It's only a week out? I thought it release on like the 20-something of this month. w
14th
We'll that gives me another week to shore up iLevel on my alts by doing the Darkshore WQs. My Hunter and Shaman could use some 210 gear, though I'll likely replace it very quickly leveling to 120.
I still have issues with the direction the game has gone in terms of the ridiculous gear power gap, how easy it is to get good gear...
Isn't that a bit contradictory? If it was much harder to get good gear, wouldn't the power gap be even worse between the haves and the havenots ?
Not a contradiction. What I mean by ridiculous power gap is that the gap between the weakest gear in an expansion and the most powerful gear is too large. So what happens is as you get to that third major patch, you're getting gear thrown at you that allows you to absolutely destroy everything at the beginning of the expansion. And I don't find that interesting. I think it's a bit shit.
Ok then you just don't like vertical progression MMOs. Simple. No need to elaborate.
I would not pay attention to this site when it comes to WoW though. This site is basically the cynical mmo fan forums. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am one of you, but I have just reached the "acceptance" stage.
I don't play Wow anymore but this expansion has zero interest from me. And the story sounds lame as hell to me. Wish mmo's would go back to expansions just putting out new content and skip the story crap. So sick and tired of today's mmo story telling and the player being the savior crap.
I been getting the collectors edition since the game has launched. This is the first time I have cancelled my pre-order. I kept playing less and less after WOTLK. I would say my interest level is a 3 out of 10.
I been waiting for it seems like an eternity for a company to break down the walls for the mmorpg genre. I was super into WoW and then GW2 was probably the next one I got really into. Now I am just feeling blah at any of them I play anymore.
Very very low. I have been in beta which actually lowered my excitement even more. I may play it later maybe but I certainly will not be there at the beginning.
Very very low. I have been in beta which actually lowered my excitement even more. I may play it later maybe but I certainly will not be there at the beginning.
Honestly, I've always been super pumped about every WoW expansion and I have 5 or 6 friends who are already playing and super pumped for this expansion but I can't get excited for it, usually I would be playing the pre launch content but I just can't bring myself to do it. I think it's because of how overwhelmed I felt by all the different progression in Legion that I just kinda fell off. I'm sure on the 14th I'll end up buying it though who knows.
First expansion I will not buy. Had been playing since Beta.
This is my situation. First expansion I didn't pre-order and probably won't be buying. There's nothing I saw that really interested me and I guess I'm just burned out having played the game for more than a decade. I enjoyed certain aspects of Legion including the artifact weapon system and I have to admit I was bummed that it wouldn't be carried over into the new expansion. Not surprising though. Maybe in a couple months I'll get the urge to play again but it's been almost 2 years since I last played and really don't miss it.
hmmm pretty intersting results. Im not a huge fan of the changes WOW has made over time , so if this thread & poll is any indication of BFA sales hopefully WOW will take a hit and be forced to actually listen to the FANS.
Listen to what fans though is the question?
1) The people that buy, play, and love the new expansion? Or said another way - current fans. Giving your current paying customers what they want seems like a reasonable approach for businesses to take. In fact, I left WoW during cataclysm because they changed what I liked about WoW and seemed to be more interested in recruiting new children instead of retaining people like me.
I find it hard to encourage them to do the same and start screwing over their current players who love what they are doing (or have done to get to this point) to attract players that left because they think the game has gone to shit at some point.
2) The people that left because the devs ruined the game by doing X or Y? BC added complexity and character development options, and WotLK did the same. The skills trees and build diversity got significantly better with both, and JC and glyphs just added to the options and build possibilities. Obviously, there are people that think any build diversity or options is stupid. Tons of these people left the game for completely different reasons.
So if the devs listened to me it wouldn't bring back the people that hate having rpg aspects in mmorpgs. If they listened to people that left because of issue x instead of y you are still ignoring fans, and possibly screwing your current fans.
But, I don't think there are very many "this issue only" people. During WotLK WoW was already moving in a direction I didn't like. Dungeons were a joke, gameplay focused on AoE spamming, and everything was just becoming blatantly formulaic and too thought-free for my liking. Cataclysm removing what I liked most about WoW was just the straw that broke the camels back.
But, didn't one WoW expansion attempt to make gameplay harder again? And people hated it?
This is why I think the classic server is the hope of so many. It gives me back and lots of other people back a lot of what we want, even if what I and they want or miss is grossly disparate. I would prefer the classic server be a BC server, but Vanilla gives me enough of what I want back, back.
Current WoW could probably give me little nuggets of what interests me, but never enough to make me happy without completely screwing over all the kids that love it and play it now.
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I would not pay attention to this site when it comes to WoW though. This site is basically the cynical mmo fan forums. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am one of you, but I have just reached the "acceptance" stage.
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
I been waiting for it seems like an eternity for a company to break down the walls for the mmorpg genre. I was super into WoW and then GW2 was probably the next one I got really into. Now I am just feeling blah at any of them I play anymore.
Aloha Mr Hand !
...which I skipped entirely and do not regret.
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1) The people that buy, play, and love the new expansion? Or said another way - current fans.
Giving your current paying customers what they want seems like a reasonable approach for businesses to take. In fact, I left WoW during cataclysm because they changed what I liked about WoW and seemed to be more interested in recruiting new children instead of retaining people like me.
I find it hard to encourage them to do the same and start screwing over their current players who love what they are doing (or have done to get to this point) to attract players that left because they think the game has gone to shit at some point.
2) The people that left because the devs ruined the game by doing X or Y?
BC added complexity and character development options, and WotLK did the same. The skills trees and build diversity got significantly better with both, and JC and glyphs just added to the options and build possibilities. Obviously, there are people that think any build diversity or options is stupid. Tons of these people left the game for completely different reasons.
So if the devs listened to me it wouldn't bring back the people that hate having rpg aspects in mmorpgs. If they listened to people that left because of issue x instead of y you are still ignoring fans, and possibly screwing your current fans.
But, I don't think there are very many "this issue only" people. During WotLK WoW was already moving in a direction I didn't like. Dungeons were a joke, gameplay focused on AoE spamming, and everything was just becoming blatantly formulaic and too thought-free for my liking. Cataclysm removing what I liked most about WoW was just the straw that broke the camels back.
But, didn't one WoW expansion attempt to make gameplay harder again? And people hated it?
This is why I think the classic server is the hope of so many. It gives me back and lots of other people back a lot of what we want, even if what I and they want or miss is grossly disparate. I would prefer the classic server be a BC server, but Vanilla gives me enough of what I want back, back.
Current WoW could probably give me little nuggets of what interests me, but never enough to make me happy without completely screwing over all the kids that love it and play it now.