That Retail WoW isn’t for me anymore, although I hope that one day I may return. But for now, I see no point in playing retail World of Warcraft Dragonflight and the War Within.
I began to understand why I didn’t like playing World of Warcraft anymore, despite logging in every day for 16 hours on weekends. I was trying to “complete” my character by collecting, progressing through mythic+ and setting foot in arena’s and raids. I was burned out.
But then something struck me, I did not get into World of Warcraft to collect virtual items, or to reach a certain rank or achievement inside the game. My motivation to buy the game was because there was this cool, mythical landscape to explore and adventure in. You could even play as a big cow man, my first character were Tauren because I was at awe you could play as something different than a regular human.
But after Battle for Azeroth, the Shadowlands, I decided that Dragonflight isn’t for me anymore. This isn’t a world where I feel motivated to explore. I ended up receiving a free trial for Dragonflight, did the first zone and thought to myself, how boring is this world I just sat my foot in?
I had this feeling with Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. I came into World of Warcraft because there was a dangerous world to explore, full with various beasts, Ogre men that would eat you, dragons that were intimidating and cruel.
Retail is slowly losing all that magical feeling of a dangerous world. It’s image has been neutered.
I’d rather be a no name mumbo jumbo than this “chosen champion one”. I do not give one damn about the gods or the titans. I only care about surviving in a harsh world that is out to destroy me. The feeling of being alive,it’s adventure games like this that offer me an escape in this modernistic comforting hellhole we call real life. A way to escape all the comformities of real life and be met with a virtual world where everything is different.
And although my love for World of Warcraft will never die, it saddens me to see Retail decay this way into this neutered, passive slob of a game, all thanks to a few people who can’t seem to tell the difference between real world and this virtual world? My criticism here is to the people who want to change or shape something in the World of Warcraft because it gets in the way of their ideology, or their believes. While it’s perfectly fine to not like something, some people are just on a massive cancel/flame war to try and remove anything mildly offensive from this game world.
So sorry, I ended up playing this game for 14 years now. But I came to realise that I ended up playing it for the wrong reasons these past few years.
I absolutely wish retail would go back to writing about the World of Warcraft, so for those that ask for my gold, I will keep guard of it, until the day I can finally come back to venture back into this massive world, but for now, I think I will hit the uninstall button and be done with it!
