You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. Wh...
This video was very hard to watch for me, as someone who played WoW from 2006 up until very recently.
The main problem these people are missing - unsurprisingly - is that to them, playing an MMORPG and doing World of Warcraft style raiding are one and the same. To them, and to the players, and to the devs as well, pretty much since Wrath of the Lich King originally launched the only truly relevant part of the game, is the raiding experience. But I remember a time when nobody fucking raided. In vanilla, almost nobody did 40-man raids. It wasn't because we were too dumb, it was because no one wanted to do all the obnoxious, grindy bullshit you had to do in order raid. And those who did, largely, were viewed literally as "elitist jerks". And I remember when the main selling point of an mmo was how immersive it was, how much adventure awaited you, how much the game would enable you to be what you want to be, rather than a game where people are looking up "best talent builds" before they even finish installing the game. Warcraftlogs, parses, and most raiding addons are abominations.
I could do a whole response video to this thing but who has the time for that, plus it would just make me sad. The main point is that this video puts basically all the blame on the collective subconcious of players, but that's only partially true, and Blizzard 100% enabled this mindset. Just look at Wrath Classic - there is literally nothing to do but log in and raid. There's hardly even any daily quests. You log in, you raid, maybe you do a little farming, you log out. This is not what an MMORPG is supposed to be, but to the people who made this video, to Blizzard, and to most WoW players, that's all it is now. You make it so only one part of the game is relevant, and then you break everyone down into number values ranking how good they are at that one relevant part of the game, and hey, what a shock, it gets toxic as fuck.
As someone who has done nearly every single thing WoW had to offer, including ample raiding: fuck raiding, fuck raiders, fuck Blizzard. Even though I have many problems with it, I'm just gonna play FFXIV for a while purely because standing around in a city playing music for people all day is a completely relevant thing to do.
I'm glad I was already sick of Acti-Blizz's creepy grifty bullshit before I could even consider going back to WoW. When the most exciting thing coming out is a rollback of content, they done fucked up.
This video was very hard to watch for me, as someone who played WoW from 2006 up until very recently.
The main problem these people are missing - unsurprisingly - is that to them, playing an MMORPG and doing World of Warcraft style raiding are one and the same. To them, and to the players, and to the devs as well, pretty much since Wrath of the Lich King originally launched the only truly relevant part of the game, is the raiding experience. But I remember a time when nobody fucking raided. In vanilla, almost nobody did 40-man raids. It wasn't because we were too dumb, it was because no one wanted to do all the obnoxious, grindy bullshit you had to do in order raid. And those who did, largely, were viewed literally as "elitist jerks". And I remember when the main selling point of an mmo was how immersive it was, how much adventure awaited you, how much the game would enable you to be what you want to be, rather than a game where people are looking up "best talent builds" before they even finish installing the game. Warcraftlogs, parses, and most raiding addons are abominations.
I could do a whole response video to this thing but who has the time for that, plus it would just make me sad. The main point is that this video puts basically all the blame on the collective subconcious of players, but that's only partially true, and Blizzard 100% enabled this mindset. Just look at Wrath Classic - there is literally nothing to do but log in and raid. There's hardly even any daily quests. You log in, you raid, maybe you do a little farming, you log out. This is not what an MMORPG is supposed to be, but to the people who made this video, to Blizzard, and to most WoW players, that's all it is now. You make it so only one part of the game is relevant, and then you break everyone down into number values ranking how good they are at that one relevant part of the game, and hey, what a shock, it gets toxic as fuck.
As someone who has done nearly every single thing WoW had to offer, including ample raiding: fuck raiding, fuck raiders, fuck Blizzard. Even though I have many problems with it, I'm just gonna play FFXIV for a while purely because standing around in a city playing music for people all day is a completely relevant thing to do.
I'm glad I was already sick of Acti-Blizz's creepy grifty bullshit before I could even consider going back to WoW. When the most exciting thing coming out is a rollback of content, they done fucked up.