The Night Elves are leaving the Shadowlands empty handed

[Kyalin-cenarion-circle (Kyalin)]

I knew I’d get a chance to use this thing eventually!

@Shernish-nazjatar

Most of the players think of the expansion not as a story, but as raids, items, resources, balance. Is not it so?

@Kyalin-cenarion-circle

Playerbase Compartmentalization
Also may be identified with “no one cares about lore” - this approach explicitly or implicitly puts players into boxes where they are said to primarily care about one aspect of the game or another, with lore and storytelling being separate elements, rather than a more sticky factor that impacts players generally in one way or another. The criticism presupposes that because most players do not heavily invest into knowing the precise details of the lore that they don’t care at all. In reality, most players are between these two extremes, and tend to like (and form impressions on) more than one aspect of a given video game.

@Drahliana-earthen-ring

Actually it’s the complaints expressed by the Night Elf Victimization League which are irrelevant to how the bulk of the player base feels about the expansion.

@Kyalin-cenarion-circle

Failure to apply sampling - the “Vocal Minority”
An introductory marketing class can tell you that most people do not respond to customer surveys. Most people don’t leave feedback. Most people don’t say anything at all before they choose to not come back to a store, and that those that do should be listened to because they present a sample of sentiments that may be present throughout the consumer base (within reason). This argument ignores this in favor of holding out that whatever community they are engaging with is the only group of people in the world who hold the opinions that they do - an assertion that often ignores parallel communities on other social media platforms and forums, as well as the proportion of the silent majority whose concerns the critic is raising.