It is boring, the content is repetitive, everything feels cheap. The game lacks a feeling of reward or achievement unless you are at level cap and pushing one or more of the three total options. Arena, M+, or Mythic raiding. Everything else legitimately feels like it is nothing but a pointless speed bump on your way to one of those things.
That is why they have made leveling so easy. That is why they hand out a free boosts to every person that buys the expansion. Nothing matters in the slightest until you are well beyond 120. It doesnât even feel like the training wheels come off of the game until you hit M+, Heroic raiding, etc.
Playing a bit of Classic has really shown me how much (not that I didnât know already) they have butchered the game in an effort to make everything accessible andâŚwellâŚeasy. Everything is flat out handed to you in Retail until you hit a wall (partly created by the players although mostly to protect their time/effort) at which point you are better off just making another alt for the gear-up âhighâ when you hit 120 again.
At first I thought I was just kicking the tires with Classic, and didnât really take it seriously, but at this point I am logging into Retail less and less, and when I do I am not around for long. I feel a greater sense of accomplishment when I get a level in Classic than I do from getting epic quality loot on a max level toon in BfA.
Youâve asked for reasons and those are mine. Take them how you will.
Iâm not sure why you think more people would do more dungeons if it took a lot of time to get into one and there was a good chance you would be rejected repeatedly.
Like, in earlier expansions people could spam heroic dungeons as entertainment.
Without a group finder, no leveler would ever do a dungeon, given what a huge time sink it would be to travel to another continent and maybe even through enemy territory to get there. Is that good or bad for the game?
Hmmm⌠It seem like it was less on lfg group the first week of classic. But it seem like normal to me now. The queue stuff is the same as ever. The current LFR is up to 1 hr in MoP. Up to 1 hr in WoD. Up to 1 hr in legion.
You seem threatened and defensive for someone with a so called friends list. I play both however my classic guilds are growing and growing fast while retail feels like its dying. Granted classic is the new kid around and retail will have a bounce back after the patch butâŚif the story sucksâŚwho knows
Theyâre completely different games.
Theyâre under the same subscription fee sure, but when you play them theyâre distinctly different in many many many ways.
Youâre kind of a b*tch, maybe thatâs why itâs so hard for you to play retail.
And you feel like you are reaching. You claimed that the game was dead. I said your anecdotal evidence is different from mine. At no point was I being âthreatenedâ or âdefensiveâ. I mean sure I guess anyone would seem defensive when all you do is completely bash and berate anyone that disagrees with you.
I donât agree with your statement to Medaax. I think players are trying to protect and defend their investment and also want to be part of the âcool kidsâ group. Being in the majority gives them comfort. When they think they are not in the majority they lash out
I mean look at any post involving addons or layers or cleave dungeon groups. Because the fact that the old school players want to sit through and do quests all day means that no one else is allowed to deviate from that or it is considered âexploitingâ.
Darling, anecdotal evidence is what you used. Retail is losing subs fast and a quick google search will tell you. Yes, you donât get the actual numbers because blizzard hides those but there is still plenty of evidence that retail is strugglingâŚeven without classic. How many friends on your list doesnât tell me a thingâŚyou might think your list is big with 5 friends on itâŚwho knows
I mean if you want to give me hard proof then by all means go for it. The last person that tried to use âproofâ that retail was dead posted on the Classic forums that retail had a whopping 30k people online during peak hours via an addon. They were laughed at by BOTH retail and classic players.