Spittin’ straight facts.
Another day, another attempt at finding answers…
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/development-update-the-road-to-shadowlands/638371
I never felt more ignored than I do now. Not once was it brought up that you open the quests we were already involved in. Not once did you bring up the fact that we have to help the other covenants regardless of which one we choose.
I believe I, and the many others that liked this post and commented, were ignored.
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I literally didn’t know this was even a thing until I read your post in the responses to Watcher’s post.
How is this not a bigger deal? “Just YouTube the story” is the best way to handle the story? I thought they were trying to make this more like a traditional RPG? Yes, let’s make the game impossible to balance, prevent people from being able to freely choose in a MMO, and completely restrict them from seeing the entire story?
If this is their attempt to make an RPG, please don’t bother trying to make a single player one. It would get absolutely torched if these are your methods for creating an RPG. These guys REALLY don’t know what they’re doing.
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I’m also getting sick and tired of people calling me entitled just because I want to see the full story and not 1/4th of the story when I pick a covenant…
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‘Entitled’ is go-to dismissal on these forums. If your opinion or concern is anything less than ‘the game is perfect’, then you are ‘entitled’. Doesn’t matter how valid it is, you are always ‘entitled’. And even if you do think it’s perfect, you’re probably still ‘entitled’, somehow.
It gets tossed around so much the word has almost lost all meaning.
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It’s so funny, because there isn’t an actual story reason why you don’t join all of them. They all cooperate pretty well, and their dailies constantly send you to help the others. The idea of only being able to join 1, after saving all 4 yourself, is kind of stupid and half baked.
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You probably shouldn’t sweat this and some point loss of money will overcome ego and this Dev team will open it up to all, greed is greater than bullheadedness.
I’m only upset about this because I don’t want to have to cancel my sub after 15 years playing…
But I can’t possibly enjoy playing this game knowing I have to jump through covenant hoops and grind every rep and renown just to see the story line I was already a part of before picking the covenant…
Another day, another attempt to get some sort of answers.
On top of this, there are more constant bugs in beta that make no sense: I can’t deposit anima anymore so they’re filling up my bags.
This game is supposed to be live in less than a month, right? 
I don’t want to ruin your impression of why this game exists, but it’s to extract money from players without expending additional development effort. If ActiBlizz could make the process take two years without people quitting in droves, that’s exactly what they would do. I would be willing to bet some of the dev staff would quit too because that would be a cr@ppy thing to have to go into work for.
It’s possible that the storyline already exists, and there’s already additional story content ready to go, but it’s not visible to people in beta. We can hope. Or it’s not and people will just not play. I have six months of game time and that’s how long I’m going to play. Maybe a year after this game time expires I’ll come back for the couple of months it would take to finish out the meager story that gets tacked on at the end. Or I’ll just keep playing FF XIV, because they seem to have taken the opposite approach of adding a variety of content.
Some questions I would like to have answered.
1.) If we leave a covenant, and then return to it later, do we keep our renown or does it reset?
2.) If we have anima reserved, does that also get reset if we switch back and forth?