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People seems to start to lose the excitement for WoD
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Post by
Axmand
What about you? do you still feel excited about WoD or start to lose the "excitement"?
Post by
Rankkor
I have no idea who would be losing their excitement over the next expansion or why.
The more I learn about Garrisons, the more I yearn to try them out myself. The more previews of the new zones I see, the more I want to adventure in them myself. The more I see of the new models, the more I want to make characters of every race and gender (as opposed to playing 99% Blood Elf female or pandas since those are the only models I currently find acceptable).
Frankly, I love almost everything about this expansion, and the minor things I don't, are minor grievances that in no way will ruin the overall experience for me.
(In short, the things I dislike: No flight at launch, with the possibility of no flight on later patches depending on feedback which I hope is overwhelmingly negative to make them add it as soon as possible in the first patch. Also not as many new features compared to previous expansions, this one basically adds just new models and garrisons. This is mitigated by the fact that garrisons are probably the largest, and most ambitious feature added to the game since its launch. And the final thing I dislike: Having to fight orcs/an evil splinter of the horde once more. I joined horde to kill alliance, and they have several untapped villains that we could be fighting. I'd LOVE an expansion where the Scarlet Crusade was the main antagonists for example)
Excluding these 3 minor grievances, I love this expansion and can't wait to try it out. I'm SUPER-DUPER-MEGA-HYPER-PUMPED for the garrisons, what little we've seen so far has surpassed my expectations way above and beyond what I initially thought we'd get. Its almost like a complete game inside a game. A medieval Sim City inside warcraft. A nice nostalgic throwback to the origins of this game as an RTS. Except this time I wont be an absent figure floating in the sky. I'll be a ground commander able to enter my own buildings.
I sincerely hope we can actually send troops to battle. I hope this garrison concept becomes a STAPLE of the game and each future expansion comes with one. That they expand it in future games. I really do. Words fail me to properly convey how eager I am to finally try them out.
Post by
Adamsm
Still excited; those who lose it will hopefully unsub before the expansion comes out so the fun suckers aren't around.
Post by
Eido
Not really sure what 'people' you are referring to. Unless, of course, you are just projecting your personal feelings onto others. There's still
so
much information yet to be released.
I don't see how others would be "losing" excitement, as you say. We're
just
receiving the first amounts of data! If anything, I would guess that 'people' would be on the edge of their seats!
I, for one, am still very excited :)
Post by
Rankkor
There's still
so
much information yet to be released.
Understatement of the century. We received a microscopical amount of info on the expansion in blizzcon. Then nothing but pure silence for nearly 6 months. Now the alpha has just begun, but due to its extremely limited amount of testers, nothing big has come out save for crumbs that have been patiently datamined by very dedicated people in a few websites.
Even then, what we know of the full expansion doesn't even reaches 10% of the whole deal. We still haven't seen all the mounts, pets, bosses, the full extent of garrisons, the plot, the zones, the raids, the scenarios, the dungeons, and whatever else blizzard can and will add during the course of the expansion itself.
If anything, I would guess that 'people' would be on the edge of their seats!
Fully agree myself. Its like the more I learn about it, the more I want to learn MORE about it. Specially where garrisons are involved.
Post by
Axmand
Not really sure what 'people' you are referring to. Unless, of course, you are just projecting your personal feelings onto others.
Yeah sorry, you right about that, patethic mistake from me, but checking others WoW fans forums like MMO-Champion or even the same WoW forums, can see threads that talk about this...
Post by
Eido
Yeah sorry, you right about that, patethic mistake from me, but checking others WoW fans forums like MMO-Champion or even the same WoW forums, can see threads that talk about this...
Nothing to be sorry about and it isn't pathetic. Based on what you had observed from other forums that is what you believed.
Pro-tip
: Life is FULL of nay-sayers and negative-Nancies.. You even hint at the word 'change' and the stinky poo hits the fan. I'll admit I don't like change in
some
aspects of my life but in the gaming world, especially with Blizz's history of changes and other player's consequential doom-theories, I'll take it! :)
Post by
Rankkor
if I got a cent for every change to wow that was supposed to "kill" it or some aspect of it, I'd be a very wealthy man.
Best example was the recent change to resilience and how it would "kill" world pvp.
Post by
Adamsm
Not really sure what 'people' you are referring to. Unless, of course, you are just projecting your personal feelings onto others.
Yeah sorry, you right about that, patethic mistake from me, but checking others WoW fans forums like MMO-Champion or even the same WoW forums, can see threads that talk about this...
And remember, that's the vocal minority not the majority yapping away about how the death of WoW is around the corner.
Post by
cephadex
Irrelevant, if you ask me. Even people who have genuinely lost excitement at the moment will still check out WoD sooner or later after it comes out, I guarantee it.
