Just got off the Dragonflight free trial, didn’t last long, yeah this voice acting just embodies everything I hate about new Blizzard, it’s like nails on chalkboard. It’s unbearable.
I wish the retail team all the best with their future adventures , they clearly have strong visions about where to take Warcraft.
EDIT: I won’t even dignify toxic and hateful comments here with a response. You know who you are and you’re very much part of the reason many people don’t like modern Warcraft.
It’s funny you mention that, this prevailing culture of defining almost any opinion you don’t agree with as somehow having malicious intent is in part probably why games like retail Warcraft is the way it is.
Yeah that little gem is compounded by the awful truckstop novel-tier dialogue writing, which is also a major problem it seems. I’m sure it blows 13 year olds minds but judging by decreasing sales I doubt the majority of the playerbase is under 16, so no idea why they’re targeting such a young audience in their writing.
What about the voice acting set you off enough to quit? I can’t honestly say I pay any attention to it, most of the time it doesn’t even play for me because i have the volume set so low.
I made the mistake of paying attention to it, I guess, it’s just awful for a Blizzard title. Lots of little things make me go “Wait, Blizzard made this?” in this expansion.
You know what, they should start banning any and all criticism against retail, label it as malicious attacks, and ONLY have positive public facing discussions so Activision executives browsing the internet can be at ease, I see this attitude picking up a lot of speed on spaces like Reddit and Wowhead, happy days right up until everyone at the Warcraft team loses their jobs from lack of sales. Brilliant strategy.