So i got WoW a month ago, made a 55 paladin, and am now working on my 67 death knight.  Since my server is down because of the patch i thought id waste my time and say something about the game.
Mostly i am sick of all the ppl that have been playing the game for years and are complaining that blizzard is making the game more accessible to new players. How fucking stupid are these people? I mean do they realize blizzard needs to keep adapting a 5 year old game to keep making money of it? These people bitch about anything and everything that didnt come with the original game. They complain about death knights like mother fuckers. i mean the only thing a death knight gets is a mount, and all these people bitch and moan about them non stop...how they are noobs and only "pussies" play them. Come on people.
Now with the new patch mounts are cheaper and available at lower levels, which has all these 80s bitching about all of the "work" they put into getting them. What the Fuck?...do people think WoW will continue to be the highest selling pc game if they keep it broken and primative? 
Well those are my thoughts.
For the Horde!
...well actualy i dont give a shit
 
and dont bitch about my spelling, four years of spanish and spell check ruined that for me
 

Well, those people feel they have a sense of entitle for putting 5 YEARS of cash into that game.

This title is misleading.  There are no people on WoW as people are living beings with jobs, a social life, and do good for humanity (be it evil or decent).  There are faux humans with faux emotions on WoW but not people.

Honestly I think the game went downhill when TBC was released.

" Honestly I think the game went downhill when TBC was released. "

" @Asurastrike said:

" Honestly I think the game went downhill when TBC was released. "

That's what one of my friends thinks.  He loved Pre-BC WoW. "

As someone whos been a slave to WoW since it started, at the start it was something that required time and a good guild to get anywhere. But recently the game has been dumbed down to bring in new players, now I dont have a problem with them doing that, but i'm starting to look elsewhere (hello WAR). Not logged in for weeks, even the new patch isn't appealing.
 
Everyone knows the point of MMOs are to show off your rare loot, it's just becoming non-existant in WoW. Instead of bringing out tough encounters, they are just re-using bosses with a "hard mode". Hell the latest raid dungeon is just a boss arena... hows that for lazy?
 
Every patch and expansion is recycling the previous, the big announcement at Blizzcon will be a new expansion pack, with a new lvl cap, 2 races and 1 new hero, maybe a new profession if they are feeling adventurous.
 
Now is the time to release a new MMO, Aion should do well.

" Well, those people feel they have a sense of entitle for putting 5 YEARS of cash into that game. "

" @KaosAngel: Oh yeah and you're mother theresa. Wrong board dude, here, its a gamer site. If you want life accomplishers, go check the unicef forum. Thank you. "

" Honestly I think the game went downhill when TBC was released. "

As for people saying they had to work for their mount, the new players still will! It may be cheap for you because you're level 80, level 20 players will still have a hard time raising that amount of money. Also, i don't see how the changes Blizzard have made have "dumbed the game down". They have accelerated the levelling process slightly, Blizz just wants people to be able to see and participate in all the endgame content without having to spend ridiculous amounts of time to get there. Sure, you did, but you had fun right? You should be happy about new players seeing improvements to the game, rather than expecting Blizzard to leave them and just focus on giving you endgame content, cause that's just selfish.

" @demonbear: I like how you left out "doing good for humanity".  ^_~  Case closed. "

There are morons in every aspect of the world at large. "The community has gotten worse" is such a overdone statement.
 
 I just play wow for fun and keep my expectations extremely low therefore I'm not let down.  It's just a game to me.

" @Asurastrike:  I've seen a lot of people say the same as you, they are ALL wrong, it's a simple case of  rose-tinted glasses.  Molten Core was one of the worst raids ever, waaaaaaaay too much trash,  the itemization on the loot was absolutely AWFUL and most of the bosses were pretty boring. Anyone who thinks it was brilliant back then are just shrouded in nostalgia and want to complain about it without really THINKING about it. TBC was the pinnacle of WoW, Sunwell Plateau was definately the best raid WoW had, and probably will ever have.  and to OP, how is saving a little bit of money to get your mount at 30 (used to be 40 >.<) broken and primitive? if that is i guess they should just let you spawn your character as a lvl 80, i mean...levelling is just so primitive now is it not? You joined WoW a month ago, you have pretty much no perspective on how Blizzard are driving the game into the ground, as its the people like YOU that are getting all the benefits whilst the 'hardcore' are alienated. "

OP- You are dumb, and don't deserve a response. Hence I give just this short message, telling you that.

The cash cow is drying up, I guess you can't blame Blizz for giving her a prod every now and then.

I started with TBC and quit after hitting 80 in WotLK.  I can sympathize with what a lot of what long time players are saying.  Even in my day, there were gripes that things were being too easy since the first expansion, but people also complained about trying to get a 40 man raid together.  The introduction of smaller raids was a good idea.  Badges were another complaint, but in the long run, collecting two or three hundred badges for a set of armor was no small task.  Then there was the epic PvP gear from the BGs that was a source of complaint, however it allowed easier completion of heroic dungeons as players tried to replace their PvP gear for PvE gear from Heroic boss battles.  During my time, grinding dungeons was done once or twice a week.  Actually, most of WoW endgame became a grindfest equally as repetitive as any quest Nessingway provided.  In other words, even back when I was playing, players really had to work and commit themselves to getting ahead.  Mounts cost a lot of money and you were happy the day you were able to hit 40 or 60.  There weren't many daily quests so gathering 5000 for an epic was a long long laborious task.  Anyone who had completed these assignments was held in high regard.  But, now everything is simple and easier.  I've seen characters shoot from 0 to 60 in a matter of minutes due to the way Blizzard structures "friends" and triple XP rewards.  What's the early mount level now? 20?  Ugh, not having to endure the Barrons and all it's craptacularness means anyone today is missing out on a rite of passage.  That's what it comes down to.  Long time players feel that everything they've worked and strived for has been cheapened by the new "easy entry" policies at Blizzard.

I totally agree that things are getting trivialized, however, i certainly dont care, considering it's making the game better for me in a lot of ways.
 
My problem with this game is...people dont treat this as a game anymore, these "people" take everything in WoW so damn seriously, and at least on my server, everyone is up their own ass, and simply can't tolerate someone like me, who just wants to have a bit of damn fun.
 
i can't really expect any less, most are 15 or so, but it's hard to find genuinely nice and helpful people, they exist! but few and far between from the usual "u n00b pally, LFM dps naxx hc aaaaaaaaagh"
 
It's like all they see is numbers...like scrolling ones, like the Matrix, i want to have fun in a dungeon, not have nerds jump down my throat for perhaps lets say...using one "wrong" piece of gear...who cares!?
 
the amount of times i've seen people get upset over slight adjustments in the talent tress...is insane.
 
(sorry for the bump, sorry for the vent too)