I've been playing wow since the second expansion and i must say it still is one of the best mmo's. I tried other so i can compare and the only one that comes close is guild wars 2. the only downside is the monthly payments.

The first thing you should know is that World of Warcraft (wow below) is paid game. You'll have to pay for the account (the ACC) the establishment, and for playing time and even for expansionus. If you do not have money, you still can try this game for free for 10 days. It is clear there is another way to play wow for free, etc. Y. illegal to play on the server (private), sito here is not to discuss (on which all this forum nediskutuojame), only to say that private servers full of bugs and will not experience a game there. Continue to consider separately the 10 day trial, wow acquisition expansionus and other things.

10 Day Free Trial

Wow you can play for free, unfortunately, only 10 days and with some restrictions. First you will need to create trial acc. This can be done here:
http://teaser.wow-europe.com/ Click: Download, then: Get Your Free 10 Day Account. Fill out everything you requested. ACC will start work on the creation of a moment. Completion of the ACC you will download the game client Wow. If you have problems with sending you looking for a download from other places, only to miss engb version if I download enus or otherwise, there will not run your acc. Wow Client is free and JY can be copied without violating the laws. Downloaded please install and run. You will start to send patches if you have any problems with the patch sending you to manually download it here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors. Suinstalive patches i connect game, enter into the acc id and password. Create your character and enjoy the game. Trial of ACC and other game demo has limitations. Your maximum can be lvl 20, will not be able to raise the professional skill of more than 100, you can not trade'inti or use the auction house can not have more than 10 gold, for a number of chat channels or rashyti private message to people who neisideje you to the friend's list. Many of the restriction, but you still can enjoy the games. After 10 days of your ACC will be "frozen". If you want to buy will continue to play the game and make the trial acc to normal. After 6 months, Blizzard has the right to remove frozen acc.

World of Warcraft is possibly the best MMORPG to date (in my opinion). Continuing on from Warcraft 3, you take the role of a hero in the world of Azeroth. Making your way through the world aiding the peoples of the world and dispatching those that would destroy them.

Where the game excels in my opinion is the Player vs Environment (PvE). Blizzard have spent alot of time perfect over the years their quests/Instances(dungeons)/Raids. In other MMO's I have found myself wandering and not knowing what to do next, where as Warcraft always provides quests or lead on quests so I find my way.

The game has a good array of Player vs Player (PvP) content, which consists of Arenas (2v2 / 3v3 / 5v5) and larger more robust battlegrounds in which up to 40v40 is available.

The game takes you up to level 80 (with both Burning crusade and Wrath of the Lich king expansions) and opens up a huge world to explore with plenty of weapons and armours available.

For addiction level I put three, as I feel it is our own responsibility for how long we play. The game itself does not do anything to make me play. It is there if I want it. There are also parental control tools if you wish to limit your gaming for yourself, or a minor.

Value for Money is three as it is £8.99 a month (cheaper if you buy more time at once) which is pretty standard for MMORPG's. Infact its a little cheaper than others but I still think its something to consider when buying the game.
The software itself is very cheap at only £5, which comes with one months subscription.

I hope this review is helpful to people out there thinking of getting the game!

it all starts of Fun, and then you'll end up getting sucked By endless Hours of stupid Gaming. you need to be unemployed to play WoW in order to get Good stuff.

