MMO BinA Geek's Look at Massively Multiplayer Online Games

In World of Warcraft (WoW), I have found that when you’re looking for a group or even just a single someone to help you with an instance it can be very hard, but that problem could be just be with my favourite server/realm. This is one of those games issues that really bother me.

I’m a gnome Death Knight and I like to level and do instances, but the only problem is finding people of my level and skill to go with me and so sometimes I die when doing it. It could be that we don’t have a healer, but sometimes we get a Paladin that says he can heal but it ends up that he can’t. Also, I sometimes run into the problem where the instance is full. What’s with that? Seeing how there are over ten million players, there shouldn’t be an message saying “you can’t go with your party sorry if we wasted your time”. Also, if I have a quest and I need an instance to complete it, but it ends up being full, it can be like a slap in the face.

Another problem I see is how they spread the level for instances. For example, why is it that the instances start at level 10? Why can’t World of Warcraft have level 5 instances for the lower levels to give them something to do beyond quest grinding and waiting for the higher level instances. This would give them a faster way to level and to help find guilds and buddies to do higher instances later. I’m not blaming Blizzard for this, (I like Blizzard) but in the gaming world there are two kinds of players: hardcore and casual. MMO’s need to be able to satisfy both kinds.

Blizzard has tried to help players find people to do instances with using an “eye thing” that looks for players. I’ve tried that with little to no luck so far. Again it could be just my server/realm, but Blizzard needs to think about such concerns in the next few updates they release if they really want to keep players like myself happy with the game they’ve worked so hard on. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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