World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

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  1. SirBaku
    Apr 2, 2023
    2
    Everything is just so painfully repetitive. And speaking of repetition, they've even managed to lock the game's story behind a tedious renown grind. It's a cringe-worthy story with lots of retcons, so most people probably don't even bother, but still.

    The profession system has become unnecessarily confusing and tedious, with grinds upon grinds upon grinds. But the real kicker as    Everything is just so painfully repetitive. And speaking of repetition, they've even managed to lock the game's story behind a tedious renown grind. It's a cringe-worthy story with lots of retcons, so most people probably don't even bother, but still.

    The profession system has become unnecessarily confusing and tedious, with grinds upon grinds upon grinds.

    But the real kicker as mentioned by others is the dated restrictions they still have in place, like the questionable race division between factions. They're still forcing players to choose a certain faction just because they want to look a certain way. And speaking of looks, the uneven and limited customization options between races are a joke.

    And did I mention that there's still no player housing after all these years? Come on, Blizzard, get with the times, same goes for your visuals.

    There are more things, like there are bugs everywhere in this expansion, It's frustrating to play a game that's so broken, and it makes you wonder if Blizzard even cares about there players.

    And last but not least, the unbalanced classes. It's like Blizzard can't figure out how to make them all equally powerful, so they just let some classes dominate while others are left in the dust.    … Expand
  2. Pugly
    Apr 1, 2023
    1
    This expansion is really bad, yet somehow better than bfa and shadowlands. This game does so many things wrong that I don't even know where to begin.
    Seeing as how hard the devs are trying to appear progressive now after that lawsuit against them (everyone can read about the horrible things they did) and how much lgbtq characters and stories they recently put in the game and even removed    This expansion is really bad, yet somehow better than bfa and shadowlands. This game does so many things wrong that I don't even know where to begin.
    Seeing as how hard the devs are trying to appear progressive now after that lawsuit against them (everyone can read about the horrible things they did) and how much lgbtq characters and stories they recently put in the game and even removed the gender option of players, so that everyone is now non-binary... they still kept their racist faction system as the core of wow.
    Just makes you laugh really, because of how hypocritical this whole company is. Pretening to be pro lgbt, but also be pro racism with racial segregation during the faction "choice" process.
    Some mental gymnastics right here.

    I feel like all the other issues this game has or at least most of them are pretty much already mentioned and they are just as bad, but for me their hypocrisy is the most annoying part and I certainly don't want to support developers with such a twisted mindset.    … Expand
  3. Silvercla
    Mar 31, 2023
    2
    World Of Warcraft... I half expected to see pixelated blobs instead of characters, once i left the new zone and was introduced to the main hubs and zones for leveling a new character... but I suppose that's just the charm of playing a game that hasn't updated its graphics in over a decade?
    Speaking of outdated elements, let's talk about the class and faction limitations. Want to play a    World Of Warcraft... I half expected to see pixelated blobs instead of characters, once i left the new zone and was introduced to the main hubs and zones for leveling a new character... but I suppose that's just the charm of playing a game that hasn't updated its graphics in over a decade?
    Speaking of outdated elements, let's talk about the class and faction limitations. Want to play a certain class? Too bad, it's probably unbalanced and you'll be at a disadvantage.
    Want to join a certain faction? Sorry, the game's faction system is so dated and racist that it feels like it was designed by a group of pre-schoolers who just learned what stereotypes were. Racial segregation is such a great feature, right? Right??

    The loot system is also a complete mess.
    Good luck trying to get anything worthwhile when playing in a group, because you're either going to have to fight your teammates tooth and nail or just accept the fact that you'll be stuck with the scraps.
    But hey, at least there's plenty of grinding to keep you occupied, right? That's right, you'll spend countless hours repeating the same tasks over and over again, all in the name of some vague sense of progression... I guess?
    And let's not forget about the complete lack of meaningful RPG activities. The reason why I tried out this game in the first place. Player housing? Customization options? Pfft, who needs those when you can spend all your time grinding for better gear that will be outdated in the next patch.

