I have to disagree. The legendary weapon quests made it a blast on alts. Yes artifact power made it alt unfriendly but I loved how much story was there. And it wasn’t the BFA garbage of you have to help a horde leader and her bff you never liked to begin with. I loved the warrior quests with Odin and seeing hodir again.
My only hope is they are holding back the key features reveal of Shadowlands until they are absolutely sure of what they are able to implement. Because if the Blizzcon trailer is everything, you’re just paying an extra $40 for a glorified patch 8.4. This is the first pre-order I’ve outright refused until they step up their game.
If that’s the pattern, and they don’t break it, then what you’re hoping for is another terrible expansion in the future. Be careful what you wish for, as people might say.
Game of the Century? Highly unlikely. Probably won’t even vie for Game of the Year.
As Mortis said, if pattern holds it should at least be decent. I didn’t think Legion was as great as some people make it out to be because I didn’t like the systems it introduced - mob/zone/ilevel scaling, the power up this super duper thing that will be tossed at end of expansion, WQs, rep becoming mandatory, lack of player choice and agency, PF becoming even more time gated, etc.
But it was tons better than BfA. I did like class halls and profession quests that sent you back into the old world (not dungeon ones though). All this is obviously just my opinion and I know lots of people thought Legion was the best expansion ever. Shadowlands has potential we’ll just have to wait & see.
So far Blizzard makes one great expansion, gets complacent, tries to carry a new expansion with the previous one’s success, fails, gets pressured to make something good next time, succeeds, gets complacent, fails, gets pressured, succeeds, and so on and so forth.