Yeah, comparing WoW to LOTR is a crime.
I just highly doubt many were actually interested in TWW when they announced the trilogy. I certainly wasn’t, only interesting thing about the trilogy was the part about the elves - and when looking at how popular elves are in general, I’m certain blizz knew that too… but they wanted to milk us some more, so here we are with another filler expansion after yawn-feast dragonflight. That’s how they are thinking. I never expected much from TWW in the beginning.
And the main point is still that endgame cinematics haven’t had any interesting content for several expansions, so why should that change now?
He came to fight the nerubians during the max level campaign and had some dialogue with Alleria before she run off to shoot the Dark Heart. Well, part of the expansion, that is, patch nah, but we haven’t seen anyone from Azeoth there except Alleria and the VEs.
Well, you can say that about pretty much every lore charater. Only if the devs would actually use those, the players wouldn’t need to do anything anymore be cause we are not needed. Happens every patch and expansion. I mean, why are none of our newly powered Aspects now fighting to protect Azeroth? Same thing.
Yes, I agree it’s been bad for a long time and I wasn’t interested in this expansion myself from the get-go. But they did hail it as “WoW is back” “It’s time to come home”, so what I’m saying is excuses like “this is just the start” should not be granted to them, because they created the situation wherein people would expect more.
LOTR was an example so people stop thinking about the start of the trilogy as nothing serious. The way they propped up and marketed the War Within vs the way it’s been going is very bad.
We also learned about Arathi and our upcoming conflict.