I find it funny that people say “but M+!”, I’m bored of M+ by the end of the first patch and never touch again for the rest of the expansion.
I play this game to raid, it’s basically what I’ve played for for 15 years, wod was great for that.
Wrong. Any story that has time travel is garbage.
Wrong. Generalization is garbage.
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On the contrary, they haven’t.
BfA really is that bad in their eyes, to the point they’d genuinely prefer to play WoD instead. Though I think many of them would also argue we’d be even better off without BfA being released at all and still being stuck at the end of Legion.
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Nope. WoD was worse. Some things about it might have been better, but I’ll take content over no content any day. Also, the bfa story may have been bad, but at least it was cohesive, unlike “a whole raid tier and 25% of the story cut” WoD.
Literally the only difference right now is the fact m+ exist just as OP pointed out.
Why? I played the game back then.
I find it funny that we are at a point where the same 2-3 rotating dailies, assaults and HV are all content that can be flat out ignored after 2 months is considered good content.
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I’d rather have lots of content that is optional, and has higher difficulty or higher time sink rewards to obtain, then having content that is mandatory.
In that case they are being dramatic, though I’m not taking your word for the fact regardless. Most folks have short memories and even more than that have fond memories of things in the past regardless of how much they may have disliked it at the time.
Objectively, BFA has more content, more systems, et cetera. It is a better game than WoD was simply because you have more to do. Personally, I find them roughly equally enjoyable but the amount of hatred levied towards BFA is quite frankly, pitiful.
I’m not considering it good content. What I am considering is the amount of content added over the respective expansion’s life cycles. BFA has more and that is a fact.
WoD had garrisons, and a couple of decent raids. Heck, even the rep grinds in WoD were buggered. Most of them were literally mob grinds.
You had an entire patch dedicated to social media integration and selfie cameras …
“Content” indeed.
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That’s true. Makes me sad I missed it due to being burned out after MoP.
“But you didn’t have to sit through the content drought!” people will say. “You don’t know how bad it was!”
Of course, this seems like a ridiculous cope. Everyone I know who did stick out WoD is a million-billionaire to this day from the mission table. Plus, the game’s design was awesome in almost every way. Sounds like the experience was worth the lack of content, all things considered.
What exactly was mandatory in WoD outside of the legendary ring? You can’t say there was no content and then say this.
Making a ton of easy gold was the one good thing in WoD.
I’m STILL selling stuff I farmed during WoD to this day (mostly rare pets and what-not.) There was so little to do at end game that that is how I occupied much of my time ingame. It was incredibly dull.
all your doing is the same content where the bosses have more hp each key and mobs do different things.
wod had good pvp and class design.
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All content in WoW is repetitive… Or have you not noticed?
It is the nature of MMOs. Pick your flavour of repetition and have at it.
And My flavor of repetition was better in wod.
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its the nature of wow all m+ just is its the same thing each season.before m+ devs had to actually try to put out content not now with m+ and 4 lvls or raids.
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I see what you mean, but I haven’t even played 8.3 because Blizzard forces me to get “corruption” to advance. Sure, I can cleanse it, but being corrupted in the first place is pretty demotivating. And yeah, I know this is my personal experience but I’ve read the same sentiment elsewhere.
It’s like BfA stopped at 8.2.5. At least WoD’s content drought was spent exploring decidedly Warcraft-y themes and locales.
That said, it’s not like we need a big back-and-forth, or that WoD being subjectively cooler than BfA means anything. We’re still here playing in the World of Warcraft and it’s got enough of a world built to keep us subscribed regardless of whatever current content is.
While this is true, you’re overlooking one very simple fact on the matter – and the most critical one at that:
They HATE BfA’s content and systems.
Literally, outright hatred towards them; it gets their blood boiling, and in extreme cases makes them want to break their own computers than put up with them. Call it dramatic if you will, but that’s the point they’re trying to get across.
WoD, for all its flaws, never generated such vitriol towards the game itself. BfA did. The fact there’s more content does not aid the expansion in any way; if anything, it only makes it worse.
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The main reason that WoD is criticized is for how little there was to do and they still cut content.
The things that actually made it into the game were pretty good.
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We are comparing bad content with a bunch of crappy borrowed power systems to no repeatable content? It’s really not helping your case to which expansion was worse.
Class design in WoD was infinitely better than what we have now and BRF and HFC were some of the best raids in the game. Also PvP wasn’t a complete meme back then. I would hardly say BFA is better than WoD at all.
Both terrible expansions for their own reasons but lets not pretend that BFA is by any means way better.
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