World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

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2.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2487 Ratings

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  1. iAmKindler
    Feb 25, 2019
    7
    After the heights of Legion, BfA feels like a filler expansion with a lot to love but a lot more to hate.
    Questing is better than ever, zone design is top notch (big props to the art team) and the music is on point as usual, but the story feels really lackluster, specs suck and the azerite system was a big miss.
    Overall this xpac feels rushed out the door, hope Blizz get it together for    After the heights of Legion, BfA feels like a filler expansion with a lot to love but a lot more to hate.
    Questing is better than ever, zone design is top notch (big props to the art team) and the music is on point as usual, but the story feels really lackluster, specs suck and the azerite system was a big miss.
    Overall this xpac feels rushed out the door, hope Blizz get it together for the next one, not much opportunity left for fillers and errors.    … Expand
  2. bfa
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
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  3. BigThiccMan123
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    If you're attracted to cringe and idiocy, buy it and play it. You'll absolutely love it. It's a paradise for morons.
  4. Ionianwarrior
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    This may be the worst expansion Blizzard has ever produced. At least WoD had some new features/concepts. This expansion is just...boring. This is coming from a fan since the original friends and family Alpha test. I have 14 characters at level 120, both horde and alliance; so it isn't like I didn't give this xpack a shot. If I didn't already have several months of subscription timeThis may be the worst expansion Blizzard has ever produced. At least WoD had some new features/concepts. This expansion is just...boring. This is coming from a fan since the original friends and family Alpha test. I have 14 characters at level 120, both horde and alliance; so it isn't like I didn't give this xpack a shot. If I didn't already have several months of subscription time already pre-paid, I would have unsubscribed by now.

    Maybe it's unreasonable to expect a 15 year old game to continue to produce interesting content, but the Legion expansion was pretty good overall, and there was certainly hope that this one would follow suit. Sadly, it has not.    … Expand
  5. taroyama
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    The worst expansion made yet, may Ion find a new job as a custodian, away from development.
  6. Vertran187
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Pay to play
    Subscription
    Pay to win (WOW Tokens) to get boosted in game
    Cash shop
    Pay to do anther chartacter transfer ETC

    and a game built around forcing people to part with money with a soft reset every 4 months
  7. Skyie
    Feb 18, 2019
    2
    The positives of Battle for Azeroth are the work done by the art and music team and level designers. Beyond that, everything is bad. Classes are pruned beyond belief and not fun to play, the game is shallow, the loot system is broken because of random loot with Titanforging and sockets, the story is "meh", the Azerite system is boring, Artifact/Azerite power is a chore and would be betterThe positives of Battle for Azeroth are the work done by the art and music team and level designers. Beyond that, everything is bad. Classes are pruned beyond belief and not fun to play, the game is shallow, the loot system is broken because of random loot with Titanforging and sockets, the story is "meh", the Azerite system is boring, Artifact/Azerite power is a chore and would be better off not existing at all in the game, and everything is boring. It doesn't feel like an actually enjoyable game, it feels like a checklist and a collection simulator.… Expand
  8. Rrazed
    Feb 17, 2019
    3
    The best part was when I unsubscribed, Artifact power can get stuffed, awful world quests ect yet again, The new races where okay but there is no saving grace when i look for it, 3/10 you've changed Blizzard, slowly they are seemingly killing all their games.....Blizzard use to make my absolute favorite games and I was always satisfied and binged them for hours on end. what happened? alsoThe best part was when I unsubscribed, Artifact power can get stuffed, awful world quests ect yet again, The new races where okay but there is no saving grace when i look for it, 3/10 you've changed Blizzard, slowly they are seemingly killing all their games.....Blizzard use to make my absolute favorite games and I was always satisfied and binged them for hours on end. what happened? also people who are scoring 8+ are completely disillusion or sellouts end of story (still better than fallout 76)… Expand
  9. Oblamingo
    Feb 15, 2019
    10
    Cостоянием на сегодня большая часть багов пофикшена, новый рейд (в отличии от Ульдира) весьма интересен и не прост. Игра выравниваеться, это не Легион но все еще лучшая ММОРПГ на рынке.
  10. swagrid447
    Feb 13, 2019
    0
    Worst addon.
    Worst addon. Misunderstood Sylvana, screenwriter adding himself to the game.
  11. DaemendLord
    Feb 7, 2019
    10
    Я удивляюсь как у бфа оценки 0!
    В дополнении потрясающий сюжет и история. Много интересных механик и идея. 9 из 10 т к мало пвп контента и всё слишком казуально.
  12. chittywok
    Feb 7, 2019
    10
    after reading all the **** reviews i had to create a profile.

    looking at most of the reviewers giving 0, you will notice the only have 1 review. which leads me to believe the are trolls. Yes i realize i also have one review (this one) , but its because i couldnt take the bs anymore. I have been playing WoW on and off since Vanilla back in 2004. I'm now in my mid 20s with a full time    after reading all the **** reviews i had to create a profile.

    looking at most of the reviewers giving 0, you will notice the only have 1 review. which leads me to believe the are trolls. Yes i realize i also have one review (this one) , but its because i couldnt take the bs anymore.

    I have been playing WoW on and off since Vanilla back in 2004. I'm now in my mid 20s with a full time job, and i can tell you that playing casually for a few hours a night is a great experience, regardless of the expansion. All these go hard, no life gamers who basically speed run through any new content and then complain they have nothing else to do have bigger problems than the ones with the game. Simply put, they need a life.

    Not everyone will grind this game day in and day out and run out of content in 3 days. Not everyone runs macros and treats the game like a job. In fact im willing to be most people play casually. And thats what games are for... to play casually and have fun. Which this game has plenty of. Sure, some the class changes dont tickle my fancy ( i play Disc Priest and the spells got a little **** with the latest patch) but even so I was able to adapt in probably 30 min of CASUAL play.

    So enough with the 0 score reviews, enough with the baseless complaining, because all you're doing is ruining the work of people who put thousands of hours of work into making this game, and basically spitting in their face.

    Enjoy the game, stop complaining, or if you dont like it ask for your money back, and stfu and go play fortnite.

    i'm giving this a 10 just to offset the troll 0 reviews, but id say its more of an 8.5    … Expand
  13. iseir
    Feb 4, 2019
    1
    the visuals and the sounds are good... but thats it, once you have seen and heard the content in this expansion, you are done with the good stuff, and the rest is a ****
  14. Mbardo
    Feb 4, 2019
    3
    I play wow since vanilla.
    We arrived at a point where this game is zero fun in the gameplay.
    They added two new main game "features" in this exp, wanna talk about it? The warfronts: an awful battle you cannot lose (really, you can't) that is absolute boredom. The island expeditions: the idea is good, but they developed it very very bad. Not to talk about the world quests... playng    I play wow since vanilla.
    We arrived at a point where this game is zero fun in the gameplay.
    They added two new main game "features" in this exp, wanna talk about it?
    The warfronts: an awful battle you cannot lose (really, you can't) that is absolute boredom.
    The island expeditions: the idea is good, but they developed it very very bad.
    Not to talk about the world quests... playng memory or guiding a turtle trough a maze? i mean...wtf?
    I found myself doing annoyng things like those, not for the sake of having fun (that is what a game is made for...right?) but just in the hope to achieve randomly the reward i needed.
    I found myself sayng, oh noes...i dont wanna to do that stupid warfront now, but...i need to take the high ilv piece to raid exc.
    Not to speak about M+ dungeons... seriously.
    Racing trough a dungeon to get a downgrade of my gear as a reward is no fun.

    Tl;dr;
    i'ts a casino.
    You will be forced to do annoyng things in the hope to get a prize.    … Expand
  15. Deathmarch
    Feb 3, 2019
    1
    Take everything that was fun in Legion and divide it in half , that's BFA. Class identity is dead. Azerite armor system is a broken Legion legendary system but kept the grind. Warfonts are the biggest con job scam ever release by blizzard , you fight npc and no way to lose. cash shop tactics should be investigated. donot buy
  16. Whistler2k4
    Feb 3, 2019
    2
    It's the same thing over and over... Subscription cancelled. I've been playing since 2006.
  17. Olezhka
    Feb 2, 2019
    0
    BFA creates a feeling that developers are trying to develop as much as possible as quick as possible. Hence the quality of this product is pretty low. Good adv, poor product.
  18. KardinaluZ
    Jan 30, 2019
    0
    I play in wow since Burning Crusade. We learn all these time, that we should be together, nobody want this war, the story is garbage, all chars looks like they have no brain. All we got - is all Legion stuff but much WORSE. Horde/Alliance attack? It's same legion attack but without scenario. The locals? Same as legion, but we tired of it. All gear is just lottery, maybe you have luckI play in wow since Burning Crusade. We learn all these time, that we should be together, nobody want this war, the story is garbage, all chars looks like they have no brain. All we got - is all Legion stuff but much WORSE. Horde/Alliance attack? It's same legion attack but without scenario. The locals? Same as legion, but we tired of it. All gear is just lottery, maybe you have luck today, and you will get what you want but 90% of time you get garbage. Even if you want to start a new char, it's pain to go from 1 to 120 lvl. Global cooldown is mistake. All was mistake, and how they kill Alliance(now only 28% from ALL WORLDS is Alliance) is just unbearable. And they have some many lags and problem in game, most of old content and quest just don't work correctly!
    Never buy this addon, never try it, it totally worst expansion ever! Even WOD have more fun than these.
    Shame on you, Blizz.    … Expand
  19. cepanutis
    Jan 25, 2019
    2
    Im writing this review after playing a lot of hours of BFA.

    - Blizzard just learned nothing from their awesome work with Legion. They killed the good things that we loved in the last xpac while the bad things still stay here. Good: - Artwork, the new zones are beautiful. - Leveling is fun the first time. - Great raid and boss design (Talking about Uldir only at this point) Bad:    Im writing this review after playing a lot of hours of BFA.

    - Blizzard just learned nothing from their awesome work with Legion. They killed the good things that we loved in the last xpac while the bad things still stay here.

    Good:
    - Artwork, the new zones are beautiful.
    - Leveling is fun the first time.
    - Great raid and boss design (Talking about Uldir only at this point)

    Bad:
    - Terrible class design and even more pruning plus CDG changes are weird.
    - M+ is a total **** with some affixes. Some dungeons are terrible.
    - REMOVING CLASS TIERS - Probably the worst decision in years, they were a total sign of identity of WoW and there's no possible excuses to stop making them.
    - No class-focused content like Legion
    - Story looks rushed af
    - Pvp still being crap and reward system is even worse.
    - Warfronts and Island expeditions could be potential great ideas but what we got was terrible.

