World of Warcraft

I was checking up on a blog that I recently started to follow and saw an article the author posted on the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. (Wrath of the Lich King) The blog can be found here: rpgfeed.blogspot.com

In the blog he brings up a few key points that will pretty much spell the end of WoW for me. For those too lazy to read it, I will summarize.

First he goes on to say that the game has had a lack of quality content as of late, and is pretty much ruining the WoW lore by killing off key figures. He also gives some examples.

He then goes on to explain how the dev team seems to be loosing direction since the new Inscription profession is a re-tooled Enchanting, and gives an example of how they could have come up with a better profession, the example being a pretty damn cool one.

Finally he mentions the fact that a large influx of Death Knights are going to hit the game as soon as the expansion comes out, and pretty much overwhelm the population.

I don't really do his article justice, but those are some of the key points.
What do you guys think? We will be killing Arthas in WotLK. Who else is after that? I agree with him 100% that I will be done with Warcraft after I finally see Arthas die. Oh well, I guess it's for the best. Maybe I can get back to my real life.
 

Originally posted by Alex_123

I was checking up on a blog that I recently started to follow and saw an article the author posted on the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. (Wrath of the Lich King) The blog can be found here: rpgfeed.blogspot.com

In the blog he brings up a few key points that will pretty much spell the end of WoW for me. For those too lazy to read it, I will summarize.

First he goes on to say that the game has had a lack of quality content as of late, and is pretty much ruining the WoW lore by killing off key figures. He also gives some examples.

He then goes on to explain how the dev team seems to be loosing direction since the new Inscription profession is a re-tooled Enchanting, and gives an example of how they could have come up with a better profession, the example being a pretty damn cool one.

Finally he mentions the fact that a large influx of Death Knights are going to hit the game as soon as the expansion comes out, and pretty much overwhelm the population.

I don't really do his article justice, but those are some of the key points.
What do you guys think? We will be killing Arthas in WotLK. Who else is after that? I agree with him 100% that I will be done with Warcraft after I finally see Arthas die. Oh well, I guess it's for the best. Maybe I can get back to my real life.
 

If anything WotLK will re-invigourate people to sub for a month just to try it out. THAT is one of the reasons why there will be so many Death Knights - because it took Blizzard so long to release expansions that people have alts coming out of their ears.

Now, although some of the listed aspects could hurt MMO's with a smaller population base, I don't think it will effect WoW much at all.  Simply because it's like McDonalds.  Everyone knows its bad for you.  But some people simply cannot get enough of it.

Now...that's not to say that a percentage MAY start to look elsewhere for their next MMO. But that's nothing new, people do that all the time.

When all is said and done:

1)  It's is STILL easy to pick up and learn.   Your Grandmother (if she's alive) would love it.

2)  It's STILL bright and vibrant in colours. 

3)  It STILL plays on low end machines (tho they seem to have raised the bar a little bit since launch). 

4)  It's STILL WoW.  Period.  Some people have grown to love it so much that if nothing changes very much then that is fine for them.  If you took cooking and gave it a new name people would STILL level it up.  Some people love WoW for being WoW.

WoW died for me when they announced this expansion.  Raid grind till you get the top gear so you can start all over again with the new expansion.  What bothered me most was knowing that many players will not get to see all of the end game content of the last expansion before the next one comes out.  Only the upper guilds will have gotten to see the content, rest would have to wait till they could get the gear in future instances and go back to the older ones.  Same happened for Naxx when BC came out.

i just resubbed for the expansion and patch. And the quality of this patch is top notch, and WOTLK also has top notch quality. WoW is moving on with the lore from Warcraft 3, heroes are vanquishing villains and in the end, all of them will be dead, or arthas will be the last one. I agree with the death knight sentiment though.

While I don't play WoW anymore (Tbc killed it for me).

Both my brother and my sister both resubbed for the patch and are totally dissapointed with the patch.

With WotLK I strongly believe that WoW will start to have a steady decline of people playing it since Arthus is supposed to be the be all end all in bosses ( i know there are others but none are as cool as him).

If it wasn't for the 40 to 25 man raid cap decision I would probably still be playing WoW but to be honest the only reason I started playing WoW was to fight Arthus and illidian since I was a big WC rts fan.

Now that these lore bosses will be dead I see a lot of people moving on.

With the lore not being as interesting and the game being on the old side people will start leaving and the game will be too ugly to play graphics wise to catch on with the up and coming new MMO players.

Every MMO goes through this cycle, happened with UO, EQ and DAoC back before WoW.

It depends on how fast people power-grind to 80 and start grinding for rep, resil, items, and new mounts. If they burn through it as fast as they did when burning crusade came out they'll be back to where they were 2 months ago.

Whilst I do think WoW's time should be coming to an end by now unfortunately I don't think it's going to be happening any time soon.

Until somebody release a very well made, finished and engrossing game to replace it there will always be enough people resubbing or starting to play WoW for the first time for it hold onto it's dominance.

It's a shame that no developer has been able to delver the goods by now that can put a major dent in it's subscriber base.

think this is more likely to cause a resurge of popularity- a new class, significant pvp content? This guy just sounds like he's burned out of WoW. (takes some people way too long..)

 I have returned to WoW for the expansion  after breaking with LOTRO.  They have shaken things up with a major patch this past  with features list that Rings has.  My bet is that even the gung ho WAR boys are going to want to compare their siege weapons with WoW  new expansion siege weapons.