June News/Discussion

[--Pete]

Hi,

A game needs challenge to stay interesting. By removing the amount of skill it takes to play a class and adding the ability for even casual players to see the end game, I think Blizzard is really shooting themselves in the foot (long term) with WOTLK. People will quickly "master" their class and see all there is to see in the game, then move on.

Maybe, maybe not. People will leave if they get bored, true, but they will also leave if they get frustrated. Hard core gamers are usually the first to jump onto a new game, and the first to run through new content. To make end game content hard enough to slow down the hard core gamers is to make it too frustrating hard for the casual players. And there are a *lot* more casual gamers than hard core. What it looks like, to me, is that Blizzard is trying to hold the casual player by reducing the (already low) player skill requirement and hold the hard core players by adding end game content. By introducing the new content at a high difficulty, they make it interesting to the hard core players who hit it first. About the time those players are 'done' with that content, Blizzard nerfs it so the casuals can play it. Seems to be working.

What I'd love to see is some realms that are like things were early on. I feel like I've missed out on most of the game, and that I'll never really get the WoW experience.

--Pete