    And i could continue but it's enough... I love wow and have played for so many years but its too hard to defend BFA, what a missed oportunity to keep the game in the good way...    … Expand
  20. Shamage
    Jan 24, 2019
    0
    There is no MMO in this game. It is single player with online connection rpg, like diablo 3. People who play this game nowadays even don't want to communicate with others. I tried to speak with my LFG group in dungeon, but nobody responsed, they just run forward, push their 3 dps buttons, loot the boss and leave party. I see no people in this game. My guild is dead with 4 players online inThere is no MMO in this game. It is single player with online connection rpg, like diablo 3. People who play this game nowadays even don't want to communicate with others. I tried to speak with my LFG group in dungeon, but nobody responsed, they just run forward, push their 3 dps buttons, loot the boss and leave party. I see no people in this game. My guild is dead with 4 players online in prime time. It was about 100 when in MoP (Soulflayer realm).

    If i want a single player rpg I go Witcher 3 which i bought in steam less than 10$, and it even has no subscription. I want to communicate with other people in this game. I need a challenge, which i can't deal solo. I mean not mythical difficulty, i mean every aspect of the game. From level 1, when i create a new character. Throught leveling my character i don't see any progression. Every mob is one shotted, i don't run out of manna, i don't even need any gear to be strong against mobs.

    So that's why i quit BfA. That's why i wait for Vanilla. See ya.    … Expand
  21. Xazoir
    Jan 23, 2019
    2
    1) Worst character development (its feels like all characters have lost thier unique specs), all have been downed to single rotation. Playing Balance druid feels like playing FREAKING ARCANE HUNTER.
    2) Story is bad;
    3) Azerite is total freaking fiasco; 4) Two new mods (warfronts - total AFK Encounter. Island expeditions, total boring piece of garbage) Battle for Azeroth have so much    1) Worst character development (its feels like all characters have lost thier unique specs), all have been downed to single rotation. Playing Balance druid feels like playing FREAKING ARCANE HUNTER.
    2) Story is bad;
    3) Azerite is total freaking fiasco;
    4) Two new mods (warfronts - total AFK Encounter. Island expeditions, total boring piece of garbage)

    Battle for Azeroth have so much in it that actually doesn't have ANYTHING in it. During WOD i haven't cancelled mine sub for half of its duration, yet ActiBlizz manage to force me cancel my sub in BfA in just 4 months.    … Expand
  22. ataak
    Jan 23, 2019
    3
    I have played for around 12 years and i have 8 characters that are 120, and 10 that are 110.
    I have 2 main, one on ally side that I started with, and another one on horde that I created just to get the whole story, because the lore where really good in the beginning. The rest I made to better understand the "do`s and dont`s" of each classes in pvp,
    I have played so many hours that it is    I have played for around 12 years and i have 8 characters that are 120, and 10 that are 110.
    I have 2 main, one on ally side that I started with, and another one on horde that I created just to get the whole story, because the lore where really good in the beginning. The rest I made to better understand the "do`s and dont`s" of each classes in pvp,
    I have played so many hours that it is embarrassing to actually say it out loud and I have used a lot more real money than I like to admit.

    From I started and all the way up to Mop I subbed the entire year, and loved every minute of it.
    After Mop I played for 5 months before I unsubbed. The magic was gone.
    When Wod came I played for 2 months, went away for 3-4 and played for 1 more.
    It was almost the same with Legion. When Bfa came I played for a month at launch, stopped and played trough December before I unsubbed again, and this time it will be a really long time until I start another sub.

    With every expansion it feels more and more stale. The story is completely gone, and so are the rewards for hours and hours of "work" you put in. Not to mention class balance ...
    The irony is that my nephew that never played it before liked it, or at least he did until he started to notice the bugs, lag spikes, incompetent gm`s. and almost nonexistent support when he tried to get help. If you add cheaters, bots, premade pvp teams, a pretty toxic community, the greed on average gear and items in the ah a new player actually need to enjoy the game, i understand why he left and i pity the poor saps that actually bought and are playing this game for the first time.    … Expand
  23. IamAlwaysSleepy
    Jan 21, 2019
    0
    I am sorry for low score, but I just Surrender. This patch is really bad.

    Story wise it is lame and extremely dumb, how can you make us, heroes of Azeroth, continue to follow this stupid orders, By now we must have achieved level of trust when our opinion matters. We do not want all of this. We deserved to be informed, just go to Sylvannas and ask WTH?! Go to Anduin and ask WTH?!    I am sorry for low score, but I just Surrender. This patch is really bad.

    Story wise it is lame and extremely dumb, how can you make us, heroes of Azeroth, continue to follow this stupid orders, By now we must have achieved level of trust when our opinion matters. We do not want all of this. We deserved to be informed, just go to Sylvannas and ask WTH?! Go to Anduin and ask WTH?!

    Content is timegated. Considering that we pay monthly, we get to play max of 3 hours until next week or even patch. And every patch we have - Wait for next one for fixes, and Zandalari, yes what we were promised at start, we dont have yet in 8.1 FFS! Want to play game? Just wait until last BFA patch!

    Game is still full of bugs that comes from beta time!

    Dungeons are made for pro mythic runners and kills all joy for participating. Just make special difficulty for you MDI. You have full of Dark elves there anyway. Keys were awesome in Legion, dungeons were different. Now it is only - mobs, more mobs, here is mobs too. And there is heavy class favors, example - "We will wait for Blood Dk only!"."We need rogues for skipping, sorry", "You are Shadow Priest, go drown yourself already or go healer. We need healer, Respec"..

    And I seriously think that critics green score is payed BS. Have some shame!

    WoD was even better, WoD... How weird this can be...    … Expand
  24. Giluu
    Jan 17, 2019
    0
    I used to write detailed reviews explaining exactly what is good and bad about a game. This expansion is so pathetic that honestly I can't be bothered. Only here to add my 2 cents to the overall negative score that this game deserves. World of Warcraft will never be good again, because the main focus of the company behind it is short term profitability instead of customerI used to write detailed reviews explaining exactly what is good and bad about a game. This expansion is so pathetic that honestly I can't be bothered. Only here to add my 2 cents to the overall negative score that this game deserves. World of Warcraft will never be good again, because the main focus of the company behind it is short term profitability instead of customer retention/satisfaction. Mark my words - WoW will soon be going mobile for Whale hunting.… Expand
  25. dorout
    Jan 14, 2019
    0
    This game is an absolute disgrace to true Blizzard. The Blizzard that unfortunately no longer exists. The name lingers behind the shadows of Activision, but Activision has poisoned, infected, and killed off every inch of Blizzard. Honestly ask yourself this one question: Who is left that holds the true vision of WOW?

    There are forever fan-boys that are brainwashed into believing that    This game is an absolute disgrace to true Blizzard. The Blizzard that unfortunately no longer exists. The name lingers behind the shadows of Activision, but Activision has poisoned, infected, and killed off every inch of Blizzard. Honestly ask yourself this one question: Who is left that holds the true vision of WOW?

    There are forever fan-boys that are brainwashed into believing that this expansion holds value and is made with quality and care, but it is not. I genuinely feel bad for them; I truly do.

    Pros:
    -Cinematic
    -Fun with friends (as long as it lasts)
    -2 hours flasks
    -Grind azerite power using follower missions
    -Purchase WOW subscription with gold

    Cons:
    -No class depth/development/skill cap
    -Mindlessly push 1 of 3 buttons to do dps
    -Raids are terrible (more people in older raids than new raids)
    -Dismantled community (feels like a roller coaster single player game)
    -Most professions can be maxed within 15 minutes
    -Azerite armor makes no sense (give us abilities rather than a fist full of passives)
    -Simcraft (requirement)
    -Neck grind becomes extremely dull/lame/bored very quickly because there is no end
    -After initial expansion, flooded microtransactions appear
    -Gear grind feels exactly like Diablo 3 (farm for the same gear in hopes for a minor upgrade to titanforge)
    -Epics still feel like greens since everyone gets them
    -Elites are still a joke (excluding mythic+ 10)
    -Tons of bugs
    -Overall terrible gaming experience
    -Inflated economy
    -Ability to essentially purchase gold (selling token)
    -New capital is constantly empty (disappointing)
    -Participation trophy (constantly rewarded gear over and over)
    -Followers
    -Complete disconnect from player to developer (Lore does not do his job. Like.. at all. He would rather call the players d*ckbags than interact with them. Or, to resolve sincere issues.)

    This is my opinion. Take it how you wish, but don't say I didn't warn you if you try this expansion despite my laundry list of cons. However, if you do think BFA is good, then maybe you should consider selling your PC for an expensive phone to play Diablo Immortal because you are the demographic here. I am not being sarcastic although it may appear this way. I am 100% serious.    … Expand
  26. ctacikas
    Jan 11, 2019
    0
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  27. WdMac
    Jan 11, 2019
    2
    The end game gear progression is trash. In an era where personalized loot is a thing, im sick of doing mythic dungeons and lfr to NEVER get any loot. This game is garbage. Only reason it gets a 2 is because its a functional game.
  28. MillersWeeb
    Jan 10, 2019
    0
    Дополнение к Легиону, дрочи мифики, делай локалки, качай артефакт, подтирай жопу и у тебя будет много пенопласта.
  29. river_god
    Jan 9, 2019
    1
    The game sadly is trash at the moment. I was subbed nearly the whole time from Wrath to Legion, even WoD had better class balance and was more engaging despite the content drought.

    BfA is without doubt the worst WoW expansion ever released. I pre-ordered the deluxe edition and wish I hadn't as I am no longer subscribed to the game. BfA is essentially a series of frustrating chores    The game sadly is trash at the moment. I was subbed nearly the whole time from Wrath to Legion, even WoD had better class balance and was more engaging despite the content drought.

    BfA is without doubt the worst WoW expansion ever released. I pre-ordered the deluxe edition and wish I hadn't as I am no longer subscribed to the game.

