Quote Originally Posted by Che View Post
Nothing will touch WoW until the new SW MMO (maaaaybe, I'm thinking it still wont) or FFXIV. WoW's gameplay is just so fluid that it doesn't matter what else it has, it's fun to control and play. This is why Aion, Warhammer, etc will all be second place.
I know and it's very disappointing. The ONLY positive things WoW still has for it is it's ease of play and control, fluidity of combat and ability use, customizable and attractive UI modifications, and colorful and fantasyish graphics. Too many MMOs go for realism now, and make puppet-looking characters. Granted AoC and Aion both have absolutely gorgeous scenery.

The core of WoW, however, is what continues to make me quit playing the game. I miss pre BC WoW, or even start of BC WoW. Before all these dailies came in and made epic flying mounts less of an achievement, before free epics started getting handed out for running extremely easy content. When PvP was a lot more fun because I could do it at my leisure, not either half-ass it with battlegrounds or get entirely too hardcore and worry way too much about what class is OP and min/maxing the shit out of every situation in arenas. Arenas are too stressful, and <> fun to me.

Hell even leveling has gotten entirely too easy. Granted I LOVED the idea of heirlooms at first, I now despise them. I hate the fact that 1-60 used to take the average person 22+ days played, maybe 18ish or so on your 2nd toon. Now I can bust out 1-80 in < 9, while leveling professions to 450 in the process.

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I'm still on the fence about whether or not I'm going retail with Aion. I'm hoping if I play it enough, it'll grow on me to the point where it's shortcomings with fluidity and control don't bother me. I adjusted to AoC, I just quit that because there was no effing content in the game.

I do think the new Star Wars MMO or the next online FF will be my full-on WoW replacement, especially since FFIV is supposed to lower the role of grouping in order to level.