Played WoW from it's start on and off again until a little after Cataclysm was released.
When it came out I thought it was a great game. It was and still is an extremely polished game. (EQ would at times frustrate me with the number of broken quests). Good content PvP was balanced was pretty balanced for a PVE game.
The game became kind of unplayable at a lot of points because of all the work done to dumb down the game and the resulting juveinelle player base.
The cost of repairs became so miniscule that it wasn't really a penalty anymore and the lack of necessity to group or develop skills to level from 1 to max created a player base that was anti-social, greedy, and totally inept at playing their high level characters.
I've played several MMOs - EQ2, WoW, Vanguard, Star Trek Online, Rift, Warhammer Online, and a few more and I have always thought that EQ pre-GoD was the best experience. This might be biased by it being my first graphical MMO.
WoW was pretty good early on and for part of Lich King.
Vanguard wasn't bad but was barren and was unfortunately released prematurely.
Rift was fun but I'm not really into the story and don't have the time for it.
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