Maybe they’re changing to xpac-specific Chronicles?!
Grimoire?!
Shadowlands?!
“and Beyond”?!
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100% honest, I’d rather periodic retcons (whether pseudoretcons aka “Lore clarifications” or hard retcons aka “changing the past”) than “UWU IT’S A MYSTERY WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUE ANSWER TEE HEE”
I fully disagree. They have a tendency to canonize things that I fully hate.
“yeah the shadowlands doesn’t have ancient death gods, they’re just plebs watched over by a robot. except for the night elf winter queen night elf god, that’s a real god and she dunks on troll gods.”
I mean again man, just being real, but if WoW is no longer sparking joy for you, why stay?
Like I took a break during mid-MoP because the narrative I felt was trash and ugly. I took another break at the end of WoD cuz the story didn’t make a lick of sense.
Sometimes you just need a break, and if after a few months away from the game the contempt/anger is still there, then play other things until it goes away (if it goes away).
Cuz like we are moving in a Hard Worldbuilding direction, I don’t think one can question that.
Easily. Play the game for the game, and play for the story in a secondary fashion. As it should be. It’d be [person’s] loss if they stopped playing because they disliked the story direction/retcons/whatever, when they should be playing a video game first and foremost.
I don’t separate the story from the game though. Idk how old you are but I think that logic, of playing a game for the sake of playing a game is uncommon among Gen Y (Millennials) or Older and more common among Gen Z (Zoomers).
I (late Millennial, 25 years old) cannot separate a story from the game mechanics. If the story has a 0/100 score, I don’t care if it’s mechanically my ideal game, I won’t play it. Likewise if the story is perfect but the mechanics are crap (to me), I also won’t play it.
