Good luck stormin' the castle, all that jazz. ![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
If you're on Gilneas, let me know and I can hook you up with some good folks to run with.
As for me... I got bored with WoW.
You'd think the same would happen with CoX -- and, maybe, it will -- but so far all indications are to the contrary. But my focus always has been on PvE
rather than PvP, and honestly, most of WoW seems to be geared towards PvP -- even the PvE bits seem to mostly be there so you can get the gear to play around
in Battlegrounds, etc.
But WoW just got repetitive and boring...
I mean, look at it this way: I've got 22 characters on CoX, most in their teens, and not one of them has got there the same way as another -- even those
with functionally identical powersets/origins. There is an amazing amount of diversity available in CoX (once you're past the initial 8-10 levels,
anyway).
Whereas on WoW... well, I had 20 characters (two servers full), and they all got leveled in almost the same way. Sure, I *could* take the time and effort to
find another path, but the choices were limited and there was no real drive to accomplish it. It made no difference in the long run if you, as a (for example)
Human, stuck around Stormwind or dragged your butt over to Ironforge to do your leveling. Or the other way around. There was, really, no difference between
them other than that one had snow and the other didn't.
What I find funny about that is, the WoW world is much bigger, geography-wise, than CoX is, and the WoW engine -- while it looks cartoony-ish -- is at least
on-par and in some ways superior to CoX. You'd think that would lead to *more* open-ended gameplay, more opportunities for branching... but, not really.
Blizzard has always been good at telling a story... but they're not so hot at Choose Your Own Adventure, which is what CoX feels like.
All this is, of course, my opinion, yadda yadda. I don't criticize anyone for liking WoW, this isn't an attack, etc. I'm just explaining why you
couldn't get me to go back. One of my friends has, in fact, offered to pay for me -- he currently maintains my old account so he can dual-box -- and
that's not enough, even. It's just too... confining.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
If you're on Gilneas, let me know and I can hook you up with some good folks to run with.As for me... I got bored with WoW.
You'd think the same would happen with CoX -- and, maybe, it will -- but so far all indications are to the contrary. But my focus always has been on PvE
rather than PvP, and honestly, most of WoW seems to be geared towards PvP -- even the PvE bits seem to mostly be there so you can get the gear to play around
in Battlegrounds, etc.
But WoW just got repetitive and boring...
I mean, look at it this way: I've got 22 characters on CoX, most in their teens, and not one of them has got there the same way as another -- even those
with functionally identical powersets/origins. There is an amazing amount of diversity available in CoX (once you're past the initial 8-10 levels,
anyway).
Whereas on WoW... well, I had 20 characters (two servers full), and they all got leveled in almost the same way. Sure, I *could* take the time and effort to
find another path, but the choices were limited and there was no real drive to accomplish it. It made no difference in the long run if you, as a (for example)
Human, stuck around Stormwind or dragged your butt over to Ironforge to do your leveling. Or the other way around. There was, really, no difference between
them other than that one had snow and the other didn't.
What I find funny about that is, the WoW world is much bigger, geography-wise, than CoX is, and the WoW engine -- while it looks cartoony-ish -- is at least
on-par and in some ways superior to CoX. You'd think that would lead to *more* open-ended gameplay, more opportunities for branching... but, not really.
Blizzard has always been good at telling a story... but they're not so hot at Choose Your Own Adventure, which is what CoX feels like.
All this is, of course, my opinion, yadda yadda. I don't criticize anyone for liking WoW, this isn't an attack, etc. I'm just explaining why you
couldn't get me to go back. One of my friends has, in fact, offered to pay for me -- he currently maintains my old account so he can dual-box -- and
that's not enough, even. It's just too... confining.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs