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Class homogenization is a huge factor in WoW's decline. But balancing issues have also been a thorn in the sides of many, as well. There's a fine line that one must aim for between balance and homogenization. Many things were also completely avoided or removed for no good reason. Take hunter ammo for example. Blizz could have made profession specific arrows or bullets with special enchants on them such as fire or poison. Instead, they completely removed ammo from the game to dodge any potential problems in that. For now, the game is more about class balances through homogenization, instead of uniqueness. Bear in mind, this is by no means an easy task, but it almost seems like Blizzard has thrown in the towel when regarding unique classes. I quote TotalBiscuit in saying "The only thing that will ever kill WoW is Blizzard".
So say the changes were great, some say they werent. Me I thought Cata was a waste of time, honestly. Afterwhile I enjoyed WOTLK..but my favorites would have to be Vanilla/BC. They made this game easy now, I just cant stand it. reason why I play cause of friends and PVP.
I can't complain about Cataclysm being the worst expansion as I joined WoW mid-patch 3.3. However I can't see the game 'dying' in the near future as the story just has so much to it, however Blizzard, you can't just throw out an expansion about a huge dragon destroying everything in sight and expect us to immediately love it. I suspect that patch 4.3 with its new 5-mans and the Deathwing raid will be pretty good if what Blizzard is saying is true. I see WoW as having maybe 2 or 3 more expansions before they retire it. I'm not saying that after those 2 or 3 expansions that the Warcraft series will be over permanently. We still have yet to see the 'Warcraft' movie (which I heard was slated for 2013.) And even if WoW does end, that doesn't mean that we won't be able to play it anymore. Blizzard can't just shut down one of their most popular games in their history. Because then they would not receive nearly much as money as they do now.Besides, we still have unanswered questions from previous expansions that still go unanswered. We need to answer them eventually.
I have been reading comments all morning and seem to see alot of the no longer play crowd trying to say why wow is falling apart. I see a well done game now that anyone can play and jerks and morons have had to leave because wow no longer caters to them...i know this as when i first started playing the old crowd would not help you (stonemaul) and as some people said there were the enemy who would give you epic fights in Ironforge (Hatoup) and pro gankers everywhere.as time went on learned how to play without all the macro's everyone said you had to have to play pvp or dps (as most of the tops players are using) and about the end of Lich King started to get bored with the game content at low lvl's...i think blizz saw that too because of cata...cata is better than the original game of wow by 100% as it makes the game fun but also gives less of the i am better than you because i raid comments and less of the the i am better than you because i am an arena champion. Cata and Lich king together with BC give a whole game experience that both me a wife love over any other games and i am sure we will keep playing in the next patch or in the next game for as long as they make the game better than tv it will be a go. The only thing that screws up wow is the cheaters and gold spammers and the people who sell to them..they are the reason most have quit over the past years. when something is just given away for cash it undermines the main game in general and frustrates long term players by taking away the hard work they put into the game a giving it to new people who just wan to brag about it...hell...i just saw a lvl 85 who did not even know what talent points were and he had all of them taken and had 8000+ achievement points....can you say bought toon :) . but over all this is still the best game me and wife have ever played and seems to get better even with the comming and going of boneheads and morons into the system...we can't wait till 5.0 just to see what is next..and we will be there the whole way.As for the rest of you....i tried rift....Lord of the rings...D&D online .and many others as i was always looking to see a better game system...always have come back to wow as even if they give some cool things to look at with the others they just fail when it comes to one thing..wow is just playable and repeatable over and over again.....i know i will get flamed (normal) but the rest of you know this...the price per month is cheap for something that makes you happier than tv and better than the economy outside my house ...oh and when i am pissed off at someone in the real world...i go pvp in wow and kill off the idiots...and i am all better.Pigi (The scryers) < picked one you could remember easy and could find