People said MoP was gonna flunk, yet it’s now hailed as one of the best expansions and as the expansion with the most solid gameplay design from a lot of people.
Success is relative, if you like it and everybody doesn’t is it still a success? ( like me loving corruptions but everyone hating them ).
In that narrative, I think a lot of people and myself included I admit have a little bias in their views and forget the simple fact that… some people won’t complain if they’re happy, they will be to busy playing the game and enjoying it, while others who don’t just… quit.
We didn’t see 5-10m I quit posts on the forums, yet afaik WoW lost that number of subscribers.
Now here’s my opinion on the matter.
You want to satisfy :-
- PvP arenas
- PvP battlegrounds
- PVP Duels
- World PVP
- PVP rated battlegrounds
- PVE M+
- PVE Raids
- PVE worldquesters
- Pet battlers
- Achievement hunters
- Profession lovers ( we exist, and some of us only play for them )
- Secondary professions
- Secret hunters
- Class design PVE and PVP
- Story and lore enthusiasts
- Gameplay design and interaction with players
- Solo players
- Pug players
- Guild players
- Community players
And I’m pretty sure there are a lot more, and if you look at BFA from a very very far look, an eagle eye’s point of view, you’ll see that nearly every bit of content in BFA has something for everyone to try and satisfy everyone and this is quite literally impossible.
In trying to satisfy everyone blizzard shot themselves in the foot and nearly managed to piss off everyone.
Let me give you just ONE example : Arms warrior
Now frontloaded damage doesn’t really matter in PVE unless it’s a very short fight, but in PVP it matters a lot, and inorder to balance rated arena blizzard shifted a huge portion of the arms warrior frontloaded damage to mastery and inorder to not make mastery useless too.
This preserved warriors power in rated arena, especially in 3v3 and they’re fairly good there, BUT now…
1- Warriors are super weak and probably the weakest class in 1v1
2- Playing warrior in PVE doesn’t feel fun if you like the big hits theme
3- World pvp is impossible without a healer behind you
and many other trickling effects of this change.
It’s not as simple as 1,2,3 and imo trying to satisfy everyone instead of going well this is fun, not entirely balanced but atleast its fun and works in most areas so we’ll leave it like that is the main problem with BFA.
But yeah, that’s my take on it, like I explained above the forums is really a tiny fraction of the player base, we don’t echo what’s happening in WoW accurately.
