Like most expansion features, including entire civilizations.
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This isn’t really a good thing, though.
100 hours was a random even, square number to illustrate the point that doing the same work 13x over means less work/time on each of those 13 instances than doing it once.
Oh I’m not, that’s why I’m not asking for them to do 13x the work on one story at the expense of the other 4.5/6 years like you are.
I really don’t understand why you don’t get this. Doing the same story from slightly different perspectives 13 times results in less than 10 minutes of story per month. This was literally proven with the content droughts in WoD and Legion.
Let me reiterate. Resources are finite. There is only so much work per time that Blizzard can do.
13x the work in same time = 13x the resources, more cost to them, more cost to you, this isn’t an option
13x the work with the same resources = 13x the time, this is what happened with WoD and Legion, and resulted in content droughts no one liked
It’s because of money
I found them to be hit or miss, both in locations of the halls themselves and the quest lines.
Is it?
I am not a proponent of Legion-style class content for a variety of reasons, but this feels like a bit of a cop out. We’re essentially boiling WoD’s failures down to “Blizzard wanted to do better, but they couldn’t because they spent so much time on Legion :(”
Yes, Legion was partly responsible for the content drought at the end of WoD. Another factor you’re missing here though is that Blizzard just gave up on WoD because they went into the expansion with such an awful design philosophy. The entire expansion failed, and the end of expansion drought was exacerbated because Blizzard insisted on an absolutely insane non-raid endgame philosophy, not because they just spent their time on Legion.
And let’s be honest with ourselves, it’s not like the content drought at the end of WoD was much worse, in terms of time than the drought at the end of MOP (Patch 6.2-Legion lasted ~1 month longer than the time between Patch 5.4-WoD). Did WoD benefit from that year-long drought at the end of MoP the same way you’re suggesting Legion benefitted from WoD’s drought?
No. WoD failed because it was a bad expansion on its own terms. Not because too much time was spent on Legion.
I think a lot of people forget that a lot of people quit in WoD just straight up because Blizzard said “you will never be able to fly in this game ever again in future content”, and they didn’t add flying in WoD until the very end of the expansion.
There were so many people who stopped playing in WoD just for that reason alone lol.
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And then you run in to the Evoker dilemma.
What if down the line they add a new class? then they have to slap together a new questline for the new class. as long as there are no serious visuals involved (like an entire class hall) making a quest for a class should not be too difficult. Just take into account the abilities of the class and have it reflected in the quest.
Maybe, can’t say for sure.
Because of this though we can say for certain that WoD would have been better if not for all the work they were putting into Legion. Would it have been enough to consider it not a failure? Who knows.
No, we really can. Legion or no, WoD was the expansion of time travelling Orcs, Garrisons, class pruning, no flying, Blizzard nuking reputations & placing traditional reputation reward mounts on the Cash Shop, etc. The expansion was conceptually bad. You can’t build a GOOD EXPANSION on a BAD FOUNDATION.
Not really. This is why I brought up MoP. Despite my gripes with some of MoP’s features, it wasn’t a “bad” expansion. It did have a considerable content drought at the end, which was comparable to WoD’s. WoD was atrocious and lacked content, so clearly “Subsequent expansions cannibalizing current expansions” isn’t the entire story.
We could go bit by bit over various expansions and point out what was cut & why Blizzard stated it was cut, but I don’t think that’s necessarily. The MoP drought is more than sufficient to pop the “Legion ruined WoD” idea.
Are you flip flopping just to win the argument?
You just agreed that Legion took away from WoD, now it’s “not really”?
I’m not flip flopping at all, I’m elaborating. I know male pattern baldness Reddit debatebros hate context, but I’m here to discuss a subject, not win internet points.
The idea that Legion “took away from WoD” is true, but is a boring surface-level take that you’ve stretched beyond plausibility.
Sorry, but the cheap polemic isn’t convincing.
okay, hope your day gets better
That’s a choice you make just like anyone not doing M+ or raiding not getting that content. You won’t get to see everything if you choose to not do it , but you are basically saying others who do play alts shouldn’t get content simply because you don’t.
It likely has to do with the new timeline they’ve set for themselves. Keeping to that schedule doesn’t leave them much wriggle room for Class specific content (especially as they’re struggling to maintain Released Patch quality as it is).
One story to entertain them all is easier than depth for all.
I personally like Free for all and not a fan of all for nothing.
I don’t remember the specific interview, but someone asked about it after Legion (specifically pointing out that people loved the class specific content that Legion had), and Ion said they’d never do that again. I am guessing it is too resource intensive to execute. Which is a shame, because I think that was a shining example of something they did right. 
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I’m guessing hero classes doesn’t get there.
So he did have a guilty conscience. Remember how the HUNTER class got butchered like the Butcher was a free-roamer in Diablo 1 Level 1 instead of being in his lair in Level 2? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I sympathize, my favorite Death Knight spec got turned into a tank in Cataclysm, and I’m still not over it.
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I thought you were going to mention the Frost DW vs. 2H thing, as I remember. Historically that was one of the big controversies.
Since we’re going into Mists in a few months, guess which class gets to have something nice, hot, and green? And to date, Blizzard has not done the same for any other. To date, only the Warlock class got to have access to a questline that led to a solo 5-min raid encounter.
That’s SOMETHING Blizz could do for the other classes, even it costs a raid tier.