Yeah like I already said soon enough you will see the subscription plans like eq 2 this whole xpac is set up for it.


This was not something that was made for people who have been playing since release almost everyone I have played with since the game came out had about 7 or 8 chars at level 80 when the xpac came out, 1-60 stuff is pretty much pointless for 90% of my guild.

 

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Also the new questing system...

If you follow the "quest exclamation marks" on the boards as you level, it will lead you from zone to zone pretty much. During this process if you complete the zone you are in, and continue to the next one, you just get dragged along. I can't imagine how many old places, new players are missing doing it this way.

LOLUMADBRAH!?

I felt EXACTLY the same Taebo as soon as I hit 85 on my Priest and realized how badly they gimped up healing. I quit already, account is up on the 26th and I haven't logged into game in over a week. Just absolutely 0 interest which is surreal since I just paid out all that money for the expac and was so excited for Cata to release.

 

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I probably will cancel in January. I don't see anything keeping me beyond that point.

Heroics I can do now, but as someone else said, they take so much time to complete I generally don't join them at this point. I just don't have the attention span to commit to something like that.

Again, as somone else said, it really feel's like a patch worth of content for the high level people.

That was the risk Blizzard took with this patch, that the new people joining would outweigh the old people leaving.

 

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A few bored trolls on the VN boards say they may eventually cancel their accounts. The game is obviously doomed.

 

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The funny thing about that is years after their accounts have been canceled they will still be posting on wow forums... >_<

Our guild isn't threatening to quit. Just noticing they've made it a LOT easier if we decide to. Hope it doesn't get to that (again).


We are however, trying to put our finger on with what feels off just like a lot of other posters on this thread.


As I said in another thread:


Fun is in learning and attempted mastery.


And we've all mastered Blizz's process... the fast leveling, the grind through instances, then heroics, etc.


Will the current new content be enough?


Some of the things we've been tossing around (and have not reached conclusions on):


Cata didn't really advance anything gameplay-wise. Other than archeology. And phasing, which may not have been a good thing in the end.


The lore does not feel as "rich" or as "epic" (opinion) as the Arthas arc (finished in LK).


The ease of leveling to get everyone back at endgame quickly feels more like planned obsolescence of a product (letting new players flow in quickly/easily as older players attrit, following the EQ model where attrition = new subscribers at their peak.)


Feeling like WoW "peaked" with LK.


Missing the openworld feel - sense of exploration and freedom of choice. (Especially the ability to self-optimize questing. That was a fun "subgame".)


Wondering if the Cata team or the management value has shifted away from MMO design to Campaign-driven design (see: railcar questing/training for endgame encounters, etc). - pure speculation


And in line with that, which team and are they just moving on to other projects? (see planned obsolescence above) -again, pure speculation


Wondering if they actually did external Focus Testing (concept testing) for the new expansion.


Pondering the age old "intuitive change - complex system worse off" adage.


Concerned that for all the cataclysmic changes that were promoted, it feels awfully flat.


These are all valid concerns about a game we care about.

 

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Even funnier, the fanboys will still be butthurt about it.

 

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I dont think there was enough new features that made you go WOW! like a lot of other games expansions did. It was more of the same with better polish which wasnt a bad thing. BC brought flying mounts and new zones finally and with better quest system. Wotlk took these zones and made it even better and introduced friendly heroics, raids and pvp to the game. Cata took all of these and attempted to make it better but nothing new introduced.

 

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