Posted 06/18/2007 at 01:01:44pm

I've been playing since launch and I still have fun with WoW. I'm not in an uber-guild and I mostly solo or small group play. I have four characters on my account and that's it. Three are level 70 and the fourth is on his way up.
The guild I'm in is mostly real life friends and it's fun to get online and help each other out or pick random instances to do. We've never done anything more than a 10 man raid.
My point is, WoW is still fun for a lot of people, even those who have been playing since day one. It just depends on what you're looking for out of the game.
I really enjoyed exploring the new areas in the expansion. I really enjoyed getting my first flying mount. I have never enjoyed grinding for epic items just for the sake of having them.
I think that's where most people get burned out on the game. I know many people who got into raiding guilds and would spend five hours two nights a week just doing one 40-man raid, over and over until they got the drop they wanted. All of those people have quit the game. It was like they set a personal goal of getting all epic gear and then got burned out because they were running the same instances over and over.
Is that a fault of the game? Yes. It shouldn't be designed so that it's your only option to get the leet epics. But at the same time players have the option of not getting all epics and enjoying all the other aspects of the game.
I'm not a fanboi. I don't bleed WoW if you cut me. But it's still fun and a lot of people have forgotten that fun is what it's supposed to be.
My 2 cents anyway.