Is it just me or is this prepatch.... totally lame?

Title says it all.

So we can do 3 dailies, search for a rare every 20 minutes…Oh yeah, and the world boss.

-_-

Kinda like what we’ve been doing with Nyalotha dailies for the last 8 months?

This is just lazy game design, and honestly has me reconsidering purchasing shadowlands. How long did it take them to make this prepatch? a team of 5 guys 40 minutes? What was it like 4:30 on a Friday afternoon and happy hour was about to start?

edit: I notice a lot of responses are “well what did you expect?” or something to that effect. I would just like to point out that, our expectations for new content are so low, that no one is even contesting the prepatch is lame. We ALL AGREE (ok well apparently 1 dude doesn’t. good for him eyeroll ) that it is lame. What we disagree on is, whether or not that should be expected. Isn’t that like… kinda sad? That the entire community’s expectations for a pre-patch are THAT LOW?

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That seems like a loaded question. I choose not to answer.

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This is foretelling the shadowlands experience.

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Most prepatches have pretty shallow content. Not sure what you were expecting.

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fair enough.

I mean, i doubt blizzard would delete a post or get you in trouble just because you have an opinion on their content which isn’t worshipping the ground they walk on.

So yeah ill say it unabashedly.

This is a terrible prepatch, with virtually no content.

Probably took a team of 5 guys less then a week to put it together.

ITs objectively horrible./

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Hunt for rares?

You mean “spend 30 seconds killing rares and over 20 minutes just waiting for them to be killed in 30 seconds and not getting anything from them,” right?

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well i was expecting more then 3 daily quests, and a world boss.

like this is by a wide margin the worst prepatch ever.

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It’s not a loaded statement. I’ve checked the ptr and for the time before we had the pre-patch I begged to have pre-patch delayed because there was nothing to do.

But since we have it now, why do we have to wait 400 minutes for a specific boss if you arrive 2 seconds late?

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yeah sorry my bad, good catch there

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Only up for two weeks. Would be nice if the could put in a mechagon level of effort for it with it’s own instance… But it’s only up for two weeks.

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Honestly I was really excited, but we literally get 2 chances at loot from blightcaller and 2 weeks of daily quests… they really should have started this one drop day so we had actual time to enjoy it. I feel like I’m rushing for all my alts to do it.

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hey there’s a bag… welp time to log

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Yeah I don’t think you’re wrong here, but it’s just a pre-patch. They had to push back the launch date of the expac just to make sure it wasn’t completely busted. If we have to trade a weaker Pre-Patch for a better Shadowlands start I’ll take it. First impressions are everything.

“I also see that Shadowlands could still be a complete bust, just trying to stay optimistic.” :slight_smile:

Cheers.

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Imagine actually GETTING the bag.

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It’s not awful.

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Is it just me or do people hype up these pre-expansion events in their own heads, then get mad at Blizzard for not meeting their own imaginary expectations?

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you’re right.

its GOD awful. Radioactive dumpster fire awful.

Being-A-Roman-in-Tuedoberg-Forest awful.

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I mean Mists of Pandaria’s pre-patch was literally just a 5-minute scenario, and it’s regarded as one of the best expansions.

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I mean i didn’t have super high expecations. But I sure as hell had higher expecations then “here is 3 new daily quests, and a world boss”

Thats just sad.

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I don’t. I have learned to temper my expectations for alot of things in my life since 2009 (not because of WoW).

Can’t get disappointed if you don’t have expectations.

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