Ironic isn't it. Unless things start becoming a lot more in depth and entertaining, I don't see people paying 2yrs worth of subs for this expansion so far.

 

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Well what do you think they meant by Cataclysm Arc?

 

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For me, RL will most likely be the WoW killer. My gaming "career" has been on life support for a while now....

I don't know about you, but I am thoroughly enjoying cata right now

pvp is fun, raiding is great and requires dps to be less retarded than they already are(i got al'akir, conclave of winds, omnitron, magmaw, and valiona done. got the potion dragon dude in blackwing to like 15% and halfen or w/e first boss in bastion to 20%, tho they killed it this week without meh)

the heroics require attention from all, and leveling is better than ever


what is going to drive people away from wow? actually having to pay attention and not OMG AOE TRASH

 

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Yeah, you've done ALL that and the expansion has been out for two weeks....put some thought into it hero

 

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and people WERENT doing that 2 weeks after wotlk?

im not a casual, i play to DO stuff. considering my progression is with the #2 progressed guild on my server, i expect to get stuff done

regardless, its not like im in heroic raids yet, as that will be tragic


the casuals/average people out there though are still going to not have finished any raid other than argaloth a month from now, and I doubt they will complain..


depending on what you AIM to do is what is going to factor in how happy you are with what you accomplish/have done thus far. If you are bored with it already, then surely you are in the top 100 guilds in the world and are on heroics now and are bored. I however, am having a blast experiencing the fights, pvping, leveling in the new quests(havnt done any cata quests until cata release.. did my paladin to 80 from 4.0 to release in dungeons)

 

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This could be the beginning of the end. Not for all the new players starting, but for huge numbers that have been around since vanilla.


This just doesn't feel like an expansion at all, it feels like a $40 update patch. The leveling is nothing new at all, in any way whatsoever.

The dungeons, same. Not sure about raids but I just don't see how raids can be any different (just longer, more boring versions of 5 mans).


PVP, no changes whatsoever.


I'm just not seeing much "expansion" to this expansion.


I imagine that for every old school player that finally calls it quits there will be one or two new players replacing them though, at least for a couple of years.

 

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Wow is a good game, but after this one, I have decided to move on.

There is no way this is going to last me or anyone I know until 2012.

 

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Never mind.

 

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They'll be okay. Shouldn't really be a huge decision to stop playing. Or worry if you want to play it in one year. I play mostly off, sometimes on, and enjoy it while I play. But my decision doesn't affect the millions that continue and will continue to play.


The things you are discovering now, that you've done it all before and many times, some people realized a long time ago. The game keeps going though. /shrug


There are some titles coming up this year (we say that most years), but if WoW loses half their subs this coming year they are still the king. And with their cross server stuff they are built in to not have to merge servers immediately when the population starts to go down, whenver that happens down the road.


I'm just curious Spooky - are you pretty much a continal WoW player? I was until a bit after BC then come back here and there, I would say if I play 4 months out of a given year that's a hefty amount.


I may play more now actually, I don't enjoy the end game, the end game is a problem for most games and there are a lot of things to do in WoW, but I enjoy leveling more so CAT in that regard helps people who like alts.

 

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