Hahaha, you can easily get a job to level 75, especially now. I now friends who do it leisurely in about two weeks.
FF games make me want to kill babies. Especially the new one.
For example, from level 74 to level 75 its about 46,000 experience in FF, however in WoW its freaking millions, MILLIONS! Its rediculous. Also WoW depends on quests and quest alone. At least from what I have played.
You also have to take into consideration that the play time for that 46,000exp is probably just as, if not longer to attain than say, 79 to 80 in WoW. Questing is cool, if you pay attention the first time you do it to what you're actually questing for. You can also do random dungeons now. That sure beats the hell out of questing imo, especially when you've done all the quests like 30 times on 30 different toons.
Personally I think WoW is for the less advanced gamer. Where as FF actually has a elite story line and battle system.
Negative. To be really good at WoW is to be well versed in everything the game has to offer, which includes Role Playing(lore, etc.), PvP, and PvE. And to be really good at PvE you have to be good at being a team player, which a lot of people lack the skill in. PvP is more of a one man wrecking crew, until you get into it seriously, then you do arenas and truly put your skills vs. their skills to the test. FF is a bunch of running around as a funny looking anime character listening to weird stories and doing odd things for weird looking people/things. I'm pretty sure my 10 year old sister could beat FF but if I sat her down at WoW, she would be confused as hell.
Now I will give it to WoW when it comes to PVP, other than quests I also believe that the PvP aspect is what drives the success of WoW. I have played WoW and I am not challenged by the game.
Im not knocking WoW's success because its obviously apparent that it done well. Surpassing every MMO in registered users.
I would have to say that 12million plus subscribers makes it successful, yes. The majority of people who played WoW when it first came out were the n3rds like myself, who played the s**t out of WC3 and WC3TFT, and that group of 2-3million told everyone about the expansiveness and how much fun it was, etc. I wouldn't say you're not challenged by it because you haven't experienced any part of the game but the initial dive into questing and leveling. Once you hit (insert level cap here) it becomes a whole new game that you can virtually never beat, and then it becomes a race to see who can be the best at what they do in the game, whether it be PvE or PvP.
It also does well because with every monthly subscription you get an 8ball of cocaine.
However I do not call myself and elite game either but I am an avid gamer.
On another note Square Enix just released news of the new level caps, the highest level to achieve will be 99 however they are going to break it down into 3 updates. The community thinks its going to go down as 85, somewhere between 90-95, then 99. Also to mention there is an additional three expansions that they are adding during that process.
I don't think anyone on this forum gets to be an elite gamer, unless they can prove they're making money playing games. The difference between you and me though? I play WoW for not only the PvE/PvP aspect, but the lore and story plus the never ending hilarity of trade chat, and you play FF(insert number 1-13 here) because you probably started playing them when OG ps1 was out. FF is not a whole lot different than WoW when it comes to updates, etc. We're rounding up on 3rd expansion, level cap of 85, new updates, professions, etc.
WoW has a storyline. It's actually interesting if you don't skip all the videos and read all the crap that NPC's say.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you knew that the lore extended way further back than just WoW.
I don't know anything about WoW PVP but I think I saw someone say they leveled doing PVP as well...unsure of this one though.
PvP is gangster. Only thing that has kept me in it this long. ICC was fun (/danceparty another raid instance) but pwning allies never gets old. Nor does the constant bickering about how much everyone else sucks at PvP because they're not capping enough bases or playing good enough defense. Try it, you'll dig it.
Honor ≠ Exp, to answer your question. Doing daily bg quests, killing npc's, critters in bgs, will field you exp. Not an efficient way of leveling. Lol.
I don't know what to say about this, too much time on your hands? Just remember that there is a world outside the window and it does exist
I have over 30+ days played time on my lock and my priest, but I have a life, go out on the weekends, etc. /played isn't consistent in game time, it's overall. I have played WoW way less than say, halo3 or Gears of War when they were popular.
I must have drank too much tonight if I picked apart that entire page. f**k me.
lol. This was back when I was hardcore addicted. I'm getting back into it again since I finally found a raiding guild and finally raid ICC and ToTC.