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Anyone else get the feeling that the party is over?

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  • HurvartHurvart Member Posts: 565

    I dont think they should bring back vanilla WoW. But it was better in several important ways. The game is no longer a MMORPG. Linear quests and phasing makes it feel like a single player game. There is no open and free virtual world. You cant go anywhere and you have very few options. There are no other players that you can interact with unless they are doing the same quests and are on the same phase.

    Personally I prefer a true MMORPG with a living virtual world full of other players and with freedom of choice and a lot of options and different possible ways to play.

    And there is to much focus on getting items and on gear levels. Its should be part of any MMO. But its to much in WoW.

    Helping other players or other players helping you will not happen very often. And you cant explore the world and feel you are part of that world and that your adventure depends on your choices and prefered play style. Because its like watching a movie. You are not creating the adventure. It will more or less be the same story , lore and quests for all players and every character you create and level up.

     

    Personally I hoppe someone will release a new game that is a true MMORPG  and with a open and free living virtual world.

    Not like some new games that copy things in WoW that I dont like. Because they believe the must if they want a lot of subscribers.

  • SteamRangerSteamRanger Member UncommonPosts: 920

    The party's been over for some time now. Cataclysm just turned off the lights. A lot of the guests are too drunk or too busy socializing to know that it's time to leave.

    "Soloists and those who prefer small groups should never have to feel like they''re the ones getting the proverbial table scraps, as it were." - Scott Hartsman, Senior Producer, Everquest II
    "People love groups. Its a fallacy that people want to play solo all the time." - Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer, Rift

  • elockeelocke Member UncommonPosts: 4,335

    I liken this to just growing older or moving on.  This is natural really.  I loved my time in WoW, and I'm sure I'll pop in here and there for nostalgia's sake, but overall it isn't my main MMO anymore and that's ok though.  It's time for Rift, SWTOR and GW2 to take that place.  This is a good thing.  

    Think of it like your favorite TV shows, if you have any.  Even the best show in your opinion ends after so many seasons.  Like for me, Star Trek the Next Generation and Friends and Lost and other shows.  They come and go, and every now and then I get a chance to catch a rerun and relive some old memories but that's about it.  Then I go over to my DVR and watch whatever new series has caught my attention and enjoy that the same way.

    It's just life folks.  It would be pretty boring otherwise if things didn't end or change.

  • Joshua69Joshua69 Member UncommonPosts: 953

    I can agree with the OP on this one. I was BAM back into with with Cata. But when I hit max level and got raid ready, I lost it. Same shit, DIFFerent day. To make it even worse, I couldn't even enjoy running heroics because there are too darned difficult - but thats a topic in it self.

    I found DC Online which gave me the umph to pull away from WoW. For now at least...

  • wardog250wardog250 Member Posts: 249

    It feels that way for me.  I liked a lot of the quests in the redone Azeroth zones and leveling up went so smoothly; but, when you finally get to 80 and hit the Cataclysm content, the new zones and dungeons, the game comes to an agonizing grind; where you cannot help but feel everything is out of reach.

    I myself am a casual gamer and on top of this I play other MMOs; I simply don't have the patience to grind dungeon after dungeon for crap gear, just so I can delve into an even worse grind for more crap loot.  The grind getting into decent raiding gear is suppose to keep you busy for months, I find that depressing.

    I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

  • MimiEZMimiEZ Member Posts: 225

    No, but I'm not a grinder. 

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    -I want a Platformer MMO

  • OhaanOhaan Member UncommonPosts: 568

    Originally posted by Hurvart

    I dont think they should bring back vanilla WoW. But it was better in several important ways. The game is no longer a MMORPG. Linear quests and phasing makes it feel like a single player game. There is no open and free virtual world. You cant go anywhere and you have very few options. There are no other players that you can interact with unless they are doing the same quests and are on the same phase.

    Personally I prefer a true MMORPG with a living virtual world full of other players and with freedom of choice and a lot of options and different possible ways to play.

    And there is to much focus on getting items and on gear levels. Its should be part of any MMO. But its to much in WoW.

