Yeah i know, i know, its not WoW, but its a Blizzard game so meh
Former Overwatch player here, Ive played the game since its release, and… the game has being going downhill for a long time now, primarily the events.
For those who dont play the game, theres events that happen per year, such has a Halloween event, a Christmas event, a lore event, etc.
The current one Summer games, has been a disappointment after its first version, because… its still the first version after 4 years no new games, no new modes, its just exactly the same year, after year and to worsen it, this times theres even less skins than normal and this is been an issue for a while.
All the events outside of ONE has been just a copypaste year after year, and even said event which is called Archives was a disappointment this time due to the event having the same enemies has last time, same characters and being incredibly short.
And Overwatch is not the only one suffering, i heard that Heartstone hasn’t done well for while and that Heroes of the Storm was pretty much abandoned, idk about the other titles but we all know about the Diablo “out of season April’s fools joke”
And of course WoW itself, the current game feels like a job, theres no other way to describe it, you do your WQs which take a lot of time, and then you log off because you’re just tired, everything is blocked by Time gate stuff to force the player to play longer, leveling up alts is a nightmare for the reasons above, you barely have time to do anything else since the main stuff takes a lot of time (looking at you Pathfinder piece of ****)
An example is the 8.2 patch, which is again… WQs and time gate stuff Mechagon is decent but Nazjatar despite being beautiful (btw i the art team seems to be the only one with motivation) is a nightmare to travel without flying, yes flying WHICH IS TIME GATED.
So its clear that the devs are losing their motivation to make a good game and instead they are just looking for different ways to get your money.
Boring copy-pasted event and lootboxes
Time gated stuff
Mobile games
Store mounts
Massive Gold sinks that encourage buying Tokens to be able to buy them (such has the Frog and AH mounts)
RNG mayhem
ETC.
Idk whats your opinion on the matter? because for me it seems that we are just payers rather than players, and the devs being completely disconnected with the players is killing their games.