The best raiding I've ever had was during wrath doing heroic TOC and ICC and getting my ICC achievement dragon AT LEVEL 80. That was epic. Cata after T11 just got bleh.
I agree with you! While there are some nice mature players in WoW the amount of rude and uncaring people just amazes me.
Yesterday on the beta someone made a comment about how they were glad to see AoE looting. That simple comment launched several people into saying comments such as "you must be a lazy fat pig", "you are a unemployed basement dweller with no job or life", "kill yourself you are so lazy" and other comments along those lines. I played DAoC long after I was bored because of the people in the game.
The players.
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I think AiAtola is the greatest contributor to the downfall of WoW.
Other: The community.
By "downfall of WoW" I'm assuming a reference to the loss of several million subs.
In which case, I'd blame
1: Lack of non-raiding end game content driving casuals away when Cat launched and raiders away when Cata ends as, outside raiding, they find they have nothing else to do.
2: 10 months of DS and end of Xpac blues.
EJL
Last edited by Talen; 2012-08-22 at 02:10 PM.
age plane and simple, you can only keep a game fresh for so long before you run out of pine scented air fresheners to hang on it.
Other: The NAO! crowd.
I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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If I had a dollar for every time one of these types of threads surfaced...
As others have said, the real reason the game has declined is due mainly to old age. Most of the features listed by the OP in the poll are actually enjoyed by the overwhelming majority of the player base, but you wouldn't think so due to the loud moaning of a vocal minority that is hell-bent on spreading negativity and misery for whatever reasons.
Last edited by Divine Path; 2012-08-22 at 12:27 PM.
"Come, Stormrage, and I will show you what happens to those that betray the lord of the Legion!" — Mannoroth.
Blizzard have numbers that they do not. If they tell their freaking shareholders that D3 took a number of subscribers, then that's what happened. What do you think would happen if they started lying about these things to the people actually owning the company?
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You know what, I'm actually gonna vote that.
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Voted Other. Because of the vocal minority being.
Players and community don't just change without a reason. There are many reasons for community deterioration, most of them are listed in poll.
When players don't have consequences for bad behavior, they start trolling, spamming, ninjaing. Such behavior always existed in WoW, but before introduction of cross-realm stuff players had reputation to uphold, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do anything in game. In addition to cross-realm communities, reduction of raid sizes contributed. Its easier to find 9 rude players to play with than 24/39, so all 10 can be rude to others, while being able to clear all content.
So what changed? Game. As a result, community and players have changed. Players just did what Blizzard allowed them to do - play in small groups of rude players without having any consequences whatsoever for their bad behavior.
The only reasons the game is "declining" as you say is because the game is getting old, and because Blizzard puts out new content at such a slow pace people get bored faster than they normally would
my answer is: people like you.
If u dont like the game dont play it. simple.
Lets see. Name of poster is OldSchoolWow916 . Claiming there is a downfall of WoW. Next highest competitor of WoW has about 8 million less subs than WoW. Obviously not clicking on a biased poll that doesn't have a WoW's doing fine option. Please tell me, just why WoW is dying, dead, on a downfall, or whatever other claims doomsayers use. Really. I don't care that 3 million people may have left the game. Do you really expect people to play a video game for the rest of their lives? People move on. Some people are unhappy with the game obviously. Some people, like my best friend, just ran out of time to play the game. He still really enjoyed it and his wife is still in my guild playing several times a week. He just doesn't have the time for games at the moment. Did you forget that was a possibility?
The biggest IMO are LFR/LFG and things like this. I don't like community food/flasks. I like the aspect of an MMO where i actually had to put time into getting ready for raids. Traveling to raids. Meeting people on my server.
I miss having to put groups together. No one wants to do that anymore. I miss CC and having to plan pulls based around what CC you have in the group. More BC style heroics please. 5 mans have been very boring since Wrath.
Easy mode stuff IMO has been the biggest contributor to the decline in Subs. If it was not for raiding and RL friends still playing there would be no reason to play anymore.
The downfall of WoW is every single change that has occurred since 2004.
It's the people who complain and complain and complain and complain. And I'm serious. In the 4-5 years I've played this game, every single new thing in this game has "contributed to the down fall of this game." Pets purchased for a price from the store. Removal of attunements. The addition of daily quests. The change of the PvP system. The removal of old AV. The addition of heroic raids. The removal of the locks to heroic 5 mans. Goblins. Worgen. Draenei. Blood Elves (especially the males.) Flying mounts. The reduction in the cost of flying mounts. Dual spec. The reduction in the cost of dual spec. The ability for prot paladins to tank (they claimed we'd replace all the warriors!) 40 mans being reduced to 25 mans. 25 mans having a 10 man version. LFR. LFG. The hour long wait at the AH. The implementation of battle.net. Arena. Rated BGs. Pandaren. Pet battles. The new talent system. The newer talent system. The even newer talent system. The MoP talent system. Death knights. Monks. We see Arthas all the damn time! We don't see enough of Deathwing!
Seriously, if you listen to the community, EVERYTHING is the greatest contributor to the downfall of WoW.
I wish I could find a link to the infamous Palehoof rant.
Last edited by Adam Jensen; 2012-08-22 at 01:01 PM.
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