Yep reddit post, so probably not many will take it seriously.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comm...essful_mmorpg/
I can agree on that, Cataclysm was light expansion, because many things were scrapped like path of the titans, which later in Legion was reused and modified for artifacts. But also PvE content was scrapped much, remember Abyssal Maw raid? Also i agree, whole Kalimdor and EK was changed.
I cannot say anything regarding MoP myself, was not playing back then,
but what confuses me now is mix of opinions like. "I miss pandaria, but hate pandarens"
I think, WoD mainly was scrapped in fact, that Project TITAN failed, and all stuff from this project, or most of it moved to Overwatch. But yeah WoD was bad.
I came back before Legion release, and i agree here. Expac was good, if you forget farming reps and stuff. Storyline in Suramar i consider as one of best in game, allthough whole storyline in expac was small bit wasted potential. To show other worlds controlled by Legion not only Argus, or seeing for ourselves worlds destroyed by Legion. Shame Blizzard didin't showed us more worlds than Argus and Azeroth. Yep there was Niskara, but small portion of it.
Okay in paper, BfA sound good. But in practice was very bad. First of all, people were dissapointed about heart of azeroth, and grinding which was much slower than Legion artifacts. Storyline idk where to start here, so i pass talking about it. The only good thing about BfA was allied races, mechagon and nazjatar. Even 8.3 was an failure.
And here we got Shadowlands. I admit they took time about making scenery really good, i still enjoy Ardenweald or Maldraxxus. But i agree here that anima farming for cosmetics sucks. Torghast in other hand is really fun feature for me, but after finishing twisting corridors on layer 8 i feel it is pointless doing TC. Unless they will add new rewards in 9.1 if they will not scrap whole expansion, like they did with WoD.