It did seem more about image than product quality, selling hype, and creating frequent expansions. The only reason you would do that is to make as money as possible in a short period of time. Unfortunately, the drawback to that is that it would kill the game just as quickly, eventually it would feel watered down and stretched to its limitations. (They surely knew that.)
You’re being pendantic and immature.
Grown up reality : Blizzard won’t let a game still raking in metric-tons of money despite its age and problems die.
And, your not wrong… I am having a hard time rationalizing long term sustainability in wow other then a soft reset. Massive world event…
Each expansion could be packaged as a stand alone game with 2 or 3 doc’s. It’s design flaw for building a long lasting MMO or was it intentional.
Vanilla to TBC felt coherent
TBC to Wotlk and mop also did
Cata got off that rail…
It’s hard to build a game of over 20+ years…
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I have no opinion on the allegations.
But if the devs are doing some kind of “protest work stoppage” I would stop paying them. Do I have to keep paying my sub?
You have to keep paying your sub sorry…
Except its Riot that pioneered and proved that a game can thrive off purely cosmetic micro-transactions?
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If I had to guess, here’s some of the “highlights” of 9.2:
- Tazavesh split into 2 dungeons (obviously)
- a new raid in either Ardenweald or Maldraxxus
- a rehashed zone with “Jailer invasions” (or similar filler content)
- some new WQs for said rehashed zone
- ability to wear 2 leggos
- some minor QOL improvements such as sending Anima to alts
- a few (very) minor tweaks made for PvP’ers, but they will ultimately stick with their pro-WoW token sales gearing system
Probably released around February-March 2022. Based on the traditional 2-year expanson cycle, 9.2 just might be the final patch.
Doesn’t make much sense to devote a bunch of dev resources into a 9.3 that would only be out for like 2-3 months anyway.
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Very true.
I’m fine with them taking it to mid 2023 for the next expansion to get a 9.3
They also figured out how to be paid in toxicity 
This was a two year investigation by the state of California… someone didn’t wake up one day and make an angry tweet.
Don’t twist the reality to make yourself feel better about this.
Yes you have to pay.
If you are a PVP player, we understand your reluctance to queue into a game with 230 geared players while we time-gate your honor gear to renown 59 (1.2 months from now) and cap honor gear at 216, which is 10 gear levels BELOW the conquest cap for last season.
We appreciate your continued patience while these other players stomp you in the battlegrounds and please look-past our efforts to supply them with 252 gear so you can continue to queue into battlegrounds every week and get increasingly diminished results.
If you happen to join a game and survive longer than 2 seconds, please submit a complain so we can increase the amount of ilevels we supply to the players who already out gear you.
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You might be but Bobby won’t be. Expansion releases is still where this game makes a good chunk of its money and what drives metrics through the roof for a short period of times.
If there was still any doubt about a 9.3 before all this, i’m convinced this nailed its coffin.
We’ll see, i still believe
Humans never lie, make mistakes, have an agenda…
sure buddy.
Cata is definitely when things started going downhill, it also started to feel generic. It makes me think of when rock bands fall apart and they add someone new, the music goes from feeling raw and built on passion to dull and generic. The band has more resources to work with but the passion is gone.
When the merger happened it became about squeezing as much as they could out of the product until there was nothing left to squeeze out. They were not thinking about longterm at that point, it was simply: keep squeezing! I feel that vanilla was originally created with a long term vision and they need to continue with that formula if they intend to keep the game alive. That means less expansions.
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Maybe you’re fine with it, but the number of twitch streamers in my “followed” list that are already playing OTHER games this early into 9.1 is pretty disturbing 
I get the sense that a decent amount of players want “out” of Shadowlands already and are ready for 10.0, whatever that may bring.
proof of this because that sounds like a hypothesis than truth
How about we get more skilled and passionate developers, regardless of their gender?
Why does equality mean such different things to different people?
TRUE equality means it doesn’t matter how many men you have versus women or what quotas need to be filled, the best applicant wins. “Get more women involved in this game,” is just as warped as what Blizzard is ACCUSED of doing.
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You really think that a game:
Which accepts tops as options and allows bras as a top.
Has offered zero PINK mounts in the 500 new mounts its offered in 10 years.
Has offered zero PINK pets in the 500 new pets its offered in 10 years.
Has created one (ONE) red outfit for players in the last 10 years.
Has created zero sandals in the last 10 years.
Has created zero shirts in the last 10 years.
Has created ten outfits that look like bras.
To not really be concerned with how the public sees them anymore?
I think its pretty obvious what the hells been going on at this company just from what kind of stuff its creating.
I’m pretty happy that atleast somebody is looking deeper at it and trying to stem the absolute crap.
Hell, maybe this will be the turning point for them, where they realize people won’t just pay u money if you don’t do something for it.