The release of WoW: The War Within is coming soon. But the criticism is growing louder: The game is not finished, at least according to the streamer Bellular.
A few days ago, there were concerns that the launch of The War Within could be in jeopardy. Many would even prefer a delay to address the pressing bugs and problems, including YouTuber and streamer Bellular. However, with the release of the new cinematics, the launch date seems to be further set in stone.
This is the current situation: In World of Warcraft, the pre-patch 11.0 of The War Within was released a few days ago. It brought a lot of changes to major systems, such as the warthrong, new talents, faster leveling, and also an adjusted scaling. However, this came with numerous bugs that are still plaguing the game even 5 days later:
- Disconnects in dungeons with movement abilities.
- Warthrong bank is disabled.
- WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is oddly scaled between levels 40 and 70, making leveling difficult.
- Some talents are malfunctioning or not working at all.
- Some classes deal more than double the damage compared to others.
- Raid bosses are bugged and can hardly be defeated.
- Cross-realm guilds do not allow access to the guild bank.
Accordingly, the situation is currently tense in World of Warcraft. More and more people are expressing concerns that WoW: The War Within is not ready for release yet and that Blizzard may need a few weeks or even months.
This is how Bellular sees it: YouTuber and streamer Bellular deals extensively with World of Warcraft and continuously analyzes mechanics, incidents, and the overall state of the game. He also currently expresses significant concerns and suspects that the launch of The War Within, based on the current state, will not go smoothly:
The first impression is very, very hard to fix. And when you look at the last 6 years of WoW: WoW needs to make a good first impression. […]
If it is not released in a good condition, then it doesn’t matter how cool the healing plunge or the story is. Because the problems will just overshadow that. […]
I expect that this will be a pretty buggy launch.
What happens next? Even though Bellular emphasizes that it is good that many bugs are already noticeable with the release of the pre-patch and can therefore be fixed, the state of the contents of The War Within is also a cause for concern. Because here, some classes are simply “not finished”, as if the developers ran out of time to implement the revisions for all specializations.
The dungeons and the depths (“Delves”) are currently still in a catastrophic state in the beta. The dungeons have significantly more mechanics than previous dungeons and seem overloaded to many, while Delves are extremely challenging for some classes and easier for others – especially ranged attackers seem to struggle alone in the higher-level Delves.
It is to be hoped that the developers can get all the problems under control. Because if The War Within launches and many bugs cloud the gaming experience, it would be a serious problem: After all, there is no second chance for a first impression. And it must be outstanding at the beginning of a three-part saga.
