This is a good point. Players have enough hours in WoW now to have multiple PhDs. Things just come naturally if you’ve spent that much time in the game world. I don’t know if there’s a way for the devs to create a “challenging” design structure for the classes.
It’d be like a kid saying, “Running” was more exciting when he was 5 vs 25. Yeah, every kid feels like he’s, The Flash, when he’s zooming around with his pillowcase cape and leaping over couches. That’s just life in general. New experiences tend to be better.
I gotta admit, I never got to play Scholomance in vanilla when it was current content in original WoW.
It was very nice that I got to experience it in the re-release of Classic WoW. There’s just something so magical about those old dungeons. Scholo, Strat, BRD, etc. It’s just… perfect. We’ll never get anything like that again.
I would drop everything and reroll on a fresh vanilla classic server today and be utterly thrilled. The current retail game is a soulless husk of what made WoW great.
I’m old and I have to tell you: This is life. One day you are obsessed about something fun and want to do it non-stop. Then, and it feels quite sudden: It stops being fun.
I walked through a carnival this year and thought about how I used to look forward to carnivals all year long. And how, in my twenties, they stopped being fun. And now, in my sixties? Well, I do like watching kids ride the rides.
I’ve almost entirely stopped watching TV; I used to watch a lot of TV. I don’t buy gaming consoles anymore; I used to buy one or two of every new wave of consoles.
Things stop being fun. Things fall away. It’s kind of sad but also totally normal. There’s nothing wrong with you. Or WoW.
Here’s some good news, though: I have found that some things don’t stop being fun and those things are the activities that are somehow core to who I am. For me those things are reading, learning, dogs, and nature. I loved those things at age four and I love them even more now.
AND . . .you pick up new things to love as well. That’s why it’s important to be open to trying new things. You never know what might hook you.
So don’t despair. I remember feeling bereft when I stopped liking comic books. But I got over it and life remains interesting and full of things I enjoy. And hey, sometimes what you used to like pops up and gives you one last joy: I was delighted when Marvel did a Black Panther movie because that was my favorite comic book when I was a kid.
There are a ton of games out there. Surely you can find at least one that you like. For MMOs I prefer ESO. A nice interesting sandbox game I prefer the Subnautica series. If I’m feeling like I want hard and challenging I go to a Souls game. If I just want to veg out I play Stardew Valley.
Heck, I enjoy taking care of my yard and washing our vehicles (wife and I.) I used to do certain things out of necessity, but now I take pleasure in some of those same things. I love watching my son grow into a man and my daughter into a woman. Seeing them excited about things is wonderful. I don’t need to feel the same joy at riding motorcycles or staying up all night clearing a raid in WoW.
Like you said, it’s okay to get bored with things, because it means there are new possibilities that you get to explore.
The only difficulty is staying awake. Even mythic raids and higher keys are so easy it’s absurd anyone can enjoy them, and I really don’t understand how it sometimes takes weeks for world first.
You killed every other game too.
When there are objective differences I can point at that made the game less enjoyable? Yeah how about we pull our head out, hm?
It’d be like a kid who ran with his own feet and thought it was fun, now in the future we have mechanical getups that help you with running, and you can only run on treadmills, and it lost all its appeal.
No, it’s not. The average IQ is just lower than it’s ever been. Dropping like a rock, bro!
Yeah, tons of garbage. Maybe one or two games I would actually call good come out a year, if even that many. Everything else is low effort cash grabs or words that I can’t use here, but also garbage.
Yeah for me that was gaming. Unfortunately, a giant group of losers made sure that I don’t have it anymore, and continue to do so.
Tried more things than you’d believe bro. All of it got old very quickly.
Yeah, tons of garbage. Maybe one or two games I would actually call good come out a year, if even that many. Everything else is low effort cash grabs or words that I can’t use here, but also garbage.
trueee. Unless you wanna play 2d indie game there really aren’t a lot of great games coming out.
What’s consistent in your story is that you hate almost everything you play but you keep playing those things for some reason. Sounds like you’re your own worst enemy here.
The 3 hardest games I’ve ever played but still come back to every single year for the past 10+ years.
Project Zomboid, Factorio, Banished, all with mods. The Souls games are a different type of hard, they’re rhythm games, once you get it down they become boring and you have to do crap like No Hit runs.
It’s hard for a game that doesn’t have modding to even hit the spot. Most things need to be made more difficult with mods, otherwise you don’t have a video game that lasts too long.
Thats just a neglected game mode, where the goal is to perma cc healers with a debuff that actively screws healers. Why would a healer main want to play crap flavored crap? Way better games for pvp out there, that actually get good updates and maps xD