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Totally agreed, and gonna' go ahead and call a spade a spade... while probably ruffling quite a few feathers by throwing out some truth, at least in my perspective. Not saying this is the case with ALL that gloss over the obvious issues... but can't help but feel as though it's more of an "against the grain" kind of thing/mentality/standpoint. I mean honestly, see it all the time... hence why so many over-hyped former MMOs as WoW-killers and when they weren't the game crashed and burned. Honestly feel (and this isn't to defend WoW, as I haven't played it in over a year... though it's still a good game and has its own earned merit)... there's those that are so opposed to Blizzard and/or WoW that anything that comes along, even if it's (hypothetically) a bug-ridden indy-title that doesn't even launch right, it'll be hyped to be the next best thing. See it in several areas of media, and other bits in life, to be honest. Like on consoles, when the original Playstation was all the buzz... I knew some individuals that couldn't stand Sony and dodged the Playstation like the plague. Then when the original X-Box launched, they hopped all over it and hailed it as the second coming... no matter its issues and short-comings. See it in music... the "popular trends" that will get plastered everywhere... while others, somewhat due to differing tastes, will go against the grain and hop on any group that's "underground" or "not quite heard of" or the ones they can say, "I liked them first" (pretty sure there was even threads a bit ago where some were boasting, "we're making history" and "one day, ten years from now, we'll be able to say we played Vanilla Wildstar"). Think it's a spin-off of the whole "hipster mentality" to be honest... it's like "high school" went viral and infected the world... now the most important thing for most is to belong to a trend, declare that you're a king-of-the-mountain for that trend, and hop on the next coolest bandwagon as quickly as possible... that is until the bandwagon crashes into a tree... then you see everybody running in all directions faster then Forest Gump or a even an ant nest that's been obliterated. (Even see it regularly in MMOs for any that follow them regularly... almost like a real-life version of Q-Bert... people hopped to Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Rift, Tera, SWTOR, TSO, etc... proclaiming each and everyone to be "the next WoW-killer" and "the best thing since the original Everquest or Vanilla WoW"... and oddly, when they crash and burn, same individuals end up in the next MMO down the line saying the same, "best thing since original Everquest or Vanilla WoW" typically denying that they were ever any part of the over-hype to the previous title they hopped on like a pogo-stick with a force-feedback rocket-pack). :D PS - As for the bolded and underlined part (in the quote)... AMEN! As the saying goes, "those that don't learn from their history will be doomed to repeat it". B)


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40 man?! I want the 70 man raids revived. I want contested raid content revived. No more of this instanced bullshit.


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If enough people want to do it, that would be cool to see return the genre.


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