People can’t be bothered to read QUEST TEXT … let alone follow a story arc that lasts more than a month; more than a patch cycle; more than an entire EXPANSION.
Certainly not without any way to follow it in a practical manner. Which is what is so dreadfully missing in this game.
I still care, which is why I am in a constant crushing state of heartbreak.
I think my first taste of wtf betrayal is when Thrall decided, for some reason, that the whiny child from Nagrand should replace him as Warchief and Cairne died. At the time there was a forum thread I liked that was a “List of People Who Would Be a Better Warchief than Garrosh” which included every Alliance Leader and Mankirk’s wife.
You had to first care about the lore to stop caring about it, so…
During MoP
I’m not sure what you mean by this but orcs were said to be from another planet way back in 1995.
Never really cared about it. When you’ve played other mmo’s like SWTOR, the depth in characters and story here is laughable.
It’s like a children books by comparison, with Scooby Doo like villains.
I won’t even compare it to other RPG’s in general.
That said, I don’t hate it. I just don’t think it’s anything special.
WoD while being a time-travel expansion didn’t put me off the lore and world as badly as any of the later expansions… Ultimately WoD only needed one minor retcon that could “ensure” that something like it would never happen again.
Meanwhile Legion killed off not only Kil’Jaeden, but the Emerald Nighthmare as well as the very Legion. Then comes BFA that kills off Zul (which was fine though he was an interesting villain that could have been kept around a tad longer) but then they continued and ruined Azshara and killed off N’zoth. And then we get shadowlands which is filled with even more character assassinations after the plenty we had in BFA while simultaneously ruin the concept of death and retcon all the lore…
It’s great that DF seems more grounded… But that doesn’t fix the 7 years of damage that have been done.
Folks don’t usually do a (games history) search before downloadin something new 'n shinny to play.
Finding out all these things after the fact while having hopes of Lord Of The Rings type game reallly irks some people lol. (like me)
“Oh a medieval game! Cool! Okay I’ll try it out. S…Space ships? Man… I don’t like sci fi.”
WoW’s over arching narratives have always held back what could have been a very fleshed out and consistent high fantasy universe.
Sadly, it didn’t even leave off at squandering just N’zoth.
They also squandered Ny’alotha AND Naz’jatar as well.
I think I checked out (lore-wise) when we 10-manned a friggen’ Titan. Absurd.
It only got worse from there.
Shadowlands took the very concept of death and the afterlife and made it seem more akin to an inconvenience.
Like Dragon Ball Z
Alright, fair enough.
Legion. Just all of it.
I wouldn’t say I ever really stopped caring about the setting’s lore at large, just many of the more modern developments. There’s still plenty past elements that are worth caring about and remain canonical is some form; often through obscurity, but whatever.
Before MoP, WoW didn’t feel (to me) like it had much lore, just a collection of vague references to the RTS Warcraft games or novels.
Dragons are trying to reactivate oathstones to regain their Aspectral Power, and this angers Lazer Chicken for reasonsTM
Also, something something 5th old god.
Honestly, I never paid attention to lore after the first month or so of playing during early TBC. I started playing because I had friends who were already playing. I figured out that the lore even back then was a hodge podge that in many places made no sense so I stopped pay attention to it.
Probably the end of shadowlands. There were a lot of elements of BfA I also didn’t care for. Now for DF, I really don’t care because dragon lore is kinda meh in the face of the cosmic brouhaha we’ve been a part of now.
Eh, that’s not really their fault. They’re just giving Horde players what we want, which is to be the bad guys, except when it’s time for bad things to happen to us, when we magically become misunderstood loners.
Good news! There’s nothing going on in Dragonflight aside from the big bad dragon.
Well, Kalec is moping and Wrathion is a jerk, but nothing new.
Yeah, a WC3 character has no link at all to WC3… 
Basic Campfire for warchief!
WoD, def WoD. The ending cinematic should have shown Yrel burying her mace in the back of an Orc’s skull