what up, im thinking about sinking my teeth into WoW but i dont want to commit to throwin down all that cash just yet would someone be willing to sport a trail key and more likely then not ill become a member so it will hook you free 30 days

I don't think "America's Army" is a working trial key. Think I have one at home. Ill look for it when I get off work today.

Ein

i dont have windows installed, and AA on intel is horrible

2.5 - its the latest mac (and currently the last ever) version. we still have the (very popular) server though...

Back to the original topic... WoW trial code sent... sorry for the delay.

((and another life is claimed by WoW. mwahahaha))

I have been playing WOW for over a year. I may be about to quit. WOW requires major time investment to play. The higher you get the worse it gets and the more you hate the idea of quitting because of all the hours you have invested. I have a lv 60 Priest who is raiding & I hate to even sign him on. I know that getting into a raid of any size will eat an entire night or half a day on the weekends. Getting  a character to 60 is quite a challenge (maybe 50 - 100 hours or more) then when you get there you hit raids and you are kinda back to square one. Items become necessary to better your character and those drop in raid instances requiring major commitment. Guilds are kinda necessary for raids because throwing 10-40 people together for one time to try to play a complicated raid instance can be very tough. "Pick up groups"  at higher levels can end in a great deal of wasted time & frustration. Guilds fold up as fast as they form. The one I joined a couple weeks ago just folded up, thats number 4 gone. Guilds fequently want more time commitment etc....

IMHO they have made the game just to complicated. They keep adding more & more spells and new features to keep people hanging on, but those also serve to make it more complicated to play. My Priest can barely see his screeen since 50-60% of it is covered with casting buttons, information on all the other players.... Graphically it is very attractive & compelling but after a while you get tired of spending large amounts of time traveling all that area and trying to find your and or your parties dead bodies.

Then there is the fact that the economy is becoming a joke. Everyone ends up needing to buy things and anything worth having is very expensive. The fact that there are all sorts of people and companies selling: WOW gold, items and character leveling for large sums of real money has put a twist in things that Blizzard seems to have no idea how to handle. Expect to get advertsiements in chat, mail and just about every where else related to WOW (from those who want real money for WOW gold etc.)

So here I am thinking about putting the new Ghost Recon on my new Intel iMac and tossing the hundreds of hours I have in WOW to the wind. It will hurt, kinda wish I had never picked the game up. It has become just to expensive for my taste in too many ways.

Good sum up except for the guilds... I'm coming up on a year of WoW play as well. I have been with the same guild for almost 8 months of that time. We're not an uber guild having hundreds of members. Actually, were quite small by comparison (50 members but growing for end game raids) 

Being with a good guild greatly changes the enjoyment of the game. My guild is more like a family than a group of raiders. We actually consider ourselves to be a "casual raiding" guild which means we raid maybe one night a week. Raiding is not mandatory for anyone in the guild. Actually, we have pvpers who have yet to join us in raids but are still welcome members.

As for the rising economy... Like I said, my guild is more of a family. We help each other out with item needs. We have a guild bank to gain high lvl items for without having to grind a dungeon over and over for that rare drop (obviously the BOEs). Also we have miners, skinners, tailors, and herbalists who often have large stocks on needed mats which makes trips to buy some over priced things from the auction house few and far between.

A good guild will make the game... A bad guild will kill the game.

I'm in total agreement over the cost issue. How can you charge for a game... Then charge to play the game that they just bought. The game won't allow you to play single player so your stuck... You've got to pay to play or you wasted the initial money you spent just purchasing the game.

guild wars is like .. totally better than WoW in my opinion... no monthly charge as well.