Comments on: World of Warcraft – Cataclysm Review (PC, Mac)

By: diego

diego — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:23:53 +0000

I got to agree with Dave. I retired from wow shortly before Cataclysm came out. As part of a hardcore raiding guild, Cataclysm simply didn’t have much appeal. Mike even gave me a free copy of the expansion, but it’s still sitting on my bookshelf uninstalled.

By: TokenFemaleGamer

TokenFemaleGamer — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:21:00 +0000

Hmm focus on new players. I hadn’t though about that, but I guess that makes sense as I do think the beginning game has been vastly improved.
Maybe they were bleeding too many old players and thought the only way to remain viable was to bring in new players.
And I agree that the shark was for sure jumped in Panda. =/

By: Xarex

Xarex — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:36:34 +0000

WoW jumped the Shark with Cata and you can see the results in Pandaclysm. WoW is going to be at an all time low.

There are a few things about Cata that were good (as you said) but so much effort was placed in making the expansion towards new players rather than their existing audience that it really had a huge impact on the passionate WoW players. 5 levels instead of 10. The reducing of character customization through talents, rather than embracing it. The terrible additions to PvP. The extreme nerfing of raiding. The absolutely dull archeology profession. The removal of world portals for some strange reason. The list goes on and on.

I did like flying everywhere though.