The next expansion will take place in a cave. It is going to be pretty dark.
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Undercity got better with the power of science and some lightbulb with legs.
Yeah but Forsaken still just hang out on the top. The actual undercity is pretty much toast.
Gnomes still canât go to gnomergan
The darkspear trolls starting zone is laughably bare
Oh but oh no a freaking tree burnt down
Maybe, I think the most important problems were others but I am not going to deny that what you say may be partly to blame.
Personally, in the narrative aspect, I enjoyed BfA until we got to Nazjatar and Sylvanas lost her mind, but the most frustrating thing up to that point was not being able to put together Silvanas intentions, when it became clear that the character was being deconstructed I drop the game for a while.
On the other hand, there is the issue that it did not seem like Blizzard knew how to conclude the war and leave the players satisfied with the results, BfA was at the beginning an expansion that polarized the players and raised the feelings of belonging to a faction to levels that had not seen since Cata when Garrosh was warchief.
These seem like more serious problems to me than saying that it was too dark an expansion, personally I donât even consider it dark.
And once again when I say âdarkerâ I donât mean that the game should be Dark, I mean that it should be darker than it is right now.
The negative feedback came exclusively from Horde players who didnât want to be the bad guys again. But this had nothing to do with the plot being too âdarkâ.
I donât mind most of it, but the ending cutscene was digustingly cringe. If a writer EVER brings up the power of friendship, fire them.
Itâs the presentation. If the impression youâre leaving with your audience (and very few people have been praising DFâs story, letâs be honest) is NOT the one you intended, then thatâs an issue and it means your writing and the tropes youâre using arenât hitting with your readership/gamership/whatevership.
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Nope, Alliance players complained too.
Voldun is a perfect example of that, because the Alliance invaded that zone with extermination/purge squads that were annihilating the Vulpera for aiding the Horde. Want to guess who complained to the point where the extermination/purge squads were removed from the game?
Yeah it wasnât the Horde.
Another one.
The complaints were because that came so far out of left field from how Blizzard had been writing the Alliance at that point. And it was also seen a cheap justification for why Alliance did not get Vulpera.
âThe game is called warcraft!â Please, this game has never been close to the actual realities of War. It has always been a faerie tale.
Just saying I get the feeling that the majority of these people never even spent a day in basic training. I know veterans of actual war and they never go âyay war rawr blood and honor!â Far more likely they will warn you about their ptsd.
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Okay. Some alliance players donât want to be the bad guys either.
But itâs not about the existence of purge squads as âdark stuffâ. Put âScarlet Crusadeâ in the title and nobody cares anymore.
I have no problem with the values that set by the characters, like love, friendship, family, etc. Those are the values that make us human after all. However, the way it is done is patronizing, like a childrenâs cartoon. That ending cinematic is something straight out of a disney channel cartoon made for 5 year olds.
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EXACTLY. They treat us like idiots who canât understand nuance and complex story arcs with layered characters. Everything is dumbed down to the point it feels like a parody.
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Drustvar is such an awesome zone and would like more like it.
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Scarlet Crusadeâs not Alliance, though, so theyâre fair game. Alliance deciding to go and relentlessly attempt to butcher a group of traders that had âchosen to aid the Hordeâ despite having dealt with Goblins for the longest time was honestly some pants-on-head writing that was strictly to help maintain the faction divide and justify why the Vulpera wasnât neutral.
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Next expansion confirmed for Sylvanas+Lord Illidon Stormrage teaming up to save us from ourselfs with the introduction of Windrunnerforged Loot and Stormrageforged Loot!!
If I was director of a movie and an actor came up to me and told me to kill off their character Iâd respond by saying that I wouldnât kill off their character under any circumstances. Iâd also tell them to think of it as their punishment for trying to write for me. 
This is just people not paying attention to the story and then complaining about it. DF had plenty of REALLY dark moments.
Yes, I totally agree! There were a lot of dark moments in the storyline in DF. But I guess not all players noticed because there is a difference if the situation is dire for your faction or for the dracthyr or the dragonflight members.
And for those who are still convinced that WoW should be darker just decrease the brightness of your display. 