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WoW new expansion: enough is enough
MyPreciousss
Member Posts: 427
So we have this overhyped company vomiting long ago a pixellated mess that would feel retarded even on nickelodeon, mock of pvp, daily chore BGs to get more shiny pink stuff, badly repetitive kill-x-rabbits quests, reputation grind till year 2023. Ok, that's pathetic but we all know that already. What's really troubling me now is the desperate way they try to get any buck they can, this secure account thing could be free i'm sure, the paid pve to pvp server transfer 4 days before Warhammer launch (after they repeated so many years that wouldn't feel right to do so, talk about integrity and trust), anyway i won't list everything you have to pay for their services, that would be flooding 
I think if you paid their game and first expansion and so many subscription months they should grant you at least a free transfer, a free name changing, etc, by account, even reduce a bit your subscription fee if you were a faithful client for a long time. Blizzard is rolling for greed everytime.
Need i mention the idle bot players in Alterac for months without Blizzard doing anything, invisible game masters or that were never hired, never stopped gold spamming for months on /2., rude and offensive general chats, persistent off-topic channel use, lack of knowledge of the game by GMs? I had this bad experience of a guy hacking our guild chat and speaking through our nicks and throwing insults, so i complained to a GM and received an automated answer 3 hours later telling me general bullshit and not recognizing/knowing that this hack exists. I asked like 4 things in my WoW playtime, everytime i received some hours later automated answers full of bullshit or refering me to the forums. So you get those kids chatting for ages in SMS style about rape and porno stuff in Stormwind and no GM ever is here telling them to stop. Where the heck are all the bucks going, can't you hire real decent game masters? Special award for RP rules that were never enforced on dedicated servers (who could ever RP in this poor WoW universe anyway), with lots of retards spoiling in any way the basics of RP you would try to create.
What's troubling me too is their sudden decision of pve-pvp transfer like 4 days before Warhammer launch. That's pathetic. Aren't they supposed to feel confident about their so-called superior quality ? Then announcing their expansion far ahead of schedule, a thing they never did before, to stop people switching to competion, Warhammer isn't the only contender, btw, you have Lotro expansion, Aion, etc coming out too. Are they finally feeling the heat or just harassed by shareholders who need more bucks to buy villas on sunny beaches and don't accept the loss of 1 million players? The sad thing is not they have to lower their high butts to some low marketing decisions, which could be ultimately ok in a sense of competition, the sad thing is they aren't innovative in the least and are using their popularity and bulk mass of players to keep the media attention and strangling the innovative competition. Such behaviour is bad for MMORPGs.
So let's check their expansion trailer, basicaly an old frozen dude is awakening, and wielding his 10 meter sword (it's the way Blizzard think things are cool, if they are gigantic and overshiny...) and retarded cohorts of dead shouting at him. So exciting... perfect trailer to get an adequate box mark and keep selling to the masses. No Blizzard you won't have me returned to your old crap once again just to grind through 10 levels full of ugly landscapes and retarded fanboys (they must have inspire the army of dead you can see in the trailer, dead brain, happy to submit to the overdog, feeling strong in masses and following each other indiscrimately), i could enjoy WoW before your first expansion that already ruined the core game, but your greed, your lack of content (why even bother to treat well your customers, give them more things and new (free? j/k) content, if they're stuck with subscription and won't leave out of inertia and expecting miracles, nice way of thinking), your lies and pathetic justifications ("we never said we wouldn't do that, we said we would do what's best for our customers and adapt to new needs" zomg ), your stealing off ideas from other companies like Deeds and dynamic BG (since Wow "polishing" is synonym of stealing i guess).
And to YOU Wow fanboy who'll complain at this post, not try other innovative games and keep herding to any Bliz product (they make products not games, they have customers, not players, players don't know about that themselves ) till the end of time, because "a lot of people do the same, because i can be as retarded as i want and no one will ever tell me to shut up, because i've been there for 4 years so i must be there another decade and need only 786 raids more to get my overshiny 3000 resilience pink string and jump around with it in Stormwind, beause my step-grand-aunt is still there", i have only one quote :
Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
Comments
Did you realize your sentences are broken?
