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Originally Posted by Kurant
What I'm asking is, are you suprised that it took the route it did? This game caters to mostly casual players, are you surprised in the least at the steps Blizzard took to make sure the player base can find a happy medium and just continue on with the game? All I'm saying is that if you expected more in terms of hardcore PvP, WoW was never ever built nor intended for the sole purpose of that. They never said it was, or it would be. BG's were mentioned in length, and with a good amount of discussion months before 95% of the players who played in the betas, got into the beta tests. Much less, before release. It was no secret as to what WoW would become, and it pretty much has just become that.
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Well, I had hope that on a PvP server the PvP would be more meaningful than simply farming an experience-point-equivelant. At this point I don't even know why the distinction between PvE and PvP servers is made, since they are practically the same minus ganking in Hillsbrad and Western Plaguelands. High-end raiding guilds on Mannoroth don't even engage each other outside of raid instances anymore for the most part.
Blizzard isn't even attempting to find a happy medium, they are completely alienating their "hardcore" playerbase. The drop of raids down to 25 in the expansion along with the dumping of hero classes and obvious lack of desire to fix PvP will give a lot of people a reason to stop playing once the expansion hits.
Here's hoping Mythic doesn't make the same mistakes it made with DAOC in Warhammer Online. If it doesn't suck, I'll be branching my guild off into it.
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Originally Posted by Kurant
When your talking a 1,000,000+ player base, just in the US, the hardcore PvPer takes a backseat to majority, and if the majority says it has to change, it changes. Although, in my eyes, and yours, not always for the better. God knows I wish I could have killed 90% of the people on my server, but most those little carebear sand-pushing idiots would leave just as fast as they came if that were the case.
Needless to say, the PvP sucks. Period.
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Lesson for the year, I guess:
