Most people don't care about lore. And most games have crap lore because of that fact. Lore isn't the reason people play games.
alright meltie time
Lore was genuinely the last thing keeping me in the game. Raiding with friends was fun but when you're only raidlogging then why are you paying 15$ a month for a subpar product? Lore kept me grounded in the world that I treated like a world rather than a game.
Lore was the one connection I had left to my favorite game world that I've spent 20 something years in since wc3. I mean they've all but moved on from the world of Azeroth as it is, BFA was on Azeroth but that's only cause somebody had to stop somebody from cramming 3 more expansions worth of world building into one single expansion rather than take their time like they did in that expac.
But all that's happening is I just want to experience the Scarlet Crusade making cleanup efforts to reclaim Lordaeron. I want to witness those orcs in southern barrens finally figure out how to build a simple wooden bridge after 10 years since cataclysm. I WANT to witness the defias brotherhood rise again and try to infiltrate parts of stormwind for a revenge that they never got. I want to see NPCs acknowledge the planet-sized sword sticking out of Silithus - I mean you can literally see it from Orgrimmar and not a single fucking person other than Mangi has even mentioned it? I want to see how the night elves cope with losing absolutely everything and how they are dealing with the fact that they were just genocided into being homeless begging for shelter.
I want this evolving world of Azeroth that actually reflects what has happened in the story. Even if the story is shit, there should be an effort made in the
WORLD of warcraft to make the world a main character of the game again.
But you know what we got? some dude that thinks season 8 of game of thrones was good writing and then watched Avengers Endgame 5 or 6 times and thought Thanos' story was really fucking cool and forgot the part where Thanos was a character written for over a decade and had EXTREMELY clear goals rather than "Oh god there's infinity stones, oh god we can't let Thanos get them, oh god there's one last infinity stone we should take it directly to Thanos' house, oh god Thanos has all the infinity stones and is gonna remake reality as we know it" which is literally what happened with the Jailer in a span of THREE HOURS. All of that completely ignores that 60% of the story is unavailable to you as a player if you only pay attention to the game.
And you know what the worst part is? They have the audacity to rewrite these characters that were written 2 decades ago and fundamentally change huge aspects of Warcraft 3 (and even 2 to some extent) just to tell their new 3 months of story.. a story that they are going to completely throw in the garbage when 10.0 comes around. They couldn't even just let me have the memories I have of Warcraft 3 in the story of Shadowlands. And that's just the story, they couldn't even just let me re-experience Warcraft 3 as a game because they fucking ruined that since they are incapable of shipping games as much as they are incapable of seeing anything past short-term profit.
I just want to go home. I'm not invested in the grand cosmic scheme that changes once a year. I'm not interested in bigger and bigger god-power threats. I don't want to be on another plane of existence that invalidates literally everything we've done up until that point. I just want warcraft back, but it's never coming back.
