Yes I was on that hopium for a while. But I’m not anymore. (rant incoming)
The absolute mess the game is in with this pre-patch is clearly just a sign of things to come.
The UI is a good idea on paper, but its been designed by people who don’t play the game. Large parts of it are not functioning. It doesn’t interact with itself. Previous features have disappeared. The simple size of everything takes up the entire screen, yet all the text is tiny. It was sold as fully customizable, it’s not. It just about breaks every single addon in the game at the moment. It’s not intuitive. There are so many simple quality of life issues with it, it’s clearly not been tested properly or thought through. I’ve seen plenty of threads about it, and doesn’t appear to be getting any response from blizzard/hotfixes.
The cash grabs are a joke. Dropping a 12month sub for an extreme amount of money right before Christmas, right before an expac and during a global economic crisis is just unethical and shows the core values of the business. No I don’t have to purchase it, but yes I feel like I’ve missed out. You can’t even buy it with in-game gold via blizzard balance.
The in-game systems always break. Last week the AH just didn’t work for 2 days for no apparently reason. It was a repeat of a previous issue with commodities, and it took 2 days to get looked at. I don’t get why these things keep happening. I’ve also seen there was a bug with evokers where they got 100% drop rate on 2 of the most sought after and farmed (abysmal drop rate) mounts - sha + nalak. it’s been hotfixed, but no apparent action to those who exploited blizzards incompetence. This morning i logged in and it took me 40mins to loot anything from my mailbox due to various bugs/errors. in the end i had to just disable everything and go in cold and loot 1 by 1. I thought the UI issues where with phase1, but apparently I need to completely revisit these every couple of weeks when you decide to stagger content from your half baked job.
Ticket times. There’s abysmal wait time on tickets and just feels like there’s no point in opening one at this point. I’ve seen stories on this forum about people waiting 4 weeks just for the ticket to be closed with no response.
I also logged on this morning to see gold returns from mission tables/callings have been nerfed to a pitiful amount (even from missions that were already in place). I get the need to tackle inflation, but there is now no incentive to farm those necroray eggs (another feature that has been a complete joke - 3 mounts that are on an abysmal drop rate from a WQ daily. after 200+ callings this expac, i’ve not seen one.)
Dropping extinct TCG loot for a marketing campaign is so inconsiderate to the player base. I am a mount collector in game. It’s largely driven what I like to do when I play. However, I do not have the feldrake and i understand its prestige for those who have it (and i would likely pay the gold price should one become available to me reasonably) but giving it away for free (amongst other things) is a slap in the face to alot of people on the game.
Dragonflight was make or break for me. I’ve played the game for 15+years now consistently through the pain of what has been the last few expacs. Most of my friends don’t play anymore. The game is virtually dead in the most part. I thought Dragonflight would save it. But i don’t think it will anymore.
Blizzard, you are on the precipice of destroying your game. Plz stop and just do a proper job of it!
