In milkman mode. Gee, I wonder why people are trying out other games?
“Idiots” like me?
Enlighten me on where I said the game is doing fine? I’ll wait.
While you’re at it, do some self reflection and stop projecting your own issues onto others.
The Dev’s are too busy removing fart jokes, women, and silly emotes to concern themselves with actual game content.
What were you thinking making a post like this? This game isn’t about your wants and frankly you’re just being entitled to complain about these things. This game is for the devs
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Serious question, here:
Since you say there’s so little to do, OP, why have you done so little of it?
Or, put another way, why should Blizzard rush out more content for you to not do, since you’ve done so little of what they’ve already offered?
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This is a well-thought-out post and any of this is possible.
But people should really consider some alternative possibilities that don’t get talked about as much.
BfA was a real stinker of an expansion. Maybe they looked at things they did in BfA and realized, “Hm. That just didn’t hold on to players.”
Maybe they feel that putting a lot of money into mid-expansion cinematics doesn’t get them much. Launch cinematics (i.e. Sylvanas vs Lich King) are a useful marketing tool. But the Saurfang ones? Did they really get people to sub or re-sub? Or was it just something that lapsed players watched on youtube and then that was that?
As for the patches… 3 tiers of content is not unusual. In fact it’s pretty normal. Legion was 3 tiers, Cata was 3 Tiers, Mists of Pandaria was 3 tiers. The only 4-tier expansions were Wrath and BfA, one of which did well and the other one didn’t. Expecting another 4-tier expansion just because BfA - strangely - had 4 tiers isn’t realistic.
People should consider that Blizzard isn’t rushing out more content because a lot of people are still working through the current content (which they are, as the numbers show), and a lot of people complaining they want more content ASAP haven’t done what’s already there in the first place. So Blizzard is ignoring them.
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Elder Scrolls Online has cheerfully kept on delivering content patches (with either zone expansions or new dungeons) every three months, and a new expansion every year.
With all the devs working from home.
Blizzard has NO excuse.
People are quitting the game because the current “content” (i.e. “grind this bland, featureless, depressing zone for six months to get upgrades you no longer need”) is HOT GARBAGE.
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People quitting the game because they don’t want to raid, do dungeons, pvp, explore, do achievements, quest, hunt treasures & rares, or just work on their character, are going to quit anyway. Rushing out another patch for them to also ignore would be a fool’s errand on Blizzard’s part.
What’s even worse is when you put this on a grander scale than just WoW, every single one of their IPs/games is 1000% stagnated beyond reason. Every single new game/IP is basically happening in 2022. Some of their games don’t even receive any updates of any kind anymore. They seem to think that people will be able to retain the ability to play the same thing over and over again like we’re in the late 90s/early 00s and that just is so far from the case.
Every competitor puts out so many frequent patch updates its unreal sometimes to compare it. But at this point even I can’t bother excusing this stuff, they are literally letting things go stagnant for no good reason at all. The pandemic isn’t an excuse anymore, the court cases also are not an excuse to begin with. They need to find a way to retain “blizzard polish” while actually putting real updates out, not just for WoW but for all of their games/IPs. It’s inexcusable and at this point 100% disgraceful.
This isn’t the 90s/00s anymore blizz, time to actually pump out some meaningful stuff, probably only got 1 or 2 years left before the vast majority quits for good.
Edit: I still won’t quit anytime soon, still disgraceful nonetheless at this point!
Edit 2: Blizz as far as I know is the only company that did not see growth in player base, but actual decline. I wouldn’t say WoW and others of their games are totally without a player base, 26 million MAUs still exist so its easy to disperse and guess where those players are. But every other game and company only saw growth in the past year or 2, not decline. The pandemic didn’t stop others, I don’t know why on earth it stopped blizz. The second they knew the pandemic was gonna last probably the next 5-10 years because of crazy gov’t is when they should have decided to actually release way more stuff at an accelerated rate.
It is just inexcusable.
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Actually some want to see these legion fixes. which we are supposed to see a little of here. I’d be content and hang around happily if a mythic loop in legion didn’t take forever. And doesn’t need Mythic SoD gear to run. and only tank, self healy…fotm classes can do what is possible in legion atm.
Arthas…I feel bad for him. beat him 10 times last week at least. I’d like to give him a break. and go take basic 60’s, nay even 50’s…since legion is legacy, to beat down gul’dan like a pinata.
