The Flame Game Comments by Ellie Gibson

OMG ... I cant believe people are actually going nuts over this ..... Pure Addiction!

I went over to HMV Oxford Street this afternoon. It reeks!

I am glad I have never played those sort of games in my life.

Seriously, those who play WoW for hours every day need to get out more.

Why?

Vitamin C from the sun. Otherwise you die. Thats what my granny told me.

I'm a priest! I can heal myself!

I find it quite funny the amount of people who have been so desparate for a Collectors Edit because you get a free pet or somethink lol

i may buy this on the way home from work

I loved World of Warcraft when I bought it at launch following the beta trail and played it extensively for around two or three months clocking up over 300 hours of gameplay. Then I stopped playing it as I got hooked on Oblivion on the Xbox 360 and found it very difficult to get back into WoW. Now I can't see what all the fuss is about really and aren't even slightly interested in the Burning Crusade.

That said, I will admit that for those 300 hours, WoW was possibly the most enjoyable and addictive game I'd ever played in my 27 years of gaming.

Good article, very amusing read.

Me, I'm over my addiction to WoW. Thankfully.

Oh yeah! WoW bashers! How surprising!

Anyway, moving on, I'm getting Burning Crusade for my birthday. Should be fun, although I'm not really going to be able to see the benefits unless I make a new character, as I'm nowhere near 58 (level you need to be to get through The Dark Portal).

I am not prepared, sadly.

Fucking nerds.... :)
You should have seen the greasy,trench coat wearing bastards going insane in my store yesterday,firstly because we weren't opening at midnight,and secondly because we were short stocked on the collector's edition.
Get outside,it's not good for you being glued to a monitor 24/7.

@Darren - Completely the same here. Although I am tempted to go back.

I joined the beta and then played the full game when it came out for well over 250 hours and at the time would have told you it was the best game ever. I have tried to get back into it a couple of times but I just cant get into it that much any more.

The reason I am tempted to go back is that apparently there is a little more variety in the types of quest and the dungeons have been shortened to make for smaller quicker instances. I havent got time for it at the moment but once I have seen a few reviews it might be time to rejoin.

Oh and there is a nice new feature for finding groups for dungeons and quests.

I just can't believe it's launched and it still doesn 't have a name.

TBC indeed... Pffft.

Is it just me that thinks it's pathetic to bash people for what they do with their life?
Don't be so retarded.
If you don't like it, don't play it.
But there's no need to be a dick to people who want to play it.
And I think the two new races are awesome :]

Ok, did I miss the complimentary pictures of Ellie..? Surely there has to be a few pictures of her with green face paint and a corset? :|

The best way to play WoW is on your own, just doing quests and getting one or two other people involved if you need help. All that guild and raid nonsense just stresses people out while at the same time the thin veneer of community they offer adds to peoples addiction.

I started playing WoW a while ago. A friend of mine with who I chat a lot over ICQ since he lives nowhere near me (different country to be exactly) played too and after a while it kind of replaced ICQ. We were mainly talking and playing WoW was more of a "side quest". Of course we did not stop playing once the other left but kept on playing. It is a strange addiction. I cannot really describe it, the game design definetly has something magic about it, although it is really repetitive you keep on playing.

I stopped when I was level 40 something though because I spent the last couple of levels in Stranglethorn and was getting killed a lot by Allies and it got sooo boring I could not believe it. Since there is no real story or goal I could not find a reason to continue playing. It was a lot of fun though when I was active.

Maybe I'll start again one day.

It's wierd how gamers split into groups and infight. Each to his own everyone:)
Surely the fact that we are all posting on a gaming site forum marks us out as 'nerds' or 'geeks' or whatever in a lot of people's eyes. The fact that some of us are calling others nerds for playing warcraft is just too ironic for words really.

Sad for queueing for a launch of a video game product?

How many people called those who lined up for ungodly hours for console launches geeks and nerds?

I'm sure there is something that you'd be excited about that others find wierd.

But seriously, preorder from GAME or somewhere, I got mine yesterday and was playing it before 0001.

So you was playing it about 0000 then?

"Oh and there is a nice new feature for finding groups for dungeons and quests."

tbh with all the money they're raking in I'd have hoped they could add in some good improvements and at least bring the gfx up to date a little. It doesn't look like this add on really ads much graphically, it's basically just more monsters and quests to grind through.

elllie, while it was a hilarious article, don't be such a sadist hey?.

And we love you ellie!!!

I hope people weren't taking my comment too seriously,I realise the massive irony of calling some MMORPG guy a nerd whilst I am sat at my pc desk typing away on a game website about my job in Game,hench the giant smiling face at the end of my comment.
But the other bits I mentioned are the way I (Sadly I suppose) generalise them due to the majority of W.O.W players who I interact with in work,they do tend to be rather greasy and whiffy looking(Partly due to the hours and hours they spend sat playing the game no doubt),and a large percentage of them seem to believe they are infact Neo.
But there's no denying they are a friendly bunch of lads and lasses,much nicer talking to them than it is talking to some gobby,continuously swearing chav.

Does Starcraft really count as a franchise? I'd have thought a gaming franchise would require the release of more than 1 title in a series to qualify for that tag.
Then again, he probably just means because it also has rubbish merchandise in other mediums.

