World of Warcraft: Classic

Quineloe said:

TBC was an utter shit expansion, the zones were boring, boring and more boring. The tube dungeon design started rearing its ugly head right there. The only good thing about that was that it was easy for them to design SO MANY DUNGEONS but if you look at the design of e.g. Auchenai crypts, it is very obvious which dungeons were inspired by massive EQ dungeons and which were not. The Arena finally took all meaning out of factions for PVP, horde fought horde, alliance fought alliance and no one cared about the outcome. You moved from indirectly competing with your own faction in PVP due to bad honor system to directly competing with them, because all lore and story elements had been purged from PVP.

The reason it was so successful regardless was that there was absolutely nothing else to play, we were still blown away by how much fun the last 2 years had been, and naysaying about "this is getting too easy" was still countered by remembering what some game devs had considered "fun" prior to WoW. So we barely carried ourselves through 10 levels of grinding and the raids were really good again, and that kept us going. The World however was shit.

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• Flying mounts
• LFR
• Multiple raid difficulty levels that are NOT like the Ulduar optional difficulty levels.
• Arenas
• Completely linear dungeons. Getting slightly lost in a dungeon because it's just a bit confusing unless you're intimately familiar with it is part of the fun.
• Ruining the talent system with MoP. Or was it Cata? Whenever they started to squish things and then take away the points system entirely. EDIT: Definitely Cataclysm. 31/10 when you're lvl 80? Fuck you.
• Boosting services/heirlooms.
• Meaningless itemization
• Seeking perfect class 'balance' which also sucks the uniqueness and fun out of every class
• Gutting the profession system
• Making the player a hero of X, Y, and Z! Instead of just another adventurer mixed up in greater events.

• Achievements
• Pet battles
• More flight points
• More quests to fill out the grinding. WOTLK questing especially I thought was pretty awesome, minus some of the phasing stuff.
• Dual Talent specs. But no more than that!
• The new zones even up through Cataclysm are themselves pretty well done. Meaning: the atmosphere, music, themes, etc. More of that kind of thing is always welcome.
• I'm fine with adding new classes periodically. The DK, Monk and DH are all fine, it's the execution of those classes that might need help.
• New races here and there. As long as they get unique vanilla style racials, a few more races over time is fine. But without something that sets them apart it just feels bland.