I'd say Warcraft jumped the shark when it asked us to believe that the orcs were actually interdimensional space alien invaders!
Oh wait. Warcraft has always been absolutely ridiculous and you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise. 'Jumping the shark' does not mean 'this is the part where I think it wasn't good anymore' it means 'this is the part where everything went insane' but Warcraft has always been fucking insane.
WoW jumped the shark the second it went to Outland as it's first expansion rather than dealing with threats at home first, like the Scourge they were directly setting up as the next antagonist in the Plaguelands and Naxxramas.
An orc named after Jesus firing a kamehameha at a tentacle dragon and making it explode into fairy dust before a group of dragons don't lament the loss of their once-friend or the now inevitable extinction of their species due to their newfound sterility and mortality but instead congratulate him on knocking up his wife was pretty fucking insane even by this series' standards.
Your poll options are dumb, honestly.
If I was to pick a rough time, I'd say WotLK, somewhere midway through when the effect of valor catch-up really became apparent. Ever since then, it's been downhill. They had only flirted with the concept until WotLK, but really kicked it into overdrive then. It removed the whole chain of things people wanted and needed to do to progress in the game, and just said "Go to 20 heroics, then raid. You're done." LFR is really just the final evolution of that, the crown of shit mountain.
Is that again a "I want to prove MoP sucks balls" thread?
Putting famous characters (like Zul'Jin) into Big Bad Boss for "strange" reasons, is good too?
Wow itself was blizzard's jump the shark moment, arguably.
Passing your peak =/= jumping the shark.
Generally speaking, jumping the shark is a moment that occurs long after a piece of fiction is past its prime and has resorted to ridiculous gimmicks or there is otherwise a jarring moment that reminds you of how far it has fallen.
WoW is sort of ageing gracefully. If you think WoW has jumped the shark, well, I think you've lived a very sheltered life.
A shark jumping moment for WoW would be like, Arthas comes back from the dead and reprograms the Dark Portal to point to the real world, and the only way we can stop him is to find some humpback whales and get them to sing to him.
Near the very end of WotLK when the Cataclysm design-philosophy changes were coming about.
Well whether or not WoD's story is good is of course subjective, but I will say that it's silly to call a failing of the plot a shark jumping moment for a game that isn't heavily plot focused.
I mean, ME3 had a massive sudden shark jump right at the end, but that game was very story/character driven so that's a fair statement. WoW on the other hand always puts gameplay first and the story is just along for the ride. I mean that was even true to a large extent in the RTS era.
I can't vote in this, I don't really have a problem with Pandaren specifically, but I see the whole mope expac as the 'jump the shark' moment.
Storywise, Vanilla didn't have an overarching theme but since then it's been alternating between not well done (TBC/Cata) and well done (Wrath/Panda), with WoD appearing to continue the trend with a pretty lame time travel device to give us more Orc villainy because we haven't had enough of it.
Gamewise, the game has largely improved with every incarnation. Jury still out on whether WoD will continue this or not.
So while there hasn't been a single shark-jumping moment yet, WoD might be it. So I didn't vote.
If you have to explain your reference in the first sentence of your post that means you should not use the reference. As far as the post who the hell cares. This topic has been talked about in every way, shape, and form. It has been talked about as far back as TBC. No one gives a shit. If you do not like the game leave. But these posts are not needed. Just pointless clutter in the forums.
/laugh at the lone guy who voted for "Raising the level cap beyond 60". Really?
Also, I don't think it's jumped the shark yet. It does have some annoying things (like cash shop).
Two schools of thought;
(a) Assuming we keep with the "There must always be a Lich King" motif, it was answered in one of the AskCDevs that Arthas was holding the Scourge back (as was Ner'Zhul). Whether or not that is a sign that Arthas/Ner'Zhul were acting benevolently or waiting for the Legion to arrive is conjecture at this point, but assuming the former could lead to an Arthas redemption storyline.
(b) If we ignore what Arthas did/what happened to him in WoW, it could be possible to set up a similar scenario wherein LK attacks, we take the fight to him and before we can finish it, LK informs us of a the incoming Legion invasion. The choice would then be do we allow him to stay in power in order to keep the Legion occupied on one front while we focus on another or do we follow the principles of justice and morality by deposing him, forcing us to deal with the Legion/Scourge together. Would be somewhat ironic given the situation the West is in with Syria, at the moment.
When we could no longer skin sheep for wool.
Am I doing it right? It seems we should complain about everything, but I'm still playing and I didn't play WoW on a graphing calculator in Mike Morhaime's basement when we were kids. I'm pretty sure all the edgy complainers started not later than internal alpha testing, and of course they don't play now but they hang around to tell us what's wrong.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
Kinda huge thing people overlook is that BC/WoTLK pretty much directly continued the stories of the WC3 RTS game and its expansion.
I disliked Cata. I don't think MoP's actual gameplay was that bad but I hated how little I cared about the story.
I vote for Cata.