So what’s your doomerism for WoW.
What major bad thing do you think is harming the game the most.
Catering to certain casuals too much. At some point when you have no free time because of work, family etc it might be time to move on instead of expecting the game to evolve around you.
Kinda miss having a long term power grind that takes the place of gearing once done with it. Was always fun having some extra power to get through the season and watching that system evolve through out the expansion.
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probably the silliest most brain rot take i’ve heard in a while.
blizzard is a business first. they want more casuals because casuals actually have money to spend. not the lowlife loser that spends 80 hours a week on wow because they are unemployed and the only thing they gave going for them is being able to be elitist in a vidya game.
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Recycling old content and trying to convince players its new.
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If you’re spending 80 hours on anything a week to get things done on anything then you’ve got some serious time management problems.
bing bing buzzword! You can still compete in this game without spending 80 hours a week! Just stop sitting in Dornagal for hours on end and do something. Takes like 3-4 hours to fill out a vault if you’re actively wanting to do keys, far less for raiding/delves.
You’re probably part of 1% of players who somehow thought borrowed power systems were “fun” or “engaging.”
What do casuals have to do with terrible systems put into place because we had such a crap talent system?
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The things which are harming the game the most are too profitable to fix.
EDIT:
…you realize when WoW launched it was the baby-mode MMO, right?
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They were crappy at the start and fun at the end, and instead of improving on that in the next expansion they’d scrap it and go back to square one.
They were their worst enemy when it came to borrowed power.
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Twas fine in legion before we fully understood that our artifacts would become garbage at the end only to do it all over again.
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And for them to do the same at the end of BFA.
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Players in forums hating on each other for enjoying the game differently than they do. WoW is a big tent. Just because we favor different parts of it is no reason to constantly dump on those who play differently. That goes every which way, whether your favorite part is M+ or Remix or TW or Delves or… Learn to live and let live instead of pooping on each other all the time.
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The 1% of people in the forums who think they speak for “the community” who have been predicting WoW’s demise since Cataclysm.
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I don’t have any particular to say, other than that I really don’t think WoW has another 20 years left.
Classic is fun during a fresh run, but how many times are people willing to go again?
Retail, it’s ‘fine’ but is undeniably losing steam. TWW launched strong but fizzled out over time.
Quality-wise, everything is just going down, and noticeably so in my eyes. So many bugs, and recycled content.
I can’t remember the last time I was actually hyped for this game lol. Probably Argus in Legion.
11.1, I played it on the PTR and it’s nice, but I can’t say it’s going to really change my opinion of TWW.
WoW just feels like a really “mid” game at best these days.
Something to do if you’re bored, but honestly there’s more enjoyable games.
The parts I enjoy don’t seem to get much attention, like PvP and player cosmetics like glyphs. Or just class balance.
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Not listening to the community enough and not communicating with us enough is what I feel is their biggest issue rn.
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The majority of the playerbase is casual. Without them, you have no funds and no game 
that’s the lesson Blizzard has learned, and they almost learned it too late. No one, except a vocal minority, plays for “raid/Mythic or die”.
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I also really enjoyed the power grinds, so I’m right there with you. I especially enjoyed that everything I did increased my character’s power… now, within a few weeks of the season start, almost nothing but the vault does.
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People have been claiming “this is going to be the end of WoW!” for 20 years.
But surely it will do it this time.
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Honestly IDK, I think Shadowlands did the most harm.
Atm though its gotta be recycled content, and Devs pulling punches on creativity (seems like that well is drying up)
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They learned a lesson alright, that the casual player will happily suck up any sort of recycled content and praise it because it comes out frequently.
I don’t play for that either? Do people really think it’s just casuals and the .1%? There’s a MASSIVE amount of players inbetween that.
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Removing fan interaction. I still miss the fan art, comics, and screenshot of the day. Forums are a shell of their former glory.
What’s bad for current wow? Wasting resources keeping vanilla around. Do what people asked for and keep it exactly as it was. Nothing new added. Ever. Do a Version 2.0 top to bottom remaster instead. Get the original devs together and have them release the World of Warcraft they wanted to but couldn’t due to MMO inexperience and technological limitations.
Blizz not learning from their past mistakes. TWW profs feel too much like Legion kinds of stupid. Keeping the Pathfinder flight lock on old expansions and think new players will like it.
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