BFA is the worst expansion 1st (Worse than WoD, Shadowlands, Dragonflight, everything)
and devs think BFA is a good solution with starting zone for new players while none of the raids, dungeons or PvP were friendly to Casuals and new players
grinding reps to exalted to unlock mag´har orc, dark iron, Kul Tiran and Zandalari were huge horrors
Yeah, inconsistency is brilliant for their game. As the numbers show, WoW went from 20 mil players years ago to 350k now. Because of decisions like this.
So you didn`t check anything then because you wanna be offered proof in a powerpoint presentation. Just check Bellular investigation in his video and you get all the proof you need, ignoring the fact that common sense can be used and just log in the game and see empty cities already
Enough of offtopic, the point was , theres no reason for Blizz to keep the pathfinding achivement since they removed similar achivements in the past. It only benefits the game, nobody in their right mind will be offended that new players can fly in old zones, just because they did an achivement 4 years ago. Only petty toxic players would be against that.
Belluaes video says DF didnt spike like BFA and SL, however, had said this was down to the amount of losses experienced during the prior 2 expansions having lasting damage.
Also, its proven DF month to month after spiking is the same as now, i.e DF retained more of the returning players then either expansion did % wise
He also in other threads proved the engagement with raids and m+ are above both ezpansions proving a gain, a larger % of the playerbase is playing the full game.
So no, keep narrating only the negwtive instead of the overall finds
The only 2 factors are:
Game didnt sell as many inital copies, 2 terrible expansions will have affect on player trust.
Belluar said himself if blizzard keep on this corrective course and nail it at 11.0 he speculates based on his info and conversations that the return will happen.
But tbat doesnt mean DF is bad, what it means is blizzar burnt alot of bridges with how they behaved throughout SL
I never said DF was bad, I said that decisions such as this (not removing a 4 year 2 expansion prior achivement for flying) in the detriment of new players or veterans returning, has led to this situation that we are now.
I don`t see a single negative in removing such an old achivement, especially when they did it with Legion at Shadowlands expansion. Its the same thing. Just bad decision making from Blizz team, thats all.
Would happen yesterday, i can agree with you restricting players espically in these ways is no way to attract new players.
These restrictions basically say “ur first char dont matter. Its just to tick the boxes” which promotes 0 character immersion or class loyalty to that inital experience.
However, i cant agree with pulling videos out of context, in argument. However yes, ur point is correct, the pointless restrictions most defintly do hinder the game. Imagine telling ur entering friend theyre not allowed to fly unless theyre willing to spam farm pld content… let alone tell them to play their favorite race they gotta complete the game and then do over or pay out
All in all, there is no negative to removing pathfinder from BFA. I can go and solo BFA bosses and get loot, are people mad about that also? No , because the loot doesnt mean anything anymore, it meant something at the time of the expansion. Same like the pathfinding achivement.
But no one is going to grind it, since BFA is one of the worst WoW expansion that ruined reputations with allied races and stories and PvP and Raids and Dungeons
BFA has no friendly feature with these big efforts and ruined casuals and new players’ experience
Shadowlands was actually better than BFA, since they gave something friendliness like Castle Nathria, PvP
But the bad parts of Shadowlands were: stories, campaign gameplay, leveling and disconnected zones