Are We Having Fun Yet?

Motivation?

I was thinking recently on how I just have zero interest in much endgame in WoW. I suppose it's due to so many changes in mechanics, classes and play. Maybe the tables have been turned on me one too many times.

My plans were to level the Hunter and Druid and focus on both of them as I saw fit. My Druid was a joy to heal with, very mobile and strong at healing through almost anything. It's just not fun when things change and a class isn't what you enjoyed. The Hunter, it's alright but I had my heart set on healing, for the most part.

While I don't mind relearning my class, I don't find it a whole lot of fun to do so. That's why I play, to have fun. I don't find running out of mana fun and it seems to be the norm in this expansion. Conserving that's a whole different story. It seems things change to whatever the developers whim is. If I wanted a job in the evenings as a healer (LAWL), I'd expect to get paid, not being the one paying out. Toy with the mechanics all you want, doesn't mean you're making it more fun!

Things were harder in (vanilla) WoW, but I found them to be fun. However that was just a different time and people were use to it, that was the way of things. Are the new mechanics really hard or just stupid? Was it stupid to let us all happily faceroll along and then expect us to be best-est friends and work together with cross server instances? 'Maybe'...

I can go back to Everquest and the classes, after eleven years, still function very closely to the way they always did. Not exactly, but it's very close. It's nice to know a class, take a break, come back and slide back into that role like an old shoe. That's the beauty of it.

I suppose on the other hand it's the community too. I'm a loner these days. Not wanting to hear another idiot whine or complain or just spew incessant babble that I know will annoy the crap out of me. I enjoy the game, I enjoy the end game I've seen so far- but only with my friends, lately.

I miss people working together without insults flying. Making friends in groups because you were all on the same server. Having fun in groups, not stressing over stuff. 

It's quite sad, I use to be so outgoing. Making groups out of scratch, homemade on our own server, none of that pre-packaged LFD stuff!

-kaozz