I could care less about these kind of reviews. The game could be the worst experience in mmo gaming of the last 20 years, if I like it, then the game is good (for me). Which is all that matters (or should matter) for each person.
I could care less about these kind of reviews. The game could be the worst experience in mmo gaming of the last 20 years, if I like it, then the game is good (for me). Which is all that matters (or should matter) for each person.
Wow does not have an active combat system. Active combat system is a particular subset of a type of combat system that has a set definition. You can't just say "You have to move out of fire, so Wow has an active combat system." You can't actively dodge an attack, or riposte after successfully parrying. You don't aim your spells and arrows at the bosses, as long as it's targetted then you hit it (or don't, because of stats). If it HAS stats that directly affect your ability to strike an opponent, it's a stat based combat system. Moving out of AoE is not part of the 'combat' system as an AoE attack becomes an environmental effect after being cast or while being channeled.
And YOUR rampant bias toward GW2 is incredibly evident and I'm pretty sure the only things I said about it are that comparing it to WoW is dumb, that it has an active combat system, and that a lot of quests require or provide additional items or abilities that are relevant to only that one quest and that a lot of people have a gripe with that. I stated that an active combat system is not a revolutionary, amazing, end all be all that causes other games that don't use it to become cavemen, which is not particular to only GW2.
Seriously, reread exactly what I said about GW2. I didn't say it was a bad game, I didn't say it was shitty or bad compared to WoW. I said comparing the two is stupid. Not even joking, you put words into my mouth as if I said ANYTHING bad about GW2 except that people find issue with the quest system's habit of introducing new abilities and utilities into a large majority of quests. I say one negative thing about GW2 and you attack me and make assumptions. Hilarious, really.
Critics are reviewing the game based on the leveling experience or--even worse--their experience in the beta. Nothing will judge an MMORPG release like the community, and I think the community has spoken for itself in declaring Mists of Pandaria a rousing success.
have you even played the expansion? the pandaren have hardly anything to do with the story after 5.0. they are far from "the main part of the expansion" *spoilers*
5.0 is about the mantid, the sha, and the mogu/zandalari resurgence
5.1 alliance and horde warships show up on the shores of karasange wilds and proceed to rip the jungle apart anduin dies or Atleast garrosh beats him so badly everyone thinks he dies, varian takes his first trial of the high king and the night elves name him their high king, wrathion sends players to the black temple to recruit the black harvest to their faction, once jaina finds out about sunreavers sneaking troops into darnasus she kicks the blood elves out of dalaran and jails or kills any who defy her and then makes the kirin tor exclusively alliance. garrosh gets ahold of the divine bell and starts to figure out a way to try and control the sha. lor'themar breaks into dalaran and slaughters kirin tor until he gets to the prison and sets the sunreavers free he then learns of garroshs plots and basically says if this warchief is just like garithos we might reconsider joining the alliance
5.2 we dont know exactly what happens but things get worse
5.3
5.4?
5.5 siege of orgrimar, at some point garrosh does something so horrible everyone wants him dead so varian who at this point has finished the trials of the high king has hAd every race of the alliance name him their king and hes now leading a group of elite alliance solders and si:7 along with horde rebels into orgrimmar and dethrones the warchief.
now idk about you but i dont see one mention of the pandaren anywhere in 5.1 other then the fact that some of it takes place on pandaria. in fact the majority of it doesnt even take place there it takes place in northrend, kalimdor, and outlands.
so please go on and tell me how 5.1 and the entire expansion is about "fluffy cuddly pandas"
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Critics opinions should always always be taken lightly
First, game review sites have ALWAYS sucked. they often give scores based on what people expect rather then being subjective. "Warcraft was amazing, therefore wow must be amazing because I love warcraft", "wow is so awesome that the expansion must be awesome as well","people are saying pandas are a ripoff, better give it a lower score". See where I'm going?
Next, WoW's engine is perfectly capable of rendering FAR better graphics then WoW has. the MODELS AND TEXTURES are what's outdated. look at the differences between each expansion. new water and SLI in cata, SSAO in mop make the engine, which is based on an 8 year old engine, modern enough.updating models however, would take as much as half the developement time wow has had now.
Man, how you describe it makes me so pumped for the wow story and future of it!! Sounds pretty awesome. In fact, even more cool to me than the Arthas(wotlk xpac) story. I played warcraft ever since the first game(the rts) and I just love the lore. No expert, but I like it. The LK story was kinda the peak for me, but if all of the stuff you wrote just there is going to happen... well YEAH
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Verdict finally in: Some people can only live the way the internet tells them they should live their life.
Somehow I doubt anyone of you will accept the expansion is bad based on sub numbers. It's a night try though.
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Why? History is repeating itself all over again. Unpopular regressive decisions have been made. Any changes that will be made will naturally set the community upon itself. Expect a blog detailing why the changes were made. Cataclysm 2.0.
Not -trying- to be rude or anything. But you're argument against "It's impossible to judge this expansion until it's near the end, so the reviews don't matter" doesn't even make ANY sense.
We're literally in the first patch of the whole expansion. Many people have said this expansion is better than cataclysm due to better PvE and most importantly for me; PVP. While some numbers have still to be tweaked, the introducement of PvP power was the best that could happen to WoW.
See how I'm talking about PvP and those people are probably talking about PvE? While the majority of wow players might be PvE players, the minority of those players are those reviewers.
Idc if I'm going to be flamed for this. But the reviews of those people don't mean ANYTHING. While I haven't read the reviews, and idk if they have talked about PvP (neither can I be bothered to read those stupid reviews), but I doubt any of those reviewers have even stepped foot into an arena.
Why wouldn't sub maters?
Wow never had so much competition as it has now, and still keeping MOP kept 10million ppl.
Mop its a sucess, this doesnt mean everyone that played in Wotlk or Cata are back alot are on Gw2, still on D3, Swtor and the 10000x free online games. It must mean MOP got new players into the MMO market for a game so old to get new players means the machine is running good.
The second I read "metacritic" I knew you're just another ignorant idiot.