AND THEN YOU'LL FIND YOU'RE SELF STUCK ON THE CHAIR FOR 12 HOURS A DAY


world of warcraft itself for most people is not the fun part, playing with people is fun, so say to all your friends you are quitting and they should do the same, then delete them, and then that might be enough!
People play games because they seem to find reality is less interesting, but in reality, there are many more constructive things to do. Find ways to make reality more interesting, that will help.
Get into projects that help the community. e.g. Join the local marching, learn to play an instrument, learn a sport, Skills, collage, clean the community you live in, etc.
Evaluate yourself to see if you are using your "WoW" addiction to escape problems in your life. If you have problems at work, see about improving your education (to get a better job). If you have family problems, see about improving your relationship with them.
You can also find support online. There are support groups on Yahoo and Google Groups, and the WoW forums can sate your desire to see what you're "missing" as you quit.
Track the amount of time that you spend playing WoW. Associate a dollar value with that time, for example: 6 hrs/day * 7 days = 42 hours. 42 * $7.0 = $294.00 per week. You can see that your time IS money, and even working a job for minimum wage is a better use of your time.
Get a stopwatch and measure how much time you spend waiting in the game (for guild members, flight paths, long walks, etc.) and compare it to the overall time played. You may find that close to half, or even a majority of your time is spent doing effectively nothing.
Calculate how much of your time you spend doing nothing each month against your monthly subscription fee, and see how much money you're throwing away.
If you use a router, block the port WoW uses to connect. This disables your connectivity to the WoW servers. You can also block this port with Windows Firewall or other firewall software, such as ZoneAlarm. You can find this port in Blizzard's knowledge base for WoW
Remember that all of your accolades and achievements in WoW are virtual and do nothing for you in real life. While your virtual life is blossoming, your personal life could be deteriorating - that is, if you even had a personal life to begin with, since most people that play WoW are not very accomplished at anything. If so, that is reason enough to stop playing. Visit Outside World of Warcraft Achievements (http://www.owow-achievements.com) for real life challenges away from your PC.
Realize that you can always go back to playing WoW when you are old or disabled, which is probably in a few decades when WoW will be rotting in video game history. Right now there are better things to do. Ride a motorcycle, run away to Australia, date, have children, things you can do only when you are young. When you are old you can play guilt free. Also, by that time gaming will be a lot better and extension packs will be cheap. Blizzard is not going anywhere.
See a professional psychologist to discuss your addiction. Get help. even a Doctor

One of the best games made by Blizzard, WOW has truly captured the aura by other warcraft 3D installments. Good gameplay, tons of items to choose from. Best social game I have ever seen. Thanks to Blizzard

World of Warcraft is an amazing game. The world is huge, there is a gigantic array of weapons, spells and equipment, and the multiplayer options (battlegrounds, dungeons, raids) are spectacular. This game is extremely addicting though, and it is hard to play casually. It is also very expensive. Overall, the leveling/money making system is good. There is no 'one good way' to do any of it, so there is lots of variation. There are a LOT of quests, though once you get past level 40 you kind of start repeating the ones you've done before at a higher level, but they're still very fun I highly recommend this to lovers of mmorpgs, fantasy (books, movies and games), and games in general.

Overall I love playing the game, and I play as a level 70 warlock on the (dragonmaw)- server, player name (dragonman) - So please give the game a try out and play for 10 day's free, just go to the game site to try it out, and if like me I bet you will love playing the game. And if you go on my server the say hi good luck everyone on playing the game.

I was skeptical about World of Warcraft... I was a diehard Warcraft & Warcraft II fan, but Warcraft III let me down. I was more excited about Diablo II and Starcraft and their possible sequels, and I wasn't keen on the monthly service charge on top of paying for the game.

I made the jump when I read a blog post that made a good case for signing up for WOW: Blizzard is constantly adding content to the game, the per month charge is less than a trip to the movies these days, and millions of subscribers can't be (that) wrong.

So I signed up and jumped right in. I'm glad I did, since it's been wonderful time spent.

Starting in the game is extremely easy... Choose a side (horde or alliance), a race, and a class. The horde has the orcs, trolls, undead, and tauren (who are like huge sentient buffalo). The alliance is graced with the gnomes, elves, humans, and dwarves. The classes are mage, priest, warrior, rogue, paladin, warlock, hunter, druid, and shaman. Not all races can be all classes, but the application allows you to create as many characters as you like to try all the different combinations.

You start in a low level zone and are given quests to complete from the various NPCs. The quest are geared to level your character, and you usually gain loot upon completion.

Loot can become something of an obsession, because Blizzard does a really good job of putting variety into the items in both abilities and look. (I've known people to carry around seemingly worthless items just because they look cool.)

The death penalty in this game is pretty low. If you are killed, you're ghost appears at the closest graveyard. You have run as a ghost back to your corpse and you resurrect when you're close enough. The graveyards are never too far of a run, and you keep your loot (I've heard of other MMOs where people can take your stuff... eghads!)

