It’s at 11 million players now versus 9.8 at the height of TBC

Wooh – Not so fast, Buddy!!! First you have to get your toon ready for raids, which requires obscene amounts of faction, attunments, time, great gear, and you need to spend 100’s of gold on consumables and repairs, etc etc. I grumbled but jumped through all the hoops like a good WoW fanboy. I was eager to hit the ground running with my guild in Kara. Imagine my disappointment when I found it was even MORE of a time commitment, REQUIRING 5+ nights a week to get anything cool or have any fun. It was not that I did not enjoy a challenge or was a “noob” at my class. Hell, I had raided some of the hardest content Blizzard had thrown at me – Naxx, BWL, ect. It was the fact that all of it now REQUIRED far more hours a week to get anywhere – that is the key word: REQUIRED. The instances are designed to now waste the maximum amount of time for the most minimal amount of reward. For all the new gamers to WoW, let me tell you Classic WoW never required people to sell their entire life away to get a couple epics. As a matter of fact, the lifeblood of the 9 million subscribers to WoW are semi-casual players. Oh, you COULD devote the time if you WANTED to, but you always felt like you had a CHOICE. If you had extra time one week you could play hardcore, but if you could only log on for 1-2 raids for a couple of weeks because of work or whatever (ya know, Real Life!) you could do that too!

Now it feels like a job requirement to be online every night, otherwise your 25-man or 10-man raid will suffer. The same thing is true with Arena PvP teams – if you don’t show up, your team is screwed. Everything endgame now has taken away the power of the the player being able to log on casually a couple nights a week and still do something fun. If you don’t play hardcore, the door to fun is shut in your face. You could level alts, but what is the point – To reach the end and be faced with the same problems as before? You could grind for mats to craft epic gear alone, but where is the fun in that!? What attracts most people to an MMO over other games is the social aspect!! There is no reward anymore for getting to max level – only more work. I am just not willing to give that much commitment to a game – at least not against my own free will. It has sucked the fun right out of this game. I already work 9-5, I don’t need a second job that I have to pay $15 a month for! You fail Blizz…you fail hard. You saw the time sinks in your game and exploited them to make players stay online more for max profit, while offering little fun or reward. Eventally we get tired of chasing the carrot on

One thing Blizz can do is start considering combining servers to make it more fun.

Due to the above statement wow is in an eternal state of flux to try and fix what they broke that didnt need to be fixed.

Coupled with all the reskinning of tier 3 graphics and buffing the “Daze Mechanic” to increase your “Fun Factor” of getting dazed and knocked off your mount at any level,we will see pretty much TBC reskinned dumbed down and called wrath of the lich king.on sale for 49.95 and 200 bucks on ebay for the collectors edition.

It’s game over for many looking for a game that truly allows “Immersion” in your toon’s advancement through the grind.

If current developers keep there jobs we will never see anything but the same for many xpacs to come.