the problem I have with a lot of games is that First Person games (mostly shooters) give me motion sickness. Since NWN2 and Mass Effect came out the next CRPG worth getting isn't coming out until November 6 here in the UK and ME2 is still 3 or 4 months after that.
The redevelopment of WoW isn't slated until atleast november 2010 so classic WoW where my toons are stuck is incredibly boring as well. Though I may just reactivate my account so I can finish the original content before cataclysm comes out
Even now, there are some basic support problems that come up. It would take awhile to mention all the various bugs and general problems run into with WoW now, but I'll give some highlights.
- The idea behind a weekly maitenance, is prevanative maitenance, to prevent things from going wrong. However, of late it seems maitenance night precedes some rather serious issues.
* For instance, one maitenance night, servers come back up, realms unstable, they're taken right back down, and worked on. An 8 hour maitenance becomes a 14 hour shutdown, as they have to be taken right back down
* Following a maitenance night, servers up, and latency issues are extreme. This is neither frame rate related, or related to ping times (people are seeing rather bad latency, such as where it took me 5 seconds to caste an explosive shot (instant caste), and the mages were complaining their spells weren't going off. This was realm wide, and effected everyone, shown ping time for me? 128 ms.
* OK, so we were in ToC 25 with that going on, and next thing you know, instance servers crashed. We just got the 4th boss down, and... Umm loot despawned, had to put in a TT. Bliz's queue for GMs was so swamped, it took 4 days before they could get to the trouble ticket.
* Another week, instance server crashed, everyone auto-ported to Dalaran, realm couldn't handle the entire realm population in Dal at once. Realms have repeated world server crash issues following. Some of us when we got ported there from a raid, fell through Dal, fell through Crystalsong Forests ground, and died buried in the ground, no way to res. Had to get a game master to unstick us. All this from a crash of the instance server in Ulduar, raid waits as everyone tries to get situated.
* Another week, weekly maitenance, realms come back up, the BG servers crash, and yet another the Northrend world server constantly goes between up and down state.
* Constant realm lag issues; bliz suggests it's addons, so peeps turn off all communication between addons such as recount and the like, it doesn't go away.
After pointing fingers, and it doesn't go, bliz finally opens a thread on their support forums for certain battlegroups (the realm I play on is in the bloodlust battle group, which is among mentioned), and asks the users for info what's going on, as they don't seem to have tracking for this, or any clue what's going on. And it seems their maitenance precedes something else going wrong
There one has the short version of some of it at present. And on 3.2, there were things that went bonkers with old content, that when I was on the PTR, I admitedly didn't think to beta test, as I didn't think it would get broaken. It wasn't new stuff. I guess next time I'm on the PTR, I should start playing old content also, just in case.