Hey gang. It's been a really really long while since I wrote something here. I guess I was just too busy doing all sorts of weird things... like getting a life lol... and in all honestly I even forgot I had this page up. I've been doing my online inventory (lol) to minimize some of my digital footprint (rofl!) when I came across this page.
I had a few relapses here and there and got back to playing World Of Warcraft from time to time but you know what? Like in that old saying (or was it song?) - The Magic Is Gone. Either I got way too old for this game (doubt that, there are plenty people older than me still playing it) or the game itself kinda got dumbed down.
In my opinion, it is latter. If you recall, first two expansions were really really great - I mean there was a challenge getting through all those heroic dungeons in The Burning Crusade. You actually had to balance group and have good crowd control, tactics. It was challenging and fun. Same went for WOTLK expansion - still needed a strong guild or a good friends to get those gear runs done and PvP was thrill. I admit, there were a lot of IMBA things (imbalance in classes, gear/etc) but it still was fun - you had to tinker your builds, play around with them and had many options how to go about your character.
I think the whole mess began as soon as the Cataclysm was released... Down the hill we go. Simplified talent trees to dumb down the game so the six year olds can play it, LFG across the realms and dumbing down dungeons made the whole gaming experience from a challenge and fun into a 3 button smash and run.
Now, it boils down to ilevel of your gear, that's it. You can literally run through dungeons with a 4 mele and a healer, no need for tactics or careful planning. Where is fun in that???
The game that used to be fun and challenging to play now boils down to grinding dailies to get your gear ilevel up, grinding weekly raids in LFR with hope to get some upgrades and, if you are lucky, having a few raids with your guildies. More grind, more daily grind, more "kill 10 pigs and bring me their heads" type of things. Ofc, it is not actually that bad, but it is close.
Look what happened to all the old dungeons. It's literally a ghost town. No one goes there unless they are drunk or so bored they have nothing better to do. There are many fun and great instances that a lot of new players never even saw because they flew by them while leveling up. Same goes for raid instances - at the top level you can now actually solo many old raids. Again, no fun.
So today's World Of Warcraft is turning into a shiny nice looking grind'o'mat instead of something that is really fun to play. I agree that a lot of new storylines and quests, especially in MoP, are great and fun if you do it once or twice. In a while it boils down to a grind again.
I sort of start seeing through the quests and all I see are "kill another 10 pigs"... Oh my. I want my old WoW back! :D
Right, I vented, I do feel better and time to get back to mycheats.net - write a code or two of some new hacks....
I had a few relapses here and there and got back to playing World Of Warcraft from time to time but you know what? Like in that old saying (or was it song?) - The Magic Is Gone. Either I got way too old for this game (doubt that, there are plenty people older than me still playing it) or the game itself kinda got dumbed down.
In my opinion, it is latter. If you recall, first two expansions were really really great - I mean there was a challenge getting through all those heroic dungeons in The Burning Crusade. You actually had to balance group and have good crowd control, tactics. It was challenging and fun. Same went for WOTLK expansion - still needed a strong guild or a good friends to get those gear runs done and PvP was thrill. I admit, there were a lot of IMBA things (imbalance in classes, gear/etc) but it still was fun - you had to tinker your builds, play around with them and had many options how to go about your character.
I think the whole mess began as soon as the Cataclysm was released... Down the hill we go. Simplified talent trees to dumb down the game so the six year olds can play it, LFG across the realms and dumbing down dungeons made the whole gaming experience from a challenge and fun into a 3 button smash and run.
Now, it boils down to ilevel of your gear, that's it. You can literally run through dungeons with a 4 mele and a healer, no need for tactics or careful planning. Where is fun in that???
The game that used to be fun and challenging to play now boils down to grinding dailies to get your gear ilevel up, grinding weekly raids in LFR with hope to get some upgrades and, if you are lucky, having a few raids with your guildies. More grind, more daily grind, more "kill 10 pigs and bring me their heads" type of things. Ofc, it is not actually that bad, but it is close.
Look what happened to all the old dungeons. It's literally a ghost town. No one goes there unless they are drunk or so bored they have nothing better to do. There are many fun and great instances that a lot of new players never even saw because they flew by them while leveling up. Same goes for raid instances - at the top level you can now actually solo many old raids. Again, no fun.
So today's World Of Warcraft is turning into a shiny nice looking grind'o'mat instead of something that is really fun to play. I agree that a lot of new storylines and quests, especially in MoP, are great and fun if you do it once or twice. In a while it boils down to a grind again.
I sort of start seeing through the quests and all I see are "kill another 10 pigs"... Oh my. I want my old WoW back! :D
Right, I vented, I do feel better and time to get back to mycheats.net - write a code or two of some new hacks....
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