I’m starting to come to terms WoW is a lost cause. WoW has bad leadership, Gameplay designs, Loot acquisition, Quest designs, Raid designs, Dungeon designs. It is all bad and no longer fun. For a elder game it should have had it all together and ironed out. But it doesn’t. After continuing to keep getting duplicates gear items and RNG systems that is worse the a actual slot machine from a casino I think it is time I move on to another game. It is no longer fun. I doubt in the next 5-10-15-20 more expansions later WoW will recover it will only continue to keep getting worse and worse and worse and worse. Bad leadership bad game developers will continue to drain all the fun from this game till it is nothing but a dead husk.
Don’t believe me just take a good solid look at some of the realms around you. For Example on some very unpopulated realms “The Scryers” “Steamweedle” “Lightninghoof” And many more other barely has a player on them. I wonder why they are empty? There was a time when you had to be in a 30 minute Q just to get on a server now you barely see people playing. Now i’m seeing even the most popular realms bleeding out and becoming empty.
It is evidence enough WoW is dying it is not recovering. And this is probably why they are pushing out AI content cause Sub numbers are dropping every month. The game is no longer fun for people. And it all boils down to Loot Acquistion. No one wants to sit there and farm a slot machine for 6 months hoping for a jackpot.
And these forums are nothing but a empty echo chamber the developers are not even in it. And is over ran by trolls and thread derailers. WoW is over and is dead but people just don’t see it yet. The developers just don’t give a rats cheese.
And the legendary loot acquistions is trash as well. WoW is in a such a bad state that even if the old vanilla developers were to take back WoW they will not be able to repair all the damage that has been done since WoD. Not even WoW 2 fresh reset will work. WoW will never again see 12 million subs it had in Wotlk ever again. You can prove me wrong.
I think the mmo genre is pretty much done and over. Unless someone out there can develop a mmo that no one has ever seen before but highly unlikely.
I think it is time for me to consider my options and consider the option to look for a game that the developers don’t run and hide and ignore problems.
It ceased to be an rpg a long time ago. Now its a game of micro transactions that is fixated on casino style luck in an effort to stop players from acquiring the things they want quickly and advance the agenda of maximizing the metric known as /played
It’s a 20 year old game and they’ve always been resistant to the volume of server mergers they needed to keep it feeling full. Can’t really be surprised there.
Wow wouldn’t have had them then if it wasn’t for the Chinese short term time they were counting.
Always the right move. Make sure you’re enjoying your game time, whatever the reason!
WOW is far from perfect and grinding can get tiresome sometimes. But, I think it is an overall entertaining game. Of course, if you don’t feel that way, you should take a break and/or quit.
That is not due to current state of WOW. It wouldn’t happen even if WotLK was released right now. Times have changed. We have changed. The magic from back then is gone and we are much more jaded now.
Let’s face reality here; it’s not a leadership crisis, you aren’t part of Blizzard, empty realms aren’t a problem if you’re on full realms, the mmo genre isn’t what you are playing when you’re addicted at the end of the day.
Legendary loot acquisitions? Are they happening slower than Thunderfury or Ragnaros Hammer? Not even in the same order of magnitude.
You’re not quitting because of the forums. They drive everyone equally insane. You can be the insaner or the insanee, but the forums aren’t in a good state, and weren’t in a good state in 2005.
This is not about them. You don’t need to tell anyone that you want to quit, you’re free to do so.
Do it. Quitting is easier than writing this post. Just delete it from your hard drive, cancel your recurring payments, poof, you’re doing other things.
I saw a thing that said with Video games Millennials favor MMOs while Gen Z plays Minecraft, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Fortnite, etc.
I guess Gen X liked games like the Super Mario Brothers and boomers liked text based games (back when text was popular the fiirst time) like Colossal Cave Adventure and various text based D&D games.
Of course not. WoW’s primary problems are its age, changing audience preferences, and an ever-increasing market demand for profits…and none are things you can “recover” from.
After today I still have one mount that’s kinda rare, it’s enough to keep going… but I swear if Blizz goes after that one I may take drastic measures, like roll a hunter or something.
Well, that part isn’t necessarily true. There’s still many interesting and intelligent discussions with good people. In fact right now we’ve got a mainly good group talking. Seems only when school breaks happen is when the whack jobs come out in droves. Though I do dislike the 1-10 posters who start topics meant to sow dissent, but those are mostly fun for a riled up party bash.
As to the rest of the repetitive paragraphs some is true, but the WoW dying is beating a dead horse. It isn’t and won’t for a good long while. Things just changed. I can empathize with not liking it, but wish you happy trails wherever you go for your next adventure!
Have you took a few minutes and took a look at some of the realms around you in the realm list? And actually make a alt on some of them tell me if your going to find a active raiding guild on them that will run mythics with you.
As an irony, all of the bolded items have massively improved over time. Dungeon design is rather formulaic after Vanilla, though, but a glimpse into the Classic servers has shown that it really has gotten better. Even looking to a snapshot of how we acquired weekly loot in WoD and BFA, what we have now is straight better. And DF’s Vault is better than SL’s Vault.
You can crap on the game with your opinions all you want, but PvE from MoP onward just got progressively better. I think we did regress from MoP/Legion designs of some things, though. As much as I hated Legion, it was on to something with the artifact weapon design. And then BFA regressed the grind to the Heart of Azeroth, but introduced cool things through Azerite and Corruptions. And then Shadowlands did away with that, but gave us the Great Vault. And then DF improved the Vault and baked in a lot of the borrowed power into classes.
I can’t speak for quest design, since I’m not casual enough to care.
its mostly that people today don’t like to spend hours and hours every day playing a game, so wow’s timewasting mechanics used to be accepted but not anymore.
