I assume it's just butthurt. Especially now because all that cool stuff in the cash shop he's talking about can be bought with gold via wow tokens. Also by their lack of understanding the definition of P2W AND to top it all off not realizing that all the purchased gear from raids in the world doesn't make you a good play (Gear Don't Fix Stupid was a popular saying in my old guild).
As far as the thread title goes though. I don't think WoW has tried to keep the nostalgia at all, they seem to be moving forward while trying new things out and tweaking older things to find what the player base enjoys.
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^^^^ this people is bias and opinion
people say this exact line
wow before X and after X are compeltly differnt games
some say cataclysm, some say wrath, some say cata, some say mop, some say wod, some will say legion
the game is mostly the same, yes there is minor changes, but if you showed somone both games, they would go "oh thats the same game!"
I have played from vanilla till now and I absolutely loved vanilla it was new and nothing out was like it but would I ever go back? No, if the game never changed I would not be playing today.
There were TCG items early on back in thos oh so pure days you like to talk about.
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What does it win you? Ah chance to buy a BoE epic or an epic form the BMAH? Hardly winning anything.
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Only if said power items are available to purchase. Even so, you win nothing. IF you were buying gear directly from the shop that had actual stats that would be different, since there would be an endless supply of gear there. In the game world there is a finite amount available.
I don't really think it has gone too far to keep old nostalgia since a lot has changed since those days and some of it is good, some bad.
What I personally miss most from back then was things like server communities when your rep actually mattered in groups, and when you had to actually use cc in dungeons and they weren't all mindless zergfests. But I can admit I do enjoy some of the later QoL changes that came with the game like account-wide mounts and tmog.
Now it seems to have become their only goal. They just throw out some more grind -- even worse, completely pointless grind -- to keep people busy but don't exactly focus much on the content, and even less on the spirit. The game doesn't feel great the way WoW once did.
I think most people who prefer Cata simply didn't play before Cata. Personally I would only play old versions of TBC or WotLK for the pvp. It may not have been balanced, but it was much more fun. And the few dedicated pvp private servers that gained any kind of traction were TBC/LK.
There was a break in WotlK. With the introduction of heirlooms and the reduction of the xp needed to lvl up. It begins late BC with patch 2.3 (-17,3% XP needed to get to lvl 60). But in Wrath, it was -30% XP for lvl 60-70, plus the heirlooms (-20% or 25% if you got the ring). What all that means, is that WoW was no longer about leveling.
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Spose it would be a matter of opinion but both B and c of your examples could CLEARLY be argued that spending real cash on tokens that convert to gold would allow someone to buy a run far easier and faster than someone who farmed said gold. Unless you would care to share this kickass farming spot you have for gold that earns it at that rate And generally I think when ppl use said gold to buy a carry they do get gear they would not have otherwise. Does not have any impact on me personally but nevertheless it is a thing and it is not fakenews lol
if we can't agree on that, well then not much to discuss is there
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Just because I don't care does'nt mean I don't understand
I know the voices in my head are not real BUT they have some REALLY good ideas