A Titan has fallen. A Soulless Husk has risen

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I’m only 23, and I grew up with Blizzard games. I started playing WoW in 2005, when I was a wee little lad. I loved Blizzard and everything they made. Blizzard was truly a pioneer of modern gaming, everything they touched turned to gold. But, sadly, all good things must come to an end. If I didn’t have so much time invested into this game I would have quit playing years ago. So many things that Blizzard has done has turned me away from them. It’s truly disheartening and demoralizing to see something you used to love turn into just another money hungry “CEO has multiple houses and a yacht while devs are struggling to make ends meet” soulless corporation that puts money and pointless “Engagement metrics” above all else.

And it’s too late, the corporate shills are here to stay. Defending store mounts and pets in a game that already has 2 payment methods. Defending the insane payment method for TBC, and so much more. Countless terrible mistakes with the lead dev and higher ups spitting in players’ faces time and time again. Putting systems into the game that serve no purpose other than to throttle players for their engagement metrics, then near the end of the expansion finally listening to players and bringing us back so we have a short lived taste of the fun game we used to love. Only to repeat the cycle next expansion.

Blizzard is dead, Activision has completely consumed them. No more is the Blizzard we all used to love, who engaged with the community, made jokes about themselves and understood their short comings. Now we have Mobile Games, engagement metrics, and an endless amount of monetization designed to wring out every penny from players’ wallets. No more is taking player suggestions to heart, now it’s “Conduit energy is good because f you we hate fun”. They seemingly purposefully release unfinished products and then try to use the fact that they are finally fixing them as the main selling point for major patches. They take away core parts of the game players love, removing abilities and things such as tier sets just so they can bring them back and use that as a main selling point of a future patch. Please, just stop, it’s so depressing.

All of this has been said before, but until something changes, it needs to continue to be said.

TLDR: Blizzard sucks, Activision sucks, WoW has no competition and I have too much time into this game to leave.

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The Blizzard devs have been replaced with dreadlords over time. They thrive on your suffering.

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If any other game on the market had gameplay like WoW, I’d never look back. It legitimately hurts to see 12+ years of your life wasted for it to wind up like this.

The breaking point’s just about been passed though I think. I don’t know how much more I can stand since BFA. All the other expansions at least had lore for me to fall back on, but SL and BFA don’t even have that.

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:yawning_face:

This is new and improved. We needed another topic like this today.

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I have to admit, I’m not going to read that wall of text. I imagine you hate the game but keep on playing or at least paying them right?

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I think the IP is being wasted in Blizzards hands too.

I’d imagine their fans could produce something better and much faster at this point.

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Check out ff14 or just play a different game genre. If you arent having fun its time to move on

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I think the closest to competition for WoW is FF14 and I’ve known many people that have transitioned well to it, but I just couldn’t. I liked a lot of what it had to offer, but it just couldn’t win me over where it mattered most for me, the combat system. Without going into detail, it just wasn’t for me. Like someone else above mentioned, the moment a good replacement pops up, i’d never look back at this husk of a shell.

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I guess as a wee lad you didn’t realize Vivendi also had a CEO

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Just unsub. Trust me it’ll go nice, quick, and you won’t feel a thing…hic!

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I don’t think there will ever be that game for me, raiding just isn’t that popular in games nowadays, so wow seems to be where it’s at.

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As we all know, ceos were invented in 2018 when those random people no one actually cares about got laid off.

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Well there is your problem. You don’t have to leave for good. Just leave for a few months, a patch, whatever you can stand, don’t give them money for the full year. Or barring that if you must keep a sub, just don’t log in for a month or two. They track that and will see it.

I really agree with what you’ve said but you have to understand in the face of the fact Blizzard the corporation and management don’t care and the fact that devs spit in our faces. We’re left with one alternative and that’s hitting them in the pocket-book by unsubbing. If enough people do that they will have a bit of real panic. Will it lead to real change? Hard to say, most likely only short term concessions but if it happens repeatedly the devs may begin to soul search and cast off some of their arrogance. That’s all we can do. Continuing to stay is like continuing to stay in an abusive relationship and as the abuser they know as much as you protest they still have you under their power because you’re staying. At least try separation for a month or two.

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If Aion wasn’t so Grindy and P2W, I think it would have been a good candidate. I followed it for years until it launched, only to be dissatisfied with their last minute changes.

Rift also had a lot of potential. Not sure what happened there, really. Feels like the publisher just decided to kill it off for funsies.

SWTOR was amazing. Really, really amazing. They just ran out of content. I think if they’d had a little more juice in the tank, it could have been a real contender, before it went chest up.

Niche games like FFXIV and ESO appeal to their base, and that doesn’t compete with wow really, so they’re doing great, just not my personal cup of tea. Wild star might have been better, too, but the neckbeards who ran it just couldn’t accept that casuals exist.

Some IPs that would be perfect for MMO’s:

DBZ. Never been tried in a western style, but the genre is literally about getting more powerful by defeating more powerful enemies. I could be so good if some right.

Pokémon. Same deal. The gyms are raids, and they can be updated seasonally with new mechanics and gym leaders to make it a living world. It would be so good, but again, never gonna happen.

Hellsing. My personal favorite anime, I’d play the hell out of even a bad game, probably. There’s a time gap where Alucard wasn’t around where this games story could fit. Actually, maybe just an RPG where you play as Police Girl during they time would be better.

Parasite Eve. For obvious reasons, this would have limitless update potential as well. </3

And tons more. I mean, there are IPs that could rival Azeroth for reach, but they need to hit the ground with years worth of content, the key mistake all of these studios has made is getting the “engine”, the “base” done, then shipping the game and failing to meet expectations for endgame.