My next post was about WoW. World of Warcraft for noobs.
WoW used to be one of my fave games. I used to waste hours and hours playing it happily. I only got in on the tail of Vanilla WoW so don't get much room to talk there, but BC was awesome, and then.....
Northrend was good, but not Awesome to me. I felt like I had been to all the places in it in rl, for the most part. I did like the protodrakes, and I did like the lich king, but mostly, it started becoming WAY too easy. You could get better gear than from raids from dungeons. You could just ask an inkeeper and suddenly get the sinister squashling. You could just get a mount whenever almost.
Then, they announced Cata. I hated it from the moment they said "redoing old world". All the lands I had already beaten were going to be rearranged and destroyed and all my acheivies would mean nothing. All my farming for mounts like tiger and rapter would mean nothing. All of everything that was good might go away and be replaced by, what? The only good announcments in Cata were the goblins were finally a race and finally you could get beyond that stupid gate in undead area, not that worgan are very creative to me. You look like a human, a plain old normal human, part of the time....
Anyhoo, I quit. I had some personal reasons as well, but I quit. I wasn't going to pay money for something that wasn't worth playing. The game had become an endless grind fest. Farm rep, farm acheivies, farm heroics, farm raids, farm pvp, farm farm farm farm. There was nothing fun, just chores, a never ending list of chores.
I got hacked after I quit. Never got hacked once in 4 and a half years of play and suddenly hacked. Was a sign I did the right thing for me at the time. Now, it just makes me feel like I would never catch up if I ever went back.
I watched Pandaria being played by my siblings and looks so dumb to me. The pandas look STUPID. They were def designed for 11 year olds. I feel like the whole game is geared toward that age range now. It is remarkably easy to get to max lvl and insanely easy to do anything. There is only instant gratification in the game anymore. I am one of those weird people who actually wants something to have been worth the effort in the end.
I have no intentions of returning to WoW. There are too many other free games that have better/on par graphics and are funner, more challenging, and I feel like I am playing with adults.
shrug. If you wanna see the youtube RAWR about it
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