Simply because of the pattern.
Wrath was good.
Cata sucked.
MoP was good
WoD REALLY sucked
Legion is good.
If the pattern continues next expansion will be as bad as, or possibly even worse than WoD.
Simply because of the pattern.
Wrath was good.
Cata sucked.
MoP was good
WoD REALLY sucked
Legion is good.
If the pattern continues next expansion will be as bad as, or possibly even worse than WoD.
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I personally liked Cata a lot more than Mop. The one thing I think they f-ed up is allowing flying all over Azeroth.
Cata was good. Also Wrath wasn't really a good expansion, it just had a few specific good points.
It's really about perspective. From your point of you that pattern exists so the next expansion will be bad.
For my own "pattern" WoD was one of the best expansions and Legion one of the worst so the next expansion will surely be good.
Legion has been, overall, really good. So I'm personally worried if Blizzard can keep up that momentum in the next expansion. I mean... Demon Hunters, Illidan, Kil'jaeden, Azshara, Dadghar, Velen, Turalyon etc in one package? No 'Jaina and her rock of people in the middle of the sea' expansion would compliment that.
I enjoyed Cata, but then again I was a newbie back then so maybe I was blind to the bad side of it. My guess is it was bad just because Wrath was too good.
You can't get any worse than WoD because WoD was just a filler expansion with no real passion thrown into it. Best thing about WoD was the raiding, BRF was great. Considering a small percentage of players actually raid it meant so many players didn't actually partake in the best thing about it.
As for my thoughts on legion, well, I just wish Diablo devs didn't help out because its a shit show of RNG in every aspect of the game. Raids haven't been all that special compared to others but other than that, Legion is alright.
agree that the revamp is the thing that damaged the more the game, some will say causation is not correlation but I think there's a reason why the subs dropped right after cata launch, wow was about to conquer the world, it could have been bigger than what it was, but they screwed up on a planetary scale, and the subs never increased again, that's how bad cata was
hoping they learned that removing and changing the game kills their business, as opposed to improving the game
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Think of it in positive terms. If it is bad you can more easily not waste your time with it and do something more worthwhile instead. There is no need to dread anything unless someone is forcing you to play.
Azshara made a cameo, and Warcraft's perpetually mishandled joke of a story had 0 bearing on the failure of the bad expansions.
Plus Metzen and Kosak can no longer taint the story, so how much worse can it really get? Afrasiabi wrote stuff like Stonetalon Garrosh (though it was undercut by miscommunication) so if he's leading the overall story it's at least in decent enough hands if they can all stay on the same page.
I LOL'd! I imagined you making an arcane gesture to ward off the argument and banish the foul spirits of anti-flight rhetoric. XD
I honestly think that the falloff of subs had less to do with anything else other than the conclusion of the story that was being told throughout the Warcraft games. The story had all been leading up to that, and had MANY references to the original RTS games. Whereas Cata tried to create new threats that were far less interesting to players as a whole.
I often wonder what would have happened if WotLK had been followed up immediately by Legion. It would have been the next logical place to go with the story, since Sargeras and the burning legion also had very strong ties to the RTS games and story. Cata, MoP, and WoD are basically filler. And now that we've finally come back to some story content that has it's context well-grounded in the original source material, it's almost too late.
I mean, think about it. They had to give players the most powerful artifacts in the lore and resurrect Illidan, as well as finally caving and creating demonhunters as a playable class. And even with all that subs are still barely at WoD levels. Whatever the next expansion is, do you really think it'll have enough to match all that fanservice? Even if it's pirates, or void lords, or something completely different, I think we'll see participation levels drop even lower. People are just fatigued with the WoW format.
Yeah, because your opinion on the expansions, that's exactly how its going to be.
that's a good point, I think what stopped the grow of subs is a combination of things, and now it's almost impossible to have that many players, but they somehow get more profit. I think if they wanted to raise the subs they could with free to play and psychological manipulation such as marketing and more incentive for competition, bringing back the nostalgic players with the old world, thing like that, but they have no reason to put such efforts given how profitable the game seems to be with the wow token and more store ties between their game