Stop rushing through game lol, its been three months and ive only just hit 340. If you dont want to be bored you need slow down and enjoy the game more.
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You should have been a panda.
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Came to thread expecting a Panda, was disappointed. ![:disappointed_relieved:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/disappointed_relieved.png?v=6" ":disappointed_relieved:")
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Only bored ones so far are like 3 people posting non stop on the forums
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Sorry, the fact you’re incredibly slow isn’t my problem.
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it isnt that im slows its that im taking my time with the game.
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No, you’re slow.
Nothing to be ashamed of, but don’t try to make that my issue. Thanks.
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im sensing anger and denial…
If anything, we are told to hurry up so we can get raid ready when it releases. Blizzard expects you to be raid ready on release. So, you spend the first month getting gear and learning your rotation. Then you slog through the dungeons to get better gear and then pay your dues on wipes on bosses in raids. It’s always been this way.
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The game sucks on toast and isn’t fun.
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How are we rushing through the game, I play twice a week and there is nothing to do now but log on to raid lol.
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I have not been rushing the game, but getting four weeks of only AP drops is just to frustrating to keep playing the game.
Why do you think they are rushing through the game?
I think we can agree that it is something that is happening, it is a real phenomenon. But why is it happening? because people are… bad? Impatient? In a hurry? big silly heads?
I have a theory, and this is the theory that I have:
Much of the game is a chore.
Areas and portions of the game both large and small or designed to hold the player back, hold them down, keep them in place and frustrate them. the game is designed not to challenge but to annoy and nettle the player in ways they simply cannot respond to.
There is no way to outdo a time gate, no amount of work or dedication will defeat it.
When you run out of the quests that give you resources or currency, then you are out. Now you wait. Now you do something else. Now you change your thinking and find yourself forced somewhere else in the game or off of it all together.
I don’t think it is any wonder that people speed through this kind of thing. I don’t find it surprising at all the players work at getting the various chores designed into the game behind them as soon as possible. And this is the way the game teaches you to play the game.
And once the narrow band of the game not currently designed to keep you in a bell jar is done and behind you, what is left? Players are consuming the game in exactly the way the game has instructed them to consume it via both carrot and stick.
What is happening is a deeper problem unresponsive to short attention span development, it’s the kind of response that comes from a macro level alchemy in the development life of the game. If developers do not consider these things and just weave and wobble onward without vision or a plan then the game itself responds in just this way, players respond in just this way.
Some real thought leadership is going to be required to restructure the experience of wow, or not.
I’m sure a new x-pac and some flying mounts will patch everything right up.
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The real reason is that the game is 14 years old, and the gaming industry has shifted radically in that time.
The underlying code is just not built to compete with modern games.
Things like player housing, “greater rifts”, and customization are all going to be very necessary moving forward to keep the core group of players engaged.
For years “WoWkillers” came and went with nary a scratch on the behemoth that was the Warcraft subscriber number. They just held too great a marketshare to contend with.
But a good game company could poach a group of dedicated players now I think. Probably not the PvP side of things, due to conflict with MOBAs, but a gorgeous and engaging mmoRPG…yeah, I think it could happen.
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I’m a panda, I’ve been over 340 for ages. And I’ve never once rushed through the game; I do the things I like, when I feel like them. So I’m not sure what the OP is on about.
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So taking your time with a game coincides with missing an entire season of Mythic and a tier of raiding?
What you MEANT to say is you don’t care about the whole game and only the parts that interest you, like slowly leveling. Nothing wrong with that, but you must admit MANY people would not agree with that being the nature of WoW.
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Boredom is a state of mind. If you are bored, perhaps reconsider your uses and gratifications of the game.
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So in order to enjoy the game they shouldn’t play it? I’m not sure how that works out…
It really does come down to this. WoW had its peek in wrath, now people have migrated to other platforms.
It is so disheartening for me, I have always supported this game, but this expansion so far is garbage. The only thing I can say is good is the artwork and music.
I don’t think having a low ilvl (I mean, mine’s 369 which is still on the low side) would make me any less bored with WoW right now. If anything, it would just give me fewer options with my play time.
I do the bulk of my content with my guild. I don’t engage in WQ’s anymore (boo AP grind) and because of the change in how you can get gear in PvP, I haven’t done much of that this expansion either. That leaves raiding with my guild, which at this point in the expansion is at mythic level. Having a lower ilvl would just bar me from participating with my guild.