Its nice having to visit a skill trainer where you can pick/choose the skills you want and pay for them. Am baffled why Blizzard would have removed that.
That's the reason why I have a hard time going back and playing games that launch "classic", "original", etc. types of servers.
As many fond memories I have of gaming years ago, there are so many improvements (aka: things made less tedious) that I no longer have the time or patience for any more.
For example, in the original EverQuest, to regain health faster you had to sit down and it still took 5 to 10 minutes to fully heal if you were low on health.
If you were a magic class you had to not only sit but meditate which not only made you sit, it also opened your spell book so you could not see what was going on around you. Even worse, magic users spent most of the battle sitting (meditating looking at their spellbook instead of the screen) during battles, just popping up long enough to cast a spell or heal a palyer.
Thankfully, they later removed the forced spell book popup from meditation because even they realized it was not very online game friendly.
The worst thing about that game now (but not then because no one knew any better before WoW) was the quest NPCs did not self-identify as quest givers, so you had to hail each NPC you saw to see if they even had a quest ... and most did not.
On top of that, there were no chat bubbles so you had to read the NPC text in the chat window and then pick out the "keywords" to post back in a semi-question to actually trigger the quest discussion and/or start the quest .. and there was no quest journal so you had to do all of that by memory.
At the time that was perfectly normal and acceptable for game play. I had a lot of fun playing it and I have a lot of great memories from those days, but going through all of those gameplay obstacles before you even actually can do the actual parts of the game is not something I can see myself doing after playing so many more modern games.
That said, I do think that gameplay in general has transitioned too far to the "easy side" mostly due to cross-platform console support which lacks the more detailed gaming system that PCs running Windows can provide.
Seems like this whole slew of games that were announced 4-5 years ago aren't close to being released. Made the mistake of making a impulse purchase with Saga of Lucimia and now I wish I had my money back.
