Animosity with World of warcraft players who still like the game?

[_Pigzig]

You can quit WoW but it never quits living in your head

[AriesDaBeeh]

WoW needs to be more like Wildstar... I enjoyed that game more than WoW... >.>

OOoooh bring back wildstar that is the real wow killer ;o;

[Kes13a]

OOoooh bring back wildstar that is the real wow killer ;o;

Wildstar wasnt a bad little game.

it is a fine example of what happens however... when the devs start listening and changing things based on people in the forums....

[GrizzlyTank]

Wildstar wasnt a bad little game.

it is a fine example of what happens however... when the devs start listening and changing things based on people in the forums....

Wildstar had one major issue after launch... No updates. The game launched with two half finished zones and throughout it's entire life-span neither of those zones were completed even when the covered 1/3 of two continents.

The game was also quite poorly optimized and apparently even a mess to work with.

[GrizzlyTank]

Only time a WoW player even mildly bothers me is when they push for a new game they start playing to 'be more like WoW'. I couldn't care less otherwise what game(s) you've played before or whatever.

Not going to lie, i would have liked to have a few jobs that played closer to a wow spec with shorter gcd and more proc-based rather than the heavy focus on fixed rotations that FFXIV have. Like Dancer would probably have felt significantly better to play if they trimmed a second or more from their GCD.

[Gameovers]

We got 2 types of players here in ff, the ones who have played wow, and liars.

Jokes aside, tribalism over videogames (and other things relating to it, like gatekeeping etc.) are absolutely ridiculous and it is something that the non-toxic great community btw of ours shines in. Honestly, the influx of players from other games recently has been very good for the community over all though, its been very refreshing. That said, since many of them are former wow players, there has been also an increase in pushback against these refugees, which is also stupid. People can be kinda stupid I guess...

I’ve never played wow. I’m a console player. Always have been. The one game I played on laptop was ………………. Tera. That was my first mmo. If you don’t want to count IMVU or PSHOME.

[_Pigzig]

My first MMO was Runescape
PK in the wildy

[Xaruko_Nexume]

I won't justify the behavior described in the OP...HOWEVER...

For me it was like getting out of a 16 year bad relationship with someone that for a variety of reasons never realized how bad the partner was. In this case the partner being WoW. The sunk cost fallacy after you spend years, money, and phases of your adult life development invested in something for that long, its hard to let go even when youve known for a long time it was bad.

Then to find what feels like a breath of fresh air in this game, to the point that it more than once brings you to tears when you think about how great this one is, how bad that one was...only to hear someone talk about how they still like and participate in the previous game?? It is infuriating. it gives me a feeling of "how dare you like that game." I know that feeling is wrong, and im sorry for it.

Yes, thats stupid of me. No it isn't logical, no it isn't right. But feelings often aren't. I know I am wrong. But it is how I feel. I feel anger towards WoW and myself and everything about it. I know its "just a game" but it was a game where I met and started a family with my IRL partner. Divorced them because of it too. Met and made real life friends and lost them. It was not just a game. It was also a social media outlet, tinder, a chat room, a game and so much more. My Wrath of the Lich King raid team all met in real life. Then to have to watch what that game has become now...

There is a documentary/study someone needs to make on this mass exodus from WoW to XIV this year. Psychologists, sociologists, and historians are missing out if there aren't extensive studies about this.

[AriesDaBeeh]

It does seem to be the pattern that wow has hurt most people who played it. Especially those who are playing this now. I could say now its pretty bad but honestly I might be a little stupid. I went through most of my 14 years playing wow completely un-offended by the changes that took place throughout the years. To this day the only reason why I stopped playing largely is because of how many years I've spend in azeroth. I know everything, I know everywhere. I know most of the quests in each zone. The world became to small for me and it left me wishing I could somehow forget all my years so I could do it again. Then the classic bots and mage boosts kinda killed it. TBC endgame was just logging twice a week to raid. who's gonna pay a sub to play for two days? same reason I'm not really playing this too.

What I want to know is how come it seems that those who played wow, and now those who play xiv are often acting like those are the only mmos in circulation? Like you relate wow as a 16 year bad relationship that took xiv for you to realize and break free from. But why not all the other games that existed in those 16 years? I used to only sub for wow 2 months of the year as a kid who couldn't work- when I got a game card for Christmas and a game card for my birthday. and on that off time I played Mabinogi, Vindictus, maplestory, runescape, gw2, tera, eso. Those are all really good games when they weren't p2w (gw2 is still not) . I'd say they rivalled this one in their time. whats the deal with people being so closed off to the potential of other games? Even now people only consider wow, xiv and new world like they're the only options for a bored, homeless mmo player.

[AriesDaBeeh]

I think wildstar lives on in gw2. Playing both I realize how much stuff wildstar did that gw2 does. (Fates, aoe questing, action combat, mob and player telegraph outside of raids). They were made with the same producers maybe the same studio so it makes sense.