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It took him a whole year to hit max level?

I would guess that it was "max progression" rather than max level. So, maxing out your gear, completing all the available raid tiers or hitting top rank in PVP.

In Vanilla it took like at least 9 days or so of /played (so 9x 24 hours of actual played time) to reach the cap. I remember it took 12 days on one of my characters.

I started WoW in december 2005, and hit 60 in februari.

Also, when you reach max level, doesn't mean you finished the game. There is tons of instances to do, special loot to earn, and other stuff; even in 2006.

I actually hear many many times that the game starts when you reach the top level ^^ I've unfortunately never played the game enough to confirm though

This is absolutely true

It depends on what you do, and what you want from the game.

For me, I like levelling, so, once I have levelled, and got geared up (which is incredibly fast these days), it is onto the next alt.

The full year/full time was possibly to complete Naxxramas? I assume with his money he was playing with similarly dedicated people. My guild did Molten Core but we never even set foot in Naxx. I assume that's where the full-timers were, getting Tier 1.

This is exactly what I thought immediately! Seems a bit long...

When he was playing, it was a lot harder to level. That being said, I doubt the reporter got it quite right, or simplified it intentionally, wistfully thinking non-nerds would be reading the article.

On top of that in vanilla WoW people actually went through all the content in the game. People would complete most of the quests, go through the dungeons in your areas multiple times to get armor sets, and do PvP (open world and battlegrounds). It might take an hour or two to get together a group to do some of the less popular dungeons and Battlegrounds queue times could easily take upwards of 40 minutes. Open world PvP and ganking would almost always take a couple of hours as you had to sometimes infiltrate enemy territory to claim your victims.

Nowadays WoW feels more like a virtual lobby system for the dungeon finder/PvP queue rather than an actual MMORPG. No one really bothers to play the game as you would expect a traditional RPG to be played.

>Nowadays WoW feels more like a virtual lobby system for the dungeon finder/PvP queue rather than an actual MMORPG. No one really bothers to play the game as you would expect a traditional RPG to be played.

Thanks, I will use this description in the future. It definitely describes how I feel about most of MMORPGs I checked out lately.

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