Top 10 Reasons Why People Love World Of Warcraft

World Of Warcraft is a game that's been both loved and hated by people over the past 10 years, In this video we're gonna look at the top 10 reasons why people love the game and still continue to play despite its old age, next week we're gonna do the opposite and look at 10 reasons why people hate the game, if you wanna have a chance of having your comment featured then let me know some reasons why you think people hate WoW.
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In this video I listed the Top 10 Reasons why people love and still continue to play World of warcraft to this day despite the game being over 10 years old, next week we're gonna look at the Top 10 Reasons why people hate WoW, if you have any suggestions then leave a comment below and it could be featured in the next WoW top 10 (If it's well written)

If you'd like to suggest a topic for a future discussion or top 10 please comment or tweet me via the links above.
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10: System Requirements
9: Music
8: Scale
7: Artstyle
6: Roleplaying
5: Lore
4: Community
3: PVP
2: Raiding
1: Nostalgia
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Top 10 Reasons Why People Love World Of Warcraft

[rieiid]

Just started the game for the first time today. 21 years old, never played WoW before (but I've played dozens of other MMORPG's before this). Always thought WoW was generic and boring because I heard other mmos were just "WoW clones". But WoW has so much more content than any of them. Can't believe I missed out on all of it for all these years. Currently a level 7 mage, wish me luck!

[RubberFacee]

Yo guys, remember WoD trailer, the moment when Garrosh grabs Gul'dan?
Now imagine this. Gul'dan is Demo Warlock community and Garrosh is Blizz.
Blizz nerf Demo Warlocks.
Gul'dan (Demo Warlocks) - This is not our destiny!
Garrosh (Blizz) - TIMES CHANGE!!!
*Epic Music*

[grahamvandyke]

I had the exact same starter experience that you had. So similar in fact that watching your level 1 human mage with the Elwynn Forest music hit me right in the nostalgia.

[galacticdino]

Nostalgia. I was a lvl 4 priest, my first character, in Elwynn forest. I heard lots of sounds and incredible number of horde players were charging against Stormwind. One of the attackers stopped next to me, full geared and made his mount special move. He/she stared at me and i thought i was going to die!. After a seconds, the horde player continued his charge, It was like the meeting of what i was in the game and what i was able to achieve in the game.

[NonsensicalSpudz]

10 got to agree with that wow just runs on anything i started with a potatoe with the word computer written on it

[PixelCat]

Great list Peon. No matter how many times I quit WoW I always find myself playing it again for 1 reason or another. Unless the game does eventually die I'll probably find myself coming back for something.

[Masilya]

So true for the music. Many keep listening to the music after they quit the game.

[Element_Z]

The nostalgia is real. The magical feeling I had when I first started out playing as an elf is indescribable. It gives me goosebumps thinking about it now.

[adriangar]

I have 2 very good reasons because some people hate World of Warcraft, The first is the ignorance, every single person i know and hate world of warcraft tell me the same, "WoW is a game for geeks, fats guys, no lives and social outcast " (You can play 2 hours at day for raid, no more, meanwhile they play 5 hours o more every single day playing LoL but you are the geek for play WoW), the second one is The suscripcion and this points have too tons of hypocrisy because if you spend 15 Euros per Month is like " WTF, ROLF you pay every month for play a game LOL is stupid" But them meanwhile spend 60 euros weekly or monthly in other game for complete the game in 10 hours, meanwhile we have a endless of play time. In my experience the main reason because people hate world of warcraft is the hypocrisy and ignorance.

[Lazarenko]

Can't agree more on 1# I still remember my first time in wow, walking the forrests of Teldrassil as an night elf, hearing the music and I was just in awe of that place and my friend who was an dwarf said that I had to come to the dwarven land, and thus a journey began.

The boat to menethil harbor, the dangers of the wetlands( dammn crocs) beingh escorted by an higher level player and then eventually reaching the safe tunnels of Loch Modan.

