Yes, they kept telling us flying was on the way, then announced they planned to permanently remove it. There was an outcry and a lot of cancelled subs, then Blizz backtracked to Pathfinder.
Which is kind of ironic seeing since Cata and the release of dungeon finder at the end of Wrath all people did once they completed questing in zones and that is if they went out and quested was sit in cap cities (mainly SW and Org or sit in the Shrine in the Vale during MoP) and wait for dungeon. bg and lfr queues.
So to be honest the game world was empty before WoD garrisons.
The one thing they all had in common was Trade chat and people were using that to form groups until people decided that instead of it being used for trade and forming groups it should be used as a global even more toxic version of Barrens chat.
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Ah, I suppose there isn’t a major city in this continent, where people can roam around freely and chat. You’re secluded to your own little garrison. Even now it feels strange being in the garrison, expecting to run into somebody, after going to somewhere like Orgimmar and seeing heaps of people everywhere.
The closest is the faction capitals at Ashran, but yeah WoD actually separated the factions in capital cities, doing away with the united expansion capital… which people also complained about. People hated Dalaran and Shattrath and whatever.
Complainers.
WoD was great and kept me playing every day of it’s entire run. The mission board was outstanding.
Its mostly Classic Playing Trolls. We refuse to join them in their digital hairshirt, and they won’t stop coming here to whine.
I was mentioning to a co-worker that a lot of people are complaining about BFA (he is no longer playing), and he told me that this happens with every expansion. Constant complaints about how bad it is, down to the detail.
What’s kind of strange is how dead WoD and previous lands are compared to Legion. It doesn’t even feel like a multiplayer game until you get to Legion. lol
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The current expac, and the previous one will be the populated ones. Current = bought the current game. Previous = people who didn’t buy the current game.
Legion will still have people playing it, since it’s considered endgame of the regular accounts, but WoD is considered antiquated content at this point.
Warlords of Draenor is the one expansion I keep going back to.
I duck out of Boralus or whatever regularly to hang out in my garrison or go exploring/sight-seeing the lands of Draenor.
It’s beautiful, has a fun, though incomplete story that really is right up my alley(save the Draenei from the original purging by the Orc scum). The grind to get flying there shouldn’t have existed, but I did it while it was current and it was very rewarding due to the nature of Draenor.
I get ya, OP. I’ve actually made posts about this myself.
Ah, well that’s the reason.
A few reasons
- A time travel story in WoW.
- A horrendous launch.
- A story that didn’t make sense because
- They cut an entire “season” (raid tier + story quests).
That also makes sense. Wouldn’t it be cool if the game was structured in such a way that everything felt current, no matter where you were? There’s a lot of regions in the game now.
As it stands, only the mounts and pets are the kind of rewards you can use any time, so there is always reason to go back and grab them. I wish items from “older” lands were still useful, giving people a reason to explore more, instead of everyone being at the current expansion only.
The only way to do that would be scaling, and the complaints would be HUGE if everything scaled to our total levels.
This is why you don’t understand the hate.
Which is understandable. It feels good to overpower the mobs and not trug along slowly, after going through the lands for the umpteenth time. On the other hand, it would be nice if there was a reason to stay in lands other than those in the current expansion, because there’s a lot of cool regions out there with no incentive to go back.
Guess you can’t have it all. lol
Well like legion it had a non faction focus. Yes BFA has this resolved with campaign end bit but…not resolved. Wait for 8.3.
Hope there tyrande goes oh no no…they don’t get off that easy Anduin. Breaking cycles? How about break some heads open lol.
the orcs…were actually bad in WoD for example. I could even say then when I took a Void elf through it on her heritage armour run.
Bunch of idiot noob void wannabe’s? Hell yeah I am all about smacking them upside the head s. priest style to set them right.
It’s fine now. At launch and during the patch cycle the content was literally a drip. Tanaan Jungle didn’t exist til the end of the expansion pretty much, the Garrison missives didn’t exist. You did your Garrison mission, maybe looked for a rare, did a dungeon or raid, and that was pretty much it for 2 years.
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If you played during WoD you would hate it too. It had the longest content drought in WoW’s history, raid tiers were lost for twitter integration, Tanaan was just a worse version of timeless isle, and despite how beautiful the zones were, they were ultimately pointless after you reached the levelcap, since the most rewarding content was either in a raid or your garrison.
WoD did have some solid points though, all the treasures hidden throughout the map were amazing and fun to hunt down, and like I said, the zones were beautiful. The dungeons weren’t even that bad honestly, just not all that memorable. WoD isn’t necessarily “bad”, it worked, and had some interesting things to it, it just had giant gaps in content and was aggressively mediocre overall, having nothing that really stood out enough to balance out all of the bad.
Nobody’s fickle. EVERYTHING in existence is relative.
Legion was “ok”. BUT -it was sandwiched/bookended by WoD and BFA. That just makes it look better. Likewise back when MoP came a lot of people went “BAAAAAW! PANDAS! PANDAREN PANDERING TO CHINESE PLAYERS! BAAAAW!” and now people look back and love it because it’s Sandwiched between Cataclysm and WoD. Two of the most hated expansions of all WoW. So out of the group of 3, MoP looks the best. WoD is at the center of this, a bookend with Cataclysm and with BFA now.
I reckon the Shadowlands xpac will be good relative to BFA and then look even better compared to the crap xpac that comes AFTER that.
Was Vanilla good? It was good for what it was at the time. Was TBC good? Some think so, while some think it added stuff to the game that are still around today -and should have never been added to WoW. Was Wrath good? Yes, but that was when the Warcraft 3 plots were tied up, and afterwards well…it’s been rough every other expansion.
Not a fan of the content but I still hang out in my Garrison and do missions.
WoD is no longer the worse expansion. BFA has taken that crown. Thank goodness there’s classic to bide time before 9.0