The Like/Hate thread (WoW)

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A lot of that also comes from the type of people that subscribe and decide the success or failure of these games today. Too many people that don't actually care about experiencing content because they have an ego to stroke or then there is the other people who've done the content and enjoyed it but are on alt number four or five, meaning they now just want to run some high end stuff on their new alt.

And yeah, I'd love to see an MMO where they didn't make everyone grind through 40+ levels first. I get why they do it (both sides - the part about slowing down your experience of the content so they can have time to work on stuff and the part about you not being overwhelmed with these classes full of abilities with no idea how to use them).

And part of WHY people play so differently in end game and don't learn their abilities in WoW has to do with how easy the leveling is. You don't have to learn your character a damn bit to get your way to cap. If it was something like EQ where you actually lost levels for deaths, the people rushing would have quit, but you'd also have the people playing a lot more careful about what they do and they aren't leveling so fast that they can just "grab three levels THEN go finish the hard quest that they can now brute force through". While I'm absolutely glad of the direction they've gone from those days, there's a mixed blessing and there are things they sacrificed (such as how no one explores zones anymore like they did back then because you don't stay in one place long and everything is so well documented).