“World of Warcraft: Shadowlands,” will be released before the end of this endless year, bringing players of the 16-year-old MMO to Azeroth’s realm of death. But this writer is not impressed.
BLG writes: "To celebrate the announcement of Dragonflight, the latest World of Warcraft expansion, we decided to rewatch all the game’s cinematics and rank them from worst to best. Including the latest one, of course. In fact, we purposely waited until the new expansion got announced before putting together this list because we wanted to see how the Dragonflight trailer stacked up against all the other WoW cinematics. Spoiler alert: it’s not amazing, but it's not the worst one either."
From PC Gamer: "When Shadowlands first launched a year ago, it felt like World of Warcraft was on a comeback streak. Battle for Azeroth, the previous expansion, had been one of the most contentious in the MMO's history—even if Blizzard did improve some of the features that players hated. But Shadowlands was a clean slate. A chance to press reset and push WoW into a new era, all while tearing the veil off of one of Azeroth's most fascinating realms: the afterlife. There were new zones to explore, new gear to obtain, and a whole smattering of new progression systems to learn and tinker with. It was an exciting time.
Fast forward one year, though, and I couldn't feel more differently about World of Warcraft."
Cool story. I loved Legion, loved BfA, and have loved Shadowlands. WoW is great, it's players like you that have changed.
With the latest World of Warcraft patch 9.2 live, we took some time to talk to John Hight and Jeremy Feaselof Blizzard about what is next for one of the biggest MMOs in the world.
I think this brings up some good points. It did get a little old being the Champion of Azeroth, but you can't have a character do all the things ours have over 16 years and remain the no-name traveler guy. At some point, you've either done enough epic stuff that you gain recognition, or the game hasn't been giving you real threats to defeat. I think this might be a tipping point, though. We're going into the land of the dead. How do you come back from that?
Wow! The author gives narrative to the grind of Classic, so I'll give them that.
Wow is one of the best games ever made! Cancelled gamepass ultimate due to wow subscription... After 2 years :). With friends ots hard to play any ot her game. Wow is more like a hobby as a game
Im looking forward to shadowlands the legendaries and the covenants all look like fun to me. My main is Ret so I’ll be going Venthyr for teleport and final verdict legendary all for pvp.
And the enhancement shaman changes are amazing so that will be my main alt.