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I brought this up near the end of the video: What do you think of me playing Runescape for the first time and doing a new player review? I've never played it, and since I'm raid logging in sod now would be a pretty good opportunity.
Here are my other reacts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hAOfdoZQkIsSXnpgWVholsE2XuDaDRf
Please do play osrs, and once your done with that give RS3 a peek for even more content 😉
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I'Ve never played Vanilla WoW before Classic Relaunch came. I started back in the second half of WotLK.
And I absolutely adore Classic above all other Iterations of Warcraft.
Jimmy says he's levelled to max in Wrath and didn't mention wrath gate at all. Guess he skipped it
I had a very similar experience when I tried (really hard) to get into Wow during the Dreanor and early Legion times. The appeal of the massively online multiplayer experience is completely missing from the game, which makes the price tag hard to swallow. I think I finally understand why. They don't want people like me playing the game, who is already cautious about spending any money and demand a richer leveling experience. They want the players who do not question the predatory practices or the lazy content. They want the players that want to skip past the leveling content and get hooked on the practically infinite end-game content, where the fabled "infinite money" machine can really run. They want to speed-run you into the most hardcore aspects of the game, so you can feel like you are in too deep to come out. Much like the rest of the industry, the focus is shifting from trying to make a good product for the people, to trying to milk the most devout and vulnerable. Therefore, when an outsider like me tries to get in, they get spooked by the environment they stumble upon.
Great reaction video madseason but you keep pausing the video right before Jimmy's punch lines LOL
Thank you, Mad, for your insight and the vast experience you have shared with us over all these years. Keep up the great work.
BFA is not mandatory, fyi :] good video tho
Quit Trolling. WoW's last "New player" started in like 2009. Fuck off.
I Loved having my toons supply each other with supplies and everything. Gear, potions, food, first-aid, and working the auction house? I remember flying routes farming Ore. LOL
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I quit when level boosts went on sell haven't been back on anything blizz since, out of spite.
this should be the gold standard for react videos, actually transformed and added your own content and commentary
Yes!!! New player to RuneScape!!! That was my first MMO and I never went back after wow beta
You are making the most well edited and creative react content on this platform. Keep on rockin
WoW = no player population. GW2 = players everywhere all the time, even at 3am. I didn't enjoy ESO but it also had a much bigger player population than WoW
I want to play SOD, but it NEEDS updated graphics so so bad
Would really enjoy seeing your thought on both Runescape and Old School RS. I think it could be a fantastic video.
sod should not be the template for classic+. Launch fresh classic for classic+
Would be interesting to see you go through the free Quests in Runescape Classic and make a video on your perspective MadSeason, since it came out years before WoW and already had much more unique quest lines compared to WoWs Kill 15X and collect 20Y formula. That and the crafting system (making bread by collecting mats your self etc) are the 2 things that made Runescape immeraive and interactive in a unique way compared to WoW style MMORPGs,.its more akin to old schools poin t & clicks and RPGs/immersive SIMs like Quest for Glory series, System Shock/Deus Ex, Kings Quest etc in that regard
Classic andy back at it again
You said it a few times, but I'm having a hard time understanding what you and some others mean when you say "make the game about the world" – can you expand on that?
I guess to me, playing through DragonFlight felt like I was participating in exploring the new, but familiar, land and helping the dragons uncover forgotten secrets, and deal with both the good/exciting and the bad/troubling things that came out of returning to the dragon isles. We still get called "champion" sure, and we are well respected by the dragons, but it still felt much less about me personally being the god-like savior of the world like in Legion or WoD.
I get confused by what you mean, because if DF is Not "about the world" then I'm not sure what is in this case.
