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I dont realy dont know how to bring this so il just say it flat out ... keep in mind i dont want to come over rude or anything  :-\

I was wonder if there are any other people out there play this or any other Massive online Role playing game's

to forget about the real life trouble and enter a digital fantasy world where u can be somebody els....


For those who never done any MMO games

there basicly games where u can create a character costumise ur looks hairstyle colourse skinn colour piercings ear rings....horn styles tusk style (for the fiction based races) mostly u can choose the gender ..race..and class

after u make a character u enter a Online World full of Real people u meen and can talk to

u can group up with other players to defeat monsters that can drop better gear etc
u can play PvP players versus player if u like to test ur skill to fight other players in the game

there are also Roleplaying realms where u realy Roleplay your character

and there is much more this game can offer
u can google World of warcraft and check the website if ur intrested

this game is been the best MMORPG/ RPG game for the last 3years

( not my opinion but peoples vote )

I know quite a few people who play WoW, but I've never done it myself.

Having been heavily, heavily involved in MMOGs in the past I really don't think they're the best thing for TG or anyone else with major life issues to get into. They're designed to absorb as much time as you can give them and still not be enough (at least WoW is), and over the years I've seen several TG people have their world crash down over it. Let alone all the normal people who get far too wrapped up in it.

Second life, uh god, furcadia, and a lot of other online worlds/communities draw in people much the same way.

Between everquest and WoW I had something around 400 days /played (10000 hours.)

WoW Rules!!!


Lot of people here like Second Life.  But I still can't figure why its popular.

Guild Wars way better than WoW IMHO.
And it has less of a Life-Sucking effect.

Quote from: Autumn on May 27, 2008, 10:09:35 AM
Having been heavily, heavily involved in MMOGs in the past I really don't think they're the best thing for TG or anyone else with major life issues to get into. They're designed to absorb as much time as you can give them and still not be enough (at least WoW is), and over the years I've seen several TG people have their world crash down over it. Let alone all the normal people who get far too wrapped up in it.

Second life, uh god, furcadia, and a lot of other online worlds/communities draw in people much the same way.

Between everquest and WoW I had something around 400 days /played (10000 hours.)

Sorry i didnt ment i like that  :'(  i do have nothing els to spend my own time on and i do enjoy having a second life sinds im not enjoying my own atm.....it was just a question ...

I play EverQuest 2.  I started playing EQ1 in 2000, and I've been playing with my current guild since around 2002.  We all moved from EQ1 to EQ2 when it was released.  It can be a time sink, and I doubt I would still be playing if it wasn't with my guild.  We're a small group, and all pretty laid-back.  So no uber-gaming for us - real life always comes first.

I used to put in ridiculous hours playing EQ1, but I can't be dedicating that much time to a game these days.  Since I started playing EQ2 in 2004, my two characters only have about 60 days of play time logged, combined.  I play often, to see my guildmates and run my little weaponsmith business, but my play sessions aren't the marathons they used to be.

Quote from: Scarlet on May 27, 2008, 12:12:36 PM

Quote from: Autumn on May 27, 2008, 10:09:35 AM
Having been heavily, heavily involved in MMOGs in the past I really don't think they're the best thing for TG or anyone else with major life issues to get into. They're designed to absorb as much time as you can give them and still not be enough (at least WoW is), and over the years I've seen several TG people have their world crash down over it. Let alone all the normal people who get far too wrapped up in it.

Second life, uh god, furcadia, and a lot of other online worlds/communities draw in people much the same way.

Between everquest and WoW I had something around 400 days /played (10000 hours.)

Sorry i didnt ment i like that  :'(  i do have nothing els to spend my own time on and i do enjoy having a second life sinds im not enjoying my own atm.....it was just a question ...

