I have logged in once in the past week just to check on administrative stuff. There is a combo of RL being exciting atm and the fantasy MMO being over played too much for me. I am ready for a great sci-fi MMO to suck me in. If I play one more MMO w/ an elf/dwarf I may puke on my keyboard. I have been playing WoW off and on since Jan '05 but its steadily becoming more off then on. I am not taking a break yet but just logging in very little. Bla!

 

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I wouldn't say Cata was a mess at all. It is actually very well done. It just doesn't do anything to advance the game, its more of the same. When you are just tired of WOW and its style, the expansion didn't do anything to alleviate that. I will be playing Rift. But I am in the same boat as Mithan. The game plays exactly like WoW, just has a different face. I can see myself being totally bored with it in 6 months.

I should probably stick to console games.

 

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I have tried every main stream MMO and I have tried the little ones. I have yet to see one that totally redefined itself in a good way with an expansion pack.

So this is your fixed reply

 

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I closed my account several days ago. It plays until the 20th of the month. I am weak willed and will resubscribe. However, I wanted to send my protest where it might be heard. My gripes are about the same as whats posted in this thread. If I close it again it will be for good.

You don't "fixt" me punk, TOA changed Daoc in a multitude of ways. All bad, but still *best xpac ever and did not just reset the exp counter, it added many more different exp counters.

 

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Guess I will go ahead and admit I stopped my subscriptions as well, both expire in the first few days of March. Till then I am just playing my sub 60 warrior and enjoying the part of the game I enjoy most. There is just so many times you can continue to do that before you realize your just going through the motions.

Cataclysm killed the game for me, it removed all enjoyment from my favorite characters which were healers and tanks. I really dislike their changing the game mechanics simply so they could make their Arena Tournaments viable. To do meant turning the game we all played upside down. They tried to hide behind this idea of "challenge" but that fell flat on its face because they don't understand the challenge many wanted. They caved into the e-peen crowd to the point they alienated their core.

Players play WOW to have fun. What constitutes fun is different for each player yet simply by listening to my guild, seeing why others left, it became obvious that the development team does not understand. Yeah we want challenges, but wrecking the PvE game too support Arena play is not the way to do it. Note, I did not say they ruined PvE at the expense of PvP - they ruined at the expense of Arenas. There is a big difference between the two.

 

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Welcome to the dark side

 

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I was just going to post that!

Instead I will go with:

Welcome to the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

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lol

you obviously didn't read in " in a good way part".

People here seem to expect that expansions are doing to redefine the game. Any expansion that does that probably means the game itself was a failure and now the devs are scrambling to fix ( see SWG and their game changing crap).

Wow is just old and it is showing its age. No matter what any crackerhead here says, WoW blew the genre completely open. Before WoW we had the big 4 and a total NA playerbase of approx 500K. WoW showed venture capitalists that money could be made in an MMO. Since then the flood gates have opened. A great many failures and some little gem's in the rough.

I am sure Blizzard knows that the cash cow days are winding down. They are going to milk it for all its worth and then move on. WoW paid for itself many times over already. Every single person here that rails on it now did at one time have fun. They are tired of WoW and now its time to move on.

 

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