Why does nobody care about the story of World of Warcraft anymore?
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Have you seen it?
This.
After the shit they pulled with sylvanas I don't think anyone sane would give a frick anymore.
They just went through with the literal worst fricking twists the community had already imagined.
Esoteric issues. Things are dying, elswhere, the rest follows.
Sane people don't abandon what they like, especially when it's not TOO terrible.
WoW, at bare minimum, isn't a book, it's a video game, so it can be played with people.
>Sane people don't abandon what they like, especially when it's not TOO terrible.
Says a lot about the story in wow.
>Sane people don't abandon what they like
shut the frick up sunken cost homosexual you gobbling up this shit is what turned wow into the "not TOO terrible" shitshow it's today.
Delusional cuckold.
Calling things shit does not make them so, you're mentally impure.
WoW is mediocre at worst.
>turned into
No, not at all. The matter in question is beyond human control. Blizzard wasn't so much destined as it simply fell along a doomed path.
You fell into the same path as them and many others, hence why you talk like you're a thug, only caring about consumption.
Nevermind assessing each select data piece on its own.
God, you talk like such an autist, like someone who plays second life for the vampire/hogwarts RP servers.
Fortunately for you, that's the sort of playerbase current WoW is strafing to.
Indeed, I talk terribly.
That aside, just because it's all a game to you that somehow conveniently constructed itself, and whose eventual corruption so terribly inconvenienced you that you gibber at what you once liked, does not mean there aren't processes involved as to why this all happens.
Not that your type ever looks such perspectives, so that makes me twice a moron for even mentioning it.
1 its too complex
2 stakes have escalated to the point the players are saving the universe
3 too much sci-fi
4 too high fantasy
JUST
FRICK MY WIFE
Wait, Valeera is older than Anduin?
So she's a hag, just like Tyrande?
GROOMED
Elves do be like that
Imagine participating in the alliance war council as the king and everyone sees you as a kid.
>WAIT, YOU'RE TELLING ME ARWEN WAS 2,710 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE MET ARAGORN
How old was she when he died?
2,900, apparently. She died a year later at 2,901 of a broken heart, having effectively lost the will to live without Aragorn.
However, she's an elf so Eru Iluvatar will just have her reincarnate again in Valinor instead of going with Aragorn into the beyond. Pranked.
Ouch.
Isn't she a part human or so?
Yes. But she chose to be an elf.
And their deity won't even indulge her? Man, this truly is sad.
He might have, actually. I don't remember what happened to Arwen's soul canonically. I just remembered that elves are canonically reincarnated in Valinor after they die while human souls can pass beyond.
She was allowed to permadie just like her ancestor Lùthien
She rejected her elf part, didn't she?
>Elrond effectively adopted Aragorn and treated him like a son
>tfw Aragorn and Arwen were doing stepbro/sis RP
nobody ever cared. WoW was always just a safespace for socially moronic trannies to congregate
Vanilla was cool with all the different factions and it was simply a continuity of Warcraft 3. I'd say it was alright up to Frozen Throne.
LMFAO
the fricking Anduin hair is the JUST doctor guy
hasnt.mattered since sunwell
>Their centerpiece for the next "epic" is Anduin
>A character that had some character building in MoP and then promptly fell off a cliff in relevancy until BFA
>In BFA he was a literal Marty Stu charisma void that would attract any "good" character to him
>Despite failing outright in almost every circumstance he needed to succeed for the story to continue, so that's what happens
>Now we're coming off him having been not-Arthas for five minutes, where he destroyed an easily replaceable robot angel (they're literally built on an assembly line) and the crushing guilt of betraying 3-4 strangers has made him an ascetic living in Silithus
Yeah real compelling cinematic.
>where he destroyed an easily replaceable robot angel
Whom? The Jailer?
I honestly don't remember SL was like mind poison.
Fair point.
>where he destroyed an easily replaceable robot angel
they arent supposed to be easily replaceable. going to zerith mortis and seeing the robot factory was the equivalent of going to a factory that makes amanthuls and sargerases. it was supposed to be a holy shit big epic moment where we go behind the scenes of the cosmic forces that structured the universe... but the storytelling and powerscaling were so bad that nobody cared lol
Once Wrath ended the WC3 setup, and they ran out of Dragonlance to steal from with Cataclysm, it was all asspulls from then on out.
I liked Pandaria and Legion. But things have gone wrong since Metzen and most of the original creatives left. The company is/was left with blue haired weirdos, breast milk stealers, Metzens stupid daughter who got Sylvannas's tummy censored, Activision bullshit, troony dragons....
