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It's funny but none of the current Blizzard ideas have tempted me to come back.

The gatekeep and never ending chores was purely to extend subscription time, not keep us entertained longer. I left after the first season of SL and never looked back

The storm of content was too much, so much busywork and bloat, i havent even done the main questline yet.. I gave up on retail.. Again...

I’ll never understand how people can enjoy WoW. It’s such a lame ugly experience. Almost as if someone was to make an mmo for the retarded.

Yeah... that Bobby pic works well.

I really don’t know why ppl hated torghast, I liked it. U choose the right powers and u can obliterate the enemies.

If they play everything they have no family or life. Fuck them.

runescape has been doing this for years @9:18

yeah still too grindy tho

One downside to this bubble is they have no reason to fix retail if they plan to sell various versions of old content. I stopped playing WoW due to the terrible leveling experience that's in retail. They just want to force you to end game as fast as possible, preferably get you to buy a boost. I just want leveling back, old crafting and farming that's still relevant, 1 to max should always still matter, but it don't Blizzard. Plus content bloat can be confusing and also lead to FOMO. Sure it looks good on the quarterly report to retain players, but that don't always equal a good game.

holy sh1t, really nice video Preach. GJ!

Yeah but why now? Why not before?

Who is this strange man looking so trim and with a luxurious head of hair. Maybe Preach's channel has been hacked. (jk looking great Preach)

Great content as always, and btw, you are looking sharp Preach ! Good for you, i need to do the same

8:44 I was expecting him to say "so you can now sod off".

Zaralak caverns were a lot smaller than this and it never felt claustrophobic. This game is massive with so many zones. If you wanna see the sky then port to stormwind and go fly under the sky for awhile (or go outside and look at the real sky).

you're skipping over the demographic that knew mmos were a niche to begin with and don't care if 12 million players aren't crashing the servers around you

WoW figured out how to keep people subbed over 10 years ago Raid lockouts. You can't unsub if you're logging in every week to reclear. Blizzard just read that if they want to max out their MTX cash they need people to play even more. So daily chores became a staple. I quit wow because it became hostile to raidloggers. I'm not going back

You know how mages used to be tipped to provide portal service? Maybe the capital city portals should charge for use encouraging players to seek out mages? City tax for maintenance.😂

"This video is already very very long " checks play time... 14 mins.. Hmm

... You mean they finally decided to acknowledge how well level syncing was working for a decade in ff14 and decided to stop wasting all their content after 20 years? xD I don't care to simp for ff14 like who cares, but i'm not sure i understand how this is blizzard solving a problem. They solved THEIR problem maybe, sure. But like xD They can only do this because they were withholding that proven path for over a decade :P

I recently just reactivated my acct because a few friends were like hey lets play again i honestly rly enjoy the new gameplay 😅

I have watched so many people bleed out of Season of Discovery in the last two months alone. They did not go back to retail or any of the other WoW themed distractions.

"We're gonna get those Deathbringers' Wills." PFFT. Good luck with that one bucko. We know what's actually gonna happen.

Shadowlands was much better than streamerflight. Shows in the numbers.

Maybe a slight counter-opinion to this, but for context I'm someone who quit during Shadowlands 9.1 and hasn't gone back to Modern/Retail since. I dabbled in a few games of Plunderstorm but it didn't really appeal to me too much. I haven't played MoP remix. What I did get back onto the WoW train for was Season of Discovery, and phase 2 and 3 of that pushed me to try WotLK Classic in the lead up to Cata, which I'm now raiding in. It's quite apparent to me that Blizzard simply doesn't have the resources to maintain this kind of content loop right now. It was blindingly obvious to anyone playing that Cata was not ready to launch when it did because the dev team had been focusing on delivering content and updates for Season of Discovery. When Cata did launch, it was suddenly all hands on deck to fix the major issues, and as soon as it was in a "mostly working" state, it was also clear that it's now all hands on deck to deliver Season of Discovery phase 4, because all of the non-critical issues with Cata have been left untouched for weeks. I also don't feel the desire to play the other WoW options because it would burn me out so quickly. MoP remix looks like it might be fun but the fact that its limited almost makes me want to play it less. I do think in general it's good that Blizzard have finally realised they've got 20 years worth of game that they can deliver to players, but I question the implementation of some facets. I have no opinion on these things from a Modern/Retail player view, but I've heard opinions from people that the current season feels very phoned in, and that all the attention has been on Plunderstorm and MoP Remix which are siloed modes that don't interact with Retail at large. I think there's also the obvious elephant in the room of The War Within and the fact that it is (rightly) taking development precedence. Something I think WoW is missing in my opinion is more long term casual content that is designed to encourage grouping up with friends or other players. This is something FFXIV has for example with content like Eureka/Bozja, certain steps of relic weapons, deep dungeons, variant dungeons, ocean fishing, moogle tomestone events, and even the Gold Saucer. It's all stuff that you can do yourself to some degree but it all either naturally encourages you to group, or puts you in proximity of other players doing the same thing as you. The WoW I'm playing now feels like it's missing that element in some ways. That sort of content stays evergreen and can keep people 'in' the game without making them jump between two/three/four different versions of it.

All my favorite WoW characters now are dead, has PTSD or changed gender.

I mean, it's basically what Nintendo and square enix does right? Create a style of gameplay and art that fits the community they build on and re-release content with some minor alterations to appeal to the same audiences. I'm sure many players of FF14 play other SE games, and Nintendo has been branching out into open world lately while still keeping their core audiences around. Blizz is doing that just with multiple versions of the same MMO. I wonder how costly it is to keep up all those extra servers for the same practice though? Other gaming companies just release a bunch of games on their platforms but with Blizz doing this with multiple MMOs I imagine the upkeep cuts into the profits a fair bit. That may dissuade other companies from trying to copy Blizzard's model.

