Just about everyone I’ve talked to is glowing about Dragonflight’s quality, launch hiccups notwithstanding. But, when we look at secondary metrics, we see the damage of Shadwlands linger.
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00:00 Intro
00:44 The Story – Has Warcraft Been Revived?
06:58 The Numbers – How WoW Stacks Against Modern Trends
12:09 The Truth – Why Are You Even Watching This Video?
16:34 The Reality – Dragonflight Is A Real Good Xpack!
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I haven't bought DF yet. I don't know I'm afraid it would be a disappointment and Blizzard is very good at doing it. Believe it or nor I'm doing old contents like MOP for achievements. After shadowlands It's been exhausting.
I have heard of world of Warcraft but never played it whats it like?
I'm high on hopeium, but I like to think that it's launch had a lower view count on twitch than shadowlands is because people were playing rather than watching it.
I stopped playing wow a year ago and have not actually picked this one up…. I feel like I've been trained to wait tell the end of an expansion cycle so I can get all those ketch up mechanics and not have to grind like a whelp…
Im genuinely enjoying the experience so far. I think blizz has built a solid foundation moving forward.
I started playing Wow with Shadowlands just this year. I liked it. Given that, I’m happy to be out of hell. I did get shut down from playing a couple hours in for a while. I think they attempted to layer some areas to reduce the potential mass of players competing for quests. I was on the Stormwind dock along with a coupl guild members. We could not find each other there or in The Waking Shore. If th,is was a first time for doing this, it might have been the problem.
I have done almost every quest in FFXIV. The MSQ is great, but the side quests are mostly trash. And a lot of the ones in EW are trying to push an agenda.
I might not even try raiding this season since there are so many other interesting things to do. I’ll still do some dungeons but I won’t be doing high level keys.
My friends and I were on farming the rather boring preexpansion event when it launched, we rushed to the Zeplin and hundreds (it looked like) rushed onto it only for it to crash and we all spawned in the Org graveyard. It only happened once before we got to the new zone and took off questing for hours. So for my experience it was the best launch ever (being able to play fast I mean)
Its really great to hear positive talk about a game that many of us cannot stop playing (whether we talk positively about it or not). I only hope that this positivity will still be there in 6 months time. The talk was largely positive at the beginning of shadowlands and then over time it turned to strongly negative … same with BFA and same before that. After a while it was ok to be positive about Legion and MOP again. I really hope this is different, but I do understand that people have to attract viewers and talk that gains traction is important for that reason.
My take is simple. 2 successful expansions in a row. That's what it will take for me to personally come back.
First expansion I've been in the launch since WOTLK. Grinding all the rep for so many factions is ridiculous. I feel burnt out already. The world is huge but ultimately feels tiny because you can zip across the whole island in a few minutes.
I played wow from a little before WotLK, and continued all the way until the very end of Pandaria. I could not continue into WoD. So anyway. I came back to play again in shadowlands, and was unbelievably disappointed. So I tried classic. It just wasn't the same for me, doing everything all over again. So now I sit and watch, and hope that it can be good again. And I actually fear that it will never be a "second home" ever again. Strangely it hurts a little. I still have to hold on to hope. There is still love for the game. I really want to try Dragon Flight, but… its kinda hard to let myself try. Once bitten, twice shy. But there's still hope……
I'm surprised I don't really have a huge complaint or concern. I'm hopeful but skeptical. As for PvP I think I would still prefer how Wrath Classic feels over retail but that is personal preference. A few classes/specs could still use some work with these new trees.
'The Elemental Ra'…holy shit Bellular that's close to the bone.
In terms of an MMORPG, Dragonflight is 10/10. Quests, story, professions, art, music, it's all great. The passion is real. And — there's so much space for them to keep adding and expanding. It's not a question of "what island will magically appear on the edge of the map" — There are clearly places, fully populated with NPCs, that are just not active yet. Feels like Vanilla did.
The questionable part is the balance, the bugs, the exploits, all before the competitive season even starts.
The irrelevant part is twitch viewers. People are playing the game, not watching it.
I love your comparison between SL and ROP. They both felt like mediocre creatives (talking about the creative leadership here, not the devs) taking on an IP that they do not understand the DNA of (or care all that much), did not originally create, and do not understand the merit of well enough to really grasp why the established fanbase appreciates it the way they do, leading to a recklessness with the material as they obliviously write some of their own shit overtop of it, unaware of how badly they are vandalizing it, and not respecting it enough to really give much of a fuck anyway.
When being passed the torch of a beloved franchise, a good creative understands that it is not suddenly their torch. They are simply there to bare it. However, these day, there is an epidemic writers who do not understand this, and arrogantly ruin IPs as they "make it their own". I tend to avoid extremes like this, but I do honestly think that whoever was in charge of writing Shadowlands should be removed from their position, because I do not think it is possible for someone to bastardize 20 years of beloved lore the way they did whilst holding respect for the work in the manner that is necessary for someone to hold that responsibility.
If the Mona Lisa need a restauration, and the person who got the job decided to paint a Honda Civic scootin' down in the background, because they really like Honda Civics, they probably should just go and paint a Honda Civic, rather than be given the task of restoring the Mona Lisa. That person's creative vision doesn't matter if it doesn't fit the existing work.
I was waiting the zeppelin at launch time. Got on and then game crashed. Could only log back in 3 hours later. It killed all the magic.
I'm loving this expansion from a narrative pov so far. Like listening to the Centaur talk about their culture is great. I wonder what this implies for those in the old world. Are they a separate clan of outcasts? Do they also worship Ohn'ara?
first enjoyable expk since wod…
Best expansion content release so far since Legion. As with all expansions however, it was poorly executed again from the technical side but that was cured quicker than I can recall. Shadowlands, WoD and Cata are all trash, discuss amongst yourselves.