    BfA is essentially a series of frustrating chores for very little reward. Of course WoW has always been about the grind, but getting any sort of tangible reward is almost entirely dependent on RNG and not your skill or time spent in the game.
    The allied races advertised (Kul Tiran and Zandalari) are not even in the game. BfA was released in August. I am writing this review in January. Kul Tirans and Zandalari are STILL not in the game. They are also (like all other allied races) gated behind reputation grinds, another chore that no one really wants to do.

    Also, the Azerite system that was advertised as being fun and engaging is almost meaningless, with ilvl upgrades having different Azerite traits that require grinding Azerite in order to unlock. However, all traits are similarly valid, and unlike the legendary weapon system in Legion there is no personality or interesting aspects to the Azerite system. There is almost zero lore behind it, and in game the system is very confusing and makes you wonder why they added it to the game at all.
    There are a myriad of other problems with the game currently but in a nutshell:

    Unless you absolutely love Mythic+ or Uldir (the only raid released so far) there is very little reason to stay subscribed to the game in it's current state.

    Hopefully the next expansion will be better than this one, but I doubt it.    … Expand
  30. axeurol
    Jan 8, 2019
    2
    DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE BETA TESTING?

    As a player and a fan for more than 12 years, I am disappointed by this expansion. tl;dr: It feels rushed and lazy, do not buy. Unfortunately, this MMORPG is losing the RPG part more and more with every major patch. The plot is meh, but this time around you can't even experience most of it without a character on the opposing fraction, which is,    DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE BETA TESTING?

    As a player and a fan for more than 12 years, I am disappointed by this expansion. tl;dr: It feels rushed and lazy, do not buy.

    Unfortunately, this MMORPG is losing the RPG part more and more with every major patch.

    The plot is meh, but this time around you can't even experience most of it without a character on the opposing fraction, which is, essentially, nothing more than a ploy to force you into spending more time on the game.

    Leveling doesn't feel like an improvement for the character, as does gearing: thanks to scaling (in both PvE and PvP) the impact of you having better equipment is no longer as noticeable as it was before.

    Class design is almost unchanged as compared to Legion, with the exception of features being removed rather than added. Remaining class features are extremely often locked behind a wall of grind in the form of a new artifact.

    Quality control has also shat the bed this time around, probably as a result of beta test keys being given out mostly to streamers for free promotion; the game is filled with bugs and underdeveloped design decisions.

    2 points for the work of the sound and visual designers, other than that this game in it's current state is the worst it's ever been.    … Expand
  31. evada
    Jan 7, 2019
    0
    Greatly massive expansion. This is failure in all positions. Do not look at reviews with green tags, they are bought. 79 100 is not true. Real score is 0100. Blizzard you killed our world where we spend time, you killed your child!
  32. Gaboros
    Jan 7, 2019
    0
    think private servers have less bug than BfA... Let me just share You my experience about 1 hours of play. Random quest and random NPCs: all of a sudden in combat they become "invalid" target and I couldn't hit them so I died. Random small treasure chests: I tried to open it but: "you can't loot that". And it vanished without any loot. Random elit fight: I used my mount before it but thethink private servers have less bug than BfA... Let me just share You my experience about 1 hours of play. Random quest and random NPCs: all of a sudden in combat they become "invalid" target and I couldn't hit them so I died. Random small treasure chests: I tried to open it but: "you can't loot that". And it vanished without any loot. Random elit fight: I used my mount before it but the animation didn't worked so I was just quick running. Reached the NPC but I couldn't hit him because "you are mounted". I right clicked on the mouth buff to dismount it. Now we were hitting each other. But I couldn't use abilitys which required energy even I was at max energy. It was with the blue icon when I don't have energy. All of a sudden my 70k hp just disappeared and I dead. When I reached my corpse I tried to revive but I remained a ghost. The NPCs could hit me so I died again. I opened a ticket 5 days ago. After a lot of ticket change where they could only copy-paste the same "answer". At first they stated it's my fault and it's on my end. They suggested to reset the settings. I did. They suggested to run a WinMTR test so I did. Guess what? Rock solid 38 latency and 0% loss. After that they admited they know about a some issues. Surprised? I'm not. It was my fault before I had proof now all of a sudden they know about it. The only suggestion after 5 days of ticketing is to "turn off war mode". Seriously! Give my money back! Literally unplayable!!!… Expand
  33. vladx
    Jan 4, 2019
    3
    As the gameplay became smoother and smoother, the lore and the entertaining factor started to decline. BfA is the worst expansion ever. It is boring, the lore is nothing compared to other expansions, so this is the first time since I've started (BC) to think about to stop subscribing WoW and try some new world. It seems Blizzard out of ideas how to roll the story forward.
  34. MetaSHTRAN
    Jan 3, 2019
    1
    Review from a casual player who only play expansions to experience the story, new expansion features (class revamps, new mounts, new gameplay features, etc), with some mythic dungeons/raids here and there. I'm in no way a hardcore raider or player. I simply play each expansion until I get bored (usually within a few months) and then unsub and wait for the next expansion.

    Out of all of    Review from a casual player who only play expansions to experience the story, new expansion features (class revamps, new mounts, new gameplay features, etc), with some mythic dungeons/raids here and there. I'm in no way a hardcore raider or player. I simply play each expansion until I get bored (usually within a few months) and then unsub and wait for the next expansion.

    Out of all of the expansions I have played, BFA has been the worst...by far. Prior to buying, I do periodically check the WoW subreddit and it seemed like everyone hated it. I just assumed they hated it because the game end-game was repetitive. I figured it didn't apply to me since I'm casual and don't care for the end game grind plus Blizzard just released a big patch that was suppose to address the complaints... Boy was I soooooooo wrong. I wish I did more research before wasting money on this steaming pile of crap.

    This is the first expansion ever where I want to quit before even reaching the level cap. It took me over 2 weeks to hit it because that's how bland and boring this expansion was. There are ZERO fun new additions in this expansion. No class revamps. No new expansion mechanics. Boring as hell story lines. It was just so bad, my character literally got weaker as I leveled up due to crappy item scaling and I got NO new skills or talents to play with. My class literally had the same skill as the last expansion! Well...technically it had less skills because they removed legion legendary skills. This didn't feel like an expansion whatsoever...it felt like a gimped Legion DLC with no class revamp, gutted legendary system, and gutted garrison system. Boring as hell even for a casual player. Who knew the real WoW killer was WoW itself.

    In summary why BFA is not worth it:
    - No new expansion mechanic (MoP had farming, WoD had garrisons, Legion had class halls, BFA has NOTHING new)
    - No new class skills or new class mechanics. 0 Skills or talent from leveling from 110 to 120. Really boring experience unlike previous expansions
    - Bland and boring story. It just gets more cliche
    - Absolute terrible level experience. There are no fun incentives to level since you don't get any new skills, talents, or fun unlocks as you level up. Because of how item scales, you can actually notice your character getting weaker as you level due to item scaling...especially if you had a decent ilvl from Legion.
    - They added global cooldown for so many skills....why?
    - The features they kept from past expansions feels gimped. The follower system from WoD and Legion are still in BFA but it is a basic version of it. The legendary in BFA is a necklace and it's so boring. In Legion the legionaries were at least fun to discover with interesting quests, funnish upgrade system, and bonus challenges for unlocking appearances In BFA, they hand you a necklace and it has no special feature & no quest lines aside from the short quest to get it. Holy hell I feel just sleepy talking about it

    BFA felt like a $10 DLC not an actual expansion. I wish I researched further before assuming the haters were just hardcore players. Even as a casual, this experience has been terrible.    … Expand
  35. Sparcovich
    Jan 3, 2019
    0
    I couldn't resist anymore. Blizzard spits in the face of players. And the ingame community is lost. Just try to find a party to raid. You can't. Try to find a party to mythic dungeons. You can't. You want to come to a raid to level up your gear? You can't. And why is that? Because every player will deny everybody's invite requests if their ilvl is about -10. Oh, yeah, and you will neverI couldn't resist anymore. Blizzard spits in the face of players. And the ingame community is lost. Just try to find a party to raid. You can't. Try to find a party to mythic dungeons. You can't. You want to come to a raid to level up your gear? You can't. And why is that? Because every player will deny everybody's invite requests if their ilvl is about -10. Oh, yeah, and you will never raid or find a party to kill a boss if you don't have an achievement of this kill. Then how to get it, if everybody declines you? Good question, right?… Expand
  36. inqus
    Jan 3, 2019
    1
    The game just has nothing to do. After 4 months there is no content. There is no class balance. I played for 10 years, now I’m going to and I’m definitely not going back anymore.
  37. Matsudo
    Jan 2, 2019
    0
    Battle for Azeroth is the first expansion that lost all its appeal for me in less than two months time. Between the terrible class balance, the boring and repetitive reward systems and the overly simplistic class design, it was the way you collect and level up azerite gear that made me cancel my subscription.

