>>1396068
>the problem is the conversion from EQ style games, where the journey IS the point, to WOW post-WOTLK style games, where the journey is pointless and all the 'content' is endless raidfagging?
Exactly. The genre should have remained with the journey focus but those games haven't been made after WoW released.

Maybe MnM will deliver something in the old style but I'm not too optimistic about it.

>>1412891
WoW's biggest mistakes were the questing and solo focus on leveling. That set up the death of community and the change from the journey focus to end game focus. It turned leveling process into a mandatory chore before you were allowed to play the "real game". Sure, that mentality took a while to set in but WoW laid the ground work for it from the start.

A quest leveling MMORPG cannot be a game about the journey because everyone has the same journey and nobody wants to do it because it's shit but they'll suffer through it to get to the end game. It's antithetical to the genre.

I fully agree that WoW was a step forward in playability. 20 years later we still get some games that don't play anywhere as good as WoW did all the way back in 2004.

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