Torghast was a good idea, if it was optional. IE: Palace of the Dead and Heaven on High are optional, more developed, better versions of Torghast. When Blizzard made it required for crafting and upgrading legos, they ruined it.
Island Expeditions were a good idea, if it was optional. With more development, islands could have become WoW’s version of Path of Exile’s atlas. When Blizzard made neck leveling required to use Azerite armor, they ruined it.
Covenants were a good idea, if it was cosmetic. Blizzard ruined it when they locked dps cooldowns, utility cooldowns, passive talent trees, and % hp stat boosts behind it.
Warfronts could have been a good idea, if they were player vs player where player’s boosted their base’s troop generation and armor etc by gathering materials etc. But Blizzard ruined it by having it be AFK and you still win content.
Azerite armor has no redeeming qualities, so I can’t even say that Blizzard ruined it because it was ruined from conception. Same with domination gems and corruption. Essences were a bad idea that was well developed, probably by sheer luck. Getting revered on alts to get the mana essence before the nerf to the rep req was awful. Ruined the entire patch.
Netherwing, Orgilla, skyguard, sporegarr, all optional, did them all. Furthermore, having things you haven’t done but could do gives a sense of horizon to a game. Not every player should/has to do everything. Trying to make them do things they don’t want to do is going to build resentment.
The current design is basically the lazy river. You get into a boat and the float down the path laid out to you by the devs, seeing all the content and being forced to do the most boring parts.
I’m done with it since nothing seems to get through and Blizzard will even break their promise not to add more systems to shadowlands made back at blizzcon 2019.
Just, no more.
I want off Bobby Koticks “wild” ride.
You should be able to access the videos of 2019 if you had a digital pass via Blizzcon iirc. I’m not going to take time out of my day to find a clip for you? Unless you are going to like… venmo me money to do it for you?
Everyone who watched Blizzcon 2019’s shadowlands reveal knows about this.
Preach even explicitly references it about 3 times in his explanation as to why he is no longer doing WoW content. IE https://youtu.be/eZ6w--GhpaM?t=575
I watched it. Dont remember anything remotely close to this being said, hence why i asked for a specific source. Everything at Blizzcon will have youtube clips. I didnt ask for Preach.
Keep refusing to defend your position though. Definitely makes you look right.
Unless you were helping a friend farm a piece, no you didnt. Once you got what you needed out of a dungeon, you stopped running it. I can almost guarantee you didn’t run it “for fun”.
If Blizzards metrics showed active engagement in optional content, dont you think they would offer it? Hmmm?