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I agree with some points and not others.
Questing is very easy, you don't have to read the quest, just mouse over the giant red spots and they basically have a cliff notes version "Kill X, 10 times." Or you can read a 2 page long story about why you're killing it but it doesn't make you sift through what you need to do.
Experience does pop out of the bee's butt holes as they fly by you.
The graphics require a system more advanced than WOW does and this is a huge draw back for me (and poor planning on their part)- I have the bare minimum to run WAR. The water isn't impressive but I dig a lot of the gear/environment.
A lot of it is customizable. I think its bullshit when I see someone with good gear and then go "Oh.. nevermind, its just welfare epics (AKA PVP Gear). In WAR you can change the color schemes of your gear and while you can't really diversify from their "template" look for each character (meaning most only have 1-2 weapons they can choose when on WOW you normally have much more of a variety), its still neato.
The way a lot of people are leveling is by hopping from one area to the next, which by the way that honestly rocks, the flight master you hop on, get a cut scene of you getting on a weird animal and then load where you landed, theres no 30 minute flights wasting my life way. But ya, theres a different PVP (RVR, they call it Scenario) in every area. Lots of "RVR" areas in Questing areas too, and 4 PQs (Public Quests) meaning you run into people constantly and knock heads.. unless of course you're on my server which is dead low and I can go 3 days without seeing anyone, chaos or order.
WOW has had a lot of feedback over the years and has improved over time.
Interface, they have a built in bongos + bagnon, and more, as opposed to WOW where I need to download 3rd party.
I agree with you where you said that until designers realize the most important thing is the people. A friend of mine said to me "You always wanna talk to these people you don't need to talk to them"- If I wanted to play any game by myself I'd go play solitaire. I play this game purely because of the people, and secondarily for the content because I spent far too much time to not simply excel by default.
WOW has a lot of little things that may or may not have helped them a long the way, a lot of fan websites, theory craftings, quest helps, VENTRILO, many things that people outside of Blizzard implemented by themselves that enhances the game for everyone.
WOW has people literally theory crafting about fractions of seconds about clipping auto shots and maximizing rotations and using software to increase possible potential. That is literally obsessive and insane. Blizz should feel flattered. I doubt WAR will get that kind of following, Blizz has an epic name in every sense of the word. (Diablo/SSC/Warcraft 2 player)
-Pysche (Hunter)
(Arriving Friday! :P)
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