Real Q: TWW w/Chris M was touted as THE time to come back to WoW. Why?

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This isn’t a troll post, I am very interested in the thoughts on this.

I was a strong WoW player when the game released, my apex of fun was beating the Lich King and I got turned off during Cata, left, but came back to try Mists and Warlords and left for good.

Fast Forward to TWW hype and I see Chris M is back, there’s a lot of taglines about now is the time to come back! Be prepared for a 3 part sweeping story and more!

I get very interested because I like WoW more in the “old days”. With the Chris M hype I was hopeful. I examined classes/talents on sites prior to the release and was surprised to see so full and vibrant talent trees like in the old days and was nostalgic and thought maybe this WAS a good time to get back in. What if the story was as captivating as (for me at least) the Lich King! What if the end game was as deep as the talent trees and the intensity of the old days was back! I got hyped. I bought TWW.

Long story short - I don’t get it…I’d like to try to understand what I’m missing.

After leveling my 2 main chars from 60 to 80, getting geared to ilvl580, and doing all the quests on the map, heroic dungeons, searching for treasures, etc - I was “done” and it’s only been a week. It’s not the time/content that’s my biggest concern (it is a concern however) - it’s that this seems incrementally different at most from when I left back in Warlords.

I was pleasantly surprised by how polished the interface and game is. So many things I recall being from addons were already default in the game. Adjusting your frames, so much dungeon, boss info/help, screen alerts - was a crazy upgrade. But that’s most likely been there a while and not new to the real WoW players.

So my question is - what EXACTLY is the new “stuff” that Blizzard felt they were touting for this expansion to be THE expansion to come back to? I was their exact target demo and I DID come back - and I feel like I don’t get why?

What was I coming back to that supposedly “different/new/exciting/worth the return”?
It simply feels like any other expansion, a sprinkling of new systems, a (sadly typical) new story, but nothing that felt like the overall direction Blizzard has been taking with WoW had fundamentally changed in any interesting way?

Please let me know what you think as to what I missed?

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Because people assumed he was going to save the story.
Instead, we just got more agenda. :clown_face:

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So that we can experience the Treaty of Versailles firsthand.

EDIT: Okay, technically, that will be the endgame for WWI.

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Metzen left the company for personal / medical reasons, and now he is back. IMO, this is the part you missed.

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Things are not really different. Feels just like the last few xpacs - but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Metzen has made minor story changes, but AFAIK the first 7 months of TWW story was already developed when he came back.

It’s a launch pad for Metzen to finish his Light Vs Void Vs Titan cosmic story he’s been brewing since vanilla and we really won’t know whether the story is good or bad until TLT is over.

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When you think wow has an agenda because it makes you look like a walking clown emoji

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Actually, thank you! I went back and fixed - lol. I didn’t realize I messed that up.

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It was just a hail mary marketing technique.

There was no other options after the last two xpacs

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I think this says a lot. If you’re into the expansion theme, everything is more enjoyable. If not, everything is less enjoyable.