re: Ive never played WOW, should i try it?

I was lucky enough to be addicted to WoW early on, in BC and WOTLK era in my sr. year of high school and after graduating, so I had tons of time to play. The downside: it took over my life for about 6 years and I'm just lucky I managed to pass tech college and start a career while being hardcore hooked. It couldve been very easy to get lost in the game and have my career go to the wayside.

Anyway, if you have a career, a wife, a child, or otherwise don't have 4-5 hours a night to play, stay away because of you get hooked you will find ways to have that kind of time to play, even on regular wow, which is much more friendly to casual players.

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I’ve played Warcraft, starcraft, and diablo since I was a kid. I still play diablo 2 today. I just never got in wow. What makes it so consuming?

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MMORPGs in general are extremely time consuming. In WoW, you have literally decades of content to catch up with and the content is all designed to be very fun and hook you. Even once you get to level cap, dungeons can take an hour to clear, and raids can take 4-6 hours 2-3 nights per week. And once you get committed to raiding with a guild you lose your slot if you show up unprepared or don't show up at all. So you spend hours upon hours actually raiding but you also have to spend hours upon hours preparing for raids, gathering materials for buffs, enchantments, etc.

To top it off, it used to have a very vibrant social dynamic that was like logging in and playing with friends every day.



These days WoW is more casual-friendly, with dumbed-down raids and a queue system for dungeons and raids, which means you don't have to join a guild to explore content, and a lot less materials to gather to get buffs for raids. But it's still time consuming.