WoW or SC2?

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 09:36 AM

So I've got to make the following decision.

I'm going to legitimetely buy (digital download, thank you Sir-Ex for pointing me in that direction) either Wolrd of Warcraft or Stacraft 2.

I'm an avid SC player, but haven't played WoW in a few years.

It kinda sucks too cause in WoW I had a lvl40 Undead Priest with a mount and now it's not there no more when I log into the site, so I'd have to start fresh, however it's only 20 bucks, but then I gotta pay every month and probably have to buy for each expansion pack and yeah start from scratch...

Now SC2 I'd love it, it's 65$ bucks though, but for every race you gotta buy a new game? That seems kinda lame.

And my laptop isn't exactly super great for games, I mean I pass the standard requirements it's just I don't exactly get to recommended requirements.

Anyways my specs on c\n you run it for WoW:
CPU
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor
PASS

CPU Speed
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
You Have: 2.09 GHz Performance Rated at: 2.508 GHz
PASS

RAM
Minimum: 512 MB or more of RAM (Vista requires 1 GB or more of RAM)
You Have: 3.7 GB
PASS

OS
Minimum: Windows® System XP/XP64/Vista/Vista64/7
You Have: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit
PASS

Video Card
Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce2 class card or better
You Have: ATI display adapter (0x9712)
PASS
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Video RAM 32 MB 1.9 GB
3D Yes Yes
Hardware T&L Yes Yes

DirectX version
Minimum: 9.0c (included)
You Have: 10.0
PASS

Sound Card
Minimum: Yes
You Have: Conexant CX20671 SmartAudio HD
PASS

Free Disk Space
Minimum: 15.0 GB available HD space
You Have: 223.7 GB
PASS

CD-ROM
Minimum: 4x CD-ROM drive
You Have: GZO 0XEF0TMZKHQ SCSI CdRom Device
PASS

And what do you think I should go with? Try and start over with WoW or dive into SC2?

Sir-Ex · 08-01-2010, 10:03 AM

Right, the only problem with your laptop is that it's got a shitty video card. But you should still be able to get a smooth framerate if you turn shaders to low, turn off reflections, and have everything else at medium settings. It'll look a little dated, but it'll still be starcraft 2 running smooth in all its glory. Plus the music.

As far as the price point goes, they're almost identical. Say you played wow for a year, that's about $150 in subscription fees +$20 for the game +10 for expansions (?) - that's $180 for your one year of wow.
The remaining chapters of starcraft 2 are gonna take at least another year to be released, so it'll be about $190 spread over however long that takes (it'll probably be more like 2 years knowing blizzard).

So either way you're gonna spend the same amount of money. The question is which game do you want to play more?

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 10:04 AM

Man I don't know...

see if I could get my old character from WoW back just because I got a mount I'd totally want that.

But SC2....damn man. I don't know!!

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 10:06 AM

I think I'll play the trial for WoW for the next 10 days to get a feel for it.
And once I'm done downloading SC2 if I get it to work I'll play the single player missions and see if it's worth buying to go on bnet.

So lemme get this straight about SC2, it's only terran missions single players but on BNet you can be any of the 3 races?

Sir-Ex · 08-01-2010, 10:59 AM

That's right.

The single player is a totally different setup than the original, in a good way. Don't want to spoil anything.

ionlylooklazy · 08-01-2010, 11:23 AM

^2nded, wow sucks

JcP · 08-01-2010, 11:34 AM

WoW is great!!!

oh wait, it's not 2005 anymore? Go with Starcraft 2.

Besides the fact that WoW will pwn your life, its also already passed its peak. It will be around for many years to come, but with The Old Republic, DC Universe online, and a number of other promising (and more modern) MMOs coming to the market, I think WoW's days are numbered.

I was also in the SC2 beta, and it's a shitton of fun to play.

Having said all of that, this is an apples and oranges question. They are different genres of games..so much so that they are almost different entertainment forms....like seeing a movie or going to an aquarium.

