Gameplay always presents its setbacks, ALWAYS.
But one of the most important aspects of the game should be the story.
Today the data mining has reveals us the final insult to an already damaged lore.
What a stupid plot twist.
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Wanna share it? Or a link to a topic? I love cringing from how terrible wow lore became since the middle of BFA
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ā¦are you sure? I have to find a video titled āTHIS CHANGE EVERYTHINGā or some bs like thatā¦
Give me a sec.
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Share please. This might actually prevent me from buying Dragonflight.
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This post is more cringe than anything Blizzard can do to the lore.
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Are you sure youāre on the right forum? Retail is about 3 above this one on the front page.
That said, the moment wotlk classic dropped I was done with retail immediately. Been waiting years for this and am enjoying every second of it.
From WoD being crap, Legion being mediocre/almost redeeming, followed by BFA crap, into SL bigger crap ā¦ Iāve been done for awhile. Not sure there could be anything further to make retail be worthwhile in playing.
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I saw the āAll Story Cutscenes Leakedā video a few days ago. It felt like I was losing my mind. The game and story are completely unrecognizable; reads like a YA novel. After watching that, watch the trailer for Secrets of Ulduarā¦ The difference is night and day, and the comparison is definitely something to show people who insist Warcraft is still what it was in terms of tone and quality.
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Well now Iām curious at just how much more they can butcher the story after Shadowlandsā¦
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Odin lied to us, the titans are not the creators, they create the world together with the Olds gods, the Old gods are not as evil as we thought, but the titans defeated them and take all the credit.
Wooooah, everything you know about wow itās a lie.
How unexpected.
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I thought āsubverting expectationsā meta already died down in media few years ago. But i guess blizzard always join trends too late (like with HOTS, battle passes etc)
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Soā¦ they worked together to shape the world and then went all āWeāre taking the credit and killing you guys lmaoā and each time they came back was basically āWeāre the good guys, you all just donāt understand true reality!ā shtick?
If soā¦ what the actul frick. 
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If this is an elaborate plan to erase everything that happened in Shadowlands, Iām all for it.
Shoot, Iād even accept āChromie wakes up from a terrible nightmare of an alternate universe.ā
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The titans are the BASE of WoW Lore, the story begins with them forgings all the worlds around the cosmos. [all of you are going to witness this in Ulduar]
And the Void Lords are the biggest threat, the reason Sargeras goes insane.
Is the current writer of wow some kind of MANATEE?
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Obviously they were going to do this because WoW is running out of bosses to fight. Thatās what happens with power creep.
Iām more so surprised people expect a good story from a video game.
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Its like being told i get to watch a passenger train derailment. I know its fonna be horribleā¦ but i still want to see it.
Thatsā¦ 
I mean maā¦
Butā¦
Yeah nah. Retail no longer exists to me.
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The lore was already ruined when they gave alextrazsa more clothes
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We still have the void and the hidden part of Azeroth.
Instead of a Nagrand version of ICC, we should have discovered more mysteries in the world.
I hope all retail players gets the fun of their lives, because if the gameplays fail, they wonāt find refuge in lore either.
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In fairness, these arenāt actually new revelations for anyone paying attention to the Shadowlands lore-guttingā¦
Worse, heās a Sylvanas simp that co-opted one of the more interesting Forsaken characters into a self-insert
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Noā¦ not a Sylvanas simp, anything but thatā¦
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This is what killed the gameās interesting story over time. Mysteries were systematically solved and loose ends were tied up. The good way for this to happen is in Wrath: we revisit and finish the Arthas/WC3 storyline, but itās also the culmination of Uldaman and a few other questlines that happened back in Vanilla, only temporarily disrupted by the Outland detour.
For expansions, ancient troll empires provided WoW with content. Specifically, the Zandalari showed up to do things. The moment they were no longer mysterious and you could not only visit Zandalar but talk face to face with the mythical Rastakhan, they lost all presence and importance in the mindās eye of the player. The Dark Iron dwarves were quietly swept under the rug, integrated into the pool of alternate NPC and later player skin tones with a vague mention that the entire society with a parallel culture and capital at least the size of Ironforge just accepted Moira Bronzebeard as their sovereign.
All these little bits and pieces being crushed into compacted trash pellets to be thrown away while new ideas with little to no basis in any pre-existing material (Shadowlands making it past the boardroom pitch is actually incredible the more you think about it) are put in the spotlight. It really sucks, but I think that talent just cycled out of the company and instead of focusing on a quality product they decided to make cheap serialized content.
After all, the only people playing Retail at this point are career WoW players: people with over a decade of experience. People who joined after Warlords make up an extremely small portion of the gameās population. This stuff isnāt any different than Superman having thousands of issues that are objectively bad, and only because only Superman Superfans were meant to consume them.
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