Hey guys!
I’m Hourior, my WoW journey began when I was 9 years old around 16 years ago and I’ve played on and off ever since. While I’ve engaged with high-end PvE content fairly consistently throughout the years (most prominently in Wotlk and WoD) my favourite areas of the game have always been from either the world of World of Warcraft, or the social and community aspects of the game. Another area I’m really interested in is the new player experience, with my fondest memories of the game coming from when I was the GM of a primarily social guild during Wotlk in which we took new players, or those inexperienced with raiding, and helped mentor and teach them so they could eventually go on and reach their raiding goals and improve at the game.
My main concerns with the modern direction of the game come from the overt focus on end game PvE and PvP systems, which leads to a “play the patch” routine and neglects the rich 18 years of content and development the game has received throughout its lifespan. Along with this I feel like a lot of the community and social aspects of the game have been abandoned in favour of gameplay conveniences which eats away at many of the core aspects of the game, and the genre it belongs to.
In short, my major topics of interest and what I’d like to discuss more are:
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The new player experience, and expanded mentorship systems
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World building, immersion, and narrative
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Evergreen content, and shifting away from the “play the patch” routine
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Community and social features
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Opportunities to capture, or recapture, a broader player-base than just those of PvE and PvP
Overall I feel like WoW has slowly shifted away from making the most of some of the incredible benefits it could have over other games in the current market, these being its setting, and the genre it had been the pinnacle of for so long. With the overall world being neglected, the narrative taking a questionable direction, and the abandonment of features or game aspects that takes advantage of both the MMO and RPG parts of the genre that this game was once the shining beacon of.
I look forward to discussing with everyone very soon about all things World of Warcraft.