The fix there was not to do the stupid and unnecessary level squish in the first place. A bunch of us were warning everyone 'til we were blue in the face that Blizzard was going to massively screw up the level squish - since they haven’t even been able to handle an ilvl squish every time they’ve tried just doing that.
But no, we were constantly told by huge numbers of players on General Discussion that the level squish was necessary and was going to be amazing and nothing could go wrong.
Where are those people now? Hm.
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Aye, FF14 barely skipped a beat too. Even in the “drought” before the expansion they’ve been throwing little events with new quests and items at us to make us happy.
Blizz is just super slow when it comes to putting out patches, and it seems to just be getting worse.
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They also keep rolling everything into these giant mega-patches.
And it’s STUPID.
Imagine if they had released Korthia 2 months before it did, and then Tazzavesh a month after that, and then Sanctum when it actually released. Not only would people have had another 2 months of new stuff to do, but they would have actually delved a lot deeper into all of it.
People might have - GASP - actually done Tazzavesh more than once or twice. (Although many people complaining about lack of content haven’t even done it at all, I notice.)
Things just get lost in the shuffle when Blizzard dumps a ton of stuff on everyone at once. They need to spread it out.
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Well they fire the good devs (or they leave) and then immediately rehire for the empty position at 65% of what the old dev was getting paid, sexual harassment in the workplace, lazy inept management, and they fired all of the CS staff.
I’m amazed we have a game left at all.
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I think you know the answer but like most of us can’t accept it.
Blizzard does not care.
They don’t even bother replying in this forum.
Their legal issues decimated their leadership and programming team, which was understaffed in the first place.
You can’t flip a switch and create content just like that. It takes months.
The content drought we are seeing now is because in the last 6-12 months, Blizzard programming team had done nothing.
And even if they start now, it will take 12 months to generate content.
So yes, nothing for next 12 months. Why do you think so many people have quit ?
Cut your loss. Terminate your monthly sub. Play one of the new games like FF14 or New World while WoW sorts itself out.
When 10.0 is out you make your choice. Do you want to continue supporting this company? If yes then come back then. 2022-2023
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I absolutely agree. Spacing things out is much better than having a giant dump at once and then months of nothing.
that is what I am saying, they didn’t do enough to catch up.
Nobody even has time for anything when they dump it all at once. I’ve only done Tazzavesh once, myself.
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That old chestnut again, eh? “It’s the PLAYER’S fault because they refuse to do the content”.
When the “content” is insulting garbage, don’t you go blaming the players. This is meant to be entertainment, not a day job.
They’re a multi-billion-dollar company that should have figured out how to work with Covid by now - it’s been over a year and a half. Other MMOs don’t seem to have this content constipation problem, just Blizzard.
Nobody is REQUIRED to do the new flavour of Mythic+ - and people like me, who don’t Mythic+ at all, Tazzawhatsit was a non-feature. I no longer have a guild, so I will not be doing it, period. That doesn’t equate to “complaining while not doing the content.” That content was not made for people like me.
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They just fired 20 workers…more to be terminated more then likely…with that Large Lawsuit hanging over their heads …they are trying to scramble and get rid of anything in the games that have that might be considered Sexual or Sexual harassment…there maybe some issue with Covid but not this big…the company is exploding from within and that effects productivity to the max…
Content. That’s the important word. If the content is good people will stick around to do it. If the content is not engaging, they won’t. Lets just assume that not everyone raids, not everyone is entertained by doing the same dungeons over and over in the hope of a relatively small gear upgrade…and why you would want to upgrade gear at this point I have no idea. Let us assume they have all the treasures and rares they want, all the mounts they want or are interested in getting, what else is thre to do?
If you want to see content, take a look at ESO sometime. If I log on now, I will have a set of Writs to do (professions jobs that increase my proffs, get me gold, experience and materials), Endeavours (a series of activities that reward me with a currency and which are different every day and every week and send me all around the game world), Pledges (group dungeons that reward keys to spend on coffers for goodies beyond what you might get in the dungeons), along with crafting quests, achievements that reward you with dyes, gathering, working on your houses, exploring, zones bosses, playing the auction houses in your guilds, doing Delves and other non-instance dungeons, raids, pvp, regular events, the list goes on. There is so much to do that you cannot complete everything in a day on just one toon without spending hours, and new content is released or made available constantly.
If Bethesda can do that, then why cant Blizzard?
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