Right. I really have to wonder about the decisions made with Cataclysm, though I think it was simply a matter of them wanting to revamp the world -and- release an expansion that they just couldn't do. I have a hard time believing they didn't expect people to blow through it and wonder what they were supposed to do next, and that casuals weren't going to be happy with the extreme learning curve in heroics and raids.MarsProbe said:This sounds familiar. I started back in WoW just last year and was in a fairly well-populated guild. Eventually though, all but three of the members left. Although I hear they are all playing Rift now, it wasn't because of that game that they left. Like myself, they basically just found that once you'd quickly plowed through the five levels of...levelling, there wasn't really much else to hold your attention.mattaui said:While it's true that a large chunk of people I used to raid with on WoW are now subscribers to Rift, they didn't quit WoW because of Rift. They quit WoW because of WoW, and were hoping that Rift might offer them something. Like several of those same people, I've just decided I'm burned out on MMOs for awhile, and there wasn't anything special about Rift that changed that feeling.
As an aside, isn't it Rift the MMO which has some ads with the legend "We're not in Azeroth anymore"? I see what they did there.
But yes, Trion's built their entire ad campaign on saying they're better than World of Warcraft. I think trying to define yourself as not your competition will only get you so far.