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Wasn't it the last expansion in the leaked roadmap?
For me… the correct order of expansions were blocks:
WoW, BC, ending in Wrath
Cata, Pandaria, ending in Legion
WoD, BfA (warlords timeline), ending in Shadowlands
Now new story…
The main issue is that they have momentum but no drive. The original crafters of the story are gone and the new keepers 1) did not play or follow, 2) do not care about the past, and 3) are conflating the acts of some of those creators and the creation. There clearly is no vision beyond the next 'hook'.
Yeah Shadowlands just kind of came out of the blue story wise. It didn’t have any buildup because it was all based on secretive Sylvanas scheming.
Even the cinematic created more of a collective “what?” than generating excitement.
All other intro cinematics told a cool story. Even non WoW fans could watch them and understand basically what was happening and what the expansion would be about.
Meanwhile nothing in the SL cinematic does any of that beyond: oh there’s a new place to go to I guess?
WoD was supposed to line up with the wow movie. Blizz wanted you to go see the amazing movie then go log in to Drenor. But things didn't line up that way, and the movie blew.
I don't play WoW but I am intrigued to hear about it. Why do they need a big bad at all? Why can't they have an antagonist instead that has morals but is a conflict of interest. I've heard factions between Horde and Alliance are blurring so why not create somebody that rekindle the faction war but not with Horde and Alliance but a new type of faction between the follower of antagonist and the resistance. Since Blizzard loves to make up a whole new systems in each expansion, they could make new types of roles between those two. Let people decide who to follow. At least I think that'll be cool to me.
We dopnt want the cosmic level events because it demistifies the cosmic level and makes the world boring
Accolon if the lore of the next expansion is bad too will you quit wowlore?
The problem with Blizzard's narrative is three sided. First they have the same issue all fanfic writers and novice writers have; They want to give you a BIG moment and they think without constant BIG moments there is no interest in the story. The second is the fact that a large portion of the player base doesn't give a fuck about story telling in mmos since mmo story telling is normally just pointless tasks leading to a big encounter that never pays off. Finally building stories that only one faction gets to see leads to wasted resources and the usual "one shit got "rip off" story wise.
That said after they ran out of "big bads" Blizzards new idea for expansions was: Whos leading the horde? Ok lets make em evil, also let's have Bane captured again n.n! Wait Vol'jin can't become evil ok lets kill him and make someone who can warchief. They also started making all their female characters so ridiculously over powered and overconfident their encounters feel like watching a flaccid cock swinging in the wind.
The problem Acco is that it doesn't even feel like Shadowlands is telling a story.
tbh BfA felt like the WRONG expansion. We got Sargeras's sword impaling the planet we live on and idiots want to go to war!? Anyone notice how the whole expansion you barely address this fact, rather we use Azeroth's power for ourselves the whole time and it goes completely and utterly ignored? Then we stop an old god for some reason. Azeroth is still bleeding. Nobody cares. BfA could have been an Old God expansion where Sargera's sword like freed them all and we had to go out and stop all of them in their full terrifying glory. A true battle for azeroth that could have spanned the whole planet.
Zovaal is the pilot boss for maintenance mode.
Cosmic level events aren't interesting, Cosmic level threats are. What made the old gods great is knowing so little about them and how they were put in the context of Azeroth. The more you broaden the scope of the story to a cosmic level, the less interesting it becomes. You need to bring a cosmic threat down to the character's level, rather then trying to bring the character to that stage.
Shadowlands is the "The Last Jedi" expansion. Its been a disappointment in a lot of franchises the last 5 years.
I’ll always prefer warcraft to warhammer as it is what I grew up. But lately I have found myself listening to warhammer lore vids simply because they are longer, there is more of them and all of the blizzard lore I loved has become irrevocably altered in a way I no longer find interesting.
Honestly. If we stop the jailer I lose all hope for the story. He needs to be a guy in the game going forward. Otherwise he will go down as the biggest non-character who's supposed to be a character piece of trash villain.
Negative negative negative. Just stop playing the game if you don’t like it.