    In my experience it is the worst expansion to date.. by a long shot.
  38. yololem0n
    Dec 31, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Speaking as a player who jumped on this train on TBC, never have I ever got bored by a wow expansion so quickly! It's terribly frustrating and sad how dull the content feels.… Expand
  39. Broxs
    Dec 30, 2018
    2
    Is it good? Nah, it's far from being good. I loved that game so many years, my first footstep in Azeroth was at Wrath of the lich king, mostly before the launch of cataclysm. To be fair Wrath itself wasn't perfect, but you had something do to everyday.
    Quest : I leveled both Zandalar and Kul Tiras, and I mostly more enjoyed the Zandalar quest in all of the zones. In Kul Tiras, homeland of    Is it good? Nah, it's far from being good. I loved that game so many years, my first footstep in Azeroth was at Wrath of the lich king, mostly before the launch of cataclysm. To be fair Wrath itself wasn't perfect, but you had something do to everyday.
    Quest : I leveled both Zandalar and Kul Tiras, and I mostly more enjoyed the Zandalar quest in all of the zones. In Kul Tiras, homeland of the Proudmoore family, I liked the story of Drustvar and the story of Freehold, thats it.
    Design : The design team does as always a good work, especially the horde locations looks nice!
    Uniqueness : HOOORSES! Just look on the rewards for the reputation of Legion and BFA... That's just copy-paste horses with other armor...
    120 content before raid launch : BOOORING, if you played legion the time was sooo short for the actual raid launch. You had to do the class campaign and Suramar, fishing artifact, profession quest. In BFA you have Islands, mythic 0 once at week, and the war campaign, that wasn't unique like Suramar.
    120 content after raid launch : M+, Warfronts and the raid.
    Island Expedition + Warfronts : Before the hotfix a lottery of possibility's to drop, but actual fun for the first 10 runs. After a month not so excited, but not everything must be good in a expension right? IE and Warfronts are something new they pushed to like it, like m+. Warfronts are boring, and they aren't like w3 in a mmo. Both have a solid concept but not ended. :>
    Mythic +
    Dungeons : I like the mechanics, but their are like the Legion one, but it's okey, because you can't create tons of new mechanic. I like the style of the dungeons, and that are so many.
    Mythic + : Are mostly like in legion, some tunes and changes, but overall still solid. The first weekly reset was weird, because all thought you get 3 items but whatever.
    Bugs : War campaign bug at the begin of the exp, Freehold bug with the warlock portal, infinity contract, Class spell bug like poison bomb etc., Mythic+ sanguine dc bug, trinket bug, weapon from bosses that are normally should be a transmog and more! Most of my guildies called it Battle for Bugs, but whatever....
    Azerite System : That can't replace the artifact from legion, neither leveling of it is fun or the trait's. In legion you wanted to grind this special trait that changed so much in your class. Not like in BFA, that they just boost a little bit of your DMG overall aswell the grind for one item that you can just loot from the weekly chest or one or two times from a boss in the raid. I don't liked, and now it looks okeish, with the vendor, but the traits are still useless.
    Overall BFA had a good start, and then it was a flop. Blizzard thought that so much of the contect is enough for the community, but he was wrong, some rewards are bad and the azerite system is bad. As always you have the titanforge lottery, but it was okey with the other systems like in legion. In my opinion, BFA wasn't ready for launch till 8.3 with the changes, but whatever. I don't care anymore about the game, in Dreanor the people were mad about missing content, now are people leaving because they upset how Blizzard is bad. I will miss the community and the previous expension (even WoD), but I end my journey with this game till classic comes out. And if you would like to buy and play casually WoW, it's isn't worth any of those cent. =)    … Expand
  40. Vaez
    Dec 30, 2018
    2
    Been playing since Vanilla. This is the worst xpac. Horribly stupid storylines. The developers no longer care about the players. They just want money. The last thing Ill buy from blizzard is the remake of WC3... Maybe Classic wow until they ruin that as well.
  41. Castable777
    Dec 30, 2018
    2
    The game seems to be currently designed for ultra-hardcore professional esports gamers, and the typical average gamer that's just looking to relax and have some fun has been forgotten. Everything is overtuned in terms of difficulty; even the leveling dungeons that new players will start with are overly punishing.

    The playstyle that Blizzard now officially supports is one where the    The game seems to be currently designed for ultra-hardcore professional esports gamers, and the typical average gamer that's just looking to relax and have some fun has been forgotten. Everything is overtuned in terms of difficulty; even the leveling dungeons that new players will start with are overly punishing.

    The playstyle that Blizzard now officially supports is one where the "tank" gathers up huge groups of bad guys in an attempt to destroy the entire dungeon as quickly as possible. If you've got quests in the dungeon that ask you to gather an item or interact with something -- too bad. You have to keep up with the new speed-run style that Blizzard promotes. In this style, players take enormous damage that healers can barely keep up with, even if they use every skill available to them every time it's off cooldown. Blizzard has decided that a hard-casted heal should only refill ~15% of a player's healthbar, because that must be the type of power fantasy healers are looking for?

    It feels awful and just isn't any fun. Every facet of the game now has this super hardcore design philosophy behind it, and they just keep ramping up the difficulty on everything -- even the portions of the game that new or casual players might be interested in. Apparently, nobody on the design team takes the time to ask themselves if players will find this fun.

    If you're just a typical gamer looking to run some dungeons and have fun, go play something else. WoW is now some sort of esport that's apparently designed to cater to a small crowd. There are several other mmos out there that provide better experiences for the typical gamer. If anyone from Activision ever reads this (unlikely), and you're wondering why people are abandoning this game -- look no further than the current professional-gamer infatuated development team. It's almost as if they took a guy who was only interested in the hardest 1% of content in the game and made him the lead developer. Wait a minute -- that's exactly what happened.    … Expand
  42. BoMBoX
    Dec 29, 2018
    1
    Вот что бывает, когда делаешь новый аддон поверх текущего.
  43. samsunaq
    Dec 28, 2018
    3
    -Low quality filler content with no effort put into it. (island expeditions,warfronts)
    -Worst story in the game's history
    -Copy-paste content from legion with close to nothing new worth doing.
    -Worst gearing system in the game's history
    -Worst state of pvp
    -Worst chracter design

    i give a legit 3/10 only beacause the effort put into the art. Even WOD was better than this pile of trash
  44. Skofgaard
    Dec 27, 2018
    0
    Best i can do is a solid 0. This expansion is a complete ripoff of loyal customers who loves WoW and Blizzard as a company. The only thing this game has left to offer is the legacy and the title.

    Pros: - The fond memories of what WoW used to be - The game title Cons: - Microtransactions - Mandatory boring world quests for unlocking reputaion-gated content - RNG loot systems -    Best i can do is a solid 0. This expansion is a complete ripoff of loyal customers who loves WoW and Blizzard as a company. The only thing this game has left to offer is the legacy and the title.

    Pros:
    - The fond memories of what WoW used to be
    - The game title

    Cons:
    - Microtransactions
    - Mandatory boring world quests for unlocking reputaion-gated content
    - RNG loot systems
    - Azerite gear? What idiot decided to disable players from using their gear unless they had 10+ hours/day to grind Azerite (which is more boring than watching paint while it dries)
    - Warfronts. Yawn. Join up and AFK in the base for 20 minutes to get a 395 titanforged piece of loot for your newly dinged 120 character. This really wants me to put effort into my character to get better items........ I CAN JUST DO NOTHING AND GET END GAME GEAR WTH??
    - Pretty much everything else really.

    Would i recommend BFA to others?
    I would rather recommend people into sleeping with their sister than to invest even 5 minutes in this game at this point in time.

    Would i eventually return to WoW?
    BFA is pretty much burned toast. Blizzard cant do anything to fix it, since the things that needs to be changed is the very core of the expansion. The only hope for WoW to survive is that Blizzard find their own forums and read just a couple of Reddit posts about what is wrong with the game, and then return the game to its core values, and letting the developers do their magic to the next expansion.

    For the first time in 14 years have i unsubbed from the game, because of the game. I unsubbed before due to lack of time and real-life stuff, but this time its different. The game has been ruined and molested by KPI's and immediate shareholder profit. The thing is though, nothing about wow is short-sighted and immediate, it is long term and time consuming. Give your customers a good game, and they will give you their money for a very long period of time and recommend the game to others.    … Expand
  45. Thunderflex
    Dec 26, 2018
    4
    Probably the only aspect of this expansion that I have enjoyed was leveling through the new zones. I think the areas were compelling enough as well as the story. The levels are beautiful like most blizzard work.

    When it comes to my 4.0 rating, they earned their 4 points from just those things, but that's just a small fraction of what an expansion is supposed to provide. Blizzard    Probably the only aspect of this expansion that I have enjoyed was leveling through the new zones. I think the areas were compelling enough as well as the story. The levels are beautiful like most blizzard work.

    When it comes to my 4.0 rating, they earned their 4 points from just those things, but that's just a small fraction of what an expansion is supposed to provide. Blizzard really screwed up with Battle for Stromgarde's loot table. They allowed players to acquire gear at a higher item level then their first raid and do so in a span of just a few hours. This broke the entire balance of acquiring gear. Their first raid, 340+ gear. Why go if I already have 365+ gear that I got in just a few hours? PvP is also a ludicrous grind to just get one piece, it takes ~15 wins to get one piece and the amount of crusader points you can get per week is capped. Have you ever have a rough night in randoms and lost 15 straight? And the worst part is, you grind the all the 340's first before even moving to the next tier!? I don't even need the 340s!

    Even the artifact power stuff is flawed. It was a bit wonky in Legion at first but the system worked...I was regularly compelled to get artifact power because I got stronger and stronger. I saw the reward of spending artifact points and had to interact with something to spend power. I have minimal desire in sorting through 100 various traits and ensuring i have the best combination of 3 traits, on 4 different sets of gear. If I wanted that, I'd play Path of Exile.

    Progression as a whole is completely messed up...Blizzard is currently trying to course correct based on feedback, but I think it's going to take a few patches to dig out of the hole that was almost entirely caused by Battle for Stormgardes originally released loot table.    … Expand
  46. Walkerbo
    Dec 24, 2018
    0
    Utter trash.
    I honestly thought that Blizzard could never release an expansion that was worse than WoD but I am afraid that BfA has proved me wrong.
    Blizzard used to have a "we release it when its ready" credo but now it seems it is more "we release it by [this date] and worry about game play, systems, bugs and quality later. I am so sad that this game that I have loved for so long has    Utter trash.
    I honestly thought that Blizzard could never release an expansion that was worse than WoD but I am afraid that BfA has proved me wrong.
    Blizzard used to have a "we release it when its ready" credo but now it seems it is more "we release it by [this date] and worry about game play, systems, bugs and quality later.
    I am so sad that this game that I have loved for so long has be driven to the gutter by pure greed.    … Expand
  47. Hack
    Dec 23, 2018
    5
    Art, sound and design did a great job, it's a beautiful expansion with great zones but it's just so grindy, and the Azerite system is a massive failure, you can get a 370 item that's worse than a 340 piece because of trait imbalance. The traits are very boring and add nothing to gameplay, they're just passive number increases. The expansion added barely any new features and what they didArt, sound and design did a great job, it's a beautiful expansion with great zones but it's just so grindy, and the Azerite system is a massive failure, you can get a 370 item that's worse than a 340 piece because of trait imbalance. The traits are very boring and add nothing to gameplay, they're just passive number increases. The expansion added barely any new features and what they did add turned out to be tedious and unrewarding (Warfronts and Island Expedition).… Expand
  48. Xsander
    Dec 18, 2018
    10
    it's a good expansion for me. i got huge fun from WM + i see more people play arena than previous expansions ez to find team + rbg
  49. qetuo
    Dec 17, 2018
    10
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  50. tiganas719
    Dec 16, 2018
    1
    First let me start off by saying the art and zone design is still amazing. And that is where the good part ends. The rest of the game is so lackluster it should never have been made. The faction conflict is stale, island expeditions are completely boring, grindy and repetitive. Warfronts are a joke, afk and win. Class design is the worst it has ever been and no flying until later inFirst let me start off by saying the art and zone design is still amazing. And that is where the good part ends. The rest of the game is so lackluster it should never have been made. The faction conflict is stale, island expeditions are completely boring, grindy and repetitive. Warfronts are a joke, afk and win. Class design is the worst it has ever been and no flying until later in the expansion for about a month. Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves for releasing this garbage.… Expand
  51. Cidolfus
    Dec 16, 2018
    0
    suck story, suck system, suck contents..
    There is nothing new to show and it is getting worse.
    The Mythic dungeon system is at the center of entry into the top content, but the players are not satisfied because they can not balance the characters.
  52. LaDix
    Dec 15, 2018
    2
    The game is OKAY the first 2 weeks, nothing big nothing small,l and then you will just die of boredom, in vanilla wow ,you was a nobody that did heroic things, now you are a hero that do nothing.
  53. Ami00
    Dec 14, 2018
    1
    grind + rng + zero engagement. that's all you need to know about this expansion.
    i started playing mmorpg long time ago, so grind for me not an issue. nonetheless, when u r forced to grind with random reward - it's something out of this world. better play roulette.
  54. adrewtoremember
    Dec 13, 2018
    8
    While I don't agree with some of the story choices as of late, BfA is a great addition to the WoW expansion list. Directly following the explosive conclusion to Legions End, we see the two warring factions at each others throats once again. In addition, we are seeing a trickle of new races becoming available with unlock requirements. As of patch 8.1, the grind for these races has beenWhile I don't agree with some of the story choices as of late, BfA is a great addition to the WoW expansion list. Directly following the explosive conclusion to Legions End, we see the two warring factions at each others throats once again. In addition, we are seeing a trickle of new races becoming available with unlock requirements. As of patch 8.1, the grind for these races has been massively alleviated.

