Shadowlands will be a Success

[Lurktek-wyrmrest-accord]

Ralph here with his bait post of the day.

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

I think its probably too early to say definitively that SL will either be a success or a failure.

Now I know that perspective doesn’t generate heart clicks or angry responses in volumes that the internet wants…but c’est la vie.

[Gatteka-area-52]

Funny how all the money comes from casuals, and then they turn around and spend it on promoting the top 1% in MDI tournaments and such.

Thanks casuals for funding our entertainment. lol

[Mechasummone-feathermoon]

Boy, I hope you’re right.

[Ddzz-illidan]

Ralph Today:

@Ràlph-barthilas

WoW needs less tryhards who call things that dont perform as meta “gargabe” or call anyone not playing meta that they “dragging their group down”,

Ralph before he came the casual messiah

@Rålph-barthilas

Feel free to have a terrible character nobody wants to invite to their group because they are a dead weight

[Sentenza-alexstrasza]

@Derka-wyrmrest-accord

I think its probably too early to say definitively that SL will either be a success or a failure.

Here’s my spicy meatball - the only way Shadolwands will fail is if Blizzard pulls the plug on the expansion and aborts it. Which would be stupid because they’re already tried that in WoD and it blew up in their face, but that’s the fail condition. Otherwise I think it’s close to impossible for the expansion to bomb.

[Pyrano-area-52 (Pyrano)]

Shadowlands looks terrible with its borrowed power crap and massively disconnected world. Only time will tell how it will be though.

The borrowed power thing unequivocally sucks though and the unpruning is nothing more than a PR stunt that only the most addled WoW addicts fall for.

[Cairnage-greymane (Cairnage)]

@Ràlph-barthilas

-Story is going to be far more interesting, no silly war that ends with a peace as expected, major lore characters, Sylvanas,

I can’t believe you wrote this as serious. I know you like to stoke the fires, but man…

People are SICK of Sylvanas except for a small vocal few. We are more sick of her than Hippy Thrall. I got sick of Hippy Thrall and he was my favorite. Focus on Sylvanas is 10x worse than it ever was for Thrall.

Blizzard needs to hire some people that are not in lust with a corpse.

[Sendas-frostmourne]

Probably declined by one too many RIO groups for this change lol.

[Leafbweeze-wyrmrest-accord]

lol imagine thinking this issue won’t effect you at all because you “aren’t a tryhard”

[Epoch-azjolnerub (Epoch)]

@Ràlph-barthilas

Good luck with that, cuz I know covenant will launch locked like this : )

Feel free to wait till 9.3 for that chance xD

I know ralph has me ignored but he is 100% wrong on this. There will be changes Blizzard is in damage control mode, all of their free advertising(streamers) are talking crap about it. They are deleting non offensive threads about it. Its going to change before launch .

[Epoch-azjolnerub (Epoch)]

@Leafbweeze-wyrmrest-accord

lol imagine thinking this issue won’t effect you at all because you “aren’t a tryhard”

The only reason he isnt a tryhard is because he sucks, the 17s that hes done he was carried by people with much higher IO scores.

[Ddzz-illidan]

I think he has this edge towards min/maxers because his other characters post histort clearly show he TRIED to be an elitist min max type but just couldn’t do it.

He has so many quotes hating on casuals, repeatedly spamming topics about Blizzard being awful for making RNG design choices, the game not being skillful enough, etc.

He’s backtracked on all that, which means he probably got booted from groups he thought he was good enough to be in and now resents them

[Epoch-azjolnerub (Epoch)]

That’s actually hilarious.

[Ddzz-illidan]

Yeah I’m just gonna keep quoting his old posts every time he makes a new thread that contradicts his opinions from under 2 months ago

[Kaercha-kelthuzad]

Of course it will be successful. Even their biggest flop beats anyone else’s greatest hits.

[Gatteka-area-52]

Anyone with that type of deeply rooted psychological trauma has to be speaking from personal experience.

[Zelestriana-wyrmrest-accord]

Sorry i’m not eating cookies handed out by some zombie. They’ll probably be made out of plague.

[Baridorielor-malfurion (Baridorielor)]

@Ràlph-barthilas

Why?

It’s An Activision-Blizzard game and it’s a pretty popular MMO, even if it’s not doing it’s best, it still always manage to outperform the competition a lot of times. With exceptions of coarse, but WoW will just pretty much be a success sales wise enough for AB to continue. Heck, it comes to a point where People all across the world can pre ordering or buying WoW, and it will still live on, due to the amount of money they absurdly get from dodging taxes and getting tax returns.

Even then, this is a bit of a bold statement to make and i think it’s just better to just wait and see instead of making predictions. It’s fun to do, but ehh.

@Ràlph-barthilas

not a minority of tryhards who are mad at covenants–

How about you try hard to make a topic where your not calling people tryhards and making fun of them for it?

@Ràlph-barthilas

During all expansions of any Mmorpg there’s a huge number of players joining but the majority leave after a month, that is a fact of mmorpgs, your goal as a dev is to keep as big of a part of those returning/new players and shadowlands will absolutely achieve this.

Again, predictions here. It’s just a big wait and see.

And you’re not the only one to predict this, but some people will predict it will be a failure, and some say it will be a success. I personally think it’s just gonna be okay really. And i know i’m not the only person to think that.

@Ràlph-barthilas

Covenants -

Skipping.

@Ràlph-barthilas

Torghast, this will be a huge success because unlike what many wannabe elitists want to believe,

Well it’s based off the BFA visions without a timer. And considering Blizzard was messing around with Torghasts, not to mention, they don’t look all that visually impressive, at least not to me… I don’t think it would be reasonable to assume it would be a success or failure until we see it for ourselves.

@Ràlph-barthilas

Story is going to be far more interesting,

How is it more interesting? And what are we comparing it too? BFA?

@Ràlph-barthilas

M+ design is going back to a more casual side,

Can you explain how it’s going back to a more casual side? Is the timer being more lenient or something?

@Ràlph-barthilas

they are designed to be far more open with specific strong packs instead of a million trash with different abilities where the only efficient option is to play mass cc mongo classes and just pulling everything, ccing and bursting things down

Oh.

Ehh, not really a fan of the AoE Cap thing, especially since how it will effect in old content if i need to farm it. But if the Shadowlands dungeons as well the world is built around it, then it wouldn’t be much of a hindrance.

@Ràlph-barthilas

In other words, yes, many tryhards wiil ragequit because they arent allowed to stack OP classes and be optimal by changing their build for every single boss

@Sendas-frostmourne

Pretty sure Tryhards will just adapt to the situation my friend.

@Ràlph-barthilas

Plus many people who obsess with meta quitting would improve the community, WoW needs less tryhards who call things that dont perform as meta “gargabe” or call anyone not playing meta that they “dragging their group down”, with such people gone, community instantly improves

How would “Tryhards” or people who does meta quitting the game would improve the community exactly? How is having a community full of casuals improve a community exactly? And since the game still is a multiplayer, which in turn, still relies on the community to an extent if you want to do Raids and Mythic+s and things like that, how would this improve the game exactly?

[Udoeak-dathremar]

Ralph uses “tryhard” as frequently as I swear, and I swear a lot.