See, I think this is one of the points where people always clash; levelling and end-game. Levelling in WoW has indeed become incredibly easy, I'll give you that. But a large group of players see the actual game as all the stuff that happens after you reach max level.

So yes, by your definition, WoW is easy, but seen by the players that see end-game as the actual game, it is not. And no, if you say it isn't hard, either you haven't played it for years, or you have a super-hardcore guild that can actually kill everything on heroic without breaking a sweat. There aren't a lot of those guilds around.

About quest quality, for something else entirely, try giving The Secret World a try. The questing/levelling experience is very nice, with nice story, plot and atmosphere. The end-game is incredibly boring and grindy after a while, though, so you might not want to get too much into that. It's also incredibly buggy in some areas.

Simple and repetitive? That's how it was long ago (silly amounts of pointless grinding for months, 40 man raids where you needed maybe 10 good players, and the rest just had to avoid stepping in shit). The raid mechanics in normal and heroic raids are actually interesting and challenging now, unlike way back when. Or maybe you want to claim that any noob can just go in and faceroll all the way through the heroic raids? I think the reason for wow losing players is more that there are an increasing number of fun alternatives available now, and that, even though some of us think wow good, it's nice with a change of scenery after years of playing.

Oh, I would be all for a C64 remake, but this is just ridiculous. It's just a PC, and a fairly expensive one. If they ever release an OS that isn't just a built in VICE emulator, I'll be surprised. Their site looks really professional compared to how it was six months ago. Scary. But at least we have the dog on the board of directors to assure us that everything is in order. In general its obvious that they are living i their own reality in that company. Too bad the Commodore and Amiga brands had to suffer such a fate. Should've stayed dead.

If they're going to show you _more_ ads than before, I can see your problem. If they're just going to show you the same amount of ads, but with more local (and possibly relevant) content, I don't see much of a problem.

They're going to show us ads no matter what, at least this gives a chance they might be a little more relevant.