Legion
Where Has the Time Gone?
I've been playing so much WoW that I haven't gotten other games off my Steam backlog. I hope to get back to other games, and I left Mass Effect 3 in the middle.
MMORPGS
I've played lots of MMOs. I mean lots. I got the rank of Wizard in a MUD in 1990 and have logged countless hours in so many different MMORPGs. I've played most of the major ones.
The only one I regret not trying is Ultima Online. Not sure how I missed that given that I had friends who worked on it at Origin. That was a busy time in my life -- I was working 60 hour weeks, had an active social life, and was steeped in Final Fantasy XII.
Despite all of the time I spend with other MMOs, nothing has stolen my time like World of Warcraft.
WoW
I've played all of the expansions but for some reason I was never there at launch. Even for Vanilla WoW I was months late to the party. The one exception was Warlords of Draenor, which launched while I was working for Blizzard. My account was free, all my coworkers were playing it, and it was common to see everybody log in during lunch hour.
Starting late to the party made me feel like I was always behind and that shaped my perception of the game. Also, the interference of real life made it hard to join a raiding guild. I never did real raiding until Legion. Instead my end-game was focused on casual battleground PvP, where I could log off pretty quickly if the family needed me.
Legion
You can see a definite evolution to WoW with each expansion. Not only is the basic content of instances and raids easily obtainable, the more difficult modes are facilitated with the dungeon finder. I just did a pick-up group for Nighthold, the toughest raid, on Heroic mode with no wipes.
The leveling process has also become more friendly. There is a central location where some guy will give you quests to know where you should be. The mobs in the different areas scale with your level, so you can go to any place you want. There are a lot of interest plots going on, and some fairly large stories lines (like Suramar).
Plenty of missions, daily quests, and weekly quests make sure you keep coming back. It's insidious.
