I've watched several video's of his and those were mostly negative. So he made one positive video amongst mostly negative ones. He's feeding off of the negative vibe he and others created, gets him more views. Can't stand the guy, but you're probably a regular viewer, that's ok. I just wish people that were done with the game, move on and find something else instead of creating such a negative atmosphere. I get that you're passionate, but you are just one person. So is that annoying Preach, yet he seems to think he speaks for a lot of people, that's the main issue I have with people like that. And then he goes on to monetize his dislike. Disgusting.
His job is what, to be a negative Nancy and ride the negativity train? If you look at most threads here on MMO Champ, I'm sure he has a big audience, doesn't make him right though.
I have paid pretty close attention to Preach since returning to the game and would have to disagree with your description. I think too many people have a tendency to allow hyperbole and outrage to turn the volume up on any rhetoric used to describe the game, good or bad. He does offer criticism of the game and he also talks about aspects he enjoys. He also talks respectfully of aspects he understands that other's enjoy that are not his cup of tea.
I tend to be more critical about things I really enjoy because I really enjoy them and want them to be their best.
I can't say for certain, but I would guess that Preach feels similarly, based on what I have seen, and if the game ceased to be any fun whatsoever--he would leave. One of the things that concerns him is when people he enjoys playing with leave the game since he enjoys playing with friends--thus criticizing with the hope things will get better and become a better social experience as well as game experience.
YMMV
That's how you get audience nowadays. I mean you could open a thread hammering WoW to dust over nonsense and you'd get an instant circle-jerk here.
I'd say BfA has its share of faults for sure, but shit here totally flies off the handle with people somehow managing to accuse of WoW being WoW and such - apparently even stuff that was a thing since almost forever is somehow turned into "what's wrong with BfA".
In short, cesspool of nonsense with occasional legitimate concerns.
This thread’s still alive? Y’all must have a serious hate boner for Preach. It’s not healthy, man.
I can make this very short, just check his positive to negative ratio as far valueing the current state (insert whatever state) of WoW is. Spoiler alert, most of his videos are overly long essays on how he thinks WoW could be better. What he thinks would make Wow better isn't necessarily what I would agree with or whoever. But he feels he's the authority to make that judgement. And if that weren't bad enough he's asked to comment on the world first race by Method, commenting basically on a game he mostly doesn't like. He's such a sellout. I really dislike the guy, to put it mildly.
Fair enough, I am not trying to get anyone to like or dislike the guy. I don't consider his critiques to be "shitting" on the game, I consider them fair and not hyperbolic. By and large, for my time, he seems to enjoy some aspects of the game. His authority to speak on the game comes from his play time and those of us that click on his videos to hear his take.
Based on the advise that many have given on this very thread, it seems that if they didn't want Preach to get any more traction they would do the equivalent of "unsubbing" and stop commenting. The only thing left in this soon to be 40-page thread would be either people who see merit in discussing the video or sycophants.
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So this thread
50% attacks on preach because...idk
45% claiming it's mythic raiders wanting to be special snowflakes
4% saying they unsubbed and the game is Dead
1% discussing video
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Blizzard has killed gearing and now you have players saying any who dare say it's bad is a terrible elitist.... for some reason
The invisible checkbox for your toons ilvl
The fact weapons are separated in that check box based on type of weapon
The fact that master loot was removed because of a problem that for the most part was fixed in legion and the"trials not getting loot" stories were shown to be lies
Azerite gear being shit
The fact a 330 ring is better than a 385 ring
The fact my alt who hasn't stepped foot in any non lfg content now has 386ilvl
All of this is the gear problems I see and it hurts new players
Let's say my mage was my main and I'm a new player
I wouldn't get upgrades outside of like a +7 but in order for me to get a group I need to do one of two things.
1. Run a mythic 0 that offers no upgrades and then run the key up to the +7 with likely multiple groups which takes time which is a big complaint amongst the vocal player base when talking about raider io
2. Go into the lists and look for a dungeon and hope I get chosen despite no score
Let's say 2 works
I get into the group and since I have no previous experience in the dungeons...I die...a lot
If I don't get kicked we may not hit the timer
That means the player who owns the key is punished for judging by ilvl and I'm punished because I went into content the game said was appropriate for me.