    While I wouldn't call it the greatest expansion, its not as bad as other reviewers would have you believe. Yes end game is grindy, but its a MMO. I actually enjoyed the Azerite gear system, and with additions like heritage armor, and a steady amount of mounts being added, I am content and excited for the future of WoW.    … Expand
  55. TheSeventh
    Dec 12, 2018
    10
    Came here cause of a forum thread on the wow forums. I honestly don't understand all this hate at all.. I am absolutely loving the game so far. The zones and story has completely sucked me in and my warrior feels more fun to play than it did back in highmaul. I am kinda sad they didn't make gladiator a real spec though haha.. the one good thing about warlords of draenor warrior.
  56. JeeeCh
    Dec 11, 2018
    0
    Alright this xpac is **** up, can't wait to find another MMORPG game... classic wow may bring me back.
  57. smodie
    Dec 8, 2018
    0
    Time gated **** that is designed to milk money from the players
    Pros:
    Nice soundtrack Probably the best looking zones in all of WoW Cons: Content spread as thinly as possible in order to keep subs up Levelling still feels **** Azerite system is a copy paste of the legion's artefact system The reputation system locks advertised content behind a time game, it takes around four weeks    Time gated **** that is designed to milk money from the players
    Pros:
    Nice soundtrack
    Probably the best looking zones in all of WoW
    Cons:
    Content spread as thinly as possible in order to keep subs up
    Levelling still feels ****
    Azerite system is a copy paste of the legion's artefact system
    The reputation system locks advertised content behind a time game, it takes around four weeks to actually unlock this content (Allied races)

    If you roll an alliance character, for example a warrior human, you need to grind to 120, then grind reputation for a whole month, then you grind your allied race toon if you wanna play that, then you have to go horde, grind to 120, grind reputation for another month then grind another allied race to 120 if you wanna play that
    So probably takes around two and a half months just to unlock the allied races, probably 2 months and one week if you used the level up token

    Conclusion: Game is made to appeal shareholders not players, the content is designed to keep subscription up    … Expand
  58. Dominetris
    Dec 8, 2018
    10
    All the game design Legion also had, only better and more refined.
    One of my favorite Expacs so far!
  59. Arkelias
    Dec 4, 2018
    5
    I see a few puzzled people wondering why people hate the game so much. They don't understand why someone would rate a game a 0. After all, BfA has some amazing zone stories, and some memorable moments. That's worth something, right?

    No. Not to a lifelong fan who feels betrayed. Not to someone who, for the first time, feels like Blizzard rushed an expansion, and that everything was    I see a few puzzled people wondering why people hate the game so much. They don't understand why someone would rate a game a 0. After all, BfA has some amazing zone stories, and some memorable moments. That's worth something, right?

    No. Not to a lifelong fan who feels betrayed. Not to someone who, for the first time, feels like Blizzard rushed an expansion, and that everything was designed to support a drip feed of content. Bolt on monotonous systems that can be run over and over for random loot, and all of a sudden you can see the walls of the maze.

    Let me try to articulate what I mean with some in game examples. When I played the new GW2 expansion I liked the story. I binged the crap out of it until I beat it. I played it at my own pace, and when it was done wow was I hyped. I loved it.

    I started to get the same feeling in WoW. I was getting into the story. Then Blizzard slammed on the brakes. Not because the content hadn't been released yet, but because I needed more rep to continue. I had to run a bunch of world quests for weeks to be able to continue the story. By the time I did I only half remembered the exciting events of the first part of the story, and of course there were multiple rep breaks. Do a few quests, then need to do a few dozen world quests to progress.

    Do you know what it reminded me of? Commercials on cable TV. I only see them in hotel rooms these days, but the idea of being held hostage and having to tolerate things I don't like to get bits of things I do simply doesn't cut it any more.

    I've moved on to the Elder Scrolls Online. Holy crap the difference. I can just...play. The stories are good, but not necessarily better than wow stories. BfA has some bad ones, but it also has some downright amazing moments (Bwonsamdi). But both ESO and GW2 let me just play, and play at my own pace.

    Wow does not. WoW time gates the crap out of everything. Worse, the rewards I'm given aren't tied to my character. They reset every raid tier. If I log into GW2 all my gear is still relevant, a year later. If I log into ESO I keep all the things I've unlocked, because they're a part of my character. If I level in either game I get skill points. In WoW, I lost a LOT from Legion. I gained nothing. Not a new talent tier. I was, quite literally, far weaker at 120 than I was at 110, and I had no abilities I hadn't already had back at level 100.

    In BfA your new abilities are tied to your gear. If you outlevel the gear, you lose the ability. That's bad design. Having core abilities tied to gear is beyond frustrating. Get something you like? Don't get too attached, because soon you'll be vendoring or scrapping it.

    And, of course, this whole expansion suffers from feeling less than Legion. World quests aren't as good. Classes aren't as good. Tanking isn't as fun. The GCD bugged me, right up until I stopped logging in a few weeks ago. Professions? lol

    Blizzard made a bunch of changes that they claim are to make the game more sustainable. Trouble is that it gutted the game. They did a stat squish, took away all your gear and abilities from Legion, and then didn't replace them with anything you cared about.

    Is that enough to give this expansion a 0? No. I think a 5 is fair. But I understand the people who gave it a zero. They aren't trolling. They aren't review bombing. They're angry. They feel betrayed, because the company that used to be by gamers, for gamers, has proven they aren't any more.

    They're here to make money, and they're going to do it on a shoe string budget. Everything in BfA is a recycled Legion system, except for Warfronts and Island Expeditions. Try both, and tell me how excited you are about doing either. They miss the mark in such a fundamental way, and it shows that Blizzard really doesn't understand what we want from them any more.

    It feels like WoW has finally been put into sunset mode, and it makes me a little sad. I left the game for a lot of years and came back for legion. I was so excited about BfA coming out, and I feel so let down.

    To those conspiracy theorists who argue that these reviews have no merit because of score I'd ask you to consider this. When were these reviews posted? It didn't come in a 48 hour window. It's a trickle of simmering discontent that's been building for months.

    Players are angry, and you can see it reflected here, the forums, Amazon reviews, YouTube, and anywhere else people talk about WoW. Blizzard screwed up bad, and nothing they're currently developing has the slightest chance of drawing me back.

    I hate the go go go of Mythic +. I hate that my main from Legion isn't viable, and is sitting on a shelf. I hate that the class balance is so bad this expansion, and that my DH is the best at every part of the game, while my shaman can't get a group for anything. I hate that no gear I get matters, because a random pvp match can invalidate the drop from Heroic G'huun that took my guild a month of hard work to do    … Expand
  60. Kinetik1985
    Dec 4, 2018
    0
    The game systems in BfA are deeply flawed, only that this time there are no big baddies or fancy artifacts/class storylines to hide behind, this been ongoing since MoP.

    No surprise why the best rating were for TBC/LK. Some hints why it is so bad, and why BFA is just a Legion patch 1. Warforging/Titanforging killed the gearing system 2. LFR/LFD + sharding killed social interaction &    The game systems in BfA are deeply flawed, only that this time there are no big baddies or fancy artifacts/class storylines to hide behind, this been ongoing since MoP.

    No surprise why the best rating were for TBC/LK.
    Some hints why it is so bad, and why BFA is just a Legion patch

    1. Warforging/Titanforging killed the gearing system
    2. LFR/LFD + sharding killed social interaction & communities identity
    3. New talent system is a fraud compared to the old one (not talking about talents but the system)
    4. Forced personal loot combined with 1. & 2. and easy repeatable MM+ dungeons = no need for a guild
    5. Azerite system was not tested by people who actually know something about the gamen the beta feedbacks were removed after release critics to not embarrasse devs & show that all the flaws were already pointed out in the alpha/beta
    6. The class pruning and the loss of the old talent system made the class design bland
    7. World quest are copy pasted no brainer and AP grinding is dump
    8. To attunement, an unborn fœtus can gear his character to very high ilvl in two weeks
    9. BC/Vanilla had a philosophy for making content stay relevant : make it challenging with a sens of fulfillment, Since MoP and in BFA the philosophy is : anyone can get anything anywhere anytime and to make the content stay relevant around excitement of Titanforging while being easy to be accessible.

