Will WoW ever be what it once was?

[crakerjack]

"Hi, I was the 1%, so the game was awesome"

Why invest money in a game that you're fully aware isn't a single player game? It wasn't hard to find a high end guild and progress during TBC. Anyone else could have, they just didn't spend their time accordingly.

[Deleted]

Anyone else starting to suspect that Titan is actually going to be WoW 2 and all the leaks so far have been elaborate smoke and mirrors?

The old wow sucked, the new wow sucks.

You have to learn this if you want to exist on these forums.

Please I just came from /v/

[Faroth]

WoW has in fact gotten better the problem is people looking at older expansions with nostalgia and saying that they were so much better when content wise they weren't. It was a brand new game and people got very immersed in it but after 10 years people are getting burned out and want something new and WoW can't provide because it's too outdated.

Explanation of my statement summed up nicely.

[Queen of Hamsters]

I think he was referring to having to go out and go to places rather than sit around and have some system teleport you. I loved that feeling of having someone else from the group run with you to the summoning stone... Some of my favorite memories involve running to a summoning stone and coming across a few alliance who wanted to battle it out. Chasing them up and down barrens. Now you rarely see anyone out and about unless their leveling or trying to gank lowbies.

I see people out and about daily, and I'm myself out and about in the world to get where I wanna be. CRZ = you see many more players in old zones at that.

I can totally see how it was fun to run, but I recall people afking on FPs before flyers in Azeroth.

[Faroth]

Anyone else starting to suspect that Titan is actually going to be WoW 2 and all the leaks so far have been elaborate smoke and mirrors?

After the damage EQ2 did to SOE by splitting their community, I doubt it. Blizz can still do a lot with WoW as it is. No real sense in splitting it.

[Deleted]

"Hi, I was the 1%, so the game was awesome"

WoW was ruined by video game socialism.

[TheSerialSniper]

Is the golden age of WoW truly gone? Days that are never coming back?

What do you guys think?

Wow is a constantly changing thing, it will never be "what it once was" since it will be constantly moving forward (metaphorically).

[ringpriest]

Merits of different play styles aside, Vanilla and BC are long gone. The gameplay is very different now, and I do not believe that old style of play will ever return.

[vaeevictiss]

I think that WoW will never be what it once was, thank God! The game itself is better than ever, there are tons more things to do, the ONLY downside is that the community that has become a bit less open and friendly than it used to be. But that's not the fault of the game itself.

actually...if you look at it another way. The game sort of is to blame for it. Back in vanilla...there was a long, arduous leveling process, followed by raiding...and that was it.

Now, the long, arduous leveling process has been simplified and shortened. there is a ton of stuff to do in the game, and the raiding has been made easier. where the immature, children of vanilla could not last, they now have a solidified place in the game.

That being said, i dont think wow could ever return to its glory days of end game raiding with guilds you followed and looked up to. Many of those groups of people have moved on with their lives. Families, jobs...

This made the way for the newer generation to move up...but it became saturated with them due to the raid styles now. there are no guilds that really stand out...and when you look at wowprogress there are only a couple guilds that you can recognize that even resemble something from vanilla.

[Deleted]

What i do want "back" is a raid that has the same kind of feeling as Karazhan did. To me it was probably the coolest and the most fun raid ever. Not hardest naturally, but i had the most fun in that one, Ulduar second

And attunements! I actually enjoyed those although they will never be back again

[Malkhor]

I don't think it'll ever be as crap as it was in vanilla, no.

[Glaziola]

The old wow sucked, the new wow sucks.

You have to learn this if you want to exist on these forums.

Thats pretty much how it works QQ on the forums > keep paying subscription and enjoy the game

[Deleted]

I don't think it'll ever be as crap as it was in vanilla, no.

That must have been why no one played it back then and it failed miserably, right?

[Orion Antares]

After the damage EQ2 did to SOE by splitting their community, I doubt it. Blizz can still do a lot with WoW as it is. No real sense in splitting it.

If it ends up being "WoW2," it doesn't have to follow the same model as EQ2 did. It could just be a complete redesign of the game engine but positioned to continue the story line for WoW.

[crakerjack]

Anyone who played hardcore during TBC can concur with me that their experience with the game can not be matched... MoP might be nice, but it's only a fragment of how fun TBC was. I remember tuesdays very well. I had my core 10 man group and we would start with kara to gear alts up as we progressed. After kara, we'd go straight to ZA and attempt the bear run... even if we didn't do it, we'd still finish and gear up a few more alts. 4 hours later, our 25 man raid would start and we'd do the same thing with gruuls and mag... we'd blow through them and move onto TK or SSC, which either one the raid voted for. Sometimes we'd finish one of them in a raid night... but within that week, we'd end up raiding multiple raids. It's not like it was easy mode either, the old fights still required you to know the mechanics and do your thing... unlike now, they nerf old content to hell. I won't even start on PvP... it's nothing now.

[Korgoth]

No. As with all things.

[Chunkyman]

Anyone who played hardcore during TBC can concur with me that their experience with the game can not be matched... MoP might be nice, but it's only a fragment of how fun TBC was. I remember tuesdays very well. I had my core 10 man group and we would start with kara to gear alts up as we progressed. After kara, we'd go straight to ZA and attempt the bear run... even if we didn't do it, we'd still finish and gear up a few more alts. 4 hours later, our 25 man raid would start and we'd do the same thing with gruuls and mag... we'd blow through them and move onto TK or SSC, which either one the raid voted for. Sometimes we'd finish one of them in a raid night... but within that week, we'd end up raiding multiple raids. It's not like it was easy mode either, the old fights still required you to know the mechanics and do your thing... unlike now, they nerf old content to hell. I won't even start on PvP... it's nothing now.

BT got cleared within the opening week. Nostalgia does wonders.

[creepfest]

no, but it will become better and better..

[Deleted]

BT got cleared within the opening week. Nostalgia does wonders.

Third week actually. And at the time Nihilum was WAY ahead of anyone else in the raiding. Most guilds hadn't killed Kaelthas when Nihilum was working on Illidan.

[Daws]

My advice if you think the golden age of WoW has come and gone then kindly do the following:

1. Stop your WoW account
2. Stop posting on these forums
3. Find another MMO or other activity

Personally I still enjoy WoW, and yes CATA was terrible but MoP is miles better a nice turn around from a game where at the end of CATA I was constantly hovering over the cancel subscription button and probably would have if they hadn't tricked me into a years subscription for Diablo 3. No regrets though, happily playing and enjoying raiding in MoP.