This post on Dear Gnome could really be copied word-for-word and reposted here. I wasn't having fun on WoW pre-Cata, and it's so much worse now. I hate this expansion. I really, really do
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I'd suggest sending this post as a letter to Blizzard, especially about the archaelogy. It may be a bug.
But if nothing else, if every person who dislikes the expansion were to *tell them*, maybe it would hit critical mass and they'd work to address the problems.
You're paying for this, and you're an unhappy customer. Let them know! :)
The FFXI level cap raising is going in stages of 5 levels per update. We're up to 90 now. It'll go to 95 in March and 99 in June, I'd imagine, if they keep the current update schedule.
I'm still 76, because I really just don't feel like level-grinding DRG again. I think it says something that I had most of last week off and couldn't make myself log in for xp at all. I don't know how people who had multiple jobs they wanted to take above 75 did it. (Well, actually, I do, but spending 6+ hours in Abyssea parties is infeasible, and rather unappealing even if I had the time. I need to find short-term ways of xp'ing.)
The FFXI level cap raising is going in stages of 5 levels per update.
*nodnods* But all in one expansion, right? Eh, is FFXI still doing expansions or is it just those mini-paid ones now? Will there be another after Goddess?
And I don't blame you at all! XPing is boring. I think it's actually less boring in WoW (since you get it all from questing, not XP parties), but I still refuse to do it. Why do something boring in a game?
Yes, mini-expansions. No talk of one after Goddess...I guess maybe you could combine all the Abyssea content into 1 expansion, but there isn't much story to it
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Ack! Good luck with your machine. I don't so much seek a good game (or at least not another MMO), just... something to fill my free time. Cross stitching, basket weaving, kidnapping small children to churn butter for me, anything. A game would be okay, I guess, but I'd rather move back to something like a MU*. Alas, most of them seem gone.
I keep hearing the same reports about FFXI, how easy the XP is now. One of my friends went from BST 35 to 75 in six hours. o.O
Oddly, I've not been bothered by the expansion, 'cause I've been going back and doing all the new quests and gleeing over lore tidbits.
The fact my archaeology toon is an Indiana Jones ripoff and I flap around listening to the theme for maybe an hour or two at a time is probably why I still enjoy it. X3 Maybe there's diminishing returns the more you do it? Like rested exp! I dunno.
Personally my only complaint is.. Well. Sylvanas. And that's purely from a RP point of view. Kae and his boys liked living in UC but with her acting like the new Lich Queen, it kinna drove two of us out ICly, so the third followed. And frankly there's no random RP in Shattrath, and the boys won't come to Silvermoon. Blah.
I dunno. The expansion is still new, it's only been out a month! Blizz may have done stupid shit, but they do have a good track record of making things better. There hasn't even been another major patch yet. I think people need to chill out and give Blizz a chance to get over the OSHI- moment.
and doing all the new quests and gleeing over lore tidbits.
I think playstyle has a lot to do with it. I couldn't care less about most WoW lore. (A lore-loving friend keeps making pained noises whenever I repeat that I wish worgen were Horde.) I read a few of the Uldum quest texts, but for the most part? zzzz Don't care.
Maybe there's diminishing returns the more you do it?Sort of. The more progress you make, the harder it becomes. Right now I have over 1,500 fossil fragments and nothing to do with them (have made all the common and rare items), and yet I'm forced to still keep digging the fossil dig sites endlessly to try to get night elf or TV to come up
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They've always had a house in Nagrand, too. The boys just live -there- full-time instead of patrolling UC... because frankly the Forsaken keep harassing us. ICly? Fine. We explained -why- we're here and the years of RP giving valid reason. Then they OOCly harass us because we're Blood Elves. :| So essentially Scythe of Sylvanas ruined RP in UC for non-Forsaken.
And yeah, it's Lark that has the traitor's brand, Ori and Khaav just -really- don't like the place, ICly or OOCly. And Kae pretty much refuses to go anywhere near Lordaeron now, so.
