Originally Posted by
Elementalkin
In your first paragraph, you start off by saying that you've always been just fine with the game, having fun no matter what, but that suddenly MoP is a 'big pile of crap' that presumably prevents you from having said fun. So I have you ask you a simple question: How? What changed? You go on to say nothing is different, when technically everything is different:
There's a new talent system. There's a new(ish) spellbook. Glyphs were changed up. There's a brand new class. There's a brand new pet battling system. There's challenge mode dungeons for the hardcore difficulty seekers who want totally unique, class specific gear. There's the new scenarios that, while not perfect, are a brand new method of storytelling within the game. They added account wide achievements, mounts, titles, and will likely figure out something with the tabard situation sooner or later.
What more specifically do you want? Whether you hate or love 'what WoW has become' it's absurd and bordering on offensive to say that they 'haven't put any effort into it' - clearly, for better or for worse, they have. If you're tired of WoW, then just leave, but don't blame the game.
You say that the talent system is 'basic'. Compared to what? Passive 10% damage increases? Cookie-cutter, baseline talents that you were lambasted for not taking? Please, suggest your complex alternative to what we have now, and keep in mind that I DON'T think the current iteration is 'amazing', but I DO think it's a step in the right direction to what I'd really like to see - true choice regarding what your character can actually DO.
You say that the story is not 'epic in the slightest', and I have to disagree. Personally, the Horde vs Alliance conflict doesn't interest me, but I'd be a fool to deny that the idea of the world's two largest powers with a long history of violence, fighting a gritty and intense war that threatens to destabilize the harmony of the planet is pretty god damned 'epic'. I know you want something like the Burning Legion to return, or Azshara to rise from the depths, and I agree with you, but come on man, you sound like you're choosing to ignore what's happening around you because you have 'Panda-vision' on.
You say Garrosh 'was awesome' and that you 'loved how they developed him'. I guess I can't really argue with that as an opinion, but I certainly don't agree to it as an objective fact. Most of his 'developing' takes place outside of the game, and we're expected to find sympathy for his bloodthirsty, warmongering actions when he displays nothing but them in game.
You say that character graphics are 'old', and I agree. Unfortunately, you go on to criticize Blizzard for 'making excuses' when you don't seem to have any clue as to what is required to make these models. It's an entire process, not just 'draw shit, hotfix'. Armor models need to be updated, else people like yourself would bitch about how stupid your character looks when you wind up with a ridiculously sized helm, or a sword that sheaths on your forehead.
All of this also has to occur while literally everything else is being developed, from content patches to entire future expansions. It's on their list of things, and hopefully coming soon, but it's not as simple as 'Do it now, you have the money'. Doesn't work that way.
You say that they marketed this expansion for children, and I think this is where I'm losing respect for your point of view. This is asinine, and demonstrably false. You compare it to Bambi, and yes that did have mature themes yet remained mostly a kids movie. Do you know what it didn't have, though? For starters, it wasn't an interactive video game full of quests where you slaughter creatures and humanoids left and right, skin and dismember their corpses, and all manner of other grizzly things. It also didn't have evil monstrosities born from the turmoil that is engulfing the world, and which are themselves capable of corrupting everything around them. Bambi had a fucking small forest fire, it's not a fair comparison.
You say that Ogres would have made a better race, and I kind of agree, in that I prefer Ogres to the Pandaren. However, this expansion is not about Ogres, and no expansion probably ever will be. If you disagree, explain why.
If you're this upset with the game, it can only mean one of two things: You actually like the changes, but are too embarrassed to admit you were wrong in the past (somehow I doubt this is a sudden epiphany), and are thus fighting against your own feelings, OR you really do despise 'what WoW has become', which is fine, in which case I don't know why you don't just LEAVE. I used to have similar strong, negative feelings until I wisened up and realized I was acting like an ass, but I sure as hell wasn't playing while I thought them.