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Originally Posted by Grady

1) Servers. I probably don't need to elaborate on this, but I will. It's been damn close to two years and the servers are not in ANY better shape than what they were 6 months after launch. Sure, after 6 months they had greatly improved over launch (as could be expected), however, they're still giant steaming turds. And the new hardware is a joke. The servers they've launched on it are down just as often as the ones on ancient hardware.

There are hardly any realms with any performance issues anymore. And the blame is to lay with Blizzard's Vendors who can't create Blade Servers fast enough iirc.

Originally Posted by Grady

2) Class balance. I'm not going to get into a whole diatribe about how overpowered Warlocks or Shaman or whoever are in PVP or PVE, it's not worth it. Suffice to say that the patches to balance out the classes have been abysmal failures. Sure, some classes have been greatly improved but other classes have been left in the dust. And with the level cap increase these differences will become more and more apparent.

With a few exceptions (Hunter and Warlock Longevity for DPS, Warriors scaling TOO well with gear) class balance for the most part is fine, espescially with the advent of Horde Paladins and Alliance Shamans.

Originally Posted by grady

3) The CS. CS in any MMORPG sucks but WoW GM's take this to a new level. They are the most incompetent and emasculated employees of any online gaming company. It's utterly amazing how bad the GM's are, it's honestly baffling. While it's not really a selling point for any online game, you could certainly strive for mediocrity here instead of being the bottom of the fucking barrel below EQ even.

Are you just grasping for straws here? Yeah the canned responses suck ass, but let me tell you from a CS stand point - 2 million people is *incredibly* hard to deal with, espescially with something that has as many issues as an MMO does. When I wanted to swap my Eye of the Beast out, they did it within 2 days. When I wanted to swap my ZHC for a ZHB, they did it within 12 hours. Every issue i've ever petitioned, or my guild has petitioned for has been answered. Granted it was answered with a legalese scripted response, but what do you want? Hand crafted letters of love from each and every GM on the CS Staff?

Originally Posted by Grady

4) PvP. Battlegrounds are terrible and repetitive, but the "World PVP objectives" they came out with in 1.12 are the dumbest fucking things they could have thought up. Did they sit around in a room masturbating in a pile of their own feces to think this shit up? Also, the realization that the ranking and honor system are fucked up and retarded is only about a year too late. Maybe they should have thought about it before they put in the hopeless and obviously flawed system from the start? A bit of foresight would help, but it's hard to look forward with your head up your ass.

It wasn't flawed "from the start". Good idea, bad execution. They just need to sit down, and play more DAOC to figure out what really makes "World PVP" work.

No dev has any foresight, its impossible. You *cannot* predict how players will use any given mechanic within a game, or you are just setting yourself up for failure. They realize the mechanic is broken, they make strides to fix it. Yes the response time to the issue could be alot faster, but it really doesn't affect me all that much. I got Rank 10 before, I'm probably going to go to 13 with this new system, and still be able to raid full time. It isn't *that* hard, so quit yer bitchin.

Originally Posted by Grady

5) PVE. Figure out what the fuck you want the game to be. If you want to make shit for casuals and for hardcore, then get a plan and stick to it, quit dicking around with raid sizes and requirements.

Uh the raid size has nothing to do with casuals. But hey, neat conjecture point. The raid size change is to allow hybridization to actually work, vs. the rigid conformity we have atm of 40 man raids. They are working a great deal towards this, and I really think the 25man raid cap will be better overall.

Originally Posted by Grady

The game was good for awhile, could have been great, but completely fucked now. And, for the most part, TBC looks like it will just fuck everything up more. It's really sad that the game that had the most potential to be a great game is on a path to be completely destroyed by incompetent management and assinine decisions by devs.

I really can't see any game holding a candle to WoW's PVE raiding for years to come. Period. Nothing will be nearly as complex, yet so simple at the same time, and Tigole and co. really have their shit screwed on straight. They're making strides towards fixing the holes within the game - Casual content and pvp, and I don't doubt that Burning Crusade will be the fix for most of these issues. But only time will tell.