People hoping and dreaming that Blizzard is going to have some big card to play somewhere in the future because there JUST has to be more than this.... right?
Keep your expectations low and you won't be disappointed as much.
The 40 dollar pricetag has nothing to do with Activision, expansion became 40 dollars ever since Pandaria i believe and before pandaria they were 30 dollars.
Prices are going up and it simply has nothing to do with who owns the company.
Just take a look currently ingame and you already see a shitton of mounts and transmogs from the renamed Digital Deluxe edition.
A lot of people are hyped about the new expansion and happily paid already.
There is a whole argument about pre-ordering nowadays because of the RDR2 fiasco on PC.
However if you think a new owner inflated the xpac prices you are just wrong.
Inflation is a thing even in the gaming industry.
What kind of an argument even is this. Going by this you could say WoW didn't get almost any big patches in its history. Also stating that the Dragon Soul patch was the last big patch when it introduced no new zones and the Raid was just reused assets from start to finish is hilarious. LFR is just a raid thats been made easier and opened to queue. How is that even a big new system when we already had dungeon finder which is just its small brother. Ofc a new zone and Raid are big patches. 8.2 for instance was huge patch with 2 new zones, a new raid, a new dungeons, new ways to gear and the essence system.
Shadowlands has the Tower of the damned which is a roguelike dungeon crawler experience. Pls point out where this system is already existing in WoW?
Also its a well known fact that the WoW team is bigger than its even been and has or will be getting a 20% head count increase in the future. Seems kinda strange for a game thats just in maintanance mode. I swear some people are clawing at straws just to try to make their "WoW is dead" point real.
Last edited by Firefox72; 2019-11-09 at 12:37 PM.
Less game based on what?
Its been pointed out before, other xpacs didnt bring much new features either.
BFA Features:
- 6 new zones ( 3 per faction to lvl in, other 3 are basically there for war campaign / WQs)
- Islands
- Heart of Azeroth
- Warfronts
- 8 boss starter raid
- 9 dungeons at launch (10th locked behind rep)
- 10 levels
- 40 bucks
War campaign a feature? not really in my eyes, since for my alts i didnt even touch it and see it as optional content.
Shadowlands features:
- 10 levels
- 4 new zones + town.
- Level squish / leveling overhaul (yay)
- Targetable legendaries
- de-pruning / graphics update core races
- 10 boss start raid
- 8 dungeons at launch
- Covenants
- Tower (infinite challenge)
- 40 bucks
I really wanna hear from people where the big missing features are in terms of Shadowlands vs BFA....
Also the expansions have been 40 bucks for a few years now, so i also dont understand that issue.
And if it is so lackluster, then your 2 choices:
- play it regardless
- quit the game
There isnt enough forum space in the world to request more ''features'' for an expansion because Blizzard would have shown more features if they would implement more.
Last edited by Augusta138; 2019-11-09 at 04:16 PM.
It's just constant MMO-C bullshit being thrown around. World of Warcraft is still the biggest Blizzard game and the biggest moneymaker.
People been pushing this "maintenance mode" crap for years now, but you don't throw half an hour of Pixar level cinematics mid-expansion for some "maintenance mode" game. That's just bullshit.
Agreed. Xpac brought more and more content. But people with low sense of impartiality consider that the content they dislike is no content at all.
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8.2: two zones, new mechanics, a battle pet dungeon, a raid, a dungeon, an arena, a new heroic warfront, two new islands, flying, mount equipment.
Prolly one of the biggest patch ever, I'm guessing first or second after 7.3.
Blood DK. I hate leveling alts.
BfA is great. I love HoA.
Unpopular opinions ftw.
I mean, I don't know if 8.2 is "teh biggestest" patch, but it's pretty damn big that's for sure. In before "layzeh maintenance mode activision blah blah".
Maybe with Shadowlands, but BfA, I felt the patches were pretty sizable and kept me busy with enough content. I play part-time though so that's just from my perspective. Cataclysm and Draenor felt like bigger content droughts. God, if I wasn't a fresh faced player in Cataclysm still discovering the game, I would have been bored as hell most expansion, there was hardly anything to do.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...ng-patch-notes
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...t-update-notes
Two new zones instead of one, a new dungeon, a new arena, new islands. 5.2 was way smaller then 8.2.
The fact that would even being up 6.2 is laughable, one zone that was suppose to be in at launch with little to do in it wasn’t bigger then the 2 zones in 8.2 and a new dungeon.
I don't think we can get "bigger" patches at this point.
Like bigger than 8.1 and 6.1 sure, but I think Argus was the hard ceiling on how big a single patch can be.
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What the actual hell?
How did you even came to that idea? What is the reason to think like that? There is ABSOLUTELY no evidence to support your claim. And on contrary, patch 8.3 kinda proves that there is no intention to put 'more content' into a single patch. Blizzard most definitely is a bit out of touch with it's playerbase, but I can't say they sit and do nothing. They have exactly the same amount of time to produce content as always. What makes you feel that instead of getting 'better content' you will get more?
And instead of wishful thinking, it'd go more into thinking that they went into more conservative strategy and instead of wasting their time on bullshit like Warfronts or Island Expeditions, they will funnel their efforts into more important aspects of gameplay. So... the fact there is barely any major feature announced is more like: yeah, that's it. Don't expect anything else.
And the last thing. Introducing a new class in a single patch without teasing it at expansion's announcement would be the most retarded marketing-wise decision I could ever see. The amount of money they would get from pre-orders if there was a class introduced in Shadowlands would be twice as high as now. Just look at the threads on that forum whining about that damned Necromancer...
So no, I don't think your logical reasoning is valid. Sorry