I highly suspect Warlords of Draenor was "never" intended to be have much content. Project Titan "should" have launched roughly around then, being Blizzard's next-gen MMO. Players wouldn't have enough time for two MMO's, so that's why WoD had so much mobile game check-in stuff and lack of content. They assumed people would play Project titan, and check in on WoW maybe once a day or a couple times a week.
....but Titan got canned because they "couldn't" find the fun, leaving WoD holding the player bag and attention.
In any case, WoD's comic book multiverse thing was moronic anyways.
wod was supposed to only last 1 year. bobby kotick wanted yearly wow expansions like how call of duty had yearly sequels. they hired a ton of new devs to make wod, but all the senior devs kept getting pulled away to help project titan, so the new devs were barely trained and had no guidance
wod was also supposed to launch at the same time as the warcraft movie (and future movie+expansion combos would potentially exist) but wods development was so slow that it released like 2 years after the movie lol
>all the senior devs kept getting pulled away to help project titan,
7 years down the goddamned toilet of development all for nothing.
Well, they did take like 1/10 of the original concept and turn it into Overwatch. Until they pissed that down the drain too.
and then they did the same exact thing with that survival game lol
has an mmo company EVER successfully made a 2nd, non-spinoff, game?
I think that survival game got mercifully canned within like 2 years of announcement.
didn't the tail end of wod also get cannibalized in order to make legion? cause legion had a frick ton of solo instanced content compared to every other expansion, but it took like 13 months to launch it after hellfire citadel's release
its hard to say because a ton of content was scrapped before wod even launched. capital cities, questlines, extra islands, different garrisons, a train connecting all the zones, were all scrapped. also making garrison server tech actually work was apparently a massive feat of engineering, so future expansions probably use the garrison baseline tech to add content
wod was going to be highmaul, brf, shattrath raid, and hellfire citadel. the shattrath raid assets got added to hellfire. gorfiend, socrethar, and tyrant velhari were all supposed to be in shat
That's not what happened at all though. Overwatch released well after WoD and was announced as Overwatch before WoD's release. There was no "Project Titan" at all during WoD's development.
What actually happened was Garrisons and Ashran caused enormous issues that fricked WoD's development and they had to put all hands on deck to solve it, which meant that WoD had an enormous amount of art and model assets, but no content with which to use them for. It's why HFC had some of the most new models of any raid, and why HFC was so large. It's also why we went into Legion with so many unique art assets, because artists were so far ahead of the curve.
blizz had been working on project titan since 2007 and canceled it in 2013. they were absolutely being developed at the same time
Legion was the end, that's it, honestly they tied up most of the shit left by wc3.
All things must pass
WoW's story has been cringeworthy, nonsensical garbage since, being charitable, the end of Cataclysm. Even the single good expansion since then (which is Legion, contrarian frickwits) had a moronic, fanfiction-tier plot. It's just the rest was good enough to prop it up. That wasn't the case for failed, garbage expansions like WoD, BfA and Sneedolands. It's no surprise that people stopped giving a shit.
Sneedolands irrecovably ruined the story and the setting thought the writing has been steadily declining since BC
Burn!
I popped in and there was a sword sticking out of the planet and I was all, peace out b***hes.
They had 3 terrible expansions in a row so everyone, even the most hardcore WoW fans, just stopped giving a frick.
What is there to care about? The A plot is shit every. single. time. And now the game is pussyfied to hell, with every bit of edge and spine removed. Everyone is a friend now. All old hate has been forgotten and forgiven. No one wants to bash the others head in. Its now the Avengers vs generic evil green/ purple/ black cosmic foe of the week
>the night elves get a new world tree zone
>all the horde that helped blow up the old one are allowed inside
lol
what story
I remember Archimonde getting rekt and then Arthus putting on some crown and that was it. No new warcraft story in 20 years.
I was kind of still interested in it, even though I don't play the game anymore, until they randomly had Sylvanas show up and break Arthas' helm and then kill a bunch of beloved Warcraft heroes like Saurfang and then burn the world tree.
It was at that point that I asked, "Who is this game even for anymore?" Because it was clearly not for those who enjoyed Warcraft and its stories up until that point.
They really can't withstand Chaos, can they? The little ones.
the demographic that cares about story is straight white men and they were chased out of the game
>Why does nobody care about the story of World of Warcraft anymore?
Because its fricking trash, that's why.
