(This semi-serious post employs a great, great deal of snark. Do not read if you are overly sensitive about things or have no sense of humor.)
Reasons why World of Warcraft is greater than Armageddon:
1. In WoW, you have more freedom to roleplay. You can make yourself an illegitimate bastard child of a sorcerer queen and the lich king who is a vampire raised by werewolves and is descended from dragons in WoW. In Armageddon the staff would reject that character, cramping your style.
2. In WoW, you can log in, play for a couple hours, and branch neat skills. In Armageddon, you must play for several days to branch skills like... listen.
3. In WoW, those twink burglars can never jack your stuff.
4. The Auction House in WoW is always stocked with goodies and cash, not just right after a reboot.
5. Let's face it, those blood elves probably make for hawt mudsex.
6. Weather in WoW is a cool graphics effect that might lag your processor up a bit. Weather in Armageddon is a crushing, unforgiving monster that destroys entire RPTs.
7. WoW is leaps and bounds ahead of Armageddon technologically. It even has color!
8. On the WoW forums, they'll never tell you to "Find out IC."
9. If I go AFK on my WoW character and happen to die, I lose some gold and a couple minutes running back to my corpse. If I go AFK on my Arm character and happen to die, I lose 50 days of my life with no refund.
10. Your guild minions in WoW can typically amuse themselves without demanding you give them stuff to do every day.
11. If you get bored with your character in WoW, you can always sell it for real monies.
12. WoW has no documents on how you're supposed to play, and therefore no fights over people ignoring them.
13. WoW has no bards.
14. In WoW, the GMs are much less likely to hate you, because they have no idea who you are.
15. There's no such thing as "WoW Reborn."
Add your own!
While all of these things are potentially true, there is one drastic difference.
There is no story. NO STORY! Just a bunch of quests so you can get cool shit. No Story. None. WoW fails for story content.
Fuck WoW (though I play when I am bored, admitedly, which is ... well, never, right now).
ale six, that is the most awesomely pro-Arm post I've ever read in my life. That makes me want to log right back on. I love you man.
Knock out .13 & .15 though. Everybody knows how I fell about Shitty bards (the food ones are okay) and ...
Edit: Goddamn it. My bad.
I'm not Malken, his avatar is pirates and they spin.
In WoW, you can buy an account at a moderately skilled level (or ultra maxed level if you prefer) instead of having to play every character for hundreds of hours before they become remotely competent at skills they've supposedly used all their lives.
Having played on a WoW RP server for several years ...
I loled, but I'm still playing here and I certainly didn't bother to resubscribe to WoW when WotLK came out.
So glad.
So, so glad.
In WoW every class is balanced out to be equal to the other ones so you don't have to worry about people always playing magickers to power-game ... everyone can be guilty of powergaming equally.
In WoW, there's metal EVERYWHERE. And it's cheap.
And no hunger/thrist code??? I think ... (never played) ... you could mudsex all day!
In WoW, no one gets angry for you breaking immersion and talking over the OOC channel. In fact, it's encouraged, and so are Chuck Norris jokes.
In WoW, you won't fall unconscious after using the /tell command five times in a row with a new character.
In WoW, there are no 5 room falls into a pit of gith, where the fall knocks you unconscious or possibly kills you while the gith attack you mercilessly.
In WoW there is no evil *beep* *mantis head* Welcome to Armageddon!
PS. I wouldn't go back to WoW if my life depended on it. I love Arm!
In WoW, you have old celebrities that are no longer culturally relevant doing the promotions.
In Armageddon, we have Mansa.
Quote13. WoW has no bards.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! Seriously, I hate bards in Arm there has never been a bard pc that hasn't made me (OOCly) want to kill it. I've never acted on such an OOC urge of course. There's just something about them that makes me detest them. I'm sure if I sat down and really thought about it I could figure out what it is that irritates me about them exactly.
