Time and time again open worlders vs everyone else, plus how the devs develope the game, its all instanced material with competitive big damage thinking. WoW is and always will be an MMO but has it lost and thrown its RPG out the window? Is what they minimally do for a story even enough with very little personal player gameplay being rpg?
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You answered your own question.
Wow itâs not, never has been, an rpg.
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I feel like WoW is now just an MMO sans RPG. It feels like to me the little RPG aspect the game did have disappeared around Cataclysm or MoP (whichever one removed the talent trees).
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Correct, itâs an mmorpg.
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I miss my rocket launcher trinket.
Back in BC, engineers could make what was, for all intents and purposes, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. So for me? For me, WoW lost its RPG sometime during Wrath.
(As for role playing, just like in tabletop games, the most important bits start behind your own eyeballs. You get as much or as little as youâre willing to go for.)
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The title implies World of Warcraft was ever a roleplaying game, to which it was as much then as it is now.
Iâm imagining the voice of Merlin from Excaliber âŚ
An mmo to some ⌠AN RPG TO OTHERS!
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No, it had RPGs during Wrath, they were all in Wintergrasp!
Ah, now that was fun times. Assuming you could actually get something like a balanced match going on your server 
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I think thatâs my number one gripe with the current community and with the direction the game seems to be heading.
There are so many dungeons and different forms of raids available, yet let players ask for more forms of content other than raids and grouping and peopleâs heads blow off. The entitlement is disappointing and unreal.
Itâs like having an amusement park with 16 roller coasters and theyâre getting ready to add the 17th and someoneâs like âHey, maybe we could get a bumper cars or something?â and people are like âNo! You canât take away from our roller coasters!â
How dare some people to want to enjoy WoW for reasons other than theirs!
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Before we get into this, can you define RPG means to you and how WoW was an RPG which it no longer is?
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Ours changed hands with some regularity â this was back when I played on Amanâthul, not Dalaran. This suited me fine. On defense I could work one of the cannons until the attackers broke through. On offense, sometimes Iâd get in a tank, other times Iâd do my usual BG thing and follow someone who looked like they knew what they were doing and be their pocket healer.
Good times, those were.
The game having more open world content wouldnât make it more of an RPG then it already is.
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When was it an rpg?
I think the only rpg is really what you put in. But itâs not a traditional rpg⌠more like just borrowing elements of it hence why its mmorpg. You are essentially role playing as your character.
Itâs definitely not as RP friendly as it once was. For some, it frees us up to write our own stories into our gaming, but few are nerdy enough to want to do that.
WoWâs loot system in its entirety is un-RPG-like. Youâre not saying WoW is losing its RPG-ness, youâre saying WoW is losing its WoW-ness. This perpetually inflating stat treadmill is not an RPG thing at all. RPGs typically have a solid rooted stat system with permanent hard caps. What WoW does makes no sense in an RPG context. Itâs an extreme outlier in MMORPG as well, most donât use it.
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I wish i knew what rpg meant in this context.
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Iâm still a real life human playing the role of an elf warlock in a fantasy world.
From Wikipedia
- World of Warcraft ~ The game primarily focuses on character progression, in which players earn experience points to level up their character to make them more powerful and buy and sell items using in-game currency to acquire better equipment, among other game systems.
and just to compare to another mmorpg which WoW lost a lot of players to in 2014
- The Elder Scrolls Online ~ Gameplay is mostly non-linear, with a mixture of quests, random events, and free-roaming exploration of the world. It does not provide a mode for single-player offline play, although the developers stated that there would be âplenty of contentâ for online solo play.
Bro it lost its RPG element A LOOOOOOOOOONG time ago, like, back in cata.
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Yep, it is a lobby based AARPG now. M+ has pretty much taken the place of almost all PVE content now, or at least it seems to be the only real rewarding content.
Iâm starting to think, the older developers working on the game have just completely lost their ability to create a fun game now.
Blizzard desperately needs some fresh blood at the helm of WoW.
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