we tend to MMO hop. We started out on Guild Wars, then went to Lord of the Rings online before it was F2P. After a while we finally decided to try wow, and right now were breaking from it and checking out RIFT which has been a lot of fun. We're both waiting for Guild Wars 2 to come out though...I wish they would hurry up....lol.
I want to try out rift, it seems like a cool concept of a mmo, but I have tired other MMO's besides wow (Aeon was a huge disappointment) and everything seems like it wants to be WoW. If I want to play wow, I will play wow. I want to see something imaginative and new. I hoping KOTOR is just that, because I am getting tired of cata, and the new panda xpac, even though I have high hopes for, knowing the track record of WoW, its going to be fail.
*just an explanation of what I mean by that. Original WoW was off the hook. Next came BC, which I stood in line for 6 hours on release to get my copy, installed and played it all night until I had to go to work. I was amazed. Then I was deployed for the lunch of WotLK but got it as soon as I got back home. It was cool for a little bit, but IMO they changes the system to much and it got old fast. Then came Cata, which was the cataclysm of fun in wow. Gone are the days of people doing raids for fun, people /rage quit @ one group fail, and over all there is such a division between the player base (super hardcore guilds that raid every day, semi hardcore guilds, normal guilds, causal guilds, "noobs" and I could go on...) that it lacks much fun for me. I remember back in vanilla it didn't matter what your gear score was, or how much DPS one person put out, as long as the boss got dropped it was a good day. I remember being carried though MC/ony/BWL for the first few guild runs, because my gear sucked. Overall as I got gear I could start to carry others, and it all worked out. I missed the downing of rag in vanilla with my guild, because of the army, but then picked up ony with no issue, even tho my gear was still sub par. T2 warlock helm=the best ever. But those days are long gone with ilvl requirements, a**es of raid leaders that want you to have the achievement before the run (you need experience with this raid, how do I get experience with the raid if no one lets me raid because I need experience with the raid?) anyways Ill QQ now.