    Helping other players or other players helping you will not happen very often. And you cant explore the world and feel you are part of that world and that your adventure depends on your choices and prefered play style. Because its like watching a movie. You are not creating the adventure. It will more or less be the same story , lore and quests for all players and every character you create and level up.

    This.

    Blizz has refined the MMO experience into white bread. In the beginning it is decadent and addicting but eventually it leaves you wanting something with more 'flavor.'

    I had a long layoff and then bought Cata, levelled to 85, got a whiff of the grind and then nuked the account. Players only communicated in trade chat, which was mostly bathroom humour and selling items. The game is now a single player RPG + MSN chat and if you are a MMO vet, this isn't going to be all that satisfying.

    I think the reason that people keep going back to WoW is that what Blizz does do, it does very well. Unfortunately good white bread is still white bread.

  • ToxiliumToxilium Member UncommonPosts: 905

    I think most of us are feeling burnt out because we're simply growing up. How old were most of us when WoW came out? Teenagers, or children even, I bet (for most). Now that almost all of us are growing into adults, or have already settled down with a family, WoW just seems like a kids game. I played Cataclysm, though it was incredibly polished and enjoyed the questing. What threw me off was the obsessive gear grind Blizzard started (the dungeon finder gear requirements are proof of this). I simply don't have time nor patience to play these kinds of games. The only MMOs I play currently are DCUO and EVE; one for being a quick in-and-out action RPG, the other a more long-term and less time-invasive thinking game. As the genre gets older and more evolved, WoW is the last gleaming remnant of the Everquest age. Grow up and move on.

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  • skoupidiskoupidi Member UncommonPosts: 244

    I just quit a few days ago.Been in 4 arenas in a row against 4 different teams.They all lasted for 1 hour ending up tie.All the teams were caster+shaman healer or druid healer.My team was rogue+ shaman healer.Not once did the healers get out of mana.Thanks to blizzard for adding pve in a pvp arena :)

  • bdewbdew Member UncommonPosts: 192

    I am pretty sure WOW is bleeding subscriptions at an increased rate right now thanks to the messed up endgame for cata, and that bleeding will get worse as most casuals just start reaching the endgame and big new MMOs steal away subscribers (RIFT,TERA, SWTOR).

    This will probably not have a long term impact if blizzard realize that something is wrong and start fixing the mess. I do hope they bring Kaplan back and give GC a well deserved kick in the balls.

  • ThunderbullThunderbull Member UncommonPosts: 4

    100% agree with Toxilium. I was a stupid young man without remembering gf name, addicted to weeds and alco, - when wow opened usa servers. i was 26. i stopped to play in the end of 2009, because my first son became six months old toddler and was in need of me. you what does it means - firstt son? ;)

    so now im waiting for earthrise with hope of balancing of rl and game in this mmorpg. at least they promised offline career skillup

    and what is alo important - when you staying in orgrimmar and ppl asking who the f is ragnaros  - you want to log. but when some so called pros asked - which is ragnaros rank ( hi wow lore, its leitenant of old gods) or how many tanks needed for him (or for hakkar, its not the point - hi real fights) - you want to log for forever

    42 is the answer

  • chaod1984chaod1984 Member Posts: 271

    I agree with OP and the person that said it's game burn-out.....I just told my guild I was quitting and not resubbing.  The game just isnt fun for me anymore....not that I dont think its a great game, because I do....I just think I've had wayyyyyy too much of that great game.  Im moving onto Rift...played 3 of the beta's and I really really like the game.  Farewell WoW...you were awesome, but I have to move on!

  • SweetZoidSweetZoid Member Posts: 437

    You decided that after 6 years of shit developer blizzard? you should have left years ago mate, iam sorry that blizzard got your money.

  • SuperXero89SuperXero89 Member UncommonPosts: 2,551

    I'm always looking for some game to replace WoW, as I'm quite frankly tired of it as well.  The problem is that I just haven't been able to find a replacement yet.  Games are either substandard or come loaded with features [or lacking features] that serve no purpose other than to frustrate the player and/or make the game harder than it really is.

  • FreedomBladeFreedomBlade Member UncommonPosts: 281


    Originally posted by Turdinator
    It just doesn't feel right this time around.  I was bored 3 weeks in. Didn't  have any desire to start the hamster-wheel grind again.  Then on top of that, the community seems worse now than I ever remember it being.
     