My vote is SC2....but at the end of the day, you gotta decide if you want to invest hundreds of hours to WoW or not. Because you will if you play it.

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 03:32 PM

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!
STARCRAFT TWO HERE I COME

Waves · 08-01-2010, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terry

WoW is like having a second job that you have to pay for, avoid at all cost.

as much as i love wow i have to agree with this. once you get to lvl 80 if you dont play the game like its your job you get left in the dust of the wownerdpack. i hope the newer MMOs are even more casual friendly because it would be nice to play in an mmo with a cool guild that didnt treat you like an employee at fucking best-buy with their raid schedules and prioritizing and bullshit.

i still love leveling up and PVPing in wow but i would never invest my time in the endgame

you gonna love sc2

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 04:03 PM

allright well
im about to buy it right now
i really wanted to get back into WoW but like you said it's one of those things where your glued to a computer it's not like just losing a game in SC and counting a loss in your stats you can mess up a whole quest with a bunch of people and stuff

Waves · 08-01-2010, 04:14 PM

yeah the time investment is way different for both games

you can play a sc2 game in 15 minutes, whereas thats about how long it will take you to just travel somewhere in wow nevermind actually raiding/questing

did you ever get to the endgame? if not you have no idea how bad it gets. people who play wow are crazy.

Mikey · 08-01-2010, 04:18 PM

no i just got to lvl40 undead priest and i got a mount then i stopped then cause i started travelling and this was like (

like JcP said) 5 years ago

im downloading SC2 now, the legit version, they didn't even give me a CD Key or an email yet just a super slow blizzard downloader 80 mins for 7GB?? fuck i pay extra money to have super high speed and i still think im getting fucked.

im sure it's just something with the settings or something

Waves · 08-01-2010, 04:31 PM

yep the blizzard downloader is notoriously slow

took me like 4 hours to do mine and install it

you can go into preferences and turn of P2P downloading and see if that helps.

**mothernature** · 08-02-2010, 05:19 AM

I don't know about SC2, but the thing about WoW, is there is always something to do. That's what I like about that game.

I have to agree with Waves though, about most raiding guilds being a bit too hard core about the end game stuff. I am lucky enough to play with real life friends and family.

When it starts to feel like work...I turn it off and do something else. I don't know many jobs though where I can sit at my own computer and smoke weed as long as I want too.

Look me up on 'The Forgotten Coast'.
Bannshee, kick ass bitch, lvl 80, Troll Shaman
Oh yeah...almost forgot...HORDE RULES!!!

Debaser · 08-02-2010, 07:27 AM

I played wow for 4 years, had a 2 60 rogues and a 60 mage who was my main. I managed to hook up with a good raiding guild and we hit the endgame. Things were cool until the BC expansion. I ordered mine thru blizzard and by the time I got a copy from UPS, half my guild had burned to 70. I grinded my way there and started getting into the endgame stuff, but the guild had changed and they got really anal about raid schedules and shit like that. Around this time my first son was born, so I managed to work out a 3 night a week raid schedule with the wife, but that didn't last long, and yes it became way too much like work, and it all started to be about what gear you had, and how you were specced, and how many raids you attended. I ended up leaving the guild and for a while I just kind of farted around outlands with my twin brother (who had started playing a few months ealier) but after ahile it was like, login, run around doing random quests, logout. The ego kiddies totally turned me off of pvp, so that wasn;'t an option for me. I'd like to go back eventually but it has changed too much, I just miss flying around on my winged mount.

Currently I'm playing Star Trek online, it's pretty casual friendly, and now with a second kid I don't get much time to login so it works for me.

So in other words yeah, go with the SC2

Sir-Ex · 08-02-2010, 07:51 AM

I think the whole argument can be solved like this:

It's fucking starcraft...

Being · 08-02-2010, 09:12 AM

join me on d2 and WAR online.

crookedhatinator45 · 08-02-2010, 09:14 AM

they're both gay life-wasters.

Sir-Ex · 08-02-2010, 09:19 AM

thank you captain fucking obvious.

moving right along now ..

