Your thoughts on the updated 2.2 news

[Rhas]

This is like when people say stuff like "those that want to grind stuff for months have no life and still live in their parents basement."

I agree that the leveling in this game is far too fast, but I also don't need to grind the same content for years to get a relic to feel a sense of accomplishment. Making sweeping generalizations like that about people is just stupid.

But its not any less accurate. The MMO market today is pretty much what WoW made of it and the mentality Blizzard instilled into them. Instant gratification. If you couldn't get something done in 15-20 minutes with some short term goals like upgrading equipment, it was mostly too much effort. It was Blizzards solution to competing with older MMO's like EQ, Asherons Call and other such older MMOs. Which started the I want it and I want it now crowd into the MMO market.

IMO it isn't the people so much as the mentality of instant gratification the Blizzard instilled into its new MMO which eventually forced most every other MMO to follow suite in some form or another. Why? People got used to having everything instantly instead of a nice slower journey over time. Then those people started trying out new upcoming MMO and complained everything wasn't like WoW and started comparing it to WoW and eventually most every company 'listened' to the crowd and started designing around it. After all 10.. 12... 14 million + people just couldn't be wrong... could they?

Again.. I blame the company more than I blame the people. People grew up with WoW as their first MMO after all and were weened into it by Blizzard.

I mean just look to how FFXI started and compare it to how it is now. Even they eventually bowed to the mentality and made the game easier.