The Downside of WoW

[Bubba Grizz]

Before I begin I want to say that I will continue playing the game because it is still fun for me despite these failings that annoy me. That said, here are something things that really annoy me.

Weather: The world is constantly the same without weather. An occasional rain storm would be cool or even snow or wind or how about a simple overcast sky?

No Surname: Why not? Seems kind of pathetic that you can't have a last name for your character. This somehow make character developement even more trivial than it already is by not having it.

Night time: It is damn near as bright at night as it is during the day. Remember the days of running through Kithicor at night? That was fun.

Duplicate buildings/caves: You go into the Dorf mine building in South Barrens and you will find the exact layout for the Dorf area in Hillsbrad. You go into an ogre cave here and find the same lay out over there. This is lazy in my opinion.

Druid Forms: (just cause I am a druid) No model difference between Bear and Dire Bear. Travel Form looks Identical for both Cows and Elves. Where is the creativity?

Mobs: Same model just made larger as they get tougher. Rather gay. Once again lack of creativity.

I won't even get into the people issues. These are just asthetic gripes. Some that would make the immersion into the game so much better if they were to be changed. As I find more I'll add to the list.

[Nilaman]

Cow travel form has horns, does it not?

[Sabek]

Mobs: Same model just made larger as they get tougher. Rather gay. Once again lack of creativity.

As opposed to the rat, large rat, stinky rat, dire rat, ubertity dooberity rat progression of EQ?

[Bubba Grizz]

Travel form does not have horns.

I never said I liked EQ's way of doing things either. I just think it is rather lazy.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

Should be more different Dorf Base/Ogre Cave layouts for sure!

[Animalor]

Travel form was apparently just a placeholder for an upcoming model. The Blizz CS rep said that with everythign else that needs to be done, it's unfortunately a low priority item.

Weather will be upcoming as well.

Nighttime/Daytime - I agree with you here. there are some areas of the world where nighttime is really nice to look at and some others where it's barely noticable.

[Skogen]

Just wait! I'm sure a lot more goodness is still yet to be added to WoW.

Also, be careful what you wish for...remember the rain in the Karanas? I don't miss that at all! I wouldn't mid seeing white conditions in Dun Morogh every now and then

Also...does anyone else find it strange that one goes from a cold, dark forest to hot, humid jungle just by crossing the bridge from Duskwood to STV?

[Sionistic]

They changed rainfall in old eq, it actually doesnt fog you to nothing now and you can see much father, rain looks better too.

[Skogen]

They changed rainfall in old eq, it actually doesnt fog you to nothing now and you can see much father, rain looks better too.

When did thay do this?

Do fucking late for me thats for sure!

[Dregor Thule]

I'll answer in a point-by-point basis.

Weather: The world is constantly the same without weather. An occasional rain storm would be cool or even snow or wind or how about a simple overcast sky?

They've said since closed beta that it's something they plan to implement but they have larger fish to fry atm.

No Surname: Why not? Seems kind of pathetic that you can't have a last name for your character. This somehow make character developement even more trivial than it already is by not having it.

No idea on their stance on this one. Personally I don't care. If they add it in I want an option to turn it off from my display. It gets horribly cluttered as is with the names, ranks, guilds + pets/totems/nc pets/etc.

Night time: It is damn near as bright at night as it is during the day. Remember the days of running through Kithicor at night? That was fun.

Agreed. I wish night time felt like night time. I know that they on purpose made the dusk/dawn time longer than normal just because they were in love with the visuals of it. They touch on that in the DVD from the CE.

Duplicate buildings/caves: You go into the Dorf mine building in South Barrens and you will find the exact layout for the Dorf area in Hillsbrad. You go into an ogre cave here and find the same lay out over there. This is lazy in my opinion.

Once again agreed. They've, in the past, revamped several of these microdungeons with new layouts. Hopefully they'll do more. I don't think lazy was exactly the right word for it tho, more of a time constraints thing.

Druid Forms: (just cause I am a druid) No model difference between Bear and Dire Bear. Travel Form looks Identical for both Cows and Elves. Where is the creativity?

Travel form should be a bird >< So what if you can't actually "fly" with it, it'd just be great. Hello storm crows from WC3? Dire Bear should look a little more beefed up. I think Tauren forms in general look queer as hell tho.

Mobs: Same model just made larger as they get tougher. Rather gay. Once again lack of creativity.

Just as every other MMO (hell, even most single player games) re-use NPC models over and over with new skins or different sizes. You don't really have a leg to stand on with this one. There is a lot of variety of monsters in the game.