The problem is they don’t have a good spokeswoman. A hot Night Elf saying she would rather go naked then wear Artic Fur.

I mean, Zul’farrak? Where you stormed one of the few intact, uncorrupted Troll cities, killed their god so gnomes could have their race car go faster , rescued some dudes you then brutally killed, killed a rare and endangered species, killed their leaders for no readily apparent reason and desecrated a bunch of graves. You also stole some writings they were protecting in order to help an insane troll summon an elder god who eventually almost destroyed the world.

It kinda makes the Icehowl thing seem like small time stuff.

The difference is that even before WotLK Nesingwary was something of an ironic MMO self-parody of the sort that Blizzard does repeatedly, and that became even more explicit in Northrend with the D.H.E.T.A stuff. This Argent Coliseum, however, is just…kind of weird. Probably the clearest example yet that Blizz has taken too much talent off WoW to support other projects.

On that note, I don’t know what standing I have to complain about such practices considering my career as an adventurer has involved killing hundreds, if not thousands, of Yeti.

I find it intolerable enough how droll MMOs tend to be, but it’s a shame that these games have the audacity to claim that anyone is playing a role other than “follow quest-helper, repetitively complete raid content, unsub”. It frustrates me how insubstantial your accomplishments are even in the context of the very game world where they should be important!

(I’m feeling a bit bitter–maybe I shouldn’t comment late at night.:) )

I am still of the firm believe that raiding never was intended to become “the endgame”, but rather emerged of what was the devs throwing a bone to gnaw on to an audience that managed to level through all content way way way too early before new content could be produced.