Very funny post though. I enjoy both Arm and WoW for different reasons. Arm for the story, WoW for the ability to powergame my ass off for pure mindless fun. I stopped playing WoW for a while but Wotlk's death knight class is fun as hell and got me playing again.
Quote from: ale six on December 02, 2008, 03:50:55 AM
list of stuff that sounds awesome
You, my twin sister, have me convinced.
Which server?
QuoteI'm not Malken, his avatar is pirates and they spin.
It's called dancing >.<
10 hits a bit close to home. ;)
Wow is better than Arm, because the Imms would get paid to work on Wow.
Falures.
Falures, all of you.
None of you wyn.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on December 02, 2008, 11:41:16 AM
Falures.
Falures, all of you.
None of you wyn.
Hah, like I would really return to WoW.. I want to return to WoW every two years or so, and it never lasts more than five minutes.
I just need to go to youtube and look at the raids and I know I'll never head back there again.
I think I lasted a whole two weeks on Age of Conan and a whole one week on Warhammer before running back to Armageddon, whimpering.
In WoW, you're told to kill things. then kill more things. And then kill more things. Even if you're supposed to heal things, you're still told to kill things... That's why I stopped playing. That, and the fact that I couldn't find RP on an RP server.
In WoW, any skill you branch helps optimize your deadliness. None of this branch 'axe making' - instead, you branch 'my Axes of Doom kill you'.
In WoW, you get to pay for the privilege of wasting your time in a fantasy world.
In WoW, you get to meet and hang out with all of the cool twelve-year-olds you could ever want. Where are the twelve-year-olds playing Arm? If they exist, they aren't being obvious about it, which makes me miss juvenile Chuck Norris jokes.
In WoW, all of the characters are attractive (yes, even the cow ones >.>). In Arm there are all sorts of half-breed mutants shuffling around, cluttering up the landscape with their ugly.
In WoW, when I need to contact the GMs, I get told "we have a high volume of requests right now" and usually have to wait a day before they tell me they can't do anything to help. In Arm, when I need to contact the staff, I get told nothing and usually have to wait two weeks to a month before they tell me they can't do anything to help.
In WoW, if I want to hear something funny, all I have to do is type /silly and my character tells a joke. In Arm, if I want to hear something funny, I have to alt-tab out of the game, open up the GDB and sift through mounds of noise for something Yam posted.
When reading about famous past characters in WoW, no one will see 'Thrain Ironsword' and say "They let in THAT name?"
WoW lets me download and install handy addons for things like maps, knowing where to get items, and seeing what everybody looks like naked. In Armageddon you have to FIND OUT IC.
Quote from: Shiroi Tsuki on December 02, 2008, 05:16:10 PM
In WoW, all of the characters are attractive (yes, even the cow ones >.>). In Arm there are all sorts of half-breed mutants shuffling around, cluttering up the landscape with their ugly.
Pure comedic gold.
In WoW, they have gold coins. I wish I had even 1 gold coin in armageddon.
In wow when your char kicks he doesn't fall over
In wow people can actually be stealthy and sneaky during the day
In wow /dance
In wow if you fall down a hill on your mount, you don't go unconscious for 10 minutes leaving yourself open.
In wow they have Murks Blagawawawawa
In WoW, you can use your character's earned money to BUY uber riding skill. No more getting left behind because your inix won't budge!!
In WoW, your characters never really die. In Armageddon, each character's choices matter.
In Wow you can use great names like "Yourmomma" , "Anallube" and "GroundScore" You can join great clans like "Bionicpuss" God how i hate Wow :)
#1 sounds like one of Bhagharva's old avatars. :o
Screw WoW. Armageddon is free and has more history. And it's free. Free, free, free.
It's not free. You pay monthly with a piece of your goddamn soul.
Quote from: Zoan on December 04, 2008, 04:15:05 PM
It's not free. You pay monthly with a piece of your goddamn soul.
Truth.
In WoW, people just freely admit that they farm for gold. In Arm, they emote occasionally under the pretense of playing obsidian miners .