No its not corona, the fact is outside of raiding or m+ dragonflight is bland as a wet noodle, you dont have something to do like in legion people could work on their artifact weapon, also mage tower etc in df nothing thats the problem.
It seems more likely that Blizz were trying to lure back people who quit WoW in the years before DF was even announced, millions of people quit WoW over the past 18 years, makes sense to me for them to try and lure some back with the shiny new stuff introduced recently…
Warlords were good. There just wasnt enough content due to content cuts. Lol, however it delievered very good raids and good dungeons. And pvp wise it was fantastic.
Legion again although class design was a weaker point content wise was absolutely amazing and the game was enjoyable.
BFA, the expansion itself was decent. It was soured with again lack of class design and borrowed power, however i found it enjoyable.
Shadowlands was the real bad one realistically.
DF so far has been great.
However, no. Blizzard said this not the playerbase. This expansion was a correction of wows path, not a filler.
Theres too much to correct, for one expansion to pull it all off.
From a pve point of view most expansions have been fine. Its pvp since legion fell, and we are seeing that now with the fact the moment borrowed power left we are now sitting among a weekly bases of different classes being insane
This is basicly also not the case, class balance in PvE is atrocious, example: there are classes that can do tons of AoE dmg without actually doing anything, then there are classes that needs to ramp up alot before the dmg goes out. Thats basicly not acceptable, also those have almost the least utility.
However, it actually hasnt been. Wowlogs already places the disclaimer, due to disparity due to its reliance on player representation, the dps differences shown are actually ALOT closer then depicted.
Dps of all speccs is only rough 5-10% in difference in reality.
To be fair, i dont think i would recommend dragonflight to anyone.
I had fun with my time on it, but im a bit of an addict. Im not sure an average person would put up with as much as im willing to.
The world just feels empty with so many timers.
It has a huge lack of any side activities to get into.
10.0.5 was a complete nothing patch.
Ive not even logged on to do the trading post as whats the point of playing at all until its fixed.
I have hope for the future of the game.
Theyve made a good base to build off of. But right now, its just the base. Nothings been built.
If I’m being very generous. This is kind of true. I think their failed in terms of story and tone too but that’s another matter.
But the fact is that Dragonflight’s foundation is really just… Shadowlands. There is no real difference, for some people here there might seem to be because some old gripes are attended to but for casuals, newcomers, players who left long ago and so on, Dragonflight hasn’t fundamentally turned a page and done anything new to make it different from Shadowlands.
So what they do with the few things they changed and tweaked - such as talents - will be the key going forward. If they just revert to adding dumb systems, grinds and empty, meaningless time wasters, while sticking to 8 M+ dungeons forever on repeat, raiding and PvP as core content; Dragonflight will just be Shadowlands again. And it’ll drop off a cliff again.
However, if they add game modes, core game content and options, more raids, more dungeon choices and actually change the game from Shadowlands in a meaningful way then we might see WoW become something else again. But honestly… I doubt it. The people in charge are the same as the last 4 years. Don’t expect a five-star dinner from a guy who works Mc Donalds.
This is most likely what’s going on. Once you break a habit, you won’t really return to it very easily. BFA and SL probably broke the “WoW habit” for a few people.
I personally know several people in my personal life who are aware of Dragonflight, but can’t bring themselves to try WoW again. Dragonflight, by all measures, is so far one of the best expansions Blizzard have created, but they’ve moved on.
The best Blizzard can do is attract new players and rebuild their base from there, while retaining those who held on so far. I, for one, almost didn’t come back… but I love dragons, so I wanted to give WoW one last chance.
I think it’s hard to say. I’m of the view that DF is the best expansion we’d had in years (aside from technical/QC issues, worst state the game has ever been in for that).
It’s anyone’s guess. And for that reason - does it matter?