    *This is not intended to invoke the same old, same old "Tehy sold 4.7 miloone copees" or "12 miloone ppl cant b rong!" routines.
    Just posting my thoughts.

    I think that anyone that has been playing MMOs for a while (the last ten years) would be a very odd individual if they could still enjoy a game like WOW. WOW is a carbon copy of Everquest with cartoon style graphics - ok it has good game play in that it is very polished but ... IT IS THE SAME OLD TIRED AND TESTED GAMEPLAY ... you click a mob and auto attack whilst spamming skills, you go kill x of x and go fetch x for y. Why? TO gain exp to go up levels so you can kill more x of x...

    If you did not get tired of this you would be mentally ill.

    Seriously.

    Thank god there are some more innovative MMOs out there and more being developed - WOW is certainly not one of them.

    Edit - I am laughing hard as I have just seen a post above where someone is actually stopping playing WOW to play RIFT. RIFT is yet another EQ clone with fancy graphics. It is like getting sick of pizza so you eat cheese and tomato of toast for a change!!!

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  • MothanosMothanos Member UncommonPosts: 1,910

    ^^ is right tough, MMO # 206 with alot of stolen idea's from other mmo's.

    Its ok to steal stuff, wow does it and as far as i know it all started with UO 5 decades back .

    But they do it the wrong way, i played a total of 22 ours Rift and got bored already... and they want a subscription oO ?

    This game if already sailing off to the titanic .

    Sure it might stand up for awhile, but like warhammer and aion it will be full servers 1st month and empty servers after the free sub is expired.

     

     

    When i want to play an mmo i want it to compete with  perfection in all gameplay elements.

    Grahpics

    PVP

    PVE

    Gameplay

    Story

    Character custumazation

    Smooth Engine

     

    etc, etc ,etc

     

    Rift offers none of the stuff in a good way let alone closing in with perfection...

  • cagancagan Member UncommonPosts: 445

    I quit after playing the first expansion for 3 weeks realizing it was the same crap recolored/renamed, then 2 years later I bought the LIch king expansion, I played 2 months this time, finished all the instances and raids even though I realized it was the same crap recolored/renamed. I am not doing the same thing for Cata, currently playing LOTRO, it is almost the same crap but middle earth theme...

    Waiting for GW2 and earthrise, not even gonna start with TOR, its WOW with light sabers...

  • XthosXthos Member UncommonPosts: 2,740

    Thats the way I got with old EQ a long time ago, they kept obsoleting older gear, then made instanced dungeons that you had to grind for gear with people, and end up doing them a million times to get that piece of loot or points...

     

    They changed EQ from what it was, and I know the feeling of being dragged along by those types of grinds, I don't mind xp grinding and such, but its just not very imaginitve, and feels like you just got done doing the same thing, just to have it nullified and starting over.

     

     

    Goodluck with finding something fun and new.

  • TweFojuTweFoju Member UncommonPosts: 1,236

    as others have said, take a break

    but seriously, i dont think party will ever be over in WoW

     

    with roughly 10 Million active players, oh yeah, you will always have a group

    So What Now?

  • SouzetsuAeriSouzetsuAeri Member UncommonPosts: 120

    I do love WoW because it's been my best MMO experience for 6 years but I do feel like moving on. After that length of time I have to say it's time to move on to greener pastures.

     

    The game I will be moving to is none other than Guild Wars 2. :D My first MMO and I played GW1 day 1 of release for a few years before heading into the awesomeness that is WoW.

  • OhaanOhaan Member UncommonPosts: 568

    Originally posted by TweFoju

    but seriously, i dont think party will ever be over in WoW

    with roughly 10 Million active players, oh yeah, you will always have a group

    I think you are wearing some seriously rose colored glasses there my friend.

    When you actually filter it down to how many online at the same time, lfg, mature, half-decent in competency, in the right class, in your faction, and on the right server, you might not be able to find a group at all.

    In my case having a tank toon,  I could almost always find a group since most people played dps. However I found that many of these dps players were anything but casual. They had top gear and would just try to max out the dps meters by spamming specials and AoEs. Then I would catch sh!t for not holding aggro. It became obvious to me why few people wanted to play a tank.

