wow sucks
1) u cant really do shit till ur higher lvl
2) i wud have to legit play all the damn time
3) runescape i can just bot and play when i want to have fun
4) wow has an insane amount of quests and makes me wanna kill myself
5) runescape is more competitive simply because wow u never really lose shit
6) wow costs alot. 400$ a year is alot of money wasted. when ur young and live on ur own like me u will understand
7) runescape has the old wild comen back
8) wow is just a no lifen game
I'm just going to number a response to each line
1) Yes you can, ever heard of dungeons? There are several dungeons for each level range from 15-85. Then there are hard (heroic) version of each, and raids at 60, 70, 80 and 85 respectively. And you can PVP in various battlegrounds, or arenas which also scale with level and skill.
2) Because playing a game is all about ease of botting, correct?
3) In WoW there is no need to bot, you don't have to stand in one square for 1500 hours to get to a 99 skill, you move around to different places, working on professions that, once again, scale by level. Rather than just one new type of rock that you can mine all the way to 99, or being able to cut willows to 99.
4) So wait, you're telling me grinding on the same mob is more fun than discovering new places, completing quest objectives and getting new items and experience all the way to 85? Try playing WoW nowadays, they revamped all the 1-60 quest zones so they are less "collect 8 boar flanks" and more "kill target X whilst clearing trash and collecting a few other things along the way". I just started a new shaman to go through the revamped content, and I can tell you I haven't been able to stop. And I'm someone who doesn't have the patience required to grind on Runescape.
5) Runescape is more of a grind, period. You grind gold, or like people on this site, buy it and then train (or bot) a dclaws rusher and then 2 hit people. Wow, that's certainly a whole lot more entertaining than levelling a character, learning how to play it properly and actually manipulating what abilities you have to be able to have the upper hand in a pvp situation. Do you lose shit on WoW? No, you don't lose all your gear, instead you face consequences like having to repair armour and weapons (which can become VERY expensive, especially in raiding times), people leaving your dungeon because your group wiped too many times then having to wait for new players, and the simple satisfaction of knowing you outplayed your opponent with skill - the recipient often learning from their mistakes, which is far better than losing all their gear and having to hope their next spec is a little higher. Oh and I forgot to mention, a win in a battleground means you get more points than a loss, so it makes sense to play as a team and be competitive in order to win. Same thing goes for arenas, and dungeons/raids as a whole.
6) You got me there, WoW does cost a lot, but that's one possible reason why there are far less children playing than there are on Runescape.
7) That's not a reason for RS being better than WoW. In fact, I find that open world pvp, battlegrounds and arenas are far better than the old wildy. And trust me here, I've played Runescape since it came out.
8) Definitely not the first comment in this thread that I lol'd at. You do realise most people who play WoW stop after a year. The few that continue are generally the hardcores, or people who take longer to play due to time restrictions ie only being able to play an hour or two a day. Most people who play Runescape tend to continue for years afterwards, myself included. No lifers? Certainly these people exist in both games. However, I'm more inclined to think that the grindy Runescape is more of a no-life game than WoW, where you are actually allowed to move out of a 10 square vicinity.