I didn't mean to attack you or hurt your feelings, my apologies for that. I'm not one to censor questions. A lot of people fall victim (it feels cliched to call it that) to getting wholly absorbed in mmogs, and trans people are, i imagine, more inclined since the escape is on multiple levels. I just think people should be careful that they don't let themselves be carried away, I've seen a lot of people latch onto the games and just let their lives dissolve. When you feel like your life is a mistake not worth living anyway (someone pre-transition or unable to), it's a particularly enticing trap.

WOW is highly addictive, it is a game that cannot be played for only afew hours aweek.  You're either 'gotta' play for 30 hrs+ or not play at all.  LOL

People have an extra 30 hours a week to play a game?

Quote from: tekla on May 28, 2008, 10:03:24 AM
People have an extra 30 hours a week to play a game?

Unfortunatly, no one can be ... _told_ what the Second Life is ... you have to see it for yourself ..  :angel:

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I play SL sometimes when I can, work and grad school has me really busy though.

Jessica

Great game Scarlet. I haven't been on in awhile because I'm at a training academy right now. But I played this game riligously for a couple years until I came here. Best game EVER but soooooooooooo addictive. Yes, it is a great escape and has tons to offer including what seems like no end. Always something to do on the game. I played for hours and hours and hours and hours!!!!
If you have the time to play then it's a great game. If you have other obligations...don't even think about it!!

I have a 70 Mage, 70 Druid and a few other lower level characters on Draka Server. Where are you?

i play world of warcraft, but i don't roleplay.. i suck at it lol

I'm on the akama server. Horde. Stonie

Im a big wow fan too

ive been playing on horde / outland / euro for around 2 years and yes the comments about it absorbing your life are true, if you balance it out it can be a very rewarding experience.

the guild im with only raid 2x a week and are really just for fun(our guidlname too) which is emmense fun for my healing priest (if that means anything to anyone here :P) and i find the friday and sunday night we play a great way to unwind from my GID and general life stress.

it does take about a 3 week initital commitment though, this is how long it takes to get a char to level 70

anyway just my 2 pennies, my priest is called Heraler if anyones ever passing :)

Vanna

I never got into any of the MMORPG's, thank Goddess, but I can imagine just how bad it must get, when I compare how many hours I wasted on Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate and other RPG's. When you don't particularly like your life or your gender, it's very seductive to go and live a better life somewhere else...

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I'm a Guild Wars player myself.  Mesmers and Paragons FTW!

i play a 70 lock on icecrown, still cant believe that the second xpac is nearly here, im barley into 70

Quote from: Maddie Suzumiya on July 29, 2008, 09:48:38 PM
I'm a Guild Wars player myself.  Mesmers and Paragons FTW!

I agree that mesmers are the win, but paragons are boring as all get-out.

I blame it on Anet's terrible skill balancing.  Consider for example the fact that Warrior and Ritualist skills are awesome on just about every character but a Warrior or a Ritualist.

I swear if I see one more person running Sabway, I will cry.  Necromancers shouldn't be better healers than monks.  There's just something inherently wrong about it.  And don't even get me started on Ursanway.  That is the most broken thing I have ever seen.  Other than Sabway/Necroway, of course.

Personally, that was the reason I continued playing EverQuest as long as I did. I joined with some of my friends in middle school and then they all lost interest and I didn't. I continued to play because I was extremely unhappy with the way my life was. EQ was a strange thing for me because it was the only place I embraced my feminine identity until just recently. Seeing as I was only in middle school when I started, I was wholly uncomfortable with the feelings of questioning identity that I had. I made my character a woman in the game, and for many many years that's where it stayed. I poured a lot of time into the game because it was a lot easier than confronting my feelings for sure. I had my feelings in game, but once I stood up from the keyboard I had to go back to being an adolescent boy again(WHICH SUCKED). hence why EQ has about 180 of my days. half a year- as a woman but before I'd even consider the possibility being remotely true. I stop playing when I go to college and I cant shake the feelings, and so now Qandica(my character) has slowly permeated into my life(except without the rogueish backstabbing and chain mail).
In actuality this is a very small portion of the reason for my shift, but still it played its role and now I've left it where it lies(somewhere on a server in California).

