I want to enjoy it, but it’s kind of alienating that the average community doesn’t value anything below the higher difficulties of end game. So it feels very lovely enjoying the game on easier difficulty levels. Part of it is of course that there’s no challenge until the late end game, but also because the game is old and solved. It also means that the first true group experience is in very stressful situations and it doesn’t really lend itself to buddying with your party mates.
Playing alone on the other hand is kind of pointless, because there’s no one around to compare yourself to, just general mass of playerbase in which you’re just a tiny drop. There’s none of that “oh I got this great weapon drop today, I’m gonna carry you through those dungeons tonight”. Or “hey I’ve been farming some ore today, here’s some since I know you’re leveling that profession”.
If you’re good, and you can run high enough to appear on leaderboards and earn achievements, then I suppose you can have fun in the current game. Or if you treat it as a brainless retreat. In which case I agree, I enjoy WoW from time to time in that capacity as well. But with bigger and bigger breaks.
A lot of the people who hate on the game have never taken a break from it. I’ve played since TBC, and have had multiple breaks and when I come back game is fun af.
There comes a point when if you play too much, that it becomes your life and it can make you quite depressed/angry. I quit during SL and feel super refreshed. A lot of people play it just because they always have done.
Agreed. It’s the only MMO that I find myself coming back to. Although I hate a lot of things that they’ve done to retail, I’ll still probably come back to it eventually. Can’t pass up player housing
And the fact that Blizzard listens to the players. They gave us Classic, which has been amazing so far. Met a lot of cool people here
I agree with you my fellow dwarf, I love this game very much, especially the fact that you can step on the heads of the inferior races of the horde, for the glory of the alliance! (cof cof we win most wars against these stinkers)