While the the game used to be the greatest thing ever to happen for MMORPG's, the race for innovation has killed it.
A long time, i've been trying to find a game that reenacts the feeling of WoW.
Like many other users, i've agreed to sell my soul for blizzard, quitting and coming back every few months. it seems as if no matter how hard i try, simply no game, from no possible genre can make the trick.
But still, the race for innovation seems to have destroyed the magic that was once known as WoW; it's now only a game that struggles to keep whole of it's 9 million users player for the remaining month.
I was excited when TBC came out.; i thought that now i can get back to my beloved server community, start PVPing again and maybe even get back to a little late-night ZG run. but i found out it wasn't so.
When i got back, not a single friend was there, everyone was replaced by migraters and gliders. the old guilds were gone, and sadly - the thing i enjoyed the most in this game (PVP) was dead as well.
Most people are saying that Arena is fun and new, but i think it's ruined the very foundations of the game.
Think about it - the entire game is now balanced and changed in order to fit with the latest Arena updates...since when MMO's are only about 1 aspect?
It completely messed up the organized structure of the game - PVErs farm PVE and come out every now and then to demonstrate their awesome gear; on the other hand, PVPers were to farm PVP and demonstrate their skills whenever they felt like it.
But now PVErs and PVPers farm PVP as one, because no other gear in the game can match up to Arena gear, can it? and by that the PVE (and battleground PVP) is left un-manned.
I'm not saying Arena has destroyed the game, but the fact that blizzard are so enthusiastic about 1 simple and not so clever idea, made them dedicate the entire game for it, and turned world of warcraft into world of arenacraft; and now, with WOTLK in the horizon, no telling what can they destroy next.
Still i hope one day to witness a brand new MMORPG, that will capture us from the moment we create our first character in it, and will be able to return the once lost feeling of perfection, that we got from playing WoW.