So you say cata is the most boringest thing since ever

[gkai]

I've been playing this game since vanilla, when UBRS was the hot stuff, and back then what made the game fun was getting gear, or pvp titles that no one els' had. Getting full tier 1-2-3 was really quite the achievement in those days. Now it just seems that anyone can make a toon now, old or new player and get full tiers, or full pvp gear. So really I find myself asking "what's the point?"

I had an awesome time playing this game though Vanilla/BC/WOTLK(meh) but cata is just too boring, everything is a cake walk, pvp is the same, the bgs are just updated versions of AB and WSG, tol'barad is a joke, and from what I've heard about pve it's nothing special.

Fun game while it lasted, but unfortunately blizzards intentions a re based on noob-friendly which is fine and dandy but Blizzard needs to realize that they still have the Elietest people around looking for a good challenge, like a good ol'fashion pvp friend that most would think "ya okay, only nerds would do that" ect..ect.. it's what the game needs, but it won't happen. Blizzards focus is mainly on making money, which is why we see wow being dumbed down at an incredible rate.

[Pozz]

The reason I stopped was the lack of community. Blizzard have made acting a jerk profitable, and you hardly know anyone on your server apart from your guildies. You "can" make your own groups spamming lfgchat, but a minority of people actually care about those groups and just sign up in the lfg tool.

I used my time "socializing" in ye olde days, i played a multiplayer game. These days it feels like I'm playing a sologame apart from the raids.

Currently playing DDO, while seriously flawed, in seems to have way more of a multiplayer feel, and I hope SW:ToR will focus on the community and not the individual =/

http://9gag.com/gag/57454

[knaackg]

Bring on death matches a la Gurubashi arena style.

This would be sick, I want it.

[GennGreymane]

ur right on dailies

back in vanilla the whole world was a pvp map. now a days if a lowbie dies some lvl 85 cries about it on the forums and insults the player who kills a lower lvl to the point where i step back and go...... wow....really?

[Warcrafter]

PvP, old av's and wsg matches could take 12 hours, not rusrushrushrushkilboss

I remember having a 2 day AV match

[Felya]

I’m just curious as to what you were doing in previous wow expansions that made them less boring?

The same things that were not boring years ago, have become boring over repeatedly doing them over time. It's not that this expansion is lacking content, it's just that it's the same content over again. I don't understand why people like you are having trouble with repetitiveness becoming boring. It's not just part of gaming, but is life.

[Paulosio]

I got bored because the game is just a repetitive cycle that repeats itself. I can't be bothered to spend so much of my life working through content like in the past when i'd rad 5 nights a week and clearing normal modes is dull and doesn't entertain me (I tried joining my guilds casual raid group after quitting my hardcore raid spot in the same guild. I got bored after 3 weeks and quit the game entirely) Any novelty and fun the game once brought to me faded. There are still things to do but I have no motivation to do them. New content wont bring me back (maybe a whole new expansion would bring me back for a few weeks out of curiosity).

Onto your points though:

"-Dailys
They didn’t show up till the 2 or 3rd patch in BC and in vanilla you didn’t get them at all."

Instead of repeating the same daily quests over and over again or till you got all the rep or whatever you needed, I used to work on different projects such as getting exalted with Cenarion circle to get access to their rewards or just for the hell of it. I'd level an alt and that would keep me occupied for weeks.... Now i've already levelled 9 of the 10 classes to at least 80 and 3 of them to 85. It takes no time and so even if I do level a new character it only lasts a couple of days. There were always little things to do during vanilla because it was a far bigger more wondrous place to explore. It took weeks and probably months to see all of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones and do all the dungeons while with Cataclysm i'd already hit that point within the 1st week.

"-PVP
You have been getting progressively more maps every expac so your not doing the base 3 that were released in vanilla. "

Most of the new BG's that I experienced before quitting weren't popular and just resulted in thinning the player base out to the point that you could either que WSG or do a random and hope you don't get 1 of the terrible BG's such Isle of Conquest / AV which are just PVE objective rushes most of the time or SOTA that everyone hates so much that they just quit on entry. Admittedly I only tried 1 of the BG's that came with this expansion because I had little motivation to do any PVP.... partly because the game is so terribly balanced for PVP. I play other games for PVP (Not MMORPG's).

"-Dungeons
We still got a bunch of them you can run too and there are even rewards now for actually completing them instead of looking in LFG for a tank for 2+ hours only to get one that was sub par geared and would drop group the moment his trinket didn’t drop off the first boss."

