I didn't know there was gonna be a Xpac

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How many of you played in vanilla WoW without knowing that there was going to be an Xpac?

You see, I think that’s what ruined the game for most ppl. As soon as wow was a couple of expansions in ppl got tired of doing stuff for nothing.

Think of it as a business. Why would we put in all that time and work… if we know that in 2-3 years our investment was for nothing and so we players end up losing.

Most ppl just like me quit during WotLK. We just couldn’t take it anymore knowing that we can’t have fun in the game. It became an endless gear grind where you couldn’t even get all the BiS gear u wanted b4 the next Raid/dungeon came out.

Basically… I think too many Xpansions ruined WoW for most players.

Now we just buy the new Xpac, lvl up to max, do a couple of raids and then quit again after a few months.

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that would be everyone :O) Blizzard didn’t even know if there was going to be one, sure after it blew up like it did that all changed.

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To me, xpacs are an opportunity to start from scratch with everyone else. It’s like an entirely new game. Which is the reason, I’d like to replay some of the previous games (xpacs) such as Vanilla, BC and maybe WOLTK.

If they didn’t have an expansion cycle like they do and you’d have to go through every single raid to reach the next, I probably would have stopped playing the game around AQ or Naxx and never come back even if they kept releasing new content.

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I’d rather play the game I know I like with 2-3 year resets than be forced to play a complete different version of the game.

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I was actually disappointed when the expansion was announced. It was only in the weeks leading up to it that I started to get a bit excited.

I was really upset, though, with the way the first green drops you received in Hellfire Peninsula made your best Vanilla epics into vendor trash.

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if they release the classic expacs as stand alones that you must roll new characters on and leave your previous classic vanilla characters intact on classic vanilla, that problem is solved. :sunny:

you get home from work and think… hmm am i in a vanilla mood or a tbc mood or a wotlk mood. hehe (presuming they wouldn’t go past wotlk)

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i wonder if that could’ve been resolved by giving you the option to increase the power of your equipped epics, rather than making them obsolete. clearly they wanted it to seem new and to guide the art in a direction that said alien world, but the players frequently mog back into those older appearances. hindsight is 20-20

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I honestly thought Outland and Northrend would be just patches, back then in Warcraft 3 Outland was just 1 zone and Northrend was more of a mysterious place with a spire in the middle of a frozen lake, and I thought we would get Northrend first but then The Burning Crusade was announced.

Then I expected the Emerald Dream to be its own expansion but it was just a dungeon and a raid… we never got to use those 4 portals around Azeroth…

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really? i was wearing t2 and my 2.5 well into Kara for the most part.

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I was upset when I left the starting zone and got a green upgrade that invalidated my starter gear. Lol

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I like this concept.

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the starting zone also started the poo quest journey.

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This is what should have happened. Lore wise having TBC before wotlk was a bizzare shift in time.

Should have been vanilla - wrath - cata - mists - TBC - new improved warlords since it follows TBC - Legion - BFA

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I knew there would be expansions, but I didn’t expect a complete gear reset like there was. My full Tier 2 was replaced with leveling greens in the high 60s and at that point my enthusiasm for sinking huge amounts of time into raiding pretty much diminished and never returned. It’s even worse these days with every PATCH resetting gear.

I honestly expected things to be more like Everquest was in it’s old days. They released expansions, but didn’t invalidate gear from previous ones. In fact, you needed gear from previous expansions to start progressing into expansion content. It created an interesting dynamic of a wide variety of content available for guilds at multiple stages of progression.

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i think they went with BC first because a lot of what they wanted to add In vanilla was content that became BC, though thematically i actually tend to agree with your progression.

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I assumed there would be. Every other MMO before it did.

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And since flying came with TBC, all those xpacs before it would be just a little bit better.

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When I played back in vanilla, until I heard of the work on the expansion, I assumed my subscription would simply cover added content over time, not another 10 levels and cheapening of the existing endgame.

A little bit of creative thinking and horizontal progression through new content would have worked.
Expansions suck.

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Here’s how I wish the Xpacs worked.

1 - you are dropped through the Portal naked, without access to any of the stuff from Vanilla.
2 - You are reset to level 1 and have to grind up all the levels and gear up again at the same pace as Vanilla but with all new zones, quests, dungeons and raids.
3 - If you go back to the Vanilla zones, your character reverts to the status he had before you left.

Basically each Xpac is a brand new WoW, only your name, class, race and faction remain with your friends list and guild affiliation in tact.

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I knew there would be expansions. Every MMO prior to of note had had them and many other games had had them as well. In fact, that was something to look forward to. Now, if you were to ask, how many knew Blizzard would seek to rewrite the entire game each time? Then it would be no one.