Ok mmcookies Im out too!

[Souca]

Blizzard's only real problem is that they are unwilling/unable to develop content at a reasonable pace. WOTLK was released on Nov 13th 2008, its been 4 months now, it'll be around 5 months before the first content patch. Which contains a massive new 10/25 man raid instance for raiders, and a "coliseum" with ways to raise reputations (and buy random stuff) by doing dailies for more casual people. Thats it. No real fixes/updates to PVP other than season 6 start/gear, no new quest hub or new 5 man, etc.

The next patch will probably take 4-6 months as well. So thats 2 content patches in a year. If they could instead release new content quest hubs every 3 months, a new 5 man instance every 2 months, and a new raid instance every 4 months people would be drowning in new content. I would guess thats the delivery mechanism they plan for their next MMO however, as they seem pretty good at dissecting their past problems and coming up with solutions for big next projects.

I wish I could find a source for it, but I seem to remember Blizzard saying they wanted to release a new expansion every year. I remember hearing this back when Wrath was announced. I don't think they will get their though.

When they were announcing all the changes they were making to classes with 3.0.2 and the buffs and debuffs, I stopped and realized there was a reason for it. They were trying to get abilities and effects into neat little categories so that they didn't have to test for weird esoteric situations that only happened in one class with one spec and a certain weapon. I got excited, because this meant they could pump out content faster; testing would still have to happen, but if a stun was a stun was a stun then it didn't matter if it was caused by a rogue a druid or a mage. They could release content little by little keeping players interested up until the next expansion instead of the current ebb and flow that seems to happen now as people burn through and then burn out. I still think this was the plan, but I'm not sure what happened. At BlizzCon they announced that 3.1 was done. They had all the content. Five months later they will release it. I really hope they know what they are doing for 3.2.

Not sure what my point was, but I empathize with a lot of the people in this thread. I've leveled two solo horde characters to 80 and I've stalled at 74 on one of my ally 5 box teams and I just can't seem to get excited about leveling anymore. Some of the quests are different, but I have a feeling once I'm past Grizzly Hills most of the quests will be the faction independent ones so they'll be the ones I've done twice already. There is still a carrot out there, but I'm begining to wonder if I really like carrots that much.

- Souca -