That was totally why I became so absorbed in WoW.

I started playing as something to do when I was working on call from home.

Then I got completely hooked, I was able to be a different person, and forget about all of my issues for 5-6-12 hours at a stretch.

It seriously controlled 3 years of my life. I raided into naxx pre-tbc, and we cleared through mu'ru before the 3.0 patch.

I logged in the day after 3.0 hit, we killed KJ, and I retired before the Wrath expansion hit.

I've been WoW free for a month now. It feels good, but the temptation to log in is still there. (of course, I'd have to go buy the expansion and then put time on my account before I could do it now). Pretty sure my GF would leave me if I did.

My main was a 70 human female warrior - Flutter - where my name here came from. She not only had full T6 tanking set, and 7/8 T6 DPS set, plus all the other little extras...... and she's a Scarab Lord, so yes, she has the once per server bug mount.

(I did say I was an addict)

(If you're not familiar with the Bug Mount, because it is an extremely rare item, it involved uncountable hours of solo questing, about 15 hours of dragging a 20 man raid around farming for drops, a 5 hour BWL clear, items from Onyxia, Ragnaros, and a trash drop in MC [do you realize how ->-bleeped-<-ty it is to have to loot every corpse in MC as the main tank?] kill 3 outdoor bosses [A big shark, Maws , Dr. Weavil, and a Satyr in the emerald dragon portal in Duskwood that only spawned if you had the quest to kill him] all leading up to a world event in Moonglade that required at least 80-120 people to show up and help defeat Erranikus..... and after you did all that, and both factions finished collecting the war drive stuff.... two days after the war drives ended - you could ring the gong in Silithus to start the invasion event, and then anyone else who completed the chain had 10 hours to ring the gong in order to get the mount [the title was added later]. All told, I put about 3 weeks of real time into getting this mount, and I had it easy because I didn't have to farm Cenarian rep before I could start the chain because I transfered servers.... that was a 2 week ordeal for most scarab lords. And yes..... that is exactly how big of a WoW addict I was.)

In addition to Flutter, I had Flustered - 70 human priest, Elsbet - 70 gnome lock, Phinaes - 70 night elf rogue, Volleygirl - 70 Night Elf Hunter, Goatsechs - 56 Draenei shaman, Solipsist - 46 human paladin- all on Executus. And Elsbet - 70 Blood Elf Paladin on Vashj (US).

Flustered and Elsbet both had decent starting t6 level gear (1400 spell damage +)

Flutter was over 200 days played, Flustered had over 100. I'd say between all of them I was approaching 450 days played in 3 years time.

You may be able to armory Flutter, I think she was last logged in in DPS gear because I just wanted to play with Titan's Grip once.

The other toons probably don't show up on armory because they haven't logged in in over a month.




And Flutter...... was a total butch dyke.

Like.... hardcore boycut and scowling face.

I'm a WOW addict.  There are a few aspects of the game that really put me off (mostly technical problems) so I've tried several other MMO's to break away...always go right back.  However, my play time has gone down considerably since I have started to embrace Mia.  I think video games in general are a way to escape reality (explains the first 24 years of my life anyway :P ) Of course, I still love my WOW time ^_^

Anyway, if anyone plays horde-side Baelgun let me know! 

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LOL Vexing, that's great. I like your sig too btw, nice touch, the Union Jack. Very impressive for MS Paint :)

Wow, I just realized that's your webcomic. Excellent and funny as hell. /respect

Dennis

Cheers Dennis!
Yeah, I had a few stabs at the Union Jack before I got it right.
GO MS PAINT!  ;D

BTW, is it ok if I link that comic to another gaming forum I post on? It's Warhammer Online, but we just had an expansion and there are four million Knights of the Blazing Sun running around atm, so it's very fitting.

