Looking for perspective... An MMOs first year

[Brannigan]

Yeah I wasn't really trying to give an opinion one way or the other on it. WoW is a good game with a lot of frustrating (to me) design decisions. I played it for a long time but now I just don't - not that I hate it or anything, I'm just over it. I posted that long rambling thing just to give the OP some perspective on what went on in the first year of WoWs live time.

edit: heh looking through old wow patch notes. Here's a snip from December 2004

Cloak & Helm Graphics Edit Cloak & Helm Graphics

There are now interface options that let you not display your helm and/or cloak on your character. These options will allow a player to wear a cloak or helm, but not have it show up in the game world. The check boxes to control this functionality are in the Options menu under "Interface Options."

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A "Looking for Group" channel has been added. Additional improvements in looking for group functionality will be added in future patches.

Seems like every game only gets around to adding helm display toggling after release (except Vanguard which shipped with no helm graphics at all). Also the bit about their LFG system is funny because additional improvements probably didn't come until they added the Random Dungeon Finder crap last year. WoW's old LFG system was worse than FFXIV's haha