Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
People shitting on HW is just the new talking point. They think they can get away with it because a lot of newer players didn't actually play the game during HW. It's kind of like how people will just make things up about JP because the language barrier makes it difficult to fact-check. HW was a place where SE was still building out the core experience of the game, and a lot of features were implemented for the very first time; Systems that have become so incredibly core to what the game is now that people just take them for granted and consider them 'baseline' features.
If that is true (I don't come here that much) I can't fathom why, because its biggest sins IMHO were 1.) Horrible laggy servers which was a problem for me raiding and 2.) 3.0-3.1 extreme/savage content being infernally hard because devs only playtested per mechanic instead of the entire fights as a whole and the break in content at the time. The lag was circumvented easily (thank you, Mudfish) pretty easy, thankfully, and patches came in with a lot of cool stuff.