    I can go for pages how BFA is the worst expansion (yes they managed to put something worse than WOD) and for those who say we have to wait for the end of it to judge i say if you don't know anything about the game maybe but if you played it since Vanilla or BC you know how things work even the dev said we have to deal with the down sides of this flawed system while it exists !!    … Expand
  61. Echoes
    Dec 4, 2018
    3
    Three points for the art team, world design is amazing, music and maps are awesome, the initial Jaina quest is good too, the rest is **** class design is boring, content is boring. I came back in the end of legion and really liked that expansion, now I feel cheated for buying BFA on launch, and I never buy any game on launch.
  62. steamhammer
    Dec 4, 2018
    2
    First, I've played since 2004. I was part of the Alpha and Beta for Vanilla WoW. Yes, the game has evolved and grown into the beast it is today. It's had ups and downs with every expansion. This is the natural respiration of a living game. I've enjoyed WoW through every expansion other than Cata and BFA. Battle for Azeroth (BfA) is by far the worst expansion they've ever put out. It wasFirst, I've played since 2004. I was part of the Alpha and Beta for Vanilla WoW. Yes, the game has evolved and grown into the beast it is today. It's had ups and downs with every expansion. This is the natural respiration of a living game. I've enjoyed WoW through every expansion other than Cata and BFA. Battle for Azeroth (BfA) is by far the worst expansion they've ever put out. It was short changed, incomplete, and ripe with bugs.

    There is, at this time, nothing to do of any value in this game. Everything you did for 'fun' is about to be nullified, and you'll have to start over again looking to better your character. This is the natural progression, but many of us including myself, were able to cap out months ago.

    There is nothing to do once you hit max level other than gear out doing repetitive dungeons, world quests, and... that's about it. Warfronts are broke AF and are free giveaways. There is nothing else to do. I don't care about transmog, or pet battles, or achievements. I used to love PVP, but they broke that with loot boxes and RNG. Classes have been so harmoginized that there is very little to any stand out. I remember when PVP meant you looked for the class you could counter and avoided the ones that could counter you. It had strategy.

    There's nothing to work toward overall. The necklace is a joke and isn't worth the time you spend leveling it up.

    Flying is gated behind numerous patches and rep grinds that are MISERABLE to do. I've never had such disdain as I have for the turtle quests... never, ever again will I touch those.

    It felt like they spent the majority of the time on the terrain and quests with little to no effort on what people would do once they hit cap.

    If you complain on the forums you are told you are the problem, and told that you are having fun in the wrong way. WTF tells customers they aren't having fun 'the right way'?! Wow... Very little of the feedback the community gives blizz is taken to heart and implemented. Instead they do hot patches that break much more than they fix.

    Constant cycle of failures since launch by Blizzard on BFA. I don't know if they will ever get me back as a customer until Ion Hazikosis (or however you spell FKtards name) is gone.    … Expand
  63. Skywalkin
    Dec 4, 2018
    10
    I had intended to leave my review of the game which I find to currently be around an 8/10. However, the first review I see is a 0 rated review that just spams the words "The worst game ever" over and over. And quite a few other reviews under it. Clearly this game is not actually the worst game to ever exist. This leads me to believe that people may be trying to review bomb this game out ofI had intended to leave my review of the game which I find to currently be around an 8/10. However, the first review I see is a 0 rated review that just spams the words "The worst game ever" over and over. And quite a few other reviews under it. Clearly this game is not actually the worst game to ever exist. This leads me to believe that people may be trying to review bomb this game out of anger over some minor issues they have or anger at the developers. Therefore I am upping my rating from 8/10 to 10/10 to do a small part to counter these 0 rated review spams. It probably won't make much difference vs that flood of ratings but oh well I will do my small part at least.… Expand
  64. Veskr
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    Blizzard is fresh out of ideas with an empty bottle of polish this time around. Warcraft is no longer an MMO-RPG. It is a single player action-arcade game with a pay to continue button (WoW token). Poor systems all around, rampant inflation, and helping turtles to the water have led to a mass exodus of subscribers, Including very many life long players and fans. It's a sad time in gaming
  65. Calcal18
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever The worst game ever
  66. barawekek
    Dec 2, 2018
    6
    Как только близзард выпустили Легион, комьюнити резко ожило. На протяжении всего легиона близзард умело кормили игроков новыми патчами, механиками и т.д. Но вот, на закате аддона они анонсируют БФА, обещая, что это будет лучше Легиона.
    Разработчики дают нам понять, что островные экспедиции и фронты будут той самой вишенкой на торте.Однако, что фронты что экспедиции оказываются обычной    Как только близзард выпустили Легион, комьюнити резко ожило. На протяжении всего легиона близзард умело кормили игроков новыми патчами, механиками и т.д. Но вот, на закате аддона они анонсируют БФА, обещая, что это будет лучше Легиона.
    Разработчики дают нам понять, что островные экспедиции и фронты будут той самой вишенкой на торте.Однако, что фронты что экспедиции оказываются обычной рутиной, проходить которую нет абсолютно никакого желания, кроме получения гира. Если не брать это во внимание, то БФА был бы вполне годным аддоном: локации и инсты проработаны хорошо, да и рейд вроде как тоже неплохой. Но люди ожидали совсем другого. Весь негатив со стороны комьюнити подогревается новой системой дропа, и отсутствием способов голдфарма с прошлых аддонов, когда с оплота и гарнизона ты получал деньги на ежемесячную подписку.
    Подытожив, сам по себе БФА является неплохим аддоном, если не брать во внимание провал новых механик, которые так нахваливали близзы.    … Expand
  67. MMOFan
    Dec 2, 2018
    8
    Pros: I love the raid, mythic plus, story, zones, music, azerite gear which is way better than legendaries, and warmode.
    Cons: I am not a fan of the warfronts, personal, loot, or islands. I also wish they didn't remove tier sets.
  68. Idling
    Dec 1, 2018
    7
    This is by no means a perfect game. There are some issues with it. However, I believe that the pro's most definitely outweigh the cons. I am still enjoying the game, and have been playing since the launch. If blizzard fixes the larger issues, then this expansion could easily be a 9/10.
  69. withpuppys
    Dec 1, 2018
    7
    pros:
    the music is good
    the questlines are fun
    the zones look great
    the raiding is fun
    mythic+ is decent

    cons:
    class design is a bit rubbish especially for shadow priests and shamans
    azerite system is unremarkable
    warfronts and islands are boring (though they are supposedly adding heroic warfronts which are actually losable)
    and the story is suspiciously similar to mop
  70. nicmercy
    Dec 1, 2018
    3
    While BfA did provide some good features, most notably the allied races, other features did not turn out so well, leaving me with little to do, that I want to do, that feels worth doing. Features that should have provided nearly endless things to do, ended up not being very appealing or particularly rewarding for the effort involved. And other features such as the Azerite Gear system justWhile BfA did provide some good features, most notably the allied races, other features did not turn out so well, leaving me with little to do, that I want to do, that feels worth doing. Features that should have provided nearly endless things to do, ended up not being very appealing or particularly rewarding for the effort involved. And other features such as the Azerite Gear system just didn't play out as well as I think Blizzard thought it would.

    The Azerite Gear just doesn't feel like a good system. Many of the traits created for the system were uninteresting and others just plain bad. The traits generally got boiled down to "this is the best trait for this ring" and if your piece of Azerite Gear doesn't have these traits it's trash". The way Azerite Gear was handled with the Mythic Plus weekly chest was also not good, and even the supposed fix coming in 8.1 doesn't actually fix the system.

    The Island Expeditions which should have been repeatable content worth doing ended up being the opposite. The system is designed to be run quickly as a race between you and the npc team to meet a quota. That alone is problematic in a system that seemed like it would have some focus on exploration, but there's other issues as well. The big thing is that the reward structure for Island Expeditions runs contrary to how they are intended to be successfully completed. You would think beating the opposing team and "winning" the race would be the way to get the rewards but the opposite is true. Instead of doing everything you can to win the race as quickly as possible you must drag it out and risk "losing" so that events can happen that spawn the right mobs that can drop the loot you're looking for. But then you have layers of RNG to contend with. The "right" islands have to spawn for the week. The "right" mobs have to spawn on the islands. And then you still have no guarantee of getting what you're after. Patch 8.1 does nothing to address this. Players asked for the island rewards to be put on a vendor and bought with a currency that is earned on the islands, instead 8.1 adds a vendor with a few new items for this currency but the slew of original items remain gated by layers of RNG and the "contrary to how the expeditions are successfully completed" loot system.

    Warfronts are actually fun content, but they don't really feel worth doing repeatedly when available right now. They are fun to do, and rewarding the first time through for the week they are active. They just lack any incentive to keep doing them while active right now. If I am understanding correctly, 8.1 should be addressing this by adding a currency earned from doing the Warfronts which can be used to purchase desirable items.

    Mythic Plus dungeons were the highlight of the Legion expansion for me, but BfA has made them worse by making certain affixes (fortified and tyrannical) appear starting at level 2. Add to that most dungeons having prolific amounts of trash mobs, and certain affixes making some dungeons virtually unclearable despite Blizzard's claims that BfA's dungeons were designed with all affixes in mind. They are still worth doing to me but only once a week. Once I do my +10 key that's it. I don't want to do anymore because its just not as fun as it was in Legion.

    Poor professions were rendered virtually worthless if you didn't choose Herbalism and/or Alchemy. Most recipes required unreasonable amounts of materials and the primary raid consumable (flasks) requires FIVE Anchor Weed, an herb that has no designated spawn zone, but instead can randomly appear instead of most other herbs in any zone. This has wreaked havoc on the consumable economy. Since it doesn't have a zone of its own, Anchor Weed should have been a percentage chance to get from any herb, and it should not require FIVE of them to make ONE flask.

    BfA also has some story issues as well. The first raid tier's lead up is seen only by one of the two factions, while the other is left scratching their heads wondering why they are even there. On the flip side the faction who got no lead up ends up invading the other side's "capital" for this xpac in the next raid... a retread of a similar raid from the MoP expansion which leaves players on both sides unhappy. Some Horde players are unhappy because yet another of their cities is being invaded and some Alliance are unhappy because that invasion is merely a vehicle for the Horde narrative, pushing the Zandalari into joining the Horde. It just feels a bit ham fisted and obvious. Much like the far too obvious treadmills in the game, the story should be much more subtle when it comes to things like that.

