and the winner is ! "All of the above"


The lack of end game for non elite players killed it for me.

 

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This for me too. I added to the unsub numbers this week. It was funny to see that Blizzard's questionnaire when you unsub does not distinguish between doing dungeons and raids (e.g. quitting because "done all dungeons and raids", "don't want to do dungeons and raids". I can't raid because of RL - but I probably played more hours than most raiders and I've done HCs (including ZA/ZG) to death.


Do Molten Front? I'd rather stab myself in the eyes. I got halfway through on one toon before giving up. The reward for grinding through this for me (tailoring disc priest) was going to be a recipe for a gem bag IIRC. No cloth spirit gear available in Firelands/MF.

Crafting? After 525, progress requires raid drop recipes or raid drop materials for my main toon.

Alts? Taken 7 to 85 (not sure how I managed it tbh) - mostly for crafting - but see above. Molten Front for 7 alts - *boggle*.

PvP? Done loads, approaching 100k HKs. Bored with most BGs now and can't do RBGs as teams seem to have same commitment reqs as for raiding.


Blizzard often say "what's the point of adding gear upgrades for non-raiders" (as they leave raid reqs on old tier gear ...). I say beacuse:

- it gives me a sense that I am improving my character, not just wasting my time

- it means I can play (healer) with friends who are not uber or who are on bad/shared connections with a better chance of it not turning into a wipe fest because my friends see/react to floor damage one second later than everyone else.

- if I pull some "green" or even bad players though an HC because I am overgeared it actually gives me a sense of achievement. Call it sad if you like, but it kept me doing HCs in WotLK (and paying the sub).

The talent tree enforcements ruined it for me.

Which is why I am playing Rift now, it has the old wow style talents on steroids. The rest is pretty much a wow rip off except for the invasions. They are extremely proactive in pushing out hotfixes for problems also.

But I am about done with it, maybe GW2 (never liked the old ones though)

Blizzard built their ivory tower so high, they lost touch with their audience. Then they sat there making stupid, arrogant decisions and listened only to the feedback of their sycophants, and ignored the vast, silent majority of their fan base who had supported them for years.

Then when they finally decided to come down from that tower, they were surprised to find a lot of people hadn't stuck around.

 

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i stopped paying 3 months ago due to the redundancy of the game

 

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I login to raid 2 days a week, and I only have the game subscribed because I have the game free to October, 2034. If I was paying for it? I probably wouldn't be.

 

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I keep reading the really stupid statement that "Ghostcrawler was in charge during WOTLK".

GC was on a very tight leash during WOTLK, and he was very obviously over-ridden in MANY things that he wanted to do to the game. We constantly read his stupid posts about "what blizzard will not do", then blizzard would almost immediately turn around and do it, over riding him.

GC was "in charge" by title only. For cata, some retard took the leash off and actually gave him the power to destroy the game the way he WOULD HAVE back in WOTLK had he not been on the leash.

Only the blind or stupid would not grasp this.

 

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Considering some 1.5 million people have signed up to beta test "The Old Republic" already and anylysts predict at least 3 million in sales the first year it has to have Blizzard worried.

I sure would expect some major internal changes very soon, not in just philosophy or direction either but employment status.

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Ok, this is probably the only post Korrigan makes that I will agree with, and I'm dumbfounded that I'm agreeing with it all.

But the simple fact is, he's probably right.

The whole idea of dumbing down talent trees to account for diversification in the Path of Titans makes total sense. Why else would Blizz pull a SWG NGE move on the talent trees other than to make up for it with Path of Titans, which was then scrapped?

And I can't help but think that the removal of Path of Titans also affected not just the talent trees, but the entire game, and is the reason the game was harder than it should have been for so long. Without the Path of Titans advancements, tanks took too much damage, healers ran out of mana, and dps were scratching their heads wondering why they couldn't beat the tank. So over the past 10 months Blizzard has been trying to adjust to account for that instead of actually doing what they should have done in the first place, which was put the Path of Titans back in.

 

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