Am I the only one who notice how the forums is getting more negative and toxic with each passing day, month, and year and with each expansion. The player base seems to dunk on the game even when it’s good like right now on Dragonflight even professional critics and content creators (Twitch and YouTube) and casual players have accepted that this expansion is good. But, on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and on reddit over on these platforms it seems more balanced on both end of the spectrum (positive and negative) but on this official forum things are always on the negative side of things. And it just keeps on getting worse it seems to me and I doubt anyone would agree with me on this.
Overall, the forums seems to like being toxic and negative and spreading hate towards the game no matter what. And when a player post a positive thread they will be called or labeled a troll or a blizzard shill or whatever else. It’s really unhealthy being on here. And this is why I use Facebook and Twitter to post most of my positivity and I just use the official forums just to talk about the game and sometimes being random but mainly talking game related matter.
One last thing, each day I scroll through the forums and each and every thread is just negativity. I don’t know how people on here can even fathom it.
I felt this way all Shadowlands. I liked it. Whole lot of people kept dunking on it and still do. Shadowlands was cool. It would have been a great “final expansion” though.
There’s a reason people are “negative” so-called. Because people expectations are not being met less exceeded. Also lack of content - if there’s good content, people would be busy doing such instead of spending it on forums. Your low expectations of the game is good for Blizzard but most people have high standards.
There’s a set “dying process” for MMO’s, and Wow isn’t even started on that yet. And even then it’s not going to close down for a very long time.
First comes heavier in game monetization, which we are arguably at now. As the player base leaves, the push becomes less about gaining new players and more about increasing revenue from those remaining players.
Then comes FTP with a ‘Special’ subscription based fast track. At this point the game becomes more of a stepping stone to the store than a standalone product. Lots of “VALUE ADDED” features start to become necessary to play the game at more than an extremely ultra casual level.
Then come faster, smaller expansions… to get expansion purchases increased. We aren’t there yet. To put this into perspective Everquest went this route and is still around.
Then comes firing off the production staff and going into maintenance mode: Only keeping the servers running and pushing out more monetization.
Once that finally stops being profitable, the game is sold to another company to manage and they just collect royalties. At this point the store doubles down (quadruples down at this point?) and becomes the only meaningful way to play. New content comes out somewhat frequently with the new management, but is limited to season events, cash shop content, and it’s all cheap and lacking any meaningful polish as there’s not a dedicated AAA quality staff working on it.
But through all of this: WoW will almost certainly remain playable in whatever form it takes, and it would take something amazingly corporate and out of game to change that.
I would be very surprised if WoW is unplayable even 40 years from now.
I swear the lack of content is us. This game is the same as it’s always been, kill so many of this, go find this person/thing, go get me some flowers, etc. What makes any mmo fun is player connection. we are the heart and blood of the game, and we’re sick rn.
Unfortunately, these forums are mostly populated by the hyper enfranchised. If you’re not praising the game you’re attacking it and if you attack the game you attack their identify. Or you’ll get those who don’t play it but are still hyper enfranchised. You basically can’t win.
You’ll witness how bat**** crazy people get when reality doesn’t adhere to their self identity.
That’s like 10-20 years at most I’d imagine.
and yes a retired boomer 
oh wait you not planning my death you mean wows?