Thanks for noticing and telling, i just edited that. Even though Bliz broke my love, my hope and my faith, i couldn't blame them for broken sentences
Your opening sentence and what seems to be a rather large wall of text put me off bothering to read any more than a line.
From what I can tell; you sir need to stop caring about something you hate.
"If all you can say is... "It's awful, it's not innovative, it's ugly, it's blah.." Then you're an unimaginative and unpolished excuse for human life" -eburn
Take the Hecatomb TCG What Is Your Doom? quiz.
Yah i didnt bother reading any more then a line myself.... just sounded like a bitch fest.
Its easy to pee in the toilet, but most of us dont.
I lol'd irl. good post, all very true....
To many damn bridges to walk over....trolls, trolls everywhere, in the dark, messed up hair. Lotro fanbois are abound, spitting venom, stomping the ground.
Oh troll, please go away, and darken my path no more...
Your hate is akin to a child of four.
thats an impressive wall of text.. now you got that off your chest what is your next project?
stuff?
QQ more please...
I think someone needs therapy.
http://www.mytherapybuddy.com
Dude I actually like WoW but I have to say that was a freaking Epic post.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
I guess standing in line at midnight Nov 13th (at a shop in another city of course with a false beard and dark glasses).
Oh dear god. Anyone would think Blizzard have murdered your entire family.
You don't like the game. We get it. Go outside. Please.
i will be at my local walmart buying the expansion at midnight, and i will be dressed like a female tauren in full shaman tier 13 and made out of real cow skin and horns attached.
Lmao. I gotta see this. How are you getting a hold of the materials though?
We don't own any netherweave, mageweave, uh.. felcloth, primal mooncloth, golden spellthread, manaweave lol.
You're adorable.. ilu
Lmao. I gotta see this. How are you getting a hold of the materials though?
We don't own any netherweave, mageweave, uh.. felcloth, primal mooncloth, golden spellthread, manaweave lol.
You're adorable.. ilu
well all i gotta do is go farm some lvl 60+ humans and get the stuff, and find some random cow to skin. then spend 30 seconds moving my hands in an odd way in front of me to craft my new pretty outfit, then put it one and be all powerful.
and i love you too babe =D
OK, call it morbid curiosity, but i actually read all of that and i will never get that time back again, ARGH!
1: Blizzard is an overhyped company?? They have several best selling titles on their books as well as the highest subscriber base for a western MMO ever, i think it would take a blazing neon sign on the moon to overhype this company!
2: Why should they make their security dongle free? You pay your sub to play the game every month and to pay for the support/patches/content on top of that. WoW has one of the lowest subs in the MMO marketplace (another fact that gets overlooked all too often) and i don't see the other MMO makers giving away any free gifts, do you?
3: Name changes and transfers etc are charged for for two main reasons, the first being that it costs man hours to do these things and secondly, if they were free the whole support machine at Blizzard would grind to a halt under the weight. Again, Blizzard aren't the only company to charge for this kind of service so why should they be singled out?
4: Personally i have never had a major issue with in game support, i have always found the GM's to be fair and fairly up on their game knowledge, but yes it can be a little slow to get a response at busy times, but would put them massively up on GM's from AO but lacking compared to say EVE. As for the incidental stuff you mentioned like spamming channels, bots, off topic chats etc, these are far from exclusive to WoW so it is neither here nor there really.
5: As for PvE to PvP transfers, i hardly think that someone just woke up the other morning and decided "Ooh, let's do that", it would have been planned for a while and i don't see how it really affects anything or anyone to be honest (there are two posts on this already, have a read).
6: As for your analysis of Blizzards marketing strategy, well it is just drivel really isn't it? If anything Blizzard are behind on their first plans to release Wrath which was originally expected earlier this year and as for announcing now when other titles are about to launch, well that is just good business sense isn't it?
I really could go on but i am losing the will to live as i try and go through your post again.
