No. The last 3 expansions had really bad +/- core designs. Actually I had more faith in their other IPs like Overwatch/Diablo but since they pretty much fucked up WC3R I’m beginning to be a bit worried about OW2 and D4. I don’t expect anything from Shadowlands as they’ll continue with their MAU metrics meaning another AP-like grind, timegating and endless treadmill with RNG be it called titanforge/corruption/whatever despite whatever they announced at BlizzCoM.
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Core designs are set in stone way before they let actually people test stuff. All the complains that comes from closed alpha to public release will eventually be fixed by the first/second major patch. No matter how long the testing we would have had the AP grind and excessive RNG all over the place in BfA because that was the core design for the expansion. They don’t design WoW around being fun and for the players anymore, they do it around the shareholders. They managed to satisfy both for years, still.
Now if they could just let WoW be their only IP being plagued with this mentality that’d be great.