Ok I read about these guys who had a legacy server on gamefaqs (gamings version of the mos eisley bar a hive of scum and villainy and worse … )
And there was much bitching and ranting on how everyone wanted to roll back to lich king or before as everythings too easy and you don’t have to actually quest anymore and blizz/activision could afford a legacy server and such for the old players
(none of this was new to me lots of people bitched like this about EQ right before wow came out )
and everyone agreed MOP was boring and needless other kung fu panda was popular the year it came out
last time I was on wow on a regular basis was WOTLK other than a brief comeback with a new character when they had “free til lvl 30”
Is any of the complaining valid on how easy and such it is ? I know theres a new expansion coming soon and theres a way to pay for a sub using in game gold so I just im thinking about digging out my dwarf fighter I never went anywhere with and restarting where i left off
Now I don’t mind not having to mess with groups as I never cared about that in wow unless I was playing with friends or relatives (never got to find a useful guild tho)
The only valid complaint is “It’s a 12 year old game we’ve all played to death and gotten sick off already”. There’s really nothing they can do that is going to fix that.
You might get enjoyment running through the stuff you’ve missed for a bit, at least catch up before the next expansion. 15 bucks is worth it for that playtime then you can decide to continue or not. It is nice because you can run solo and not have to worry about showing up on a schedule or guild drama.
My subscription remains active by paying gold, I’ve pretty much done everything so the game doesn’t offer anything beyond PVP which I’m not really into. Every few days I log in do some garrison stuff which is kinda like boring dailies, juggle the AH a bit to keep the gold coming in and log out.
My guild bailed early this expansion, we walked through the fist raid on normal difficulty and no one was motivated to keep going. I’ve since cleared everything at the highest difficulty jumping in with random guilds. My friends will be back for the next expansion but I don’t expect much, our staying power drops each expansion.
I think the general consensus for the current xpac is that the raid content is good, but there isn’t enough of it. Since we’re only a few months away from Legion, that should be a non-issue for a new player.
For what it’s worth, by the way, the Warcraft universe had kung-fu pandas for a long time before the movie Kung-Fu Panda was ever released. It’s just that, before MoP, they were mostly hidden away in Easter eggs and such.
Yeah, Blizzard has shamelessly stolen a lot of ideas coughWarhammercough, but that doesn’t mean that everything they’ve ever done is stolen. Sometimes it’s just a coincidence, and sometimes the stealing goes the other way.
I believe the price is set on a region-by-region basis according to supply and demand. In my region, the price of a token for a month’s subscription is around 44,000 gold.
That and when I came back after a year and half and had my account hacked half my toons stolen and transferred to other servers that I had spent four years on, bank looted and nothing recovered because it had been too long.
Said, no thanks Blizzard.
When I close my account one of the predetermined questions they asked was “are you leaving because your account was hacked ?”
The Guild I’m in has basically taken an extended break until Legion because there just hasn’t been enough content this expansion to keep people occupied. Most days I’m the only person on, that’s only because I stopped playing at the start of this expansion and have only just resubbed so there’s plenty for me to do at the moment.
It seems a super easy game to level up in now as opposed to how it was in vanilla, they have simplified everything to possibly the games detriment though. It rushes you towards endgame but doesn’t have enough for some people once you get there.
However I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t want to play on a legacy server as I can remember how broken the game was back then in many respects, when I first hit 60 there was Molten Core and that was that for some time. I really enjoyed WotLK the most myself but I guess that’s not really on the agenda for a Legacy system as in what point do you stop with the expansions?
The game these days is designed to get you to max level as quickly as possible in as direct a way as possible, so you can grind raids for gear. If that’s your thing, great, but it breaks a lot of the fun of the other game mechanics (leveling, exploring, professions, story development).
There are now a million and one ‘mini-games’ that are all variations on gear grinds (ie Garrisons) that don’t really add anything new, interesting, or innovative, but instead clutter gameplay, quests lists, and inventory.
I’ll stick around for Legion, but I don’t have high hopes. WoD has been pretty boring for me. On-the-rails playing that [hyperbole]has been feeling more similar in style to an uninspired ‘freemium’ iphone game (but with better story) than older versions of WoW[/hyperbole].
For me, it gets boring WAY quickly. It’s fun to skip an expansion or two, because then you get to see “new” things, but as soon as you get to end game, I find the grinding to be way more soul-draining than I did a decade ago.
Well, fuck. I just found out that my favourite thing in the game is apparently being removed in Legion, presumably because Blizzard are stupid bastards who can’t comprehend that somebody playing a healer monk still wants to be a monk.