I’ve been playing since I was 13 years old when I broke my leg and had time to kill. I mustered up my moms credit card to join during prepatch to WOTLK. I started as a belf paladin but I was inspired to level a warlock late into WOTLK after I saw a warlock in full tier 4 during my early days of playing.
The game chat was always blustering with people wanting to do things, looking for more for something, raids, pvp etc. Not anymore, trade is dead, at least on my realm.
I kept playing on and off for 10+ years, 387 days played on this character. There was always an opportunity for me to get into some kind of group. LOVED MOP, LOVED GREENFIRE CHALLENGE, LOVED MAGE TOWER CHALLENGE.
Anyways, my realm is dead. Seems to me like spending more time investing into another realms in this climate would be a total waste.
I made a lot of friends, and we played a lot together. At this point most of them decided to play other games or play classic, we are fragmented.
I already moved on, I’m not playing WoW anymore. We were onboard to SL but that died off in the first 2 months.
Is it really beyond the realms of possibility that this game isn’t good anymore? Or has the industry outgrown wow? Or has WoW not innovated enough?
lfg and sharding killed server community
imo the game feels significantly more hollow because of it
in the past you needed community to complete most things in game which was a healthy incentive to socialize which made the game feel more immersive and alive
now you can do everything alone and click 3 buttons to get into groups where nobody says anything and either kicks someone instantly on the first wipe or completes the content and you never see those players again
if the content doesn’t require community then they should add alternative incentives like guild perks and premade group benefits or something a long those lines
they should also consolidate most of the dead realms
we dont need 80 clusters made up of 200 dead realms
at this point 20 clusters with significantly less sharding would add so much to the games atmosphere
Trust me my man, you will probably never enjoy a game again. Games were fun when we were kids. Even if a new mmo came out that was better than original wow we still wouldn’t have as much fun as we did playing games as a kid. look at classic wow servers for example… Same game from 17 years ago but incredibly boring because you aren’t a kid who gets excited by stupid things.
But, honestly, it’s not some hideous abomination pretending to be WoW either. The core of the game is more or less what its always been, but with a little more pushing the player into World Content.
So while I acknowledge SL has problems, I think a LOT of people just don’t like admitting that they’re not having fun anymore because, you know, they’ve played the game for a decade or more and can’t get excited about it because they know literally everything there is to know.
This is very true and the root cause of many things. Unfortunately, this problem, like so many others, is very easy to create but very difficult to correct.
I have been playing video games since I stuck a quarter in a Galaxian machine in 1980 or so and I can assure you I enjoy gaming as much now as I did then.
Losing enjoyment of gaming, if it happens, is more a function of your mental attitude towards life than your age.
shadowlands is bad, yes, but most of these nostalgia type posts are just people who want the game to feel like it did when they were new to it 15 years ago.
well, not only is the game 15+ years older, but so are you.
mental attitude towards life normally changes with age. But I get what you’re saying. I envy you if you can actually enjoy games as much as you did when you first started.