RAWR!
I totally forgot to say why I, after almost 4 and a half years, started playing WoW again!
Partially, I have gotten past some of the personal reasons that I had quit the game cuz of, things like people I had had relationship with dumping me, and a friend dying I played with. I am naming my firstborn son after my friend who died, and I am happily engaged to someone who fills me with contentment about life.
Secondly, I quit because of Cata, and I still look at that expansion and see it as horrible, pathetic, and overall, designed to ruin and take away, from the actual world and from the player. I have gone back and tried the new zones it provided, and mostly, they are ok, some totally against lore (Uldum should have been a mix between titan-ish and dwarv-ish), but ok. I find it amusing that Uldum, the most deviated zone from the lore, period, was the most fun to do in my opinion and most that I know, while Vash(Underwater zone) which is almost all lore based, was the most stunning, yet frustrating to quest in. I think cuz of all the caves, personally, but a lot of people had trouble with the swimming and fighting, I guess.
Cata was a huge mistake, thru and thru. They obliterated awesome zones, they remade dungeons and raids into something, that were fun, worthless, and they totally took away soooo much from the game. I literally hate Cata, to the point that when I go back to zones it wrecked, or play SFK or ZG, I can only taste bitter hatred, and I am playing World of Warcraft.
Pandaria, it was alright, and I liked that they took Chen from Warcraft 3 and gave him a vibrant home world, and an explanation for why we never saw him or his race before in the WoW series, even though he was right there with Rexxor in Warcraft 3. The problem I find with Pandaria, is some of the designs are very cutsie (panda's themselves...biggest offender), and not in the "let's target women" way the fae dragon is. Also, the whole of pandaria is the same scenery repeated over and over again. With BC and Wrath, you got a sense that each zone was it's own mini world, some of the stuff repeated, but a ton of it was unique to where it was born. Pandaria just felt like a ton of repeat with diff colors. I did like a lot of the aspects as far as rewards go, such as the mounts, and CM's were interesting.
Now, I have sooo much to complain about, and I was playing Rift. Why am I playing WoW, again, after such a large break from the game?
Boredom. Every other game I tried, after a few months, became very boring. The worlds are way too small and that is huge for me. Rift did double its world, but it was still too small. GW2 I hope to never play again since they ruined it for me, but who knows, they might pull a WoW and offer an expansion that might be worth it all.
My fiancé also likes WoW, so that helped push me toward it, and all, but really, I am back because my siblings moved far away and this is something we can all do together, catching up has kept me occupied and entertained, and I am interested in WoD.
I have always loved the orig horde leaders, their stories and the era and here is an expansion offering an experience with them. They are REDOING old content WITHOUT taking away the original. Leaving BC alone and making it from scratch is, for me, what Cata should have been. I am SO glad they are doing it this way.
They also are adding Garrisons, which I see so much potential in, and hope they do right. I want to see the new zones and the new storylines, which for me, more than Cata or Pandaria, are fully based on the original lore, with a twist, that the orcs refused the demon blood. I do wish they were removing less from the world as the new expansion prepares to launch, because people who are moving right now, like my siblings, and people who play the game three times slower than normal people because they pet battle every pet, gather ever ore, and read every quest, like my fiancé, won't get awesome things that I have, like the Ahead of the Curve achievie and reward or the CM phoenix. I hate that they are punished for playing the game to its fullest, or having RL going on. Honestly, I just hate any removed content/rewards being removed from any game any time, if it is not due to glitches/bugs. Period.
But, as much as I rant, it is only because I am passionate about what I play, and someday, I want to be able to go back with my kids, once they are old enough, and show them the old great games, and watch their faces puzzle things out, or eyes widen with wonder. I can't if they take things away. I look at the game as it is, and as I hope it will be in 10 years. I always view anything I play in this manner. That is why I care. That is why I rant. And that is why I am playing WoW again.
RAWR! :)
