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World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Ryoz
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This guy plays the game non stop.. of course he’s going to get burnt out. I don’t think the expansion is the greatest, but it’s far from a dumpster fire. There’s plenty to do, but I don’t know man, just take a break for a bit maybe?
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If it was just him I might agree, people burn out all the time, but have you been keeping up with this thread, the wow forums, on top of just about every wow streamer/video maker having the same feelings? Plus guilds falling apart left and right. There is something desperately wrong, I know you say it's not a dumpster fire but then again it really is.
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Khane
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This expansion is exactly what we thought it would be. The next Cataclysm. They did nothing but iterate on the previous expansion... in a regressive fashion. So now the players who are still playing (like myself) are sitting here saying to themselves "Well I know this could be really good, I've already played the good version of it. Surely they will make this good again... right?!"
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Even though I'm not a big fan of WoW, have always thought that Blizzard did top notch work. Have to believe that they will do right eventually by this game. May take a while.
Another thing about BFA is a lot of the work done was under the hood, stuff that the player doesn't necessarily see. Moving to DX12, etc gives them some breathing room in the future to be able to focus more on the actual game, and not so much on the tech. Doesn't help the horrible state of BFA's game mechanics right now though.
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I have to say the DX12 update really helped boralus for me. There were parts of boralus that would get a bit of a FPS dip even on my new computer now and then. With the DX12 update its been really smooth the only fps dip I have seen since the patch is doing ivus and like 80 people were around throwing all of the spells at it and I was still holding pretty well with just some minor fps hits.
You can believe all you want, but just assuming good things will come despite all the evidence to the contrary is blind optimism. Lower sub numbers means diminished budget which means reduced project scope and content, so "it might take a while" is the complete opposite of what the game needs. It needs another two legion expansions in a row to just keep itself from suffocating, and there's no chance of that happening under the current leadership.
Every single expansion has seen improvements to the underlying tech. BFA is nothing new in this department, and it doesn't translate at all into anything related to gameplay design or content creation. Nobody is complaining about WoW's tech.
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If you checked it recently it was hotfixed. This morning it was stuck at 340 for everyone regardless of ilvl.
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Dazar'alor was even worse. I have a brand new build with 64gigs of DDR4, a 1080Ti, an 8 core Ryzen7 2700x and Dazar'alor would lag the fuck out of my machine to 30fps or lower. It was atrocious. But they shouldn't be praised for finally upgrading to DX12 and fixing those issues in 8.1. Shit should have never been that way from the start.
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Holy shit... are they serious? People turned XP Off at 101 in full BoEs to PL for the entirety of Legion. Not only was it a fun thing to do if you had some extra gold to see how powerful you could get but it was a symbiotic relationship among people who liked twinking their own chars and people who wanted to level fast and had expendable gold.
What the fuck is wrong with these morons? Island Expeditions will be completely dead now.
"Hey people are having fun using this interesting food buff we put in the game in old content to run around super fast"
"KILL IT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT"
"Hey, people are having fun with these neat 111 level req BoEs that are 120 epic ilvl and tradeable"
"NO MORE, YOU MUST SUFFER THROUGH EVERYTHING I CREATE"
"Hey, people like doing this repeatable content to powerlevel themselves and others for cosmetic rewards and good exp/rep/AP gains"
"NONSENSE, THAT IS NOT HOW GAMES ARE MEANT TO BE PLAYED"
What the fuck is wrong with these morons? Island Expeditions will be completely dead now.
"Hey people are having fun using this interesting food buff we put in the game in old content to run around super fast"
"KILL IT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT"
"Hey, people are having fun with these neat 111 level req BoEs that are 120 epic ilvl and tradeable"
"NO MORE, YOU MUST SUFFER THROUGH EVERYTHING I CREATE"
"Hey, people like doing this repeatable content to powerlevel themselves and others for cosmetic rewards and good exp/rep/AP gains"
"NONSENSE, THAT IS NOT HOW GAMES ARE MEANT TO BE PLAYED"
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I can't wait for the first Q&A after Classic launches where Ion explains that all of the out of era features they implemented without telling anyone that people didn't want were a good thing and that the additional out of era features they are planning on implementing are also a good thing. We're happy to continue the discussion about these features but try and keep your discussion focused on how to make the things you didn't ask for and don't want better rather than their removal because they're staying.
It's like World of Warcraft is under the control of a malicious DM constantly trying to force the players in his campaign to do things the way (he thinks) they should be done.
It's like World of Warcraft is under the control of a malicious DM constantly trying to force the players in his campaign to do things the way (he thinks) they should be done.
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You know, I think this is the best I've ever seen this expansion summed up. I've experienced exactly this many times and BFA had a familiar feel, but I couldn't put my finger on why.
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I expect soulless, money-grubbing whores to at least abide by a model of profit maximization.