World of Warcraft

Produde it seems a little ironic that given you feel this thread is a waste of time you still posted in here.

Personally I feel threads like these are valuable - they give a straw poll about strength of player feelings on various topics.  This is a website about MMORPGs, not just WoW, and given that game designers want to make something that does not annoy their players, then an indication of feeling from other games, especially if you want to emulate that game's base design model, can provide useful insights.

The issue with WoW that is obvious from this and threads like it is that by targetting a young market and taking a very "cards-close-to-the -chest" approach, young customers buying the game may be mistaken in thinking that level 60, or 70, or 80 etc was "the end-game".  It won't be, 100 seems likely to be the endgame for WoW, but even that may change.  As such a percentage of your customer base may always feel you have just invalidated their really hard work accumulating level x raid gear, which could be countered by a more clarity around what the future holds.  But that would be at a cost too, so overall the whiners can just whine a little why everyone else goes and kills things.

Originally posted by Flute

Produde it seems a little ironic that given you feel this thread is a waste of time you still posted in here.

Personally I feel threads like these are valuable - they give a straw poll about strength of player feelings on various topics.  This is a website about MMORPGs, not just WoW, and given that game designers want to make something that does not annoy their players, then an indication of feeling from other games, especially if you want to emulate that game's base design model, can provide useful insights.

The issue with WoW that is obvious from this and threads like it is that by targetting a young market and taking a very "cards-close-to-the -chest" approach, young customers buying the game may be mistaken in thinking that level 60, or 70, or 80 etc was "the end-game".  It won't be, 100 seems likely to be the endgame for WoW, but even that may change.  As such a percentage of your customer base may always feel you have just invalidated their really hard work accumulating level x raid gear, which could be countered by a more clarity around what the future holds.  But that would be at a cost too, so overall the whiners can just whine a little why everyone else goes and kills things.

Even more ironic that this thread was headed for its rightful place in oblivion when you bumped it.