General Discussion

CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT SOMTHING ELESE?

Really, i don’t hate WoW, but I am getting sick of all the posting, and news, AND editorial being about it.

Most of these editorials are only "official" mmorpg.com bitch fests anyway.

Im also a hugely PvP oriented player and the new arena system looks like it could be what Im looking for in an mmorpg aswell.

Im especialy excited about the fact they are using the same europian ladder match making system from there warcraft 3 RTS.  High rank teams will only be competing against high rank teams, so the "best" teams will have to compete against all the other great PvP teams meaning that if you see a high warlord / grand marshal you will automaticly respect what he had to acomplish to achieve that rank, and you will know that this player is skilled. Unlike now where there are chinesse honor system farming business's that will gather honor in bg's 24 hours a day for you.  Anyone with the time or money can hit rank 14 right now but not for long.

They are bringing back the skill and they will be heavily rewarding the players with the skill to achieve the high ranks with incredible gear just as good as the PvE end gear at 70.

I cant say for certain that I will love the game again, but this does mean theres a good chance a lot of us can fall in love with WoW all over again.  Either way my copy has been long pre-ordered and I look forward to checking it out.

One final though regarding the new match making system, not only is this a great system geared around peopel competing against players of equal skill but it is also a perfect system for tournaments much like they do in warcraft 3 all the time.  They havent said there will be PvP tournaments on WoW yet but the system will be in place we could possibly see night time tournies (single elimination) allowing us to face the great teams from our own faction aswell perhaps.  Least thats what I am hoping for :)

Again, an Editorial that has a few flaws, but these are the ones that are just a needle in my eye.

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I have spent two years wallowing in a world rich in graphics and countless tongue in cheek based quests and combat so simple and repetitive that my nephew could excel at it (literally, my nephew is 10 years old and a rank 9 rogue)."

Congratulations, you just discribed EVERY MMORPG THAT WAS EVER MADE. Combat has never been a challenge, Combat has NEVER EVER required skill in any mmorpg. Quests have NEVER been anything else then simple. This is what is happening in EVERY mmorpg.

 This game has been nothing more than a time sink; putting countless hours of mind numbing faction grinding, killing the same monster 100,000 times to gain favor with said faction. The repetitiveness of the game is worse than any MMORPG I have played in the past fifteen years. For some reason I wait for the expansion, and I wait for a game that I can care about again.

This is obviously saying more about the Editorial writer then the game. killing mobs over and over again, once more, is the same problem we have seen in every MMORPG. I'm sick of it people point the finger at WoW and tell  everybody its doing point A wrong, its doing point B wrong. Its the same in every mmorpg, but yet I don't see an editorial about Lineage 2's repetiveness or RFO's? Or EVE's? I also don't recall 2 editorials before EQ2's expansion release? Everybody is complaining WoW's expansion adds nothing new. EQ2's expansion didn't add anything new either, yet I don't see anybody complaining about that. When will we stop pointing at WoW and look at other MMo's flaws?

Right now Blizzard is more or less like a Borg cube that has been cut off from the collective....in other words they don't know what the hell they are doing.

Now the Expansion is delayed till 2007,  that means that we won't see the second expansion till at least 2008 and that's only if Blizzard sticks to its promise of yearly expansions.  In 2008 WoW will look and play like EQ pre lucllin does now, meaning  the game will die because blizzard can't produce timley content to appease its fans.

Then there is the whole Raid or Die fiasco....They desperately want to keep that 6.99 million of the  7 million Non-Raider fan base, but the game is being steered by and Ex-EQ Raid kiddies with a penchant for Liberachi and Bob Macke Armor styles.  More than one industry insider is predicting an Implosion at Blizzard in the near future, I personally look forward to the day it happens, because if the continue down this road people are just going to quit in frustration anyway.

I'm saying the expansion won't come out until March.... January is a smoke screen unless balancing in the beta goes perfectly...

and who doesn't think the game will be laggy as hell, buggy and generally unfun for the first month or so?

I'm not as excited about it as I once was... gonna go try out some other games in the meantime to keep busy..