It kind of odd really. Legion is actually on par with BFA for me in terms of enjoyment. I really didn’t enjoy either. RNG stacking with more RNG and all these reputation requirements with +25 reputation world quests…
WoD got more playtime from me.
I think it’s a little easier to explain when you realize the chest-thumping tribalists are the developers.
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That’s a concern for me, as well. Coming on the heels of BfA, if SL doesn’t perform very well the game itself may be in big trouble.
Despite all my complaining, I don’t want that. I gripe at everything wrong with WoW because I wish it was better; I don’t want it to fail.
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Still can’t believe our head dev brags about not playing half the game because it’s his opposing faction. How does that make sense?
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“But the Alliance is so boring!” complain the only people with the power to change that.
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I’m hoping they have at least one more major feature they’re holding back on, but that has never really happened before.
Honestly the only thing I’m really excited about at this point is the customization.
Never understood why they didn’t bring more characters like Sky Admiral Rogers into the fold.
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A gentle but firm reminder that California techbros is a cesspool of shaky politics and that Blizz customer service is largely based in Texas with all that infers.
If you have to ask “Surely they don’t side this way,” you probably know the answer already deep in your heart of hearts.
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I for one don’t play Alliance cause humans killed my family irl
wait…that’s actually possible and a terrible thing to think about
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It doesn’t. And that’s a point of pride for them.
They’re aging metalheads, overly concerned with tags like “epic” and “awesome” and a strict threshold for what qualifies something as those things without actually ever exceeding it and never once noticing that they’re wildly out of date.
No one’s impressed by their sleazy body count plot points. No one’s impressed by their tired Big Guy But On Fire And With Spikes boss design. No one’s impressed by shirtless yahoos doing great and amazing things while everyone else sits patiently, twiddling their thumbs.
But then, remember how badly the average player reacts to being told that something they like isn’t good. Now add money, privilege and disregard for other people.
…yeah.
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“Girls are icky” was a Blizzard company value for years.
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that’s a decent concern. but like…considering previous feature lists included stuff not involved in launch (like say, a whole bunch of allied races that took almost a year to come out among other things) I have a feeling it’ll come out the same in the end
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I mean, they had 4 allied races ready to go right after the announcement. I don’t see much on the list besides new zones and dungeons/raids. Sure that’s a big part of any expansion but this is the sparsest looking expansion I can recall. At least WoD had garrisons, even if they were a train wreck.
To the denizens of the Shadowlands, you are knowns the Maw Walker,
This might be the silliest name we’ve had in an expansion.
Yes, but I’ll take it over hero or champion any day.
You’re kidding yourself if you think you aren’t going to be referred to as “champion” still because the devs forgot you were supposed to be the Maw Walker.
Mawalker.
Mawakker.
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As much as WoD bored me to tears, I was there for the whole expansion. Legion and BfA saw me take dramatically extended breaks. The last expansion for the game I well and truly enjoyed was Mists of Pandaria, and I got in super late since Cataclysm is what turned me away from the game in the first place.
When I think that Pandaria was the last time I truly enjoyed myself with WoW, I often wonder why I keep trying to come back to it.
As I’ve said clear back as far as Burning Crusade, only WoW will kill WoW. It’s had a 15 year run - an absolutely bananas timeline to anything but the most passionate of indie passion projects (Such as UnReal World). At a certain point, there were going to be too many stairs to fall down in too rapid a succession.
That being said, what I see initially of Shadowlands suggests that’s not going to kill WoW. But I think it’s safe to say the plotline of WoW is well and truly shattered beyond all comprehensible reason.
WoW Classic taught them well. They don’t need content - they can aggressively utilize nostalgia and people will pay top dollar for bottom shelf level content. Notice both Uther and Kael’thas get name dropped and the cinematic takes us back to Icecrown. Old abilities are coming back. I guarantee at least one raid/dungeon will be a collection of everybody’s favorite boss battles.
Also, the worst thing about the new customization options is it comes on the heels of an expansion where the entirety of our “Allied Races” could have been done with those same new customization options. They could have even continued to tie them to rep grinds to unlock them.
I mean, they could have just called us what we are. The Vestige of the Soul Shriven. We have to defeat Mannimarco…I mean Sylvanas…and reclaim our souls from Molag Bal…I mean the Jailer.
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Did you have to crush my dreams like that?
I never have to.
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tips fedora
M’walker
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