Seasons are a cop out to recycle content. WoW was an infinitely better game when each expansion in and of itself was a “season” and all content was progression-relevant throughout the expansion.
There’s no need for each content patch to render the previous patch obsolete and the seasonal rotation of regurgitated 5 man content to apease the m+ bros is dumb. We all can see just how “popular” m+ REALLY is now that delves have become the path of least resistance to welfare gear. No need yo cater to them. Bring back linear raid progression between xpac raids.
Hot take: I actually like the stability. I kinda miss the long stretches where WoW was stable (::cough 1 year of ICC cough cough 14 months of SoO cough:: )
You just described seasons. When they add new content, that’s a season. It’s always been around. It’s just been called “tiers” in the past and tied to raid releases
Another 720 are currently working on Queen Ansurek. More than have killed it.
Another 900 are still working on Silken Court.
No, the seasons aren’t too long. Most progression raiders are still working on it.
There’s definitely a case to be made for removing the E-Z Mode versions, though, since they just get people to faceroll it and then claim they’re “bored” for months. Nobody was complaining about a content drought back when you had to kill Illidan or the Lich King for realsies.
As someone who started late and just got KSM today i dont mind the season length. If you’re bored just take a break. I’d rather them not rush the content and then release it a buggy broken mess, we saw too much of that in SL and the subs cratered.
I still do Delves, now I’m considering picking up SV Hunter and see how that works out for me. This season is easily my most time consuming season with alts and I’m having a blast.
5 months is kinda the minimum with current designs, now they could make changes to try to reduce it but that would also mean less content and personally I don’t like gear resetting even more often.
I don’t find them too long in the wider scheme of things.
Periodically I find I’m very busy IRL. So the start of this year I couldn’t participate in as much of the Re:MoP as much as I wanted. I essentially had 4 hats on at a time.
It’s been the opposite at the end of last year - very chill and that’s given time to study and play very comfortably.
WoW seasons I think are perfect for irl+work while being able to do most seasonal goals.
You want to remove difficulty levels from raids? That’s a great way to kill the game. Back when Illidan had one difficulty, there was no Fortnite, Roblox, DBD, Overwatch/Rivals, nor even Minecraft. In short, no real competition in the online gaming space.