I played vanilla to the WoD back in the days and quit after the 2nd raid was released as this wasn't an MMO anymore that had even some level of social aspect further as everyone was just hiding in their garrisons doing basically nothing. This was so boring and stupid I couldn't help but I had to quit this game for good. When classic was announced I joined the club as a handful of friends asked me to start with them again and we had a blast throughout classic. When BC was announced I wanted to stay on classic and when the split occurred one of the most populated servers on EU all of a sudden dropped from multiple thousand players to like 60 players on horde and roughly 80 players on alliance side at prime time. In a matter of like 2-3 weeks the numbers dropped to below 10 on both sides and it was mostly bots that were playing. We had to use a raid-calendar to basically negotiate on a 5-men dungeon ... no form of raiding possible or PvP. Sure, resources you could farm all day as there was literally no one there. In an interview Blizzard employees did with a German gaming magazine they claimed that classic people are first class citizen and that they will start connecting servers to smooth populations and allow people to group up and raid together. 6 month later, my server was still not connected to any other, while other servers received a connections and even could form cross-realm guilds and use the trading house together. Server transfer wasn't allowed, not even for money, and as I kept asking on the official forums till my account was suspended for a couple of weeks even though I never bashed Blizzard or insulted anyone on the forums. That was just the death punch and I quit all of my accounts and never returned. This is obviously how "first-class" players are treated by Blizzard. Several month later a former classic player wrote that Blizzard still didn't connect servers as promised but they at least created a free server-transfer to allow the characters transfer away from our empty server. Still no official comment why Blizzard now went this way instead of connecting that realm or transfer all classic players onto one realm of their kind (PvP, PvE, RP). I gave Blizzard more than one chance and they literally thanked me with a forum ban that lasted several weeks - my first and only one ever tbf. Why on earth would I want to return to that game or any of their branches ever?

Ozruk gives me PTSD.

Me and all my friends play WoW and not a single one of us playing the same edition/expansion. The divide is uneal, not to mention very annoying.

You'll enjoy the villainous Joko in Path of Fire expansion! 🙂

Wow's vision of the main game and classic loop was not original, it's based on runescape's model from 6 years earlier. Blizzard just did what they always do. Oh this other game has something nifty? We're gonna hijack that but somehow make it worse to keep it original

Blizzard hasn’t solved shit dude They died move on everyone

My issue is all the releases don't mean anything. Tired of this version of wow? Play the older version of wow! Don't want older version of wow? Play this version of wow, but with a slight TWIST! Don't want that? Well here's this OTHER version of older wow! It's all just wow. It's you doing the exact same thing you did months or years or decades ago, except now with a new xp curve! Seasons never appealed to me, never cared about them in even the older diablo games, and I doubly don't care to see it in games like wow.

The issue with these game loops and "retention" is that there are too many games doing it now a days. Every game wants you in their world at all times and there's just too much out there to enjoy. I'm someone who has an abundance of free time and it's still too damn much. Companies need to be more like Palworld. "It's okay to go away and then come back" should be a mentality for all games. Not "OMG WE NEED YOU 24-7!"

not bald. losing Weight. dude u look younger than me now. good for you.

To this day i still miss Wildstar and fully believe it could survive with a rerelease, some tweaks and a bit of extra content. The core functionality of thst game was just so good man.

Wasting money on a monthly Sub just so I can satiate my FOMO doesn't work for me anymore. They can add as many shinies as they want, I'm done being subscribed to this game. 15 years of Subscription. Thinking about it makes me nauseous. The game truly died with Shadowlands, it's just seasonal mode now.

Blizzard doesn't deserve any attention or consideration. It should fail and be closed.

Damn man you've lost so much weight, grats

I know you mentioned runescape offhandedly, but really, runescape did that shit first and better Classic, seasonal, battle royale type tournaments, runescape did all of it years before blizzard even considered it Edit: Also, jagex is completely transparent on the oldschool/classic dev side, we know what they're doing when and why, and we get a say in if things happen. A big say

Bros videos improved so much over the time

Why do people who pre apologize for bad grammar or language always use the more complicated words and phrases in said apology? lol.

I found WoW to be boring. One of their less compelling IP's in my opinion.

And all of it is included in your xbox gamepass, brought to you by microsoft! with around 150 other games you can play at the same time :D

Both games are great. It's a fantastic time to be a PC gamer!

One thing that Blizzard did with WoW that often gets overlooked. Back when Vanilla first dropped they were the only MMO to have a Mac version, and they have always maintained it, with no discrepancies in content, in either the release schedule or quality. It has always been the exact same game for both platforms. Same thing for Classic. Say what you will about Macs or Mac users or Apple or whatever, that's not the point. The point is from day one, Blizzard made the choice to take a share of the market that was exclusive to them, because other MMO makers simply didn't bother (for good reasons, probably). And for the most part, they still have it. And while the share may be small, it's not nothing, either. Otherwise, why continue to spend money and resources keeping it current?

I’ve played wow since 2005 off and on every expansion quite a few pvp glad seasons mythic raiding and mythic plus high key pushes. The thing I love more than anything they have added is the action camera targeting. You pair that with mouse over macros like interupt and other things it makes the game feel so action combat!! I’ve tried playing other tab target games and it just doesn’t feel good Anymore! I can’t even play the regular camera tab target wow anymore.

They succeeded in trapping there “consumers” in an infinite loop of mediocre content, while maximizing profit. Great job 👏 that’s the true essence of gaming! Turns out I was doing it wrong the whole time, to think I was looking for fun in my video game, such a noob I am 😂