I will never forget that feeling of scale it was so mind blowing and by far one of the best experiences ever in wow for me.

And I love your vids, people like you nixxiom and nobbel and such are also big reasons why I go back to the game. So you could put that as place 11, you always seem to get the feeling back for me to play a little again and see how it goes.

Keep up the vids and have a nice day

[chalupamatej]

"I absolutely love WoW PvP" Understandable, as you play a feral druid.

[Olkard]

There are definitely some awesome nostalgic moments for me. Thinking back just makes me want to relive those moments again. (I've made one hell of a story about my time on WoW, so prepare yourself for a LONG LONG LONG wall of text.)

I started roughly in early - mid WotLK, but I was on and off, so I didn't play too much. I can't remember how old I was, but I think I was 11. I picked a Night Elf warrior and began my journey. I got to about level 10 until I ended up quitting because I was alone and wasn't very good at the game. I later returned because I saw the Ozzy Osborne ad for WoW and it made me want to play it again. I created another character but got that to level 20 this time. My 3 brothers each downloaded WoW trial and we all leveled with each other for a bit, whilst I was showing off my new Saber mount that I was incredibly proud of. Soon after, I quit again because my brothers' trial expired. But from here on out, I get into the meaty stuff.

Once Cataclysm was announced and days from launch, my friends and I were talking about it and I was asked if I were to be getting it. I wasn't sure, but in the end, both me and my best friend resubscribed and played it together. We both played on the server Zenedar where I played a Mage and my friend played a Hunter. We got to level 12 and were talking about what we would do next when two level 85's approached us riding Dragons. The feeling that I felt of a max level character addressing me was incredible. It felt like I'd met my idol and he started talking to me. One of them was a Hunter and the other I cannot remember. They asked us if we wanted boosting through Dead Mines. We had no idea what the Dead Mines were, but we were really excited to see it. As we made our way there, I saw the Hunter one shotting everything and said how I want to be like him at some point. We clear through the dungeon, add each other and say that we will get to their point some day. From there on out, we quested and we quested until we reached level 20 where we could get a mount. We were both ecstatic, ready to ride around on a Horse (Ram for my Dwarf friend). We got the mounts and were really happy with ourselves. We continued leveling and eventually got to the point where I out leveled my friend because he wasn't on as often as I was. He was level 47 and I was level 58. I approached the Heroes call board and discovered that I needed to get to Outland. I Googled how to get there and saw the Death Knight mount, which spurred me on to progress even further (at the time, I didn't know it was a class mount). I got to the Blasted Lands and died instantly. I was completely confused as to why I died, but once everything loaded and an achievement loaded on my screen, I smiled and smiled.

"Achievement Earned: Stood in the Fire"

I realized that Deathwing had literally JUST past and I was stood in the destruction he left behind. I told my friend immediately who asked me to screenshot it. I took a screenshot and he became excited as well. Once the flames subsided, I went through the portal and leveled there. Once I hit 60, I immediately purchased a flying mount and flew around Outland. I was upset that I required Cataclysm to fly within Azeroth, but it wasn't so bad.

I noticed that I could get a free 10 day trial of WotLK, so I did that and created a Death Knight. I loved the starting area and quickly fell in love with the class. I decided to make this my main, but moved servers because my brother, who also bought WoW, was moving there. I made another DK and continued leveling. Once I finished leveling to 70, there wasn't much for me to do since TBC was old content and I couldn't play my DK since the Trial had expired. I had my Mum take me to GAME where I got Wrath of the Lich King and continued my Journey. Leveling through Northrend, I reached the end of Dragon Blight questing and, of course, watched the Wrath Gate cinematic. It was amazing and I loved every bit of it. I was confused when Alexstraza whispered to me, but didn't give a quest or anything, but it was late at night, so I just logged off and went to bed. I later reached the next level cap; 80. At some point, I saw a group advertising an Eye of Eternity run. I sent a message asking to join and unbelievably, I was accepted. The people in the group were 85's, so the boss went down fairly quickly, and I didn't last long either, but I got my first tiny glimpse of raiding and I was jumping in my chair.