As you advance through the game, you'll level up and will be able to go to explore more of the world. You will eventually are able to explore dungeons (known as instances) which forces you to group up with other players of the game to have a good time.

The "world" in this game is absolutely massive, and there's always people on playing who are willing to play. The coolest aspect of this game is that you can choose to group up with people and tackle the dungeons, or just go through the whole experience alone. There's enough content in this game to solo pretty much all the way through the max level (60 in the base game, 70 in the expansion). I think this is Blizzard's magic formula: they've put together a MMO that's compelling enough to not require the "multiplayer" for gamers to have fun.

One teensy downside: say goodbye to your free time if you decide to sign up for this game.

I personally am not a fan of World of Warcraft at all, it is so confusing, I cant understand the reason for it. The graphics are great, but the time it takes to play it is not worth it for me, and for example what are blood elfs and other made up characters. I dont understand this game therefore I do not recommend it, I couldnt even play it for an hour.

A very very good PvP and role playing game just a shame about the power needed to make it run effectively and the annoying noobs.

There is so much in this game to explore, even after two years of playing you will still be finding new things that amaze you each time.

If you need any help with the game, here are some guides that are very good buys! they are also good for the experienced player.

Great graphics! It makes Runescape look sad and shameful. It has the best quests and story lines. Multiple types of online servers including Normal, PVP and RP etc.
Great races and classes available for character selection with fantastic gear.
Massive instances where huge raids occur.

World of Warcraft is a very addictive PC game. Only play it if you wish it to take over your life.

It is a great Game.

Prepare to lose your life!!! I quit playing World of Warcraft about 2 months ago now after a stint of 6 months which saw me level a 60 warlock and a 43 rogue on a RP-PVP server.

Allow me to give benefit of my experience:

First off, the game is so addictive if you have a job, friends, a girlfriend, kids or a liking of more than 3 minutes sunlight a day YOU WILL SLOWLY LOSE IT ALL!!! It absolutely immersed my every waking minute if I could award higher than 10 addiction level I would!

Now, for your first choice...which realm to play on. Be warned and read my first gripe. There is little to no role play in this game by it's nature it is a grind, nothing more. Even on RP servers (with PVP enabled) you will find little honour at times when kids are off school as the game descends into depths of selfish immaturity, arguing and griefing. Take my advice, if you do not like being picked on, having a game ruined or being annoyed, go to a PVE server. If you want a hardcore experience and wish to see what I mean, go PVP where other players can attack you.

I found (as alliance) that most hardcore gamers went Horde and most role players chose Alliance. On The Venture Co this lead to a massive imbalance in world domination as battlegrounds were pointless except on rare occasion. The lack of battleground action lead Horde to simply act world pvp without thought for Role Playing simply to gain honour points (needed for gaining rank).

It wasn't all bad however, I thoroughly enjoyed getting to level 60, exploring the world, trading in auction houses and making tonnes of gold! However, once you reach 60 there are limited things to do, the end game instances. To play these instances you HAVE to be in a large guild, so you are forced to seek one out and start at the bottom of their guild ladder and DKP. Me and my friends found this a tough move and it was enough to make me leave. I loved our time before this restraint but after it became simply utterly boring...a monotonous grind of little achievement.

Blizzard did a great job in keeping subscribers paying by making the rewards worth getting, but you have to spend hours and hours getting them...committing this time also became tough. If like me, you dont have this time, the game becomes redundant.

I think that the monthly fee is too much for what you get (realm performance was not great, graphics are nothing special, support ingame is long in arriving) and value for money I give only 8/10. It would have been less but for the fact the game really was great fun for several months.

Before I finish, I'll reiterate - I loved this game like no other for a few months. It will dominate your life and strain your relationship, your job and your sleep patterns!! But once the grind sets in you gotta let it go and walk with the realisation you just spent several months of your life for no real purpose or gain. You'll wonder how you ever got into an argument with a ninja hunter who rolled on a rogue item. You'll wonder how you just spent 4 hours wiping on the first two bosses in Zul Gurrub but most of all you'll wonder where the rest of the world went for the time you were playing in a hypnotic state! You've been warned.

