WoD: Starting content was good, there just wasn’t much of it. It was delicious, but just nothing to go around and you got bored and left.
BFA is the inverse. Content is mediocre but you never run out of it. At times it feels like you’re just grinding through the motions and being force fed or sick of the stuff over and over. It’s just everywhere. Some ideas are good, but they go full horse and double down on all the worst ones. You’re not starving, you’re constantly chewing content, but enjoying it, maybe not so much. Also if you leave the retaurant, you have to find car finder where you have to spend 4 months building rep with the tow truck finder accord to grind rep with the sea aquarium turtles to grind 4 months of rep with the short bearded people to get Carfinder unlocked.
Or, as Chris Metzen described it a little while afterwards, “the Orc problem”. Hence Frostfire Ridge.
WoD was one where I was closely following friends who had beta access - some of them prominent community members - and VERY early on into the final stages of the game being finished, they were raising the red flags. “There doesn’t seem to be anything at all to do at level cap expect raid”.
They were right. Unless playing “fill the bar” was your idea of fun.
It’s why I resent the current “assaults”, because they’re just as abusive of player time as the WoD dailies were (and those were only created “to have something to earn reputations with”, seriously).
WoD was a glorious, ambitious expansion that got 80% of its content thrown in the bin at the eleventh hour. I still hope one day, someone like Jason Schreier will dig around and do a story on what REALLY happened (surely those NDAs have expired by now!) From the highs of 5.2 MoP to a sudden shift to “systems” design in 5.3 to the massive content drought to WoD with its very introduction cobbled together weeks before release… something went drastically, terribly wrong.
So no, by comparison, BfA is a masterpiece. But it’s that “systems systems systems” mantra that’s starting to overwhelm the game, and level scaling makes both levelling and all level-cap outside of instances utterly boring and demotivating.
In 15 years, WOD was the only time I took a break from wow. Blizzard openly admitted and apologized for abandoning it, and moved on to legion. It was crap, just you.
An entire part of the dranor contenent never made it to game it was cut so very much was lost and cut and rushed in WOD. It will never in my opinion be better then any of the expansions it was poorly written poorly executed and the only great part of it was it was canned quickly and opened to legion
In short WoD was like tiny food of delicious hor’devours when you signed up for a 59.99$ premium buffet more expensive than any before. The content was great, but you didn’t have enough of it. The only thing to do was garrison and sure farming was great. professions were great, you could craft heroic quality gear and BOEs that could upgrade from normal 120 dungeon drops, equip them at 111 on a alt. and then upgrade them from lfr to normal to heroic quality with upgrade packs that each took exponentially more resources.
Outside from that gameplay evolved into.
Go into your garrison
Raise a army of 5 alts
Go fishing and get campaign done
Raise a army of 10 alts
Go hunt some clefthoods for leather and trap them and farm your garrison herbs
Raise a army of 20 alts.
Unlock 20 goblins and treasure finders and loot 2000 g x 300% * 3 blingtron treasure missions.
Buy wow tokens and get bored.
Go farm more clefthoof for hides.
Log in for daily transmutes.
Complete the 1-4 weekly bosses you needed. (Usually just heroic archmonde and heroic manoroth, who basically gave starter tier mythic loot and better trinkets and arguably harder for many guilds who did a couple mythic but struggled and still reserved loot from him for the weekly ring.
After that, you ran out.
Then BFA is just like log in and play the game and every day is chores. You have to spend the first 3 months grinding essences and rep to fly, and then once you do, you can finally play the game. Then you have to grind cloak, after you grind cloak, if you never unlocked essences you still need to do that. And heroic for war campaign which time gates the upgrade to 50, wasting all previously grinded ap and taking 2-3 weeks.
After that you can’t fly on your first, after which you THEN need to grind turtle rep, after which you need to pvp in unviable gear, raid to get your single target essence in 8.2 content, grind weekly chests for 8.3 content, do weekly visions for 8.3 content. Do weekly chest, raid, etc… mechagon, nazjatar ally quests, two sets of daillies. It’s just ridic.
This is the worst part of WoD , it literally killed WoW, people quit FOR GOOD they don’t give it that chance # 9001 .
Legion brought back some people willing to give wow another chance, but it killed people off for good.
Whats sad is I actually did like 75% of those grinds you mentioned but gave up, bfa made me quit wow but classic brought me back.
ill probably stay for burning crusade classic, and never going back to retail again
Sure. But you only said that because you probably don’t agree with them. Also I wouldn’t ever expect there to be a shortage of complaints about a current WoW expansion.
There’s a lot of “spent” things on this forum. 95% of it is unoriginal threads.
I don’t expect anyone to stop nor do I think they have to, just making a comparison.
Wod had nice leveling , garrisons were neat (IMHO) , but there was a lack of things to do besides that. BFA has had more content to do. (for casual players at least)
I liked WOD for the most part (what I played anyway). I’d say it’s better than BFA but I also dislike the direction they’ve gone since Legion with the game… WOD was the last expansion that didn’t feel completely foreign to me.
Never! Anyone who knows anything knows that WoD was nothing but a bunch of people playing in their garrisons all day and farming nothing but gold. Okay maybe some of the raids were good and the classes a bit better, but that doesn’t excuse it.
WoD was a lesson in how not to do an expansion. WoD is the reason Legion happened! I cannot stress the importance of this enough. If we get another WoD we lose, and we lose big. It can’t happen it just can’t. We had 0 new classes, 0 new races, and a frickin’ twitter patch for content. It was a travesty.
It was imo. If you were a hardcore person who consumes content like an 800 pounder consumes twinkies, sure I bet you got bored of it. For the rest of us, it was not half bad.
BFA is just bad. The content is there, but its not fun at all. And its not just a few of us that think it. Compare the Metacritic user scores for WoD and BFA. WoD wins easily.