**Mafoo** · 08-02-2010, 09:47 AM

....sir ex's first post since the release of SC2

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08-01-2010, 09:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	WoW or SC2? So I've got to make the following decision. I'm going to legitimetely buy (digital download, thank you Sir-Ex for pointing me in that direction) either Wolrd of Warcraft or Stacraft 2. I'm an avid SC player, but haven't played WoW in a few years. It kinda sucks too cause in WoW I had a lvl40 Undead Priest with a mount and now it's not there no more when I log into the site, so I'd have to start fresh, however it's only 20 bucks, but then I gotta pay every month and probably have to buy for each expansion pack and yeah start from scratch... Now SC2 I'd love it, it's 65$ bucks though, but for every race you gotta buy a new game? That seems kinda lame. And my laptop isn't exactly super great for games, I mean I pass the standard requirements it's just I don't exactly get to recommended requirements. Anyways my specs on c\n you run it for WoW: CPU Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor PASS CPU Speed Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ You Have: 2.09 GHz Performance Rated at: 2.508 GHz PASS RAM Minimum: 512 MB or more of RAM (Vista requires 1 GB or more of RAM) You Have: 3.7 GB PASS OS Minimum: Windows® System XP/XP64/Vista/Vista64/7 You Have: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit PASS Video Card Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce2 class card or better You Have: ATI display adapter (0x9712) PASS Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card Required You Have Video RAM 32 MB 1.9 GB 3D Yes Yes Hardware T&L Yes Yes DirectX version Minimum: 9.0c (included) You Have: 10.0 PASS Sound Card Minimum: Yes You Have: Conexant CX20671 SmartAudio HD PASS Free Disk Space Minimum: 15.0 GB available HD space You Have: 223.7 GB PASS CD-ROM Minimum: 4x CD-ROM drive You Have: GZO 0XEF0TMZKHQ SCSI CdRom Device PASS And what do you think I should go with? Try and start over with WoW or dive into SC2? __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 10:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 11,416 Thanks: 1,726 Thanked 3,821 Times in 2,258 Posts	Right, the only problem with your laptop is that it's got a shitty video card. But you should still be able to get a smooth framerate if you turn shaders to low, turn off reflections, and have everything else at medium settings. It'll look a little dated, but it'll still be starcraft 2 running smooth in all its glory. Plus the music. As far as the price point goes, they're almost identical. Say you played wow for a year, that's about $150 in subscription fees +$20 for the game +10 for expansions (?) - that's $180 for your one year of wow. The remaining chapters of starcraft 2 are gonna take at least another year to be released, so it'll be about $190 spread over however long that takes (it'll probably be more like 2 years knowing blizzard). So either way you're gonna spend the same amount of money. The question is which game do you want to play more? __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

08-01-2010, 10:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	Man I don't know... see if I could get my old character from WoW back just because I got a mount I'd totally want that. But SC2....damn man. I don't know!! __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 10:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	I think I'll play the trial for WoW for the next 10 days to get a feel for it. And once I'm done downloading SC2 if I get it to work I'll play the single player missions and see if it's worth buying to go on bnet. So lemme get this straight about SC2, it's only terran missions single players but on BNet you can be any of the 3 races? __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 10:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 11,416 Thanks: 1,726 Thanked 3,821 Times in 2,258 Posts	That's right. The single player is a totally different setup than the original, in a good way. Don't want to spoil anything. __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

08-01-2010, 11:23 AM	#6 (permalink)
ionlylooklazy no left turn unstoned Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: washington Posts: 4,045 Thanks: 56 Thanked 559 Times in 292 Posts	^2nded, wow sucks