@Adam_T I dont think upgrading the gfx is a great idea personally. If you start doing that then you might be knocking out those that could once play it. The visual style of the game really gives it a lot of its atmosphere.

Starcraft did have an expansion as well I suppose. And it sold more than many franchises added together.

I think Wow is a rather good game, I played one of the free trails for a week and enjoyed the game mechanics. However, theres a reason I never started paying for it. I can't stand the community, they seem to be the most whiney, childish, quick to anger bunch of players outside of Xbox Live.

Everywhere I went I saw people complaining about the game, yet there they were still playing away. Constant streams of non-English WoW talk Lvl 34 Prk Tak Fls with EP. Awful starting quests that made me picture doing exactly the samething but against slightly bigger enemies, being killed the first time I followed a friend into a PvP area. All these games feel like they pander to those with no lives, if your a casual gamer with say other games to play, or even consoles with games to play there, you simply don't have the time to play something like this. It demands all your free-time all the time. Thats just deeply depressing.

For those of you that went - didn't you feel a little stupid dressed up as a WoW character on the bus home ?

To be honest, if I'd have seen any of you I'd have been very tempted to bully you.

A BIG HELLLLOOOOO TO THE SNIDE BRIGADE!

How much do we owe you for your much needed judgement about our lifestyles? Pro-bono you say? YOU ARE SAINTS ON EARTH SIRS

The Burning Crusade isn't a great name, they should have called the expansion pack " World of Warcraft: Freaks and Geeks".

/calm down people, tis merely a joke

One feels Laserbream needs to spend 26 hours hunting for the rare WoW sense of humour drop.

I beg to differ - my tricorder detected vast amounts of the isotope snidentium-40 from both the article and the comments, a telling sign of gamers who like to piss all over other gamers. And I ain't talking about golden shower action here, I am being metaphorimacal.

"To be honest, if I'd have seen any of you I'd have been very tempted to bully you."

That would be dangerous. You may have been hit by a +1 mace. ;)

"That would be dangerous. You may have been hit by a +1 mace. ;) "

Now THAT'S a proper joke about geeks :)

Nyuck Nyuck! With the freeks and the geeks and the whizzing robots and flubber!

/runs off and hides in a darkened corner with a odd feeling of shame

I got to level 39 pretty quick and then realised i was spending half the time running between quests and then never played it again.

Found (for my statty, combat addled brain) that City of Villains was a lot more fun. Load game, kill things until bored, turn off game. No running, hurrah....

God look at those photos - old blokes, women, studenty geeks. Where's the annoying 13 year olds who keep wanting to duel you every 2 seconds?!

Just look at the fucking state of them.

I was at the shop this morning eagerly awaiting my copy of the BC. Several other people were also waiting, one looked the spitting image of the guy from SouthPark World of Warcraft episode (The uber player killer who has "No life at all").
I had a pang that I was no better and then I thought who cares? I love WOW and I am a Horse for godsake.

hey
someone burned my crusade

I have to say I thought the article was a bit snotty about the people lining up for the event for a game that has 8 million participants. We should be a long way past sneering at people who are the biggest followers of the biggest game on the planet just for being the biggest followers of the biggest game..... These respondents are obviously going to be the first in the queue and as the most dedicated people it's pretty obvious that they will have relatively extraordinary levels of commitment to the game. This is not a difficult logical proposition.

You might not have meant it but I think this piece came across as rather sneery, slightly superior and a bit in need of a crack round the head in its 'we're a bit superior' but actually-not vein. I felt more sympathy for WoW players of which I am not one than for this article.

How could they screw up with the collector's edition???

@Amnesia (iirc) - true, but there were a few tongues in cheeks, heh.

I am concerned - I have an addict's gene, but have managed to hold out; yet I've been given discs, an account, chums to play with. I am worried I may never recover. Please advise.

Who gives a crap about the collector's edition... and a cautionary tale:

A mate of mine lives with someone who works for a few months, saves enough to live for a few months and spends the entire time playing warcraft. Coincidentally enough, despite claiming he doesn't play Warcraft much any more his "contract ended" on Friday.

He also played on the US server until it launched over here and sold his character for $500.

When the loser's copy didn't arrive in the post he was up at 9.15 and back by 9.30 today...

Yes he has no girlfriend... ladies I can give you his details if you like

longgg dungeons requiring 40 ppl all using the same RAID mod grinding for tier 1 gear or reputation, made the game v dull for me. Breaking point was when, mid raid, our healer had to go AFK because his Dad had asked him to do the washing up. What was I doing playing a game with kids? So I gave up and got a 360.

So why did I go and buy BC today and start leveling a bloodelf character?? I need help, obviously.

As for the no life thing, most of my WoW mates are married with both partners playing the game - I know, go figure!

I do love it when people accuse others of being no-life saddoes on a video games website's forum without appreciating the irony. I guess they're just taking a break from their hectic "Fonzie" style lives to post here in-between screwing hot chicks and driving fast cars...

Yeah thats what im doin here. But I drive a speedboat fighter jet type thing

absolutezero if you think wow and xblive are bad, please check out battlenet

"having two level 60 WOW characters to his name"

only 2? Lightweight :P