The Beast That Will No Die....

bossaroo · Feb 28, 2014

Demetri Dominov said: ↑

Alright, I'll admit, I was a big fan of WoW once. I played every expansion except Cataclysm and even came back to MoP. Here's why I just left the game forever while I still have a solid 4-5 months left of a cancelled subscription and a lvl 90 Warlock, a butt load of heirlooms, a decent guild, a stellar PvP record, and no intention of playing another minute before my account is deactivated.

The game has extended beyond its original scope and turned into a game of haves and have nots that are completely inconsequential to how much effort and time you've put into it. WoW has become an almost poetic parody of blind consumerism where people somehow find content in grabbing the best items that their efforts can afford so that they may find belonging with a group of people - not realizing that those items, those efforts, are for nothing come the next expansion. WoW laughs at your efforts to grind for currency, reputation, and gear. In opening the gates so that players never have to be part of a guild that becomes part of their social life, they have neutered the sense of community that WoW was built upon. Battlegrounds and arenas, ranked or otherwise mean nothing, achievements are laughable, and world PvP is utter garbage. WoW hasn't learned from its mistakes in its 9 years, it's compounded them. Original WoW was a dreadful grind - but had a sense of reward at its end. If you made it, you felt like a King and could engage in meaningful fights - like Battlegrounds that gave you gear, rewards, and titles, based on your performance' linked directly to World PvP that felt meaningful. Then, came BC, where your godly armor was made obsolete within two levels- but hey, we got new cool abilities right? Well why couldn't that have been done and kept everyone at level 60 so that people who worked to get 7 months of gear could keep it? Then came Wrath, the expansion driving WoW's popularity through the roof and remains easily the best expansion of all time even with its numerous flaws of a continuation of a downright brutal grind to get to 80. But their decision to kill the Lich King, killed the entire game. It's like having the Emperor dying in 40k. You don't kill him if you want the story to truly have an ongoing struggle for survival. Instead of fixing their problems with a story line that people find a nuisance to grind through, rather than enjoy as most veteran players did the first time through, you're rushed through. Players don't care about the history that shaped the earth, they're focused on the meaningless stuff at the end. WoW is hardly even an RPG anymore.

It's PvE is nowhere near what it was for first time players in the original. It's so bland, made so repetitive by not changing the core mechanics of grinding in virtually every way possible, WoW's orginal charm has become its curse. If you do not escape the soulcrushing maw of WoW, you will become part of it, not realizing that you are doing exactly the same thing for years at a time and expecting different to become of it.

There's a word for that phenomenon: Insanity.
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When you said if you don't escape the maw of wow you become it I immediately remembered the scene from pirates of the caribein "part of the ship part of the crew"

Demetri_Dominov · Mar 1, 2014

WoW probably served as inspiration to the line.

Savage · Mar 3, 2014

Demetri Dominov said: ↑

World of Warcraft. A game that changed the MMO industry forever.

A beast that lost its soul along with its players by the end of the original version. A game that has died a horrible and lingering death at the end of the Wrath of the Lich King and has staggered on, slowly losing its player base ever since. Let us here, remember the good, the grind, and the soulcrushing madness that is wow as it slowly slips into oblivion.
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I remember hopping on the Hype Train for this. I was so excited when I finally got to play.
But as the first month started to come to a close, I came to realize how boring the game was. I was expecting so much more and spent more time doing PVE than getting into the PVP I just lost interest.

I'm glad I jumped off the Hype Train at the first month. Game was a complete waste.

Galen · Mar 3, 2014

Sharranous said: ↑

I remember hopping on the Hype Train for this. I was so excited when I finally got to play.
But as the first month started to come to a close, I came to realize how boring the game was. I was expecting so much more and spent more time doing PVE than getting into the PVP I just lost interest.

I'm glad I jumped off the Hype Train at the first month. Game was a complete waste.
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you forgot WoW is a pve game not a pvp

Savage · Mar 3, 2014

Galen said: ↑

you forgot WoW is a pve game not a pvp
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just goes to show you how much time I spent in the game...which was the first month of it's original release. Since then I haven't touched it.

Galen · Mar 3, 2014

Sharranous said: ↑

just goes to show you how much time I spent in the game...which was the first month of it's original release. Since then I haven't touched it.
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a true hero...

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