After 17 years, it’s time to hang up the T3 gear, pack up the mini diablo, and park my Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank.
After downing Sha of anger 4000x and still not getting the mount, its time I move on to another game. This expands into all of the world mounts in Mist of Pandaria, and beyond.
I have the worst luck at getting mounts in this game unless I buy gold, and outright buy in-game mounts. Or, Blizzard’s favorite, after paying for my 6-month sub, buying every expansion at full price, I still need to spend more money in the shop for a mount.
Granted some of this is related to the shadowlands expansion, basically a poor reskin of the great lich king expansion. Dying in the maw and watching the stygia taken away over, and over again, I’ve had enough. Even more frustrating, the stygia taken scales up the more I acquire, meaning it’s a greater setback. Just an awful idea, but Blizz doesn’t want players to log off if they want to be anything in this expansion. Gotta boost those game numbers somehow.
The saddest part, I Just scored my shadowlands flying tonight, and I haven’t even used it. That’s how boring this game has become. An awful, boring, time sink-nothing more.
The community will attack me after reading this, just to run to the aid of Blizz. Given the recent lawsuits, the stock plummeting (and still in freefall) I do not see a way forward unless they introduce token drops from all bosses in the game. Mount farming is awful, tokens could help solve this issue. Other games have already incorporated this technique, and I will be jumping over to the FF14 realm to check it out.
Spending more time standing around for a boss to spawn on all of my alts, just to farm a mount I will never get in my lifetime, is beyond silly and over repetitive. Thousands of hours, all for nothing. 368 play days (8,832 hours) of time on my mage alone, not something to scoff at, that’s a commitment over the years.
9.1.5 only addressed the problems that were in real life taking place at the company but failed to listen to the majority of its community over the years, which is why wow has fewer players every day. I suppose that makes the few that attack this post, seeking a couple of likes, the new majority if that even means anything.
Perhaps one day, if the community returns to being player-friendly, along with the company, others might return. But I don’t see that being the case. Addressing in-game issues, ignoring players’ requests, turning “influences” against the community is not a company that is interested in the overall community, just the select few.
Watching your dev team introduce “Wow Community Council” in a one-minute video, in which they couldn’t even speak one-two sentences, without reading a script on a screen, says a lot about how much you actually care, Just ridicoulous.
Best of luck to those that stay and try to repair a broken community, and even more to the 100 invited council players, which apparently make up the “majority” to blizzard. Considering Blizzard had access to these forums for years which could have articulated the conceptual understanding regarding the issues, I am confused why they need a Council, to begin with.
But no worries, you can just buy a new kitty cat shop mount for $25 bucks and all of your problems will go away…
Nothing but love for the community, and I truly wish you all the best in the years to come.
I will miss you all, lots of love for the old game, and a deeply saddening experience to leave. But it is officially time to go. /bow
