Hehe.
I mean, if they REALLY wanted to challenge players, there should be some kind of Azeroth decathlon. Complete a layer of PvE, one with PvP objectives, one with Pet Battles, one with puzzles and a timer, etc. Make someone do everything to get to the end, with an achievement and a fancy reward at the end.
Jousting dailies and a poorly rated dungeon/ raid that have one room and share the same assets.
To be fair, players did ask for a dangerous, challenging open world with lots of community interaction, like classic. What did classic not have?
9.1 seemingly has more content than any .1 patch since MoP. New zone with rares that drop mounts/xmog/toys, new mega-dungeon, new campaign, new raid, maw invasions.
6.1
Am I missing anything for any patch? This patch seems to be equal or more than 7.1 in terms of content.
we reached that point where torghast new floors and renown cap is “content”
Yikes, you must really think highly of yourself to throw out others opinions so easily.
yes, because nothing else is ever being added to wow ever again. not just in 9.1, but ever.
and a new raid, new zone, new mega dungeon? did you forget about those already?
Do they even have that data? Yes, they know how many people ran it and how many still do. But if the ones who did do it did it because they felt “forced”, not because they wanted to, does that really qualify as “popularity”?
How many times has this phrase been copied and pasted in this thread? Do you care that it makes it look like you’re working off a script?
how many times are yall gonna pretend that it’s not “content” because it just doesn’t interest you? what did you want added? anything constructive to add to the thread or just gonna throw shade at people who dare to not pay to play a game they hate, the way some of you do? imagine, actually liking the thing you spend time and money on.
are you saying 9.1 won’t have those things?
It wont matter – forums will hate anything related to Shadowlands regardless if this is a much larger content patch than the .1’s for the past two expansions.
I pay for this game with my wallet or my time.
If I think it’s not content for me it’s not, simple as that just because the trashcan systems they design actually makes me do them in order to progress my character doesnt mean I will enjoy or like the activity.
This is a video game.
With that said, strawman all the way… I will judge for my own benefit whenever I like something or not.
then play a different game. it’s not like you have to go through a lengthy divorce to stop playing and be able to “see other games.”
Ignoring the Torghast part, doubling down on disliked system for Blizzard is nothing new.
And majority of it, I feel stems from Pride. Perfect example being the mission table.
Players didn’t like it in WoD, Players don’t like it now. Yet we’ve gotten a version of it for the past 3 expansions.
I’m giving Blizzard the benefit of the doubt, as the 9.1 just hit the PTR and there maybe changes coming. But that’s all I got. Shadowlands is in the 
if actual changes don’t come.
As much as people want the “pull the ripcord” – what would they literally replace it with?
Are we going to be good with Blizzard just taking out the character progression in SL – to then either not replace it or take more dev time to do so?
Im sorry, we have seen so far that people were already getting angry over a longer break to 9.1 : none of these same posters are going to give nuanced and level-headed thoughts about more delayed development for pulling the ripcord this far into the expansion.
I’m not a fan of raiding but games that dont have raiding as the central narrative development feel alot smaller and less grand.
Agree though overall BGs should see alot more funding and love.
Id be ecstatic if we had a pvp mode like gw2s wvwv.
You don’t understand what #PullTheRipcord is, if your thinking of it as replacement.
You could say it’s an overhaul or a freeing of the system, but it’s not replacing anything. At most, it’d let players experiment and choose the covenant they like instead the one that’s best for their character as majority have done.
The easy way to explain #PullTheRipcord, is breaking the attachment of the Player Power and the cosmetic choice that Covenants should’ve been in the first place.
This far into the expansion? It’s only 9.1 and #PullTheRipcord isn’t new, it’s the idea of “fixing” the current system that Blizzard has implemented. Only thing that is new, is the name from one of Ion’s interviews were he used the analogy.
In BFA, that would’ve been 8.2, same with Legion if my memory serves me correctly.
I just don’t get the idea of waiting until near the end of the expansion to finally having a genuinely functioning system. We were trying to avoid that with #PullTheRipcord
Also you want to know, what happens if you don’t the pull the rip cord? You go splat! and Shadowlands is getting very close to the ground IMHO.
what’s not to like? install the mobile app, turn anima into gold whenever you have a few spare minutes.
Based on this idea alone, #pullingtheripcord basically removes any sort of player progression from 50-60.
There is nothing to show that the player gets stronger except an arbitrary number next to their portrait and an arbitrary number on their gear. For how bad these temporary power systems are – there is player progression in them for the expansion.
Simply removing with no replacement offers NOTHING – which was why #pulltheripcord was dumb. There was no game planning of what an alternative was.
If there is no player progression, whats the point of having a level 60 if the player has the same tools as they did at level 50?
“twitter” and “facebook” are two things that wow players act like are responsible for the destruction of civilization, and life as we know it. anything that remotely involves them is destroying the game or is part of some cancel culture thing that is ruining their life/random peoples lives they barely knew existed before reddit told them to be offended.