When did WoW decide to become FFXI?

[thistlechaser]

I don't follow WoW news as closely as I might, so if this is old news, I apologize.

I thought they were dropping the guild stuff? Guild achievements, guild XP, guild leveling, all that stuff. I'm really sorry to see that, with all my alts in my own personal guild, I'm going to be missing out on a heck of a lot of stuff. Not only that, anyone in a small guild will be missing out. It's going to boil down to: the bigger the guild you're in, the better stuff you'll get.

Dark Phoenix Hatchling? Raise 55 reputations to Exalted. Good luck doing that solo!

Armadillo Pup pet? Kill 50,000 critters.

New guild bank tabs -- guild-based achievements. Mounts, recipes, so much new stuff... all based on your guild.

What the heck happened to WoW being a solo-friendly game? No, you don't NEED a pet or a recipe or whatever, but it should be accessible to us less-social folks, too.

I wonder if guilds will start to sell the pets? Let you join up long enough for them to be mailed to you... Or if it'll even work that way. If it's only mailed to people who are a member at the time the 50,000th critter is killed, wouldn't that stop people from joining that guild in the future?

(One day I shall stop talking about FFXI. I feel like one of those people who got out of a bad relationship and now Cannot Stop Talking About That Person. And no worries, this doesn't apply to anyone who reads my LJ!

...today seems to be my day for LJ disclaimers.)

Edit: How sad is this! There's talk about the next pre-Cata event (it's on the PTR now), I'm sitting here all worried WHAT IF IT HAPPENS DURING MY WEEK'S VACATION?! ARG! *snickers* I'm so silly.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Raise 55 reputations to Exalted. Good luck doing that solo!

I accept your challenge.

I don't know, I think the guild achievements thing is nice, the vast majority of the things you get are more raid oriented bonuses. Admittedly some of them would be nice for people in general but they are definitely more focused on the raiding people with the big guilds. Ya, it kinda screws up the idea of soloing it but I still question if they ever meant for people to have their own personal guild banks. Since, you know, the reason they don't put in my beloved ingame housing is because they want people to be social and not hide in their house all day.

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

Don't feel silly, I am BROKE UP that I'm going to be stuck in freaking Virginia for SIX WEEKS.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Nope, the guild stuff stayed, though they altered it a bit. :)

The stuff they outright dropped was related to The Path of Titans -- which tied to Archaeology.

And seriously, personal guild banks were not intended. Most people that play are in guilds, like the overwhelming majority, making guilds more worthwhile is just good customer service. And as you pointed out I'm sure there's people that will let you join the guild short term for gold or something.

I think saying WoW is becoming FFXI is not even remotely the case. :) If it was I'd be canceling my subscription! I don't agree with all the changes coming down the pike, but for the most part I think they're positive, unfortunately with 11.5 million subscribers, most of whom are morons and douchebags, there's no way to make everyone happy. :)

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

You won't be able to just join a guild to get stuff. You have to earn guild reputation. All the stuff will be available to buy if the requirements have been met both from achievements and a person's personal guild rep. You get rep from doing things in guild groups.

As other people have said, it's an MMO. You're supposed to be interacting with other people. And with as many alts as it sounds like you have in your personal guild, even 55 reps among all of them isn't that hard if you want the pet. Good luck with the legendaries for the mount, though. :P