Dennis

Quote from: Dennis on January 06, 2009, 02:25:08 PM
BTW, is it ok if I link that comic to another gaming forum I post on? It's Warhammer Online, but we just had an expansion and there are four million Knights of the Blazing Sun running around atm, so it's very fitting.

Dennis

Be my guest. Highly appropriate.

Quote from: Scarlet on May 27, 2008, 07:49:34 AM
I was wonder if there are any other people out there play this or any other Massive online Role playing game's
to forget about the real life trouble and enter a digital fantasy world where u can be somebody els....

No thanks. I don't like this kind of thing, the whole fantasy/role-playing thing is just not for me. I know a lot of people who are into it, many of my friends, I just...it's just boring to me. I think you either enjoy it or you don't. Put me in the category of not enjoying those role-playing games please.

I play WoW! I've got a completely awesome guild too, Horde side, Bloodhoof. I also play A-side on Shadow Council and A-side on Dawnbringer.

I've been playing for 4 years now, it's addictive, but a lot of fun! It's awesome that you can be whomever you want in an MMORPG. I usually let people just assume that I'm male (which 99% do) and only correct them if I must or if we're becoming friends.

I actually met my boyfriend though WoW, so it's been nothing but a positive experience for me. The way I see it, everyone has hobbies. You might bowl, or play soccer, or cook. I enjoy many other hobbies, but WoW (and gaming in general) is one of them and will remain for quite some time. It doesn't have to suck your life away.

I notice someone said you had to put 30+ hours a week into WoW, and that's simply not true. While earlier games like EQ1 and such did require a tremendous time input, WoW is extremely casual friendly. You can certainly be a weekend gamer and be very successful. WoW is great in that you can get a lot of reward for a little time. I play a couple times a week and have multiple 70s (the max level a few months ago)

/target thread
/cast resurrect

;D  I play WoW too, for 4 years now. It's been everything from a wonderful way to spend time to simply something I tend to drift towards when there's nothing else to do at the moment. But I stay because I have family and friends there.

  AMy   :-*

I recently got into WoW, I've only been playing for a few weeks, my character is only a level 18.

It's the MMO part I have issues with. Or, to isolate it further, the second 'M'. Don't know why, really. Maybe the unpredictability.

I quite like Warhammer, though. At least, the Games Workshop tabletop version, so if I were to check one out, it would probably be that one.

Ahh

i still have my wow account...horde ofc on pvp server Outland.

I got a mail off some friends in sweden to go and do a raid on Ironforge last weekend which is always really fun to freak out the allys and generally spoil their day:)

When i play its pretty darn funny and laid back, just a social thing with the other girls in my guild.

No if only i spoke fluent Swedish....Avancerade svenska kurser någon  :P

Quote from: Leiandra on January 22, 2009, 10:06:52 AM
It's the MMO part I have issues with. Or, to isolate it further, the second 'M'. Don't know why, really. Maybe the unpredictability.

I quite like Warhammer, though. At least, the Games Workshop tabletop version, so if I were to check one out, it would probably be that one.

Yeah, I'm playing that. The nice part, for those who don't like to commit to grouping with ppl all the time is that a lot of the content is soloable, and groups are often open, which means you can just jump in, do what you want to do, then jump out. So it's as social as you want it to be.

Dennis

Everquest 2 is much better.

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Quote from: Dennis on January 22, 2009, 12:01:01 PM

Yeah, I'm playing that. The nice part, for those who don't like to commit to grouping with ppl all the time is that a lot of the content is soloable, and groups are often open, which means you can just jump in, do what you want to do, then jump out. So it's as social as you want it to be.

Dennis

As a guild we tried Warhammer for a month to see how it faired, it was nice as you say the questing was better but alot of iffy areas, really bad pvp compared to wow and other small things put us off.

I will try it in a year when they have ironed alot more out, was fun though just a shame about some things.

