Why WoW Lost Me
I stopped playing WoW a while back for various reasons, but I have always been open to coming back again. What I always felt was missing was not that there were enough races... but that they had not added any more classes
Lets face it, races add little difference gameplay, and add almost none once you get to high levels. But classes are what make a game FUN. I loved my Hunter and even feel as if I have a connection to him, but after a while its just more of the same and I'd move on to Paladin for a change up or Warlock or Mage. But they never really "sang" to me so I'd always come back to my Hunter... until I eventually became bored and stopped playing, but remained open if they aded some new classes.
Then the first expansions came with two new RACES. Yawn. I don't need a new skin, I need new gameplay, and NO playing as a good shaman doesn't count.
Now the second expansion is coming... and its adding a new class.... ONLY FOR HIGH LEVEL CHARACTERS. That is weak. The fun of trying out a new class is in the journey your character takes from welp to complete badass and master of their abilities. Adding a high level class is a cop-out and makes me more angry than satisfied with Blizzards efforts. To me it also shows that they are far too comfortable with treading water (not that they aren't successful doing so) when it coms to membership rather than trying to bring in new players by offering a brand new global experience.
GIVE ME MY NECROMANCER, GODDAMMIT!!! OR AN ENGINEERING CLASS??? How cool would it be to have a steampunk class with wicked iron technology as their weapons!
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