Important Note: Originally this topic was about the seemingly “removal” of the campaign skip, but it was just moved from lvl 50 to lvl 60 because of Dracthyr characters. Since people explained me the situation, I updated the topic.
I am currently on leveling a Bloodelf on Horde for the first time and want to unlock the weapon. Now, since in DF the campaign skip for all non-Dracthyr characters was changed, I found a few issues with SL content.
Very well thought through, Blizzard… NOT!
You managed to break Shadowlands itself.
I am right now in Bastion, seeing the dark clothed Aspirants and Kyrians, despite me (by chronological experience) shouldn’t be able to see them yet at the beginning of the story.
Imagine a new player plays this expansion, sees all those “fallen Aspirants and Kyrians” and wonders til the end of the story “why are they here, aren’t they the bad guys? Why are they being tolerated here?”
Sometimes a choice isn’t the right one and in this case it wasn’t. Instead of moving the the skip to lvl 60, you should have altered it in the code, because clearly that change broke the world layering there.
The skip was not removed. It is still there but you need to be level 60+ to use it.
And frankly if you don’t want to level in SL (most of the quests were in the Campaign with only some side quests) then level elsewhere and once leveled you can go to SL and skip the campaign and unlock all the covenants and cosmetics.
While generally true Sl “content” does more harm than good to the IP. If it were up to me I would just but anything of value from SL on a vendor and just delete the rest XD.
You forget story continuity (yes, even with SL up story), it would make getting into the game less easy for new players.
In Destiny 2, like I said, that issue is there. The game starts with Shadowkeep these days now. New players have no clue what Destiny 2 is about, because the base game story (Red War), Minor DLC 1 and 2 (Curse of Osiris and Warmind), Forsaken (1st Major DLC + Season Pass content) are all removed from the game. Same issue with every season content that went forward from that point.
For a new player, it’s like reading a book straight from the 3rd act with no references what is going on.
Still, removing story from the game is always bad. Even if it is bad story. Remember, that would also be content people paid for. Taking that away would be not nice.
Every pre-patch gets removed, that’s content people paid for also. One notable point would be that if you just started WoW you cannot see the Burning of Theldrassil, which I would say is a major event.
Not when said story actively ruins the the previously established story.
And your argument forgets that there are people that also liked Shadowlands. My Co-Guild leader for example liked the expansion a lot. Removing SL would be a slap in their face.
Remving things is bad anyhow, they should never have removed the MOP cloak quest. Now players who joined in the last 10 years can’t go to Ordos area for cosmetics or achievements etc.
I think after the outcry from the removal of the Mage Tower they’ve decided not to remove things so much.
up story), it would make getting into the game less easy for new players.