So MMO developers just continue releasing expansions (seemingly, EverQuest has 26 of these ), edging up the level cap every time, layering on enormous shelves of wow classic gold content like the sections of an increasingly precarious and indigestible cake. This is not a big issue in the event that you only take an existing, max-level personality through the new content every time, but for brand new players - or serial fresh-starters like yours truly - the path towards the top, and to the most recent stuff, seems increasingly daunting as the game gets old. That, and the base layers of the cake, made all those years before, start to go stale. It's an issue.

It's a problem that the developers of World of Warcraft, now drawing to the end of its 16th year in performance and approaching the launch of its eighth growth, Shadowlands, have been wrestling with since at least 2010. That was when they undertook what must be the most revolutionary act of transplant operation I have ever seen in a live match. The Cataclysm expansion rewrote almost all of the levelling content of the game, overhauling the questing mechanisms, accentuating the storytelling, smoothing the grind. It was a huge undertaking and has been critical to the game's continued good health.

But time is a cruel mistress. Beyond those, there is simply so much game to proceed via: literally continents of it. Meanwhile, since the highest level stretches all of the way to 120, the ever-escalating amounts start to acquire meaningless, and personality progression - which Blizzard has needed to continuously prune back to avoid overwhelming complexity in the course layout - is increasingly thinly spread throughout the levelling curve. A 2014 stat squish helped a little. The first 2018 introduction of level scaling across the full sport, which matched content to your level and additionally grouped expansions together in bands, allowing you to buy wow gold classic pick your route through the material to some extent, helped a whole lot. Nonetheless, it is still simply too much.