I just wanted to share why I was leaving WoW. Blizzard is not the same company of old (we all know that), I just cannot stand behind their crappy game decisions anymore. Let me make one thing clear….The only thing Blizzard aka Activision cares about…is how to make as much money off a customer with as little effort as possible.
- Lies and Recycled Content. The constant lies. “We will have no new systems”. Then Introduces the worst loot system I have ever seen, crests and more crests and different tiers of items. And I thought Domination shards was the worst, way to top it. Group loot is also one of the worst things about this game right now. So now we have horrible ways to obtain loot in both Mythic + and Raiding. The recycled content, aka dungeons, adding the smallest crappiest zones, with hardly any effort put into them, with random rares thrown about. This is what we get??? You then proceed to introduce constant cash shop items, introduce a Trading post, introduce a Wow token in classic, lie about Overwatch 2 content, and more. Is this what we are to expect? I am no longer being a part of this half effort crap. You couldn’t even bother to balance your game for 4 years and then now constantly do it every other day, always ruining whatever you are nerfing to the ground. I watched Warlocks get nerfed everyday for 16 days … And do not even get me started on Paladins…
PS: I also think the new class was executed very badly, is ugly and kind of sucks. And that’s why NO ONE PLAYS THEM.
This game was an RPG. The RPG has been replaced with RNG.
- Your Great Vault looks like a Slot Machine from Las Vegas. It is 100% identical to one, minus the lever to pull down. It even randoms everything for you, just like a slot machine. You have to pay monthly money, then put in 8 to 10 hours on Mythic + and then another 4 to 6 hours on Raiding if you want to fill it out and have a chance at decent loot. But it’s all random. Blizzard does not care about the time you put in. That is almost 15 hours of work each week …just to have Blizzard random your chances. This was the last straw for myself.
As a paying customer, I think Blizzard you have blurred the lines of gaming and gambling. I will no longer pay you money, then put in over 15 hours of work each week, just so you can RNG me.
- The Forums. The amount of Passive Aggressive trolls and kids that you let attack every forum user, is utter crap. You run these forums like crap and I cannot stomach this place anymore. There isn’t even gamers on anymore…it’s just miserable people, with the one guy selling gold runs, that passively attack and chase away any potential customers or players you have Blizzard. You have created a cesspool on these forums. You have a billion rules…but nothing for all the passive aggressive trolls you have, that come in to start arguments and the constant people who flag threads is unreal. You have people that pay you monthly and then spend all their time in the forums, seeing how many people they can attack and not get along with. Please get a life and go be happy people. And Blizzard, do your job.
A little about myself;
I “have” been a longtime fan…i played Warcraft 1 on floppy disk.
In 2004 to 2010, was in a top 50 world raiding guild. When we had killed Cthun, we were ranked 7th in NA. I was the top healing Priest on Perenolde. Night Elf Priest. Our guild was called Fraternity and then Phase Two.
And as people got older and had kids or married or moved, our guild slowly died over the years.
I then quit for 8 years to focus on real life, bought a house, got married myself ect.
Then came back and played for a few years, played BFA and Shadowlands.
I just cannot stomach this version of wow.
I wish you all the best. Take care. I am letting this game go for good.
As a Veteran Gamer…I plead with the community to stop buying these cash shop items and supporting the worst part of gaming history. Save your money, buy something worth it.
As an Artist it makes me sick…that Blizzard pulls every inkling of creativity out of them for cash shop items, then hires and fires and repeats with the next Artist. They are not even artist anymore…just line workers, making the next item, skin or cash shop item to drain money from the consumer while giving no real content or art.
I honestly think most of Activision’s and Blizzard’s CEO’s should be charged as child predators. They have some of the most predatory methods in gaming history. They don’t make games…they make cash shops and make their games suck, so you have to go through their cash shop. They put out a base game …then 80% off all resources go into how to monetize their customers. And 20% goes into said base game. The amount of lazy design that is passed off as effort is astonishing.
I will copy and save this to the Reddit forums as well. The only place you can actually post, since Blizzard forums are ran pretty bad these days.
Maybe one day Congress or the Senate will pass a law making most of what Blizzard does illegal. 8 Countries now have laws against loot boxes, certain battle passes or “bought content to make the game better” and heavy handed gaming monetization. I think the USA needs to get on board.
I did not have much gold, but gave my 1.5 million to my guildies, I hope they have fun. Take care to all the good people out there. I wish you the best.
sorry I kinda ranted there.