Being a huge fan of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft I bought wow almost immediatly when it came out.  However I thought the game was lacking the epic plot and story of the previous games so I quickly passed judgement that it wasn't for me.  Well about a year or two later my friends started getting into it so I revived the old account and fell in love this time.  I would end up getting 2 70's and 67 before I quit last summer.  I want to see Wrath(I heard it finally gets back to the plot of warcraft 3) but I don't want to spend the money with SF4 and RE5 coming out in the next couple months.  Not to mention my rl friends all quit around the same time I did.  What are you guys impressions of wrath so far and is it really that much better then BC?  All raids having 10 and 25 man mode sounds awesome to me too.

Quote from: Roll90 on January 23, 2009, 01:16:03 AM
What are you guys impressions of wrath so far and is it really that much better then BC?  All raids having 10 and 25 man mode sounds awesome to me too.

  The general opinion I've encountered is that alot more people enjoy this expansion than the last. There are PuGs of almost every raid now and there are a few quests out there that give you more of a "I actually accomplished something" feeling. The main one being the wrathgate questline in Dragonblight. You actually get a cutscene during it which gives it the epic feel, I won't spoil what happens for you though  ;)

  If I were you I would give the 10 (or is it 14?) day trial a shot so you can see if you like this expansion enough to resubscribe for a while. It even occurs to me that I once heard of a GLBT guild somewhere.. you might be able to find out more if you searched the WoW forums about it.

Wrath of lich king is soo much better than burning crusade.

I wasnt gonig to bother, but talked into it and really glad i did..

questing is really great with some great ideas, dungeons are well just wow and my holy priest is still only 76. Pvp is totally fun again.......

If you like wow, your love Lich king :)

Quote from: Dennis on January 22, 2009, 12:01:01 PM
Yeah, I'm playing that. The nice part, for those who don't like to commit to grouping with ppl all the time is that a lot of the content is soloable, and groups are often open, which means you can just jump in, do what you want to do, then jump out. So it's as social as you want it to be.

Dennis

That suits me, lol. I quite like the idea of being a follower of the Chaos god Slaanesh. Better makeup, lots of leather... whips... mmm... *daydreams* Uh... I mean, yeah, might be a giggle. ;)

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Quote from: Annwyn Le'fay on January 22, 2009, 12:05:26 PM
Everquest 2 is much better.

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Liessss and slander.

My ex (who actually got me into WoW) tried first to get me into EQ/EQ2. I just didn't care for the graphics and that's a huge reason why I love WoW. I really like the cartoony characters and the scenery is just gorgeous.

I really liked TBC but yes Northrend is lots of fun. Death Knights rock. They made retadins way too easy to play though, but it's fun to run around cutting through everything like a hot knife through butter :D

Agreed.
The EQ graphics were too damned serious - not enough candy.

I played WoW for a couple years... then I realized.... I was paying Blizzard for giving me a second full time job... and I stopped.

I'm downloading the COH/V 14 day trial as we speak though, so I might play that

I prefer CoV over Heroes, but both are pretty cool.
I found it ultimately lacked depth. I felt I was just leveling to get costume slots.

I was a hard-core WoWer for 4 years, and it was one of few bright spots in a run of depressing, sick years. But I finally hit a saturation point, between having a computer that's not really strong enough for Lich King (and that I can't afford to upgrade/replace right now, and...I'll pull the rest of this parenthetical digression into its own paragraph below) and feeling like I'd assimilated a few too many rules revisions. I'm back to focusing on tabletop RPGs online with select friends.

The rest of that parenthetical: I don't have a lot of money. My needs are well provided for, I don't lack for anything essential to my well-being, but I have to be careful with choosing luxuries. (Particularly with now saving for upcoming transition costs.) The computer I have works great for my work (which is writing), and for my net uses, and music, and videos, and all that stuff, and I am very satisfied with it. I dropped WoW partly because it was making me unhappy with my computer, and I don't want to be unhappy with a unit that works so well for me for everything else.

I'll enjoy some MMO again when I can sensibly afford a machine that's current for whenever it, I'm sure. And in the meantime I'm very grateful for the excitement and escape that WoW provided me.

