Soldato
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I've long quit, but am curious what has happened to the game? It had a decade-long run, is still the most subscribed online RPG, and now Blizz says it will no longer report subscriber numbers. Also, starting with Warlords (Nov 2014), Blizz said it would release xpacs on a yearly basis. 2015 rolls to a close and no cigar, and Wiki says that Blizz are looking at a summer 2016 launch now.
What are your favourite memories of WoW as ex-addicts?
Vanilla: Was in a social guild (some being IRL friends) but we had everything up to and including BWL on farm. The DKP system was great as it was an incentive to join a couple of raids a week and everyone was equipped in T2 by late 2006. We got halfway through AQ40 then we ran out of time. I also liked that most gamers were in their 20s and 30s, as it was the audience who played Warcraft 1 and 2 back in the 1990s as teenagers.
Burning Crusade: This had some great content too, but our guild suffered from politics and in-fighting. The officers scrapped DKP, and they instead formed a "loot council" that issued out drops to their "favourites" which made the guild elitist and 2-tier. The final nail was our first Gruul's raid (took 3 attempts) and then deciding who would get the caster sword drop. It ended up with a warlock/mage who had an epic sword already. I logged in the following week to find that the guild has reformed as 2 guilds. I joined the one that had my IRL friends and we just did KZ/Gruul's/Maggy's in the end.
Lich King: We just did the Naxx re-make, which we didn't see first time round. I was very casual by this point and quit mid-xpac. I noticed that the playerbase was younger too.
What are your favourite memories of WoW as ex-addicts?
Vanilla: Was in a social guild (some being IRL friends) but we had everything up to and including BWL on farm. The DKP system was great as it was an incentive to join a couple of raids a week and everyone was equipped in T2 by late 2006. We got halfway through AQ40 then we ran out of time. I also liked that most gamers were in their 20s and 30s, as it was the audience who played Warcraft 1 and 2 back in the 1990s as teenagers.
Burning Crusade: This had some great content too, but our guild suffered from politics and in-fighting. The officers scrapped DKP, and they instead formed a "loot council" that issued out drops to their "favourites" which made the guild elitist and 2-tier. The final nail was our first Gruul's raid (took 3 attempts) and then deciding who would get the caster sword drop. It ended up with a warlock/mage who had an epic sword already. I logged in the following week to find that the guild has reformed as 2 guilds. I joined the one that had my IRL friends and we just did KZ/Gruul's/Maggy's in the end.
Lich King: We just did the Naxx re-make, which we didn't see first time round. I was very casual by this point and quit mid-xpac. I noticed that the playerbase was younger too.