Post by
Nulgar
Yeah sorry, you right about that, patethic mistake from me, but checking others WoW fans forums like MMO-Champion or even the same WoW forums, can see threads that talk about this...
Threads, sure, but I'd bet the replies to these are similar to the ones given here.
Post by
Xedosz
Ok, this is going to sound a bit like a rant/blog, but it's not. I consider this normal and hold no grudges towards Blizzard or something.
Right now, i'm a bit sick of WoW. I haven't really played in weeks and i don't miss it nearly as much as i thought i would. In part it's because half the guild is off playing D3. But the biggest one is SoO being out for 7 months. Between Flex, LfR, Normals and some HC's, that's a whole lotta Sieging. I'm just tired of it. And yes, there's so many other stuff to do, but i rarely feel like it. So...unless something changes, i'll probably be taking a break untill WoD.
And i haven't been particularly excited about WoD either. None of the new features made a "wow" impression on me. I didn't play during BC, so no nostalgia. Don't particularly care about garrisons. Have no use for boosts. So, aside from "the ussual" (5 mans, raids, zones), WoD has nothing exceptional for me.
Neither did MoP though. Except maybe pet battles, which are more fun than i expected.
However...i am excited that there is going to be a new Xpac. Looking forward to new quests, new raids, new zones, talking to the guys again. But untill it's out, i doubt i'll be playing much.
You simply can't appease everyone. Guess it was my turn :).
Post by
670547
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Shadoed
What about you? do you still feel excited about WoD or start to lose the "excitement"?
Getting more excited with every release of information myself. I know the sort of people you are talking about as there are some forums these days that have become exclusively populated by the negative crowd, the ex-players, the burnouts or the people who have never played the game but like to follow the band wagon.
Post by
Huludicidal
I am still excited for WoD. I'm trying to not be overly enthusiastic or overly excited about it, though. I find that, for me, if I go nuts googling and researching info for games or expansions that are not released yet... I get mentally burned out on it before even playing it.
Example: I was supremely excited for Wildstar back in December. I was researching it and reading forums every day. I played in some weekend betas. I was convinced I'd pre-order the second it was available. Cut to now, and I'm like, "eh.. Yeah I'll still get it I guess" because I've over-saturated my mind with nothing but this one subject. Now, when the time comes to actually play it, I cant even envision myself sitting in front of my computer and logging in. Instead, I can see myself playing something on PS4, or a game in my Steam library that I haven't played in ages, or Battlefield 4.
So, I am still excited for WoD. However, I am trying to avoid the mental burnout associated with setting my primary focus on one thing that is months away from being released.
My excitement will ramp up probably 1-2 weeks before the release of WoD.
Post by
Axehilt
if I got a cent for every change to wow that was supposed to "kill" it or some aspect of it, I'd be a very wealthy man.
Best example was the recent change to resilience and how it would "kill" world pvp.
Is that the best example because world PVP was
already
dead long before this change?
Post by
1141500
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Axehilt
For MoP/Cata my excitement was pretty mild, so I guess I'm
more
excited for WoD, but I don't get overly hyped up on any game really (Planetside 2 has been the only game I was truly excited for in about a decade, and even met those expectations for the most part.)
I've checked out more news on WoD than those prior 2 expansions, but haven't exactly deeply researched the game. When it comes out I'll play it a bunch and enjoy it.
Often threads like these start from some random comment from a couple players in-game, or from observing forum thread titles (for players unfamiliar with the mostly-negative nature of forum threads). It's easy for someone unfamiliar with these communication platforms to draw the conclusion that the thing being discussed is widely disliked, when in fact that may not be true at all (and actually the more players care about something, the
more
they argue about it.)
Post by
darquis
My main concern right now is how they seem to be hedging about flight - I'm spoiled and too used to flying now to go back to Vanilla's ways. Other than that and some Hunter changes that are going to completely change my playstyle, it all looks awesome.
Post by
Axehilt
My main concern right now is how they seem to be hedging about flight - I'm spoiled and too used to flying now to go back to Vanilla's ways. Other than that and some Hunter changes that are going to completely change my playstyle, it all looks awesome.
Just because players
want
the freedom to move their chess pieces
anywhere on the game board
doesn't mean that would make chess a better game.
The most interesting decisions in games tend to be tightly constrained scenarios like chess, and that constraint creates a very strong player desire to break out of those limitations and have total freedom -- even if doing so breaks the game.
Now I'm not saying there's a
ton
of gameplay in ground transit in WOW, but there's enough that it's always made sense not to have flight at the start of each expansion. Otherwise you get that quest to kill some named mob and you literally drop in from the sky right on top of him, bypassing the ~8 mobs in front of him (which were there to provide the sense that you actually had to fight through a lot of guards to reach the guy.) So there's enough gameplay that flight would require a total rework of questing gameplay to provide adequate challenge.
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