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Ask yourself this question: Do you have FUN playing wow? or are you just spending your time and money trying to get some 1337 items and after feel it was worth it?
Personaly I wasn't having a blast playing the game after awhile, I was just after the cool looking items, and I seemed to be really happy after (which I'm not surperiesed after spending countless hours trying to get that ONE item).
My spoon is too big -_-
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Everquest - 2000 - '02
Anarchy Online - '01-'02
Earth and Beyond - '02-'04
Star Wars Galaxies - '03-'06('07)
World of Warcraft - '04-'07
Age of Conan - '08 - shelved.
-Waiting on-
Star Trek Online
SW: The Old Republic
My spoon is too big -_-
The whole point of WoW is really that u should play to get the gear. WoW is really designed to be a big race to get the best gear and e-peen. This is the whole point of WoW, and will probably always be. It's also really the point some see in working. They want to progress and get higher and higher positions. Really whole our world is based on this logic.
Anyways. I do have to say that I enjoy the game and this constant race to become the greatest e-peener. Some people doesn't enjoy it, and some does. So really the whole point of the game and the reason that many enjoy is it is because of that they are after the epics.
Yep, that's what motivated people pre-TBC. You would see them preening in front of the Bank in Ironforge, displaying their e-peens.
But what happened with TBC was that Blizzard made the e-peens more fragile and less long lasting, and made the rest of the game catch up to where the e-peeners were. This was a tough blow. Sure, you can get more "epix" at 70, but the delta between those epics and non-epic gear is not great, while getting that epic gear is a hellacious grind, and one that will likely result in gear that, again only modestly better now than non-epic gear, will be promptly obsoleted upon the next expac.
So by at the same time (1) decreasing the difference between e-peen epix and non-epic gear and (2) makingetting those epics harder (with all of the rep grind involved), and both in the context of obsoleting when the next explac comes ... it's really not hard to see how TBC's design, which was well-intentioned, took a lot of the gas out of the endgame for the people who bought into the e-peen structure of the game. By trying to level the playing field a bit, Blizzard took away the main motivation for many of its hardcore subscribers: namely, to play hardcore, and not have a level playing field and instead have an e-peen.
You play games who reach a goal... either in WoW to get good items and have fun...
or to beat someone else by a race game etc....
If games didnt go anywhere they wouldent be fun...
My spoon is too big -_-
I played wow for 4 months over a year ago and got bored and went back to my beloved Eve. Just before TBC came out, things got really ugly in Eve, so I decided to quit and go back to Wow and level my char up for TBC. I'm really glad I did. TBC is the game I always wanted Wow to be. If your gonna make a fantasy game then give me fantasia, they did in Outland. I have found everthing I have seen so far in Outland to be much more creative and fun than the original Wow. Moreover, most of the people playing on my server are in outland. Even if I can't find any guildies around (which is rare) there are plenty of pugs. I never play Wow alone anymore, and isn't that what mmo's are all about? Getting to know people and playing with them is what we pay that monthly subscribtion for.
TBC is also handing out gold and loot like it's christmas. I'm having fun again, and for me, that's what it's all about.