The good news is that once they can’t get away with it WoW can be a great game again. Shadowlands truly is the greatest expansion in potential, it just has so many weird decisions holding players back from experiencing it for how it should be.
Feb 5th they are announcing either a major content patch or the next expansion for FFXIV too so I think that bodes well for the future of WoW. I hope more people try it out because even if it’s just a temporary swap over to take a break from WoW, it sends a message to blizzard and helps the industry move in a better direction as a whole. Lots of people won’t look back and find that they were simply prejudice toward FFXIV for superficial reasons.
@Hellasha You can skip the dialogue if you want, you can pay to skip through the story to latest expansion. I did that, but then found the gameplay so compelling that I made an alt and am now at the end of the second expansion. I have been reading 100% of the dialogue and closely paying attention to every cut scene. It’s not the reason I am playing the game at all, and I really want to get to the current end game, but I really feel like the game deserves the playthrough and I don’t mind it at all. Games are meant to be played through, not to be done with.
I agree that the dialogue is brutal and it’s more like a visual novel for the MSQ than an mmo, but if you’re not playing for that game then just skip through it all and get to the gameplay. The gameplay at end game is WAY more engaging than WoW.