I mean, a bunch of stuff just disappears, FOREVER, when the prepatch drops. SO… Either I lose that content FOREVER, or I skip a bunch of the lore and story. For a game that I PAY FOR EVERY MONTH! AND they’ve KNOWN about this since at least AUGUST. AUGUST. And you want me to just accept their excuses? NO. It is their bad management that is causing this and it is THEIR bad management that needs to change. THEY need to fix this. PERIOD.
Like if you bought a new car, and after driving it for a year or so you find out that you had to choose between being able to steer or being able to break would you just accept the dealership saying, “Oh well, we will fix that in a few months…”? And just stop using your car, BUT still pay the monthly payments?
Or say your renting an apartment and suddenly you can either have running water or working electricity… I suppose if the landlord waited 2 months to even address that it was happening, you would be cool with them taking an additional month to fix it?
I mean yeah those are two things that are WAY more important than a video game, BUT this is about Consumer Rights. The video game industry is trash. And they treat US like trash. And you and others like you just accept it. Heck, sometimes even DEFEND it. NO. It isn’t ok. I am TIRED of their excuses. I am TIRED of them blaming their BAD MANAGEMENT on their Developers and using them as a SHIELD against criticism. And I am TIRED of people like you enabling it.
Yeah, we have this bug in a noticeable way on BfA but Shadowlands breaks the records. We lose literally 1/2 or 1/3 of the story because of it. It is game breaking and Blizzard needs to prioritize fixing it already. It’s been 1 month and 18 days, come on!!
People coming back to the game due to the new expansion and attempting to catch up on the lore are going to have a terrible time. This is a serious problem. I don’t understand why it’s not top priority.
We keep having hotfix patches every day for extremely minor things no one cares about in WoW Classic. It is just insulting how abandoned Retail is.
Retail is literally left to rot until the new expansion releases while we see a lack of transparency on this major bug. We want it fixed NOW, Blizzard. This is a serious major bug that needs to be addressed asap.
so I decided to finish the Shadowlands storyline and honestly? The fact this is still happening and ruining MEANINGFUL dialog between characters is nothing short of INFURIATING!
edit: Literally ALL BUT ONE “Stay a while and listen” is nothing then silence as two characters just . . . stare at each other with a slight musical que or one character speaking and met with silence by the other. The only one that seems to work is the final dialog between Taelia and Bolvar . . . I mean all the Taelia Bolvar dialog BEFORE this is nothing but silence but hey the last one works so I guess its all fine right? How does this even happen? Seriously? Because as someone who was playing for the actual story? My ONLY true reward for finishing the story is nothing but silence and broken dialog.
I thought this was an issue caused due to my Addon’s, but it was still happening after disabling them all. It sucks, but I am a little bit reassured that others have the same issue and its nothing broken my end. How long has this been an issue? My other thought before addon’s was did they break the alliance side of things as i played on horde for most of BFA and only noticed the deafening silence of scripted speech when i did the alliance bfa story quests. Hope they fix this issue soon.
Dropping in to post again, although it looks like it’s definitely gotten a lot of visibility. Thinkin we just want the game to do well at this point, esp if some of the more on the fence wrath classic returners were to dip their toes back into current WoW.
It’s honestly baffling that such a huge bug that’s spanning game-wise is allowed to fester like this. It’s unfair to new and returning players. Especially those who wont have time to go and do these quests again on alts.
Or ever worse, miss out on ONE TIME ONLY quests that cease to be repeatable on your account. I saw that the Worgen Heritage Armor quest is completely broken, and you can only do that quest once.
“Going to youtube” is not an option or a “work-around”.
Well I’m throwing the towel. I came back to Wow after a long 6 years break not to sure I could get any fun out of it. To me, the game changed too much from what it used to be, but the Warcraft lore has always been my main interest. I own many books and I don’t skip quests and dialogs when I play to make sure I don’t miss anything.
