Emerald Dream MoP was best WoW.
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Yes please. I have characters stuck on dead realms
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speaking of great fights, my archrival Scabber is in your guild.
If you see him. Let em’ know he has it coming.
i’ll be waiting, in korthia
sharpens hoof
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I have been on Emerald Dream since the realm launched - on my warrior Ivory…it’s been magical . Since warmode came out, then classic , it’s killed our world . I miss the good old days !
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Anyone trying to play the game like it’s your job is going to be unhappy.
I like to unwind and kill stuff in the face at night on wow. I like to pick goals and accomplish them. I keep my goals obtainable and fun.
This week my goal was to log in and camp Dead Blanchy for 6 days to get that Mount. Daily goals might be to run my campaign callings on character A, B and C.
I’m still having a blast. I’ve been playing since opening day 2004 with some breaks here and there to explore other games or when life got hectic.
It also helps to find a good guild of active fun people. Guild chat / Discord all good social things.
Don’t be afraid to invest 25 bucks to move to another server. But FIRST, make a character on the server and poke around. Actually sometimes starting a new character and leveling it is enough to kickstart the fun.
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I played since alpha as well, off and on. Yeah the game is not what is used to be. For someone new coming back it’s super overwhelming. What I do is just farm old content, make alts 1-49 and just pvp. I wish I could do current content but I do not know where to start and it just seems way to much
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You bring yourself over to Kael’Thas and look up the guild “WeWhoHaveOtherShytToDo”
Just trust me on this. Make yourself an Alliance character and hit them up. Fun people who do new content and run old content. Helpful, patient, and good people.
The seeds of WoW’s demise (for many players) were there from the very beginning. WoW was designed as a Themepark MMO, meaning you are just along for the ride. You were there to be part of a story, Blizzard’s Story, and that means a heavy hand from the developers, outside of that Story, there wasn’t much thought or consideration given. As Blizzard and WoW grew, the control and the freedom grew along with it.
If you’re the kind of gamer who wants to do their own thing, or have the developers to give in to your demands, you were doomed from the beginning.
Blizzard, though at times fulfilled players wishes, always went by their own Vision of the game; they always were directed to make a game that they thought would be loved by the most people possible (and be the most profitable).
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wow happened to wow , mostly lead by people that live in a country that struggles with self identity. All wow talent left and jumped ship mostly after activision acquisition , because the game no longer felt like a game , it felt like a money making machine.
Old concepts , old ways , old lore , everything is being crushed into dust without respect for the players that enjoyed the game and have invested not only time but thousands of dollars.
The identity crisis of the devs and writters is so bad that now they want to destroy faction conflict and turn WARcraft into WOKEcraft, saddest part is that there are people trying to reason this change based on IRL woke logic " lets all get alone , i want complex characters with emotional growth(hah sylvanas), but world peace is fun , i dont like faction wars , ive played horde 10 years but all my friends aliance omg finally il be able to play !!" it gets more and more ridiculous .
Great lore of 10 years ago is done for , example is the crown of wills, a monument to the lack of effort and lack of care for continuity or aesthetic.
Boosting communities getting banned , because reasons yet not enabling LFG m , m+ and hc , something that not only would help people raiding and engaging into content but something that is just copy pasting code and creating another channel for it.
Oh and the worse thing they do is making changes to the game and only announce it after its being datamined or leaked by others, like brutosaur 7 months no brutosaur in BMAH and they wont acknowledge that its being either shadow removed or bugged.
Terrible tuning and scaling like the MT fiasco , i could go on .
Every move made in the past few years has being worse and worse its like they trying to move forward by taking steps backwards.
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You’ve basically spent the equivalent of a 20 hour per week job on a video game for 10 years. I’m sure that has something to do with your current apathy. If you worked for $13 per hour, that would be $121,000.
Im in the same boat basically with 400 days played across all my toons over 17 years.
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Metrics and shareholders took over the ip and the passionate a team that started the game either fizzled out to attrition or moved on the better things.
Wow has been going through this cycle for a while:
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New shiny expansion
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players realize the mechanics that force /timeplayed are not fun
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subs drop
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developers open the beta file cabinet and select a few of the correctives that players suggested from beta
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developers actually implement in some of those suggestions
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players return
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next shiny expansion is announced.
Profit and repeat
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Wow needs to go back to simplicity. They try to do too much now and it bogs down the play experience imo. I’d love to see a return to MoP era. Best expansion they did (again imo) for balance and content. Slow down on the systems and expand the other content. More quests, better dungeons and raids.
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Pretty much this sums up all the posts…and hard truth.
PS…can we hang this like a frickin cat poster in every room where they brainstorm developing this game further?
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I only know Vanilla and TBC from the Classic versions but that was the most fun I had in a MMO in years. I wish I was there from the beginning though.
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Sounds like you need to move on – hope you find a game you enjoy.
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You may relate to this.
I didn’t start playing young, at 17 for example. I started at 32 back in 2004, after playing games like Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot; among others until WoW released. I’ve been the same guild leader I was then, and did everything casual and attempted hardcore gaming. What I think you’re experiencing is a combination of burnout and a 16+ year old game that hasn’t really changed much (aesthetic-wise) which makes WoW vulnerable to next generation games. Before, WoW had to compete with other PC games. Something new came out, and some of your guildies will call it quits for the duration of said new game release. But now, consoles have caught up to PC gaming. Enough to where it’s tolerable to play on machines that are not as powerful as a high-end PC but good enough to get you impressive experiences. WoW is competing against that, in addition to other MMO’s that offer something a little different, enough to peel some subscriptions away.
Personally, I still pay for my sub but I haven’t logged on since December 2021. My excuse, Xbox Series X and PS5 - and that I need a break after playing this game non-stop from November 23, 2004. Like I said, the game at its core hasn’t changed much and it got old. I can admit that I want more out of what WoW is currently at. Otherwise I would still play non-stop. It matters not, though because I still pay for my sub.
Is that closer to what you’re experiencing?
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People killed the community because people can’t be bothered to build a community unless they are forced to, it seems.
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It’s a personal choice. The only person who can decide if you’re enjoying yourself is you. People are upset and malcontent and not able to find joy in their lives, and since WoW is a big part of some peoples lives, they look for faults. Anything, really, to distract them from self revelation. WoW isn’t special. It exists IN the world, not apart from it. People become disillusioned with spouses, their careers, their children, their family, etc., all the time. Why would WoW be any different?
Your wife is NOT as much fun as she was when she was your girlfriend. But you make that choice and you look for the good every single day. Staying with anything for this long has its ups and downs. It’s like any commitment in that regard.
Take a break and come back. If you really love the game, some time apart will make you fond of it again. Or you can choose to stick with it and ride out the bumps. Either way works. But know that to keep playing a game into its second decade, we’re all going through something like this at some point with the game. Don’t feel like you’re alone in this.
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I’m experiencing some strong necromancy. Probably from an alt of the OP.
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What happened to WoW? Activision happened to WoW that’s what.
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