New dotbot version and WoW thoughts

2006-07-04 | Filed Under Games, Products |

New dotbot version and World of Warcraft thoughts

Released a new version of dotbot two days ago. I had quit playing World of Warcraft for almost six months now, but some people on the Curse Gaming forums that use the addon kept asking me about bugfixes and recent patches support.

To make the release I used a friend of mine’s account, and logging in made me again think of re-activating my account. I strolled around Ironforge and the surrounding area, and this reminded me again how great this game is, how it creates a unique feeling of the world around and how much attention was paid to every small aspect of it.

Still my account will remain frozen, until Blizzard does something to attract back players that don’t have the time to do 40ppl raids and people who want to progress through PVP combat. Sure, there are honor and battleground rewards, but these are not comparable at all with what you can get if you do mindless raids of the same dungeon over and over again, re-doing the same fights over and over until your uber item drops. This is also the reason why battlegrounds are not fun for casual players anymore - it simply is not fun to fight anyone equipped times better then you, who got his equipment not by any skill, but just by investing hundreds of hours re-doing the same dungeon runs over and over.

I cannot blame Blizzard for doing this of course - they are simply trying to please the larger customer base. This however alienates the casual players from the game totally. Many of my colleagues that tried to play casual, since they don’t have the time to play 5-6 hours each day, have also quit.

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