Originally Posted by
patcherke
The question is not whether they can do it or not, but if they are willing to put effort/money in it. That is what the other guys means by ‘becoming lazy’.
I play the game for 6 years now, and I loved it, and still do.
But I think most people can see the flaws of the last expansion, the things that the other guys stamps as ‘lazy’:
- Only 5 levels in cataclysm, for a total of 2 days of playing at max.
- Lore seems missing at points. I had a lot better feeling of the story during Vanilla, TBC and Wrath.
- pve and pvp still screw each other over and it has been going on for years now. Yes it is time for change here. If 90% of the patch notes every content patch are class balances majorly for pvp, then something is wrong, end of it.
- we still have the same stupid 16 slot starter bag. And why? Because coding it to change it is too difficult? I doubt that.
- yes a wardrobe is something that should have been added long ago. Some people do like to keep their armor sets.
- people don’t have the same feeling of accomplishment, because almost everything is handed to them on a platter. (getting Valor points easier in dungeons than in raids is one of them, Timbermaw Hold rep a second)
- Cataclysm is lacking content, especially for people that do not raid or pvp.
- several metagems and enchants were missing at the start of Cata. I used a level 80 metagem and still use a L80 cloak enchant simply because it is as good as or even better than the current L85 ones.
- fishing is still as boring as it was before, but as a raider you are basicaly forced to do it for the better food.
- Archeology: sorry but this looks like an artificial way of sinking time to me.
- Game support is meager at best. I am lucky if get a GM who wants to talk to me in game. Most of the time I get a standardized mail which provides no information.
- mounts: take the gladiator mount, it is a freaking old one, which has been brushed up a bit and was given a helm. Same goes for almost every new mount added: they are not new.
These are the things (and there are more of them) that are considered as ‘lazy’.
Now don’t get me wrong, they will not stop me from playing (not soon anyway) but it start to make me think.