Shadow"Blands" Are they holding back?

[Gungnir]

I'm assuming for you it's more about the design/quality of content than the actual level/amount of content?

I'm talking level of sheer amount of content in this case.

Yes it's definitely more due to the design and quality of the content rather than the amount.
Legion had a shit ton of stuff, but very few things I actually enjoyed. Mage Tower was a fantastic idea though, thoroughly enjoyed that.

[UnluckyAmateur]

The first day is the only one that matters. The rest are going to be boring lore or art panels and furries doing their weird stuff in public. Maybe a "fan Q&A" where they cherrypick a few questions that have been answered a million times.

Boring and Lore don't go in the same sentence, thank you.

[oplawlz]

Boring and Lore don't go in the same sentence, thank you.

Wow's lore? About as well written as public bathroom graffiti - and less interesting.

[ringpriest]

Repeat after me: Maintenance. Mode.

You're not getting another Legion. Legion was clearly the "last hurrah". This is the level of expected content from expansions from now on. It's up to you if it's what you're looking for or not.

I have to agree with mvaliz here - four zones (wth two dungeons each) plus a nethack-dungeon (with very high replayability) sounds a lot like an expansion-worth of for content... from SW:TOR, not WoW (plus lots of mini-games, farming, and microtransactions that we all know are going to be there). I mean, yes, you can tell yourself this is a test run for a redesign (really a promised re-design - what gets delivered may differ) with a new feature or two and then they'll roll out a Real Expansion that Real Soon... but people have been making excuses for Blizz since Cata (and the lore side of things is just nuts).

[Aurabolt]

Man, you guys whine about everything.

Yeah, I realized this back when MoP was announced personally.

[Teekey]

Legitimately feels like they're charging us to fix the game they broke.

[Heladys]

Normally during the reveal trailer they show all the features up front are withholding features?
Would be a perfect time to release the one of the most wanted class the Necromancer i guess we will see

"they" certainly aren't holding back on sockpuppet alts.

[gcsmith]

Game developers adding classes means they found an aspect of their game design to expand on. The fact the every 4 years WoW got a new class and on this xpack they chose to abandon that pattern means that Blizzard's current dev team has decided there are no new gameplay styles to add to the game. That is incredibly scary since WoW and fantasy RPGs in general, have such a rich and diversified pool of theme and mechanic archetypes to work with.
People should be terrified that no new class was announced for a DEATH-themed expansion.

Um... we didn't get a class or race with WOD either. That said, this expansion looks to have a lot of system otherhauls, it just waits to be seen how good the content is.

[mvaliz]

Legitimately feels like they're charging us to fix the game they broke.

Oh no... they're charging you to beta-test new game design theories... over, and over, and over, and over again.

I realized that back in Vanilla with the Darkmoon Tonks. :P

[LordVargK]

oh god I hadn’t even thought of that. ugh



wait what? what did you not like about legion? I loved it. the AP grind was awful but wasn’t necessary unless you were hardcore

I agree that wod had two good raids (blackrock and hellfire), the ogre one bit ass though

Well, I was a warlock. Warlocks were a lot less fun coming from MoP (didn't play WoD) until you completely unlocked your artifact, which took too long without high Levels of AK especially if you liked to play more than one spec at a time. M+ keys could deplete, PUGing them was a high risk and there were no 4 players in my guild competent enough to run high level keys with me. Also no flying was a big problem for me. The game got incredibly better when you don't have 5 minutes downtime between worldquests which take 1 minute to do. Also there was no WQ groupfinder early on. And I was dishearted after getting a useless legendary, I kinda stopped caring about the expansion.