Feedback from a new player

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

I will pick tiny snippets because most of this is just opinion, but some things need to be mentioned



No it isnt, WoW was never an absolute cakewalk as FFXIV is, and the leveling even less. Are you sure you played vanilla ?



No it isnt lmao, you just havent encountered the toxicity of it yet.



RMT is everywhere in this game, flying lalas, party finder spam, teleporting lalas, spamming low levels in Limsa, or trading gil to other players in busy mode.

Please, you never played WoW during Beta - let alone Vanilla. Vanilla is super easy, it just took forever to do anything. A Frost Mage rotation in Vanilla for PvE content was to just spam Frost Bolt and Fire Blast during dungeons and raids. Then there's the classic realms where Botting and RMT is rampant as Blizzard doesn't moderate them as they don't care about Classic nor care to invest in it. Heck, Wrath just got a new exploit where bots can fly hack through trees and STILL can. Blizzard has yet to ban these bots or patch that as they see no reason to bother as they only care about making money off retail. Classic and classic wrath are just cheap alternatives to placate boomers and get them logging in while dangling Retail news constantly to get them to go back to retail.

Which proves their point. Toxicity is rampant in WoW and is extremely easy to encounter. Such as during Timewalking weeks where the min-maxxers are extremely toxic if you don't play the way they want and will bully new and less experienced players then vote kick them out. Since WoW is so toxic, Vote Kicks almost always succeed as players are conditioned to just hit Yes and not care why or if it's deserved. Then there's the toxicity of M+ - something you clearly have no experience with.

WoW has way worse RMT than FF14. They literally allow selling carries in their Trade Chat for gold amounts that are only possible via RMT or WoW Tokens. GDKPs are also allowed as well. The WoW Token existing also means that nothing matters as players can RMT or WoW Token to any achievements they want in the game. Heck, the top Guilds in WoW actively participate in RMT, sell carries, do GDKP, and buy gold. Blizzard knows this and doesn't do anything about them as they see them as beneficial to have as long as they stay a top Guild.

Then there's addons like weakauras, DBM, and the such that will practically play the game for players. Instead of regulating or banning addons that are as invasive as weakauras, Blizzard literally admitted that they designed Raids around them. Which means that if you weren't using those addons, that the raids were designed around, then you were at a severe disadvantage.

I get it, you love WoW - despite never playing it. Doesn't change that you're still wrong on this - as usual - and haven't played WoW at all since you cannot even get the facts right about Vanilla.