    The 8.1 patch brings relief to some of these issues, but it probably won't be until 8.2 that things really get to where they should have been at launch and that's a real shame. I can only hope that the next expansion is made by the "A Team" that brought us Legion and not the "B Team" that brought us BfA (and WoD presumably).    … Expand
  71. RedneckVideoGmR
    Nov 30, 2018
    0
    Just make this crap F2P. 15$ a month for this garbage game is just insane

    and.. I think EA, Activision Blizzard and Bathesda should merge into one big corp. at this point.
  72. Grugmuck33
    Nov 29, 2018
    5
    The reason the critics gave it a 79 and it's got a 3.1 User Score is because the game is like a beautiful model you go out on a date with but underneath that flawless skin lies a nasty mean person. Yes if this game was a single player game of 25-40 hours I'd give it a B+ as well. The lands are gorgeous the leveling activities from 110-120 are enjoyable. But once you get to level 120The reason the critics gave it a 79 and it's got a 3.1 User Score is because the game is like a beautiful model you go out on a date with but underneath that flawless skin lies a nasty mean person. Yes if this game was a single player game of 25-40 hours I'd give it a B+ as well. The lands are gorgeous the leveling activities from 110-120 are enjoyable. But once you get to level 120 (CAP) that is where you leave the CRITICS that reviewed the game behind. The Critics only stuck around to take a tour of the new game and level up. They didn't stick around to have to do hundreds of hours of boring quests on a world map, deal with endless reputation grinding, and warfronts and expeditions that after a few attempts put you to sleep and bored you to no end. Had the critics continued to play the game which few I think do. (Better to have a critic that is an avid WOW gamer) then they'd have seen that once you get past the exterior and basic quests/lands that it is monotonous, repetitive, and boring. There is NOTHING different when you go to level up other character alts. It's the same repetitive, boring, same experience over and over. I'd give this a 3 score myself but because I feel they are at least trying to fix this with patch 8.1 I will give the game a 5. It has promise and it could be a good game. But they released it with way too little content after the leveling phase. An MMO needs to have 90% of it's content available only to max level characters but this it was more like 20%. I have no interest in playing now until the new patch. But that's why the CRITICS love it and the GAMERS playing it do not love it or very few do. There are many other issues too like game balancing, the azerite armor system is broken, the classes are made boring to play compared to earlier expansions with extensive talent trees or the Legions artifact system...just zzzzz. At least in Legions there was different class quests, dozens of cool weapons to unlock with different specs and classes. So this game gets SUPER OLD SUPER FAST in it's current state.… Expand
  73. Beaker1000
    Nov 28, 2018
    4
    Worst leveling due the fact you become weaker and weaker as you level up.
    Azerite gear, boring artifact necklace and the lack of setpieces take away any excitement for gear.
    Leveling is even worse for PVE players as they get penalized for not having warmode on recieving less xp and worse rewards. Island expeditions and warfronts are a snorefest and worldqueest rewards are very    Worst leveling due the fact you become weaker and weaker as you level up.
    Azerite gear, boring artifact necklace and the lack of setpieces take away any excitement for gear.
    Leveling is even worse for PVE players as they get penalized for not having warmode on recieving less xp and worse rewards.
    Island expeditions and warfronts are a snorefest and worldqueest rewards are very underwhelming.
    I'm already only logging in for raids this early in the expansion, and with the current direction that the devs are going i'm not optimistic over the expension getting redeemed any time soon.    … Expand
  74. bearthor
    Nov 27, 2018
    0
    When you reach 120 you just do what you always have been doing.. Doing LFR and Mythics.. They are all so boring and snooze you just wanna kill yourself.. The game needs something brand new.. Or just let it die...
  75. Magliene
    Nov 25, 2018
    0
    Boring....just boring. It's a boring grind to get to level 120, then there's nothing but pointless grind for uninteresting 'rewards'. I'm so disappointed.
  76. redbutnotdead
    Nov 25, 2018
    0
    It's a shame we had to play and support this expansion. Clearly blizzard made an expansion from Legion. You can clearly see the same map layout, same features, same events, same quest applications, same logic everywhere. I knew this was gonna be a revision when after all this epic story with the Legion they announced the so lame HordeVsAlliance battle as a continuation of the story. ButIt's a shame we had to play and support this expansion. Clearly blizzard made an expansion from Legion. You can clearly see the same map layout, same features, same events, same quest applications, same logic everywhere. I knew this was gonna be a revision when after all this epic story with the Legion they announced the so lame HordeVsAlliance battle as a continuation of the story. But the downfall does not stop there. Here we have some totaly unbalanced raids with people choosing among 4-5 raid classes and specs because noone will choose you if you have something else. The very same applies to pvp with 3-4 specs to be chosen as viable. A boring with no imagination expansion by Blizzard.… Expand
  77. Dracen
    Nov 22, 2018
    2
    If you are like me, you may not have enjoyed the past few expansions and still keep buying this game. For those with that problem, this review is for you. You will not get that old feeling, and you will even notice how boring this one is compared to others while leveling. There is nothing new or exciting, it is just the same stuff you were already doing before, but you are giving outIf you are like me, you may not have enjoyed the past few expansions and still keep buying this game. For those with that problem, this review is for you. You will not get that old feeling, and you will even notice how boring this one is compared to others while leveling. There is nothing new or exciting, it is just the same stuff you were already doing before, but you are giving out more money to do it. For those that enjoyed the last expansion and didn't get tired of it, you will enjoy this expansion because a lot of the same stuff was used. It doesn't even try to be a new expansion in my opinion. It is more like an addon to the game for me, however, it is just a single opinion.… Expand
  78. PaRadOx42
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    The worst expansion so far and according to the recent Q&A and 8.1 PTR it's getting worse and worse.

    How are the mighty fallen.
  79. stengeur
    Nov 20, 2018
    1
    Unfortunately, this expansion has really missed the mark. The leveling experience to 120 was great, but once you hit max level, the fun stops. Incessant grinding for minuscule improvements to your "legendary" neck was a big turnoff for me; you don't really see any notable power increase as you level it up. Island expeditions quickly got boring and repetitive, with no real rewards (orUnfortunately, this expansion has really missed the mark. The leveling experience to 120 was great, but once you hit max level, the fun stops. Incessant grinding for minuscule improvements to your "legendary" neck was a big turnoff for me; you don't really see any notable power increase as you level it up. Island expeditions quickly got boring and repetitive, with no real rewards (or challenge) to them. New allied races were hyped up pre-release but then some of them were not even included with the launch of the game? "War mode" was supposed to make the leveling experience (and daily gameplay) dangerous, yet the imbalance between factions meant you didn't even see the opposite faction after a few days.

    I had high hopes for this coming into the expansion, but I'm really disappointed. It's hard to really see this game going in a good direction under the current conditions.    … Expand
  80. Shroomie
    Nov 20, 2018
    4
    At this point, BfA is virtually Legion lite. Clearly basing on the predecessor's success and trying to imitate it, BfA does not really do a good job.

    Even though I didn't really enjoy being handed the most powerful weapons on Azeroth for a simple quest chain and hailed one of the greatest champions for mundane LFR difficulty content, artifact weapons and order halls were a fundamentally    At this point, BfA is virtually Legion lite. Clearly basing on the predecessor's success and trying to imitate it, BfA does not really do a good job.

    Even though I didn't really enjoy being handed the most powerful weapons on Azeroth for a simple quest chain and hailed one of the greatest champions for mundane LFR difficulty content, artifact weapons and order halls were a fundamentally good concept. The lore was rich, the content was generous enough to sustain the player throughout the entire expansion. The artifact system offered a lightweight version of what was intended to be the Path of the Titans and in the era of omnipresent casualization, some added complexity of talent builds is always welcome. Now compare this with the joke that's known as Heart of Azeroth. Tens of models per class have been reduced to a single icon, moderately versatile artifact traits have been replaced with pathetic Azerite traits, which still fail to be balanced properly 3 months deep into the expansion, resulting in some very cookie cutter choices. A short and mundane quest chain handed out by the ever-annoying crystal (meth) dwarf takes place of dozens of quests in order halls The only thing that remains the same is the grind - but now there's only the stick without the carrot. Even the artificially-flavoured artifact power items have been overtaken by generic placeholders.

    So what's out there to replace the lost content? The answer is simple - nothing. Island expeditions don't even get close to meeting the players' expectations. The follower and mission system is reiterated yet again, perhaps in the most dumbed down variant ever. Time-tried world quests and emissary system remain mostly unchanged, but the novelty is rapidly wearing out and reputation grinds don't offer anything interesting - there's no reason to ever participate in those unless you want to play a brown orc or a black dwarf. Dungeons are no different than ever and we've been treated with probably the worst Uld- family entry yet.

    The zones are graphically as splendid as Blizzard spoiled us to expect, but narratively somehow fall short of the immersive plots presented in Legion. While it's relieving to look around and see something that's not a green, fel-ooze dripping demon-cave or arcwine-addled manascape, the areas feel largely insubstantial. Don't get me wrong, local plots with no impact on the grand scheme can still be excellent, but in this case not only they are wanting, but also contrast very heavily with the narration of previous expansions. In many cases, the stories appear to have no lasting effect or potential development even in the very region itself.

    Alas, the cycle of expansions can be cruel - apart from TBC, every odd expansion has been rather odd indeed. I'm bewildered by the fact that Blizzard decided to drop the ball so low after the success Legion was. The game was almost at the right track and with proper nurture, it could relive its youth, but for some reason unbeknownst to us all we received Warlords of Despacito 2. While WoW is still a solid game and perhaps the only extant specimen of a successful MMO, I can't say I'm not disappointed. We can only hope the game will make it to the water deeper within the expansion lifespan.    … Expand
  81. Reucore
    Nov 19, 2018
    0
    They said, it would be the best pvp expansion. Honestly? Is the best PVE expansion. PVP is unbalanced and they wont fix it.
  82. john81575
    Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Having played World of Warcraft for 13 years, I have seen a lot of expansions come and go, and been there for the ups and downs for several of the game's expansions. However, this time stuck out. World of Warcraft: Legion was for me was mostly a return to form for the biggest MMO out there - my MMO of choice over the years - World of Warcraft. Legion had managed to rekindle in me a loveHaving played World of Warcraft for 13 years, I have seen a lot of expansions come and go, and been there for the ups and downs for several of the game's expansions. However, this time stuck out. World of Warcraft: Legion was for me was mostly a return to form for the biggest MMO out there - my MMO of choice over the years - World of Warcraft. Legion had managed to rekindle in me a love and loyalty for the game again that Warlords of Draenor had damaged. I went into Battle for Azeroth with a lot of hope that Blizzard would carry over the good from Legion and disregard what didn't work. Instead, I found myself on uninteresting and grueling quest slogs through zones that were thoroughly boring and grindy - and a chore at times.

