brownbear

playing early wow for me was about exploring the rich lore and world of the rts games i grew up in, seeing how massive it is

with friends. The grinding was a design choice after testing the waters with the rexxar campaign in wc3 and studying themarket

Interesting! Are there popular MMOs out there that don't have a significant element of grinding? I think of grinding as 1/

content that people can focus on while hanging out, basically a focal point to enable socializing. 2/

From that perspective I've viewed it as an essential inclusion; some kind of endless content that friends can center around 3/end

i think its difficult to describe grinding as an inclusive design choice as it heavily relies off the pacing of the players

there is grinding like leveling from 1 to max, there is also grinding in relation to progression in professions, pve content

or pvp content. There are also quests more universally considered grinding (get 80 of a 10% drop chance item)