The leveling up process has become so banal and unsatisfying that Blizzard now offers boots to level 100. With WoW’s current design philosophy, the destination has become more important than the journey. In vanilla WoW, players had to work for their levels and enjoy the journey. Today most players out level the zones they are in and even WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits this is a problem.Įverything from level one and onwards in the current version of WoW is meant to catapult players to the endgame. The world itself became cheapened by this. After Cataclysm in later expansions, the power of players in relation to NPCs grew larger and created a dangerous imbalance. Over the years, the erosion of WoW continued unabated. From that point forward WoW lost millions of subscribers at the chickens of reckless design came home to roost. With this ill-fated expansion, Blizzard in their arrogance and pride, completely gutted the original continents of Azeroth and created new quests and new NPCs and by doing so erased the classic goodness that was vanilla WoW.Įverything that was good and noble about vanilla WoW was destroyed by one expansion. I and others believe that Cataclysm was the beginning of the end for WoW. I have spent a lot of time analyzing WoW, chronicling its demise and literally begging Blizzard to change their ways. Over the years, I have been a fierce critic of Blizzard. But before we begin, let me tell you how we got here… The Cataclysm that Destroyed WoW On the Elysium vanilla WoW server, one can experience WoW in its most pristine and authentic state.Īs I ventured into the lands of Azeroth on Elysium, the sharp contrast between vanilla WoW and the WoW of Legion hit me like a ton of bricks. One shotting enemies - which is the experience of players in WoW newbie zones - feels unrewarding and takes about as much skill as shooting fish in a barrel. Over the years, WoW has been continually dumbed down and degraded to the point that it’s is practically unplayable. Like a cheap knockoff of a Rolex watch sold by a street vendor, the WoW of today is WoW in name only. After years of bad design decisions made more out of concern for growing the demographic to increase profits than for the good of the game, the current version of World of Warcraft comes off as a pitiful shadow of its former self. This was all made possible by the hard work and dedication of the Elysium vanilla WoW team. Since then I have been enchanted and captivated yet again by the enthralling World of Warcraft MMORPG. Recently, I had the privilege to take a time machine and travel back to Azeroth exactly the way it was back in November of 2004 on the Elysium vanilla WoW server. Do you believe that time travel is possible? It most certain is in the realm of fantasy virtual worlds. Legacy servers from many early MMORPGs are popping up all over the world.
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