    I found it very difficult to maintain the will to carry on the entire way through to 120. The questing in previous expansions had been interesting, with quests telling interesting, compelling, or even cute or funny stories - but not this time. By the time I did manage to slog my way through the boring leveling grind to max level, I was met with a gear wall for everything I wanted to do. Dungeons? Needed more gear. Warfronts? Needed more gear. Island expeditions? They were actually not gated by gear, but OMG kill me now. Island expeditions are awful. One of the worst experiences I have had in World of Warcraft with friends. A meaningless grind for a tiny bit of currency that does almost nothing for you. I feel like my experience with BFA can be summed up thus - no thanks!    … Expand
  83. rfz88
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    While not great, it's not terrible either. I would've preferred an overall darker atmosphere & theme, with a more lovecraftian story. This does it partially, but doenst deliver the entire way.

    Don't let yourselves be fooled however, by the people comparing this to WOD. This is better than WOD, while I still understand that people hate A-Blizzard these days (and understandably so).    While not great, it's not terrible either. I would've preferred an overall darker atmosphere & theme, with a more lovecraftian story. This does it partially, but doenst deliver the entire way.

    Don't let yourselves be fooled however, by the people comparing this to WOD. This is better than WOD, while I still understand that people hate A-Blizzard these days (and understandably so).

    TL;DR- Get this if you've enjoyed WOW in the past.    … Expand
  84. Hard4
    Nov 13, 2018
    0
    Critics 79 ??? corrupt officials. 3/10 The worst, unfinished patch to WOW. It is a patch, not an addon.
  85. MandoMandalore
    Nov 13, 2018
    0
    BFA is in many ways the final nail in the coffin for me. WoW has been in serious decline beginning with WoD. Cata and MoP, though not golden era, were worthy successors and I played them start to finish. Beginning with WoD I leveled my characters, played for awhile, and left. There just wasn't anything to keep me playing. And the level of anger and frustration I felt just grew. With BFA IBFA is in many ways the final nail in the coffin for me. WoW has been in serious decline beginning with WoD. Cata and MoP, though not golden era, were worthy successors and I played them start to finish. Beginning with WoD I leveled my characters, played for awhile, and left. There just wasn't anything to keep me playing. And the level of anger and frustration I felt just grew. With BFA I did buy the expansion but didn't even bring one of my characters to max level. It's that bad.

    At this point only regime change will bring me back to WoW. Ion and everyone (except art which is uniformly excellent throughout WoW history) in a leadership role from WoD on need to go. It's as simple as that.    … Expand
  86. Squad
    Nov 12, 2018
    0
    Worst can be only World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth MOBILE. No new content (real content) added, just copy of Legion with +10 lvls.
  87. bozboz123
    Nov 8, 2018
    1
    it's such a shame that this game is in such a bad state... Lack of class design, No tier sets, no new talents or abilities, the azerite gear / trait system is a complete joke, world questing is terrible...
    I gave this game a 2 out of 10 because of how gorgeous the art work, zones and music is, the art team nailed it. The game play deserves a solid 0. There is literally nothing rewarding    it's such a shame that this game is in such a bad state... Lack of class design, No tier sets, no new talents or abilities, the azerite gear / trait system is a complete joke, world questing is terrible...
    I gave this game a 2 out of 10 because of how gorgeous the art work, zones and music is, the art team nailed it. The game play deserves a solid 0. There is literally nothing rewarding about playing this game at all, it was the first time since the burning crusade that I've unsubscribed, I don't intend on paying for, or supporting, a product like this. It seriously feels like a time-gated, artificially elongated mobile game with zero reward for time spent. Blizzard's worst game in the franchise no doubt. I really hope they learn from this and pick up their game or I fear this might be the end of a beautiful franchise.    … Expand
  88. Grumpygamer9000
    Nov 8, 2018
    6
    I am not going to go into too much detail. I don't even know if I can pinpoint what I don't like about this expansion. It looks like WoW. It feels like WoW. But it just isn't as fun as WoW used to be. I am kind of sad about this really. I have been in love with WoW since before it was released in open beta in 2004. And I feel like this love affair is coming to an end, It's breaking myI am not going to go into too much detail. I don't even know if I can pinpoint what I don't like about this expansion. It looks like WoW. It feels like WoW. But it just isn't as fun as WoW used to be. I am kind of sad about this really. I have been in love with WoW since before it was released in open beta in 2004. And I feel like this love affair is coming to an end, It's breaking my heart. I really loved you WoW. But you changed. It's just not the same anymore. Maybe we can just be friends and I will check in on you once in a while, but I am not spending everyday with you anymore. I'm moving on with my life without you... I'm gonna see other games. Bye. :'(… Expand
  89. dawg92
    Nov 8, 2018
    9
    How is this user score so low? I guess people expected more but it's still very enjoyable in my opinion.
  90. johhnypigeony
    Nov 6, 2018
    0
    Absolute disaster. So called "Blizz-quality" was left in the distant past. It feels like the developers themselves have not played the game. Ten years of disappointment, but this expansion has gone beyond reasonable. Tons of bugs (most mmo's don't have that much in the alpha stage), no new talents or spells, terrible azerite system, lazy and useless professions, low-geared folks areAbsolute disaster. So called "Blizz-quality" was left in the distant past. It feels like the developers themselves have not played the game. Ten years of disappointment, but this expansion has gone beyond reasonable. Tons of bugs (most mmo's don't have that much in the alpha stage), no new talents or spells, terrible azerite system, lazy and useless professions, low-geared folks are stronger than well-geared in pvp and more.

    The last straw was that the developers continue the same development strategy in patches 8.1 and 8.2. They don't even understand.    … Expand
  91. Drastic_drugs
    Nov 5, 2018
    0
    Where's "Epic standoff between Horde and alliance"??? We've got non of it. Where's battle for azeroth? We've got non of it. The only what we have is ridiculous battle for 2 useless islands.
  92. CommonS3ns3
    Nov 5, 2018
    3
    Been playing since vanilla and all i have to say is that BFA is garbage, the story line is rehash of Grommash's storyline ver 2.0. Once you hit 120 there isnt that much to do but grind dungeons. Which feels like your playing Diablo 3. This is my last expansion I buy from blizzard, the let down of their game the problem is the writers in the driver seat have no clue and the balancing devs iBeen playing since vanilla and all i have to say is that BFA is garbage, the story line is rehash of Grommash's storyline ver 2.0. Once you hit 120 there isnt that much to do but grind dungeons. Which feels like your playing Diablo 3. This is my last expansion I buy from blizzard, the let down of their game the problem is the writers in the driver seat have no clue and the balancing devs i swear all failed algebra.… Expand
  93. Eveless
    Nov 5, 2018
    5
    Instead of a new expansion we get a Legion 0.5. New zones look great, but thats about it. Class balance and gameplay is made worse, some dumbed down to the point where you dont feel like you are playing different class at all. Story is made of plotholes and questionable decisions, no new endgame content e.t.c. It feels like Blizzard hired an entire cast of college students to make theirInstead of a new expansion we get a Legion 0.5. New zones look great, but thats about it. Class balance and gameplay is made worse, some dumbed down to the point where you dont feel like you are playing different class at all. Story is made of plotholes and questionable decisions, no new endgame content e.t.c. It feels like Blizzard hired an entire cast of college students to make their new expansion. If it is so - they did a good job. But i`m afraid we need a different level of quality from a company with this name.… Expand
  94. EllaNF
    Nov 4, 2018
    0
    Thanks for the castrated characters. And thanks for making me feel weaker than I was 10 years ago.
    Worst addon ever
  95. Moxnix
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    Virtually the entirety of the games new content is locked behind repetitive rep grinding, much of which doesn't even take place in this expansion, so it is both unfun, unproductive, and unrewarding.

    Bugs, Imbalance, a terrible new pvp system and a general lack of polish make this by far the worst iteration of WoW.
  96. vaflendia
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    How could this happen after a smart “legion?” The game doesn’t give anything new, absolutely: that reputation farm, the same dungeon farm for the raider io, the same farm of the artifact power ... The plot is much weaker and in principle not interesting, quests from discharge: rip 5 ass Murloc and bring them to me. And this is only a small part of the claims to the game.
  97. Bambietta
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    Bad writing. Repeating the story of Mists of Pandaria. False promises to not repeat it. Boring annoying gameplay. Very disappointing.
  98. Rikkos
    Nov 3, 2018
    3
    Addon with unbalanced classes, with grind-quest system and with the minimum new stuff
  99. lavandos
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    Убито пвп и впвп,убраны вендоры,введена ущербная система получения экипировки,убитые классы,спасибо,лучшее воровство моих денег.
  100. 4125MakeItSo
    Nov 3, 2018
    1
    A bit better than Legion, because not so green as legion (I really full of that green fel fire and demons). So, story line is bad and ridiculous. Saurfang is a pity crying girl. War mode doesn't work properly because many players of alliance just turn it off. PvP expansion without world PvP - lol. And grinding, yeah. We had to grind artifact power again. I was full of it in Legion, and IA bit better than Legion, because not so green as legion (I really full of that green fel fire and demons). So, story line is bad and ridiculous. Saurfang is a pity crying girl. War mode doesn't work properly because many players of alliance just turn it off. PvP expansion without world PvP - lol. And grinding, yeah. We had to grind artifact power again. I was full of it in Legion, and I have to do it again.… Expand
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#72 Best PC Game of 2018
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#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#16 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    60
    A quite well-made expansion, but not without flaws. If they get removed by the creators, the rating will improve. However, you won’t regret buying it. [Issue#290]
  2. CD-Action
    Dec 4, 2018
    70
    Battle for Azeroth offers everything you could expect from a World of Warcraft expansion, but its scale is visibly smaller than Legion’s and there’s no truly new quality here. All that doesn’t change the fact that the charm of this extraordinary MMORPG appeals to me almost as strongly as 13 years ago. [10/2018, p.42]
  3. Ragequit.gr
    Oct 12, 2018
    82
    Blizzard plays it safe, incorporating few innovations while trying to salvage the lore situation of Warcraft due to its constant escalation. Despite all this, BfA remains an entertaining expansion with a lot to offer in endgame for a casual player.
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