Breakfast Topic: What next?
by Elizabeth Harper 
Dec 26th 2006 at 8:53AM
You've reached level 60. You've run the gamut of instanced content. You've spent some time PvPing. You've collected gear in all shades of blue, purple, and maybe even orange. The upcoming expansion will bring us ten new levels of grinding and questing, new zones and instances to explore, and new PvP arenas. But how long will that content really last -- and what's left to do when you hit the end of it?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DÖT Dec 26th 2006 9:00AM
I think at some point you just have to say to yourself, "Okay, enough, it's time to stop." ...and then you just move on and go see a movie or something.
Tainted_Mage Dec 27th 2006 9:12AM
Either one they will make mini expansions (like what Arena.net does with Guild wars) or that will be the end of WoW......which means people will either move on to a new game or back to their life.....
Shadow9600 Dec 26th 2006 9:28AM
Isn't that called reroll time?
hamsammich Dec 26th 2006 9:32AM
For me, I think there will be enough new content for a while. I'm sure once I get to 70 and try the new instances and zones, I'll roll one of the new races and a different class and level them to 70. I can generally always find something to do in WoW. I might do like that guy who rolled five undead and leveled and grouped them all at once. Crazy stuff there.
Jason Dec 26th 2006 9:51AM
Eventually, most people do hit a point in MMOs where they do stop, and call it 'enough'. For some, it's after having done everything. For others, it's when the game stops being fun.
Personally, I've hit that point in several MMOs. EQ didn't take long, it just never appealed to me. SW:G was when I gave up on SoE ever doing anything worthwhile with the license. In FFXI, it came after nearly 300 days of time /played, 3 jobs into the low 60s, and failed attempts to hit level cap with any of them.
When will it come for me in WoW? I don't know. I'd imagine after it stops being fun, or when I have other obligations that require the kind of time commitment which will preclude me from playing. Does that appear to be any time soon? Not really, but things change.
Wartoad Dec 27th 2006 9:45AM
Take a break. Age of Conan is releasing roughly 3/07, check that out. After a couple months no doubt I'll be Jonesin' for WoW and come back.
A 'lil break is always good.
Dave Dec 26th 2006 11:07AM
Blizzard has shown time and again that they'll be adding new content; look at AQ and Naxx. So I'll move on to the new content.
Rayze Dec 26th 2006 4:12PM
I played UO (Ultima Online) for 6 years. To date, I still think it was the best MMOG in terms of PvP play ever, buuuut UO got handed to EA and big corporate suits who dont even know how to get through ten levels of Mario Bros ruined PvP for every old schooler out there. Enter: article-based PvP in which WoW is the undisputed King (Vanguard may have something to say about that soon). So in a nutshell, I'll probably quit WoW when I can't take the changes anymore.
Peace.
Oblitherax Dec 27th 2006 7:59AM
Personally, myself as well as a lot of other players in this game have always considered ourselves to be casual players. It has and always will take me a lot longer to get through all the content as everyone else who plows through it... so I can see the game being interesting for a long time to come.
As well, come the spring, I'll probably have to take about 4 months off to take care of some things irl, so that will make it that much more interesting when I get back. =)
Druid dude Dec 26th 2006 10:04PM
Grind my Druid to 70, doing lots of 5 mans along the way. Then raid raid raid! Grind my warrior and hunter to 70 during raid downtime.
Then, pretty much the same stuff I do now; raid like a madman, grind and farm between raids.
Walt Dec 26th 2006 7:51PM
It's going to be a long, long time before I have this problem: I'm leveling seven alts together - four races, seven classes, all the professions and skills. There's benefits in shared knowledge of geography and quests, and the gatherers can keep the crafters well supplied. No need for an auction specialist; there's always someone in a city.
A downside is that everyone I meet will soon be enough levels ahead of me to be playing in zones I can't touch. Hard to make lasting friendships.
We're now at levels 21-22, except the lock, who's brand new and swimming fast at 14. I estimate two years to hit 60. And I won't have to buy the expansion until it's had a few months debugging.
Viv Dec 27th 2006 8:07PM
The point I stop playing will be when WoW goes the way of EQ and only adds raid content... But since they appear to be going in the opposite direction maybe WoW will last a while... for me anyway
Thungsten Dec 27th 2006 4:59PM
It's real easy. The golden goose is safe. It will take 415500 points to get from 60 to 70. That takes some doing, even for the most devout of players. Every next level requires more XP. That means that going from 60 to 70 is going to take -at least- 4500000 points. Not even the most uber-equipped player is going to hack that in a week.
What do you think the developers are doing in the mean time? Play Pong on the vintage machines? They are creating the 70 to 80 content. The more content that is added, the longer it will take for a new character to go to the end game. For the people already at 60, it will be just a progression to 70, then to 80 and so on. For new players, it means it'll take quite a while before they reach the end game. The longer the game exists, the better the technology becomes and the more content will be available.
When will it end? How about this: about 7 million players pay 12 Euros per month. That's about 84 million Euros -per month-. In percentages, how great are the odds that Blizzard wants to see that revenue stream grind to a halt? The only thing you'll be seeing is the creation of ever more grand and elaborate content. People will grow old playing this game because it will essentially never cease to develop.