  • cirdanecirdane Member UncommonPosts: 51

    yep, the hunter changes did it to me. I played a hunter from launch and it's a diffrent class now. The way the changes were done was very insulting and many long time hunter mains left. Any attempts to bring the idea to debate in the froums were ment by rabid fanboi shout downs that all started with a comment on gearscore( not high as I had burned out on raiding) .mind not attempts to keep changes from happening just try to let Blizz know that nursing a 100 point focus bar was as much fun as

    watching paint dry. Blizzard didn't care they seem to think they can do no wrong and don't need to listen to anyone.

     

    done and over for me and my girlfriend (she had 3 level 80 hunters :P)  Blizz is gonna do what they are going to do and if a person dosen't like it they won't miss you. On the other hand I like my EQ2 ranger alot atm. were two grains of sand on a beach for sure but even beaches disapear when the tides change enough.

  • Skeeter870Skeeter870 Member Posts: 75

    I'd been playing since '05, taken everything to max level, each expansion other than druid. (Not touched since vanilla.) I've leveled so many alts, and had so many rotating mains that they're no longer relevant, I get no sense of accomplishment from them, nor much of anything else - I go with whatever "works best" at the moment, which ends usually with a deleted 60/70/80 as I need the space or want the name freed up. =P


    Raiding hasn't been my thing since vanilla, my old guild on Kael'Thas died out and so did my motivation for that kind of play. I've done mostly battlegrounds, or "work" on alts since then. No tradeskills, generally, though I've done them all I abandon them once I max them out, usually. TBC and WOTLK kept me busy for a long time (1yr each before I was "bored") leveling characters, memorizing quests and instances inside and out. (I liked mining too, oddly enough.)


    Cataclysm was okay, but the dungeons are just flat out tedious hallways. (At least in WOTLK ones you could play DPS-race and min/max for optimum efficiency on heroic grinds.)


    Not many long-term players can be bothered with doing 1-60 content again, so there goes the point of that giant old-world revamp, they'll never draw in enough "new blood" to warrant it.


    I leveled my mage to 82 in about a week, doing mostly instances, realized how pathetic fire/arcane DPS is and quit for a week or so after hitting 85.


    Came back, started on my warlock, doing Hyjal - had an okay time there, did Vaj'Rash, finishing up in 5 mans. Filled her in on full 346 (Heroic pieces, mostly) and lost interest.


    Took a DK to 70, twinked him out in raid gear for a WSG-Laughs alt, lost interest.


    Took my old hunter to 83, I liked the class again (focus felt nice) but something just wasn't right.


    One night after a 33 minute queue it hit me, "Why am I doing this? This isn't fun, this isn't amusing. I know one person on this server, and they can barely stand me, why am I here?" So, I vendored all my gear from my characters, mailed the gold to the friend, logged out, deleted, made many new characters with the same names, then finally uninstalled.


    Still bored, but I don't have to wait in line to be bored and posting on here, or other forums.


    I was in Rift beta, and more than a little underwhelmed, which is, as you can guess, extremely disappointing. Maybe SW:TOR will be alright, but until then I've nothing to play and I know WoW won't satisfy me or entertain me for long enough to be worth downloading the client again. (Even if it is the most "playable" of the MMOs out.)

  • gamespamgamespam Member Posts: 456

    I never played much, but I tried out Cata when it launched.

     

    Unsubbed a week later. The quests to 85 were cool.

     

    I just like PvP with a purpose. Also, it has too much CC spamming for me. I hate the type of people (kids) that play rogues (PvE and PvP).

  • gamespamgamespam Member Posts: 456

    Originally posted by TweFoju

    as others have said, take a break

    but seriously, i dont think party will ever be over in WoW

     

    with roughly 10 Million active players, oh yeah, you will always have a group

    More like 4 Million.

    Nobody here plays on the Asian Servers.

    Yeah, yeah, I know, 4 million is still huge. It's just not 10 million huge. Furthermore, they only sold a little under 3 million Cata copies, I think it's 2.7 Mill, but I'll give you 3 Million.

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