08-01-2010, 03:32 PM	#8 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	WOOOOOOOOOO!!! STARCRAFT TWO HERE I COME __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 04:03 PM	#10 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	allright well im about to buy it right now i really wanted to get back into WoW but like you said it's one of those things where your glued to a computer it's not like just losing a game in SC and counting a loss in your stats you can mess up a whole quest with a bunch of people and stuff __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 04:14 PM	#11 (permalink)
Waves Duderino Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: chiburbs Posts: 15,405 Thanks: 991 Thanked 4,036 Times in 2,224 Posts	yeah the time investment is way different for both games you can play a sc2 game in 15 minutes, whereas thats about how long it will take you to just travel somewhere in wow nevermind actually raiding/questing did you ever get to the endgame? if not you have no idea how bad it gets. people who play wow are crazy. __________________ On this life that we call home The years go fast and the days go so slow

08-01-2010, 04:18 PM	#12 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	no i just got to lvl40 undead priest and i got a mount then i stopped then cause i started travelling and this was like ( like JcP said) 5 years ago im downloading SC2 now, the legit version, they didn't even give me a CD Key or an email yet just a super slow blizzard downloader 80 mins for 7GB?? fuck i pay extra money to have super high speed and i still think im getting fucked. im sure it's just something with the settings or something __________________ RIP Gov

08-01-2010, 04:31 PM	#13 (permalink)
Waves Duderino Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: chiburbs Posts: 15,405 Thanks: 991 Thanked 4,036 Times in 2,224 Posts	yep the blizzard downloader is notoriously slow took me like 4 hours to do mine and install it you can go into preferences and turn of P2P downloading and see if that helps. __________________ On this life that we call home The years go fast and the days go so slow

08-02-2010, 05:19 AM	#14 (permalink)
mothernature ancientbongmaster Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,232 Thanks: 1,201 Thanked 809 Times in 487 Posts	I don't know about SC2, but the thing about WoW, is there is always something to do. That's what I like about that game. I have to agree with Waves though, about most raiding guilds being a bit too hard core about the end game stuff. I am lucky enough to play with real life friends and family. When it starts to feel like work...I turn it off and do something else. I don't know many jobs though where I can sit at my own computer and smoke weed as long as I want too. Look me up on 'The Forgotten Coast'. Bannshee, kick ass bitch, lvl 80, Troll Shaman Oh yeah...almost forgot...HORDE RULES!!!

08-02-2010, 07:27 AM	#15 (permalink)
Debaser Baked Fresh Daily Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 1,186 Thanks: 32 Thanked 303 Times in 177 Posts	I played wow for 4 years, had a 2 60 rogues and a 60 mage who was my main. I managed to hook up with a good raiding guild and we hit the endgame. Things were cool until the BC expansion. I ordered mine thru blizzard and by the time I got a copy from UPS, half my guild had burned to 70. I grinded my way there and started getting into the endgame stuff, but the guild had changed and they got really anal about raid schedules and shit like that. Around this time my first son was born, so I managed to work out a 3 night a week raid schedule with the wife, but that didn't last long, and yes it became way too much like work, and it all started to be about what gear you had, and how you were specced, and how many raids you attended. I ended up leaving the guild and for a while I just kind of farted around outlands with my twin brother (who had started playing a few months ealier) but after ahile it was like, login, run around doing random quests, logout. The ego kiddies totally turned me off of pvp, so that wasn;'t an option for me. I'd like to go back eventually but it has changed too much, I just miss flying around on my winged mount. Currently I'm playing Star Trek online, it's pretty casual friendly, and now with a second kid I don't get much time to login so it works for me. So in other words yeah, go with the SC2 __________________ Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? Message CM47: Let's go pay some hookers to knock our junk around.

08-02-2010, 07:51 AM	#16 (permalink)
Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 11,416 Thanks: 1,726 Thanked 3,821 Times in 2,258 Posts	I think the whole argument can be solved like this: It's fucking starcraft... __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

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08-02-2010, 09:19 AM	#19 (permalink)
Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 11,416 Thanks: 1,726 Thanked 3,821 Times in 2,258 Posts	thank you captain fucking obvious. moving right along now .. __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

08-02-2010, 09:47 AM	#20 (permalink)
Mafoo nice daze Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: the anguish of anticipated transformation Posts: 5,975 Thanks: 3,776 Thanked 2,652 Times in 1,698 Posts	....sir ex's first post since the release of SC2 __________________ PLUR For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

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