Originally Posted by Maczor
I’m not sure what your gaming history is, but WoW is literally “Super Easy-Mode” in nearly every aspect compared to its MMO predecessors. No penalty for death, PVP safe zones, instanced content, smaller guilds/raids, ability to respect, top end loot that is extremely accessible, the list goes on.
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Your biggest issue is you say you hate farming an instance and don't like to kill a boss more then a few times. Your solution is to dumb down raiding (and the game in general) even further to the point where players like myself (top 600 US Illidan guild, nothing special) would have been done with not only raiding after 2 months of TBC… but done with EVERYTHING, completing each new 25 instance in a couple weeks instead of a couple months. This kind of change is not good for WoW or raiding.
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Easy doesnt have much to do with time-sinks.
For your comment of about people clearing all TBC instances a few weeks after release, I thought the obvious solution for that was posted a ½ year ago: Staggered releases of instances as it was pre-TBC.
The point is, games obviously will have time-sinks, if you got everything without putting something into the game (time), it wouldnt be a game.
That doesnt mean games have to have stupid time-sinks however. And one of the issues with the MMO-genre so far has surely been the use of obsessive time-sinks. WoW has less than many earlier MMOs, but thats hardly a reason to stop this progress toward maturing the genre.
Removing or lessening dumb time-sinks wont destroy WoW, hell, it might make it better for everyone.
Originally Posted by Bixel
2) PvP gear right now is easier to obtain per time spent than pve gear. This contributes to the problem in (1). Why pve when I can spend time doing pvp and over time I'm guaranteed to pick up drops that are good. If I do pve content, I am not guaranteed anything. Badge drops are inferior to arena gear.
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I dont really get that argument even if it pops up once in a while.
Why pve?
Because you liked pve? Sounds like the only reason needed.