The never ending stream of farmers, the constant class bashing, the overall VERY LOW maturity of the 'RP' servers, etc, have now fully gotten to me. My primary character is 41, and I've accomplished everything there is to do in the game. Before people start, I do not consider BGs, Raids, or PvP battles new or exciting; Its more of the same, kill/loot/kill/loot. I find them pretty dull, again, because of the aforementioned maturity level and repetitiveness.
Of the few dozen people I've grouped with, only 1(one!) RPed. Trying to RP in /say or general results in open ridicule, and this is on an RP server. I've seen guild recruitments in /yell, /say, and general chat all advertising guilds where RPing strictly forbidden. I understand that they paid for the game and pay their monthly fees, but thats why Blizz runs the PvP and Normal servers, use them. Don't come to the RP server and insult me because I want to RP my character.
The nonstop class wars in /say, /yell, and general chat. If someone says the hunter/druid classes need to be buffed and the rogue/paladin/shaman classes need to be nerfed, invariably, a dozen or more people will respond with 'Learn to play your class, nub!'
Farmers. Good god, how these people can stand to camp a zone for hours on end gathering resources to sell at inflated prices, I have no idea. The GMs should ID the farmers and cut their AH goods down to 1/10th the farmer's cost.
The Feathermoon server really needs some heavy handed moderating from the GMs. The crumby player base is dragging the whole game down.
With some relatively minor changes, WoW would be an excellent MMO, but thats not going to happen until major changes occur in the player base. Such as getting the average age to over 20.
What game will I go on to play now, you ask? Not Guild Wars, PvP attracts the same people that give me migraines in WoW. With most of my friends that I used to play EQ2 with now stationed in Korea, EQ2 is hollow, although I will likely return to check it out after the expansion is released.
Ironically, I think I will install and resub to Horizons: Empire of Istaria for a while, see what they've changed since Oct 04 when I quit in favor of EQ2. From what I've been reading on their forums, it sounds like some of my old gripes were addressed. The player base is still extremely low, however, which is both a blessing and a curse. Fortunately, from my past experience, the people who remained definitely roleplayed, and roleplayed very well.
I've also reinstalled PS:T, which I was unable to play on my old 17in LCD because of how it stretched the 640x480 2D game onto its 1280x1024 native res. However, my new 2005FPW allows me to sit further back from the screen, making the 640x480 stretch look pretty decent. Coupled with the better color of the 2005FPW, and I can play the greatest SP CRPG to date without getting eyestrain from blurry text. In addition, I discovered a 3rd party 'fixpack' which addresses a number of bugs that Black Isle never fixed.
Of the few dozen people I've grouped with, only 1(one!) RPed. Trying to RP in /say or general results in open ridicule, and this is on an RP server. I've seen guild recruitments in /yell, /say, and general chat all advertising guilds where RPing strictly forbidden. I understand that they paid for the game and pay their monthly fees, but thats why Blizz runs the PvP and Normal servers, use them. Don't come to the RP server and insult me because I want to RP my character.
The nonstop class wars in /say, /yell, and general chat. If someone says the hunter/druid classes need to be buffed and the rogue/paladin/shaman classes need to be nerfed, invariably, a dozen or more people will respond with 'Learn to play your class, nub!'
Farmers. Good god, how these people can stand to camp a zone for hours on end gathering resources to sell at inflated prices, I have no idea. The GMs should ID the farmers and cut their AH goods down to 1/10th the farmer's cost.
The Feathermoon server really needs some heavy handed moderating from the GMs. The crumby player base is dragging the whole game down.
With some relatively minor changes, WoW would be an excellent MMO, but thats not going to happen until major changes occur in the player base. Such as getting the average age to over 20.
What game will I go on to play now, you ask? Not Guild Wars, PvP attracts the same people that give me migraines in WoW. With most of my friends that I used to play EQ2 with now stationed in Korea, EQ2 is hollow, although I will likely return to check it out after the expansion is released.
Ironically, I think I will install and resub to Horizons: Empire of Istaria for a while, see what they've changed since Oct 04 when I quit in favor of EQ2. From what I've been reading on their forums, it sounds like some of my old gripes were addressed. The player base is still extremely low, however, which is both a blessing and a curse. Fortunately, from my past experience, the people who remained definitely roleplayed, and roleplayed very well.
I've also reinstalled PS:T, which I was unable to play on my old 17in LCD because of how it stretched the 640x480 2D game onto its 1280x1024 native res. However, my new 2005FPW allows me to sit further back from the screen, making the 640x480 stretch look pretty decent. Coupled with the better color of the 2005FPW, and I can play the greatest SP CRPG to date without getting eyestrain from blurry text. In addition, I discovered a 3rd party 'fixpack' which addresses a number of bugs that Black Isle never fixed.