Personal computing discussed
Starfalcon wrote:DeadOfKnight wrote:I quit playing after killing Deathwing and have had no desire to pick the game back up as there has been no new content since. I just got burned out on playing the same stuff over and over and watching the game get dumbed down more and more. I think I've had a good run after playing this game for 6 years, and I'm not impressed with whats being offered in the next expansion. Honestly, I'm glad to be over this addiction. I've been spending a lot more money on games now, but each time I beat one I look forward to the next new experience. It's also nice to be able to pause the game to get a drink without worrying about my team wiping. Now if only I hadn't signed up for that annual pass...
Well, honestly I think the game is going to change a lot for the better. Just getting rid of the cookie cutter talent builds will be nice, basically each expansion I have the same build the entire expansion, never had to change it once..and actually my combat build has been more or less the same since BC. Honestly I dont really see the game getting dumbed down in spite of what people will say,...there will be a lot more variety in talent choices, many more things to do in down time, pet battles, more dailies with no cap, your own farm to take care of, all the new cooking specialties, massive changes to PVP, and all the new areas to explore so we aren't sitting in org all the time.
Ive been playing since vanilla, and I have to say I am looking forward to this expansion more than I have any expansion. People have been saying wow is dumbed down and is going to fail since before bC came out and every expansion since then. Friends said that when BC came out how wow was going to fail as they were making it so easy to raid with only 25 unlike the 40 man naxx where the real raiders were. They said the same thing about wrath how everything was super easy an everyone would quit and wow was finished, ended up being the most popular expansion ever. Same with cata, they made a lot of misteps at the beginning, but I think the changes they made helped it finish up with a wrath feel. I figure mop will be another big success, I know plenty of my friends looking forward to new places to go an new gear to get.
Starfalcon wrote:Marked on my calendar...got to get mine preordered. One new thing is they are offering a digital collectors edition to buy....for those people who are afraid of the sun or going outside.
lilbuddhaman wrote:There is truth to this. I won't be buying or farming gold so black market will be inaccessible to me anyway.
-Loyal/Veteran players are treated worse than players who have jumped ship. ie: There are little to no rewards for those who faithfully stayed subscribed for years, whereas those who quit and rejoin are given a multitude of free mounts, free leveling, etc etc. Not to mention the new "black market", allowing players to buy mounts that other players "earned" through either incredibly hard content or weeks/months of farming.
lilbuddhaman wrote:To me, WoW is no longer the game it once was, but instead of Carnival. It's a hub of mini-games with a "world" connecting them. Players can drive tanks, do bombing runs, do scavenger hunts, have pokemon battles, do coordinated battles (which used to be the entire focus of raiding), pvp, or a multitude of other "stuff" that isn't the "core" of a role-playing game. If it was $5 a month (or free) it might be something to play, as a casual title....but it simply isn't what it used to be.
lilbuddhaman wrote:WoW kinda wrecked me for many other games.
Bensam123 wrote:I really don't think people will have something to compare WoW to till they play GuildWars 2... Hopefully they wont bring their jaded hate and cynicism with them though. Guildwars 2 feels like quite a happy and energetic game compared to WoW... Like the developers haven't beaten all the life out of it and they actually care about what they're making.
Mr Bill wrote:I just started playing WOW. My rogue is up to level 9. Its been fun so far.
pedro wrote:Insightful.
JustAnEngineer wrote:You can click on the exclamation point in the triangle to report SPAM.
tanker27 wrote:Bensam123 wrote:I really don't think people will have something to compare WoW to till they play GuildWars 2... Hopefully they wont bring their jaded hate and cynicism with them though. Guildwars 2 feels like quite a happy and energetic game compared to WoW... Like the developers haven't beaten all the life out of it and they actually care about what they're making.
I am definitely going to play GW2. Its bought and paid for. Now I just need something to by my time for the next 5 weeks.
Bensam123 wrote:It's really funny how people who apparently hate/dislike the game so much still talk so much about it...It's funny how they think MoP is going to bring people back in droves.
tanker27 wrote:you know I was poking around in my Battle.net account and had my finger was hovering over the WoW resubscribe button. Even with the summer Steam sale, its been quite boring this past few months. I have actually considered resubing.lilbuddhaman wrote:WoW kinda wrecked me for many other games.
Isnt that the godawful truth. I 'had' so much time invested in it and shunned many other games just to play, going back to anything or even moving forward to something new just doesnt fulfill the void. Damn Blizzard and their crack.
Bensam123 wrote:You aren't missing anything. Unless you really have a urge to go grind out some more worthless emblems. I have two accounts, one that was never upgraded so every four months or so I get a free 10 day trial and it only takes about 7 of those to realize why I quite playing in the first place.
The game hasn't changed, the content hasn't changed, the staff hasn't changed. The game feels dull and boring. Sadly, the people playing it haven't changed. It feels like a dull and drab place all the social recluses go to rag on others and sit in their own filth. The community used to be pretty vibrant, but that definitely died out in Wrath towards the end when everyone was getting bored, so people started trolling hardcore. That has persisted after as Cata wasn't really a winner of a expansion pack.
I really don't think people will have something to compare WoW to till they play GuildWars 2... Hopefully they wont bring their jaded hate and cynicism with them though. Guildwars 2 feels like quite a happy and energetic game compared to WoW... Like the developers haven't beaten all the life out of it and they actually care about what they're making.
superjawes wrote:It still infuriates me that people think WoW loses people because things are easier/simpler. The mass exodus of Cataclysm was from lack of easy content, and anyone saying the game is too easy has not cleared the heroic content.
dashbarron wrote:superjawes wrote:It still infuriates me that people think WoW loses people because things are easier/simpler. The mass exodus of Cataclysm was from lack of easy content, and anyone saying the game is too easy has not cleared the heroic content.
And I will fight to death over rather or not this is true...which it is.
I think only small % of veterans like doing advanced algebra to figure out the perfect niche' to gain the highest dps, but the rest of the oldies just hate how everything which was a rite of passage is just handed to new people.Things like...training, feeding pets. Is it hard? No. But it was logical, had authenticity, and made it much more personal, all of which equated a general level of accomplishment and fun. With all of that stripped out years ago, the system was dumb-downed, and it's a matter of mashing buttons; the game was always about mashing buttons but it was less mechanical and much, much more personal and fun.
superjawes wrote:It's really funny how people who apparently hate/dislike the game so much still talk so much about it...