Despite what Al'Katie may think. . .Follow

Happy you enjoy it, I picked up the Special Edition from the bargain bin at Eb games and played my free month and quit again. I dunno what it was, it just held no hook for me. Nothing to hate on, it wasn't a piece of sh'it like Vanguard or any of the other mediocre MMO's that have come out lately but it really really didnt hook me.

Where I went back to WoW after the release of Burning Crusade and was completely floored by how Blizzard took an already solid game and completely took it to the next level for 60-70. Probably the most well designed and absolutely content full expansion that didnt just give you more of the same but completely turned the game on the side and made it entirely deeper.

I picked up EQII's new expac as well and was playing it and its big, fun and Kunark is a amazing but it too much questing almost. All very simple wow type quests with about 2% per quest for xp and no xp to mention off mobs so you found yourself counting out 50 quests per ding, which was bleh for me.

Edited, Feb 10th 2008 11:41am by bodhisattva

Vanilla WoW was incredibly well designed and revolutionized the genre, there is no arguing that. It was also extremely accessible and removed a lot of the time sinks that you would see in other MMO's. That being said as popcorn as the leveling content was the game was always about end game, which is where the meat and potatoes of it was and where the true depth came into it.

So I can understand why you chuckle at "wow deep", since you got lvl 40 at best during your time played.

The thing is that TBC is to Vanilla WoW, what WoW was to the MMO market in general. Which is what I think I was trying to get at. End game TBC has more content than you can shake a stick at, in fact it has more content then the next two competitors combined, and that isn't hyperbole.

As a raider, end game there is no other game that comes within a mile of the complexity, snap decision making, balls to the walls encounters that you see in WoW. Looking back at all the other MMO's it was simply stand here, do this, avoid that. WoW has some mindboggling innovative encounters.

De gustibus non disputatum.





LOTRO is better.

An excellent move on Blizzards part. That division was unnecessary from the get-go IMO, considering this is a predominately US popular game.