    The communication from the devs or rather, the lack thereof. It's as if they enjoy keeping their players in the dark and making biased decisions that favor certain players over others. But hey, who needs fairness and equality when you can just keep milking your fanbase for every penny they're worth, right?    … Expand
  4. Kunray
    Mar 28, 2023
    1
    It's your call but for now it's not recommended.
    1/10 this game at that stage.
  5. AnaviY
    Mar 26, 2023
    2
    The only people still enjoying this game are probably those who find satisfaction in mindlessly spamming buttons in dungeons and raids... and even that isn't fun because of the horrible class imbalance. If you're looking for a proper RPG experience however, you might as well look elsewhere, because WoW lost that aspect years ago.

    The open world looks like it hasn't been updated since    The only people still enjoying this game are probably those who find satisfaction in mindlessly spamming buttons in dungeons and raids... and even that isn't fun because of the horrible class imbalance. If you're looking for a proper RPG experience however, you might as well look elsewhere, because WoW lost that aspect years ago.

    The open world looks like it hasn't been updated since the early 2000s, and the player models are just embarrassing. No sliders, no color palettes, no nothing. Yes, new zones have good visuals, but that's like what? 25% of the overall world? It's like the devs are just phoning it in at this point.

    But the real problem with WoW is the lack of immersion.
    There's no class identity, the storytelling is cringeworthy and constantly retconned, still no player housing and the toxic restrictions the devs force upon players are just infuriating. Seriously, who builds their two faction system upon racism and then tries to claim they're progressive because they've thrown in a few LGBTQ stories and characters?
    It's hypocritical at best and downright a frustrating restriction for players.

    And even if you are interested in the bad story of the game, you're not even allowed to see it unless you spend days, or even weeks, grinding for renown. The whole game seems to be designed to be as repetitive as possible, just to milk players' monthly subscription fees.

    In short, if you're looking for a game that's worth your time and money Dragonflight is definitely not it. At least so far, but the next patch looks just as bad.
    Unless, of course, you're content with mindless button mashing and don't mind throwing your money away on a game that's lost its way.    … Expand
  6. Regina781
    Mar 24, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight... Let's just say, it's not exactly soaring to new heights.

    What's up with those clunky and poorly aged models and the severe lack of customizations? Then the outdated graphics in most zones of the world. They couldn't even be bothered to update Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Especially Stormwind looks hideous with it's dated graphics. The bugs in this expansion are enough to    Dragonflight... Let's just say, it's not exactly soaring to new heights.

    What's up with those clunky and poorly aged models and the severe lack of customizations?
    Then the outdated graphics in most zones of the world. They couldn't even be bothered to update Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Especially Stormwind looks hideous with it's dated graphics.

    The bugs in this expansion are enough to make any player want to quit.
    Then the glaring class imbalances.
    And what's with the racial segregation? We should be able to play any race in any faction without feeling like we're betraying some archaic and racist mindset, which the devs put in this game. But no, all races still have a hivemind instead of free will like the Pandaren and that weird looking new race Dracthyr.
    It's frustrating for players who can't play their favorite races in their favorite faction.

    Then the story... It's poorly written and lacks any real depth.

    Dragonflight is a disappointing expansion for me that fails to deliver on almost every level.
    From the poorly aged character models to the outdated graphics and bugs, it's clear that this expansion was not given the attention it deserved.

    Save your time and money and skip this one.    … Expand
  7. Cayalle
    Mar 21, 2023
    3
    The level experience is even good, but then it becomes the same massive thing, nothing to do but repeat the same processor, again and again, with another class to reach the same end point. I think blizzard doesn't really learn. The company's support has become horrible, you have a bug or problem you end up getting automatic messages, the forum bans you if a group of people report you,The level experience is even good, but then it becomes the same massive thing, nothing to do but repeat the same processor, again and again, with another class to reach the same end point. I think blizzard doesn't really learn. The company's support has become horrible, you have a bug or problem you end up getting automatic messages, the forum bans you if a group of people report you, nothing in this "game" works like it used to. Reach the maximum level just to have to make the same content, have events that have simply been stopped for years, tell me, is it worth paying monthly for something like this? Other games do more for less.… Expand
  8. AthonyLor
    Mar 17, 2023
    2
    Ah, Dragonflight, where do I even begin? Well, for starters, it seems the developers are resorting to some cheap tricks to keep their players shelling out that monthly subscription fee. I mean, who wants to grind for renown all day? It's about as exciting as watching a Murloc knit a sweater. And don't even get me started on how they lock the story behind that tedious grind.

