If by fixing you mean release new content. Yes.
If by fixing you mean “tailor it to any one person’s every needs and wants”. Nope.
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This is why the answer is no.
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Agreed. I really hope we never get anything similar to this again.
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Sadly, I think not. The current dev team is either too proud to change course, too ignorant of the concerns of the average player, too obsessed with increasing time played metrics, or too uninspired/underskilled due to all the recent resignings.
I would say to hope for a gem of an expac like Legion again, but we seem to be moving further and further away from that design philosophy.
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Yea… i love wow and want it to be good so bad. I don’t see another xpac like legion coming out.
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Sadly, Ion only refers to specific aspects of Legions as mistakes or things they can’t do again, rather than as successes.
This is because the super-hardcore players felt punished or disrespected by Legion’s designs and systems, and that is really the only audience he intends to please.
The Legion team also seemed to be good at putting out a huge amount of content in a timely manner, something we don’t see in Shadowlands, where content is minimal and unfinished, and they waste months reiterating on systems.
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Lol, this is what I dont understand. How did they go from the organization in Legion to the complete train wreck we have now?
Was there only one person that knew how to get things done and they let him go?
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The only fix I’d suggest is moving away from the idea that every single thing in the game needs a “system” to go along with it
Sometimes keeping it simple is best
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There was a time WoW tried to cover multiple classes of games. I think of MoP, where you had Harvest Yoon (no idea what it was trying to copycat). PvP was good and Battle Fatigue routinely reinforced healing balance. Anyone could raid and feel good about their character progression. There was no M+ or WQ endless grind systems. You could just… Play. And you could enjoy different avenues without feeling like you were punished for enjoying one area more than another. But those days are right off the cusp of Cataclysm, and I’m not sure the right lessons were learned during any success they saw during Legion, because we saw the worst of Legion get carried forward and reinforced.
Get rid of borrowed power.
Complete the classes.
Bring us a regular content cycle.
My 9.1 take:
- Korthia shouldn’t be bundled with Sanctum. A more frequent release cadence should be established, rather than timegating plus “one big content patch”.
- Classes, abilities, powers should be balanced on a high priority basis. Not waiting for world first races or tournaments to finish before addressing elephants in the room. This is an MMO and we are each playing and paying.
- Catch-up mechanics and alt-friendly features need to be taken more seriously. Legion sucked until AK was basically free.
So no, my definition of “fix” won’t be met and neither will most of us out here.
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Many experienced, talented devs have quit.
This may explain, for example, while they haven’t been able to put a Maw skip in for alts, even though BfA and Legion had skips to their expac intros. The dev who could easily do that may be gone.
Of course, they could spend the money and time to figure that out, but it wouldn’t be worth it considering how pressed the dev team already is just to get 9.1 out.
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Hard for somebody to fix something if they don’t think anything is wrong.
But hey, they’re happy with customization because the lead developer doesn’t even transmog his gear. PvP? Oh, AWC exists. That’s enough.
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Which includes a new zone, a new raid, a continuation of the story, and an expansion of the borrowed power systems. It’s too much junk piled on. Honestly, x.y.5 should bring major stories and hints toward the next raid or upcoming content, and new zones. x.y should bring the raid and some short stories, new seasons, but not really progress the grand vision any more than what’s in the raid.
It vital man. It’s like 1 level.
Funny as on story run alts made I tof it at 95%. 2 quests at end of ardenweald or 2 quests into revendreth and ding! 60.
Activision will fix WoW.
BlizZard is all in with mobile gaming.
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I liked the PvP in MoP and WoD pretty well but otherwise it’s been pretty mediocre.
Then again, I got addicted to PvP in Dark Souls for awhile and haven’t been happy with WoW PvP since.
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It will be fixed when I become the CEO. Until then, no.
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I disagree. WoW PVP has been very enjoyable in the past.
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Nope! You have to be capable of fixing something not just wanting to fix it. What’s been demonstrated is they don’t know how to fix any of it. Odds on favorite a few more horrible decisions will come either this year or next.
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Convoke, Final Verdict, Mind Games, and The Hunt exist, but they’re nerfing Ashen Hallow instead.
They either don’t care, or they have a completely alien concept of what “good” means.
There’s no hope.
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Blizz’s development of the game has been in a cycle of good and bad expansion. They would release one good and one bad expansions, like Cata-bad, MOP-good, WOD-bad, Legion-good, BFA-bad. SL is supposed to be the expansion they do a good job. It has a bad start but we’l see i guess.
It’s almost like when Blizz make a bad expansion, they know they should not feel too good about themselves, so they just worker harder for the next to come. On the other hand, it might be that when they have a bad expansion, they can attribute that to staffing, resources issues so Activision will direct more resources toward WOW to improve game quality.
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