Yeah, I'm hearing about Scythe of Sylvanas from lots of folks. I sent Keen there a couple times (since he used to hang out in Brill he has reason to visit), but they're never around when I show up.
I got bored with archaeology after the first ten minutes and decided I wasn't going to bother that much. I may never max it. I don't really care. But I've been enjoying questing immensely. I've even enjoyed the few PUGs I've been in, after I just stopped PUGing at all in the months before the expansion because I got bored with zerging and the gogogogogogogogo groups. But mostly I have just been tooling around enjoying the OMG NEW of everything. Empty Dalaran is not a sad thing for me (though I do agree it's annoying to be forced to fly there every time) because I have a slow system and Dal used to be torturous for me with the lag. It's a beautiful place and I love RPing in it and so I am actually pleased half the server isn't parked there all the time and casual strolling around the city IC is actually finally possible for me. Maybe I am just selfish.
Nah, I don't think that's selfish. I have a new-ish machine and never had lag in Dal (Org, on the other hand...). It's good that you're able to enjoy it, too!
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But if nothing else, if every person who dislikes the expansion were to *tell them*, maybe it would hit critical mass and they'd work to address the problems.
You're paying for this, and you're an unhappy customer. Let them know! :)
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I'm still 76, because I really just don't feel like level-grinding DRG again. I think it says something that I had most of last week off and couldn't make myself log in for xp at all. I don't know how people who had multiple jobs they wanted to take above 75 did it. (Well, actually, I do, but spending 6+ hours in Abyssea parties is infeasible, and rather unappealing even if I had the time. I need to find short-term ways of xp'ing.)
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*nodnods* But all in one expansion, right? Eh, is FFXI still doing expansions or is it just those mini-paid ones now? Will there be another after Goddess?
And I don't blame you at all! XPing is boring. I think it's actually less boring in WoW (since you get it all from questing, not XP parties), but I still refuse to do it. Why do something boring in a game?
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I keep hearing the same reports about FFXI, how easy the XP is now. One of my friends went from BST 35 to 75 in six hours. o.O
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The fact my archaeology toon is an Indiana Jones ripoff and I flap around listening to the theme for maybe an hour or two at a time is probably why I still enjoy it. X3 Maybe there's diminishing returns the more you do it? Like rested exp! I dunno.
Personally my only complaint is.. Well. Sylvanas. And that's purely from a RP point of view. Kae and his boys liked living in UC but with her acting like the new Lich Queen, it kinna drove two of us out ICly, so the third followed. And frankly there's no random RP in Shattrath, and the boys won't come to Silvermoon. Blah.
I dunno. The expansion is still new, it's only been out a month! Blizz may have done stupid shit, but they do have a good track record of making things better. There hasn't even been another major patch yet. I think people need to chill out and give Blizz a chance to get over the OSHI- moment.
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I think playstyle has a lot to do with it. I couldn't care less about most WoW lore. (A lore-loving friend keeps making pained noises whenever I repeat that I wish worgen were Horde.) I read a few of the Uldum quest texts, but for the most part? zzzz Don't care.
Maybe there's diminishing returns the more you do it?Sort of. The more progress you make, the harder it becomes. Right now I have over 1,500 fossil fragments and nothing to do with them (have made all the common and rare items), and yet I'm forced to still keep digging the fossil dig sites endlessly to try to get night elf or TV to come up ( ... )
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They've always had a house in Nagrand, too. The boys just live -there- full-time instead of patrolling UC... because frankly the Forsaken keep harassing us. ICly? Fine. We explained -why- we're here and the years of RP giving valid reason. Then they OOCly harass us because we're Blood Elves. :| So essentially Scythe of Sylvanas ruined RP in UC for non-Forsaken.
And yeah, it's Lark that has the traitor's brand, Ori and Khaav just -really- don't like the place, ICly or OOCly. And Kae pretty much refuses to go anywhere near Lordaeron now, so.
Poor Koltira. Q_Q
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