World of Warcraft: Current Year

Bondurant said:

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This is what you get if a blind person describes Warcraft characters and setting to a game designer who had never heard of it.

BoozeCube said:

With their scaling faggotry there is zero reason for levels to exist anymore.

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Levels suck scaling or no scaling.

Bondurant said:

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That thing is nothing but a bunch of plot memes stuck into a blender.

How much did they spend on that launch trailer? $5?

Kaige said:

I thought they would've delayed this until January at the least, but doing it right before the holiday weekend seems like trouble in the making.

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I was guessing beginning of dec, then raids and such at the start of jan. So I was a bit off.

Sad when you consider how they've fallen from this awsomeness:

The WoW team they had in BC also had pride in their work at that time. But yes, that would be a "fair" comparison.

Dom said:

That's not a fair comparison. This is what you would be comparing to that:

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You're right this was dumb for me since I haven't played since WotLK or been paying attention. The BC Cinematic still just digs up all sorts of awesome raiding memories for me. Hadn't even seen the cinematic for Shadowlands!

The Shadowlands cinematic is awesome, the actual setting and new characters are dogshit.

I still don't understand how/why smashing the helm of domination opens a portal to the shadowlands.

Khane said:

I still don't understand how/why smashing the helm of domination opens a portal to the shadowlands.

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As a sacrifice for ritual magic to open a portal sure but that's definitely not what they showed.

Khane said:

I still don't understand how/why smashing the helm of domination opens a portal to the shadowlands.

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The Helm of Domination contains the Gem of Domination when shattered reveals the Key of Domination which opens the Lock of Domination on the Door of Domination at the Gateway of Domination. See? It says so in my Domination Handbook.

Bloodrocuted said:

Sad when you consider how they've fallen from this awsomeness:

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shit they need to hire this motherfucker

Bondurant said:

Activision Blizzard Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results - Ahead of Expectations

Activision Blizzard just finished their third-quarter financial results conference call, announcing better than expected third quarter results, with tremendous success in the Call of Duty franchise and Shadowlands driving unprecedented engagement ahead of an expansion release.

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PRE sales. Total sales is going to be a shit. I love how they hide total users and give a pointless monthly active users figure. Pretty soon, they will count logins instead.

The Maw is still a hot pile on Beta, which is what they said they were going to use the 'extra' time to fix up. All they did was add a bunch more of cosmetic/collection items to it (a few, very small, QoL changes as well), so you 'feel' a reason to go there. Mechanics wise, it is still trash. The time gating on it is trash. The special encounters for buffs/etc are trash.