kid's music these days is just terrible. it's just not as good as the stuff from <insert years of your youth here>.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Still enjoying MoP, personally. Maybe it's because I don't have tons of play time available to me, but I still feel like I have lots to do.
I'm enjoying MoP! Working on capping out reps on my main priest, while slowly progressing with my nooby guild (we're still clearing 10-man normal modes hehe) and leveling an alt
I think MoP isn't as good as previous expansions because it hasn't innovated anything yet.
BC invented valor gear and the ability for classes to play multiple specs. In vanilla many classes were forced to do a certain spec because T1, T2, and T3 were chosen by blizzard. There was no option to choose what spec of tier you want. BC revolutionized that.
WOTLK invented achievements, dungeon finder, heroic raiding (Vanilla and BC had only 1 difficulty of raid, ulduar was the first raid to have hard modes), and among other things WOTLK was very innovative.
Cataclysm innovated quite a bit as well. It innovated the concept of LFR as well as phasing, and improving the graphics in wow substantially from earlier expansions.
As far as I am concerned, all MoP has invented is a new talent tree system. Pet battles and valor upgrades is not in my book an innovation. Pet battles is a mini-game for casual players and valor upgrades just forces you to valor cap forever
I wouldn't say bored, but I got burnt out.
Haven't played MOP yet, been on the break for 11 months. Starting next Monday-Tuesday. Very excited, gonna be a casual player for some time and prepare myself for raiding in April-May. So no, I'm not bored
Personally, I have found it to be a chore and It has lost its excitement factor. I don't enjoy doing dailies anymore and the raiding has slumped. It really isn't the same anymore.
Such a shame as I have played it since I was 14 ish and I enjoyed every minute of it until now.
you play way too much and are burned out, as simple as that.
Account-wide pets, mounts, achievements does not count as content. It's not a real innovation as invented heroic raiding, LFD, LFR, and valor gear. Tillers is just a rep and the farm is mostly useless. Pet battles is just a mini-game for casuals.
I'll give you challenge modes, but the rest on your list isn't innovative
Yes it's boring the shit out of me (endgame) I now just find myself leveling alt's and low level pvp, because i find that way more interesting than end game. Currently leveling a boomy level 71 atm and absolutely dominating in pvp. But as soon as Elder Scrolls: Online comes out i'm quitting.
EDIT: Also waiting for Blizzard's 'titan' project.
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As one who never raid much before LFR, I am getting bored on my main. I didn't mind the dailies and I liked the design of having daily hubs, something they did right in BC (Skettis, Ogri'la, Netherwing Ledge, Quel'Danas) and seemed to have been done wrong in Wrath and Cata (the firelands hub was good but Tol'Borad was boring, the argent tourny was frustrating, and while Sons of Hodir felt like the BC hubs, I just didn't like the dailies it had). MOP I felt had good daily hubs and I actually like that they are part of progression. I'm exalted with most MOP factions at this point (still need to finish the Klaxxi but I got them to revered but I hate that hub, the celestials are at revered but apparently nothing epic happens at exalted so I'll probably finish this one off with the 5.2 things, and the angler's are still under revered but someday I'll finish it).
I have everything I want out of LFR except for the tier token from the Sha of Fear. I enjoyed being able to participate in the legendary questline. I could try challenge modes or normal modes but I'm not really into that and find alts and farming transmog gear and vanilla legendaries more entertaining at this point. I still have yet to complete Wrathion's quest to get 6000 valor and I am not getting valor capped anymore since after I get my 2nd epic trinket, all I will care about is getting the last piece of T14. So I just kinda decided that Wrathion will get his requirements met in 5.2 when I have new stuff to grind for and the next part of his quest will keep LFR interesting.
close to 750 days played on my main since Nov 2004, Cata was just horrible but MoP for me has been a great xpac. I think Im just burned out honestly with the game, I dont really do anything at all except log in to raid then log off till next raid. Hoping the ES mmo will be good.