So, uh...Legion.Follow

I know it has a news post, but someone has to post something on this forum at some point. And I'll be honest, Burning Legion was my favorite part of WoW, so I'm having a real hard time trying to convince myself not to come back for that, even if only to play through the questlines.

They are always saying how they wanted to have a faster Expansion turnover.

Meanwhile, only no-lifers can actually get anywhere in progression, and casuals are left in the dust of the ridiculously fast churning out of content, ESPECIALLY when they time-gate everything, like daily craft cooldowns.

It is part of why I quit back in 6.1, I couldn't keep up with the cooldowns, being a bit casual, the apexis grind, and the ridiculously fast paced development, where only the peeps playing 20+ hours a week could keep up with it.

Designing the game around ADHD-riddled children who demand MOAR CONTENT NAO!!! is not such a great design philosophy IMO.

It only alienates the large casual playerbase, and makes them feel like progression is hopeless.

So if they try to cater to the casuals, then the no-lifers are going to go "pfft, a few minutes every day is all there is to do?" because naturally they'd have to time-gate it.

It's just a mess... I'll take MoP-style development over this anyday.

And this whole Legion thing... I know they claim they knew it was gonna be this early in WoD, but a part of me thinks they wanna put the whole WoD mess behind them ASAP and they are hoping the squees over the artifacts and demon hunters will drum up a huge hype train just like the warlords and garrisons did in WoD.

How'd that turn out for us?

Many people hated FarmVille Garrisons after it actually came out. But then that could have something to do with them stripping down most of what they touted during the Blizzcon, lol.

I wonder how much of this stuff they are advertising about the artifacts that they're going to leave out by the time Legion finally arrives...

I also wonder how they are going to handle Garrisons and such... surely they can't allow players to keep churning in tens of thousands of gold per week with Garrisons, but if they remove Garrisons, what then?

They could make it that dinging 101 disables the Garrisons somehow... but then people who want EZ GOLD will just leave alts at 100, lol. They could nerf the rewards, but then that would suck for other reasons.

I always thought they shot themselves in the foot for just handing over stuff for no work. The ORIGINAL garrison model they gave us at Blizzcon was far better -- aesthetic stuff, sending them into old raids, etc. That had lasting value without breaking the game. We didn't have to go back and slave away at clearing, say, Molten Core or BWL for the 500th time and STILL not get the drop we were after, etc.

I had 23 characters, 12 Horde 11 Alliance, and after doing 4 Alliance to 100...

I couldn't stand to play more than 30min at a time before I started getting bored. I never got a Horde to 100, and with them releasing new content at breakneck speed I knew that there was no way I was gonna get any of that stuff done.

I liked my other characters, but they just didn't give us any alt catchups whatsoever, so I was kinda "meh" and I eventually wound up quitting in March.

I have next to zero desire of continuing, knowing that I'm so far behind that there's just no point in it, and Legion looks to be a lot like WoD... spitting out content as fast as they can without putting any good design thought into it.

If you had asked me back during the height of MoP if I thought I was gonna quit WoW anyday soon, I woulda laughed and said "no!"

But now, look at us. 4 Months into WoD and bam and not even the hypetrain of "ARTIFACTZ!!!!" is gonna change my mind I dun think.

Edited, Aug 18th 2015 10:18pm by Lyrailis

Alliance: Hunter x2, Mage x2, Rogue x2, DK x2, Warlock, Priest, Shaman, Paladin, Monk, Druid, Warrior
Horde: Warrior, Hunter, Druid, Monk 97

It was summer break, and I found leveling to be more amusing than the limited raiding I can do. I'm that guy, the one who can't speak to most of the server. The ones that aren't double are mainly 94-96. Alliance, I didn't mind doubling up so that my older account doesn't get left in the dust. Horde, was a different story.

Why, was it just me? I found Horde in WoD to be unbearably clunky. Perhaps it was the feeling of orcs, orcs and more orcs: "Tired of SoO? Well, you can have orc huts in snow so you can help orcs fight orcs, and as you go along you can discover ... more orcs." It didn't work for me, the Alliance story seemed better developed.

I'll keep playing, but I hope they get their storytelling smoothed out.