This isn't the same company. They are not in touch with the playerbase, they are hellbent on profit, and yea companies deserve profit, but not at the cost of the health of the game, and they became their own worst enemy. WoW was special not because of vanilla, bc, or wrath. No nostalgia here. It was special because of Blizzards involvement with the community, which is all but lost now. They changed everything into the least possible communication with the community.
"It's not what we don't know that gets us into trouble; it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" ~ Jesus of Nazareth
"把它放在我的屁股,爸爸" ~ Dalai Lama
i set the bar wayyy to high for legion, and was disappointed
so i am setting the bar at medium for BFA, if it does not appease me, i will probably call BFA my last expansion
I too have seen the same trend since WOTLK forward.
The current expansion is always bad, the upcoming expansion is always uninspired/copy-paste and WILL be horrible and see the death of this game. Every Negative Nancy having fallen out of love with the game and suffering from ex-partner Syndrome, will be 100% sure of why the game is dead/dying and why the upcoming expansion will turn out the worst, often bringing anecdotal evidence as to why such as "muh guild/friends won't be returning" or some shit.
Sorry, but the objectively worst expansion in terms of player reception, critical reception and content delivery, still held millions of players.
Your song has been sung so many times before, yet here we are. I'll wave at you all from the 20th anniversary.
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People just use the term "filler" for whatever they don't like.
Proving how ignorant they are in the process. No WoW expansion has ever been filler. We've spent years in each expansion, with the story feeding into the next since MoP forward.