The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
BFA has showed what the overall game will be like going forward, Shadowlands will be like BFA, and people don't like BFA.
Personally I'm most likely not going to buy it-- so tired of the play-the-patch, consume-and-throw-away design.
Also, I don't really think it says a lot in an actual useful kind of way, but this was quite funny:
Active WoW player Jan 2006 - Aug 2020
Occasional WoW Classic Andy since.
Nothing lasts forever, as they say.
But at least I can casually play Classic and remember when MMORPGs were good.
I love how everyone pretends the travesty "Terrace of endless spring" didn't exist. It was literally running up the stairs to one platform, then to another platform, then to another platform.
It had a boss that made childlike sounds and stabbed you from stealth. It was some disturbing shit.
Even TOC had 2 main rooms and at least the bosses were all memorable.
Im not saying its the greatest raid or whatever, but the description you gave us was completly false and sucked out of your thumb, litterly every xpac has a 2-4 boss raid, and none of them are memorable, not even your trial of the crusader friend.
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Uhm legion started with this? But for legion people tend to put up their rose tinted glasses, its far worse then anything they have ever created ever
Honestly no hype is probably best. People let their imaginations run absolutely WILD during hype train season. 8-10 months of hyping themselves up, hard for almost any new game to live up to those kind of expectations.
MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
If they at LEAST added something more than temporary content that wasnt just skin colours for races or a revamped level 1-60 experience, id be satisfied, even if it aws just dark rangers, wardens, both, or even tinkers, just a new class, we're due one.
I have more hype for TBC than a expansion where I have to see Sylvanas in another cinematic
Legion was the greatest expansion I have played. I have been in wow since TBC. And during the MoP.. I hated it so much I dropped it when I dinged 90 and then went off until nearly the end of MoP.
You know, opinions and such.
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Makes sense, totally. 8.2.5 was 2.1.3 and 8.3 is 2.4.2. How people would not know this!?
Simple: They showed us very little at Blizzcon and there hasn't been any information since then. Hard to get hyped over literally nothing.
Shadowlands announcement at Blizzcon is the first time an expansion has launched that my reaction was "That's it?" rather than excitement about it's potential. They showed what I would consider to be standard fluff for an expansion but very little else. Even their "new features" don't have much excitement potential.
- Torghast, I knew from the start was going to be filler fluff like Islands or Warfronts and will have no staying power. The fact that it "changes up each time" doesn't change what kind of content it is at it's core: Something to grind.
- Covenants, they literally aren't a choice because Blizzard is physically incapable of making things balanced. That means no matter what, there is going to be a best and if you want to do high end content you will pick it.
That's it. That's literally all that's new outside of the dungeons, raids, BGs that are standard content for an expansion and don't really draw much hype seeing as how watered down this game has become with it's "Gear to near the best anywhere and don't worry, we'll give you handouts to catch you up once the next patch hits" mentality.
*Person misuses Google trends to prove point.* Ahhhh I love this shit
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Again, should we talk about wotlk. Which launched with 4 raids that had 1 boss and 1 room, one of those raids being a re release of a vanilla raid. The fifth raid being a re release of a vanilla raid.
You said "lol mops first raid had 2 rooms and 3 bosses so shit" which was not true, ONE of its raids was LIKE that. So your point describes wotlk more then mop.
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Wow, this, this is top teir.
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*funny cause in tbc you have to see sylvanas in a cinematic.*