Originally Posted by
conceit2
December 2009. ICC was released. After that? We have been waiting for some new, interesting, content for MONTHS now. We have waited a YEAR for cata to be released, and in the meantime the only new content existed of one small raid: ruby sanctum. After this year, Cata was finally released. However: where was my exciting new content? Ok, they implemented a few new dungeons, but healing them was far too easy and I got my volcanic stone drake within two months. Next to this, they killed pugging because the difficulty of normal raids exceeded the capabilities of the random people slacking in the cities. Ok, people were able to pug one lousy boss in BH, but that's it, and pretty much ruined the game for puggers like me (people who don't like raiding on a specific time, but want to raid when we feel like raiding). To continue my list of "exciting new content", I'll go on with the questing areas, which were too straight forward: the zones were actually one huge questline witout any choice. I mean, what are we: robots? The revamped old world seemed nice at first, however since I am not really the alt-leveling guy (and I'm not alone on this one) I realised that I won't be seeing a lot of it anyway.
Ah well, the starting content wasn't that exciting after all. But the fast upcomming content patches might add some interesting new features or content to compensate for the lack of interesting stuff, right? After all, I've paid 30 euros for cataclysm alone, and I was still paying 13 euros/month...
Alas, I was dissapointed once more. The slowly released new content would only provide two new dungeons. Not even a new raiding tier! The new raiding tier wouldn't be released untill 4.2, and even then it would be the smallest raiding tier ever.
Ofcourse Blizzard doesn't owe us anything, but we don't owe them anything, either. After all, they can't force us to play and pay 13 euros per month, for a game that is barely even worth that amount of money: I can get a random V*lve game for 20-30 bucks, that updates for free AND has a great quality.
And what will it lead to next? You want to make use of the calendar? Premium! New fancy BG? Premium! Epics? Premium!
Blizzard, I've been a great fan of your games since warcraft 2 and sc1, however this new path you have clearly chosen doesn't lead to where I would like it to see it go.
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Disclaimer: everything stated above is partly, if not fully based on (my) personal opinions.
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Excuse me for not being a native english speaker.
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-Ithica (Yes I can't post on the official forums because I already canceled my subscription -.-)