Warcraft 3 was the last time Warcraft's story was legitimately well written. It took some time to realize that WoW's storytelling sucked and was just going to ruin what Warcraft 3 had established, but I think it's finally sunk in.
What's more, there's zero chance of the story ever being good again unless they do a reset on the whole setting. Here's an example of just how badly World of Warcraft has allowed its scope and shonen power escalation to get out of hand
>Warcraft 3
>Archimonde is summoned into the world
>He destroys Dalaran with a single spell, practically with a thought.
>Armies can do naught but slow his advance
>Even making him feel pain is a feat only the mightiest heroes of capable of
>He is only stopped when, at the last moment, all the power of the World Tree is directed at him at once like a spirit bomb
>Even this creates a massive explosion that burns everything in the immediate area to a crisp and leaves the World Tree badly damaged and in need of healing
>Even in his defeat, a single demon lord came within mere moments of destroying the world and left wounds that would take centuries to heal
>Skip to today
>Now we've doubled killed Archimonde and his buddies, and raided homeland to throw his god into prison
>And the expansion where we threw fricking Satan himself into prison was 4 fricking expansions ago
>And in the new expansions, we're supposed to fight the very beings that scared Satan so badly that he decided that the universe needed to be destroyed and remade just to prevent the possibility of their existence.
There's no recovering this setting. It has gone completely off the rails. It needs a reset, and no one is going to give a shit about its "story" until they get that reset.
WoD was meant to be that reset, as was DF. Both are dogshit and went no where and we're back to cosmic threats.
>WoD was meant to be that reset, as was DF.
QRD?
Vanilla WoWs main stories were really really good though
The story was murdered with the Sylvanas shit.
Looks like Sweet Baby gave them a good enema because all their products suck fricking monkey dick now.
For the Horde!
OwO
UwU
Blizzard is shit. Let them rot.
They lost me halfway through shadowlands when it turned out sylvanas was somehow even *more* moronic than everyone thought and then they doubled down on characters holding the idiot ball in dragonflight so I'm just done with this horseshit, California was a mistake
The writers clearly don't care anymore so why should I?
Unless they actually do then that's just sad
The have the most dumb universe origin shit expansion shit before alduin shaves his head in shame of being arthas 2 in a cgi trailer
>Can you please not reference Arthas FOR FIVE MINUTES!
These days, everyone at Blizzard are there as a segway to get into Riot for better pay. Hardly anyone there gives a frick about Blizzard.
I have a friend who worked for Proletariat before they got bought out by Blizzard, believe me, nobody cares, everyone wants to get into Riot.
They literally make content Riot would be happy about so they can get hired by them, it's a joke.
It’s funny since the only reason riot exist is because blizz thought that mobas were not a thing and thus treated dota with disdain
Blizz has the problem that their leads were both arrogant and incompetent. They stopped making good games and just cruised on their reputation, now reality is finally catching up with them.
>These days, everyone at Blizzard are there as a segway to get into Riot
Damn.
It's that bad, huh?
WoW story just needs to have epic beasts, knights, automatons, etc. to fell with some buddies and a cool world to explore. Environmental stuff is cool I guess but if we’re being honest, WoW was always pushing stories between players over the actual narrative even when said narrative changed the map for good like with Cataclysm.
The game runs on ESG funding you won't get anything other than homosexual cringe.
Because it went from simple and good fantasy too "we are teaching about morale and shit"
Can you LotR homosexuals go have your gay hobbit gangbang somewhere else?
No.
Go to /vg/ or the WoW forums, homosexual.
Nah.
Because Warhammer did/does it better in every other way.
>did
ouch
Back in the day i used to get angry at shit wow lore. Now im just apathetic. I just dont care any longer. Passion and investment is gone
You can't follow the story without reading books and lore has been retconned like 5 times. Yeah, I wonder why nobody cares.
Old Ones been lazy, huh?
I HAVE CONVENED WITH CHOTEC
HE DESPISES YOUR RACE
decades of moronation
The new devs don't even care about Warcraft's story anymore.
Embalmer chain was pure high fantasy suspense-horror ludo. Compare that with the railroad ebin movie reference Plants vs Zombies shit that was Cata, then compare THAT with "your fav character died and willingly erased their personality to become a blue troony" retcon of Shadowlands.
Warcraft is dead. Let it lie.
i just looked up the final boss of dragonflight, wtf were they thinking making some random mook proto fire dragon? i cant believe it tbh
It stopped being about Warcraft.