I still play some, although my account is set to expire on the 20th of this month and I don't plan on renewing it for awhile. I got a 75 priest and of course an 80 Death Knight but after getting my Death Knight to 80 the game kinda started losing some of its appeal. Mostly I got sick of the degrading support and the fact that with every new patch I had to completely redo every stinking addon. I probably wont completely abandon the game but I do need to put it on hold for a bit. Life has thrown me another curve ball so I need to focus on this new issue first. 

Quote from: Cami on May 10, 2009, 08:24:44 AM
I still play some, although my account is set to expire on the 20th of this month and I don't plan on renewing it for awhile. I got a 75 priest and of course an 80 Death Knight but after getting my Death Knight to 80 the game kinda started losing some of its appeal. Mostly I got sick of the degrading support and the fact that with every new patch I had to completely redo every stinking addon. I probably wont completely abandon the game but I do need to put it on hold for a bit. Life has thrown me another curve ball so I need to focus on this new issue first.

the curse.com auto updater is a godsend for mods :)

i love warcfaft and always will i have played alone for years and with peoples just as long and i never get bored. Blizz often add new content as well and the new dungeons are awesome but i really enjoy hanging with my special friend and doing the lower one too.

It good to be Horde :)

Quote from: Ms Delgado on May 10, 2009, 09:21:08 AM

It good to be Horde :)

AHHHHHH nooooooo! not a hordie!!!

OK so its not that bad :P  I went alliance, still not sure why. I guess cause the only pretty Horde class is the Belf but I have been tempted many times so switch sides because of all the cry babies in BG ally side. But then I think of all the work I put into building our guild web site and I just hate to think of it all being for nothing... I'm so vain. Some day I might get over myself.

Quote from: Cami on May 10, 2009, 01:27:47 PM
AHHHHHH nooooooo! not a hordie!!!

OK so its not that bad :P  I went alliance, still not sure why. I guess cause the only pretty Horde class is the Belf but I have been tempted many times so switch sides because of all the cry babies in BG ally side. But then I think of all the work I put into building our guild web site and I just hate to think of it all being for nothing... I'm so vain. Some day I might get over myself.

Awww Cami
we all make mistake in life is learning from it that counts :) actually i play both side, i play mostly horde on a pvp server as that is my biggest love but i recently started on a normal server with someone and although i am trying to get the courage to play my elfkin i will at sometime or just start a DK there and skip that leveling :)

wow you have a guild too i only join them and have never tried the run one, i am hoping to be in 2 girl guild some point but that will only be me and close person playing to share resources like guild bank ect and some identity ofc.

s/salute Cami

It's actually Emmes guild I'm just her side kick with the web skillz, lol

I'd be happy to level another DK on  another realm with ya :)

I have played WoW for years.  I have several level 80's, and some 70's all alliance, all female.

I am not currently palying as I am on a lengthy business trip, and my laptop wont handle the graphics.  But when I get back home in a few weeks, I think I might reopen my account and transfer one of my characters to another server where a close friend of mine is.

Like someone mentioned before, I used WoW as a coping mechanism.  I realize that now, when I have been WoW-less for a bit over a month.  But that month has been good, because I have started reaching out, instead of holding it in.

It's not too bad. But I have the PvP skills of a three day old, slightly smelly halibut. That's been blindfolded and left in the dark. With cheesy Europop blasting out at full volume from a stereo where the bass is slightly too high.

So... yeah. Other than that, no comment. :)

Quote from: Leiandra on May 18, 2009, 03:03:49 PM
It's not too bad. But I have the PvP skills of a three day old, slightly smelly halibut. That's been blindfolded and left in the dark. With cheesy Europop blasting out at full volume from a stereo where the bass is slightly too high.

