Concerning WoW pessimism, we’re not “doom and glooming” for giggles. It’s more like we’re watching a relative drink themselves to death and we’re trying really hard to stage an intervention and get them healthy again.
I’m not sure I even love the game anymore… there’s just no alternative that’s any more satisfying. I’m not - by the way - a person who believes that the genre is on its last gasp - rather, I think MMORPGs right now are taking a healthy breather, and that there are better days (and games) yet to come. But, at the present, WoW or FFXIV (or something intensely grindy [although with really fun combat] like BDO) are really the only options.
I just don’t have any large desire to see the game go out like this - with a whimper rather than a roar. But that’s definitely the direction things are heading.
WOW is just boring atm, the systems are boring, the expansion is boring, the the current story is boring, the content is boring, we pay a sub fee to play a broken game and to be beta testers so they can play the game they want not the way players want. Just my 2 cents & how I feel. I tried a resub took about 9 hours of boring gameplay to unsub down to 23 days and counting.
It appears there is some in-fighting in the Doom and Gloom camp… some disagreement about “revenue and its importance” at this point it seems to be a tame bit of pushing and shoving, we will keep an eye on it.
I just love Azeroth, no matter what. Played the game for technically half my lifetime now (on and off). Not afraid to admit it’s one of my favorite games and I want it to thrive instead of die.
It’s just sad to see it go down by death by a thousand cuts.
Honestly, a RP server has the Vanilla/Classic vibe. It’s the only server where I still get /waves and people recognize me, just like the old days. But you have to actually like and participate in RP.
With no real opposition , its seems to be inevitable. The Doom and Gloomers need someone to fight… its in their very makeup. They are turning on each other in their *zeal to shed blood… things could go south very quickly.
That’s another thing that gets me, We pay a sub fee to play a screwed up game the way they want us to while they spend all the time to find ways to milk us for more money.