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Not many players do the content featured in Tamzin's strat videos anymore - but the downloads continue. "I quit WoW in, err, July 2008 I think it was, after I'd killed Kil'Jaeden (which incidentally was a year after I'd first killed Illidan, so it seemed a poetic time to quit, hehe)," updates Tamzin. "I'd done everything in PvP and I'd done everything in PvE, so it was basically a case of 'game over.' The reason I didn't want to play in expansion was because I knew the old WoW would never be there again. The game had really gone casual-mode and wide appeal-friendly mode, everything was getting nerfed over and over, PvP would be getting more unbalanced rather than more balanced, and the random as opposed to skill element was too high. Blizzard had patched all the camera tools I used for making my movies, and so that really removed a huge part of the interest factor to keep playing WoW, too. I often wonder, though, why so many people still download my movies to this day. Maybe there are still some uber-casuals out there doing the old instances now for the first time, or perhaps it's new joiners to the game? Outside of gaming, I continue to work in music, and of course I await the day when a new MMOG is released that captures my imagination."

01/01/09