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This week in the WoW Factor we take a look at six things you can do while waiting for this fall's release of Warlords of Draenor.
Read more of Reza Lackey's The WoW Factor: Waiting for Draenor.
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I like to take a break once in a while and am sort of happy having to wait a few months. I'm like many, have multiple 90s that are pretty much SoO normal maxed out, so what's wrong with a little rest?
I'm trying out ESO which should be good until Wildstar comes out and then Wildstar until WoD comes out.
It's like the MMORPG gods are smiling down at me!
So true, this game is dead. Playing the same content over and over is just plain stupid.
With all the new mmorpg out who cares about this old mmorpg dummed down, none plays for the leveling because the only thing that matters in that game is end game, so why level at all?.
Next xpac looks fun but why spend your instant 90 right away and start using your free gift if you pre-order when you can wait and do it when the new content comes out and have lots of friends to play with.
Right now the world is dead, you only have people full boa starting new toon and hanging out around Goldshire making duel or just talking crap about other players, or waiting for there Q to pop for arena or bg or dungeons.Other then that nothing to see.
See you in next xpac if i renew my sub, been already 5 months now not playing, i am more looking forward to Wildstar and possibly ESO once everything fix in there or becomes f2p. One way or the other there is and will be more things to do in those mmorpg then in wow form start to finish. ( content that means something ).
Uh-oh... you're speaking heresy about WoW... prepared to be banned for a day!
Also... I agree with everything you said from start to finish. WoW is definitely looking rough these days... and with the "new graphics engine" coming out, they took a game from 2004 and made it look like a game from 2008... spiffy!
The fans are rusted into WoW's source code at this point. I have a theory that if the WoW servers were ever shut down, the universe would fold back into itself. That's why Blizzard will never let it go...
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"Im ready for
All the comparisons
I think its dumb and its embarrassing
Im switching off
No longer listening
Ive had enough of persecution and conditioning
Maybe its instinct- Were only animal" - Lily Allen, Sheezus
Letting people pay a sub for the same contend for roughly 15 months.
ESO / Wildstar / AA / And many more games comming out.
Blizzard might take a devastating blow this time.
I hope people give blizzard the finger this time tough, they keep lying and they sure as hell dont care for their players anymore.
15 months if WoD launches in December.....15 months of SoO.....damn that a pure robery right there -_-
Still have great memory's, but all from Vanila / TBC
When will people learn that an MMO does not equal "dead" when:
Hey, I loved WoW as much as the next guy did back in the day, but when you drop from 12 million to less than 7 million in a few short years, you know things are going down hill.
They really, really, really needed this expansion to release about 2 weeks ago if they intended on keeping people there imo.
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
If you mention rose tinted glasses, you better be referring to Mitch Hedberg.
Blah, blah, blah... people have been saying the same thing since 2007...
This
While i have 2 more months in my acc, i cant even log in anymore. I m not saying wow is dead or ESO/WS will kill it etc, but for gods sake letting ppl play the same content almost for 15 months is retarded.
This is the reason i ll play Wildstar until then and i will think it much if i m ever to get WoD.
Blizzard seems to be doing the same thing with Wildstar and TESO as they did with AOC and Warhammer, almost the same timing too. They are basically telling people to go try those games at launch, deal with the issues and then we will launch our game exactly when you are getting frustrated with the those games.
Clear up a couple things. First is that Blizzard already stated that they used the December date because it is the very last day of fall for legal reasons. It probably has just a good of a chance to come out in September as December. But as others had said, I too am a bit disappointed with how slow they are, I was expecting June.
Sub losses. People need to stop with the silliness. WOW lost a bunch of western subs when Cata was a month old, but the other losses were all mostly from China and were very casual players who joined a f2p game that launched there. When WOW had 12M subscribers, people here screamed that ´half of those are from china and pay almost nothing´.. and mostly it was true. But those are the players that Blizzard lost because of a f2p game there. The fact that Blizzard hasn´t lost revenues indicates it shed very low income players, not the $15/ month people from the west. Blizzard used to have half it´s subscribers from China, that is no longer true.
As for the article, I would also suggest getting all of your alts to 90 and getting some timeless island gear, definitely a ring and trinket since those will last a good bit into WoD. I wouldn´t stress out about a weapon though, since if past expansions are any indication, you will get a new weapon very early in the expansion. In MoP it was the third quest, in Cata about the 8th. I would get a ring and trinket because more than likely you will only get 1 in the first zone.
Its funny that people play MMOS and then complain about repetition in content.
How do you think Wildstar content is going to be in a couple of years? if you are not doing same thing over and over again expansion after expansion then come back to me and i will gladly eat a crow.
Honest people you should read up on history when come to WoW expansion when people learn that it should not be any surprise
What year? As I know release is planned in december and have read nothing about any postpone. And what they should have learned? All releases were in time and were perfect (but original, but I was not present at that time).
It is even more amazing given the Panda themed content that came out of the last expansion.
I don't play WoW anymore, but if I did, here's how I'd rate those suggestions:
1) Sounds cool.
2) If I wanted to play Pokemon, I'd play Pokemon. Pass.
3) No idea what "Toys and Heirlooms" are. If they're anything like Artifacts in RIFT, pass.
4) Sounds cool.
5) Sounds c-wait, vanity items? Eh. Sounds OK..
Glad that there are still some interesting things to do in WoW, but am also very glad I don't play in dumbed-down Pandaland.