No it’ s not that it’s old.
I left wow and this new expansion for a much older game.
I used to love this game. It’s not because the game world is old. It’s due to a number of changes they made (probably starting around BFA) to now that I feel
has completely disrespected a number of fictional foundations that were established in the game more than 20 years ago.
Putting in elements that really when one think’s about seems separate from the fictional world they are now in.
In other words, elements being promoted coming from issues in the real world that are being placed in a fictional world where they don’t entirely make sense because they feel they go against either pre-established lore or as a I said older fictional foundations that were laid out into this game world more than 20 years ago.
I now play a much older game than wow and this time around I didn’t even try the new expansion after taking like 5 minutes looking at an intro screen for it.
In essence it’s not in my opinion because the game is old (graphics etc).
I play a-lot of other games with worse or a bit older graphics than wow currently has and I find them interesting.
Why? Because the game worlds try to stay true to the fictional world boundaries that were created for them.
Wow now is more like a e sport with a fantasy coat and like a place on the internet promoting ads or social issues to make certain people “appear to be good”. It’s called pandering. “Appear to be good” based on whatever the mob dictates are good for the present moment, even when “insert cause” seems to go against the original game world lore and fictional foundation that was established decades ago that gave the world it’s specific ambience.
For example: I was one of the people I suppose in the minority that liked the idea of void elves.
I thought it wasn’t bad that a small faction of mostly blood elves played with the void. They were warned to stop doing so as it could damage the sunwell right? They ignored the warning, were exiled and were altered forever by the void.
It wasn’t bad.
Then some people who wanted high elves pressured the dev’s to add all the necessary colors to pretend their “void elf” was really a high elf.
Now I don’t care if some players wanted to be high elves. What I did care about was that instead of the dev’s making another racial option “high elf” for the alliance even if that meant to be fair to the horde they give the horde a sixth allied race, which by the way would have meant that high elf players would have had their own unique racials .
Instead what did blizzard do? They gave the visual options to players as I stated to players to pretend to be high elves and they essentially made true void elf players who wanted their void elves to reflect the new lore that defines void elves a minority now in what was supposed to be a new race.
Again, they just ignored the new lore they established (pretty recently) to do this lazy way of giving some alliance players their dream of being high elves.
And I might add even more.
I think this will apply to Activision Blizzard now.
What I am about to say here is my impression of this corporation yes, based on an article I read a number of years ago.
So this article was stating that one of the things that developers never did was either form a union or professionalize like doctors.
Instead, this article said that what has or happened gradually in the tech industry is that the developers were eventually controlled by the business class in these companies.
A business class by the way that made all the big decisions regarding tech or in this case game development.
Now one might think that if you are an executive (again according to what I read in this old article); that making more than 200k a year would be good enough and you would be grateful.
However according to this article that wasn’t the case for many in this business class making the big decisions in these tech companies. Instead, a number of them were envious of their other classmates that apparently were making five to seven hundred thousand dollars in the real estate market?
So in other words, the article was stating that these elite business class people running these tech companies are some of the bottom of their class graduates compared to their higher class graduates from whatever school I suppose is necessary for them to attend to get these elite business degrees?
So in essence, you have people running these tech companies and in this particular case tech game companies that only care about these games for the profits it brings in and the people who might have passion for the project are overruled by this class of people.
So once upon a time games were designed by gamers for gamers. Like the old Fallout games. I think that model now is long dead.