I've finished them all multiple times including on a couple of alts. There is no loot left to motivate me to go and I don't need valor points on my main. On top of that I don't want to que with numpty's who will just irritate me with their annoying personalities or terrible ability. I hated getting SFK and Deadmines heroic because even though they had new bosses with new mechanics they dungeons didn't feel fresh because of the same boring scenery (1 of the reasons I also hated the Hyjal raid and TOC).

TLDR. There is nothing new or interesting in this game. There are things to do but there is little motivation to do them. The game is boring.

[underdogba]

I think the feeling of boredom comes from the fact that we've become acclimated to the achievement system, and if you played a lot in WotLK and accomplished a lot of them, there are very little new achievements added in Cata, so essentially most of the low-hanging fruit is gone. The achievements system itself is a very big source of things to be doing in downtime where you're not specific raiding or doing rated BG's / arena matches.

As far as people having to justify their boredom, that's kind of a facile idea. People feel boredom, and the best we can do is try to explain why they are experiencing that emotion. Attempting to argue that people rationally shouldn't be bored doesn't accomplish anything, in that nobody is ever going to read something you write and suddenly decide, "Wow, you're right, I guess I'm not bored!" It's like trying to tell somebody who is hungry that they shouldn't be hungry because of reasons X, Y, and Z. What could that possibly accomplish?

[bobo333]

dailies were always boring.

but to agree somewhat i'll quote a poster from awhile back, cata feels more like a big patch than a full expansion.
wow doesn't cater to the all-day players any more. i bet the people who spend more than 5 hours a day (myself included) are in the minority now. the reason why 80-85-heroics-raids went by so fast is because the new system is designed for those who play at most 2 hours a day. maybe. if it's raining. but you know what i don't mind. my friends are there, guild is awesome outside of instances and pvp is still fun for me.

but professions are weak and that irks me a bit. levelled alchemy from 450-525 on two toons in a day, farming everything. lack of specialisations for armourcrafters kinda removes a lot of the point of levelling profs in the first place (tbc weaponsmiths lionheart executioner hoooooo!!). and the random enchantment (for armour/rings) sucks fucking donkey dick get rid of it

[Deleted]

Dailies that progress is fun, not the boring dailies for rep. Like the Isle of Queldanas (sp?) that was mentioned. We worked together to progress an area. Or the opening of Ahn'Qiraj. That definitely gave us a sense of accomplishment.

You cannot expect people to follow the same grind for gear after each expansion. What WoW needs now to make it fresh are dynamic events. Things that get people away from the cities and the queues. Rift has done that bit right for sure.

I am very curious on what the next expansion will bring. I am 100% sure it will not be the same formula again. Blizzard is not that stupid.....

[gherkin]

The game has shifted to be less time consuming, and these people are still spending the same amount of time online. Thus they are bored.

Being nostalgic about the amount of time it took to get a BS to make you an epic weapon, or grind rep, or level a character to end-game, only shows that you still have the same amount of time to spend on a video game as you did 4-5 years ago.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing.

[WReck]

I love chain running 5 mans it's fun to bad this expansion has less then half as many as BC unless you count dead mines and SFK then it still has 6 less then BC did at launch, and 3 less then LK and that's counting dead mines at SFK.
Another big change is there's bigger mobs but less pulls and more open space in runs. A big thing that makes stuff less fun is a lot of ass holes and trolls when you get in a run it's not a group of people who all want to work to gether and get through it's a bunch of individuals after their own stuff not interested in completing the run but in getting their gear. another problem is the kick system if I kicked some one last run for DCing or AFKing I can't kick the ass hole I'm stuck with in the next run. This isn't a major issue I watch my timer and at 15mins bail but kinda screws the other 2 DPS.

OK and now for the real reason cata is so boring there's nothing to think about I don't go over my spec's daily theory crafting looking for how to tweek it to push out more DPS or increase my threat or HPS nope not shit to think about just forced talents pvp or pve not only does the lack of options in the talent tree bother me forcing 31 points is retarded for the love of god give me something to think about. If I'm busy mashing numbers with my friends I'm not bored

[Duster505]

People are saying it's boring cause it gets repetitive doing the same thing for the last several years...

And Blizzard... desided to do more of exactly the same... + Archeology !