    But wait,    Ah, Dragonflight, where do I even begin? Well, for starters, it seems the developers are resorting to some cheap tricks to keep their players shelling out that monthly subscription fee. I mean, who wants to grind for renown all day? It's about as exciting as watching a Murloc knit a sweater. And don't even get me started on how they lock the story behind that tedious grind.

    But wait, there's more! The trading post is another tactic. They change the items each month, creating a feeling of FOMO, like we're missing out on the best gear or mounts. It's good to give more cosmetics, but with the trading post they don't tell you when exactly you will see those items again.
    Now, let's talk about the loot situation. It's like the developers want us to suffer. They dangle the carrot of epic loot in front of our faces, but it's always just out of reach, depending on pure luck.

    And let's not forget about the developers' hypocrisy.
    They've added several lgbtq+ elements to the game, hoping to improve their reputation after the lawsuits against them. But at the same time, they stick to a very strong form of racism in their game. I'm talking about the racial segregation of playable races between factions. It's not just ethically questionable, it's also terrible for the player experience. Players are forced to choose a faction based on the race they want to be. Veeeeeery progressive... not.

    And finally, let's talk about the lack of fresh content. Dragonflight is like a stale piece of bread that's been left out in the sun for too long. The developers seem to be relying on recycled old systems, rather than coming up with anything new and exciting.

    So, there you have it, folks. I'm not impressed at all and the coming patch will give us more... more recycled stuff. I might change this review with 10.2, if they'll actually add something new and improve bad stuff like their racist foundation, but so far? No thanks, there are better games out there.    … Expand
  9. Ethan717
    Mar 16, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight, the newest expansion, has me left disappointed with its lackluster features, numerous bugs, and outdated design choices. While some may still find enjoyment in the game, it's hard to overlook the significant flaws that plague this expansion.

    One of the biggest problems with Dragonflight is the number of bugs. From game-breaking glitches to minor annoyances, the sheer    Dragonflight, the newest expansion, has me left disappointed with its lackluster features, numerous bugs, and outdated design choices. While some may still find enjoyment in the game, it's hard to overlook the significant flaws that plague this expansion.

    One of the biggest problems with Dragonflight is the number of bugs. From game-breaking glitches to minor annoyances, the sheer volume of bugs makes the game feel unfinished and unpolished. It's frustrating to encounter problems that could have easily been fixed before release.

    Another issue is the class imbalance, which makes certain classes feel op while others are left in the dust. It's a problem that has been present in previous expansions, but it's disappointing to see it still exists in Dragonflight.
    The profession and crafting system is another letdown, with few improvements made from previous expansions.
    Despite the game's longevity, there is still no player housing system. This is a common feature in modern MMOs, and its absence in wow is a significant disappointment for players who want to create a personal space in the game. Additionally, many modern MMO features are lacking, making wow feel outdated compared to its competitors.

    The new playable race, Dracthyr, is also a letdown. Not only is it a boring looking, but its limited options for visage customization are baffling. A dragon should be able to take on the appearance of any race, not just male blood elf and female human. This restriction makes little sense and is a missed opportunity for players to create unique characters.
    The avatar models for the existing races are outdated and lack customization options. The transmog system is also outdated, and many sets use the same designs with different colors.
    WoW also still suffers from too much focus on e-sports and not enough on actual MMORPG content. The game's racial segregation is still in place, which means that players cannot choose their favorite faction and races together. This outdated faction system is holding the game back in free player choice.

    The story in Dragonflight is locked behind a grindy renown system, which makes it difficult to fully experience the game's narrative. The storytelling itself is also lackluster, with little depth or nuance. This is a significant disappointment again.

    Finally, the graphics in many zones of the old world are very, very, very dated and unimpressive. The game feels more or less the same as it has for years, with few new additions to make it feel fresh and exciting. Dragonflight is a disappointing expansion so far that fails to live up to the expectations of its players.    … Expand
  10. Comirso
    Mar 15, 2023
    5
    Firstly, let's talk about the loot system. The group loot system in Dragonflight is highly flawed.
    It's frustrating to spend hours battling through dungeons or raids, only to receive sub-par loot that isn't even suitable for your character's class or specialization. This system also promotes selfishness among players, as everyone is trying to snag the best items for themselves. It's a    Firstly, let's talk about the loot system. The group loot system in Dragonflight is highly flawed.
    It's frustrating to spend hours battling through dungeons or raids, only to receive sub-par loot that isn't even suitable for your character's class or specialization. This system also promotes selfishness among players, as everyone is trying to snag the best items for themselves. It's a shame that Blizzard didn't address this issue before releasing the expansion.

