WoW demon Cortyn is annoyed, and it’s because of the fellow players. Because especially in WoW, they are never happy, no matter how much they get.
Players of World of Warcraft are currently having a great time. Although Dragonflight is in its final stages and we are actually in the “end of the expansion” phase, there are still plenty of new content being released at regular intervals.
However, the “big whining” never ends. If you look at Twitter/X or the various forums about the latest announcements, you could easily think that World of Warcraft hasn’t brought any content for 2 years.
Currently, you can play the “Plunderstorm” mode:
A few days ago, there was the announcement of “WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria”, a temporary mode where you can relive “Mists of Pandaria” – with new abilities, loads of cool loot, and numerous rewards that you can then unlock for Retail-WoW.
If you look at X/Twitter under the posts of Holly Longdale, the executive producer of World of Warcraft, you find comments like the following:
- “So again 5 new mini-games instead of real content, got it.”
- “Well, we’re getting Season 4, but literally nothing new will be added. Just more of the same. You and your team do a good job with these modes, sure, but I want to play my MAIN character in the MAIN game, not this time-gated stuff with throwaway characters.”
- “Retail urgently needs fixing, and it’s incredibly weird that you are putting so much development time into other areas. WTF is this remix stuff?”
I always find it astonishing how quickly some “fans” of World of Warcraft seem to forget how bad things used to be at the end of an expansion. Just to reference the two extreme droughts for comparison:
In Mists of Pandaria, we played the final patch for a whole year – without any updates in between. That was the “Siege of Orgrimmar”, until everyone was sick of it – and then even longer.
The end of “Warlords of Draenor” was also long and without updates, and here the story was even roughly stitched together, with important character developments simply cut off or skipped.
But instead of some people just engaging with the content that is being offered, a group is incessantly whining in the official forums and in the subreddit. They dismiss Plunderstorm after a match as “bullshit” and reject “WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria” out of hand, claiming “it’s all just reheated fast-food content”.
At the same time, we have not only received a patch 10.2.5 in WoW Dragonflight, but also an update 10.2.6, and patch 10.2.7 will come in a few weeks, even with some really dark quests. Not to mention revamped events like the Noblegarden festival, the Hearthstone birthday event, or monthly activities such as the Trading Post. Additionally, there is a Season 4 of Dragonflight, which makes all raids and dungeons relevant again and completely revamps the whole system of dungeon difficulties.
And all of this comes while we are hard on course for the next expansion “The War Within” to be released in August or September, according to realistic estimates, unless there are delays.
Fortunately, others have also noticed this, like audioshaman in the WoW subreddit, who writes:
Do people have such short memories? This is the drought before an expansion. For most of the last 20 years of this game, that’s meant that we would get NOTHING for a year (or more). Not a single update. Now we’re getting a Fated season and two brand-new, experimental game modes.
Not to mention that the patch also contains new story chapters/quests and two new legacy armors. This is the largest amount of content in a pre-expansion phase that has ever existed, not even close.
I wish more of these people would seriously start asking themselves if World of Warcraft is still the game they want to play. And if it’s not, then they are welcome to cancel their subscription and leave the rest of the world in peace.
I understand that there are certain aspects one might not like. Not everyone enjoys PvP in Plunderstorm. Not everyone likes Pandaria. Not everyone likes a Season 4 with old raids. But if you don’t like any of that, then maybe it’s time to simply try out other games and leave Azeroth behind, instead of wanting to ruin the fun for everyone else.
By the way, you should also give Plunderstorm a longer chance – it’s really fun.
