Weeeeelll... I played WoW for many, many years. With some ups and downs, made it through classic and two expansions. I think its time to give a little rant here.
The time I startet, in November 05, WoW was my very first mmo and somethign wfully new. i had the luck to jump on a server that had opened its gates only a few weeks ago, so everything was just cool around there. Playing my little mage, I explored, stared in awe and met many new friends, getting in touch with online-RP and begann loving it, spending hours in the mage-quarter of stormwind, selling my handmade Linencloth-Bags.
WoW was new that time.. and everything was ponys and rainbows.
My little mage grew up, reached 60, started raiding.
Oh the raiding back then.. stumbling with 39 others through a fuggin' huge cavern full of trash, more trash, MOAR trash and if you're lucky you see a boss every now and then. Not to mention the loot was terrible and getting a full class-set was something you see in your depraved, wet dreams in which you bend Lady Luck over a table.
Then the rgeat day, Burnign Crusade was released. Every set you gathered and every piece of loot you optained becomming worthess from one day to the enxt, replaced by something that drops by a big, red boar in the wilds. Oh well, we move on. "Some" label BC as a golden age for WoW, such as some claim thats classic. As for me, I agree with the former. I had most of my fun after hitting 70. Still having a lot of fun, though the introduction of Blood Elves opened a... well... bad influance to the hrode in therms of RP. You better stay away from Silvermoon. Oh the horrors I had to endure walking these streets...
Well, eventually I managed to outlive the countless cheep and horrible plaid bloodelfs and wannabe whores and 5637553 bloodknight-champions...
Raiding during BC was fun, too. No more 40 man lagfests where half the raid was afk or watching porn, anyway. I enjoyed 10 man raiding and gathering up with our partner-guild for the bigger raids. Gathering a set was actually doable and sometimes quite easy. I still love the token-way to gather sets..
Oh and lets not forget the day we all were waiting for. FINALLY! After defeating Illidan for no appearant reason, the march to Northrend begann! Time to kick some Lichking ass for real now!
Okay then, back in northrend, lets go kill Ar- oh hey, look! An insane dragon! Lets kill it! .. okay, thats taken care off, now lets kill Arth- uuhhhh, an old god! Lets kill it after we elarned we better not kill them! Hurray! Now lets get back to killing.. uhh, Tirion is having a carnival! Hurray! .. Good, lets kill Arthas now. For real! Woooo!
And during the whole expansion, things got worse.. and worse... and worse.
It was during that time when i noticed.. WoW is worn out. Dull, outdated and ridden by comerce and Activion. *shiver*
No graphic update thats worth mentioning, an hopelessly outdated engine and the same things over and over again. Mechanics fucked up and the same things all over. Dailys, grind, epics, epics, epics.. and more epics.
There was just nothing to be gained anymore.
The community spoiled to no end, a collection of brats, elitists and jerks as far the eye could see.
Lets not mention that you were looked at veeery odd when daring to play RP in puplic.
*sigh* The good times have passed, like WoW has long gone over its prime.
The time I startet, in November 05, WoW was my very first mmo and somethign wfully new. i had the luck to jump on a server that had opened its gates only a few weeks ago, so everything was just cool around there. Playing my little mage, I explored, stared in awe and met many new friends, getting in touch with online-RP and begann loving it, spending hours in the mage-quarter of stormwind, selling my handmade Linencloth-Bags.
WoW was new that time.. and everything was ponys and rainbows.
My little mage grew up, reached 60, started raiding.
Oh the raiding back then.. stumbling with 39 others through a fuggin' huge cavern full of trash, more trash, MOAR trash and if you're lucky you see a boss every now and then. Not to mention the loot was terrible and getting a full class-set was something you see in your depraved, wet dreams in which you bend Lady Luck over a table.
Then the rgeat day, Burnign Crusade was released. Every set you gathered and every piece of loot you optained becomming worthess from one day to the enxt, replaced by something that drops by a big, red boar in the wilds. Oh well, we move on. "Some" label BC as a golden age for WoW, such as some claim thats classic. As for me, I agree with the former. I had most of my fun after hitting 70. Still having a lot of fun, though the introduction of Blood Elves opened a... well... bad influance to the hrode in therms of RP. You better stay away from Silvermoon. Oh the horrors I had to endure walking these streets...
Well, eventually I managed to outlive the countless cheep and horrible plaid bloodelfs and wannabe whores and 5637553 bloodknight-champions...
Raiding during BC was fun, too. No more 40 man lagfests where half the raid was afk or watching porn, anyway. I enjoyed 10 man raiding and gathering up with our partner-guild for the bigger raids. Gathering a set was actually doable and sometimes quite easy. I still love the token-way to gather sets..
Oh and lets not forget the day we all were waiting for. FINALLY! After defeating Illidan for no appearant reason, the march to Northrend begann! Time to kick some Lichking ass for real now!
Okay then, back in northrend, lets go kill Ar- oh hey, look! An insane dragon! Lets kill it! .. okay, thats taken care off, now lets kill Arth- uuhhhh, an old god! Lets kill it after we elarned we better not kill them! Hurray! Now lets get back to killing.. uhh, Tirion is having a carnival! Hurray! .. Good, lets kill Arthas now. For real! Woooo!
And during the whole expansion, things got worse.. and worse... and worse.
It was during that time when i noticed.. WoW is worn out. Dull, outdated and ridden by comerce and Activion. *shiver*
No graphic update thats worth mentioning, an hopelessly outdated engine and the same things over and over again. Mechanics fucked up and the same things all over. Dailys, grind, epics, epics, epics.. and more epics.
There was just nothing to be gained anymore.
The community spoiled to no end, a collection of brats, elitists and jerks as far the eye could see.
Lets not mention that you were looked at veeery odd when daring to play RP in puplic.
*sigh* The good times have passed, like WoW has long gone over its prime.
Rawr! I bite! ... Once I grew some teeth.
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Interested in a guild for crafters, salesman and dedicated guards? Ask me about the "Silver Anvil"!
