Please stop the gimmicks and focus on the Retail WoW game

These events are doing too well for them to just stop. I’d wager this is WoW for a good while now.

I’d like to agree with the OP. These extra events and minigames are fun and all, but it feels like the development time could be better used to develop the expansions and expansion features a bit faster.

Would the players prefer a 2 year gap between expansions with these minigames added in between, or would they prefer only a 1 year gap with all content focused on expansion features?

Thank you!

So many people replied “Better this than nothing!” or “This time last expansion there was nothing new” without realizing this extra content does not come for free, but is developed at the expense of something else.

It’s not like a dev put this all together in a weekend during their free time. On the contrary, these new “games” that use the WoW client require the most experienced engineers, and I’d rather have them work on the next expansion rather than on battle royale or action RPG wow mode

  • Short-term event
  • Short-term event
  • Anniversary event? Confused, what’s the problem?
  • More things in the shop which is relatively minimal compared to the regular additions to the game
  • Trading Post… yeah, and you buy things from it by playing the game…?

:thinking:

Blizzard’s not pretending that any of this is, by itself, an entire content patch or season of content.

Plunderstorm was released as a short-term event in the back half of Season 3.
Pandaria Remix is coming out during Season 4, a Fated season, which is a shortened content season spanning the gap until TWW prepatch/launch.
Hearthstone Anniversary event is just an event. What’s the problem with it?

Season 4 is coming soon, and TWW isn’t far behind it. Everything you’re talking about is basically just extra/secondary content that isn’t impacting their release schedule of content. So are you saying Blizzard should stop adding WoW content, or…?

Plunderstorm and Pandaria Remix are secondary content (whether or not you personally care about these events is irrelevant), and Season 4 is still going to be a Fated Season. It’s not gonna be much different from the last Fated Season we got in Shadowlands, and they’re apparently intent on ending the Fated Season trend here.

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You have no way of actually delineating whether or not it did come at the expense of content for Retail. Personally, I’d rather they keep doing side content experiments to fill what is historically literally dead space in an expansion.

For what it’s worth, I actually got on the PTR and played the Pandaria Remix event on there. Found it rather fun, and most of the people I’ve spoken with outside of the WoW forums are actually interested in it since MoP’s been done for a while/they weren’t around for when it was current.

You do realize that companies sometimes do actually outright hire more people and restructure teams to allow parallel development to occur, right?

They are too busy on the gimmicks and can’t even bother to fix the game… That does say a lot.

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