i feel like WoD to me is when they started to put the wow progressions on a finely design train track with set destinations…
might just be me but i preferred when the game was more open ended and with freedom to choose how you progressed.
i think that is why i have such fond memories on vanilla… not only it was new… but it felt like i could take any path i wanted to get to the end goal…
these days you have to X zone followed by X zone, then heroic, mythics, mythic+, raids…
there is no freedom you are being lead around like carrot on a stick.
for a game in a genre which is supposed to be about exploring and discovery…
you sure do get shuffled along a set path a lot.
i think that falls down to lack of imagination in the game director personally…
the guy is a lawyer for god sake… its obvious he has very little capability to think laterally.
his idea of fun will be flow charts and numbers. and you guessed it… systems.
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I agree.
I think they have an idea of how the players should play the game. In past they were disgruntled when players did things like farming frogs on Timeless Isle. This was not how they wanted their players to play. Killing frogs is stupid why are the players doing such a stupid thing?
Since WoD wow is about completing a daily checklist of tasks. Whether it si Garrison chores or Covenant Callings we’re doing the things Blizzard wants us to do rather than the things we want to do.
The systems rule All.
Second half of Cata, MoP, WoD, BFA, Shadowlands.
Over half of the game’s expansions have been bad. Just saying.
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What exactly was that content? the systems were almost as braindead, grindy and convoluted as they are in SL.
Islands, Warfronts, Azerite… did anyone actually enjoy any of this crap?
It had some decent raids, the art design was great as always, and that’s about it. The game was still a complete chore to play, as it is now.
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Weird, how could I post then a few weeks ago when I had no active playtime and no active sub? 
Weird you missed out a few posts below when i asked /facepalm but i guess you got your bait post in.
Do you really expect me to read all 84 comments except the recent 2 of us?
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You should have then maybe you would not have made such an inane off topic post which was dealt with earlier in the thread.
Do you need other people´s opinions to determine if a game is good or bad?
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sl is so bad i refuse to rate it.
full of broken stuff, unbalanced stuff, broken systems and lack of foresight.
its a Alpha/Beta test, i can fully understand that every thing aint perfect. and there is room for a flaw or two. but SL is a big flaw. wow shadowlands is the definition of failure.
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with the new rep grind they can beat that score! I’m sure of it
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I stopped giving such importance to video game critics way before metacritic or rotten tomatoes ir whatever was a thing.
I rember a sega magazine telling me not to buy revenge of shinobi as it was utter crap, bad gameplay, bad music, bad graphics, just dont buy this japanese spaff, this game will make you want to get a nes or wait for the snes.
One of the best games Ive ever played…
I have a feeling Shadowland’s score isn’t that representative for the expansion as the scoring also is a target for people who want to downrate Activision Blizzard as company.
i dunno about that, it matches my honest opinion for the expansion … so for me it is pretty legit.
well stop playing it then.
to me, shadowlands deserves a medium 5/10. Could be a lot better but maintained some of the stuff i like.
do you have data proving that this metacritic thing isnt sponsored by other games companys or the voting is cast by employees of other gaming companys?
We had a local restaurant close down because another local restaurant got all its employees to write really bad reviews about it and local fools believed what they read online. Shame, as the closed down restaurant was way nicer than the other. Hey ho.
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Ah yes. Metacritic…especially use score. Always a laugh to watch at.
People can bomb any game they like regardless how actually good or bad the game is.
Tim doesn’t like game A. So he bombs it with 0 or 1 then asks a couple of his friends to bomb it with zeros as well for the extra 
and lols. Doesn’t matter that his other friends didnt even knew such game existed…let alone actually played it. 
Not sure why anyone would actually take the user score seriously…
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because it validates their viewpoint and anyone who thinks different is wrong.
Ever played Borderlands 2 and it’s DLC with Mr Torque? He sends you off to hunt down and kill an NPC who disagreed with Mr Torque over a videogame he liked.
Way too many people have that mentality be it a videogame, movie, tv show book and whether it is liked or disliked is also irrelevant to such minded people.
For example, people gushed over Game of Thrones and my wife raves about Big bang Theory. I find them incredibly boring and tedious to watch. But I don’t go around telling anyone I come across not to watch them because I don’t like them, nor do I tell people to never watch Michael bay’s transformer movies except in of the context of joking. Personally I am a huge G1 cartoon nerd and was hugely disappointed by “Bayformers”.
But tens of thousands DID enjoy them. I have no right to tell them they are wrong, just as they have no right to tell me I am wrong. What we can do, is agree to disagree on what is the better version, and move on with our lives.
I grew tired of this type of argument during the SNES vs Megadrive console wars, and even further back with the Amstrad vs Spectrum vs Commodore wars…
I solved the console war by buying both of them, and the Amstrad spectrum and commodore war was solved by my parents by being told by mum and dad “we got you this because it’s all we could afford”
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