This is just insane. There was an article on some website (vg247) talking about the Reddit post and asking for people’s feedback on the game. I write a whole long post about it and in an hour it gets flagged as “spam”. So what? I can’t even say negative things about the game anymore without people trying to silence it? Is blizzard deleting comments again? Well here’s my post again and please tell me if its spam…
The current state of play huh? My current state of play is not playing even though I have a 6 month sub until May. Yes, I bought it. Why? Because I’ve been a WoW player since 2004 and have rarely ever unsubbed from the game. Only in times where money was tight and I was far too busy IRL to play anyways did I unsub. Other than that, even if I needed a break or whatever I would just leave my sub going because I always come back to WoW. It’s part of my life, it got me through rough times at home growing up. It gave me a place to get away from real life and delve into a world where I could be basically whatever I wanted. So when I saw a mount for 6 months of sub time I just figured, “I’m gonna be subbed anyways so why not get a mount for it.” Mistake.
This mistake happened because I was still jaded by the new expansion and art to see what the game has turned into. It’s exactly as the Reddit poster describes, a casino drug addiction replicator. All it is now is praying to the RNG God’s to be nice to you and maybe give you what you want, then praying some more for titanforges, then praying some more for sockets.
Professions are no different either, other than the fact most are utterly worthless except for as you guessed it, alchemy, gear you make is all RNG stats that could basically be anything. And to make the gear you have to farm a thing called expulsom which is only made from scrapping green or better items and, you guessed it, that’s RNG on whether you get them. Scrapping basically killed enchanting because enchanters have to choose between disenchanting and scrapping.
Everything story related is built on keeping you subbed as long as possible in order squeeze every dime they can out of you. Rep grinds, time gates, azerite power grinds, it’s all about a grind. Which, mmorpgs are a grind, I’m aware of that but this is taking grind to a whole new level. Not to mention, classes feel so cookie cutter it’s disgusting. Everything has pretty much the same kit because everyone needs to feel included which utterly leads to people just taking the class that has the best version of it in the end. Druids (lol not feral though), demon hunters, rogues, warlocks, death knights…scrap the rest. Oh and to play these classes you need maybe like 3 buttons, SO IMMERSIVE.
In my 14 years of playing, never have I been so downright bored playing my classes. It’s literally disgusting. I remember having bars on bars of abilities and niche things and yeah it was overwhelming but it was also awesome. Sure some of those abilities had rare uses but if you could utilize them, that’s what made you stand out. Every expansion used to come with new talents or abilities to look forward to. This one? Neither. Nothing. Nada. Zip. What did we get? Azerite abilities which don’t even get me started on that dogcrap concept.
I feel no attachment to my class anymore at all. Talent points and artifacts even are long gone. Anything that made me feel like I’m building this toon is gone. Now it’s just 120 or bust and oh yeah I hope you get the right azerite traits on your gear and have enough free time to slam your head into your keyboard for several hours a day farm a truly amazingly boring concept. You literally can farm it by facerolling your keyboard given how class rotations are now.
Oh and hey, if you do manage to get through all that and get your gear just right, your azerite power high enough, you think you’re gonna feel powerful? Wrong. Mobs scale with you based on what you have so no matter what you do you feel like a worthless pleb. People literally utilized an exploit of turning your xp gains off at 110 to help people power level to 120 because at 110 you are stronger than anything 111-120. How sad is that?
I could go on and on about how they have done the impossible and fill out ruined every aspect of what made this game great. Now the only people left are collectors or casuals. You can literally tell if you get to end game just how little skilled players are left. Guess that’s why they need to keep dumbing it down more and more.
To sum it up, I HIGHLY doubt I will be back anytime soon. The only thing I will come back for is classic, provided ion doesnt get his lawyer hands on it and ruin that too. Even though with sharding and loot changes I’m already losing faith in that. Maybe it’s time to accept that my friend WoW if finally dying to this cancer that is Activision Blizzard. Maybe I should just move past my denial and on to acceptance. We had a good run WoW and many memories and friends were made along the way. RIP.
Tldr. A website asked for players opinion on the current state of game play in wow. “We want to hear from you.” Gave my two cents (negative feedback) and got reported as spam within one hour.