As to the 'it's the best expansion /in awhile/yet'. It's fun, questing is fun. considering that's what you do the first few weeks of a new expansion, it's safe to say it's the best in awhile. But then you get to no content. If you don't grind puny rewards/do group content, you'll finish the expac in a few days. The weeks since have show bare increases to rep. Otherwise nothing. Bad quests/quests you can't complete (AND THE LACK OF REAL DAILY WORLD QUESTS) mean a single quest not completable is hugely detrimental.
Couple that with extreme lag due to zone... (quests). Add that to, the entire game, has between a 2.0 to 30.0 second lag for looting. 2.0 second looting is asanine (I can freaking play A... single A game with less lag nowadays). A minute to 3 for looting one ore deposit. Why do I play? Double 'scheduled' maintenances a week now? FFS, Blizzard HAS shit the bed.
For me honestly it's the Yu-Gi-Oh Dragon Furries running around...the game bears no resemblance to World Of Warcraft.....I mean I'm honestly shocked that the music wasn't done by the Artic Monkeys.
It's like Blizzard said Screw the other demographics We only want that 1997-2008 crowd.
What makes it for the 1997-2008 crowd? I havent played DF so I am genuinely curious, but I dont understand why it would appeal to 1997-2008 crowd.
I mean burning crusade was fun. I had months of meandering around. Wrath, where I really got into it, dailies were (fairly) new. Among dailies along with decent dungeon dailies (among actual dungeons that were... good) I loved logging in, doing STUFF. Getting all my dungeon runs in. I dunno. 2 xpacs later I despise random grouping, dungeon runs are an excersize in pulling hair or being tortured. Hell current (daily? call it bi weekly) world quests say kill an enemy and use a totem on em. People screaming at me that I'm doing it wrong cause I got to let em live. Quests used to be worthwhile to read. Quests used to say what they actually wanted. Dungeons were fun. Then aoe/stun fest/ now gogogo but even then 1 mishap is half ur health. We've come a long way in a lot of stuff. But the things that made the old expansions good (I guess number 1 being ACTUAL content for your money out of the gate) We've lost the actual things that make shit fun. (As a side note I love the new race, my family/nieces love them). But frankly it's like pandaren x3. They don't seem to fit. I like em. I don't like em conceptually.
Nothing can save Retail......except if Ion is fired.
DF is one of the most soulless expansion i've ever played. Plus, it has zero new content. It will go down faster than Shadowlands.
Ion managed to release 3 expansions in a raw as the worst expansions in WoW history. Whoever kept Ion this long needs to also be fired.
WHO the heck keeps a person this long when all the data shows that he's action have directly impacted the subs, revenue, etc?! If it wasn't for Classic, TBC, WoTLK it would of been very bad for Blizzard.
/rantoff
Even if he is fired, Retail is still going to languish in its mediocre state. For as long as the game exists and big streamers play it, a lot of other people will play it too so it won't die. But it will never relive its past glory during 2007 and 2008. It's mostly because the expansions' story has already been exhausted. They just pull out of their ass and invent new things, they retcon and don't abide by any preexisting lore. That's why people aren't very interested in new expansions. The only people who still seem to play Retail feel like they have really low expectation bar and ere easily excited. Also Retail still exists because of streamers and groupthink - if popular streamers are playing the game then the game must be good, so we should play it too. If a famous streamer like Asmongold for example plays a niche game like Project Gorgon and keeps playing it every time he streams for like a year, the game's population will explode and the servers will probably not be able to handle the influx at first. I own the game and I don't think it's bad, but it's very rough around the edges hence why only 150-200 people play it and it will only prove that I'm right if all of a sudden tens of thousands of people begin playing it.
So in short firing Ion Hazzikostas will not improve the WoW situation, the damage has already been done and it remains part of the game's history. So unless all this shameful history is deleted, meaning all expansions up to Lich King are deleted from the game and they start doing something like Turtle WoW where they expand the game horizontally and only abide existing lore, it will get better.
In fact considering that even TBC started with retconning Draenei and Blood Elves, all expansions have to be deleted and just start again from Vanilla with the Turtle WoW philosophy, but since that won't happen, Retail will never be saved and will only decline until they make the game F2P or something.
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Even if he is fired, Retail is still going to languish in its mediocre state. For as long as the game exists and big streamers play it, a lot of other people will play it too so it won't die. But it will never relive its past glory during 2007 and 2008. It's mostly because the expansions' story has already been exhausted. They just pull out of their ass and invent new things, they retcon and don't abide by any preexisting lore. That's why people aren't very interested in new expansions. The only people who still seem to play Retail feel like they have really low expectation bar and ere easily excited. Also Retail still exists because of streamers and groupthink - if popular streamers are playing the game then the game must be good, so we should play it too. If a famous streamer like Asmongold for example plays a niche game like Project Gorgon and keeps playing it every time he streams for like a year, the game's population will explode and the servers will probably not be able to handle the influx at first. I own the game and I don't think it's bad, but it's very rough around the edges hence why only 150-200 people play it and it will only prove that I'm right if all of a sudden tens of thousands of people begin playing it.
So in short firing Ion Hazzikostas will not improve the WoW situation, the damage has already been done and it remains part of the game's history. So unless all this shameful history is deleted, meaning all expansions up to Lich King are deleted from the game and they start doing something like Turtle WoW where they expand the game horizontally and only abide existing lore, it will get better.
In fact considering that even TBC started with retconning Draenei and Blood Elves, all expansions have to be deleted and just start again from Vanilla with the Turtle WoW philosophy, but since that won't happen, Retail will never be saved and will only decline until they make the game F2P or something.