Y’all very quickly forgot the abomination of an expansion you actually got.
This trailer was successful, as was the sheer level of marketing WoD got. But the expansion is one of the biggest black marks on WoW’s entire history on many fronts and is a legitimate contender for the title of “worst expansion of all time.”
WoD did so much damage to WoW that it singlehandedly caused Blizzard to stop reporting WoW subscriber counts because that unbelievably botched expansion lost over 6 million subs in a little over a year. And for all of BFA’s and Shadowlands’ flaws, at least those expansions don’t have the dishonor of being the sole expansion that Blizzard outright gave up on.
Blizzard literally abandoned WoD. It only got two patches, and one of them is unanimously accepted to be the worst major patch in WoW’s entire history. Even the biggest 8.0 and 9.1 haters agree that patch 6.1 is cataclysmically bad.
Theme is an important thing I feel Dragonflight missed on even more than MoP. Dragonflight barely feels like Warcraft, It’s a really weird childish dragon Disney movie
Also, it hurts my head to see people so simple that they don’t understand the difference of tone/theme, and not WoD as a whole
Not really. The Iron Horde was a never a threat to Azeroth in the first place. Its a planet composed of people that never fought a single big war. Every single Orc on AU Draenor was a novice compared to Azeroth where pretty much everyone was a Veteran who faced a multitudes of world ending threats.
Not really either. Garrosh prevented his dumb father from repeating the same mistake he did in our timeline. All orcs in AU Draenor were also stupidity incarnate since they were, as i said, amateurs at the sword. The Iron Horde was effectively routed by a couple commandos that utilized the races of AU Draenor as canon fodder.
All the while the Horde and Alliance were playing ooga booga at Ashran. Shows you how “dangerous” the iron horde was in the first place.
The ONLY one that had any noteworthy experience was Garrosh.
Plain muscles got beaten to a bloody pulp by people with magic. Also the Legion at the end.
Op,that’s the whole thing most stories don’t need magic,or mechanics ,it just needs the spirit of soul to reach folks ,simple and not complex like Wrathian and Zel’thas dagger .
Ofc it was. It was hyped to the high heavens. But im more on about the general flame of the lore throughout the xpac.
Debatable. The Iron Horde was doing “me orc, me smash, me not having braincells” while our Orcs were using their brains or just laughed at the Iron Horde while being busy fighting Alliance forces in Ashran because the Iron Horde wasnt even regarded a major threat after we invaded and made landfall.
After Garrosh was killed off they also effectively lost their brain in regards of how to deal with Azerothian troops.
And bled out over 6 million subscribers in less than a year due to a lack of content, and was literally unplayable for millions for the first several days, up to about ~2 weeks after the expansion launched, due to widespread DDoS attacks.
WoD’s leveling was good, but it had pretty much no endgame outside of raiding and some PvP (which was hated back then, although WoD PvP is viewed much more favorably nowadays) and to this day still has one of the worst launches any AAA title has ever had.
WoD will always be the textbook example of how not to do an expansion. Nearly everything a given person may dislike about WoW right now can be directly traced back to WoD’s failures.
I was super sad when I realized they abandoned WOD. Blizz should have stayed the course and finished the story. Although the extra time working on legion did pan out.
WoW needs a 4 year patch cycle. Major triple AAA titles take 5-6+ years to properly make. I know people would lose their minds. However they just burnout. If WoW took the time to build a deep game it’d make the kind of memories again that would keep drawing us back like the tru addicts we are.
The rise and fall of WoD is not even what the thread is about, WoD was hugely popular in marketing because people want Warcraft, big dudes with giant axes, Which dragonflight lacks. The early success of WoD just further proves the point, obviously the expansion ended up being trash nobody is debating that.
People want war
People want demons
People want knights in shining armour
People want giant barbaric warriors
People want undead
Cool warcrafty stuff, not rainbow talking dragons and goofy characters
No doubt towards the end of WoD the story became VERY contrived to justify Legion.
I think the problem is the 2 year cycle. The game hasn’t been in a good state since that became the mandate. There’s not enough reflection time to see how bad some of this stuff is.
WoDs story was super damn amazing and reminded me of going through the dark portal in Warcraft 2. The ogres where finally given some love. There was tons of fighting and war themed content and it gave us the maghar. The assault on the dreanei was really cool from the alliance perspective. Better than the war stuff in Kalimdor. Ashenvale by miles.
I am still bucket listing farming my sprite darter from Feralis. Lol.