Comments on: World of Warcraft: Hit 80? You’re Hardcore http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/world-of-warcraft-hit-80-youre-hardcore/ Video Games Have A Voice Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Helvetica http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/world-of-warcraft-hit-80-youre-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Helvetica Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:02:30 +0000 http://www.voxexmachina.com/?p=554#comment-518 We've seen this, actually. The release date of WotLK unfortunately coincided with a lot of classwork and hard work on all fronts. We ourselves haven't been able to get our favorite 70 (a Forsaken shadow priest) up to 80...yet; but this is only for a total lack of time to rush through all the areas. Of course, not seeing so much of the content yet, it's too bad to hear that the stuff that we'll be getting into at some point is more shallow than TBC. We’ve seen this, actually. The release date of WotLK unfortunately coincided with a lot of classwork and hard work on all fronts.

We ourselves haven’t been able to get our favorite 70 (a Forsaken shadow priest) up to 80…yet; but this is only for a total lack of time to rush through all the areas.

Of course, not seeing so much of the content yet, it’s too bad to hear that the stuff that we’ll be getting into at some point is more shallow than TBC.

]]> By: Quell http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/world-of-warcraft-hit-80-youre-hardcore/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Quell Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:35:00 +0000 http://www.voxexmachina.com/?p=554#comment-494 My former guild (I no longer play), has one boss left as of last weekend, that on first attempt they got to 40% without even really trying..Granted they are one of the top guilds on the server; however they aren't one of the top guilds in the world/US..I think they are just in the edge of the top 1000. Their "sister" (meaning casual/Weekend warrior) guild is about ~1/2 way done...amongst both guilds many people have multiple 80s. My nephew who I would consider pretty casual hit 80 on Tuesday. The defining of casual apparently has been changed to someone brand new to MMOs or at least WoW..Anyone with at least a decent amount of experience playing WoW (READ: almost everyone who bought WotLK), prolly has an 80 allready. The Thanksgiving break gave people a solid 4-5 days to chug away at it, right after release..and lets be honest..there are VERY few "casuals" immediately after release of the expansion..in particular if they have like a week off of school/work. I dont think people will stick around like they did in TBC, and WotLK's pacing is MUCH faster then TBC to start off with. If they wait until end of Feb/March to release the new content, and that content isnt deep and mechanically challenging WoW IMO will start its slow decline. They only thing saving it over the medium term, is that the horizon is completely blank right now. My former guild (I no longer play), has one boss left as of last weekend, that on first attempt they got to 40% without even really trying..Granted they are one of the top guilds on the server; however they aren’t one of the top guilds in the world/US..I think they are just in the edge of the top 1000. Their “sister” (meaning casual/Weekend warrior) guild is about ~1/2 way done…amongst both guilds many people have multiple 80s.

My nephew who I would consider pretty casual hit 80 on Tuesday. The defining of casual apparently has been changed to someone brand new to MMOs or at least WoW..Anyone with at least a decent amount of experience playing WoW (READ: almost everyone who bought WotLK), prolly has an 80 allready. The Thanksgiving break gave people a solid 4-5 days to chug away at it, right after release..and lets be honest..there are VERY few “casuals” immediately after release of the expansion..in particular if they have like a week off of school/work.

I dont think people will stick around like they did in TBC, and WotLK’s pacing is MUCH faster then TBC to start off with. If they wait until end of Feb/March to release the new content, and that content isnt deep and mechanically challenging WoW IMO will start its slow decline. They only thing saving it over the medium term, is that the horizon is completely blank right now.

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