[sourberrys]

I love chain running 5 mans it's fun to bad this expansion has less then half as many as BC unless you count dead mines and SFK then it still has 6 less then BC did at launch, and 3 less then LK and that's counting dead mines at SFK.
Another big change is there's bigger mobs but less pulls and more open space in runs. A big thing that makes stuff less fun is a lot of ass holes and trolls when you get in a run it's not a group of people who all want to work to gether and get through it's a bunch of individuals after their own stuff not interested in completing the run but in getting their gear. another problem is the kick system if I kicked some one last run for DCing or AFKing I can't kick the ass hole I'm stuck with in the next run. This isn't a major issue I watch my timer and at 15mins bail but kinda screws the other 2 DPS.

OK and now for the real reason cata is so boring there's nothing to think about I don't go over my spec's daily theory crafting looking for how to tweek it to push out more DPS or increase my threat or HPS nope not shit to think about just forced talents pvp or pve not only does the lack of options in the talent tree bother me forcing 31 points is retarded for the love of god give me something to think about. If I'm busy mashing numbers with my friends I'm not bored

If you're going to be a mage they only allow you to have 3 options, frost, arcane or fire. If you want to PVP you have 3 options Arena, BGs or TB. You are going to PVE and your going to like it, with raids, dungeons and dailies. If someone does something different, the servers go down and hotfixed and the account gets sanctioned.

Seems boring to me to.

[trhemp]

i only log in to raid, there is not much else to do once you don't need heroics (doubt i'll even look at za/zg untill i start needing VP again).

Honestly they keep saying that something exciting is on the way, however i think they are just trying to stop people from leaving. WoW is definatley going downhill.

[Mr. Smith]

-Dailys
They didn’t show up till the 2 or 3rd patch in BC and in vanilla you didn’t get them at all.

Your mileage may vary,but I find the new dailies,and the entire zone they're situated in,to be pretty dreadful.

-PVP
You have been getting progressively more maps every expac so your not doing the base 3 that were released in vanilla.

EoTS and WG aside,I don't find many post Classic BGs to be very fun.

-Dungeons
We still got a bunch of them you can run too and there are even rewards now for actually completing them instead of looking in LFG for a tank for 2+ hours only to get one that was sub par geared and would drop group the moment his trinket didn’t drop off the first boss.

I'll give you this,the dungeons are pretty fun,but once you're geared (Like I was) you stop doing them unless it's for the Valor Points you need.

So when people are saying that cata is boring and there is nothing to do after you raid for the week and do your dailys. What were you doing when there was less content but apparently the game was less boring?

BC - Leveling for the first time,working on Netherwing/Nether Ray rep grinds,raiding with my guild during the last few weeks of the expansion

WOTLK - Still working on the Nether Ray grind,farming for the Mechano-Hog,participating in Wintergrasp,doing Argent Tournament dailies to get over a dozen mounts,pugging raids every now and then for fun/badges,doing the high-end content with my guild

Cataclysm: Ground for ~2 weeks for the Sandstone Drake,maxed out Archaeology (too terrible for words),tried Tol Barad (Bleh),did the Tol Barad dailies until I had both mounts and the sword (Bleh again),got shelved in raids because Ret is average and melee DPS is pretty meh in general for raids.

[Deleted]

Personally I don't think the content is any better or worse than it has ever been since I started playing in TBC, but somehow i'm having much more fun with it than I ever have.

WoW is what you make of it.

[gibbie99]

My guild is barely into heroic, yet I find the raid content some of the most fun I've had in WoW since TBC.

The problem is, that's all there is. I don't enjoy PvP as much as I used to, and besides Raiding and PvP, there is NOTHING to do that is fun. Leveling used to be fun when it was still a challenge to run level-appropriate dungeons and do group quests, but these things are history.

Leveling is the most fun in the game. The new quests are absolutely fantastic. There is this quest in Southshore where you play a quest giver to a newb, a uber epic raider, and some idiot. Then you run around the whole zone trying to rescue them. Also there is another arena-like quest series in the area, where there are 4 elite mobs in Old Hillsbard that you have to kill. Can be soloed, but hard. The problem is that people tend to blow through the quests because ZOMG rush rush rush to 85.

I strongly encourage people who are bored to play the 'new' content on an alt. The new stuff is fantastic.

[nyc81991]

The people complaining about how boring it is are most likely players who haven't experienced/done everything there is to do in WoW and simply just have a short attention span.

Not true. This xpac is just not that good so far.

[sulfuric]

might have something to do with the poor quality of artwork, and recycling of old content on top of the game itself naturally becoming stale.