Blizzard Announces New Expansions And A 'Warcraft' Mobile Game, Repeating History And Angering It's Fanbase
Yesterday, Blizzard's official Twitter account tweeted an image that depicted the dates for upcoming press events, with each date being the formal announcement of an upcoming expansion or game. The closest event (taking place on March 15th) is the announcement of the newest Hearthstone expansion, with April 19th (the next World of Warcraft expansion) being the big-ticket item.
Surprisingly, the thing that most fans latched onto from the tweet was the planned release for May, when a mobile game for Warcraft is set to be revealed that was previously unknown to fans.
While many fans of the series were quick to attack the company for its horrific Warcraft 3: Reforged blunder of a game release and how a mobile game being released means that development time being spent fixing Warcraft 3 is unlikely, the biggest source of complaints came from WoW fans, who had the last cinematics of their expansion come out recently, ending the arc of the Jailer and setting up for the next event to hit the game.
The overwhelming majority of players discussing the MMORPG online were annoyed that the Jailer, who was barely expounded upon at all throughout the expansion, was turned into a Sargeras 2.0 with a flimsy explanation for his events and a cryptic warning of future events on the horizon, for seemingly the ninth time in the game's history.
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MCC1701
I had been playing World of Warcraft since 2008, it's overall been good but the past few years have made it obvious they're just milking the die-hard player base rather than creating a good game. Two expansions with this trend, WC Reforged, lawsuit controversy, and stupid decisions like replacing women with fruit; what are you doing by supporting the game other than encourage these practices? After months of barely playing the game I decided to call it quits. I'd be happy to go back someday, but it got to the point I'd have to be an idiot to throw my time and money at something that I no longer enjoyed.
I switched over to Warframe, and found the experience to be far better. For a FTP mmo-lite owned by Tencent there is surprisingly little grind and great content. Getting a mount in WoW? You're lucky if it drops from a raid at 1%. Parts for a new warframe(class/hero)? 33% drop chance for a 5 minute farmable boss. Awful storytelling in WoW vs a recent quest taking over 6 hours to complete that puts many single-player campaigns to shame. Homogenizing classes and keeping gameplay reminiscent of 2008 vs modding your warframe to absurd levels with fun and fast action combat. Etc.
You know you've screwed up when someone being a fan of your games(don't get me started on Overwatch) for over a decade goes from being extremely hyped for any announcement to nihilistic.
MIMU
Reset the clock.
Iso
Blizzard is all but beyond redemption at this point.
They're shills for the Chinese who have no passion for anything but profit.
Jon the Wizard
Honestly, I feel we should've had a WoW mobile game years ago. Nothing major, just something like doing pet battles or checking in on your Garrison.