8.3 is confirmed to have a raid.
Yeah but it won't be a full raid with lots of bosses.
The 8.3 raid is confirmed to have 11 bosses.
Yeah but it won't be good bosses with new mechanics.
Each boss will feature a new mechanic.
Yeah but I won't have fun doing them because I'm a troll.
There. Now we can get proper moderation and go ahead and ban the 8.3 deniers, since I covered their next 3-4 months of posting for them.
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Despite the fact that raiding in BFA has had more players and guilds than Legion actively playing, a large number of accounts who hate Blizzard (likely coordinated by a few people) spam all the various subforums with claims of BFA being a failure, low player counts, etc.
We're at the point in the tier when progression stalls out. The keyboard turners are realized they aren't getting AOTC and are giving up. The AOTC guilds wiping on Mythic Sivara are sad that they don't get a loot pinata this tier. The middling mythic guilds are stuck on Ashvane and the 5% nerf didn't get them past her. The above average mythic guilds are pushing towards CE slowly. The top end mythic guilds are bored with farming. The top one to two hundred players per realm are hitting neck 70.
We have at least 2 months left in the 6 month tier, due to not releasing around the holidays so developers can be allowed to spend time with their families. People are kinda bored though. The anniversary event will give people something to do for a little bit, but... That's just what happens around this time of the year.
The worst part is people like me who will take 2+ weeks off for Christmas due to PTO expiring and have nothing to really grind at in WoW.
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Highlighted a few things, first i said 8.3 Jan, and 9.0 (PREPATCH) for July with Expansion Aug/Sept. So guess what, plenty of time for people to complete the 8.3 content. Second, Classic has robbed what it is going to rob. While we may see a bit of churn each way from patches on either game, it wont be a concerning amount. Also, the players that actually participate in Alpha\Beta is a microscopic amount of players in the grand scheme of things, especially because they are doing shorter betas now. As for allied races, that is patch 8.3 content.............
As for your final comment. I believe Blizzard can easily show us 8.3, build hype, then also show us a trailer and a feature or two of the next expansion, without spoiling how we got from 8.3 to 9.0. They literally did that before. You can make a hype trailer that features all the cool new shit, but not let people know how the game gets to that point.
You realize exactly what i have described has happened many times in the past. We have gotten the last major patch and an expansion announced at the same time.
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I never said the entire thing would be, i said it will have a lot of encrypted storyline content that will bridge into 9.0. You can test the raid\feature without spoiling the story, they proved they can test all they want in 8.2.5 and still have the story hidden.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
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That is a fair point, they could do the same thing they did in legion. I think there is a real chance we can see two sets, 8.3 allied that fit the BFA theme, and 9.0 ones that fit with whatever the main trailer for 9.0 is. This could even be a single race like pandaren that can choose faction (that is if factions are the same in 9.0 as previous which is a bit questionable).
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
I am shocked, how dare they release 8.3, HOW DARE THEY!!! All rage spam their forums... I bet many haters can't sleep now.
Honestly, considering the amount of skins and cosmetic content including maps and stuff I see OW going the WoW route and it will continue being expanded on rather than making a OW2. Which includes overhauls to combat and such. Making a sequel at this point is kinda pointless. Not sure what OW2 could introduce which can't be implemented in OW already.
What reason do you have to doubt it? We have years of experience and evidence to suggest a new expansion being the focus is almost certainly what will happen.
I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but there are far too many of these sorts of posts in these threads. Comments with zero thought or evidence behind them, and they come up repeatedly. At times it genuinely feels like trolling.
It's a valid argument, if you aren't raiding really what are you doing. There is nothing to do outside of raids, spamming the same dungeon over and over on higher 'diffificulty' (HP sponges, trash farm simulators) is bound to get boring. Pvp is irrelevant and dead in BfA. So, it explains why so many hate BfA. The game has been raid or die for a while now.. and the horrendous design of loot and secondary stats can be blamed for burnout in WoW too,.
Maybe next xpac Blizzard will not be complete fucktard dumbasses and add pvp vendors so people have something to do outside of their endless grind rng lottery pve mode. Maybe they should fix the RNG with loot and stop treating their players like crack addict gamblers.