World of Warcraft just a great game.

The World of Warcraft PC game is excellent! Always things to do, stuff to get and quests to enjoy. The game offers things for all types of gamers, such as a huge amount of quests, lots of monsters to level up on a great leveling system, and lots of items to collect and places to see.

The graphics are amazing, and if you have a fast internet connection you will get no lag and get the game to its full potential.

One of the problems is that there aren't enough worlds, so there is at times a waiting list of 500 people to get into the world you want to get into. That may seem like a big number but don't worry, the list goes fast and you will be on in a maximum of 15 minutes.

You can create many characters, so you will never get bored, and on all of the different races there are different quests.

Once you get up to level 60 (level cap which is soon to be level 70) many people think that is the end of the game and there is nothing more to do, but the fun never ends with World of Warcraft as you can go in guild wars and stuff like that.

I love this game and so do many others. Although it is very expensive it is definitely worth it!

The pitch of the World of Warcraft PC game is you are put into the world and may join the hordes or the alliance. You must then build your levels through quests, and then perhaps attack the other team of players, and what is also claimed to be a place to make friends and to form relationships.

The game can be found almost everywhere, and it is hyped tremendously, often hogging displays, and is commonly seen in Game and GameStation etc.

What I must say is that the game is beautiful, and much work has been put into making each of the character models unique with huge customizable options available, and bright colours used to pull the casual gamer in. The world is filled with lush landscapes and textures, but of course it can't compare to single player games such as Morrowind, due to it being run off servers where millions are logging on.

As I outlined before, the aim of the game is to build levels through quests which may be to collect an item or such-like. The main Experience points are found in visiting areas, and repeatability killing monsters, which re-spawn regularly. This is where the game falls down for me, it has a lack of depth and the constant leveling. Boredom soon sets in and you wish you were playing something which would require some thought.

There are more "Powergame" methods on the game, including trade skills, such as alchemy, tailoring and cooking; all examples of what your character can learn to make things which are to be sold for gold. Of course they are undervalued and you get more for selling the resources. This has led to players harvesting all they can find and selling them.

You could be drawn in to play more, due to the number of races and classes available. This expands the life of the game somewhat, but again it gets tedious.

Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans, Night Elves, Orcs, Tauren, Trolls, and Undead.
Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior.

World of Warcraft claims to be an RPG game, but I have seen no role-playing in the time I was there. All I came across were ignorant people who ran around killing people chanting "Owned u noob", and if any roleplay was ever attempted to occur, you received insults, indifference, or people wondering what you were on about. While I was there, I despised the fact that people talked about levels and RL matters, and that was a huge reason as to why I quit the game.

Overall I find the game shallow with no substance, and even with its graphics, you don't get to enjoy them due to the lag.
It costs 8 pounds a month and 30 - 35 pounds to purchase the software?
I'd have to give it a thumbs down.

World of Warcraft is a great game to play, in my opinion. Find out why by reading some of my experiences with this game below...

Graphics
If you've seen the Blizzard screenshots, you know that WoW is taking a non-realistic cartoony approach to the graphics. This art direction works. The game is fun to look at.

Gameplay
I had fun doing everything I tried. Pellets came often enough to keep me happy. There are no punishing failures in this game, no failed crafting combines that eat all the expensive ingredients. The death penalty is an annoyance, no more. And yet it was enough that my party doing the Van Cleef/Deepmines quest worked really hard not to have a party wipe deep in the instanced dungeon. (That experience was a blast, even though we never did finish the quest.)

I did human quests; the human stuff is much more fully developed than the other races' stuff. I wasn't interested in the highest-level contest Blizzard was running; I wanted to sample variety.

In a few words, WoW is playable, fun, pretty to look at, and has a reasonable stability. Based on my stress test experience, the only reason I might not buy this game is fear of addiction. :))

Blizzard is going to break MMORPG convention and ship a game with finished gameplay.

More details about this game at:
www.blizzard.com

Leesa