Friday 13 May 2011

Is WoW coming to an end? (For real this time)


It's been roughly two years since the last day I played WoW. In those two years I decided to take my studies a bit more serious and focus on getting shit done instead of wasting 12 hours a day farming epics. This year though, my final year, me and a bunch of friends who used to play with me decided to give it another try. That was at the beginning of the year. Now, almost near summer, we are getting ready to start again. All throughout the year I've been so hyped about starting WoW once again – or at least, that's what I thought.
Truth is, about two months ago I was given the chance to participate in the closed beta of Rift. I followed all the beta releases up to the open beta and hours before launch, I found my self ready to per-order. And that I did. “What the hell”, I thought. I'll just play for a couple of hours everyday till I'm done with my exams and then dive back in to WoW. But that's hardly what happened. In reality, it turned out that Rift has the exact same mechanisms that WoW has, after all – as some might say – it's a WoW clone.
With some effort, I managed to get off Rift after a month and a half and now, done with my exams, I'm ready to start WoW. But am I really? To be honest, the hype that I used to have throughout the year, is now completely gone. You see, those two years of absence, I was still following updates through Youtube videos and I know pretty much what's happening right now. The same thing that was happening two years ago. Not a single thing has changed. Besides some new fancy dungeons and maybe a map extension the rest are still the same and I have literally no desire to start doing the same thing over and over again.
I don't know maybe I just got bored of it. But I know it's not just me. I know people from Rift who just quit WoW to try something new because it had become unbearably repeatable. Seriously, 6 years (ok maybe the first two weren't so bad but still) of doing the same thing over and over? Hell, it's about time. I also know major reviewers who used to roll out videos with fresh content every day. Now they are making videos once a week or moved to reviewing other games(Rift, Minecraft, Portal 2 for as long as it lasts)
And I won't go to say the stereotype “Unless blizzard makes something new, I'm quitting”. Because I know they won't. To tell you the truth, I think they have already realized it's over and are moving on. I've already quit. WoW has hardly had any new players for at least a year. And most of them quit before they hit 85. All that's left now is people with an endless list of achievements and enough gear to solo -shit I don't even know what- who just refuse to let those go. And it's totally normal. But in the end, those people will leave too.

11 comments:

  1. WoW is a famous game, and yesterday I red a blog why WoW would go on for the next 10 years :)

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  2. WoW can't really die imo, it might get replaced/redone but never die~

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  3. nice comment man

    folow ;D

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  4. WoW is addictive, that's why it'll never end. I quit too, just before wotlk, best thing i've ever done!

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  5. WoW is not gonna die for along time

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  6. Guild wars two is gonna take over

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  7. Something like WoW can't die, it's an addiction. It's like saying "yea heroin is going to get old". I've never played I get addicted to certain things too easily, but here's in hopes Blizzard does something original. Following (check out my two blogs ;) )

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  8. Hmm I think it'll be a long time before WoW dies.. But I do agree it's kind of a waste of time, especially because it's so addictive!

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  9. Wow is a nice online game, and its played by a lot of people. I don't think it is coming to an end.

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  10. WoW is an amazing game but it gets boring. I haven't played it since the new expansion came out. I have two 85s but..the game just isn't what it used to be for me.

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  11. I have been in the same situation, I know how you feel man!

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