Is Blizzard intentally trying to kill wow?

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I’ve been playing wow since cata. I love this game. I’ve kept playing even when i didn’t care for the xpac in general. I’ve kept playing when my server was empty and moved to another one. Blizzard please fix the game. No more allied races! we have enough now. Maybe a new class would be cool tho. I think it would of been great, if once you got gear thru rep it was unlocked for all your toons. I’ll keep playing until the end just don’t want it to be soon.

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Some days it does feel like that. Especially when they do silly things like remove token vendors and throw everything in a gambling box.

I too will be here to the bitter end. Spent too much time on this train to bail before the wreck.

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Do you really think a company would want to kill a multi-billion dollar cash cow? Like, honestly?

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If you have been just playing since Cata you’re not a real WoW player if you ask the people who do the most griping – Cata was supposed to kill WoW ya know.

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Cata is my most disliked xpac >.>

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I really can’t get past the misspelling of INTENTIONALLY.

It is clouding my vision and I can’t see the rest of your post.

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My Cata time was flying back and forth in Uldum farming ore. Had absolutely no interest in the Cata story. Luckily Diablo 3 came out at the same time. That was a lot of fun.

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I’d like to see a new profession, we haven’t had a new primary once since WotLK.

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I agree the game does not need anymore unfinished amateurishly done AR’s with clipping issues, missing sound files and missing animations. Spend that time fixing the real game issues and get rid of the “fixed” rng.

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I think it’s my favorite because it was the expansion I first started playing in.

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It was you mining all of my pyrite. Honestly Cata was when I did my most raiding. That part was really fun and rewarding but overall I did not like the xpac.

I started mid- BC I guess but my favorite was Wrath. That is when I really pushed myself the most as a solo player.

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To think the developer team removes stuff like the PVP gear vendors and then justifies it by saying people can’t find them… what are they thinking? There’s been PVP gear vendors in the game since day one. That’s the type of reasoning we’re dealing with in BFA. It’s piss poor, in my opinion.

Then we have the Azerite gear system. Who thought this was going to be more fun and successful than tier sets? There’s way too many moving pieces for it to be successful. It’s impossible to balance. Lets go back to the basics, Blizzard. Can we have less RNG and more intuitive game mechanics? Would be swell. :cow:

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I think it would be ridiculous to assume Blizzard is intentionally trying to kill their own game. This seems to come down to incompetence. We have seen the game steadily decline and going back as far as WoD we could see the newer members of the development team, make huge mistakes that could have been avoided by better management. Before WoD, Blizzard had never made decisions that were so bad they destroyed a full expansion. The new developers and management don’t live and breath the game like the original team and that is reflected in the final product.

The last thing this game needs is another allied race, we added 6 allied races this expansion and it didn’t improve the game. The new development team has no idea what their players want and they keep trying to shape the game to their expectations and not the players expectations. I have never been on the Wow is dying bandwagon until BFA. I honestly don’t think Ion and the rest of his team have the slightest idea on how to improve the game going forward. BFA was created without any player input. They charged into BFA, shaping the game to exactly how they want it, despite the millions of posts and feedback against it.

The perfect example is the GDC changes to the start of the expansion, there is no way the person who put that into the game has ever played wow. There is no excuse for decisions like that, and it killed off the tanking pool at launch.

The future of wow has never looked so grim.

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I went back and did all the zones, 5 man and raid content solo and other than the Spine “beware, beware!” They were pretty cool.

Wasn’t too big of a fan of the underwater place. The concept was cool, just found swimming everywhere irritating.

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My cousin would let me play on his characters when I would spend the night over at our grandmothers house. And this was during Wrath, because of him I got into WoW.
Life is good

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The aren’t trying to kill it. I just think they have a very unrealistic perspective of what players want… Enjoy… Etc…

You wont please every single person but they definitely dropped the ball with this expansion so far.

First impressions matter and after this one it’ll take alot to win me over at least.

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Yes, they want to kill a game that makes them millions and millions and millions of dollars every year, because that makes total sense.

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Agreed. It feels like there’s a team of inexperienced developers working on BFA. Because if BFA was an accumulation of all the learned knowledge from the past expansions it would be 100% better than it is now. Instead we have a fresh new attempt at an MMORPG with some recycled content from Legion.

This also supports the theory that there is an A team and B team that work on expansions. The A team works on the good, air tight expansions that are fun and engaging and make sense. The B team is there to work on “filler expansions” that aren’t as good and produce work that serve as a distraction while A team works on the next solid product. BFA feels very much like a filler expansion.

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I think that the presumption of this is that the company has no intention of killing it, so the devs are trying to kill it instead.

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i really feel sorry for the players who love WOW like you, i hope one day blizzard would listen to players’ feedback

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