i have a issue lol. is there no way you can just pay for a month with your credit card??? it seems like eather you do the recurring month thing.. or you have to go buy a time card. thats ridiculous.

all i wana do is pay for a month. and i dont wana have to go buy a card

You can sign up with your credit card. It is recurring, but you can cancel it at any
Time. Of course, there is also the cost of the game itself, so it's kinda pricey if you only want to play it for one month.

thats really dumb. i dont get why they changed it. ohwell. and yea i know. im up to cata. its just i cant play sometimes and i dont want there to be time on my acct when i cant even play it

Uh, not what I'm testing for but I'll log the comment. For science.... And potatoes.

i play it have done so for years now !! ',..,'

Hey you can interview me if you want.

You know i'll help bro.

I played it for years because it was a place to socialize with my long distance boyfriend and have a community of online friends. I mean, we had a German Army wife, some navy guys, and random people from around the US and Canada in our guild for a long time. Wouldn't have been able to make good friends like that w/o my time in WoW, and I still keep in touch w/ them now, even after I've stopped playing.

Been playing for years. Feel free to send me a list of questions if you want. AIM works too.

ive played WoW ever since vanilla oh my i can be helpful!!

I've been playing WoW since it was in Beta, and ShadowBane before that. What makes any MMORPG enjoyable and sustainable is the socialization. I have friends from work online, and there are a lot of gay guilds, especially on Proudmoore. I've never met anyone in my guild in person, but I know most of them by name. One of my guilds lives close by in Tampa, and my husband and I may meet he and his husband one of these times.

Feel free to write me with any questions, and I can provide my email, if you like.

I stopped right b4 cataclysm but im hoping to start again if you want to interview me.

I don't play WoW but I do play FFXI, which have pretty similar concepts. As far as why I play It's mostly for social interaction, A huge part of this is your bonds with your fellow Linkshell (guild) members and if your relations are bad with people you won't get very far, because the game focuses on group effort a lot more than solo play.

I play it cause others pay for it for me and there's people on there I do like talking to even though the game went downhill fast.

I'm an avid WoW player, but as I've told several people: I cannot enjoy MMO games for the game itself. I find them dull, repetitive, boring, and most of all, lonely.

The only reason I play WoW as much as I do is that I have a truly amazing guild. I joined up with them back on Moon Guard when the guild was just re-forming, and became one of the "re-founding" members. For over 3 years now, my guildies have been great friends, and together we've made some of the best RP I've ever participated in. I'm truly blessed to know every one of them.

In a more generic sense, I can't play MMOs just as games. I wanted to join my dad playing Everquest, but since he was working graveyard shift at the time, we were never able to play together, and I just couldn't get into the game. It wasn't the world (Norrath definitely has its hooks) and it wasn't the mechanics (I liked the idea and direction of several different classes), I just...I'd play, but never got "the feeling" I wanted. It didn't provide the pleasure (if that's the appropriate word) that I seek from a leisure activity; it was like reading books, but books about which I had no interest and for which I felt no passion, neither positive nor negative.

So, to give a bit more direct answer to your line of questioning: Yeah, MMOs can be a social platform. I've made many friends through them, and I use them to help keep in touch with several friends I already had, too.

I "used" to play wow, if you want a sort of Before/After sort of thing. ill be happy to help :D

Heh, Certainly, I Can help you with this as well. Been playing from the Week one WoW Was released in Europe, but I've had several reasons I've kept on playing, not just the in-game content provided for players, but for social reasons as well. These days, I mainly play it for the latter reason, though. But, Feel free to ask if you wish buddy!

feel free to pm me sometime on msn if you want, if you wanna do a interview of some sort i will ^.^, ive been playing wow sense 2006 and ive anylized the game to the core so ill happly help ya in whatever way possible :D

I would be happy to help with your research.