I have yet to see anyone actually try and challenge any of the points I’ve made above. I too think most people are just sheeple parroting whatever loud squawker and “me too-ing” whatever mindless belief aligns with their inarticulable feelings.
Really no different than watching aged people of certain political leanings vehemently defend their toxic beliefs and just default to REEEEEEEEEEEEing like a toddler when pressed to actually articulate and give actual examples that back up those stances. You aren’t going to “win” those types over with facts and logic. Same thing here.
And nobody speaks for the community. Not even the yellow text dorks. I’ve learned to just stop engaging with someone here whose only argument or rebuttal is akin to “no u”. Not worth the keystrokes if they aren’t even giving some semblance of an actual argument to attack. Plus if I’m going to do pointless things like argue on a video game forum, I may as well play the video game and try and collect more pointless pixels I’ll never actually mog into but will give me that trickle of satisfaction having “earned” it anyway.
You are entitled to your opinion, incorrect as it may be.
You aren’t, however, entitled to act like a child and then be surprised when people aren’t engaging your arguments and instead are attacking your character. It isn’t a sign that you are “winning” and that no one can challenge your points. It just means you’re being an unbearable jerk and no one wants to engage with you any deeper.
Ultimately, this is all a matter of opinion, and if you could manage to climb down from your contrarian high horse for a minute, you’d realize that screaming like a toddler isn’t going to make anyone want to actually have a conversation with you.
That’s only allowed if you are on a rant about how terrible Shadowlands was.
If you go against the anti SL echo chamber clearly there is something wrong with you.
I can’t speak to the greater discussion as it’s not one I really engage with. My personal feelings on SL are mixed. Definitely not the worst expansion, definitely not the best either. So, it’s not a conversation I constantly find myself in.
My post specifically was directed the person I was replying to, and the way he is talking to people who don’t agree with him. When you publically state an opinion, you can’t be surprised if people respond to it, especially if it’s an unpopular one. Doesn’t give you the right to flip out because you were disagreed with.
I understand what you are saying. You do take a beating if you go against a fanatical opinion. It’s not for the light hearted and the passion on both sides can escalate.
I spent a couple years on the FOX site pushing a moderate liberal point of view. The comments I got back every day would make a sailor blush.
I don’t envy you at all for that. Trying to talk politics with even the most sane person is like trying to pull teeth out of the mouth of an angry hippo. I can’t even fathom what dealing with people deep in the trenches must be like.
The two worst story arcs of all time were in SL, the jailor taking credit for nearly all of wow lore, and sylvanas being duped and having her soul split to explain her actions.
Other than that, SL was S Tier good and superior to DF in every conceivable way.
I hate questing lol and I still loved Shadowlands. Though I only do AoTC so I didn’t care about whatever covenant was top tier. I picked one, stuck with it the entire expansion. To be honest, I went with Night Fae more times then not because it was pretty lol. I also don’t do professions at all. I just buy stuff I need for raiding off AH
It was painful to minmax in Shadowlands. 90% of SL haters are compulsive minmaxers and Blizzard tried introducing systems with friction to get people to not minmax everything every 5 minutes.
P.S. My opinion is that DF and Legion are top 2 all-time. I don’t absolutely hate SL but it and BFA are a slump to some degree.
From my perspective Shadowlands was peak “The players don’t know what they want. We, Blizzard, know what the players really want” philosophy. That’s what gave us conduit energy and the pre-9.1.5 Covenant swapping system.