Blizzard: What you need to do is this:
Make a game where players who play are all unique. I know you might say its impossible. But it isn't really. Uniqueness comes from the lore behind the player -> The lore comes from the quests -> the quests come from the player who chooses them -
Think of bread crumbs across the whole map and when you combine these bread crumbs they form a totally unique character.
Think of people who live in villages/ towns where everyone knows everyone by name.
You need to create that kind of uniqueness in characters.
Never try and make an MMO and think like an FPS person. (Like you did when you introduced "dungeon finder" and shortcuts like those.
Back in the day (those wonderful days) people used to gather up near the entrance of Razor fen Kraul or Blackfathom deeps and talk have fun ganking others ....that there was the moment which is LOST in the game now. There is no user created fun anymore because you added dungeon finder. Fire the guy who gave you that stupid idea.
Its been 3 years now that I have not played wow.... and still i have high hopes that someday someone will rise to the challenge and rollback their SVN servers to pre 2006 and make a new server for players who like Vanilla wow. It was fun that time....
Can you do that Blizzard? Just a RollBack on the Last stable release of the SVN servers to 2007 build and make a server JUST for VANILLA wow? Can you even consider it ?
I would start playing if there was a Vanilla server... sigh... good ol days.... miss my friends who i used to chat with ... not anymore since there is no need to talk at all.. just click a button and start button mashing in a dungeon.. seems like the game designers changed ... someone from FPS background was hired who liked to hack and slash all the time...
We have League of Legends for the hack and slash type ... we don't need the same in an MMO...
Bring back WOW. Bring back the game which had no shortcuts ... no flying around ..
I feel its the same in real life ... we used to have fun playing with friends ... kids nowadays don't even know what playing with friends means ..they have too much technology around to keep them occupied and they never experience the REAL fun playing hide and seek and all that...
I played Wow because it was that kind of REAL fun, but later due to new technology(like Shortcuts to Dungeons and no need to chat or group up anymore) the Fun was gone...
Wish someone from blizzard actually reads this... and does something about it..
Remember ..there is Not ONE single game that exists today which is as good as Wow was (not anymore) .. Use that advantage .. bring back Vanilla Wow everyone of those players will be back.
In real life things change for good or bad but its hard to keep up sometimes ... WHY DOES IT HAVE TO CHANGE IN A GAME TOO!
Just Tweak stuff ... "DON'T FIX SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BROKEN!" that's the disease that wow has been ailing with for years now...
3 years .. i have not played any game that is better than wow yet... waiting.. waiting.. waiting..
