You just have to check the video description to smell the hypocrisy in this video.
You just have to check the video description to smell the hypocrisy in this video.
I think the vid is good.
I don't think it's the Mtx's and automation of it all.. I think it's.. back in classic we where these young ins, with oceans of time to invest into a game.. and with it, we began investing into other people in our guild.. people from across the world, with different backgrounds and personalities and beliefs.. but we all shared that one single thing. The love for the game.
So every day you would log in, see the same names, hear the same voices... and for years you would game, raid and pvp alongside them.
Then as time starts to move on, as it inevitably does.. the game changes, we change.. we no longer have all the time to invest into the game, people move on, we grow older, get kids, jobs that require sometimes way too much.. and all those familiar names and the progress you made with them fall off... some say goodbye, others just one day no longer log in, until you notice that 6+ month grey offline mark on their tag.
And then classic hit, and some of those old names came back, and those oh so familiar voices, and then TBC.. but we got older and we can't or wont afford ourselves those massive time investments anymore..
And those same people move on again, and then they sell a boost... and you want to blame those damned MTX's.. but deep down you know.
I think that's what the vid creator tried to convey, that sometimes nostalgia hits, and it can hit hard at times
I think that is also what is causing this massive difference in opinion..
Some of you are still young, or do have time left to invest.. and if so good for you, do what you enjoy..
And maybe that's what irks some of us older fellas, the fact we no longer have that option .
Last edited by Reinaerd; 2021-06-21 at 12:07 AM.
That can be flipped though.
If they were losing enough business over the store, it'd have been removed/changed. It's not crazy that people don't like it, of course. Blizzard however, got literal data as they collected feedback for YEARS on why someone quit the game, and they've expanded the store, not decreased/removed it.
Quite the contrary, this thread is actually having discussions about the content of the video as opposed to the overwhelming echochamber that is the comments section of the youtube video itself. It's not farfetched to think that people disagree, the video paints the game in a very disingenuous light as you can see by a lot of peoples experiences in this thread, and completely fails to compensate for outside factors that also affects who does and doesn't play the game.
When you have a game as old as this, where you could have been in middle school when it came out and be part of the working class now with a family, it is really not a farfetched thought to think people have changed priorities, and heck even taste in games, over the course of 17 years. It is far easier to start pointing fingers at all the things that "changed for the worse" with the game instead of reassessing how your own values might have changed over time.
When the video is called "This is World of Warcraft" of course people who disagree with the message are going to voice their opinion.
milked how?a boost and a mount isnt something you need to get to be competitive
yeah shaving off a few lvling days is nice...but...does it help you THAT much?any1 who is serious about tbc would have had a 60 long ago,or leveled it in pre patch no sweat,i started a draenei casualy playing,with a JERB and irl stuff and i made it to 54 or 56 when tbc launched,and i was for sure leveling suboptimaly also doing quests that had me travel to much for to little xp
milking is when games sell vital power stuff like bdo or whatever
I miss my friends
"Mmochampion is a fanboi website"
My dude.
Its known well as the most toxic, hate filled, "wow is dead" place in the wow community...
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No he does not risk his contract with blizzard, you literally dont know how it works...
if bellular and asmongold still get favors from blizz, you really think THIS is going to get him removed?
come on man.
if it was in vanila yes,it would,but in tbc its irelevant,character progression pre tbc is basicaly dead
sure having some t3 is nice and all,but you didnt get that t3 by llvling from 1 to 60 normaly anyways
people need to get over the character progression meme,WOW IS NOT ABOUT THAT and it NEVER was
wow resets every progression with every expansion,and these days even with every patch lol
Have you read through this "contract"? I only ask because to be able to say one way or the other, you would need to know what terms and conditions were in the agreement. Having read a couple of other agreements, in a similar field, I can confirm they can have some pretty strict and rather unusual conditions in them. One i saw was regarding Warhammer 40k (not video games, i know) and it contained a clause forbidding them from mentioning pricing in a negative way. It went on to list a bunch of examples including facial expressions, body language, and "emojis and/or emotes". He was not forced to say positive things about the pricing, but explained he chose not to discuss the pricing at all as he already received a warning early on for saying something he thought was quite positive, along the lines of "priced very well compared to other recent releases"
I think y'all get the mtx mixed up here
Y'all think Blizz added mounts and boosts and people left
I think in reality people left and Blizz added mounts and boosts to shore up the loss...I mean I don't know about y'all but I keep in touch with a lot of my friends who left...a few left in the beginning of wrath cause they didn't like the direction the game went, some left cause of a job, family moved away, etc....guild broke up and they didn't want to find another or their best friend stopped so they also stopped.