So I put in a month and did Legion which was mostly fine. Then put in a second month and started in BFA… And that bug is everywhere. Everywhere. It sucks, it’s frustrating and clearly Blizzard will make us wait for 10.0 for the fix. Well I’m not gonna accept that. At 20$ a month, I can get many fun games that are in better state like Final Fantasy XIV.
And I know it will take me a very very long time before I give Wow and Blizzard for that matter, another chance. And to think I used to worship Blizzard games
I feel really bad for you. I too used to worship Blizzard for the polished games and impeccable lore.
After a good 5 years away from the game, I played some WotLK Classic (didn’t enjoy much) and gave a try to Retail once more. I decided, for the first time, to enjoy the lore and read the quests while leveling and everything was going smooth until I encountered this bug for the first time during Cyrus Crestfall introductory quest in BfA. Lost an entire night trying to find a workaround to no success, googled and found this and the other thread on Technical Support.
My feeling is similar to yours, literally feeling insulted for a bug of this magnitude running rampant for almost 2 months while we see daily hotfix patches of Blizzard being 100% focused on Classic for minor bugs that literally no one cares about.
Not only this bug but I’ve seen a couple other bugs that are literally game-breaking on Retail (halt progression in any form) being untouched FOR MONTHS OR YEARS. Here’s an example:
So, I repeat, what on earth happened to Blizzard quality control? Retail is a mess. Game-breaking bugs running around FOR MONTHS OR YEARS and we see 0 interest from the company to do something about it.
This is happening to myself, my best friend, my wife, my wife’s friend, my brother in law, and his significant other. I introduced, or reintroduced, them all to the game and their experience has definitely been impacted because of it sadly. I had been wanting to play this game with all of them hence why I brought them to the game, but it has definitely been more of a slog since the dialogue has been missing in random parts.
My wife and I currently use addons, but none of the other 4 people do, nor have they since they first installed/reinstalled, so we know it’s not due to addons. It’s been an extremely disappointing experience for us, especially myself who went through the storylines months ago when the dialogue was working, because I really enjoyed it and wanted my friends and family to enjoy it as well. I hope it gets fixed soon since I want them to stick around and play the game with me. If this happens in Dragonflight as well… I don’t know if any of us will stick around, since most of us, if not all six of us, enjoy story and open world content more than we enjoy raiding or mythics.
Just this morning, for the first time, started Shadowlands and so far about half or 1/3 of the quests have this issue.
I was annoyed when this happened occasionally in BfA quests over the last week as I have just come back to the game, but it’s on another level in Shadowlands.
Ironically, when I go to YouTube to see these quest’s dialogues, I see that these quests were working fine in beta Shadowlands. Well, they’re broken now. Got to appreciate that Blizzard polish.
Yup. Took me everything to convince myself to come back in the first place cause I am burned of Wow beyond words. I knew I would not have the same fun I once had specially with how Wow is nowadays. The lore is what was the convincing factor.
Of course, it’s well established now that lore is impossible to follow now, and worse, Blizzard has disregarded that issue completely. This to me shows the reality of what the beloved company Blizz once was has become and I just don’t see myself trusting them for Wow anymore. Not until I see them raise their standards of quality to what they used to me… but I believe that may be utopic…
I enjoy the lore and the stories, so to not hear what was said is kinda disappointing. Is there any record out there of what was said? It would be nice to replay or restart them if they don’t work the first time. I checked Wowhead and didn’t find anything.
Unfortunately youtube isn’t always reliable when it comes to recorded dialogue, so if you’re ever told “just youtube it” it’s not a guarantee for every interaction. I was seeking some Covenant campaign missing dialogue for Necrolords and not a single video had the missing conversation I was after.
Came here to report this as well. Started Shadowlands a few days ago and the entire quest dialog for both Oribos and Bastion are not triggering or they only trigger for half of the NPCs who are part of the quest dialog. I typically love the lore and storylines and this makes it so difficult to follow.
