Yup. We’re getting reskins for our tier set, 1 actual new set of cosmetics for each Covenant (not per armor type as I assumed, literally just 1 per Covenant, lol), reskinned mounts, a raid using assets that already exist, a zone using assets that already exists, all four Covenant campaigns will be the same (they claim it is so everyone can see the story, but it is obvious they didn’t want to make four stories again), and so on.
A new set of raid encounters is nice, and the new mega-dungeon actually does look sweet, but some people are acting like this patch is bursting with content and yet said content is just a recontextualization of stuff we’ve already seen.
We now know why Blizzard didn’t let us unlock the mogs for legendary crafted items for instance - it was so they could deliver them back to us as a content in a new raid. It’s kind of absurd.
Is COVID really this bad for their productivity?
Shadowlands started off strong but like you said they rushed it out the door and clearly weren’t ready to keep up with the pace they set at the start. Get people to buy the expansion, get people hyped up for the possibilities post-release, and then as long as they’re hooked they imagine they can use the chance to catch up expecting us not to unsub.
Unless 9.2 is really awesome, I think this expansion is not going to end up in my top 3 like I thought it would paseed on the strength of 9.0 and the expectation of improvement in content delivery 9.1, not a downgrade in delivery.
Maybe if some people are always in the basement normally, they can’t even relate to work and how the pathetic Covid nonsense impedes daily life of people with active jobs.
I’m glad they put something together for us and discussed the new Diablo IV class, the Diablo II Remastered content, the 9.1 patch and all that entails, the new Hearthstone expansion, and more.
Almost a waste of development time. I wonder how many weeks of preparation went into Blizzcon that they could’ve used to work and get things done faster
Blizzcon was ALWAYS a marketing too and they used it to show what they are selling.
In this case the expansion for WoW. The new collection for those classic games.
An expansion for Hearthstone.
Hyping up OW2 and Diablo 4(even though it probably wont be out until 2022 or 2023).
Diablo 2 remake and Diablo Immortal.
Purely based on number of games this Blizzcon is about on part with the number of games they normally hype.
What IS even considered content anymore? Cant help but feel sorry for the devs on screen,some looked tired AF especially with having to balance appeasing not only the higher ups but try to please a crowd during a pandemic and has become more finicky by the year and seem to WANT the devs to lose their livlihood and WANT the company to die.
They had an additional three months to put it together, with everything but the Q&A portion pre-recorded, and they showed literally nothing about their upcoming patches.
“More of the same, one new area, some pets and mounts. We haven’t decided on anything else yet lol”
I don’t care if you consider them special or not. That’s not the argument.
The statement was “There is literally no content coming out in 9.1” and I pointed that out as being blatant, hyperbolic nonsense. That’s all, nothing else to be gained or said.
Are we adding stipulations now to the original comment?
Well the reason why i say “i wouldn’t call them anything special” is not in disagreement to your statement, but to also surmise on why they say “there’s no content”, because were at a point where major patches always come with a raid and possibly a dungeon, maybe a mega dungeon.
Yes, Dungeons and Raids are content and that person is incorrect in saying there’s no content.