I am expecting the game do be dull after the initial burst of new content.
I had no issues of power grinds back in Legion and BFA. They are not really grinds to me. I just play the game. I came from the old WoW where grinds are never ending and I hate it. The introduction of Time Gates is heaven sent to me. Now, my never ending grinds has to stop. Just do enough content for the day or for the week and that’s it. It favors me more than ever now that I am Casual.
The Old WoW was heavy grind becoz there’s not much gold on quests as there were no World quests (Vanilla) or limited daily quests. But I took advantage when players invented GDKP. It was how predators take advantage of the prey. They let the prey do all the gold grinds and we predators steal their gold by carrying them and sold garbage epics to them. And we abused them while we overfill ourselves with gold. But Alas, Master Loot got banned after Wrath, bye bye GDKP. Now, we have to go back and grind again.
Modern WoW introduced raining of Gold. It’s really raining with Gold. Just do your dailies, weeklies, Tables (even use your cellphone) and get Paragon Chest. And that’s it. The problem with whiners is that they hate to play the game. They feel they were forced. When Shadowlands get rid of Power grinds thru Anima instead of Azerites, they should rejoice as they are no longer forced to farm for Azerites but instead they regarded Shadowlands as the worst expansion of all becoz Anima is garbage with no value. These whiners would remain not to play the game no matter what. They have tons of excuses even excuse that they have family. If time is very precious to them, they should stop playing videogames becoz video games are made to waste your time. WoW is a game and it would continue even if you become old. Is basketball going to stop when Lebron or Steph Curry become old? When you cant cope up with WoW, just stop playing it and retire. Dont feel entitled as it is a game whether you like its games or not.
And another thing… I mentioned this before. There are million players playing WoW. They have all differing ideas of what WoW should be. Just look at this thread. Each of us has a differing views of what WoW should be. There is no majority on each aspect of the game anymore. If Blizz satisfy one group, there would be an opposing group that would feel betrayed. Whatever direction Blizz goes, Blizz would find haters left and right. I bet you if Systems are deleted on this game, there would be whiners in the end who would complain that there’s nothing to do.
If I were Blizzard, they should stop overthinking. WoW is not a bad game. When I look at all current MMO’s in the market, I still find WoW the best out there… not FFIV, not ESO, not Lost Ark, not New World. They dont need to benchmark any of those games as they are all benchmarking WoW. WoW should not benchmark garbage games. WoW has to remain competitive. It has differing difficulties for all to cater everyone. Just keep it as is. Haters would just leave to play those other MMO’s and they would whine too on those MMO’s and some would return.
You thought Asmonbald and Bellulol left WoW when they left WoW then. They are back in WoW. Preach can stay away. WoW would live without him. They just want attention to keep their viewers. I dont need to listen to any of them. I just play the game and judge it myself.