MMORPG WAR: Wow, Starcraft, Everquest,Runescape, Cabal Online, Guild Wars, etc

WoW has been dumbed down to such an extent that it is now idiot proof and no longer fun...

EQ2 is dead boring..

As for the others.. meh..

Wait for The Age of Conan.. MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!.. I want a war elephant so I can stomp on people.

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It was an easy game to take to, but it has been dumbed down so much that my 2 year old could probably play it. I mean honestly, they are scrapping all of the attunement for all end game content such as MH and BT. It's as if they have dumbed everything down so that everyone can just get "epics" without any effort at all. The TBC ruined WoW... PvP is a joke.. AV is just a zerg fest. The other BG's are all just PM's rolling over pugs. Arena.. LOL.. you can sell arena points now so that getting arena gear is even easier.

It became sucky for those who actually raided or PvP'ed seriously for their gear pre-tbc, only to now have any nub going to a few BG's in one week and coming out with the same gear that you may have worked for weeks, if not months for. The stuff you can buy from badges now virtually makes raiding not even worthwhile anymore.

Meh.. bring on TAOC.. I want my elephant..

Stompy stomp stomp!!

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I used to raid.. now I am casual and only play when I get the chance... usually doing bg's to keep my violent side happy.

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Started off well in S1, but then got side tracked by real life and children.

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Was never really into arena to be honest.. I liked pvp in the pure sense.. such as raids or what can come close which was the old style AV.. the one's that could go on for days.. They were fun.. But I used to raid pre-tbc so pvp was mostly a way to relieve tension or to just do something else. I stopped when tbc came out and I had my second child. I went back to it briefly, but 25 man raids just aren't the same as the old 40 man raids.. and the content seemed so rehashed.. Plus the patches since then which have buffed classes to such a ridiculous extent. They ruined the game basically.

WoW was fun when it first came out, even with the thousands of bugs and server issues. But during the last couple of years, instead of fixing the classes, they simply just gave them more (dps, etc).. For example, the inequality between alliance and horde were ridiculous in pre-tbc. Paladin buffs made raiding easy for alliance, while horde usually had to tough it out. So instead of fixing shaman skills to make them slightly on par, they simply allowed horde to have paladins and alliance to have shamans. I mean.. wtf?

It's just become dull now. A zerg fest basically and they are so desperate to give everyone epics that in a few weeks, a person can deck themselves out with raid quality epics or buy arena points for gear. Again.. wtf?.. As I said in a previous post, you can simply buy arena points now, so all it really is all pointless.

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You don't need personal rating to buy S2 gear. And on my server, people buy points to get the gear they need.

The game used to be balanced. It isn't anymore.

Look, WoW introduced a lot of people to gaming, who would otherwise never have tried. Its interface is probably one of the best to use, because it is easy. Other games have not even come close in that regard. But as the years have gone by, they have dumbed down the content and buffed every single class to ridiculous proportions. Granted, standing there shooting shadowbolts at a mob from your hands is ridiculous, but you know what I mean.

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Like Sly, I remember when there were no BG's and UBRS was actually a challenge.. Then MC opened up and the rush for FR gear started and the first entry into MC and getting stomped by the giants by the bridge while the raid leader was screaming 'OMG RUN RUN RUN!' and then laughing when we realised he was dead and the rest of us had managed to run out. That was fun. The 25 man's just don't have the same feeling. By the time we got through most of Naxx after clearing AQ40, I was starting to feel 'meh' about it. So I stopped playing for a while and returned when TBC was released. And that 'meh' feeling still hasn't changed. BG's and arena have nothing on what world pvp was like. I remember pvp raids on Ironforge or Stormwind and having so many people crowded in one place would make our computers chug.. Hell, I remember raiding SW and getting there just as someone started their Onyxia attunement event..

So now, I only play as a distraction when I am bored after the kids have gone to bed. I don't even bother playing my 70's anymore.. done all the quests and the instances and raids.. So I am levelling a squishy.. never played a lock before so it's different for me.

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I'm waiting for Conan and will see how that goes. It appears to promise to have a lot of potential.. similar to what wow used to have when it first came out.. hopefully they won't ruin it like blizz ruined wow over the last few years.

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