Its very sad to see how the game becomes unplayable when someone think of (bad/mobile) ways to keep the players playing the game.
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If class balance doesn’t get fixed in 9.1, I can’t see myself staying. Its been horrible this season and have almost quit multiple times. Seeing blizzards current attempts at “balancing” doesn’t give me much hope though.
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Same. I’m here to the 7th and then I’ll ride into the sunset. 
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I have no desire to play anymore myself. The lack of rewards for time invested has killed it for me. I hate to say this but BFA was actually more fun for me. The story is also bad but has been for a while now.
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Yeah I’m starting to get bored. Although I’m pretty casual and play solo.
This xpac doesn’t feel very alt friendly either so I can’t spice it up with playing a different class.
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What other MMOs have you enjoyed? I may check some out.
For the solo mmo experience it’s hard to beat SWTOR. It does alot of stuff better than wow. But the dungeons and raids are not as good as wow.
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Oh that’s awful. I did laugh though that they just scampered on you, sorry >.<
I’m so glad someone else noticed this. Just mining on my paladin, I would have a node on my map but it would be on a cliff that would take me ages to circle around and climb, it couldn’t have been better designed to waste time.
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I think my friends are at that stage were they can’t admit they don’t like it. Ya the time sinks are blatant, and map design is not user friendly. It is very intentional.
Flying jeopardizes their plan to keep us grounded, and under the travel time forecasts.
I am looking at this from a dev pov. I have built many maps in my time for games and I can dissect their work. I see white boards with sketches. Placements of flight paths, lines with estimated travel #s, wq’s also with time #s… a formula that they must keep developing under in order to hit a estimated overal # that needs to match content vs time.
In a nut shell what did I say? Time gating is the skeleton under the game.
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Its happened after the majority discovered no matter how many “improvements” occur in this expansion, the 12% of those who ruined the game for BFA are still holding sway on the game and why the actual issues are being addressed, but for the benefit of those who can spam Blizzard to say “this is the problem”. why now its servers full of Allie Druids and paladins since the bias wasn’t snuffed out, just hidden behind the appeal of bursting styles in arenas, the illusion you can “casually” win RBGs and M+'s not being the “only” way to get over 205 ilvls. Of course this is just one opinion a small number share because from my experience personally, I’m not a fan of being able to get a 1200 arena rating just to be stuck there at max conquest and geared up, losing to 26k hp teams just because they’re leather classes and lastly, I hate the fact WM brings out the worst, ESPECIALLY in the maw. This is coming from an Enhance Shaman who usually groups with 3 others daily, worst part about it all is the defeatest and millenial attitudes we get when either asking for help or trying to help others. AND yes, I’ve heard “just turn wm off” and I hat that because that just means, those allies get more benefits with less effort and I’m so irritated by that.
Blizzard seems to like shooting themselves in the foot and causing a nosedive in subs from poor systems in new expansions it seems.
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I don’t believe that flying will be implemented in the way that people expect. For example, I don’t think you’ll be able to fly between the 5 “islands” , at least without a loading screen.
With flying it will also be glaringly obvious how small the world actually is.
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I haven’t played since Christmas lol.
SL really killed my enjoyment.
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AH moguls
Bots
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If you say so
Yes the loot situation sucks , I’ll be leaving as well , not going to sit around with a 184 weapon because noting drops , not one weapon drop across two toon over 100 m+ done . Compared to BFA loot is non existent . To heck with their time played model . I’m over it . Kill the game with your ridiculous game model :
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I feel your post so deeply skyfury
It is dropping down, but mostly because of the game model and other offers that are less time consuming and more rewarding.
WoW used to be a monument back in 2004-2010, you couldn’t find anything like it, there were many QoL changes that no game could launch with.
The decade of 2010-2020 had many online services advancing a ton of QoL and other game modes, which required less time put, more objective gameplay and still have a lot of the equation that made WoW fun for many, even tho they weren’t that much into fantasy rpgs.
The overall gaming world changed, but WoW still holds itself into some metrics that are mainly there to justify money spent on certain aspects of the game, instead of making the gameplay experience interesting.
Too much focus on borrowed power, terrible class balance, focus on minigames that are never quite developed and half way trough they are just abandoned in the xpac.
The Blizzard pattern over the past 15 years is quite clear, you can see how the devs act up on stupid design bets and how they are just always creating problems to fix em and look like they care about the playerbase.
But after some xpacs and patches, even new players understand the devs have no intent of fixing any of the issues, they are just focusing on whats next down the line. So people peace out to where their time will be rewarded, don’t expect shadowlands systems to be any better, this was a rushed xpac, all they are doing now is putting a coat of paint.
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I would also like to add that gear, in PvP at least, is much less of a factor in SWTOR than in WoW, especially if you plan on tanking, but that’s the price of abundant loot (to get better loot, you need to wear higher ilvl gear) and no time-gating.
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It is dropping fast and as Alliance you can see it in the WM bonus increasing.
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