I used to feel a sense of pride when I explained WoW's main story to my friends

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Now, I feel ashamed to even talk about it and instead spend time on the sidestories.

How things have changed. The story team’s singular focus on random stuff has time and time again destroyed the lore bit by bit until there’s nothing left but memes.

It’s a rather sad day when Korthia’s side quest nobodies like the Archivists and the zone’s overall basic explanation sound way better than the pile of crap that is the main storyline.

I’m way more invested into digging into Korthia’s hidden lore than the waste of money that was the ardenweald invasion. Blizzard could have saved money and not made that scenario or the cinematic.

I salute people who actually buy their books in this time. There’s probably more memes in them than actual worldbuilding, storytelling or god forbid, lore which is consistent and logical.

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Imagine feeling a sense of pride from regurgitating someone else’s work, as if you had anything to do with its quality or creation.

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Fair enough that’s your opinion.

And it’s clear you don’t understand what it means to relay stories and share in the fun with people.

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Yes yes, subjective opinion and all that, but I just cannot imagine ever thinking that WoW’s “main” story is good enough to want to share it with friends (pride thing aside, even). To me, it’s always been total garbage. The Universe has some decent background lore that makes for a good setting to play around in, but the foreground stories have always been incredibly campy.

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I don’t know, I used to explain the storyline all the way into Legion (brief stuff like events from Alliance and the Horde) and even parts of BFA to people who started getting interested in WoW until I realized the story was being taken apart.

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I love telling people how terrible wow story is. And timegating. And pointless grinds. And currencies.

Then i show them some cool random screenshot of rare actually interesting wow moments.

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This is probably the more accurate description of what people probably tell their friends now :frowning:

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I used to enjoy the story up until the end of wrath. After that it just became a bit rehashed, and childish.

As for talking about WoW to people, yeah I avoided that from day one. I’d meet WoW players and theyd explode in this frantic conversation about what faction are you on what server what class etc. I’d smile, back away slowly, and then run.

Thankfully I haven’t met a WoW player irl for years now. I love you guys, at a distance.

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I thought the story was expanded well until MoP and parts of WoD and Legion. Even the beginning of BFA was pretty good until it went all the way down.

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Eh, the stuff I liked about the story started breaking down when Cata came out. I’d never talk about WoW’s story to friends that don’t play, though; I’m way too self-conscious of my hobbies for that, lol.

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I don’t talk randomly about it either.

It’s only when people start asking about playing WoW and stuff I used to tell them how the game was built on factions and why the lore is cool.

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Mists at some great aspects in it, but it could have been better. Wod was the whole alternate timeline and regurgitate important lore characters thing. It really wasn’t new.

Legion was actually ok, but I felt again, the writing could have been better. Bfa, loved the loa of death, hated everything else.

Wrath had a lot of great themes running through it, which I enjoyed a lot. It felt closer to being an rpg than perhaps any time after it. Right now, it’s an mmo. There is zero rpg to it.

/looks behind me at the inconsequential queue of heroes

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I’m hopeful that this expansion actually wraps some stuff up. I don’t think the story is “bad” I just think there is a lot of stuff going on, and they keep adding more going on without any sort of closure.

Stories used to have closure at the end of the expansion. You started an expansion with a problem and by the end of the expansion you dealt with that problem and then it breadcrumbed into the next adventure.

The end of BFA did not feel like we accomplished any of the problems it threw at us and Shadowlands feels completely unrelated from it. The only thing these expansions have in common lately is Sylvanas, but we still have that enormous unresolved problem from the end of Legion sticking out of Silithus, and we have old gods stirring from their slumber or simply wandering free because we freed them from their prison.

So… Right now it’s a mess and it feels like it’s getting too big for them to allow us, the adventurer, to handle. So it feels like it’s going nowhere.

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That’s the thing, we actually haven’t been necessary to the story in a incredibly long time. We’re sorta there, hanging out, watching characters do character things, doing fetch quests for them.

We aren’t invested into the story, we’re there because we’re invested in getting new gear and the time we ourselves invested into our character. The story doesn’t include the player at all.

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It’s called being a nerd. Some of us take pride in it and love being invested in fictional worlds and knowing details. That used to be an appreciated thing once, you know, passion for the game. There’s a reason why people like Red Shirt Guy became a celebrity.

Imagine putting someone down for having an investment in something they’ve clearly spent years enjoying.

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I think that guy would probably go over to Nobbel’s channel and laugh at his videos.

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Indeed. Apparently people aren’t allowed to have emotions about things they didn’t personally create. :wink:

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your dad not hug you much? You came in here already in tears you were so upset. Grow up.

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You’re probably the first person I’ve heard about who has taken Nobbel’s oratory skills in that way.

I don’t know what criteria you use to define a “orator” but we’ll agree to disagree.

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“I used to feel a sense of pride when I explained WoW’s main story to my friends”

:laughing:

You lost me early on…

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