I get what you're saying, but... I played other MMOs/aRPGs, and after WoW, I couldn't bear the clunkiness of the controls anymore, how characters seem to be flailing sponges sliding across the floor, and stuck in animations half a second after they're finished.
It's hard to explain, the controls in WoW just felt so much better. I do hope FF has modern controls, too.
Blizzard never planned to remove flying. They always wanted to abuse it to re-re-re-incentivize their dull world content.
The large reward for the missing gameplay.
Why add engaging content with monthly updates if you just need the biggest piece of cake people want to eat?
Lure people into the worst chores you could imagine just with giving them back what they already had over and over.
Seems to work like a charm in world of warcraft.
For other, really good games, developers add engagement by other means than skinner boxes.
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Rinse and repeat. For the rewards. Send even more turtles into the water.
You don't, because that is insanely risky. How many people do you think are that hypothetical room? A dozen, max? And in that dark room, from near the front where everyone behind them could see, they took out their phone, lined up a clear shot that showed just enough of the map and logo (More on that copy pasted below) and took the picture?
No. If you want to leak something without asking to be fired and risk fines, you'd just take a quick screenshot of the logo or map on your computer while you're working one day, crop it to just that and use that as proof.
For this edition of the hype thread and all hype threads before it, which is what this thread still is regardless of what the title says -- I think that's perfectly fine. I've always seen this as a general discussion about what comes next, which includes timeframe predictions. Is it interesting to most people? No. Might still interesting to a smaller subset of people.
Worse raids, worse dungeons, a significantly worse faction war storyline that's only lasting impact was having a not-orc as warchief, dailies are godawful compared to emissaries and world quests, scenarios make warfronts and islands look like the greatest thing ever made, TI is just a worse Mech with so little story it makes Mechagon look like a novel, a much less interesting B plot (as much as I enjoyed the isle of thunder itself, Lei Shen and the MoP Zandalari were boring as all hell), classes homogenized to all hell, less story in general, Good but worse: Music, zones, enemies, armor, and especially weapons.
I rate MoP fairly high but all it had going for it above BfA is introducing a class and challenge mode dungeons. And those weren't really enough to carry it through 5.1, 5.3 and 5.4 to stay ahead of BfA.
Yes.
N'zoth brought her back from the brink of death and took her to deeper into the depths to fight another day.
Magni quest lines are usually .5 so we'll see.
Nathanos left for a "meeting' in the depths of the ocean but not nazjatar as directed by the Black Blade and presumably N'zoth since Xal is gone and he had it last, Sylvanas is busy doing administrative stuff, much like Anduin, after the meeting where she took Baine prisoner she probably returned to Orgrimmar to keep an eye on operations as a whole. One must assume that she is preparing for her end game with whatever the Blade has taught her, as well as considering a strike on Thunderbluff.
I mean the only thing here not direct in game is Nathanos' meeting, because the actual line that called it a meeting was cut. Even without the line you see him following the knife out into the ocean, you arrive in Nazjatar, you see him turn away from Nazjatar and walk back out into the ocean.
Do you really want a bunch of in-game scripted scenes where Sylvanas is looking over maps and keeping an eye on how things are progressing? We intentionally don't see what she sent Nathanos out to do because it's a mystery to our characters and we aren't supposed to know what her angle with the blade is. She got the blade (in game) she thinks the blade is going to change the course of the war (in game), we see (in game) that she's given up on the fleet idea completely and is willing to sacrifice the last of the ships to accomplish whatever plan she has going on with the blade. We see (in game) that several people survive the prison break to report back to Sylvanas (two goblins on the Alliance side, the blood elf mage from the end of the encounter). Pretty logically she is banking on whatever is happening with the blade and potentially preparing to deal with Baine's group and thunderbluff.
since i didn't raid in mop im not gonna talk bout that, but MOP dungeons are way better imo, every time i do a bfa and legion dungeon i need to sleep, and those are rly subjective but to say MOP had a worse faction war story-line than this clusterfuck? you can be rly serious about it
BfA is by far the worst expansion about lore, even worse than the dumb crap of time travel orcs and lord and savior illidan
don't rly think so, dailies were cool in a degree, and had meaning and progression to the zone story and nice rewards in the end, world quests are pathetic lazy, you just kill the same boss every day with no reason at all, emissaries are a improvement but that could be the done with normal dailies as well.dailies are godawful compared to emissaries and world quests
for me the only difference between dailies and WQ is that you don't have to take and deliver the quest.
Sure, the big flops, i could not argue since i only did island like 3 times and fuck it will never do again in this exp, and the warfront just for the itemscenarios make warfronts and islands look like the greatest thing ever made,
LOL, are you serious, mech is just a crazy robot gnome and we defeat him, thats it.TI is just a worse Mech with so little story it makes Mechagon look like a novel
you mean the best era of almost all classes? and one of the best class design? worse than bfa? for real?classes homogenized to all hell,
i don't think you actually play mop to say that, maybe its because the panda land theme, but mop was HUGE in terms of story, it added a good chunkof story about trolls, mantids, pandarens, ancient azeroth, titans, old gods, and the sha concept is awesomely done.less story in general,
what you mean here?Good but worse: Music, zones, enemies, armor, and especially weapons.
Most of BfA "better" things are gameplay improvements like emissaries and a better raid design, but lore and classes are garbage and i would take even wod before it.
When 9.0 speculation thread will rise, mods will likely close this one. There is no point for two hype threads at same time, we talk about everything anyway.
It's hilarious that you seems to think that you get banned 20 (30? 40?) times because your anti-Blizzard opinions, not because you don't know how to behave. It's like man that didn't shower for 2 months would thought that he get kicked out of restaurant because of his political beliefs ;D.
I'll give you a hint: MANY people here not only critic every aspect of WoW, but even straight up hate modern Blizzard. Most of them (including people like Nyel or styii that seems to be never happy with anything) were never banned (or I haven't noticed that).
That's why your "most of the time [he's banned] because his opinion doesn't line up with the opinions of threads" story is pure bullshit. Or rather just defense mechanism, no one want to admit that he's horrible person.
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