Shut Yer Mouth - WoW Getting Too Easy

John Landis writes:

"Wrath of the Lich King was a firestorm of tears from the hardcore, who complained that their elite raiding guild found the content too easy and didn't take enough skill or time to master. Now I see it all the time. There are people complaining that WoW has gotten too soft, that it's not the hardcore game that it started out being.

Excuse me?

Hardcore?"

[L80BelfDK]

LOLS. It's so true it hurts!

[kwicksandz]

wow has been ez mode since BC and dailys

[Nikuma]

..but it was more hardcore than it is now. The game now spoonfeeds you everything and there is zero challenge. WoW was fun when it came out... now it's garbage imo. Author needs to shut his mouth honestly.

[Celeras]

Author is f*cking clueless. Compare to progression of Vanilla, or the High Warlord grind to ANYTHING nowadays.. and you'll see where all the complaints come from. It's not brain surgery.

[evrfighter]

I played wow at launch. Was part of the 2nd wave of people to hit 60. It wasn't hardcore. didn't even feel like grinding tbh...

[spacetoilet]

But WoW is a fantastic game and has been somewhat 'nerfed' by each patch that comes along. Getting epic mount at 40 was just stupid.
The game still has a TON of things to achieve and do, but it seems as time goes on, they take things away and simplify rather than add any complexity or improve what it has.
Is that because gamers nowadays are pussies? probably.
I'm OG! Old as the hills and from a time when games were HARD AS F()CK!! None of this beat the game first time through with your infinite continues and save points. Sheeeeeeeeit.
......grumble....pussies..... youth of today.......sigh.

[Redempteur]

ZOMG a game lost his balance after adding too much skills and items ?

Wait .it always happens ... Wow won't be the exception ..

Wow is getting easy ? Isn't players who know the game better now ? Would have it been better if blizzard made Near impossible challenges just that it will :
-disgust new players
-disgust old players
-have people complaining ( not that they aren't already, check the official foroms since each patch is the start of an endless discution on how some skill were nerfed and people complaining because they are too dumb to change their skills and adapt )

Yeah yeah ..wow is not getting easy ... You just have played wow too much .. I suggest you all to play something else

[Lumbo]

Author is clueless. The next step Blizzard will take is put an NPC in front of the instances that simply GIVES you the desired loot to spare you the boring act of walking through the already completely challenge-less dungeon.

The whole concept of WOW is grinding for gear, as gear is everything in this game.

By making the process of getting gear píss poor easy they managed to take away 90% of the games playtime. The last addon was only good for 1 - 2 month, by then even the most lazy and dumb player managed all instances and had gear of a level that would have taken half a year before.

Sadly that reduces the game to 1-2 month of play after a new ad-on, and then 10 month of more boredom waiting for the next ad-on ...

Sorry, but thats not worth the monthly fee, so i quit a while ago.

[Midgard228]

thats y everyone likes wow, cuz its easy.

while grinding is lame i think u shudnt get to lvl 80 in a month, it makes the game only end game content which s wierd and easy, dunno got bored of it quick

combat is boring to me and everyone looks the same the whole game. im lovin aion beta at the moment :)

[54percent]

They never played Lineage 2... now THAT'S hardcore

[thetruthinator]

"I stick by my observation that the only thing making WoW raids difficult is that seventy-five percent of their player base is dumber than a box of sh!t."

Ya... the real losers all play Everquest.

[Dpa]

It took me 22 days played time to level my first character to 60.
After 90 days played I had done every raid and had the best gear I could get. I quit just after burning crusade.

Rejoined 6 weeks ago. 22 days played time and I'm level 80, full epic, done mostly every raid.

Of course WoW isn't the most hardcore MMORPG, I mean, Ultima Online now that was an MMO that required real skill and time to master but WoW was a darn sight harder than it was now. In the days of classic casals would whine on the forums that the endgame was inaccesible to them, and Blizzard unfortunately listened.

[Mutley416]

WOW might be easy to level and Raid...but it`s the only game that offer`s Reliable servers and a Billion things to do...with 11.5 million people to do it with...

There is challenges in WOW...

Try to get into a elite Raiding Guild...

ummm Yogg on Hard Modes? Achievements? yah...very few finish those...don`t fool yourself that stuff aint easy...

Ohh and what about the Pvp...You`ll get schooled son. Hit the "Spirit Release" button...cause that`s what you`ll be doing...

Yah better grab another game...cause WOW does`nt have anything to offer the weak...except disappointment-

[Nikuma]

Actually it offers the weak free epics.

Edit: LOL at "Elite raiding guild". Give me a break.

[MRMagoo123]

You guys ever think they made the game a little easier so that ppl with actual real lives could go about there day and still be able to enjoy the game when they got home without having to play all night to get any kind of gear at all.Also what are these "free" epics you talk of i havent seen any yet, ive seen ppl doing heroics to get emblems for there epic gear and i have seen ppl doing raids for emblems too but i havent once seen anyone getting any epics for free, if you can direct me to the nearest vendor in dal that giveaway epic gear which involes no work or time on my behalf ide be pleased to get some because i dont enjoy having to spend hours upon hours doing raids for emblems.And lastly stop ur b#tching ur probably the same ppl that are in the forums everyday complaining about ur dk being nerfed and how you keep getting owned in pvp by pallies all i can say is b#tchs lol