Former competitive H2 player, RIP gaming 1983-2010 Stop saying genuinely.
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I used to play WoW a LOT in my teens and early 20s, but I had infinite energy and time and managed to have a great social life, too. I was still told bye some non-gaming friends and family that I spent too much time playing.
I got a bit older, and WoW had to take a back seat as my free time became less and my career took off. It stayed that way for a long time. I was told I was "told old" for WoW and games when I played them during my free time.
Cut to 3ish years ago, I developed long covid, lung damage, Asthma and Fibromyalgia and had to give up my career due to constant debilitating pain and fatigue, and my ability to socialise and be active diminished overnight.
And guess what I was able to fall back on: WoW and the videogames I was 'too old' for or that were a 'waste of my time'.
It sounds overexaggerated - but they literally saved my life during a time where my day to day life changed SO dramatically and I lost absolutely everything, and without that safety net of an indoorsy and low-energy hobby to fall back on, I'm not sure I would have survived it.
I'm someone who believes all hobbies are valid and healthy but never more so than now, when I'm so limited in what I can do. There's no age-limit to what you enjoy, and it may very well be the thing you lean on to get you through the hardest times 馃挌
TLDR: videogames are super nice aren't they? 馃榿
Hot take: WoW Forever is worse than season of discovery. Can't wait to do this again in 5 years with wow eternal. #WoWForever
Honestly, I don't understand the direction Blizzard is taking with WoWForever. Instead of making the very thing they advertised as the core experience - questing together - more enjoyable and viable, they're once again buffing dungeon XP and encouraging people to move away from it.
Why not address the actual problems with group questing? Allow players to share loot quests, make objectives more group - friendly and give people a genuine reason to explore and level together.
You marketed WoWForever around the social experience and the journey of levelling together, yet your changes keep pushing players towards dungeon/Mob grinding instead.
At some point, you have to ask yourself: are you actually trying to preserve the experience you promised, or are you just repeating the same design decisions that pushed people away from Retail in the first place?
Stop moving the goalposts and start supporting the gameplay experience you originally sold us.
Xbox could end the console war in a second if they wanted to (they own everything). Sony is like a rabid dog trying so hard to win and still sucking just as bad.
#gaming #xbox #PlayStation
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I can't wait for this woke slop to release and the studio goes bankrupt just like Coalition.
Crazy not knowing the difference between good and evil. Excuse me while I go replay The Lost Chapters for the 20th time.
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Ngl it feels pretty good knowing I was smarter at 10 years old than the average gen z is at 25. #OcarinaOfTime #OcarinaofTimeRemake
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WoW Forever won't be forever.
Classic fans will just go back to classic (especially hardcore) because Forever isn't classic and retail fans will just go back to retail.
It'll be SoD all over again. Just with more hype and marketing behind it. #Wow #WoWForever
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Savescumming removes any and all pressure. That's like adding a rewind button in a racing game.
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The rate we were movin' in the early 2000s GTA should've let you fly to 4 cities by now.
But why would devs do that when people are buying GTA 6 for 100 bucks before it's even out?
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Honestly when this came out people today have no idea how crazy it was to be able to get out of your car and run anywhere, in 3D.
Newer GTAs just don't hit the same because we've been doing this for 25 years. It's the same idea. The hype comes from the game that started it all.
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2000-2005 Was the best era in gaming.
It was the pre piss filter era of the 7th gen and games that came out during that time are still getting sequels 20+ years later.
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DMC took 7 years for 1-4 and now it's been 7 years with nothing
6 Splinter cell games in 11 years and now nothing in 13 years
No new MGS in 11 years
Witcher trilogy in 8 years and now nothing in 11 years
13 years for a new GTA exactly how long it took for 5 games
It's over.
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The list goes on
Dark souls 1-3 in 5 years and now nothing in 10
No new elder scrolls in 15 years when it took 9 years to get 3 games
9 Years since Wolfenstein 2, don't even count youngblood
No 3d mario in 9 years when it took 8 years to get 3 games
It's not the 2000s anymore
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