“Change” is good, bait and switch isn’t change.
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It’s just like at the beginning with the rating of Dragonflight, which was often rated at best as mediocre but more often worse by the masses.
There were also players who said, “But I think Dragonflight is a solid 10/10, so everyone must automatically think like me, and those who rate it lower are just a small minority or bots, etc.”
Of course, there will always be some who like something even though many rate it poorly, but to simply ignore the bad ratings because they personally find something super great… 
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I’m assuming by default that every so called “human author” of any gaming news article is actually an AI chat bot.
I saw this article and think Lauren is trash.
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Everything they love that has a poor rating was “review bombed” so hard data is still only useful if they agree with it.
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Sadly lots of humans write bad articles too. Sometimes on purpose to stir the pot. I’m not convinced that was her intention here though. I think she really believes what she’s writing. 
Following your no sense logic, should exist only one game per genre… only one rpg, only one shooter, only one racing …
It’s new for blizzard and for wow. doesn’t matter if other games like this exists. Battle Royale is a genre of games, and a genre have multiples games about it.
I’m surprised the article didn’t say millennials are killing wow since we killed everything else apparently
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But how do you know? With “fake news” we have other sources we can use to cross check. “Trust but verify”. In fact I wonder why anyone falls for that stuff with all the varied sources available. In any case here we don’t have that kind of information.
What we do know is that polling agencies like Harris and Gallup never use internet forums to collect their numbers. The reason, internet forums are extremely biased in favor of someone who has an agenda to push.
Lol! That’s funny. And even more funny, it’s actually been said. Right here on these forums I’ve heard people argue over boomers, millennials, zoomers, and what have you being bad for the game because X, Y and Z reasons. Of course everyone forgets generation X though. Poor Xers. 
This describes ALL endgame content.
In game polls would help alot. Not forum polls.
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I mean, you do have the option to give feedback in the game, but I strongly doubt that something like that will ever be read by the devs.
Wait scrapped content is trying something new? I mean I guess it is. I don’t care if it evolves into them producing more PvP content if it means someone there figured out how to copy paste then great! If players keep pretending that elitist 40 man raids where the average player never sees loot unless he joins some psuedo cult is widely marketable then yeah they will kill it.
The world isn’t the world anymore Jim
I’m sorry the devs are going to have to admit THEY HAVE BEEN WRONG and change their normal content cycle. The time sink into world content that is just temporary life cycle is essentially a long term/big picture waste. The millisecond parts of the world are copy pasted into an instance with any type of game mode structure they instantly get more use out of it. Furthermore the world isn’t even world content it’s just various instances (phases) stitched together that people pop in and out of. Traffic is already artificially driven there through events and time gates / rep / currency farms.
Making great PvP content just comes down to making the equivalent to a modded map. You don’t need to make new assets are reinvent the wheel or try and come up with some spin to get promoted. Just make simple common game modes with the assets already in the game.
Game modes
Different game modes can have different rule sets so PvP can have more depth and more attractiveness to players. Why is there not a all vehicle BG with the extensive list of vehicles added throughout the game? We have submarines, destroyers, airplanes, gyrocopters, siege engines, demolishers, glaives, catapults, mechs, shredders, spider tanks just about anything.
Inside VRchat there’s probably 20+ zones all completely converted and explorable some with NPCs, blows my mind how we can talk about crossplay and so on but it never includes VR still. Imagine actually having these 20 year collections something tangible in VR for your players its just further down the rabbit hole.
Why is there not BR, FFA, and 1v1 available in the game these are simple game modes that provide avenues to play independent of the “meta” mentality? Isn’t it better to give people a chance to learn the game at their own pace and on their own terms? We’ve seen with 100% certainty that fair play can’t be enforced in a timely manner so why is the only solo game mode one that traps you with 5 people for multiple rounds? It’s a recipe for ill will. There’s been this massive GATEKEEPING of what content is and isn’t allowed in WoW by the dev team / decision makers / incentivers.
Make a solo pvp mode that’s actually a solo pvp mode. Make some stat equalized modes like a FFA/BR where you have low equalized stats at the start (stat weights saved) and you unlocked percentages through green-epic armor pick ups. There doesn’t have to be this all encompassing dogmatic approach to the overall design if you over a wide enough array of content.
It’s very easy to create multiple modes that function differently as long you clear and concise IN GAME about that modes quirks.
If you can make a zone, a dungeon, a raid every patch then you can make a pvp content every patch. We’re essentially just asking for modded maps. You can say what you want but you’re not fooling anyone. It’s not a cross they’ll nail on or hill to die on. It’s a week two weeks of adderall.
I was talking about polls like they did for season 4 tier sets. Just do them in game instead
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I didn’t read the article yet, but I do agree with this.
If Blizzard believes all the feedback and then acts on it… what’s the lesson they’ll learn from this, from the vocal minority? Well, it will be to not try new things or to try to have fun with the game… which would eventually kill the game.
If on the other hand, Plunderstorm is being built as a prototype so that Blizzard can in the future encourage seasonal passes and microtransactions… they themselves will hurt or kill their own game.
Maybe we saw some? But, Blizzard themselves openly stated that they thought it would be a smash hit and that it had a mediocre response. But, again, that’s the vocal minority. And Blizzard devs need to try and do things they’re passionate about, regardless of positive or negative feedback… to some extent.
The article was entirely out of touch and heavily white knighting for blizzard. More “toxic Fandom” tropes.
Imagine if someone wrote an article about warzone players will kill warzone because activision releases an RTS game mode with warzone unlockables in that seperate game mode. Stupid right? This chick literally wrote such an article related to Blunderstorm.
We want lots of things new, we just want lots of things new in WoW. Blunderstorm is not wow, its not even for the players.
I’m getting sick of people fan bashing when studios do something remarkably and objectively stupid and the fans dislike it. As if these major corporations can do no wrong and fans are expected to march lockstep or else they’re racist, misogynist, toxic, etc.
Blizzard, you screwed up. Strap some ice on it and do better.
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The article is more or less just a great crash course in DARVO. Denying who is at fault. Attacking who isn’t. Reversing the victim and offender.
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The author is inconsistent right from the beginning.
And in the same breath:
Plunderstorm is as much of an adopted feature from other games as dynamic flight is, but they seem to be cherry picking their facts.
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Personally I don’t think there are any victims in the context of Plunderstorm. 
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