I'm asking sincerely. I played from Wrath to Legion, skipped BFA and SL and the Classics. Each of those expansions I did play were departures from the og world, so maybe that's why my perspective isn't complete; I didn't really experience the time when the game was just "about the world"
the boost ruined everything
DGs , Raids , is the worst part in all mmorpg…it's sux …Love the journey to max level, to max craft … All class and professions, no pressure, no rush
So. I know this is a horrible ask, and maybe a question you’ve already answered. But if you were put into blizzard HQ and given evil dictator powers to change the game, how would you go about repairing this mess? I know there’s no perfect answer, but man I would love to hear you breakdown a theoretical takeover and rebirth step by step. I think I would love to play the “mad season” expansion tbh 😆
Awesome vid. Awesome commentary from Madseason, and awesome vid from J1mmy.
I got a few things here – the end of the video with J1mmy at the party in Goldshire…holy crap. I was laughing so hard.
The books: the older books are great. Legit, Blizz did a great job. The newer stuff..eh. But the books on Thrall, the book on Khadgar and Medihv, Lothar, Llane and Orgrim. Books on the orc clans before the Legion found Draenor. These were seriously great books.
Leveling in retail: I've never been able to commit to it in BfA, Shadowlands, Dragonflight. It's a combination of mindlessness (there are very little consequences so you don't have to think, strategize, or pay attention) and bloat – so many spells, zones, characters that you have no idea what is going on.
That's the worst part – why does Blizz design a game to skip a large portion of the game (leveling)? It's so dumb. Why not just make good leveling?
i never tried runescape either 😅, you should try it, it would be interesting to watch someone with your WoW background trying a “new” MMO
Bad isn’t mandatory. Just delete it a couple times and it stops telling you to do it
6 modes now there's mop remix too XD
Whine whine whine, I want content, I want quality, I hate when blizzard tries to make money!
WoW = M+ & PvP yall boomers are just something else. be stuck in classic and dont annoy the competetive side of the game. its 2024
fuck lore & fuck quests, fuck leveling
As a young lad back in the day of OG nilla, I remember making my first test realm character and just being so overwhelmed at how much shit was going on in a level 60 characters version of the game all at once. I was only about 30-40ish on my warrior, and I wanted to check out AV so I made a hunter on the test realm and I guess I played as well as the average hunter if the rumours are true. (I was bad.)
Side note: I saw Lokholar the Ice Lord more times in that weekend on the PTR than I probably ever have on Live in any version since ever.
Please post a reaction to Day9's thoughts on the WoW tutorial. It was hilarious.
I disagree with Jimmy about the questing being non-important in the lore and boring. I’m a bit biased as a 10 year WoW player but I believe the leveling, in classic mainly, does a great job of immersing you in the aftermath of the pivotal moments where you learn what has happened from each quest. It is mainly from the quests that you learn what’s going on then in the dungeons as in classic you get quests to complete in dungeons and raids.
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You should play RuneScape, the depths of the game is it's own reward!
Regarding Storytelling. As someone who really got into the Lore through WC3 I really deem it a shame that they didn't accompany the WoW sotryline with fitting hero-campaings in WC3. I really don't like the storytelling in WoW because – as said in the video – hero stories don't work for me in MMOs.
Ragnarok Online had only a handful of actual quest-lines originally (it may have a few more now). But holy crap, they are truly epic. We're talking hundreds of hours long, each. Requiring you to personally supply everything from materials crafted by other players to enormous donations of currency to orphanages. They take you all across the world, doing all kinds of stuff in non-phased gameplay; so the content has not been scaled to the character you're playing. Each of those quests is as involved as most single-player games are.
Nice touch adding the Secret of Mana soundtrack while talking about leveling and adventuring.
The game lives and dies by the new player's ability to find a real guild. When I first got into WoW (in Legion and BFA), I had good times whenever I found a social guild, but I had terrible experiences without a guild. When I tried to get back into WoW with Shadowlands, I got bored after finishing Bastion and Maldraxxus. I just couldn't stay focused to find a real guild in time.
Unfortunately, new players get spam guild invites to guilds with no scheduled activities, so they are left with a negative impression of WoW guilds. The game has absolutely nothing to offer to solo players, because solo players lack the achievements and item level to get into premades.
FFXIV does a lot to hook in solo players (story fleshed out with cutscenes, bots to speed up low level story dungeons, glams, player housing, etc), so that they stick around to find a good free company.