There's ways to level to 90 without doing quests to make WOW gold or even without killing stuff, so yes... you can play WoW without being Blizzard's Hero. That's why Blizzard made the RP and PvP-RP servers, for people to use WoW as a canvas for their own stories within the Warcraft world. This column is to help Roleplayers of all types: the ones who want to be Blizzard's Hero, the ones who are a little bit the Hero, and the guys who are holding the fort back home while the top dogs are off to war.
I just don't understand. If you play an MMO, which has quests for you to get more WOW gold and raids and all that, are you saying that people are literally going in and going "Yeah, I'm not going to do any of that"?That's their right, but it makes no sense to me at all. No, no one is saying that anyone logs in and looks around to say 'I will participate only in that which doesn't exist'. What is done is that parts (the Sunwalkers) are a good example. Instead of being Garrosh's Hand in Pandaria as the DO story line says, but instead you take up a life with Nattle Paggle and fish.
Correction to that: The parts are taken individually like Legos and built from...cont from there above. It is possible to enjoy questing, dungeoning, PVP, etc., but want to roleplay as someone other than a mercenary who'll kill anything as long as they get gold and experience. Therefore, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, questing is an out of character experience - something that you enjoy doing as a player, but your character wouldn't actually do. Of course, there are people who don't do quests for WOW gold that their characters wouldn't do, but there are plenty who do and then roleplay their character as if they didn't. Thank you. That makes more sense, and I can understand doing that. I didn't grasp what the article meant initially.
I didn't grasp what the article meant initially. That makes more sense and I appreciate the clarification. I can definitely understand that. And I really enjoy roleplay and the game which could let me get some WOW gold here, I just didn't grasp the article's meaning, I think. The idea of logging into a game with a specific setting and feel, and not using any of it, seemed ridiculous. I would like to be able to compartmentalize into IC and OOC while it still playing the Game makes a lot more sense.