The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Shadowferal]

Ok guys, we are reaching new hights of shitposting.

Considering that DF makes zero sense when regarding narrative progression in expansions, to say the game is in "maintenance mode" holds some validity.

[Zardas]

The game already is in maintenance mode

If wow is in maintenance mode, then all of the mmorpgs on the planet are too (except maybe ff14). You have no idea what an mmorpg in maintenance mode means.

[Makabreska]

Considering that DF makes zero sense when regarding narrative progression in expansions, to say the game is in "maintenance mode" holds some validity.

Yes yes. Because now an alleged lack of sens in narrative progression equals "maintenance mode". Doesn't matter that game churns out content at a pace not seen since Legion (or maybe even surpassing it). Doesn't matter that it is especially visible after SL draught. Game is defo in some kind of maintenance mode!

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Yes yes. Because now an alleged lack of sens in narrative progression equals "maintenance mode". Doesn't matter that game churns out content at a pace not seen since Legion (or maybe even surpassing it). Doesn't matter that it is especially visible after SL draught. Game is defo in some kind of maintenance mode!

Narrative makes zero sense.... Like do people just ignore stuff in front of them????? /sigh just block him.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I mean having everything being barely layered in obfuscation to make the narrative seem more deeper and more well thought out than it is, isn't exactly a good trait that the current narrative team has adopted over this expansion.

The entire storyline centered on the Megadungeon is frankly just insulting to the intelligence of the audience, not to speak of the fact that they literally could've just used the newly made Dragon Soul from the 8.3 campaign instead of literally making Iridikron have a random other Timelines artifact.

But, hey that's all I'm saying about this narrative at this point.

Fundamentally, we're still getting an epic ending out of this from Steve Danuser as he said so himself. So lets' see what he's cooking even if it is mixing ingredients in a haphazard way to get to a finished dish.

[Kiivar86]

People seriously think Dragonflight is maintenance mode?

Maintenance mode is when they're just keeping the lights on, servers on. But instead they're still making content for the game. By its very definition this isn't maintenance mode.

You want maintenance mode, go look at SWTOR before too long.

[Shadowferal]

People seriously think Dragonflight is maintenance mode? Maintenance mode is when they're just keeping the lights on, servers on. But instead they're still making content for the game. By its very definition this isn't maintenance mode.

Only if a haphazard poorly thought out expansion is how you define "content."
But considering the subscription price, I'd say you're getting what you pay for.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Sure, not saying they do. Still gorgeous art though. And I know its fake, but theres always that .1% chance its real and they changed art direction to make dev cheaper or something. Either way its still nice looking art. I can appreciate its beauty while recognizing its probably fake.

Eh, unlikely. You can see far too many technical errors, especially where NPCs are concerned. There's too many visible distortions for these to be real.

[Kiivar86]

Only if a haphazard poorly thought out expansion is how you define "content."
But considering the subscription price, I'd say you're getting what you pay for.

Are there new zones? New dungeons? Raids? Bosses, items, quests?

Yes. Its content. Go ahead and label it as haphazard if you wish but don't call it maintenance mode. It seriously isn't. If you label this maintenance mode you might as well label damn near everything maintenance mode. It makes it utterly meaningless.

[huth]

I mean having everything being barely layered in obfuscation to make the narrative seem more deeper and more well thought out than it is

...is the same kind of writing we've seen for the last 20 years. What's your point?

[Kiivar86]

...is the same kind of writing we've seen for the last 20 years. What's your point?

Desperately wanting ammunition to use against Blizzard, I suspect.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I mean having everything being barely layered in obfuscation to make the narrative seem more deeper and more well thought out than it is, isn't exactly a good trait that the current narrative team has adopted over this expansion.

Were this Shadowlands or Battle for Azeroth, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I don't see any obfuscation at all re: the current plot. If anything, it's all fairly evident and plainly-communicated who is doing what and why. I do agree it would be most suitable to use 8.3.'s Dragon Soul, however.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Were this Shadowlands or Battle for Azeroth, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I don't see any obfuscation at all re: the current plot. If anything, it's all fairly evident and plainly-communicated who is doing what and why. I do agree it would be most suitable to use 8.3.'s Dragon Soul, however.

Even if it was, that doesn't mean Maintenance mode. This is all just very warped and jaded mindset to gaming.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Even if it was, that doesn't mean Maintenance mode. This is all just very warped and jaded mindset to gaming.

I think the belief that we're approaching "maintenance mode" isn't strictly well-founded because we've been in something analogous to that since about Battle for Azeroth. I think that there is some credence to it, but it's an already-ongoing, dubiously-reversible slow descent rather than something that will be sparked in the future by a single event.

Either way, this is approaching digression, so may be best for us to move on to discuss more tangible future events rather than the health of the game.

[Berkilak]

The game already is in maintenance mode, the last few expansions have just been trying to obfuscate it to the wider audience as best as possible..

Ah yes, the classic scheme of releasing multiple expansions worth of content to hide that you are no longer releasing content. It’s genius.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

The game already is in maintenance mode, the last few expansions have just been trying to obfuscate it to the wider audience as best as possible.

If you look at the content output it is the same content output every expansion without change and it is definitely due to a well defined budget that is meant to penny pinch super hard while making less and less content for the consumer while extracting more profits.

this is just completely untrue.

Legion gave us more dungeons then BFA and more world content with Suamar and all the order halls.

BFA had more zones then legion with 3 patch zones to legions 1 not counting content added to old zones, and it had those full CGI cinematic’s which you don’t need while penny pinching given there cost.

SL was a shit show and had less content in every way.

DF is still up in the air but the zones have already been bigger then other expans being on par with northrend not counting the under ground zone.

They are far far from maintenance mode.

[Dracullus]

People seriously think Dragonflight is maintenance mode?

If in doubt, check post history. @Shadowferal literally produce same post in every thread I see him. Ironically, posts are about how unimaginative Blizzard is. xD

Ah yes, the classic scheme of releasing multiple expansions worth of content to hide that you are no longer releasing content. It’s genius.

Also releasing patch every other month is genius way of disguising fact that you no longer support expansion.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Ah yes, the classic scheme of releasing multiple expansions worth of content to hide that you are no longer releasing content. It’s genius.

You do recognize that they would have liked to have 1 year cycles if they could to sell you the expansion box every year without problems internally?

Whatever is within the time period of the "two year cycle" will always be valued less than the sales pitch of the next expansion.

[Teriz]

If this is maintenance mode, keep it up! The content patches for Dragonflight have been great, especially in comparison to Shadowlands.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I just hope that next big patches like 10.2 will be a lot better than 10.1, it made me lose interest pretty quickly, doing the weekly in zalarek cavern is not so pleasing, but i doubt that the game is in any kind of maintenance mode.

Of course opinions vary on this patch, one above is just mine.