WoW No Longer MMORPG

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WoW is not an MMORPG anymore and has not been for some time… When it was… it was the best that it could be and when Blizz felt it needed to contend… it started falling apart… When they had Real Life issues it sealed the deal.

An RPG does not need explanation for those that know it well. You know it means hours on end of story dive… Puzzles, secrets, maps, gear collecting/upgrading, boss battles with strategy… and forward progress vs the next challenge… MMO=Bringing Other Players IRL over the internet to Help you in this RPG… WOW is not this anymore…

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Wow was and is a single player game since day one, that’s how it beat evercrack. Wow’s selling point was “you can reach max level just by yourself.”

The more you know rainbow

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MMO really just means that you’re in a world that hundreds or thousands of people also occupy. It’s implied that you’ll work with these other people, you don’t have to, but most of the content will be designed to favour the “multiplayer” experience of either cooperative or competitive play.

WoW has changed over the years, it’s changed dramatically. I think it’s in a place right now in which no one really knows what direction to go so everyone just grabs a rope and starts pulling in opposite directions.

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Kool story. It’s almost as if things change and evolve over time and nothing lasts forever. Thanks for the update Katherine Obvious

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how so?

I can, and still do everything you listed.

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Lets see about this.
Lots of people online together and interacting, selling to each other etc. Check.
Lots of group content available to those who wish to participate. Check.
Lots of RPG elements like quests, puzzles etc. Check.

Still looks like an MMORPG to me.
Looks like you have a far too narrow definition of helping others. Just by crafting and selling potions/phials on the AH, a solo player is helping others, including raiders. Just like real life, a society in a good MMORPG takes all kinds, not just the narrow group or die pigeonhole some people think it should.

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Do you currently smell burned toast?

Anyway, I participated in six bits of group content this morning in about 45 minutes – two dungeons, a world boss, dragonbane keep, and a wild hunt. It was all group content with 5-40 participants.

That’s an MMORPG.

WoW might not be an MMORPG that you like, but I don’t see any evidence that it isn’t an MMORPG.

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Blizzard didn’t cave to anyone they made the game more approachable to even more people in the hopes of keeping them subbed and making more $$$$$

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Explain to me how a Massive Multiplayer Online Game with Roleplaying elements is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game…

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WoW is basically a mobile game masquerading as an MMO now. Task X can be completed in Y amount of time. Alternately task X can be completed by purchasing and selling token (mobile game currency) and reduce time requirement to almost nothing.

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I mean basically it seems to be developed by mobile devs at this point. You tell these die hards that though and they start blowing fuses.

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yes, lets keep these die hards thinking they are in that early wow universe…

@Abricot
That may be on your servers, during your play time, with your friends, with mom and dad, with sister and brother… Not in my experience at all since DF launch at all.

Cant complete Proffs because no Proff work orders… Que times for Dungs and PvP 20-30mins+

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Ellipsis aren’t used to end sentences, and you ended your sentences simply because after the ellipsis , you’ve capitalized the next word.

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This game has lasted as the lead MMORPG for 19 years. What did you create that lasted as long that millions of people use? Please use specifics, and not generalizations, and platitudes.

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Outside of Classic launch, raids, soup events, and BGs…it plays and feels empty and single player.

Off on a tangent here, but I believe that the larger the game gets (more real estate) the more we lose a sense of multiplayer.

Classic had that feeling of everything and everyone needing the same locales, vendors, etc.

Now, there a million little towns, cities, and choices for content that makes doing group things feeling like you’re being suffocated.

Maybe if tens of millions were playing…

:ocean: :dragon::ocean: :dragon:

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WoW is an MMORPG.
This thread is fake news.

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WoW to me is just a third person ARPG at this point.

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World of Warcraft.
M - Mass - big
M - Multiplayer - Many players (Not to be confused with groups)
O - Online
R - Roleplaying - You play a character that isn’t you
G - Game

Wow is still an MMO.

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Every game is a RPG!