Ever since the latest update of No Man’s Sky, which uses new tech developed for Light No Fire, I’ve been shaking my head at what WoW could of become by now. It just shows the difference between studios and devs thar really care about the games they are making and those for whom it’s just a job and cash cow.
We’ve been asking for a litteral planet sized rpg with the freedom of a sandbox and after all the money they’ve made from our subscriptions and expansion cost, we get watered down gameplay that leave everyone with boring chores and nothing to do less than 2 months into each season.
They could have taken our charaters and collectibles and transfered them into a newer engine with dynamic world interactions instead of a few story quest and repeatable world quests. Instead we get the bare minimum and this goblin patch is the perfect metaphor for the overprice junkyard ripoff this game has devolved into.
But alas, it’s over for me after 20 years of paying luxury prices for back alley slop.
Not even remotely exaggerating to say that there is so much to do in game now that I can’t keep up. I’m not even close to keeping up. Not even in the same zip code as keeping up. Unless you’re just married to the game and spend all day every day playing it, you can find something to do
NMS just got a huge update to graphics and lighting. New solar and planet types. Oceans are miles deep to explore. Really fun game if you like exploration and mystery.
Im really excited to see what light no fire brings. It looks amazing too.
Remember that whole “be careful what you wish for?” Wow is excellent for a game running on an engine built for a MOBA. yes. The WC3 engine? That is what is running WoW. They’ve updated the graphics, how the engine uses cpu and gpu over the years, theyve tuned it to a clean, efficient thing running fracking lua, of all the languages it could have used.
And you know what it can do that no man’s sky cant? Have more than 32 people in an area at once, which to be fair, nms breaks down and struggles to keep track of more than 2 or 3 players at the same time without some lag and stuttering.
Oh. Did you forget that part? That NMS is really, seriously, still a single player game? That you can fly a mount over dornogal with a pretty crappy computer and experience next to no lag?
Im a vtuber. I can run wow at reasonable levels of graphics while streaming, including my vtuber model, obs, and other programs running in the background for chat to play games. Dorn makes me stutter a bit, orgrimmar is fine.
I can only play nms on the lowest settings. I can’t run anything else. I have to use my pngtuber model because i can’t run my vtuber model. If i play with someone else, they jitter across the screen.
At some point, bro, you have to realize that each game has it’s own strengths and weaknesses, and wow will never be NMS unless it is willing to sacrifice players who do not have a powerful enough computer. They probably could push it into thay level of pretty.
But they’d see a portion of their players quit. Possibly forever.
This is assuming you are interested in every content pillar.
What if you don’t like M+?
What if you don’t like PvP?
What if you don’t have enough players in a guild for raiding?
What if you don’t really want a guild at all?
Granted, they have gone miles ahead of what they used to for solo player/low-man content, and that’s great… but it’s still rather repetitive and/or sparse and still time-gated.
I can only do delves so many times before even they get boring. It’s awesome to have a gearing path available to me, the casual/solo player, sure. But yet it’s a repetitive thing I don’t always have the stomach for Delve #34984829 in a week.
That, and once you get up to a certain I-level you’re better off just stopping anyhow, and once you do that… then what is there to do other than grind Renown which involves doing an activity for each zone once a week and one dungeon?
Go do old content? Meh. That gets boring after awhile too. Half of it is broken and doesn’t function properly, and the rest, you just one-shot everything which isn’t at all interesting gameplay. Personally, it puts me to sleep after awhile.
I’m not interested in ANY of the things you mentioned, and there is absolutely no shortage of things I can find to do.
Whatever you are or aren’t interested in, there is more than adequate content in this game for you. If someone feels they aren’t finding anything to do, the issue is less content related and more that they just aren’t that interested in the game right now
Okay, so what do you actually spend your time doing in-game, then?
I honestly want to know. Unless you cycle through alts to do everything all over again, I don’t really see what you could possibly be doing. Once you knock out all the daily quests, that’s like 3 hours or so, which also does the weekly Renown activities, and once you get geared up through Delves… maybe another hour or two for Weaver/Ringing Deeps stuff (either Machine or Kobolds), and then maybe a little stuff on Siren Isle if you’re into that…
That surely doesn’t take all week. What content are you finding to actually do?
My play time varies, sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much. When I’m on, I tend to bounce around doing whatever fancies me in the moment, usually excluding any sort of raiding, m+ or pvp stuff. I don’t usually do any pet stuff either, though it’s on my to-do list for, you know, eventually.
I like new & old content alike, and there’s actually so much of the new stuff that I haven’t worked on yet. Might see me farming some old content, or dropping in Siren Isle for a minute, or world questing in the new zones, just whatever… could be anything really.
This I know though: no matter how much I play, I never get even remotely close to doing everything I’d like to do