World of Warcraft has been living and thriving for almost four years. It is surprising that the game is still thriving and as people thought 8 million was its peak, it then reached 10 million. I am not here to say that WoW is going to die anytime soon, because that is very doubtful, nor am I going to say it's an awful game, because I played it for three years. I am just going to say what I think is right and wrong with it, as I have much dislike and distaste towards the game now.
When I think of first playing WoW, I think of glory of leveling my first couple characters. The joy was immense, and the world lush and fun. Even when I was level 60, it seemed so exciting, because there was a new tier of armor every other month and you could take epics with blues. This is what made WoW so great, you did not need to epics to have a chance in PvP as long as you understood your class and the game. It was as they had states, a hardcore and casual game.
The plus side to WoW, is it has rich, RICH content. There is so much to do, and so much to accomplish. However, I am a PvE and PvP oriented person, but moreso in PvP. You would think Arena was a great thing for PvP, but this is horribly wrong. Arena transformed the game into an constant desire for top tier epics, because if you didn't have thme you were at a disadvantage. To get them you need to be on top Arena teams or in raiding guilds, for the most part eliminating the 5-man casual entity that WoW had stood for.
Arena: Arena brought about a organized and competitive battleground for PvPers. However, what it didn't do was fix PvP, fix the imbalances and problems that are in WoW. BGs are ok with imbalances, because it's not that important, but with Arena, with world tournaments and Arena ratings placed on gear, which was the primary reason to get rid of the old system, it made the imbalances ruin the fun of the game. At least for me.
Warlocks, Frost Mages, Disc Priests, Restoration Druids, Hunters have all their great attributes and the fact that are extensively more powerful than everyone and that MS Warriors are the most important melee class in the game. You see, blizzard wanted to bring diversity to their classes, or so they said, and they fixed nothing but making Druids the best class in the game.
What broke me, what sent me away from WoW, was when Drysc reported that Shadow Priests would not be fixed until the expansion. I did play one, but it didn't matter what I was, they knew something was wrong, there had been something wrong since the release of the Burning Crusade, and they have no problem buffing druids and saying warlocks are fine due to the usuage of Warlocks in arena teams (even though according to their numbers Druids were way over numerous than they had intended and showed the statistic but still did nothing). With 10 million subscribers they have no incentive to fix this game, until another MMO starts swiping members from Blizzard. Even if this happens, I'm not sure I will even consider coming back.
When I think of first playing WoW, I think of glory of leveling my first couple characters. The joy was immense, and the world lush and fun. Even when I was level 60, it seemed so exciting, because there was a new tier of armor every other month and you could take epics with blues. This is what made WoW so great, you did not need to epics to have a chance in PvP as long as you understood your class and the game. It was as they had states, a hardcore and casual game.
The plus side to WoW, is it has rich, RICH content. There is so much to do, and so much to accomplish. However, I am a PvE and PvP oriented person, but moreso in PvP. You would think Arena was a great thing for PvP, but this is horribly wrong. Arena transformed the game into an constant desire for top tier epics, because if you didn't have thme you were at a disadvantage. To get them you need to be on top Arena teams or in raiding guilds, for the most part eliminating the 5-man casual entity that WoW had stood for.
Arena: Arena brought about a organized and competitive battleground for PvPers. However, what it didn't do was fix PvP, fix the imbalances and problems that are in WoW. BGs are ok with imbalances, because it's not that important, but with Arena, with world tournaments and Arena ratings placed on gear, which was the primary reason to get rid of the old system, it made the imbalances ruin the fun of the game. At least for me.
Warlocks, Frost Mages, Disc Priests, Restoration Druids, Hunters have all their great attributes and the fact that are extensively more powerful than everyone and that MS Warriors are the most important melee class in the game. You see, blizzard wanted to bring diversity to their classes, or so they said, and they fixed nothing but making Druids the best class in the game.
What broke me, what sent me away from WoW, was when Drysc reported that Shadow Priests would not be fixed until the expansion. I did play one, but it didn't matter what I was, they knew something was wrong, there had been something wrong since the release of the Burning Crusade, and they have no problem buffing druids and saying warlocks are fine due to the usuage of Warlocks in arena teams (even though according to their numbers Druids were way over numerous than they had intended and showed the statistic but still did nothing). With 10 million subscribers they have no incentive to fix this game, until another MMO starts swiping members from Blizzard. Even if this happens, I'm not sure I will even consider coming back.
User Comments
They will start loosing people in about 20 days or so.
There is always some inbalance between the classes. Nothing new. I don't think it's possible to please everybody.
There's only two complaints that we keep hearing over and over again about WoW. The difficulty in getting top-tier PVP gear and graphics. You know what? The majority of players really don't care about PvP. And considering how old the game is I think the graphics are great. I agree though, if you want a PvP game, look elsewhere, if you want DX10 graphics, well there's new crop of games out there. Nobody is forcing you to keep playing WoW.
get over it
Great write up. While I don't necessarily agree with everything that you wrote there, I do think you had a few strong points. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion and insight.
You said "you did not need epics to have a chance in PVP(...)" but if you recall, before TBC came out anyone with gear from BWL or above would absolutely obliterate anyone below them in gear scale. As time went on and more and more guilds started bringing alts and friends to raids, the gap in gear got even bigger. Resilience in TBC sort of helped, but yeah, it's a totally busted game.
And Arena is Counter-Strike for retards.
Second, I am over it, I don't play anymore and haven't for a good while. I just felt like writing about the game. Also, Blizzard won't lose everyone in twenty days, maybe a good percentage, but it wont be significant. If they do I will be very surprised, however I do hope Age of Conan does steal many a customer.
Even when BWL was out, the only epics I had were The Unstoppable Force, the AV ring, and AB shoulders. Seriously. I was capable of beating most players as long as they werent frost mages or had a geared healer healbotting them. Now, it is a lot different, and the balancing problems also started, oddly enough, when they started 'fixing' classes.
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