At the end of the day if you don't like the game (and please remember it is just a game) and don't want to play it anymore then don't, it is your choice! But please for the love of pete, let go of all that pent up and misdirected anger as it's gonna do you some harm.
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Lmao. I gotta see this. How are you getting a hold of the materials though?
We don't own any netherweave, mageweave, uh.. felcloth, primal mooncloth, golden spellthread, manaweave lol.
You're adorable.. ilu
well all i gotta do is go farm some lvl 60+ humans and get the stuff, and find some random cow to skin. then spend 30 seconds moving my hands in an odd way in front of me to craft my new pretty outfit, then put it one and be all powerful.
and i love you too babe =D
lol I cannot have you out there killing poor humans for the crafting materials..
This would definitely make the small town news though.. you killing humans and/or wearing the female tauren shaman gear. ;o
You don't know how to sew, even. pfft
lol that would be kinda amusing. but nah best not go farming the poor old people in this town.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
"WoTLK is more of the same from Blizzard, more rehashed ideas played out in an unpriginal new land. More grinds, more gear, same gaol, same method... why should I spend another 18 months doing the same tired mechanics?"
Wall of text, pwned.
Always change your signature.
....Because you want to stand in line at midnight Nov 13th (at a shop in another city of course with a false beard and dark glasses).
Oh BTW: Every WAR copy sold is free publicity for WotLK (but I guess you knew that by now
).
Op really needs a hug .... from a murloc
I read some interviews recently, we have these devs from Eve, Lotro, Warhammer saying they are happy to bring innovative features into MMOs and saying they are improving their playerbase. Then we have WoW interviews saying... they have 10.9 M players. To each his own pride I guess...
I can imagine Britney Spears in a interview :
Journalist : hi, Britney, what do you think of this new X/Y indie/alternative rock group, interesting, dark melodies, bring really something new to music, besides they have some success, sold like 100 000 records and...
"Britney: "ZOMG ROFL STFU NOOB PWNED THEM I SOLD 10 MILLIONZ"
Oki, fanboyz no need answering your BS about my wall of text i know it's huge, whole 5 paragraphs, that you rush through levels to get the pink überstuff and don't even care to read your quest texts. May-be you need an incentive, blue stuff or honour points to read things? Cuz when i see some of you played like 2600 hours already i'm worried really
Or you'd like a Deed title for reading? But you can't because Bliz didn't introduce that, so titles must be a bad idea! Ah not wait, you'll get titles in your expansion, Bliz just stole (err sorry "polished") that from other games 
As for hiding myself behind a beard and make-up to waste money on that expansion, that's about the closest to RPG i could get in a franchise that stole everything, created RPG dedicated server to avoid enforcing anything, eh! they couldn't stop people from abusing permanently their chat system for ages so RPG rule enforcing must really be a joke to them, and is waiting for the competition to invent and test things before stealing (err sorry "polishing") and twisting them in their own games.
I read the OP and agree with it to a certain degree. I tried the WoW trial and was immediately greeted with abusive chat logs, the same style gameplay as in the majority of MMORPG's these days and ZERO immersion (immersion appeals to each person individually as everyone has their own tastes though).
@Whisperwynd : Lotro fanbois are abound, spitting venom, stomping the ground.?? don't you realise or even know that a large number of WoW Fanbois were doing the same thing for the SWG forums years ago? possibly still do today as i gave up on it when the NGE hit.. They also spout it in the forums for EVERY other MMORPG coming out.. "This game is Sh*t compared to WoW" etc etc etc over and over i see the same things. so before you acuse the LotRo community as being trolls check the history of the community that belongs to the game YOU play.. and before you class me as a LotRo fanboi i'll inform you that i quit after a year of playing.. I'm a fanboi of no MMORPG and never will be. i and many others play for fun and gameplay, something which many MMORPG developers don't take into consideration. I'd also ask you this question.. HAVE YOU ACTUALLY READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE STATEMENT UNDER YOUR AVATAR?
From what i hear this "new" expansion is just a rehash of certain game features and nothign truelly new added to the game which puts in the catagory for a FREE CONTENT UPDATE not a payed expansion in my eyes.