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Tobold criticizes the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. ⇒

   21 November 2006, mid-morning

I think people who aren't having fun playing the game should stop, regardless of whether the expansion makes their end game activities meaningless.

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  1. People always complain in FFXI about how the best gear is the same best gear that’s always been in the game, and there’s nothing better than that even after so many years. They complain, but then they don’t get better gear from SquareEnix. The best gear still drops off the same 3 mobs in the game. So when you see somebody with that gear, you recognize the time invested into getting that, and the you know that there will never be something better than that in the game.

    World of Warcraft gets the better gear, and then people realize that it’s going to obsolete all their old gear and basically nullify all that time invested. Then what? You just drop your gear you just spent over a year getting and replace it with something better you can get in a few days.

    These are just growing pains that are obligatory with every expansion release. Unless you get expansion releases like Chains of Promathia for FFXI which had very little gear, but an intense story with extremely difficult fights. And then people complain the fights are too difficult and they can’t beat the story. Oh wait, I forgot; World of Warcraft has no story ;;

  2. There’s a story, it just seems to involve way more boar killing then you would expect.

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