If WoW sucked as hard as people claim it does a competitor would have came in the past 16 years to knock if off it's pedestal.
That hasn't happened to this day. WoW isn't perfect but it isn't trash. If you think it is please do yourself a favor and take a break or play something else. You may have moved on from the game which is 100% totally fine.
This one gets it. They have doubled down over and over and basically told the playerbase that they do what they want, when they want. Look at the flying fiasco and how they devs are STILL sticking it to the players because they are salty about it. I don't want to play for a company that resents the very people they make they product for. Shadowlands is the future of wow, like it or not.
The reason there hasn't been a legit WoW killer, is because it's super expensive to create and extremely risky.
No game company wants to invest the mega million$, and years of development time, for a game that may or may not connect with players, and be a success or flop. I don't think investors want to take on that risk anymore.
It takes years to create a brand new MMORPG, and a shit ton of money. All for the huge risk of it possibly tanking, or not.
If WoW was over and done with after Shadowlands 9.3, there wouldn't be a WoW killer, or a new WoW type game come out, maybe some game would come and go, but doubtful there'd be a new game out that could charge $15 a month and have millions of subs month in month out.
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SOoo anyway a TL;DR of the professions: You know how you can have all the classes in one character and just switch by swapping main hand weapons?
Well the same is true for professions. They have their gear, stats that benefit them and skills. For gathering your skills help with getting HQ items, increase the gathering chance of rare materials or increase the number of materials you gather. For crafting you can inrease the chance of creating HQ versions of anything you make. Also for fishing what you catch can be placed in the aquarium in your house. Also you have ocean fishing which is basically PvE group content for fishers.
Also each guild (order hall) for profession has its own storyline with quests, cutscenes everything. There are other systems that support professions like certain beast tribes (reputation factions) but my fav has to be treasure hunts. While gathering you can randomly find treasure maps. You can decipher those and if you can find out where they point to on the map, you can go there for a treasure chest. It is recommended to bring friends, cause opening the chest will spawn a bunch of monsters. If you can kill them, you can loot the chest. BUT. Here is the fun part. There is a chance for the chest to open up a portal to a special dungeon which you can explore and kills bosses for tons of gold, valuable crafting materials and exclusive minions (pets). Kinda like the portals treasure goblins leave behind in Diablo III. I think there are two possible dungeons you can enter. Maybe three.
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Easier said than done. WoW isn't just a game. It is ingrained into pop culture. Like Star Wars. I mean we had 3 good movies. 4 if you include Rogue One. But the prequels are only good for memes, and the rest, not even for that. But you will never kill Star Wars. Pulp Fiction, Shawshan Redemption, Fight Club, the Matrix, Parasite....we had tons of better movies. Hell the original Kurosawa ones it ripped off were better movies. But Star Wars will never die.
Things like WoW, Star Wars or Harry Potter aren't removed by better things. They were there to do the right thing at the right time and now they are inseperable from culture.
Its going to "bomb" no matter what they release, because the only people who discuss the game anymore are people not looking to enjoy it but instead looking to discuss flaws.
Nothing should be done, because those people will never truly be happy, because they don't actually know what would make them happy in the first place.
Let Blizzard develop the game, and if you don't like it, don't play it.
Otherwise, stop trying to get Blizzard to change the game just because you don't like it as it is.
All that does is make some one who is having fun currently lose out.
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I wouldn't argue about graphical quality, but I did expect this reply. I didn't elaborate much but at the end of my post you'll see I want them to meld the early game with the endgame so max level players have a reason to continue coming back to these zones, where in Cataclysm anything but the new zones were completely useless to max level players and that's why the leveling revamp felt like it "failed".
They've done a lot of work to put in gameplay systems to where I can easily see it happening. One interesting idea I really hope they take is doing a PvP Brawl-like system but with the PvE zones themselves, so 1 week you have an event happening in Thousand Needles and a reason to return there, the next week in Hillsbrad Foothills etc. There's tons of potential with a system that encourages time-based, cyclical content.
What? They will suddenly write better stories than they have been for the past 10 years? And focus will finally move away from raid or die? Pretty sure what was crap before will still be crap, but it will come out sooner, so people who still like what we are getting will be happier.
People really liked WoD, great class design, Highmaul was liked, the leveling was liked and BRF is quoted as one of the best raids in WoW by many. I think where WoD began to fail was with / after 6.1. But until then the majority really liked the expansion. With Shadowlands... it seems different. People already disliking it because of the system overload and we don’t even have a patch yet.
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Pretty sure this game is run solely on marketing at this point.
So they'll probably make a few fancy trailers and the drones will resubscribe for 2 months and rinse repeat.
Absolutely no idea what the people who are currently subscribed are doing.
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