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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by talexy on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:52PM (#27056302)
I think after Mists of Pandaria I stopped playing wow as an MMO and just focused on doing single player stuff for the past many years. To me there is a significant difference in something requiring to farm an instance 50-100 over when you have time vs. doing it over 50-100 days because of daily lockouts. That is just not fun and and disrespectful to me as a player. I don't always have the same free time every day and when I do get a couple of hours I can't farm due to lockouts.

Their WOW playerbase are getting older and if you don't treat them will respect even more will be lost. There are so many games out there right now, sure not of this genre, but they provide options for someone who wants to pick up gaming and not necessarily invest in WoW.

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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by bitexploder on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:24PM (#27056585)
I hate how many different grinds there are in this expansion for legendary weapons and such. Mythics are okay. WoW is just like my home away from home I go to explore lore and goof off for an hour or two a week. The lore and world is very rich. It’s fun to level and do stuff on occasion. It’s fun to collect specific armor and mounts at times. I just don’t enjoy all the grinds and kind of refuse to do them.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by FreshFries on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:25AM (#27062157)
I find it equally demoralising but simply let some expert do these things for a couple of hours a week and find my characters all geared up and ready to go when I feel like playing.

May I ask why you don't just simply let these brain dead grinds be done by someone else?

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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by bitexploder on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:39AM (#27063030)
That is just a different type of game at that point. It is all relative and I don't play competitively. Virtually all of the content is accessible at some lower difficulty level, so it doesn't really matter what the stats are on my gear if I can do the content I want.
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