Other games:
Load up, play, feel like I had a good gaming session.
WoW:
Log in, spend 30 minutes at the character screen, looking at alts, thinking what I want to do because there isn’t much that I do to begin with. I flop around on a few alts, do some pointless things… restock, craft, repost on AH and log out unfulfilled and wondering why I even bother.
I disagree. What the older versions of the game had was different levels of difficulty for different types of players, rather than trivializing all the lower difficulties and types of content in an attempt to funnel 100% of players into competitive content that many players would not choose if they had the choice.
The game ran fine with 1 and 2 modes of raiding difficulty. It forced players to actually be social too, and join guilds. LFR cut into casual guild raiding quite a bit, since a lot of players are just happy to LFR now instead of actually putting the forth the effort to find a team.
That is my point, the player base played together in the past, people that were low-skilled would get to mingle with players that were a lot better, it fostered a much better community.
This was an issue for anyone that was interested in raiding, unless your server was dead. There were tons of casual raiding guilds, just like there are now in Classic.
Classic has proven that the game was just fine without Mythic raiding and LFR.
I’m sorry, but the old raids weren’t that difficult, I get your aversion to playing with others, which I kind of gotten from a lot of your posts, but the game operated just fine when there were fewer difficulties.
All the steps to try to pander to the lowest skill level and the highest skill level has made WoW’s endgame into a fragmented cesspool.
I raid in other MMOs, like ESO and Lotro, and those MMOs are way more inclusive and bring players of all skill levels together, which creates stronger communities.
Lotro has probably one the best MMO communities in the business because they know how to create content that brings players together instead of trying to pander to sweaty tryhards, and the extreme low skilled players. They have a great balance when it comes to raiding difficulties.
Last night mythical c +bracken hollow…we did it until it was completed #&@#$## the time we learned the mechanic and guess what now that we know when we do the higher key on that affix we know what to do…you got to be intelligent…you work the game don’t let it work you…and players have the attention span of an ant and the patience of a fly…that’s why everyone is so completely pissed off upset cranky with mythic plus…IGNORE THE TIMER LEARN THE PATTERN JUST BACK IN THE DAY WITH PACMAN ITS THE SAME DAMN THING…$###$ IO SCORE don’t look at the numbers learn the mechanic and the patterns…
Wait, so you’re talking about Classic or the actual old days? Because classic still exists but you referring to older versions in past-tense has me assuming you actually meant early WoW, where your statement is very wrong.