It wasnt the fact they were launching Diablo: Crusaders of.. I mean.. Immortal, its that they hyped the ever loving SHIT out of the Diablo announcement FULLY AWARE the community expected to hear something about D4. They could have announced mobile Diablo and just given a 20 or so second teaser trailer for D4 and everything would have been fine, but since Blizzard are run by incompetent idiots, they didnt.
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This. Levelling content doesn't need to be Mythic +20 difficulty, but when you sneeze in the general vicinity of mobs and they keel over and throw blues at you, it MIGHT be a bit too easy.
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It'll launch. This is Activision we are talking about, They'll milk it for whatever they can get in every other market to at least try and recoup the 20 dollars they spent redoing art assets.
That is probably true as far as meeting mostly 16-21 year-olds for a lot of people. I was 10+ years older at launch, as were all my friends, my partner, and the guildmates who came over from EverQuest.
I still play and am not in my 30s but I agree that after playing since closed beta in the summer of 2004 (wow, that's almost 18 years), I'm rather tired of playing. I still play occasionally because it's familiar and comfortable and I like some of the classes a great deal. Have you stopped playing, then? Or still playing but not really wanting to?
This game is not even on the radar for young gamers anymore like that, most of the young gamers are playing FPSs and Fortnite. Of course your gonna get a small population of younger player who will come to WoW but the majority of young gamers simply just don't fuck with WoW like that anymore. WoW ain't hitting like it used to be.
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Let's be honest the game and company has been pushing away a good chunk of even its core fan base for a while. Hard to expect new people to come in and be like.. damn.. I can play this game for 20 years and eventually get dumped on like that.
Youch. Edge much?
Then again, I suppose with the intellectual tendencies of this forum, such a lack of understanding of ethics and whathaveyou is not unexpected. Perhaps it is only due to certain variables on your part which you surely do not choose for you to have such a poor grasp of ethics.
Oh boy looking at these comments I must say....some of you are some old grumpy asses. I mean you better hope blizz do something to get the young gamers to come and play because some of you fuckers are just as toxic as the folks some of you complain about on here and if that's the case I'll run from WoW too.
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You remind me of oh boy from scrubs
To be honest it's not that I dont want young people in I just feel wow would be better off like other MMOs and catering to the niche. Make it so the people who play wow are just the people who wanna play wow. Eve survived this long doing that, LoTro survived this long doing that, EverQuest and SWOTOR same way.
Cater to the niche keep them happy wow will end up a better game problems always arise when you try to please everyone and people who dont fall into said niches will leave like they were probably going to do anyway
I've never really liked Legion, for a lot of different reasons. My whole point whether you like M+ or not as a feature, is that it's the last real 'big' feature that has endured multiple expansions and became a staple of the game. Basically, I'd like to think that Blizzard comes up with something that has similar impact to how people play the game with each expansion.
Kids don’t want to play this game with their grandpa; that’s just the reality of how time works. If you played WoW at 20 years old when it came out, you’re pushing 40; you had your kids, made your 5 year old farm gold for you in wrath. You have grandkids now, your kid moved on from the game, doing college chasing the opposite sex, etc.
The game is suffering from generational attrition. Core groups are fracturing, and blizzards poor design decisions just compound the issue. But hey, as long as the cash shop shores up the numbers for investors, no one is caring to look at the real issues going on with the game, because why put work into something when you can spend that time on the yacht fishing. If it were up to the investors, WoW wouldn’t even be a game, cut out all the overhead of running the studio and servers and just sell pictures of sparkle ponies and tokens; because why not? The demand is there, and the game keeps shrinking more and more every update in terms of developed content.
The only thing that will attract kids to the game is to be a brand new game they can experience with friends without dealing with grandpa and dad bitching about how grinding to fly sucks because back in my day this game wasn’t shit etc..
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I have stopped for now ye. A lot of what kept me around for so long are the similar aspects you mentioned too - familiarity, being comfortable and so on. Yet with Shadowlands, after perhaps the first 4 months, I had to acknowledge that I was playing more out of habit than enjoyment. I'm in a big guild that's been around since 2005 and there are maybe 2 people still playing. It's a really low point in the games history. We're mostly all 30+ and 40+ and with lots of free time in the evenings in general, but WoW just doesn't provide a home for us anymore.
I used to get hyped for the WF race, play the mythic raids for CE, try to push m+ and so on, but I just don't care anymore. It's like the game has just lost its way.
Hoping the next expansion will /cast revival, but I don't know how many friends will ever return.
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