Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Honestly, I'm happy enough with this game to pay a sub. The story was good entertainment. The expansion was worth the price I paid. I'm having fun raiding.

That said, I don't feel the game is going in a direction I personally like. A lot of activities I used to enjoy are no longer fun. Classes are bland, combat still doesn't flow well, healers are a lost cause, Hunts became a chore, crafting is dead, bots are rampant, FC's are neglected. I don't feel a sense of loyalty or attachment to the game, I just don't feel there's a better MMO on the market right now. If there was, I probably wouldn't be here.

The game is good in a safe way, the developers are better than a lot of other developers, but I don't "love" the game and I'm not hooked. It's just my preferred way to burn spare time at the moment. I hate to admit it, but I think somewhere deep down there's that old WoW player in me that misses guild raid nights, the big mount and pet collections, the toy box, responsive combat, pet battles, tmog tabs, achievements and all the rest of it. Maybe I'm just waiting for a new game that brings that spirit back without the gamebreaking downsides and flaws.
This is exactly how I feel about it. I've been playing the game because the story was fairly good in SHB and I also enjoyed HW and SB, with the PVE being decent, but I did not enjoy EW's story conclusion, so that just leaves the PVE aspects. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for now to see what comes in the future but the game would benefit from some competition. But there were still aspects I loved about WoW, like its racial lore and class design and some of the stuff you mention, which I don't really get out of this game... equally WoW is too much of a mess to return to it. So I bide my time waiting for another MMO while just using this to burn spare time.