And with that being said there are still some good things about SL that are enjoyable. I wouldn’t say the expansion is in good shape, but I continued my sub for the last three months with gold. I wouldn’t have even done that with BFA so take that however you want.
There’s still some pretty big negatives, for me the biggest one is just how blatantly obvious the time gating has become. The game does not respect your time. It’s kind of funny but you’d probably be better off playing the game or trying it out later rather than picking it up now.
Maybe you’ll lose interest and forget too.
Sounds pretty stupid, right? Esp for a MMO. But that’s kinda where we’re at.
Why do people ask others if they should play a game? Just log in and try it out that’s the only way you will know. Even reviewers aren’t a great gauge at figuring out if you’ll like something.
It’s totally failure to you becoz you are on a wrong game. You are expecting WoW to become something that it wont become. WoW is always all about dungeons, raid and PvP. If you love this, you would be fine as WoW has been like this since Vanilla. And every expansion, it has new a system. It will not be removed. It will stay on all incoming expansions.
That really comes down to what you enjoy in the game.
If you want to come back on a casual basis, just to see the new zones, play the new quest lines, etc… it might be. There is tons of new stuff to experience.
If you want to co me back to raid, it’s definitely worth it IMO. The new raid is quite good, far better than CN so far IMO.
If you want to come back for PvP, probably not. The pvp itself is decent, some balancing issues but that’s always the case. But the gearing right now in PvP, especially for returning players or alts, is pretty bad. Trying to get caught up is painful.
What did you expect from someone who called me a moron for telling them there’s something called “Business Continuity” followed by every company in terms of giving people work from home laptops and procedures?
Taste is subjective so I can’t tell you personally that the game is worth coming back to. For me however I’m having a blast right now. New raid, new content, new dungeon, new m+ affixes, etc. so I’m enjoying going around and doing all of those things. I’m in an active guild though so we do a lot of things together and I think that makes all the difference when it comes to a game like this.
I also personally feel that the Shadowlands expansion is getting a lot of undue hate. The balances have pretty much brought all covenants and classes within a couple of percentage points of each other so those choices aren’t as glaring as they used to be. The questing is solid as are the raids and dungeons. I think that if 9.1 delivered on a normal content timeframe as other .1 patches we wouldn’t even be having a FFXIV conversation right now.
No. Despite my many problems with the current development teams direction (or lack of,) There are still aspects of the game that are great.
This would depend on what you enjoy doing. If you just like to raid and find the current raid to be fun then the answer would be yes. As it would if you liked the current M+ dungeons etc.
Many of the people you see who are complaining like myself are doing so because we want more. I find raids to be ok the first couple of times through but have no interest in doing mythic raiding. I’ll clear +15’s with friends because I enjoy the social aspect but the dungeons are already getting old. Every patch continues to be the exact same thing with the only new content added are more combat systems, one raid and maybe a dungeon. Meanwhile other games have a ton of features that have been asked for by players and I’ve finally decided to branch out and try them in other games instead of hoping that some day the devs will decide to add them to WoW.
If you haven’t played much of WoW, you’ll still enjoy the content for a while. The criticism, while valid, often comes from long-time players or returning players with memories of the golden times.
I will say this: Blizzard’s near-complete inability to re-integrate (or even handle) old content has left much of it feeling abandoned. You’ll soon find that, unless you find yourself getting into the raiding aspect of the game, it quickly becomes a boring and empty experience. The game isn’t, in broad terms, bad - it’s just soulless.
My advice? Enjoy it now, while you can. Do the content you find fun, and ignore all the content you don’t.
In all likelihood, there will be a day in the near future in which you will no longer be able to play an official copy of WoW. There is no good reason that this has to happen; but most people know, based on how Actiblizzard is currently operating, there is very little real chance of recovery.
So… yes. Play the game! Enjoy what you want, and complain about the rest - like us!
thanks for the in depth explanation! I’ve been playing 9.1 for five days and been having a lot of fun, at ilvl 218 from 198. besides it being hard to get to Korthia rares before they die xd
cheers to everyone playing FFXIV though I’m glad you’re having fun in that game