So... yeah. Other than that, no comment. :)

Lol, so I take it we should go easy on you. ;D

Nah, you don't need to do that. :)

I've grown quite fond of graveyards. ;) And the spirit healers and I are developing quite a rapport. ;D Next time I even promised to bake a cake and throw a tea party, lol.

Yay, a WoW thread ^^

I have a level 80 blood elf paladin and a level 75 belf warlock, both on Darkmoon Faire... I love WoW... but I disagree with the people saying it's just a game ment for people to get addicted to.. I don't play it for hours on end. I just pop on, roleplay a bit and log off to study or do something else. I do this and still have a decent amount of epics on my pally ^^

Naxx is boring though... but Flame Leviathan in Ulduar is very interesting. I also hope patch 3.2 is coming soon! New skins for druids :D

I also confess to the addiction. I lived my life through it for a couple of years. I was social more than anything. I made a lot of friends who know me now in real life, one girl is coming to stay with us in early August. I havnt played in a couple of months though and was thinking of getting rid of the account. I have a couple of 80's and a 75 with a salt and pepper of others. Three guilds and a lot of friends. I have found a need to get out in life now though. I wish it was worth money...Such is life.

I played mmorpgs when my friends introduced me, and when I made new friends in High School and they all played WoW, I shifted over to it, and yes it is very addictive, me and all my friends would play all day long almost every day (Quit just last week).  But while I do regret playing so much of it, it did help me realize with much more confidence that I was TG, cause I was always making female characters, just feeling more comfortable with female toons (My friends thought it was a bit weird but they didn't say much about it). Soon it became more obvious to me.  :)

When I played my female characters, I made sure to always tell my guild and people ingame I saw a lot that I was a male in real life, but when I was just grouping for a quest with someone I may only see once, I didn't bother, and when the group refered to me as "she" or "her" I felt really good inside.
One time as a joke my friend and I joined a new guild and he just blurted out "I LOOOOVE YOU" when I joined the guild, (we liked joking around like that even IRL) and I said "I LOVE YOU TOO" and he had the crazy idea of passing me off as a girl to the guild.  To hide my big secret I backed away from the idea a bit, but did indeed go through with it.  He made sure to pass himself off as my BF so no one would try to hook up with me.  The guild soon took a liking to both of us, as we were both attention whores we couldn't really log on without getting attention somehow.  It felt really good to be treated like a girl.

Oh it was more organic than that in my case, we were playing an older game in the same room and I didn't even know I had chat windows until like two months in. I only played with her and she was right there. I didn't figure it out until she got after me for logging in and not saying anything to her guild...they thought it was rude. I was like...guild? Lol, I told you I was horrible at it. After that I guess I misrepresented myself, I never really thought about it like that.

Anyway just imagine having that "it felt really good" in real life, every day 24/7. Sounds like good motivation to turn it off and get to work to me.

I play WoW as well.. And I have since pre-release, even. :)
Mainly a Hordie, I've got ten characters on my main server, and seven on my second. Three 80s, now, all decked in purples.
And I play.. Well; about four to an absolute maximum of ten per week...
So yes; WoW is a game you can play pretty successfully for just a few hours, and then leave it be. Of course; I'm not into heavy PvP or raiding, and I don't care all that much for achieving anything.. I just want to have fun, and chat with friends. :) WoW happens to be that game for me.

I do always make sure I carry my weight in groups, though. (I prefer the guardian and healer roles.)

I had a level 45 tauren and the economy got kind of pissy before the first expansion release.

So I quit playing. 

I picked up Guild  Wars for a while...  Cool and the price was right...

Since then I have played Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, and now currently playing  Dungeon & Dragon Online.  Did not like STO, and CoH was kind of lame, but D&DO is cool and you can play for free...  the best way.

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Economy usually depends on your server, how you play it, and of course when an expansion releases but that soon changes. There's actually huge perks when an xpac releases for the economy.

I'm not sure if I'll play another MMO when I decide to quit WoW, though. I like the atmosphere of MMOs, but I've yet to find one that I think could replace WoW.