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Does the Death Knight spell doom for WoW?
BigBlackWook
Member Posts: 133
First off this isn't another 'WoW is Doomed' thread despite the title. I play WoW, I like WoW, it is certainley better than most games on the market. However, I plan to be long gone before the alpha class arrives. The fact is I do not like WoW enough to commit to the insane amount of hours I used to put up in games like EQ and SWG. I already fell stunted in PVP, despite being a level 70 MS spec'd war. It's going to take weeks of lost battles in the arena to earn enough faction to gear myself out. The timesink is just to great in comparison to the achievments.
The horizon looks promising, AoC, STO, Gears of War on PC this christmas. Odds are I'll have found something to pique my interest, because running from one 14 year old death knight strait into another seems like the height of tedium to me. If there is anything more boring than grinding out this 'hero class' I'm quite sure it's getting ganked by it, over and over and over.
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Well its one of the reasons i quit WoW and went to FFXI lol
And ofc the raised lvl cap 80
That means once again everything in outlands and what we'v worked for useless... lol
yes, I mean seriously..what is Blizzard thinking?
I mean, doesn't Blizzard know that we NEVER want new gear ever again? and an increase in level cap? What the heck? I already leveled to level 70, I NEVER want to level up ever again. In fact, any kind of improvement of your character should be removed right now.
Doesn't Blizzard know that we want to do quests and dungeons that don't reward us? geez. Why doesn't Blizard just add a ton of PVP content and completely screw over the PVE fanbase.
yes, I mean seriously..what is Blizzard thinking?
I mean, doesn't Blizzard know that we NEVER want new gear ever again? and an increase in level cap? What the heck? I already leveled to level 70, I NEVER want to level up ever again. In fact, any kind of improvement of your character should be removed right now.
Doesn't Blizzard know that we want to do quests and dungeons that don't reward us? geez. Why doesn't Blizard just add a ton of PVP content and completely screw over the PVE fanbase.
This people is what is known as Sarcasm. It is difficult to spot sometimes, but when a fanboy posts completely against his normal viewpoint then he has either been hacked or he is using the long lost art of Sarcasm.
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yes, I mean seriously..what is Blizzard thinking?
I mean, doesn't Blizzard know that we NEVER want new gear ever again? and an increase in level cap? What the heck? I already leveled to level 70, I NEVER want to level up ever again. In fact, any kind of improvement of your character should be removed right now.
Doesn't Blizzard know that we want to do quests and dungeons that don't reward us? geez. Why doesn't Blizard just add a ton of PVP content and completely screw over the PVE fanbase.
This people is what is known as Sarcasm. It is difficult to spot sometimes, but when a fanboy posts completely against his normal viewpoint then he has either been hacked or he is using the long lost art of Sarcasm.
How are you gentlemen.
All your accounts are belong to us.
DEFINITELY keeping me from resubbing. I didn't even want to go back for BC, because like said in a prior post. Everything you worked for turns obsolete. Its quite obvious that they won't be stopping this marketing strategy any time soon. So I'd better just play something else, screw WoW and its stupid fanbois.
Oh and to answer the question "Does the Death Knight spell doom for WoW?". I respond with I sure hope so.
All for SC:2 though! Wewt
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yes, I mean seriously..what is Blizzard thinking?
I mean, doesn't Blizzard know that we NEVER want new gear ever again? and an increase in level cap? What the heck? I already leveled to level 70, I NEVER want to level up ever again. In fact, any kind of improvement of your character should be removed right now.
Doesn't Blizzard know that we want to do quests and dungeons that don't reward us? geez. Why doesn't Blizard just add a ton of PVP content and completely screw over the PVE fanbase.
This people is what is known as Sarcasm. It is difficult to spot sometimes, but when a fanboy posts completely against his normal viewpoint then he has either been hacked or he is using the long lost art of Sarcasm.
How are you gentlemen.
All your accounts are belong to us.
How are you GL? We haven't had any spirited debates lately. I guess it is mainly due to my moving over to the OT board.
Maybe when WAR gets released we can have another go around. 
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
Looking Foward too:
Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
Brilliant, oh-so-subtle sarcasm aside, what Blizzard SHOULD have done was though about an alternate advancement system (like EQ did with AA levels, mentoring, etc), so that players could progress without making all of their previous "endgame" accomplishments nigh-worthless 5 minutes into the new expansion.
Don't get me wrong; I love WoW. I'm happy they're finally making hero classes and intrigued to see how DKs will work. But the level cap raise is kinda meh to me. My guild's progressing through the various raids right now, and I feel like going "Why bother?" We'll never make it to BT before the release if the last one (and our current progress) is any indication, and all the hard work I'm going throuhg to farm mats for high-end crafting and raid items is..pointless. Or will be soon enough. It causes a feeling of ennui.
WOW will never die.... I can see it now, I'll be 85 years old and talking to my great grand children..and I'll be able to tell them how I was there at launch, and we "only" had 60 levels in the game. They of course will laugh and not believe me and return to their level 240 characters and start another match of capture the flag.
