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This game will never be what it once was

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Proficient
#1 - May 12, 2011, 5:56 a.m.
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Ever. The golden age of this game was back before the first expansion was released, and level 60 was the cap. Nowhere near what it used to be. Back before the cross realm BS, epics being handed out like candy, raids being dropped from 40 to 25 / 10, when gold was tough to make...

Too many things just come to mind that make the old days better than the current WoW. Servers were like families. That was destroyed when transfers / cross realm BGs & instances were introduced.

World PvP was literally everywhere, and it was the best fun in a video game that I've ever had. Now, everything is just instanced garbage. You hardly even have to leave a major city to do things in this game anymore.

What I miss most was how much tougher gear was to get back then. If you walked up to somebody in Ironforge and saw them decked in tier 1 or tier 2 epics, you were just amazed. Now, it's normal to see everybody running around with full epics. Epics have lost their value in this game because of how much you've been catering to casuals over the years.

I really wish you guys would make just 1 or 2 level 60 servers, and just release the MC / BWL / AQ content every 6-7 months or so. So many old players would come back to the game, because I promise you I'm not the only one that misses the old WoW.

Make it happen.
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Nethaera
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#39 - May 12, 2011, 9:12 a.m.
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Everyone has their own definition of a "Golden Age". Sometimes it's about the people they gamed with, sometimes it's about the encounters they took on. Sometimes it's about a certain feel they had from it being "new" to them. That said, these conversations are often nostalgic and rarely rooted in solid ideas as memories can often be changed by time or perception and are not constructive or productive to conversation about the game.