I have been around in gaming for a long time, I have played yadda I have played this, you know the drill.
So, I thought why not play WoW , I tried it years ago with that 7 days trial they had and it was as expected generic, kill this, fetch that.
Last week I took a leap of faith and downloaded it played for a day, and thought wth I buy the pack up to Legion and start playing.
Well It's not boring and It's not very fun game It's like for me in the between I can play it, but I can understand why people get hooked on the game, you get so so much carrots all the time that you just have to do that thing and damn boom you get a quest that endsup in a nice mount or a gold dungeon run that flow thru and you get awesome loot every run.
WoW are Like Las Vegas, but in WoW you always win.
I will try to get to max level and see whats going on, but as it stands now, damn the game is really old and stale.
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I had fun once, it was terrible.
Or so it looked.. again.. never played it, just watched others play it and seen some vids.
Seriously, folks will grind out 3-4 different characters doing the same leveling content over and over. One might think that updating and adding leveling content regularly would do wonders to help with retention, particularly if you've any interest in adding new classes down the line.
It's called Toot for Loot (TFL) and show some respect!
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When WOW launched, i'd already played better games (Final Fantasy XI and Runescape) which meant I also found the 7 day trial of WOW very cartoony and generic and wasn't able to get immersed in the world.
As many have said before, your first MMORPG is usually the one you have the best experience and memories playing. I'm still looking for a game that can give me what i'm looking for but feel that may never happen.
As someone that played EQ and DAoC, trust me, DAoC felt "pretty damn easy" in comparison to EQ. Which, IMHO, is why WoW kicked off so massive, it catered to the (at that time) casual gamer, and thus set the trend and bar in that direction.
I have to say, I like the modern trend better. I mean, from what I have heard, GW2 is like a final step in that direction, and I loved that game, (I also loved EQ too.. funny what 20 years, a job, and a family will do to change your tastes in games) but, it's cool to get daily log in rewards, it awesome to not worry about players Kill stealing, ninja looting, or stealing some stupid resource, its' great to have a game where we all win just by playing.
Sure, it's junk (or as you said.. Coppers from the Slot Machine) but, I can play for a little bit and still feel like I made progress. I can play between cooking and still make progress.. you get the idea.
I would never want to go back to those days, the "Golden Age" as they called it.. for me.. after playing EQ for 6 years, it felt like I woke up from a trance, and my life had passed me by.. Never liked that.. Love the modern games.. where.. eh.. Let me escape for an hour.. kill something, but still able to respond to real life as it comes.
I get that since I never played WoW, and you never played EQ, we don't have that same foundation, for you it was a great time. for me.. it was like being a drug addict, where I had to play 10+ hours a day to be viable and competitive.
I don't miss those days. I guess my glasses were amber.
(speaking as someone who played at 100% attendance in a server first raiding guild in vanilla)
when BFA preorders hit i decided to go back in, enticed by the allied races, had fun doing the 'new' storylines, WQ's, getting rep and getting a steady stream of new gear upgrades from a combination of WQ rewards and the new 910 argus vendor over a couple of weeks. Then i had my exalteds for the new argus factions and an ilvl of 930 (base LFR is 915). The only thing keeping me in the game now is leveling my new void elf to be main in BFA but once that is 110 and geared outside of non LFR raids I don't see myself being subbed until BFA releases.
So many games are doing this,even though end game is total garbage imo,this seems to be what most devs are focusing on.
That is what made FFXI so special for so many years,you could pretty much fight anything in total noob gear,it was more about grouping,the people in your group and the FUN and that really are the ONLY things that should matter in a game.
Square Enix does it,SOE/DBG does it,Blizzard does it,Geesh even all these ARPG's are about your build and NOT about you as a player.
I...we are witnessing a terrible direction in game design,i hoped for better things but instead we see shallow superficial gaming,ranks/leagues>>>all pointing to $$$.
THEN...to add insult to injury we have to listen to reviews on websites BULLSHITTING us about how good every game is,here is a link,go there buy it,play it,yeah whatever,how about NO THANKS.
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Now I know the Val'Kyr are dead champions of Vrykul race, you got the Val'kyrs from Odyn and the Lich king and Eyir can make them, that's why Sylvanas wanted to control her. She got only 4 left so if she dies now she prob will die forgood. /cheer
Btw Spirithealers are dead Vrykul who decided to help lost adventures.
Wow is still doing ok because there are still people who enjoy that kind of game, there is a market obviously.
Personally I can't wait for Classic WoW which I think is a good balance between EQ and modern WoW.