There aren’t many expansions who have ever been classified as “Successful” by the forums during their time.
This even includes big favorites like Wrath and MoP.
You don’t really find out how much an expansion is loved or hated until it’s nearly 5 years old.
as successful as wod 
lol that was the one decent one I got, only got tier 2 I think. it actually procc’d fairly often but i had to upgrade so lost it to some other random garbage that adds about 1% to my prot pally dps lol
Didn’t like Wrath much, as a casual, since rather low reward.
MoP I hated, for the constant dailies and insane amount of reps I wanted to raise; I have NO IDEA how some of you complain about reps NOW, which are INSANELY EASY TO RAISE for a SMALL TIME INVESTMENT, but say MoP was great.
Timeless Isle, with epic purples a solo casual could earn, was the only good thing about MoP. That was when I knew Wow had turned around, starting to fit my play style. This really came to pass with Legion, my favorite expansion ever. BFA is not bad in that regard, but seems WAY more laborious and WAY less alt friendly (I’ve not even really got out my other “two mains”, while in Legion I had them out one after the other and really enjoyed it.)
For sure 100%.
This kind of sums it up.
This is a straight up, bold faced lie.
I was here during Wrath and it’s forums were absolutely relentless. Wrath was when players all started saying “This is the beginning of the end”.
Wrath is what started to drive the “True” Classic players away because it became Casual friendly. I legit work with someone who refuses to return to Wow because of Wrath.
Hell, if you go to Classic nearly half the players there admittedly despise Wrath! I specifically remember the Wrath hate when I played Classic because I was so damn used to hearing the forums praise it.
There are obviously different ranging crowds for this game.
Gave us the best selection of races of any expansion ever, just by sheer volume. Then they gated them behind annoyances. LFR has been fine though I’m not thoroughly engaged, the story is so meh I stopped knowing what’s even going on some time ago, and the whole vision-visions cloaky corruption grind doesn’t interest me at all, especially when it all essentially goes away in less than a year. I’m grinding mechagnomes (never thought I’d say it but I’m so glad I found another AR, my third, so I have a purpose other than trying to slog through 8.3). Once I get that guy I’ll level him, mess around a bit, maybe even take a break until shadowlands if 8.3 seems like all there is to do. I will eventually give it another shot but it couldn’t have made a worse impression.
I stopped playing D3 for a reason, and it was “enter “rift” instance (aka “vision”), complete (or waste your mats), grind mats to try again.” Only in D3 if you beat the boss past the timer he still drops loot, you just can’t upgrade gems. When you fail a vision, you get nothing but a headache, maybe some abdominal cramping. Unpleasant. As often as I’ll be playing in the next six months, 8.3 is in no way worth my time to chase. I may work on it here and there, but it’ll never be my main focus. The idea that one or two corruption effects are just godlike while the one I got was so poor it was instantly cleansed doesn’t thrill me either, that’s RNG and I’m not a gambler nor particularly lucky, so yuck.
It sold a lot since faith in Blizzard was high from legion for the preorders/day one buys. If it was successful or not really depends on the player retention over the expac and how shadowlands preorders compare.
For me personally, it was not. Its the first expansion I have not preordered.
Yes, but you’re asking the forums.
And yet your subscription will keep going and going
No. I don’t think so under any circumstances. You have some people who will enjoy anything Blizzard puts out there. But I don’t think it was a successful expansion by any means.
Alrighty then; I’m happy you agree that some of the new features we’re good at least
You don’t know if you enjoyed BfA or not?
And what I mean is that as long as you enjoyed it, then it was successful and it doesn’t matter what any one else says because they don’t pay your subscription
Well, Blizzard let 15% of their staff go, forced their CEO to resign, and combines BFA’s numbers with a competing MMO (WoW Classic). If those are not the hallmarks of the most successful expansion ever I don’t know what is.
I enjoyed it far more than WoD or cata but much less than BC or Wrath. I would put it in the same bucket as legion or MoP.
Definitely not in my opinion.
No I wasnt on forums like I am today during Wrath. However, forums are not representative of the majority. Most people that I play classic with, only play to support it so they release a BC/Wrath server. We have all played since Vanilla.
Different experiences I suppose.
I’m curious what you think a Wrath baby is.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wrath%20baby
As far as complaints on the forums go, indeed there were. I was one of those hunters that flooded the forums when Ghostcrawler proposed the nerfs to BM. In spite of the forums blowing up he did it anyway, and I never forgave him.
People complained when DK’s were stupidly OP. People complained about lag problems in Dal. People complained about queue times. People complained about a LOT of things.
But we didn’t quit. I didn’t quit. I switched to survival and then MM. Yeah I was pissed, but I still loved the game. I still loved playing my hunter and I still loved WRATH.
The feeling now is that the entire game has been tainted with greed, hubris and a player base that just shrugs and accepts it. I don’t see the passion and love for the game that most of the players once had. I see a lot of people hanging on simply because they don’t know what else to do.
I agree with you that it’s not remotely the same.
Such a lie.