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1 week in and I am already bored.
zereelist
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Yep, forcing myself to try and enjoy the game already after 1 week of play. I came back since there is no MMO's that I like right now, and I had missed the pvp. Well after 2 days of bg's I am already bored, it just seems so meaningless and pointless. Actually the whole game feels meaningless and pointless. However the hell 10 million people tolerate the constant rinsing and repeating in this game is beyond me. I think I just need a new game to come out that's got a good world pvp system without RvR.
I suggest to anyone that is considering returning to the game to not waste your money, you won't be missing anythng exciting.
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So your problem is not just WOW but that you don't like any other MMO either. I think you are just burned out and need a long break from MMO genre.
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no?
Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
The problem is that you're forcing yourself to play. This tells me you're burn out with either the game or the genre. This is reasonable. But because you are bored, it doesn't mean the rest of the players are bored too ;-)
Sorry, but if you are tired of a game a new expansion will not change anything.
You should probably take a break, do something else than sit in front of your computers for a few months and then you should be in shape for one of the new games releasing next year.
MMO expansions are more or less always more of the same and while they do add some new things it isn't enough for someone feeling burnt out. And since you seems burnt out on the entire genre it is clear that you need a break.
I'm in the same boat. I leveled a new character with a few friends for the expansion.. but it's just a boring. Kill 10 X, Raid X, and the pvp is a joke... BGs are lame its just another grind for honor.
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I'll split the gold with you.
Well, that's what WoW is good about: rinse and repeat the same old content. Log in, do some dailies. Raid for months to complete your ideal gear set just to scrap them when the next raiding tiers introduce new gears. The same for instancing PVP. Going into WoW to look for some immersive or refreshing MMO experiences is the worst idea ever.
Soooo no one else should play WOW because you are bored of it? Umm, ok....
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Sounds like me. I kinda want to play the expantion but I know i'l get bored of it again real fast, and I dont want to play other MMOs. I figured that I just dont like MMOs that much any more. I'm playing starcraft 2 and HON now. I guess untill Terra and GW2 I wont be playing MMOs, and when those come , I'll see how I like them.
I have been enjoying it since the expansion came out, nothing has really bogged down my fun I have been having. And I was burnt out on wow and not enjoying it. Maybe your just tired of every mmo because you are done with the genre.
All a matter of ones opinion..
I know a couple people who are loving the expansion..
Returning to a game you've already played(expansion or no) isnt doing you any favors.As people already said it sounds like OP is bored of the genre and that isnt WoW's fault.
I keep wishing a new game will come out that has PvP similar to Lineage 2 but have not been able to find it, and I am having doubts that games will ever be like that again. I did quit playing MMO's for 9 months and came back to WoW out of sheer boredom and I did not expect much. Perhaps I am just burnt out on the genre cause it seems to be getting worse and worse.
you just have to keep on pushing to the level cap, just keep trying, it gives you something to do that way
? I've been at cap for a few days now. The leveling part was decent the end game imo is boring.
Well we all knew the end game wasn't going to change.
Take a break from the mmo area. You hit a familiar wall that many players have and of which are looking for more than just grinding the same basic static content, even if that content is wrapped in different scenerary of much of the same.
Some decent enough looking mmo's that might offer enough of a transition from much of the same with more varying dynamic content, and a bit greater breadth and perhaps depth of more coded Massively-Multiplayer game-play, just might be Rift or Tera, and further-out GW2.
So since those games are 3-6+ months out from a possible open beta, then launch, it just might provide enough time to shake that mundane perception off that you have of a current mmo, and start with a fresher attitude.
The one glaring problem it seems is that you came back for the one aspect of the game that hasn't really changed a hell of a lot at all, PvP. The massive changes in this game have been in the questing, lower end and upper end dungeons, but if you are not into that then this will have made no difference to your experience.
Sorry you don't like it, but to say that others would be wasting their money by getting the expansion is really not for you to say, only the players themselves can know that.
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Actually, it's burn out from themepark MMOs. Sandbox MMOs, while they can still have burn out, happen for different reasons, and does not suffering from the same specific issues as themepark MMOs.
Cataclysm, like pretty much every other WoW expansion, is a reset in progression. Sure, you're still level whatever with the gear you had just before the expansion, but all of that is meaningless because you have to level up to the new level cap and 'start from the bottom' of the progression ladder all over again for that expansion. Burn out occurs when the realization of the pattern sinks in. When you realize that all of that repetitive grinding of dungeons to "progress" through raids and earn all of that shiny epic "uber" gear will be invalidated next expansion, is pretty devistating with regards to motivation to go through all of it again, and again, and again...
Basically it starts to boil down to feeling like any accomplishments or achievements in the game are meaningless -- moreso than being meaningless virtual acccomplishments that is. Why bust your butt through content that's just going to become irrelevant, bypassable, and outright replaced by easier tasks with better rewards later?
Sandbox MMOs don't suffer from this, because they aren't focused on the treadmill like progression so many themepark games are stuck in. That's not to say sandbox MMOs don't have their issues, but at least accomplishments in sandbox MMOs tend to have a lasting impact.
Now, i don't play WoW...but people that whine about having their "work" resetted seem well...out of place?
MMORPGs are games, games are based on challenges, any kind of raid progression is only has fun has it's challenge, what is meaningless is the gear grind, or whatever...
Good luck with that one. There's not going to be a decrease in Theme Parks until people stop paying for them.
Now get back in line and back to the grind you slacker!
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I kind of agree with the others.
I mean, it seems like you were unhappy with the game enough to leave it and for some reason expecting a different game after the expansion?
It's an expansion not a complete revamp of the core aspects of the game. It seems like it's more of a refining of what they have been working on.
and if you are asking how 10million (or however many) can tolerate the game then shouldn't you be asking that question to yourself? It seems that you put the time into the game (and even missed the pvp) so there must have been something that kept you playing?
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I don't believe it is out of place. It's the way Blizzard does it.
Basically the issue is that the bulk of effort put in at endgame of one expansion becomes irrelevant in the next expansion because it can be wholey bypassed. Further complicating it, is the fact that quest upgrades that are green quickly replace top tier raid epics from the last expansion. Essentially it creates a scenario where any and all effort put into end-game, which is the bulk for most people, gets knocked over and players have to start from the beggining. It's almost as if every expansion you had to delete you character and start all over from level one again... at least ti can seem that way for some people.
Why spend countless hours playing through the same raid content to get epic gear when the gear is going to be replaced by green quest rewards in the first dozen quests done in the next expansion? A huge part of the problem is that the only thing to aim for end-game is raid epics, and the point of this is to be able to do well in later content... but if you just get pushed down to the bottom of the rung next expansion, then it's a self-defeating goal. It's this realization that leads to themepark burn out.
I replaced 1 piece of my ICC stuff and tier 10 before 85. Its false that greens replaced anything purple the same with not heroic blues.
I'm still luvin' it, but then, I haven't played since '06, so almost everything seems new to me.
I am getting a bit tired of the quest gear spiral, though. Seems like you replace all your gear almost every level, with something 3% better. I suppose most would consider that a good thing; makes for few "hang" levels, where you're gimped til' next level, then OP'd. But the constant gear circulation makes it all seem kinda hamster wheel..
See that's the problem...that is not supposed to be the point, the challenge is see all the content and beat it, not farm gear.
That's a players mentalithy problem, not the game...and we all know WoW has loads of problems.
I think you are right.
I've said it before and I'll say it again "the players create their own hells".
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You want meaningfull pvp? go play Darkfall, you fight to defend your stuff, literally.