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Naw Death Knights won't spell doom for WoW, if you read up on them you know they aren't going to be a real "alpha" class its just a new regular class to play with a requirement to unlock it, and they'll start out between lvl 55-70 they haven't decided the actual starting lvl yet. So you won't have to completely re-lvl the alt. I'm looking forward to it, WoW really neeeds some new classes to play, its been out for how many years and only has 9 classes. Been pretty bored with playing the same classes since dec 04. I'm not a fanboi i quit for a couple months and have been looking for something new to play for the last year or so,just nothing else really out there.
Yeah sure your not a fanboi.. Quote "Been pretty bored with playing the same classes since dec 04. I'm not a fanboi i quit for a couple months." End Quote.
Why hasn't this game died yet? I think mainly it is because so many people can afford to actually play this one. You don't need a super computer and my friend was playing it on his nokia 4500 last week.
(jk) But yeah it darn well doesn't require every mom and pop to buy their sons or daughters expensive computers. Thats probably the biggest reason it's still going strong.
Yes. It's the end. Everyone is going to quit.
Yes. I hear deathknights get lazers that Pew Pew Everyone. OH NOEZ!
Just kidding. I think however, that blizzards lack of adding lower end content and classes to START with will screw them over...Deathknight is just the begining of the end for WoWs growing status. Their not getting my sub again tho,
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Personally I am sick of leveling, but I'll do it again, ten levels isn't all that bad, but 80 will be. Leveling alts will be no fun at all and ultimately thats why I believe WoW will fail. A ton of people in WoW play alts, its almost half the game. But leveling to 80 repeatadly will not be fun, I won't do it, others won't either, I'm sure.
Ah well.
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Played: Runescape, WoW, FFXI, Fury
Tried: LotRO, EVE, CoV, PotCO
What people forget to take into account is that every company promises their MMO to be a dynamic, ever changing world. However, most people measure the good feeling of success through obtaining new objects and owning more crap than others. Like it or not, that is the way most of our society thinks, and thus they place these thoughts into their games. With this taken into account, the best way to keep a world "persistent" is to always make new things that they are longing to obtain, so they never lose the feeling of success through gaining better objects. What we come to discover, is that when we mimic our lives of ever trying to buy more, buy better, we see how shallow and boring it gets, and we want an escape. Thus if it is your desires to find further development processes that do not concern themselves with our lust for items, you will have to think of them yourselves and contribute them to MMO developing companies.
However, weather or not you like the new expansion WoW is coming out with, you will notice the fact that the idea of an unlock-able class is something different from the normal medium of further success measured through item obtainment. They are trying to create ways for success beyond just more and better gear, adding in other goals to achieve along your path of exploring and battling different 'evils." They give you the goal of a new life, a life unique to your character's life as a particular class prior. This is the angle their thoughts are coming from.
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Honestly, I think if WoW were a little harder, Blizzard wouldn't have to expand the game so quickly.
As it stands, they need to add things to it so quickly to meet the demand for new challenges.
It's possible that the Death Knight is a bad idea... hard to tell.
For me, TBC killed WoW for me in more ways than I can count . The Lich King Xpac looks as exciting as my sock drawer. IMO the raising the level cap to 80 is the bad thing, not the hero classes. Raising the level cap will pretty much make a new player base impossible. And I don't buy 9mill plus active and playing paid accounts for a single minute, no way do I buy that.
let's see.... few weeks ago it was all "blizzard suxx and lie to the public1 see they promised Hero Classes and where are they nowehere!!!"
now we actually GET hero classes and it is "OMG! Hero classes! Blizzard lost their mind ayeeeee!"?
geez.
I can see the concern that the death knight would be uberpowerful, of course, but they assured us it would not and having alpha classes has been proven wrong too many times for them to not have noticed that alpha class = bad!
Beside people, wake up! EQ had AA yes, but they also rised the level cap!! they added expansions, they added raids, new armor, new weapons that tended to make the old stuff obsolete!
Heck! DAoC did worse! it made CLASSES obsolete! the classes of the expansion tended to be couple spans over anything that came before in terms of fun to play, abilities numbers and viability.
FF XI had 3 expansions too, added a bunch of classes and stuff i bet? (dunno if they rised the level cap or not), EVE tech 2 basically made every tech 1 ship relegated to noob status and so on.
EVERY game under the sun did these things but for some reason I hear whining only when WoW does it.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
The death knight should bring a thrill to WoW kiddies.
They copied the Death knight from Warcraft 2 (1996), oh wait they copied themselves
I'm also anticipating many of the upcoming MMO releases, however without any personal experience I have no idea about the quality of those games. I'll stick to WoW as long as it is the most balanced and polished MMO release out there.
Why did this thread get moved? We can't talk about WoW in general discussion? The moderators here are the real trolls.
IT is a game specific topic. So it should be in a specific game forum.
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
Looking Foward too:
Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
Hah you know that purple gear you just got? Well after the expansion green items in the new lands will be better....again....
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
IT is a game specific topic. So it should be in a specific game forum.
We can't talk about game specific stuff in the massively multiplayer online role playing game dot com general discussion board? What are we supposed to talk about? Baking recipes?