Remember wow?
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Remember WoW? I still play it regularly, and currently getting my Draeni Shadow Priest to Level 100 - at 99, so nearly there. Although it has been dumbed down in many ways over the years - no more having to make runs to Ashenvale for a cookbook or Arathi Highlands for the First Aid one for example as now all the relevant trainers have the full range - I still love every minute of playing it. I am sure E: D will continue to grow and develop over the years, as WoW has. 
I've not played it since the start of Panda, however my wife and I did first meet in TBC, so I have that to thank it for.
David, you just made my day. I have exactly the same long background and share your thoughts. Although, I have to say, you are judging WoW a bit too harshly. IMHO it did many more things right than what it did wrong. Then it fixed many things and broke others. Like what you say for ED, it's easy to overlook what is there and look for what isn't. But ED is a totally different thing. The scale of the project is staggering when compared to the resources it used (and this is what makes it special, and what made every iteration of it special, whether it was successful or not in the end).
I quit WOW over 2.5 years ago...
played WOW from the beginning and after a couple of years got bored and then started to Multibox (run multiple accounts at the same time), just for a new challenge.
at the end i had 11 (yes eleven !) accounts.. (it was costing me $100 per month just to play... )
tbh i don't miss the grind-fest it had become, running instances solo was a blast and PVP/battlegrounds were great, but levelling up 80+ characters at each expansion was just too much to stomach..
played WOW from the beginning and after a couple of years got bored and then started to Multibox (run multiple accounts at the same time), just for a new challenge.
at the end i had 11 (yes eleven !) accounts.. (it was costing me $100 per month just to play... )
tbh i don't miss the grind-fest it had become, running instances solo was a blast and PVP/battlegrounds were great, but levelling up 80+ characters at each expansion was just too much to stomach..
+1 no comment needed!
Good post. I already had 10 times more playtime with ED than with almost any other game I played in the last 10 years (Except Counterstrike:GO actually), so it was worth it already.
I enjoyed a lot of early wow, didn't really get that far in classic my guild was pretty casual but we did farm MC to death, i think all 40 ppl were full t1 by the time TBC rolled around (i remember clearly it took 37 raggy kills till he dropped transcendence legs we ran with 7 or 8 priests at the time me being one of them), we managed to kill vael after a few wipe fests and that was a pretty nice achievement at the time it meant we had the dps for the rest of the place. for tbc i switched to a semi hc raiding guild and managed to do everything but sunwell.
i think the comparisons to wow aren't that great for me because, i went from diablo 2 to wow, so it was amazing at the time, going from sprite based loot farm to a full 3d mmorpg, considering i'd played nothing before that which even came close as a comparison. where as for elite, my expectations were over shadowed by games like the x series, freespace 2, eve .. i dunno i personally was expecting a bit more but this isn't me complaining because i'm still playing elite still exploring anyway.. just saying the comparison isn't the best. comparing a sub based mmorpg with a ton of features at launch to elite thats multiplayer-ish and has 4 core gameplay aspects. wow on launch had 9 classes? a direction, multiple stories, quite a lot of replayability, where as you can pretty much do all there is to do in elite in anything between a week and a few days depending on whether or not you enjoy repeating any of those 4 things ad infinitum is really all that matters.
currently my go to theme park mmo is tera, i prefer the combat and i play it extremely casually, grinding when i feel like it, doing dungeons or pvp when i feel like it, never rushing to get anything.
i think the comparisons to wow aren't that great for me because, i went from diablo 2 to wow, so it was amazing at the time, going from sprite based loot farm to a full 3d mmorpg, considering i'd played nothing before that which even came close as a comparison. where as for elite, my expectations were over shadowed by games like the x series, freespace 2, eve .. i dunno i personally was expecting a bit more but this isn't me complaining because i'm still playing elite still exploring anyway.. just saying the comparison isn't the best. comparing a sub based mmorpg with a ton of features at launch to elite thats multiplayer-ish and has 4 core gameplay aspects. wow on launch had 9 classes? a direction, multiple stories, quite a lot of replayability, where as you can pretty much do all there is to do in elite in anything between a week and a few days depending on whether or not you enjoy repeating any of those 4 things ad infinitum is really all that matters.
currently my go to theme park mmo is tera, i prefer the combat and i play it extremely casually, grinding when i feel like it, doing dungeons or pvp when i feel like it, never rushing to get anything.
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Oh my god. The cognitive dissonance of the ED apologists has reached level: LUDICROUS
Remember when they used to all be like, "ED isn't WoW, if you want wow go play wow " and now they are like "why are you complaining, it's just as good as wow when it was released"
I really hope we raise our expectations, otherwise this game is never going to get any new content of any value
Remember when they used to all be like, "ED isn't WoW, if you want wow go play wow " and now they are like "why are you complaining, it's just as good as wow when it was released"
I really hope we raise our expectations, otherwise this game is never going to get any new content of any value
The game can only get better that's all needs to be said, just watch this space like WoW it will grow. Instead of complaining constructive comments would be better appreciated by FTDT.
PS can we please increase wanted NPC's into larger groups so if you attack one you have five to fend off, best I encountered was 3 attacking me at once that was fun
PS can we please increase wanted NPC's into larger groups so if you attack one you have five to fend off, best I encountered was 3 attacking me at once that was fun
I agree totally with OP.
And I dismember Wow (not a typo). Thankfully AngryJoe[youtube] convinced be to put it away forever in a little scene he did:
That simple smack to the noggin' of simple truth, and a little math on my part of how many months I was subscribed, was my Cold Turkey.
Simply. Done. Giving. Them. More. Money.
Thus FD made me overjoyed with the option to pay for Premium Beta. Never. Pay. Again.
And I dismember Wow (not a typo). Thankfully AngryJoe[youtube] convinced be to put it away forever in a little scene he did:
That simple smack to the noggin' of simple truth, and a little math on my part of how many months I was subscribed, was my Cold Turkey.
Simply. Done. Giving. Them. More. Money.
Thus FD made me overjoyed with the option to pay for Premium Beta. Never. Pay. Again.
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Nope... don't even know what WoW is except as an expression of surprise. If you are referring to a game that uses an acronym like that I really don't care...