Originally Posted by
Trassk
After reading the wowinsider post linked to Andy Gavin's (the co-creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter) giving his opinion of each wow expansion and his thoughts on it, which I found a very good read being from the perspective of another game designer, it had me thinking about the current issues with wow's current expansion.
I think, the best way to break down mists, well I do love this expansion don't get me wrong, the design, the story, the way certain things felt changed for the better (unlike cataclysm), there are still rogue elements in mists that makes it that bad part of any meal you wish you could avoid but can't.
After it was announced recently that there will be no more dungeons introduced into mists of pandaria, and yet they outright said there will be more and more dailies, I think this was when it became obvious blizzard was turning a blind eye at what people have been saying for months now. Its an imbalance, people have gotten rigidly bored of doing dailies quests, just about everything you do outside of raiding involved dailies quests, and people have been speaking out against it.
So, well we will have more daily quests coming in the next major patches, and scenarions, which blizzard seems to think went over so well they can now replace dungeons, they have decided to just veto making anymore dungeons in the expansion as a result. More and more dailies, more scenarions, and no more dungeons, making mists the expansion with the least number of dungeons.
Now to me, this is putting more weights into one side of the scales and not enough in the other side, I personally found scenarios, well interesting first time around, got kinda boring after doing them several times. And the number of dailies in mists, nothing can be done without doing like 60-70 dailies eac
Now, going back to the days of TBC and wrath, what I often found was having a balace of dungeons, dailies and whatever else made things feel far less monotonous, because it broke up your routine. You could do a few dungeons and try to get some gear from that, or do some dailies to purchase gear later on. And this worked well, even in cataclysm, with the release of the 3 added dungeons at the end or the 3 added dungeons in wrath at the end.
Now your probably gonna say 'but we will have scenarios in the follow patches', they worked for a few tries but after a while people will get really bored of running them. And without any new dungeons and tons more daily quests, this routine people have grown to dislike in mists will become even more of a drag for them to keep up to. At least if they had some new dungeons fomr gear upgrades to allow you to get into the current content, like it has done in wrath and cata, it gives something else to work towards.
Honestly, I like dungeons, just like pvpers like arena and BGs. If they didn't release new arena or bg setups, there would be fur flying for that. So why would there be this imbalance of having so much more one one thing, and nothing of the other?