113900-tired-and-frustrated-with-the-game

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I've played this game since it came out.  And a number of things have simply annoyed me about the game and the community.  What follows are some of my frustrations with the game that are contributing to my decision to leave the game all together.
 
Leveling
 
This was the first MMORPG that I've played in which leveling was not fun.  It was a painful grind session.  It sounds ironic with the different ways to complete a quest, right?  Just feels every third quest was "stand in a circle and kill 4-5 waves of bad guys'.  From levels 1-22, the quests seem to work and accomplishing them also seem straight forward.  From 42-50, the quests were much like those of 1-22.  Its the levels in between that were not usually well defined.  The quest information was not well written to explain "What am I being asked to accomplish".  Realize, that I am forced to play the game casually due to job and other commitments.  So the quest 'chat' from the NPC that explained material (i.e. what to accomplish) might be three days old by the time I get to play the game again.  I have no idea what that NPC might have said, much less, where I got the quest from.  So I ended up having to wander around, hacking everything down. "Oh look, THAT increased a quest checker....KILL MORE OF THAT!". 
 
As such, I have *NO* desire to level another character up to 50.  None.  If I was forced to, I'd cancel the subscription immediately and go play another game.  Which is funny, since I loved leveling toons in WoW (vanilla).  I can even remember the various stories in that game; this one, I'd be hard pressed to name some of the stories.  Because when your annoyed and frustrated by the quest, the story is irrelevant....
 
End Game
 
Unless your one of the lucky ones to hit level 50 in the first 2-3 weeks the game was out; your mostly S.O.O.L. for end game.  And if your DPS?  Your even further S.O.O.L.!  I have a guild, but those guys don't want to run these stupid dungeons....again...for the 70....millionth time...!  They got their gear and feel they are done.  So I'm reduced to PUG groups to accomplish silver medal tasks.  An here is the two big problems:
 
1 ) Getting a group is a 20-30 minute wait.  Maybe I don't feel like twiddling my thumbs for 20-30 times....
2 ) When I do get a group the expectation is a 'gold' accomplishment.  If its any less, I'm either kicked from the group (cus I'm still learning the fights/dungeons), or the whole group disbands.
 
Those two things more or less prevent me from getting further with the GA attunement process.  Or playing in end game.  Good Job with making it hardcore....NSoft....
 
Mounts
 
Why are the mounts in this game slower than senior citizens at the 'old folks home'?  It really is aggravating to have mounts that move pathetically slow from point A to point B.  WoW land-based mounts were 60% of normal walking speed, and the epics were like 110%.  You could actually notice the difference.  In Wildstar, the perception of speed is close to irrelevant.  I would actually like to get somewhere in under five hours.  Or at least, that is what it felt like after I died, rezzed, and travelled back to the fire boss to start the GA attunement quest for the 17th time.
 
Crafting
 
Yes, having to make the actual item with a chance to fail is a neat idea.  For the first dozen successes.  After that, it got...OLD...QUICKLY!  When having to make any sort of food, I was surprised at how little I had to work with, even though I chopped up whole populations of animals!  An the Architecture crafting?  One word: SPOTLIGHT.  That one item pissed me off enough to stop playing the game for about five days straight.  Each time I was close, but not close enough.  I burned through crafting books like it was dollar bills at the strip club!  An it took me about three weeks, 4 platinum and many swear words shouted, just to pass the requirement.  And that's a pretty low level requirement!  I can only imagine the ones higher then it are next to impossible.  So why bother leveling that or other crafting abilities up?
 
I had the technologist crafting ability.  Figured I would be able to make higher level stuff then the vender at level 50.  Boy was I wrong.  Why even waste my time leveling that skill if I can just go down to the vender and get the same stuff?
 
Housing, Warplots, Instances
 
Each are stuff I really didn't get to see or do much.  When leveling, I had a vague idea of where the instances might be found.  But no groups to join, meant I solo grind up to 50.  Until I was 50, I never got a group for any of the dungeons.  So as far as I'm concern, that was a waste of resources to the game.  Warplots?  I guess I would have to have some knowledge on how to accomplish using them....
 
Housing is nice, but not really worthwhile.  I never really found player housing in any MMO to be that wounderful nor have much point.  We are adventurers, not corporate wage slaves!  We sleep under the stars, hack the evil monsters, and lay claim to fortunes many times that with which we'd get in the real world (if that money was real...).  So other than the spaceship, I really didn't see much value in the whole plot of land....
 
The Community
 
NSoft really has little control over how the community behaves towards other players.  Many times on these forums, I see players with some really honest to God, problems.  And they are looking/hoping someone will come along and give them a helping hand.  Trouble with the game working on their computer, quest, item, or something else.  For every one person that replies to help, there are like many times that in 'bashers'.  Those that just have fun belittling and attacking others for the fun of it.  And it really diminishes the value of the game.  Could one imagine Minecraft being popular if people were like that?  Course not, because many of us have been in the spot of 'not knowing what to do', and someone comes along and helps to teach.
 
The community is what 'makes' and 'breaks' a MMO.  The devs can give content, fix bugs, repair problems, and give hints on what is on the horizon.  But its the players attitudes towards the game and other players, that determines the long term success. 
 
In Closing....
 
I'm just on the breaking point of killing this subscription.  I can not move forwards on the GA attunement.  I've been stuck for two weeks solid!  There is no element in this game that really strikes me as interesting while I wait for the Devs to do something.  Crafting is a pain, leveling toons is a pain, PvP is a pain.  I would like to see end game content; but the rate I'm going, its not going to happen.	
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Best of luck in your future gaming endeavours OP. Hope you'll come check back in down the road.
 
 
Also, can I have your stuff?	
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			Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback, very comprehensive. Hope you'll come back around a little later and check things out again.	
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