Lack of content and the only content patch was Tanaan a year + later that was supposed to be a launch zone that got delayed that long. They knew WoD wasn’t well recieved so they basically dropped it and went full speed to legion. And lol if you call the selfie update a patch. The selfie “patch” was a damn disgrace.
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I’d so laugh if they had us go back in time again only thins time we are able to stop Gul’dan from turning evil. But i think alot of the player base would be upset with another timetravel expansion.
the Tanaan Patch i thought was 6-9 months into the expansions and the rest of the expansion content went down hill there.
I gave an extreme round up to a year might as well be in a subscription based game. Came out in november and tanaan came out in june, So 8 months. It’s an extremely cynical approach to round up so far but eh. The expansion was a complete travesty. Deserves the bit of extra flak in my opinion.
Thanks for all the replies. As I kind of suspected, the content was unsustainable over the long term. Nobody actually hated the quality or concept, or even the content that was available. People are so passionate about this game that it comes off as though they dislike the product sometimes.
Blizzard should do it the way of Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, where the teams overlap. That way, they could release expansions while working on another one. In AC’s case, they develop for 3 years on each title, while still releasing annually. 2 years for an expansion seems too long.
It wasn’t the content of WoD that was the issue. What we got was pretty good, but there were massive droughts that coincided with: a selfie camera as a main patch feature, spending large amounts of time in a private garrison rather than with other players, the discovery of massive cut content including Farahlon, an Ogre civilization, an incomplete story (because of the cuts), and months of Blizzard assuring players that flight was in development, only to announce its removal and backtrack with Pathfinder in the final patch.
One last point: if you didn’t find garrisons entertaining, they were so integral to leveling and endgame and everything within WoD at the time that it would ruin the entire experience. Logging in and out, the garrison was likely to be what you saw first; not a good thing if it’s what you hate most.
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Oh, Tanaan Jungle was not available on release, and even postponed by several months? That I can see as a big deal. Most of the content is in that region.
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I think Cata was the first expansion in which after the .3 patch most of the developers start working on the next expansions which is uselly around the last 11 months of the expansion.
That would suck.
For me, it’s more me wanting to see what Draenor was like before it all started going bad.
There’s a lot (too much) lore that we don’t actually get to see.
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I think Tanaan was always suppose to be the last patch just not so early in WOD.
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Coming in after is great and all, but enduring it live for 2 years is another. Only one major content patch that whole time will make the game feel very stale. Don’t get me wrong I liked it mostly, but it was the WoW where I could finally take a massive break and not miss anything. Those alts and gold farming was nice though.
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As someone who was an active sub for WoD, I only logged in to make mountains of gold. We went an entire year where our only content was… a store mount.
If you were active during WoD, it’s hard to just forget how poorly everything was executed.
(Edit)Oh, and forget about being a casual PvE player during that time. At one point shortly after launch we were told directly we would be getting no more 5-man content… and that announcement seemed so… aggressive to me.
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I believe (correct me if I’m wrong) Tanaan came with the final major patch of WoD, along with flying. Flying was absent for majority of the expansion, and that was a big deal to a lot of players.
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Tanaan was supposed to be basically like Icecrown and be an endgame zone at launch but got delayed by nearly a year. Also have to consider what was there to do after you hit max in WoD if you didn’t raid? Garrisons? Boring reputation grind with the worst rewards so far for reputations? Not a whole lot really. If you weren’t into collecting WoD definitely didn’t have much to offer. I think the original plan was that WoD would be the first “annual” expansion like Call of Duty. But with how long Blizzard takes to make content that backfired on them big time. They promptly ditched that.
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Correct, and it can be called the final major content patch or the only major one. I don’t feel Blackrock Foundry should count as all I remember it added was the raid (first tier set out of two from WoD) and maybe some more quests for the leggo ring?
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End game was really POOR
Overall lack of content
A bunch of removed stuff
Lore was awful
WoD only had a few good things, class designs, Raids and Dungeons, thats about it.
Well yeah, when you retcon, you make mistakes lol
wasnt that Patch Delayed only cause the bulk of the player base was in an uproar cause blizz said ‘No more flying in WOW’ and then we learned we had to do the Pathfinder achiveemnts to get flying
Look at every major patch since 2004.
All have names. All have themes.
Look at the name of the major WOD patch. Oh that’s right, there isn’t a name. It’s simply Twitter integration and Garrison updates.
That says enough.
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As BFA goes on a little piece in a lot of us wishes we could return to Draenor. And I hated it at the time, still do