I have recently quit playing WoW, and for a good reason. After finding out why Blizzard has us all playing their game, I can no longer support it. It has come to my attention that Blizzard does not care about you nor me, their customers who keep giving them our money to play their boring game. And yes, their game is indeed boring. The old days of World of Warcraft, when you could get together a group of 20, 40, 50, 100 people and raid towns in the name of FUN, are over and will most likely never be back.
The early days of WoW were the best. That's when the epic battles all across Azeroth took place. That's when people raided towns together with up to 200 members in a raid group, and then some! This was before Honor, before Battlegrounds, and the stupid, boring, and redundant Arena. Once they came up with PvP gear, and all these other ideas for "PvPing", the game started to lose its essence. Now no matter how many times people ask, plead, or BEG Blizzard on their forums to bring this FUN back into the game, no one listens and their threads are just filled with other peoples replies of support.
The real truth of this new World of Warcraft is this people. Blizzard has come up with a system in which you are the robot, and they (Blizzard, the company) control your actions. "PvP" is now done when Blizzard tell you, how they tell, and why. When is when they gather you and the other poor souls in the same Battleground, Arena, or Wintergrasp. How is when they tell you the rules of that Battleground, Arena, or Wintergrasp, and why is basically "you get a little piece of a cookie" aka reward, for which you'll have to come back and redo the whole experience again from a few hundred up to a few thousand times so you can get your piece of gear. Then you'll just have to redo the whole experience again to get more and more gear. It really is depressing into what Blizzard has turned into.
Blizzard has turned into a hungry eating money machine. They have a system in which they keep their players occupied with stuff to do until they get their reward. This is incorporated into daily questing, daily BGs, daily random dungeons, and many other "reward systems" they have came up with. However, it doesn't stop there. After the players get their reward, there is more and more rewards to get (i.e. gear, weapons, trinkets, pets, mounts, etc.) After this repetitive motion of clicking your mouse and getting your reward, you finally get all the rewards you wanted to get, and then what? And then Blizzard comes up with new rewards for you to get, that's what! Every fucking 4 months or so Blizzard releases new material, new Arena season, new gear, new dungeons. Every four or so months you just redo what you have been doing already without ever even having a chance to enjoy your rewards you worked your ass off on getting in the first place. You are just a puppy on a string, and Blizzard is your master.
The "War" in Warcraft has been gone for so long, that this game is simply not fun anymore. Most people playing this game don't even know why they play it. I have recently joined Retail because I wasn't able to do so in the past and for over a year I have been trying to enjoy this game. In the back of my mind I was always thinking "when I get to 80, I'll finally enjoy the World PvP". When I got to 80 I kept saying "when I gear up, I'll finally enjoy World PvP". Then I rerolled a different class. So after a little more than a year, I realized that there is no World PvP, and this game is a big master that has made us its slave.
Blizzard doesn't care about what you want, they only care about how they can keep you hooked every month to pay them $15. That is their #1 priority. And I haven't even talked about their pet store. You will be shocked at how much money they generate from it, like their latest "Celestial Mount Steed". I have been their supporter since Warcraft II, and I can no longer say that this is the same company that I have known for it's perfection. They have "sold out" to me, and I will never look at them the same again.
Just to give you a few examples of their gimmicks into how they are keeping you hooked on WoW. I am a Jewelecrafter. For those that don't know about this game, it is a profession in which you craft gems, which go into peoples' gear to make it stronger. Blizzard has come up with a "dailies" system God knows when. They have came up with dailies for JC (Jewelcrafter) profession. Which means you do 1 daily quest to get 1 JC token. There are JC vendors that sell JC recipes. One JC recipe goes anywhere from 2 to 4 tokens. There is around 100 or so recopies total, but let's say combining all the 2 JC ones there is around 75. So that is 75 JC recipes for you to purchase that could cut epic gems. Each recipe is 4 JC tokens, 75 x 4 = 300. And since you could only attain 1 JC token per day, you would need 300 days of playing WoW to learn every freaking epic JC recipe.
Now let's look at Arena. This "PvP" system in which you must fight in a fucking box, yes a box with different barriers, from which you get your arena points, from which you buy your PvP gear. You get your Arena points depending on your rating per week. Did you read that last part? Per week? Can you say... slavery? Here is their Arena rating system
In order to get good PvP gear you'll need anywhere from 1,000 up to 3,000 Arena points per 1 stinking gear. In order to get that much points per week, you would have to be one bad ass mother fucker. Which means it is impossible to do unless you already have good gear! Can you see math here? You'll have to spend at least a month or two in Arena in order to get mediocre gear, and THEN you'll have to work on your rating by fighting countless other matches in which you'll pretty much be Blizzard's bitch by doing something you have already done for the last year, over and over again if you are a PvP lover and want your PvP gear. Do you not see how this works?
Same thing happens with Battlegrounds. Only in BGs they use Honor as a reward. Same principle, different system. Every time you came back to play WoW every few months, your gear is outdated because new Arena season has started. Which means you'll have to get Arena team, join some BGs, and pretty much do the same shit over and over again until the cows come home. And a few months later guess what, new gear, new rewards, and it's GG because this is how Blizzard makes you, the player, keep playing their game, and keep giving them your money.
This is the new World of Warcraft we play today, and this is when I saw the truth. All these small PvP wars that happen are nothing compared to what PvP used to be like, and it will never be the same.
You think I'm alone on this? Think again. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of threads posted on WoW suggestion forums with people asking Blizzard to either bring back classic realms, or World PvP. But so far nothing has been done. Here is one I just found just now http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5540055578&sid=1&pageNo=1
"Background: I haven't always loved PVP, the idea of getting pwned by some vicious 13 year old as he guzzles soft drinks and eats taquitos depressed me, but after I participated in my first raid on Elwynn, I found out what PVP really was. A complete and total thrill. Chaos, excitement, rezzing and healing with magic bolts flying everywhere and an awesome amount of sword and axe-driven carnage thrown in for good measure. A true sense of danger and excitement. It took 50 Alli coming down from SW to fight us off that day. Screen shots were taken, a movie was made. I was hooked.
I liked it so much that when I got to level 60, I formed my own pvp guild. 10 of us at first. Now it is the largest PVP guild on my server. We run raids against Alli cities, small and large. We have downed most of the faction bosses. It was crazy fun. .... But over the past year it has become harder and harder to form raids. Most of the best PVPers wait in queues for hours every week to play arena that they don't like because it's the only way to advance their gear. They fight in a box for a few weeks and they get one of the absolute best items WoW has to offer. What do we get when we down a faction boss? 3 silver and a roasted quail.
I do arena, also. But I despise it. It's always the same... one target is chosen, they are burned down, another goes down, and we win. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth. We fight in a pen for a few minutes; then it's all over. Is that what end-game PVP for an MMORPG is supposed to be like? Nothing epic, sweeping or inspiring... It makes me sad."
Well said brother. This game is just pathetic nowadays. I will pick up a copy of Cataclysm to give it one last chance. But after that if things are still the same, Blizzard will never have my respect and I will forever look at them as a bunch of sell outs who chose money over giving the people what they want.
R.I.P. World of Warcraft, a game that was once fun.
R.I.P. Blizzard Entertainment, a company that once was making video games before all this money came into the picture
