You guys lack variety and unpredictability along with originality.

You nicely confirm this though:

 

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And I've had to burn with with all his "NO U"s that now all he has left is stealing my material, and yet without the ability to comprehend how to use it in the right context.


How very funny, yet sad at the same time.


I wonder how many monitors he's gone through?

 

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Mmmm. I'm enjoying cata and it's very well done, but for endgame players, there isn't enough of it. Having only 9 dungeons to do when you need to spend 10x more time doing rep and gearing up than you do leveling to 85 (which is so fast and easy it's idiotic) is gonna get old quick.


You're also highly limited in leveling zones for 81-85. To maximize rep gains for rep gear, arcanums, shoulder scripts, etc, you have to repeat the exact same stuff for every alt you level (and after you level since you level so fast you'll do half your questing at 85).


I still don't see cata as being a WoW killer. There are some players who are never happy, who always complain, and who come and go from the game - that won't change no matter what they do.

 

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I'm apparently in the minority of VN posters in that I am thoroughly enjoying Cat. But then again I took a break for over a year & havnt raided anything since Kara.

As someone who plays around 10-15 hours a week, I think I'll probably be content for another several months. I do want to start raiding the equivalent of Kara (Is there one?), but will probably never raid the tier set dungeons since having children prevents me from joining a hard-core guild.

I was doing some reading last and happened upon this article from last year with an interview with Rob Pardo:


For the next MMO? Obviously, we want to compete with ourselves, and create something bigger than WoW. If there is some cannibalization of the WoW playerbase, that's okay. We know that someone is going to beat WoW one day. Someone is going to make a bigger MMO, it's going to be faster and better, and the WoW audience - some of them, anyway - is going to go to that game. If someone's going to beat WoW, it might as well be us.


Another thought I have is that you have to also remember that the subscriber base of WoW today is not just the one we had when we launched. There's a whole bunch of people who tuned out of WoW two years ago or four years ago, but who really enjoyed it, and when another MMO comes out that tickles their fancy, they'll jump into it. I don't know what the exact number is off-hand, but the total number of subscribers we've had is easily more than double - maybe closer to triple - the current subscriber base. So looking at it logically, if we can get them interested, you could have the same subscriber base without cannibalizing WoW too badly.


From: http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/interviews/6773-Five-Years-of-Warcraft-Speaking-With-Blizzards-Rob-Pardo.2


So what's interesting is even though Blizzard keeps posting sales of the next expansion were greater than the last expansion, the total number of subscribers is actually decreasing.


And this:


Our research shows that trial players who play World Of Warcraft past level 10 are much more likely to stick with the game for a long time. Currently, only about 30% of our trial players make it past this threshold. So anything we can do to improve the new player experience is a huge opportunity for us


From: http://wireninja.com/blizzard-announce-70-of-all-wow-subscribers-quite-before-level-10/


It's clear that most of the time of the expansion was spent on 1-60 and now we know why! Got to boost the subscription numbers. Unforunately, it was done at the expense of vet players.

Others have postulated that Blizzard is attempting to turn over the player base. Seems like a very reasonable theory, and probably makes sense from a business standpoint. Those of us who have been playing for years will move on to a new MMO. A lot of us will do so no matter what Blizzard does, we just want something new and different.

QFT

It is absolutely hilarious how much Korrigan described himself in that post.

 

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Ah, we have the four usual suspects doing their "no you" dance now, the kindergarten party is full

 

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I was thinking the same thing. It's a shame that a really great convo was taking place.....don't mind me I'm simply eating popcorn and enjoying the side show.

 

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