Thoughts on WoW.

I'm stuck with rather mixed feelings about World of Warcraft right now. It's rather difficult to decide if I should continue with it after the trial is over or if I should care fuck all about it.

I can try to summarize it in to positive and negative

Positive
When it comes to WoW I'm amazed of not only the level of detail, but also the size of it all. You can start running from one side and probably won't reach the other side before next year. Also the fact that I with my shitty internet connection am able to play a game with pretty good detail online is a bit impressive. They say that you can do it with dial up 56 kb/s, but I experienced lag in areas with a lot of people at 700 kb/s. Still it's pretty impressive, I must admit.

I like the way that you can have several different types of classes and species. This doesn't restrict you to just orc or human. It gives a person a greater diversity and range of choice. It also allows the ability to gather up parties consisting of warriors and spellcasters. Diversity is stronger than anything else. One characters strong side weighs up for another's weak side.

It wasn't fun when playing alone, well it was fun for about 30 minutes, but then it just got "meh". However, I ended up getting into a party of five(see what I did there?=P), which quickly made it a bit more interesting. Although since I was on the trial version I couldn't invite people in, I helped out a dude that needed it and he invited me to join him. Then we got a couple more, and the killing was on. Although the dudes refused to listen to any attempt to play it tactical to avoid deaths in the group. Also the total lack of communication in the group was a bit annoying. Never the less, it was funn the little while it lasted.

Negative
On to the negative sides of the game. First of all, it's rubbish if you don't play it with anyone. You can keep yourself entertained for a little while, but unless you're one of those with no life at all, you'll end up bored and wanting to shave your groin with a 10 year old well used razor. It's just not that fun. You need someone else to play with, and until that happens, you're pretty much fucked.
Although I found someone to play with, ssince I didn't know them, it was rather boring. It was like a sex addict forced to have a wank instead of sex. It wasn't satisfying. It worked for some time, but in the end it was useless. Maybe the fact that I only have a trial account and thus can't do shit counts for something. Anyway, playing it alone for a longer period of time is boring. It's also very difficult to take on larger groups of monsters on your own. If you are a level 11 type, you might just win against a level 13 beast, but then you're most likely very far down on HP. Add another beast, and you're dead. You need others to back you up when fighting more than two beasts at a time that are superior to you in level. That really sucks.

If you, like me, experience lag, then it could be frustrating. But that goes for any game. Lag=sucks.

Neither does it bring something new gameplay, at least I feel that way. You have a character, you kill to gain experience, you use that experience to get stronger and learn new abilities, which allows you to kill animals that give you more experience. You also earn money that allow you to buy money. We've all seen it before, but if you like that type of game then it's not a problem really.
Conclusion
No matter how you look at it and how many positive sides you bring up, it still won't be able to outwheigh the alone part. ssThe problem is that it's simply not the kind of game you can play alone. You are more or less forced to drag some friends in to be able to play. Taking that into consideration, it's a pretty smart marketing technique from Blizzard. But as long as you can find someone to play it with, you might actually enjoy the experience.

However, should you get hooked, you should shoot yourself...