Is the levelling experience all that remains enjoyable?Follow

Personally, I’d like to see more role-play content. That is to say, more content to develop other aspect of my character than just his armor and weapons. Player housing is a good example. In UO we could decorate our home both on the inside and out. We could do so with player made items, such as furniture and candlesticks holders, or with looted items such as paintings. In Horizons we could buy specific plots of land, usually laid out in a town format, and place different building on them. The size and number of buildings depended on the size of the plot. And then we would have to build those building, such as homes, guild halls and crafting stations, via various craft skills. Each building took an enormous amount of work. The folks at Blizzard are an imaginative lot. I’m sure they could come up with something in that area that would give us a goal to work towards and be rewarding once we achieved it. And since any such areas could be instanced, the existing landscape would not be impacted.

Housing is just one example of content Blizzard could add to the game that would not involve raiding or PvP. But as I said before, this does not seem to be the direction Blizzard wishes to take. Their target audience seems to be raiders and PvP enthusiasts. That, of course, is their choice. I’ll simply play the game for as long as its fun for me. But I can say one thing for certain; I would play this game much much longer if Blizzard added more role-play content. And I expect others would as well.

In my initial push to 60 I missed a lot of content. As many have said, upon reaching 60, goals become so vague that sometimes you feel disoriented and it stops being fun. I've enjoyed creating alts and taking the time to experience quests that had been overlooked, instances which I had no idea existed and twinking to some extent.

Luckily for me there are many things I enjoy from WoW to keep me going for a long time.

I'm actually disappointed in your glib remark, Mike. Reinjin is known for several very well-written in-context RP stories, and got rated up for them accordingly. He put effort and thought into them, and a quick search under his name showed me that they were the majority of his posts that were rated up (4.90 or better, and IMHO very much earned). I've read them and I remember rating them up as well when I had, because I was rather impressed that someone would have the creativeness to type something up, do it in the context of the surroundings without too many continuity or geographical errors, and have the temerity to post them on an internet forum, where people tend to be quick to trash things that they see as "uncool".

Usually you have good reason to be the forum curmudgeon, but don't think this is one of those times.

Need more wood.

I thought it was "Need more lumber."

"More lumber is required."


BTW, anyone else ever spend an entire campaign and completely clearcut Azeroth?