Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
BlizzCon 2023: World Of Warcraft's Development Pace Is Faster Thanks To Dragonflight As Devs Looked
System
Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
BlizzCon 2023: World Of Warcraft's Development Pace Is Faster Thanks To Dragonflight As Devs Looked To Address Shadowlands Feedback | MMORPG.com
During BlizzCon 2023, the World of Warcraft team announced that the next few expansions would be released faster than players are used to, highlighted by the fact that the MMO developer showcased the next three expansions on stage. The team's development process to do so apparently results from feedback from Shadowlands' glacial pace of content releases, according to the developers in a group interview over the weekend.
Comments
I am tired of paying a premium for a substandard game, a monthly fee, having to get my data stolen through linking to X and Amazon Prime and still having in game purchases and ads.
Someone needs to make quality competition so we can void this game.
Thus far that's been far easier said than done. The wreckage of pretenders trying to do exactly that is strewn across the MMO landscape. Everything from SWTOR to Rift to Wildstar have tried to supplant WoW and failed. At this point the market has given up and actively avoids the term 'MMO' so as to not be seen as trying to compete with WoW. Literal billions of dollars have been spent trying to topple the king and thus far all have failed. Ironically the ones that have come closest to killing WoW has been WoW itself.
Bruh. I remember hearing "this will be a wow killer" since 2005. And I said to everyone of them, the only wow killer is blizzard itself. That and time. Ain't nobody gonna kill wow.
18 years later and here I am. I told you so.
Older MMORPG's aren't being updated graphically, and they haven't been brought up to modern day standards of combat fluidity, and usability.
The modern MMORPG's that have been kept up to date just don't offer the breadth of content or getting the resources needed to make them competitive "overall." GW2 lacks good questing content for soloers and lacks progression. Everything else is pretty good. FF14 has a fantastic story and feels pretty good to play, but lacks class customization. ESO has great questing content for soloers, but lacks any challenge outside of group content. The reason I say WoW is the best overall is because of the following: 1. They've kept the game updated graphically. 2. The games combat is fluid and responsive. Feels good to play. 3. Enough variety of races, classes, and specs. 4. Enough variety of spec customization through the talent trees. 5. A large breadth of solo, group, and raid content. 6. A decent variety of "other" activities to do. 7. Enough variety of PvP content to engage in. 8. Continuous updates to have something to do for at least 1 month per patch cycle. With that said, I don't like their renown grinds, time-gated release of content, how difficult their group/raid content has gotten with the assumed use of 3rd party addons, and the vocal face of the community on social media and in the PUG scene. It also lacked challenging solo content, which it sounds like they'll be solving with Delves next expansion.
Yup. I still don't understand how people can say that Dragonflight was a so much better expansion.
Sure, they finally revamped the talent trees for the umpteenth time that close resembles something from the heydays that people loved.
They revamped the reputation system, but not really.... just a different UI and rep leveling, but underneath it's still the same rep grind. Just different lipstick on a pig, but it's still the same pig.
The expac experience itself is the exact same, as the last 4 expansions before it. Level to levelcap and then you do the exact same daily quest grind as before.
4 leveling zones, daily quest grind and one new higher itemlevel zone added sometime later via content patch for more daily quest grind.
They have been running this exact same formula since Legion and it just gets tiresome and feels utterly lazy. Like they cannot come up with something more original that really shakes up the experience a bit.
So lets see what the next expansion brings next year and if it actually finally does shake things up a bit, than the same 4-zone + daily quest grind formula from the past 7-8 years.
But so far, what I have seen, it more feels like Chris Metzen has been hired back as a "Car Salesman" for WoW than anything else.... but I would love to be proven wrong. Time will tell.