How do you stop from taking a chance burning a key?? Raider io is born
Why?? Because blizzard had a broken gear system
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Doesn't this apply to, I don't know, pretty much everyone who has written a single comment in this thread? That would mean you would hate every single person in this thread, and probably a lot more people who have yet to comment. Or no, I guess your hatred actually stems from him NOT being just one voice in the crowd on a fanboy forum that you can just ignore. It's because he puts a lot of effort into making his voice heard and because people willingly give their money to support it that you dislike him.
you're also not going to be pugging M+10+ unless you get your raider.io up ((or use shortcuts), you're not going to be pugging heroic unless you get your curve, you're not going to be pugging mythic beyond the first 2 bosses give or take if you are really lucky with your group. and everything else is, free the moment you ding.
You can get a minimum gear for everything you could possibly pug within a weekend, that imo is a broken system.
A whole raid wing for Mythic? Problem is very few would see it, sure sounds good to you, but if it covers important story then it ruins the experience for everyone else. Remember Cho'gall in WoD? Sure was fun having him disappear and never having closure, unless you were mythic of course. Mounts don't mean much, not because of rarity, but because there are hundreds of them these days.
Exclusive rewards cost resources. For example a unique gear set costs another set that everyone could have. Fact is an incredibly small amount of people doing Mythic, and leaving the rewards only for them means everyone else gets a boring, quickly ended experience.
I got every mage tower skin except for the healing ones primarily because I did the resto sham one and wanted to claw my eyes out with boredom. Doesn't mean I know the classes inside and out just means in many cases I outgeared them. Had nothing to do with being good after the first few.
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Don't claim to have raided bc when you obviously didn't. A fast BT clear was a fun break and we didn't just do it for gearing up new apps or even alts we did it for glaives.
How do you know that they agree with Preach that WoW is shit? Or that he even thinks that it does over all? I am subscribed to Preach not because i think WoW is shit, but more because i usually like his "Drama Fridays" where he reads "player stories" from raiding and guild adventures of Wow players. And yes i agree with some of his complaints but he sure as fuck isnt "right" about anything.
Yup it's nuts my last character was heroic ilvl within a week without even relying on friends to carry me that's stupid.
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It is real life but it's for a different reason than you think. Blizzard has insisted on implementing uncapped grinds and encouraging alting by refusing to implement an account wide loot lockout the first few weeks of a tier. This has led to massive burnout you even see players like Max who streams for a living straight up saying the game sucks now. The whole idea of raid logging is basically dead if you want to play in a decent guild which has drastically decreased the viable raiding population.
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Why do you need "good gear" if you aren't raiding?
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Yeah definitely has nothing to do with wow feeling like d3 with seasons and a slot machine nope nothing at all /s
Cool thing about Youtube... them there comments below the videos allow people to agree or disagree. You should read them sometimes. As one might imagine, more people agree than disagree. Because you generally follow people you like/agree with.
Apparently your mileage varied.
That is completely fine, you can get the necessary raider.io to do M+10 reasonably by doing a bit less than that M+, groups for which are much less picky. Same with Heroic, eventually you will find your way through, which is the whole point of progression.
You need to build some clout and I find it to be fine really.
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Gear being obsoleted by new raid tier is a thing from late TBC, so again I am not sure how you and some others suddenly make such a big issue out of it. Same with TF boogeyman, which really REALLY is not a thing in BfA to any sort of significant extent.
Heck, Legion which is now hailed as one of the best WoW expansions had all that, why is it suddenly such an issue in BfA? I think the problem is elsewhere because what you said was WoW for more than 10 years and TF is really not a factor.
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That's pretty much spoiled statistics there and you know it. These things are like a Church, most people sitting in it agree with preacher and those who don't either shut up or do not even come there.
It's no coincidence Preach is "Preach" - it is literally same thing, he has his congregation that knows what they are coming for and he gives them just that. I would not be surprised if that's the thing he thought of when he took that handle name.
Your assumption here is that WoW is getting new players... What we have now is a more likely a consequence of WoW not getting new players.
At least my Sunwell clear achievement is on the 3.0 pre patch date... So try again?Don't claim to have raided bc when you obviously didn't. A fast BT clear was a fun break and we didn't just do it for gearing up new apps or even alts we did it for glaives.
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Gear having upgrades in new raids is very different from catchup mechanics like in new wow.
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Why would I want to recruit glaive players when I already had better players who didn't have glaives? Recruiting glaive players was a last resort.