Life After World of Warcraft's Patch 4.3
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While it was a very good article I just couldn't find anything in the article that makes me want to play WoW again. Raids really aren't my thing and it seems like most of the reasons given to play was more raids and you could change the look of your gear.
Really don't want to upgrade my computer just to play Old Republic so until something different comes out I guess I'm out of the MMO game for a while. Maybe it's time for something like World of Starcraft because it would be pretty cool if a publisher could break out of the mold of just two factions to every MMO.
Really don't want to upgrade my computer just to play Old Republic so until something different comes out I guess I'm out of the MMO game for a while. Maybe it's time for something like World of Starcraft because it would be pretty cool if a publisher could break out of the mold of just two factions to every MMO.
Well, the Twilight's Hammer has always been part of WoW as servants of the Old Gods, going back to vanilla, so it's hardly a surprise that the patch dealing with the climax of the fight against Deathwing (the latest minion of the Old Gods) would be called Hour of Twilight.Ellen of Kitten said:
As long as there's a kosher reason for Wow players, then I'm cool with it.Chosen_Chaos said:
Bystanders like me have... hesitation with words like that flying around.
Fair enough. Stupid Stephanie Meyer ruining a perfectly serviceable word...Ellen of Kitten said:As long as there's a kosher reason for Wow players, then I'm cool with it.Chosen_Chaos said:
I got the same feeling. I stopped because they kept resetting the gear and I felt I couldn't keep up with their frequent patches. And Greg wants to release content more frequently.Ashley Blalock said:
Can't... keep up... with... the treadmill... *pant*
Also I hated what the dungeon finder did to WoW, I don't consider extending it to raids a quality.
Doesn't he realise that people pay subscriptions to, you know, get content?
We're not paying $15+ a month just so you can maintain the servers whilst we pay $60+ for more content.
I've been hoping wow falls for years because blizzard has been disgusting me in recent times (blatantly stealing Tyranids, putting hardly any effort into games and calling it 'good balancing' when you'll still release 20+ balance patches after the fact, the DRM that is b.net 2.0, the atrocity that is b.net 2.0, the obviously crap decisions made in design for WoW especially during wotlk).
We're not paying $15+ a month just so you can maintain the servers whilst we pay $60+ for more content.
I've been hoping wow falls for years because blizzard has been disgusting me in recent times (blatantly stealing Tyranids, putting hardly any effort into games and calling it 'good balancing' when you'll still release 20+ balance patches after the fact, the DRM that is b.net 2.0, the atrocity that is b.net 2.0, the obviously crap decisions made in design for WoW especially during wotlk).
Yea I can't say that I'm a big fan of new expansion or big patch makes everything you've accomplished and all your gear you worked so hard for totally useless. It seems like the epic gear you struggled to get isn't even as good as the greens once a big expansion hits and even though you've maxed out your reputation with a group that group isn't in the expansion so it's grind, grind, grind, grind the heck out of reputation again. Just feels like there isn't any accomplishment because as you put it so well you are just on a treadmill in the game forever.Bostur said:
Of my friends that play I haven't heard any of them say anything good about the raid finder because just about everyone has dealt with the mess that is the dungeon finder.
It just seemed more fun back in vanilla WoW when dungeons and raids were 100% optional so you only did them with friends you made in the game. Not forced to play it with strangers because Blizzards wants to force a play style on people.
If Blizzard has to give people the ability to totally fuck over the artists by hiding gear behind customized textures, it's undeniable proof that WoW is finally losing its status as the MMO juggernaut and actually STRUGGLING to keep up its zombification of the populace (read: murdering geeks, babies and housepets).
I wish other MMO's would take one honest lesson from WoW; the user interface. I've played through maybe 5 or 6 other MMO's and not ONE of them can match WoW's super-friendly interface, which is why I all the more begrudgingly admit to the interface being the best thing about WoW. The rest is just grind-grind-grind and scrubs rejecting you for not having exact-or-better gearscore than them. Oh and brats who tell you off for not wanting to grab that one elixir recipe from a dungeon that only drops like 0.0004% of the time.
I wish other MMO's would take one honest lesson from WoW; the user interface. I've played through maybe 5 or 6 other MMO's and not ONE of them can match WoW's super-friendly interface, which is why I all the more begrudgingly admit to the interface being the best thing about WoW. The rest is just grind-grind-grind and scrubs rejecting you for not having exact-or-better gearscore than them. Oh and brats who tell you off for not wanting to grab that one elixir recipe from a dungeon that only drops like 0.0004% of the time.
As a game prop artist, I don't think it screwing them over. I see more as a challenge to create better gear that people will choose over the older stuff. To be honest some of the higher tier gear was not as great looking as it could have been.Cid SilverWing said:
Friend, I need to tell you about how I learned to hate Twilight. For years I just ignored it. I thought it was just a harmless fandom and nothing more. Then the fateful night came. The midnight release of the second movie. More importantly, it was raid progression night in Ulduar. We had finally beaten Mimiron and were moving on to General Vezax...with half the group off seeing Twilight. Only had something like 17 people. I still didn't hate Twilight then. Who am I to begrudge someone their rare fan premiere?Ellen of Kitten said:As long as there's a kosher reason for Wow players, then I'm cool with it.Chosen_Chaos said:
Then we met the trash. The trash leading up to General Vezax was tough under the best of circumstances at the time. Required good cc and a strict kill order. They were all Twilight Cultists, Fanatics, Sorcerers, Rogues, etc. And nearly all of them were holding books. Clearly, its influence had breached dimensions just to mock us. After getting rolled by Twilight in and out of game for about 3 hours straight, I learned a great deal of hatred for the series.
Friend, I need to tell you about how I learned to hate Twilight. For years I just ignored it. I thought it was just a harmless fandom and nothing more. Then the fateful night came. The midnight release of the second movie. More importantly, it was raid progression night in Ulduar. We had finally beaten Mimiron and were moving on to General Vezax...with half the group off seeing Twilight. Only had something like 17 people. I still didn't hate Twilight then. Who am I to begrudge someone their rare fan premiere?Ellen of Kitten said:As long as there's a kosher reason for Wow players, then I'm cool with it.Chosen_Chaos said:
Then we met the trash. The trash leading up to General Vezax was tough under the best of circumstances at the time. Required good cc and a strict kill order. They were all Twilight Cultists, Fanatics, Sorcerers, Rogues, etc. And nearly all of them were holding books. Clearly, its influence had breached dimensions just to mock us. After getting rolled by Twilight in and out of game for about 3 hours straight, I learned a great deal of hatred for the series.
Jeez blizzard you're just now getting reskinned gear? and yes thats what the free to play mmo's call it. No offense i love your games but i am glad i haven't paid you $300 over the past years for....."this just in reskinning now available." glad that the players are enjoying it though. its nice to troll around with max lvl gear looking like your lvl 20.