08-13-2009, 02:58 PM
I agree you need training but you can teach people 90% of what they need to know in a day.
It was always a point of huge annoyance to me that I would get "Fireball IV" and have to "train" on it for 15 days before I would finally get "Fireball V" and that wouldn't even be all that different. After I've killed 50 deer, I'm pretty sure I've got the hang of it and am ready to move on.
The legitimate answer is "time sink". They want you to cast Fireball IV 1500 times because that was a lot easier than inventing a truly sustainable endgame.
(I would actually argue that WOW has no endgame. If you have truly maxed out your character then you are at the true endgame and there is really nothing to do. WOW doesn't really have an endgame, it simply keeps adding more and more content in front of you so that you never REACH an endgame. EVE and Planetside are examples of games with true endgames: you reach a point where you are truly (or effectively) maxed out but you haven't "won". There's always more you could do with a team.)
It was always a point of huge annoyance to me that I would get "Fireball IV" and have to "train" on it for 15 days before I would finally get "Fireball V" and that wouldn't even be all that different. After I've killed 50 deer, I'm pretty sure I've got the hang of it and am ready to move on.
The legitimate answer is "time sink". They want you to cast Fireball IV 1500 times because that was a lot easier than inventing a truly sustainable endgame.
(I would actually argue that WOW has no endgame. If you have truly maxed out your character then you are at the true endgame and there is really nothing to do. WOW doesn't really have an endgame, it simply keeps adding more and more content in front of you so that you never REACH an endgame. EVE and Planetside are examples of games with true endgames: you reach a point where you are truly (or effectively) maxed out but you haven't "won". There's always more you could do with a team.)