Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to buy it. It’s a fun game but I don’t think that $15 a month + $30 for the game is really worth it. But we’ll see.

I hope you are keeping to your vow to resist buying it :)

Considering that WoW is the biggest MMO out there, it’s probably fair to say that it also has the biggest share of jerks and assholes. I mean, at least statistically. :mrgreen:

That said, most people I met in the game so far were very nice. Especially the lower level players seemed to be really eager to help out, join forces and etc. It’s only where I went to a higher level area and asked a relatively stupid question is when I got laughed at. :P

Anderson is an ass. lol This is the kind of people who play mmo to “win” – they bring the typical online FPS mentality to MMO’s and that doesn’t really work.

I’m not sure how minin works in WoW – I haven’t invested in the mining skill but I’m guessing it might be similar.

Sorry to hear that the WoW community hasn’t been too friendly on newbies. Every MMO has its fair share of jerks I guess, cept that it seems WoW has the bulk of them. (Yes, I’m generalizing.. :P)

I remembered one incident when I was playing Lord Of The Rings Online. And I still remember the nick of that person. My map showed a copper ore nearby and decided to mine it since I had the appropriate skill. However, when I got there, there was someone else near it, but he was killing a mob. I was at the ore and was about to ask if he was going to mine it, since he got there first but needed to kill a creep before mining. Was just simply trying to be polite.

When out of the blue, a guy called “Anderson” came up from behind and appropriately mined the ore, while the other one was still in combat.

I was a bit shocked, so I sent this Anderson a whisper (Note: may not be word for word, but the gist is there).

Me: “Excuse me, but i was going to ask that other guy if that ore was his.”
Anderson: “Why?”
Me: “Cos he got here first but prob had to kill some mobs before he could mine that ore.”
Anderson: “Haha. U shldnt have done that. Shld have just taken it.”
Me: “Tts a bit rude. He got there first right?”
Anderson: “Too bad for him. U shldnt pass up a chance. Theres no such thing as kindness in an mmo.” (I still remember the “no such thing as kindness”.)

Needless to say, he’s the first to be on my ignore list, and i promptly recounted the incident to my fellow guildmembers.

Ah! That makes sense. Thanks for the info.

I figured that it had to be like that when I saw the skull symbol somewhere in the Barrens and then in Durstwallow Marshes. I got gang raped by hienas and then alligators. :( Not fun.

Actually, the skull, in place of a level indicator, means the mob or the player is more than 10 levels above you (I think the cutoff is 10). The higher level a mob is to you, means how far away you can be before the creature aggros (i.e. rapes you). For instance, if you are level 10, and you go anywhere within sight distance of a level 70 mob, it will probably hunt you down and kill you instantly. :)

So, you are right. Don’t go there…stick to the Barrens :)