World of Warcraft

A fantastically beautiful and exceedingly friendly MMORPG. It's also nice to finally have a good-looking 3d RPG that doesn't suffer from terrible lag and massive server load-times.

As solid an experience as can be found online. This game will absorb your life once you start playing, and crusty pizza boxes will become an all too common appearance around the house.

Part of what makes this game so remarkable is it doesn't assume that all you have to do in your busy life is play this one game, and so it delivers a high-quality experience regardless of how much or how little time you're able to invest...A stunning achievement that will make you feel privileged to be a game player.

Broadly speaking, in MMOs you hit things, then fashion things to make your hitting more effective. World of Warcraft does that better than anything else on the market at the moment. [Jan 2005, p.96]

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

Delivers great atmosphere through simplistic stylized environments, suited music, relevant quests, massive PvP raids, and party adventuring. With their customizable user interface, chat channels, and guild system, it is easy to build strong communities for rich gaming relationships.

Fix your game, Blizzard. Listen to your players, actually cater to the high end, fix bugs that need fixing, and don’t leave your playerbase hanging for months on end. Then I will give your game a higher mark.

When I discovered this game my life changed completely, I fell in love with Azeroth, its forests, its music, the people I spent time playing this game with, it is simply something indelible and I can hardly experience it with any game other than this one, World of Warcraft is not a game, it is an interactive experience that immerses you far beyond the cliché of modern gaming, it is an alternate life where adventures never end and your companions are always with you, one of the best games in history if not the best

MMO is not my type of game. But it was a great game at its time. If it was cheaper I would play casually.

What the game offers is polished and fun. Sadly there isn't much to offer aside from grinding gearscore in a few dungeons and a raid, to do the same stuff on higher difficulties. While there might be a gigiantic world to discover, it's mostly dead and empty, aside from the newest city in the current expansion. For a full price title, with a subscription fee and microtransactions that give you ingame advantages, it's difficult to recommend.

I highly do not recommend this game for new players. This game is for people that played from the beginning, or has been introduced to it by people they already know such as family members or friends. You are put into one of the latest expansion with a huge chunk of lore missing as some dialogue brings up events it assumes you already know. I did not see new players, only obvious alt characters and after reaching a certain part of the quest line, I did not see a single player once and I am in Silvermoon Realm which is the most popular one. I saw bugs at the START of the game which isn't a good look whatsoever especially as a first impression to new players. I ended up stuck in the ship in the starting zone, newcome chat said I had to delete my character. 40 minutes of progress gone. Voice acting kept cutting out and NPC talking over each other, there were cutscenes that had the screen and NPC shaking that caused nausea. If you play MMOS to collect avoid this one, many mounts and transmogs are impossible to get if you are a new player. The player base consists of mainly middle aged men which is a red flag. That means there is no young players and that this game does not bring in new players at all, and that a game with a weak female player base cultivates a bad community. The players are middle aged men that only have this game as their biggest achievement in life. It has a bad reputation for a reason and it's clear the developers are disgusted by their players. The game lacks moderation as the newcomer chat had people intentionally trolling. If this is the best MMO, then that should tell you the state of the genre. It is like saying Dead By Daylight is the best asymmetrical　game, which doesn't make it a good game when you are the best in a dead genre.

Je n’ai pas réussi à accrocher. L’ensemble ne m’a pas convaincu malgré mes efforts.