Do you exclusively open threads just to complain?
Tell me of a single last expansion patch in the cycle of WoW that "kept us occupied for 9+ months" ?
Because if there never was one (there wasn't) then why are you expecting THIS one to be any different? Just to complain, I imagine?
Over a year of Dragon Soul with 0 other content? Over a year of SoO? ICC?
Legion had 1 raid, 1 dungeon and a new zone, surely that didn't keep people occupied for 9 months, not even 2 if you weren't mythic raiding, so were you making a complaint post then?
It will give plenty of time to re-roll after all the beta/alpha/ptr tell us that what we are playing now is crap and what we don't have is god tier..........you know like every run up to a new expansion.
Me thinks Chromie has a whole lot of splaining to do!
LOL wut op 8.3 is a dream for me will probably be the only game i play soon or atleast be my main game.
The whole title is just a bait and clearly targeted at the non-playing readers, just to collect some reasons to stay non-subbed even with big 8.3 content patch.
While in reality the current nazjatar meta achievement wont be finished by most casual players in the next 9 months, because its allready to much.
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Blood DK. I hate leveling alts.
BfA is great. I love HoA.
Unpopular opinions ftw.
There seems to be some confusion of what casual means, Anyone on a forum about WoW is not casual, anyone who does non-queable group content is not casual (even Normal raid, M0 is not casual) . There is a whole level of player in the game who has no idea about professions, azerite, addons, buffs , even spells outside of the ones the game adds for them. I'd suggest that not a single poster on here is casual.
As for me, I'll be chasing old mounts, looking at some older raid/dung achievements and working on getting my LongBoi (going to be hard getting that 5million) .
OP doesn't know what a casual player is. You think they play for hours every day? I wouldn't be surprised if a big chunk of the playerbase played the game a few hours per month these days. It's not like most people actually bother cancelling their sub these days, at least in the communities I'm in.
I mean. Are you subscribed to Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc? Do you make sure to watch it every day? Lmao.
There's enough content in the game right now to keep casuals occupied until Shadowlands comes. Get over yourself.
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I'm not sure the definition you suggested is correct.
Casual refer to people not connecting every day, maybe from time to time. What they do during their game time is not relevant. It's obvious that they don't have a high PvP rating or the curve the first weeks. They might do some BGs, arenas, LFR, NM, filing a slot in HM if their gear is OK, why not a +5 to +10 keys. Some connect a lot more during their week off so they might play a lot and some even post on forums.
Blood DK. I hate leveling alts.
BfA is great. I love HoA.
Unpopular opinions ftw.
With respect, that just seems like a 'normal' player. Playing sometimes, having personal objectives etc. Casual is less committed than normal, they pop in and out, don't follow the 'meta' and in most cases are completely solo unless they can queue for it. Though the definition of casual is often discussed and people do have differing opinions. This is just my view.
Either way I pretty sure there is plenty to do in BfA (for those that choose to) until 9.0 for all apart from the most committed.
It won't keep anybody occupied for 9 months.
A raid patch gives me about 4 months. After that, you can forget it. If a Mythic boss still alive by then, we ain't killing it without serious nerfs. We'll have hit that cockblock boss that every tier has, and after 6 weeks of mashing our faces on it, the signups will drop and we'll have to pug, and then nothing gets killed...
You know, in the past players called themselfs "casual" when they did only the 2day/week raiding and not the 4-5 days needed for progression raiding. Everything below was just a NOOB starting with the game or a NOOB simply without enough time for this MMO.
Funny how the term got mudded down so much, that it fits to every player, just not to the "casual" regular players who just play a bit each week.
I like the real definition more, a player who gets the low-hanging fruits in this game (M+weekly/N-HC raiding/pvp caps/some achievements here and there) but stops at time excessive activitys (highend pvp, highend m+, highend raiding, insane farming). Everything less than a few minutes each week is basicly a new player or someone who refuses to play the content, I got a term for both.
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They will make a 8.3.5 patch just when subs are going down, put out a couple of Allied Races out with some alt catch up just like they did in 7.3.5 so the draught won't feel that long.
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I'm not going to start an argument with a random person on a forum about the definition of 'casual' in WoW but that list (to me) is far from casual. There are large numbers of people who have never done M0, getting a weekly cache is totally beyond them. There are people still walking, I met someone last week who saw me fishing and asked how they could do that (told me he'd played since MoP and had never seen a player fishing; thought it was NPC's only, turned out he didn't know about professions at all) that to me is casual.
Anyway i've said my bit, good day to all. remember opinions are like arseholes......
Last edited by IlikeDemonHunters; 2019-12-03 at 11:57 AM.