The anger I feel is more an inability to move on...everyone around you did but here you are trying to keep up the good fight
I'll end with one good question....how many games have you played consistently for 15 years....ie every day for that amount of time
Carbot's "This is World of Warcraft" is definitely a tour de force in melancholy, with a biting critique at its core - and though I wouldn't fault him for having his own ideas or feelings about what may have led to WoW's current state, I don't really agree with his implied summation either. I won't deny that WoW isn't what it was population-wise at least in my own experience, which like everyone else's is entirely anecdotal and subjective. While a small knot of friends are still around and we play rather regularly, we no longer have the numbers to actually raid, and even getting together for a weekly spare of Mythic+ runs can be an issue. This isn't really WoW's fault - it's not boosting, or P2W, the cash shop, or the WoW token. It's just the nature of life and change, really. Back in 2005 through 2012, I used to be a pretty serious raider but today I'm about as casual as they come. The ability to commit time to WoW has been whittled away by life's many commitments. I got married in 2009, went through a number of workplace promotions from 2011 and on through to today, requiring more and more time on my part and leaving less free time for pursuits like WoW. My friends in WoW have the same stories over the nearly two decades that WoW has endured - having children, growing careers, moving upward and onward as time passed.
I'll probably be playing WoW when that final expansion is launched at some future point, even if it's only an hour or two a month. I've played it since my mid-20's and on to today. It's like an old friend to me, even bereft of the rowdy crew I used to run with - I come back to it when I'm not busy with other games or hobbies. It's bittersweet to feel, or openly acknowledge, that WoW has likely entered into its autumnal days, but that too is the nature of these things. It's been and probably will continue to be a wild ride for some time, and if you're like me and still enjoy the game I think it'll have a lot to offer in the days to come.
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"Optional vanity items" which affect the quality of the ingame achievables... its a hard concept to understand for some that microtransaction products must be better quality than ingame ones so they sell.
Almost every store mount is a unique skin and an equivalant cannot be found anywhere else in the game... the only time we get unique skins ingame itself is maybe once per expansion, the rest are just reskins.
Remember the first store cosmetics? we still dont have anything like them ingame... those 3 hat transmogs. They are insanely cool and the only ones of their kind... only purchaseable from the store.
People will forever defend their store purchases so they dont feel bad about them.
It was when TBC was new. Now that it is a snapshot of time, People that want to play TBC shouldn't be required to play through Vanilla if they don't choose to.
I'd be fine with literally any ongoing "classic" expansions having the choice to skip directly to their expansions content. I hate Vanilla yet love TBC. I feel no reason to grind through something I hate for 60hrs just to get to content I enjoy.
But thats only you and all the other veterans.
What about new people who just started last year? or the year before that? etc. they havent played the game for a decade and they might not have kids and wives and fulltime jobs. They are literally in the same situation you were early on... so theres no reason why they wouldnt continue playing, right? the only thing that can keep those people playing is addicting game design, the type that got you into it and kept you in its grasp for years.
So this good old "we are too old now"-explanation doesnt really work, its not like people who started in 2005 are the last generation to ever play WoW. :P
Ive met people in classic who said they never had the chance to experience it so now they are trying it out. (at max level btw)
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But vanilla is part of TBC... TBC is an expansion, not a sequel to a game. Its like buying Witcher 3 dlc but you dont wanna play the maingame at all first, you just want a boost to the dlc zones with all abilities unlocked.