I eventually got Cataclysm and leveled through that and was really excited when I finally hit level 85. Although I was at a loss since I hadn't really talked to anyone besides my friends who hadn't played WoW yet or had quit. I did some dungeons, tried to get into some raids, but my item level was too poor, but every time I tried getting into a group to raise it, I was kicked out it was too low. I went into dungeons to try and raise my item level more, but nothing dropped that I needed. I tried getting into another raid, which surprisingly I got into. The leader understood my position and decided to give me a hand and let me in. I thanked him and we did the raid. I didn't get anything, but the experience was still awesome. I later branched out of PvE and switched to PvP which I got full Honor Gear in. I thought I was untouchable (little did I know that Blood DK was 'slightly' OP at that time) so did PvP for another long while.

I can't remember much after that bit, but when MoP came out, I wasn't as excited as I was for the others, but I was still excited. I got through Jade Forest which was good, Valley of the Four Winds which I didn't particularly like, Kun-Lai Summit, which I found much better than the second zone, the other one I can't remember, which was a little worse, but alright, and the fucking piece of shit Dread FUCKING Wastes. Needless to say, I hated this zone, but I got through it. Once I hit level cap, I did Dungeons, Heroics, then LFR and PvP. Me and my brother started to do our first Arenas which we didn't fare too well in; we had some terrible matches where we were slaughtered. But then, we had an amazing match. For the people in EU, you will know how serious this is. 

We beat Russians. 

It was a struggle, but we beat their asses to the ground and secured ourselves a few pieces of Prideful Gear. We were on and off WoW at this point, but when 6.0 pre patch came out, we did one Normal SoO (which wasn't hard at all because of the gear other people had), and experienced a bit of normal raiding. 

Two weeks after WoD had released, I could finally play WoW and I really loved the questing. The lore was interesting, the Cinematics were awesome, it was great. Once we hit 100, me and my brother did some dungeons, heroics, LFR and PvP, essentially the same as MoP. We tried to do Normal raids instead of LFR, but even though we had the required item level, there wasn't a single group that allowed us into the raid. This put us off raiding for a while and we just did LFR and back to PvP. At this point we were on and off, my friend left because he just gets mad at the game for PvP unbalancing, my brother's PC broke, etc.

I will say that WoW has made some incredibly memories with me and while it's not in the greatest state at the moment, I hope that I can feel something similar to what I felt when WoW was new to me; when I was most enjoying myself. I'm currently subscribed and would like to make the best of this expansion. I want to see the normal raids. I want to see Heroic and Mythic raids (maybe Mythic is pushing it). I want to finally raid outside of LFR. I want to be a part of a raiding guild. I want to achieve something in WoW because much that I have done have either been mediocre or just plain easy (except beating the Russians. That was fucking hard.) 

I want WoW to give me the feeling that I had before.

If you got this far, then I appreciate you reading about my time on WoW. I didn't realize how much text I had wrote until I had finished. I guess I got carried away talking about my past on WoW. Why not share some of your stories because I'd be happy to hear them!

[Baldinapper]

