Mists of Pandaria looks like the best WOW Expansion yet

[s1njin]

It seems to me by making the game more "accessible," they've removed the game part. Seriously, what is the point of leveling a character anymore? They should just give you a semi-equipped lvl 85 when you log on. No need for a world either. Nothing happens in the world anyway and you rarely run across other players anymore. A couple of major cities would be fine. Professions? No game depth there. Exploration? No need and you just fly over the content anyway. All my friends have long since left and I canceled about 6 months ago.

Use to be a great game. It's really just gotten too old, too boring, too much of the same and has LOST the old RPG adventure charm it once had. I'm really hoping SWTOR and GW2 bring some of that back.

Well said !

 

[Veliko]

It seems to me by making the game more "accessible," they've removed the game part. Seriously, what is the point of leveling a character anymore? They should just give you a semi-equipped lvl 85 when you log on. No need for a world either. Nothing happens in the world anyway and you rarely run across other players anymore. A couple of major cities would be fine. Professions? No game depth there. Exploration? No need and you just fly over the content anyway. All my friends have long since left and I canceled about 6 months ago.

Use to be a great game. It's really just gotten too old, too boring, too much of the same and has LOST the old RPG adventure charm it once had. I'm really hoping SWTOR and GW2 bring some of that back.

Levelling has been improved immeasurably since Cataclysm, those old vanilla areas were horrendous to churn your way through. The questing storylines are more interesting.

I have never, ever had a sense of exploration to that game. As vast as it is, there is nothing to actually explore and you just get punished for it by the respawning mobs.

 

[soccerballtux]

Kung Fu Panda

yeah wtf

 

[Wreckem]

yeah wtf

The Pandas were a race in Warcraft well before Kung Fu Panda. Its what the WoW player base wants, so Blizzard is doing it.

 

[Aikouka]

They should just give you a semi-equipped lvl 85 when you log on.

At this point, I would actually prefer that.

 

[Ns1]

At this point, I would actually prefer that.

beats having to pay the chinese to do it.

 

[Coydog]

Got Kung Fu Panda (look at concept art of the original pandarans to now.)

And then add in Pokemon.

 

[blankslate]

The game is doomed. It started in the summer of 2009. After Ulduar, when the Colliseum came out. Tigole left (one of the old developers with a true MMO-background). Since then it's only about maximizing profits for Activision, while lowering costs. There is no hope.

Jeff Kaplan is the proverbial old man talking about how in his day he had to "walk to school in a blizzard uphill both ways and carry his books in a wheel barrow because backpacks had not been invented yet and in any case the books where too heavy to be carried with backpacks because they were still carved from stone."

He was also part of the reason why hybrids were horrible to play unless you went for the healing tree even then it was a terrible chore... keeping up a 5 minute buff up on 40 people... no thanks.

He's stuck in the old-school mmo paradigm and remembers things as being better than they were. Sort of like reminiscing about how awesome the old muscle cars were while ignoring the average build quality and how lacking the handling was compared to newer cars.

He probably can't appreciate any of the real improvements in mmo gaming made since EQ I was in it's heyday.

Good riddance.

 

[PrayForDeath]

I played since Vanilla and quit shortly before Cataclysm cause I no longer had enough time for the game (didn't play Cat, so I can't tell if it's good.)

Raiding in Vanilla was tedious, and those who tell you that the game reached its peak back then are blinded by nostalgia. I think I had the most fun raiding in BC (killing Vashj and Kael in particular), but WotLK was also very enjoyable.

The game isn't dying any time soon that's for sure.