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[Column] World of Warcraft: Fury of Hellfire - Frustration, Grind & Disappointment
SBFord
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Last week marked the big Fury of Hellfire v6.2 patch to World of Warcraft. After what seemed like months of high hopes for much more and much better content, players have spent the last several days adventuring through Tanaan Jungle and checking out the usefulness of the new Shipyard. What has been the reaction? Read on to find out.
Read more of Suzie Ford's and Catherine Daro's World of Warcraft: Fury of Hellfire - Frustration, Grind & Disappointment.
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oh dont worry. when new expansion comes every one buy it and say its best expansion ever... and quit after few month.
blizzard we knew and loved is dead, its now activision-blizzard.
Very disappointed that all of you are experiencing a bad expansion/patch. I for one unsubscribed back shortly after launch of WOD. First time ever was I not paying for WOW, was quite liberating. I honestly don't miss it. I personally feel that a new expansion won't save or fix things. WOW is not dead but it definitely isn't THRIVING.
Luckily for me the main reason I play is to Raid with my family and old friends. Sadly they are all super wow fanboys and won't even consider trying my personal mmorpg of choice, Gw2, or other great alternatives like FF14 or Eso or Wildstar or Swtor or Rift or whatever! They suck. But we raid together and I get to heal with healbot which isn't so bad. Pally healing is harder now, but also being needed is cool.
As far as the expansion, I agree that garrisons was a horrible idea. Should of been Guild Garrisons or better yet, guild housing like Gw2 is gonna do.
WoW died right after Wrath of the Lich King expansion.
A wonderful magic, immersive MMORPG destroyed.
Been hearing a lot of negative feedback about this patch, in addition to a general "ho hum" about the expansion from friends/online folks I chat with. Quite glad I decided to wait on this one like I did with MoP, and probably not even going to bother giving it a shot this time.
From everything I can see, it really feels like they lost their passion for WoW and are doing a "development by numbers" deal. To boot, I'm mystified as to what the "greatly expanded" WoW team has been doing, because the content updates surely haven't reflected a beefed up staff. Unless Blizzard is going to stealth announce the next expansion at Blizzcon and release it the next month, I'm totally ready for another 12+ month content drought.
Really, it feels like they're holding on and milking WoW for all they can while putting as little effort in as possible, shifting their focus and resources to the far cheaper games with higher returns on investment, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, as well as Overwatch which will likely see similar strong performance. The SC2 community seems pretty upset over how LotV is being handled, but we all know Blizzard pretty much abandoned SC years ago beyond fulfilling their promise to finish the storyline. And Diablo, well that's still around and will likely have an expansion announced this year, but it feels like they're scaling back with that as well.
So basically, if your'e not a game with longterm monetization options (Diablo/Starcraft) or if you're an expensive game (WoW), GG.
Seems like Blizzard is cursed in some way, they can't do anything right anymore. Blizzard has lost any vision as to how to make an mmorpg. They are desperately trying to make WoW interesting to people that aren't mmorpg-players in first place, like the facebook-kids.
While the official forums have always been full of the usual whining, the people complaining nowadays are raising very valid points.
My guess is it WILL only go further downhill from here, with increasing speed. Since Activision happened to WoW the game went for the worse with about every change made to it.
WoW will never recover with the current lead and direction given to it and at times it looks like Blizzard has already given up. The day they announce a drop in subs to 5mio you know that there are about 1mio players left in both US and NA together.
Good one!! It was when the got rid of talent trees that did it for me. I mean I still love the game, but it has lost some of that magic.
Unfortunately, I think it's probably has a lot to do with how we've evolved as MMO players as well, but we won't see/admit that anyway. I'll be the first to admit that I've become more casual than I was at one time, though. So you'd think I like the changes like no talent tree. I don't though
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Oh i believe this 100%.Players expend so much time and money over the years,they cannot ignore the game,so no matter what Blizzard sells them,they buy it.That is not to say weather the content is good or bad,just that they are buying it anyhow.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
"oh we can't do a new patch after SoO, because that would push the next expansion further into the future, and we'd rather ..."
... charge you for the expansion pack than give you another patch for free. I mean, com'on, let's be honest.
"Players who love the game, who have played it faithfully for a decade, are apathetic about even wanting to log in."
Luckily, their subs run on credit cards and Blizz can get their monthly due without player interaction, like logging on or such.
Yet more proof that Blizzard's WoW team is creatively bankrupt, as well as obviously not putting much of the money they're receiving from subscription fees back into the game.
They still haven't addressed their horrible loot system either. You can still kill a raid boss, use one of your limited sigils, and get about 25 gold. Ridiculous.
Garrisons should have been account wide, had varied architecture styles, offered a choice of locations, and been far more customizable, certainly beyond a pair of barely noticeable banners. I look at them and see so much wasted potential there; they really could have been something which increased immersion into the world a hundredfold. Instead, they're basically a fancy GUI for a couple of Facebook games.
I held out hope for a while, and really did enjoy some aspects of WoD, but Blizzard's obvious laziness and lack of creative vision, as well as their miserly behavior, have once again driven me from the game. Well, that and Heavensward.
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We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
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With WoD I was really hoping they were going to steer the game back in a vanilla direction. Oh Well... plenty of other games out there.
Kinda sad really.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
don't worry, when the next xpac is going to get out they will patch in a zone in which you can burn item progession equal to an 85% of the maximum, so you could enjoy all that content you missed in those months for which you grinded blood off your arse without successfully acheiving the necessary gearscore ...whoops, progression, for enjoing it back in time.
Then the next xpac will be out, and the green quest rewards whitin a couple of level out from the previous xpac cap are going to replace the epox you'd had earn within months of painfully boredom you heroically endured.
Exactly this.
Having personally more than 10k WoW played hours, i can see the problem. A game that no1 has any real interest for it anymore. Its just an old habit, some friends, some good memories and nostalgia.
Everything seems to be made worse than the past, everything seems old and boring. WoW is not dying as it concerns population, but its already dead as far as it concerns ppl's interest and commitment.
*Btw superb article
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I remember a time when a new WoW patch would be exciting, but that all ended after their Timeless Isle patch. After that patch released, their content updates have been abysmal.
Just look at this list: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/Patches
Before WoD, there was