Good thing it’s not that at all. After a few expansions of trying to push the faction conflict and failing because it’s boring and played out, blizzard tried a different direction.
I’d rather have them try something new and take a chance on it succeeding or failing rather than just doing the same ol thing over and over when it clearly isn’t working anymore.
And by fail you mean back when the game had its highest popularity and when they went in a different direction, the playerbase plummeted to where it is now, barely 1/4th that number.
I’d rather have them write a good story that actually fits the setting they created that caused it to become the most popular subscriber MMORPG of all time…rather than kill the game with mundane garbage no one wanted because it clearly isnt working anymore. As can be seen by the tiny remaining playerbase.
Bye!
You mean wotlk where the factions teamed up to save the world? Kinda like always happens?
The numbers were dropping with them doing the same thing over and over and over. They needed a change of direction.
You mean worlk that had PvP quests because the factions were not at peace but a ceasefire to kill the Lich King, with several non-PvP stories that pit us against each other…and the Battle of Angrathar, The Wrathgate, kicked off King Wrynns declaration of open war against the Horde, ending that short ceasefire and that story continues all the way through Cataclysm and Mists and im sure you DONT want to attempt to declare that Warlords was not about going after Hellscreams for his WARcrimes now do you?
You should have stopped 4 posts ago when it was clear you were wrong and just walked away.
All you’re doing is proving my point. First of all, pvp quests are irrelevant because we’re talking about narrative. We’re forbade from fighting on the dragon isles but there is still warmode and pvp quests there. A very stupid example on your part.
Second, all those examples of faction conflict and the population continued to drop the entire time.
But yeah, sure, I’m the wrong one. 
So you are actually claiming there was no war in Wrath, Cata and Mists…ROFLMAO.
Ok, I will just accept you as a troll and just post this for anyone here that does not know the story.
wowpedia.fandom .com/wiki/Alliance-Horde_war
There’s nothing but war in the game.
War doesn’t just mean Horde and Alliance trying to annihilate each other though.
No. You said:
In reference to them not focusing on war, which I can only assume you mean between horde and alliance. But if you look at the numbers, they’ve been steadily dropping year after year even during those expansions you pointed out with focus on faction conflict. It did nothing to stop the loss of players and trying to reignite the faction conflict and making it a central focus isn’t going to bring 12 million players back to the game.
The population drop started after Warlords…when the war ended. Goodbye, you havent actually made a point that can be confused with real for a long time now and you are getting boring. Every time you are proven wrong you attempt to what-about.
Try to figure out something real and try again in a few weeks after actually learning the lore and history of the game because I am still LAUGING at you trying to say the Horde and Alliance were not at war in Wrath, Cata and Mists.
Pathetic.
It’s amusing how confident and how wrong you are. Total ignorance. The drop started in cata, continued through mists, had a large spike at the launch of WoD then dropped sharply again.
Focusing on faction war does nothing to help bring in players and the numbers back it up. Sorry you are too dense to understand.
Legion bad, got it
Legion was awesome. Don’t know why they changed so many things about the game that made Legion fun. And yes, I thought Artifact weapons and the way you acquired Artifact power was engaging and I enjoyed watching my weapon get stronger. Again, Blizzard doing what it does best and Overdesigned the game into oblivion.
Me too. There’s just something that tastes odd in actual honey.
Did not know that.
Yep same here too! I love watermelon jolly ranchers but I can not stand actual watermelon.
God damn right we do.
Op in a nutshell:
"Making MY GAME more accessible to increase people playing the game?
How dare they!"
Maldraxxus was the greatest zone in Shadowlands.
That’s not a very high bar. Now from a visual standpoint sure. But story wise I stand by what I said.
I dont know, Revendreth was pretty cool. And it looked better than Maldraxxus, but nothing can beat the Bone Lords on vibe.
I agree, and I apologize if I generalized a younger crowd with wanting “cutsy art” and bad story / dialogue. Truth is when I was late teens I was constantly expose to stories that were not immature and could easily understand a good plot from a bad one. I think It’s a disservice ingeneral to dumb things down to bring in a “younger” audience because it indirectly insults the younger player base by implying " you dont like mature things so we dumbed it down for you."
I don’t really think there’s much argument for what op is saying though. Can you really deny that the game is thematically different now. That narrative tones have shifted??
I mean nothing in dragonflight even comes close to the DK starting zone or even a walk through scholomance.