I'm a 14 year old WoW player, with every class levelled above 60 on Auchindoun, and I have played the game since the end of BC, which was when I was about 7 (of course, I didn't play properly, I just loved the feeling I got when I played), my mam only let me play because it shut me up, and because my dad and both my older brothers constantly played it, and could help me. I can distinctly remember the first time I played, and I made a gnome mage who was named eitak (my name spelled backwards, I thought I was so clever for coming up with that one). I remember getting to level 36 and asking my oldest brother to delete my character (by this time it had been two years since I'd started my mage, between school, being occupied by other things, and general laziness, I hadn't had time to level). I decided I wanted to play seriously. I made a human paladin, who's name i thought long and hard about, when a great idea popped into my head, based on my character's appearance- Baldinapper (meaning bald head in cumbrian) and that's the character I play to this day. Sometimes I regret the name, but then I think of all the memories I had levelling it, I could never replace him with a different character, whether retri paladins get nerfed or not, I'll always love to play them.
I agree, it's impossible to replicate the old days on WoW, but playing on a pvp realm, being killed by ganker horde, always playing WSG and arathi, and sometimes alterac valley (even though it's nearly always a win for the alliance, which wasn't the case in Wotlk), levelling with minimum required heirlooms (two 2h sword looms on my fury warrior), running Wotlk and Bc dungeons, or even running the deadmines on my alts... they make me still love and appreciate the game as what it once was.
I think no matter how old the game becomes, when I think about the time I spent playing, I will always remember WoW as the greatest game I ever played.

[whushaw]

As someone with a WoW tattoo I feel somewhat invested at this point :)

[MarkTheMadMan]

Amazing video, you got every reason spot on. 10/10. I quit during cata but i came back, sat in Westfall and listened to the music for hours remembering the good times. Never quit since and loving WoD. :)

[FearTheBeast]

Nostalgia hit me pretty hard. I honestly shed some tears listening to you. I enjoyed my first time in WoW and I still love the game. Those last words you said touched my heart and I'm glad I made the friends I did and had/ still having an amazing time with the game.

[richpresence]

That last comment (Nostalgia), you brought me to tears man . . Thanks! Please make more videos. GLHF!

[Lunsomat]

love the effort you put into your videos!
this one nailed it completely

[serbianedgelord]

Thank you for this video Lazy Peon!You didn't just made me re-subscribe to WoW and Blizzard, but you made me re-sub to you too!You brought me back all the memory I had!!!Now I am back in Azeroth!The love of game and nostalgia always stayed in my heart even when I quited it.I always minded:should I go back or ot?So now IM BACK! :D :D :D

[TheRunesmythe]

Watching this video, I found it interesting that you talked so much about nostalgia and recapturing that feeling people had playing the game for the first time. I quit WoW in 2013 after going through 3 expansions (Wrath of the Lich King will always remain my all time favorite) not because I was bored or disillusioned but because the upcoming content didn't really seem appealing to me for a number of reasons.

I considered coming back when Warlords was announced because the idea of the expansion was something that struck a chord with me, and I can't help wondering if the concept of traveling back in time was the developers' way of trying to recapture that same feeling from the first days of the game.

Having seen the teaser for Legion, I'm now actually in the process of returning (I say process because I needed a new pc and am waiting for it to arrive, but in the meanwhile I've dug out the old game discs and reactivated my account) and I feel genuinely excited about returning. I very much doubt that I feel disappointed because of one reason; no matter what else WoW may have been as it evolved, it was always fun for me. I honestly believe that if you peel away all those layers of expectation (and sometimes the feeling of entitlement that many of us have had about the game at one time or another) and look at it from that original viewpoint of fun, it's fairly easy to recapture that feeling you had when everything seemed "new" and "exciting". Even when it's come to expansions I didn't particularly care for (the Burning Crusade tops that list) I've still felt that same sense of fun because the game allows you to do and see things you'd never experience otherwise; as awesome as the idea might be, we're not going to don armor and pick weapons, or master magic, then go explore a brand new world. Instead, what we have is what our imagination provides us with and WoW is an excellent engine for both supplying and enabling the imagination. It might not be the "groundbreaking mmorpg experience" it was when it was first released, but having played other mmorpgs that were, they all have that aspect in common. The ones that stick around are the ones that manage to harness that element and integrate into the game because you can have all the cutting edge graphics, "improved" combat systems and immerssive environments you want but if you fail to spark a player's imagination it's all just a distraction.