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On 7 Jul 2015 06:34:40 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>There have always been two types of players. 

<snip a whole lot of good stuff>

This is one of those times when I wish Usenet had a Facebook-esque
"like" feature, as that's what your post deserves ;-) Thanks, that
explained the two sides well, as I was really only understanding my
own viewpoint, and couldn't really understand Lewis's side well; your
explanation was clear enough for me to "get" it a bit better! 

>As to the dropping subscriptions, I think it might also be the case that the
>novelty of WoW has just run its course. I played the game for over five
>years and still enjoyed it (mostly by satisfying my completionist streak)
>but in the end, it was just "more of the same" and I imagine at one point
>this gets boring for everyone. Adding a new expansion to a game that should
>integrate with it enough to be the same game but be new enough to attract
>people for a prolonged time is no mean feat and I am impressed that Blizzard
>has pulled it off so many times, I guess failing with WoD is just something
>that had to happen...

>From my viewpoint it feels as though the problem with WoD is that it's
*not* "more of the same", actually - they removed/gutted most of what
I enjoyed in the past, and what little remains wasn't substantial
enough to satisfy my playstyle. If we'd had more Isle of
Thunder/Molten Front/Pandaria 5.1 storylines type content, my interest
would've held up a lot better than it has done.

Now the "more of the same" argument would I imagine be more applicable
to pvp and raiding, as I don't think there's much new in either of
them, but not a lot got removed either (unless LFR was your raiding of
choice, as it was mine...), but my playstyle would've very much liked
more of the same! ;-)