How is LOB and Panda Express?

[Khatovar]

It's that they spent years "crafting" this collect x of y, kill x of y experience. They like done in the past spent a lot of time and resources focusing on a minigame that players will be done with in 2 months tops.

Still not seeing how this is any different than any other expansion ever. How much time did I have to spend collecting spineleaf and zeppelin parts and blood in Hellfire? How many times did I have to do vehicle quests one by one over and over in the Argent Tourny and the rest of Wrath? I was done leveling in Cata within 2 or 3 days and had canceled all my accounts within a month of release, and the only reason it took that long was because I had to spend a lifetime in freakin' cut scenes.

Every MMO is about Kill X Collect Y. There's not a whole hell of a lot else they can do. Sounds to me like you're burnt on MMO gaming and it doesn't have anything at all to do with WoW in particular.

[MadMilitia]

Still not seeing how this is any different than any other expansion ever. How much time did I have to spend collecting spineleaf and zeppelin parts and blood in Hellfire? How many times did I have to do vehicle quests one by one over and over in the Argent Tourny and the rest of Wrath? I was done leveling in Cata within 2 or 3 days and had canceled all my accounts within a month of release, and the only reason it took that long was because I had to spend a lifetime in freakin' cut scenes.

Every MMO is about Kill X Collect Y. There's not a whole hell of a lot else they can do. Sounds to me like you're burnt on MMO gaming and it doesn't have anything at all to do with WoW in particular.

As stated this is exactly the same as ever which is why most of us that are turned off by it are turned off by it. Lipstick on a pig.

You're making a mistake in thinking this is all they can do. Get in the fight or get on the farm? They clearly went with the latter. They had a great idea and ran it into the ground in lazy fashion. They could have had the very first 3 quests in Jade Forest be the mood for the next 3 zones. Instead it became a stupid collect grind far worse than BC to my recollection. I'd rather have a dozen (which is still probably an exaggeration) BC collects than I'd have of one zone chock loaded with collect quests. Check out Valley of the Four to see what I mean.

They could do this a lot more interesting and engaging than they are right now. Call me a snob but this questing like most of the questing in the past smacks of adolescence and is an insult to the intelligence of any 20+ year old. Is water wet? Remember that gem from Cataclysm? More of the same.

Someone on the general forum says that the point is the journey but I'm beginning to realize how much that journey sucks. Especially so in the first 4 weeks of a new expansion. So I'm tuning out. You are right about one thing. I'm burned out when it comes to Blizzard's approach to MMOs.