World of Warcraft

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Originally Posted by welsh_girl

I tried playing WoW before but never really got it =/

What exactly does ... happen in it, in a simple way.

All I know is they keep adding expansion packs on so you keep paying to play.

There's an extremely minimal story that barely clings together with enough coherence to be called a "story" - really, it's optional and better read on the internet as backstory than in-game, where the basic idea is "Army X sucks, go kill them."

Anyway, you build your character up by doing quests, which gives you experience needed to increase your base level and items to increase your power. Rinse and repeat.

Also, along the way you can work together with people in 5-player dungeons where you kill various powerful monsters for good items, or at the level limit, 10- or 25- player raids where you kill various powerful monsters for extremely good items. You can also PVP, where you work with a team to kill other players, which gives similar items to dungeons.

You also have "professions" which let you create items out of things you'll find in the game world.

Everyone has an aspect that they like and cling to.

Typical MMO fare, but WoW does it better than the rest.