After reading these forums for the past couple weeks and returning to play the relaunch of wotlk I am curious to hear people answers.
I’m personaly split between continuing to play and stopping.
I cant get over how bug filled the launch has been - they either havent put enough time and effort / money maybe? into getting it right or they are focused on their other new game release’s more.
The WG bug that allowed people to join multiple times every couple hours giving them huge honor advantage/marks over others wasnt handled very well imo
I read a mage got banned for using an exploit to reach 80 in underbog (i think) but the streamer guy to first reach relaunch 80 doesnt count as exploit? Seems a little hit/miss what blizz want to enforce.
I dont exactly know how those mega servers got into such a mess (just returned)
I don’t have any technical knowledge about how these things are run…but why allow so many people to join one realm and create such massive queues? Paying to not play a game is mental.
Launch was great all things considered, Blizzard is surprisingly proactive with hotfixes, WG was most likely oversight not a bug and it will have no long-term consequences for the expansion, you clearly haven’t seen bug filled product, server population was already addressed in a blue post.
Communication could and should be better. Announcing major system change like heroic+ a couple of days before a launch via interview on YT channel that is not exactly the most popular was an issue. On the other hand, I can see why Blizzard doesn’t bother if they can put out big blue post on queues and server population and there are dozens of threads every day “WHAT ABOUT GEHENNAS QUEUE MATE” or “I STOPPED PLAYING ON FIREMAW ONE YEAR AGO! WHERE HORD?!”
For me it’s a way to forget my problems and obligations of the real world. WoW ingame is a place for me where I can be totaly myself. Besides that I love the fantasy setting and I find it relaxing just walking in the zones and doing professions.
More interesting than why I play is why I started playing.
I was playing some korean grindfest style MMO and on my birthday I asked for the currency for the game and my dad decided when he got me a laptop later on that year to also buy me WoW since there was no real-money transactions.
Funny.
It doesn’t pick my pockets while I play. I played some other MMOs and they all (bar OSRS) creep some way to take more money from me with different services. In all my time playing WoW I’ve never felt pressured to buy any service except for gametime.
When I know I have £20 to spend on online games this month I know that I can count on WoW to not exceed that or make me feel like crap for not spending on some FOMO outfit etc.
I dont fully understand how those mega servers where allowed to get so full, surely there must be a limit to how many people can make a charcater there to begin with as a safety measure without Blizz having to put manual locks on realms? I get it that players can move away from these realms - I certainly would.
The WG is still open to abuse from what I undrstand, you simply need to group and have another player queue for you or something like that, seen a couple adverts in game for groups doing it.
The worlds first classic wotlk level 80 streamer, there’s alot of debate on this topic if he cheated or not/ used an exploit /bug etc but nothing from Blizz that I have seen. The method he used has been removed though which indicates it wasnt supposed to be allowed.
Seems to be a popular saying in some other parts of the foums in relation to wow - exploit early, exploit often.
I started WoW late 2004/early 2005. I played all the way until the end of Cataclysm when I then quit. I literally only re-subscribed for Classic.
Late in Wrath and all the way through Cataclysm they were slowly removing the RPG elements from the game e.g. adding that codex showing all boss abilities etc because “It’s the same as going to wowhead” apparently, being able to learn new skills without going to a trainer, simplifying/dumbing down the talent trees etc. I quit when the Pandaraia trailer was released because holy hell wtf was that trailer, it was like a modern cheesy Disney movie.
What keeps me playing? Classic, but currently I am set to quit after or during WOTLK Classic. Blizzard CANNOT do what they say they’re going to, I don’t trust them or their motives for the game. I certainly don’t trust the Classic community which has clearly been infested with retail players and players who shouldn’t be playing MMORPGs.
Even with all the changes and bugs - and I am the first to admit there’s many, even too many - WoW Classic still is the best game ever made.
I play because it’s fun. Because WoW is not one game, but many. When I feel tired and need a break, I can go fishing in some beautiful place. If I feel like being social, I can run a dungeon, or three. If I feel like hitting something, I can go smash some ogres … I can level professions, skills, I can go quest or exploring.
And I am the one deciding what to do or not to do. If I want to go to Northrend at level 53, noone’s stopping me. If I think that Quest is stupid, I drop it, or let it sit in the log for another day …
Then too there’s things I can do always, and some that can be doen only once a week, once a year, or seasonally.
If I grow tired of being the great hero, I can roll a new toon, and start over being happy with a 6 slot bag dropping, and the first green item.
Wow Classic is for me a never-ending source of fun. I LIKE grinding, levelling, not having enough money for all my spells, being able to play a meme spec, not seeing or konwing where to go … I do not remember every Quest form 15 years ago even if I sometimes surtprise myself.
Like Gorael, I’m quiting if/when Cata comes around. I can’t say it better than he did:
I had never played WOW before so I decided to start playing to see what has happened to the Warcraft universe after the third RTS which I enjoyed a lot. When WOW released I decided it’s too expensive to pay every month so I didn’t follow it. Now the global inflation has made WOW subscription looks more affordable compared to everyday expenses.
When I started playing I found out that there is so much to do - quests, exploration, dungeons, PVP, professions, rare loot, fishing.
The only thing I am concerned is whether the game will require too much time commitment and whether I will be able to do any end game content if I don’t spend a lot of time in the game.
I like the nostalgia and previous x-pack I also love pvp when it is balanced, the area , ost , profession crafting , arena the theme, meeting new people and doing raid together no matter how far we go, I know i have played that iteration of the game but it was countless years ago and life is about going on.
I precise than I am only playing class spec that i didn’t play ever or back then. I would love to recover my som horde char and play wrath classic both side alliance is great but the other side and playing both side even on different realm is appealing to me now.
I am also not only playing wow but FF 14 and star wars the old republic amongst non mmo others games so it isn’t just wow anymore.