    Another major flaw is the outdated segregation of playable races. It's disappointing that players are still forced to choose between Horde and Alliance factions and cannot play as all races on either side. This limits players' choices and can lead to frustration when wanting to play a specific race on the opposite faction. It's time for Blizzard to move past this outdated system and provide players with more freedom in character creation.

    The profession system in Dragonflight is also complicated and convoluted. The crafting process is needlessly complicated, making it difficult to craft useful items for your character. It's frustrating to have to spend hours researching and crafting to create something that isn't even that great. The profession system needs a complete overhaul to make it more accessible and user-friendly.

    The class balancing in Dragonflight is also unimpressive. Some classes are just much more powerful than others, which leads to an unfair advantage in PvP and PvE situations. This imbalance can make the game less enjoyable for those who don't play the strongest classes, and it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

    The new race, Drakthyr, is also rather uncreative. Additionally, the fact that it can't use all playable races for its visage is a letdown.

    Finally, apart from the new feature of dragon riding, there aren't many new features in Dragonflight. It feels like a missed opportunity for Blizzard to introduce innovative gameplay mechanics and fresh content that would keep players invested in the game.

    In conclusion, while Dragonflight has its moments, it ultimately falls short of expectations due to its flawed loot system, outdated race segregation, complicated profession system, unbalanced classes, lack of open-world content and lack of new features.    … Expand
  11. elguru
    Mar 13, 2023
    5
    All I heard about the crying hardcore fanboys is: racist factions and no housing, lol you idiots, that will never happen. Why not talking about the grinding dailies, complicated and useless professions, terrible imbalanced classes, long queued pvp and the worst: no content for weeks, even months? This expansion is going to be as bad as WoD, RIP WOW.
  12. YongChi
    Mar 4, 2023
    3
    It is astonishing that Blizzard is charging us for such a bad expansion. Given how many bugs there are and how little new things they added, they should pay us for testing the game, because it plays like a Beta. Might be a little harsh on my part, but this expansion really is half-baked so far.

    Let's start with so-called new features: Dragon flying. It's good to let players fly right    It is astonishing that Blizzard is charging us for such a bad expansion. Given how many bugs there are and how little new things they added, they should pay us for testing the game, because it plays like a Beta. Might be a little harsh on my part, but this expansion really is half-baked so far.

    Let's start with so-called new features:
    Dragon flying. It's good to let players fly right at the beginning, but it is not really flying. It is a watered-down version of the flying system in Guild Wars 2.
    I am not in general against copying features from other games, but they should at least do it right. Dragon riding in wow is not good and so far we can only use four mounts in the new zone. Not fun.

    Dracthyr is an overhauled female Worgen model, which even kept some of the Worgen animations like the sitting pose. Not very innovative. The design by itself is in my opinion meh, especially the head is really tiny compared to the body.
    What bothers me the most however is the fact, that despite it being a dragon, the dracthyr can't use all playable races for visage, but only female human and blood elf. That and in dragon form they can't use transmogs.
    All in all this race looks like a last minute project, which never got finished.

    I wish there would be more new features, but that is pretty much all. So I fully understand people complaining that they got shafted with this expansion. Blizzard gave us more of the same, but of course charged us anyway for this expansion.

    I think what they should do in order to save this expansion is:
    Adding all playable races for visage and to give the dragon form transmogs.
    Making all races neutral and available for both factions asap. As many stated, racism should not be a pillar of this game.
    Get skilled devs for the classes.
    Update the graphics, models and expand on the customizations (no, not just 5 more hair colors every few months. That is laughable and pretty embarrassing).
    Add mmorpg features, instead of making everying about e-sport.
    Fixing the lore. Not sure if that is still possible after the last expansions, but a mmorpg with cringe story like the one in wow is not really fun to play.    … Expand
  13. playswtor
    Mar 3, 2023
    2
    Maybe someday I will wake up and see the game's rating 10/10, but not today... "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fu****g thing... over and over again expecting... s**t to change...". These words of a modern classic accurately describe the state of the game at the moment. (playswtor).
  14. Lars98
    Mar 2, 2023
    2
    I don't like it so far. Music is nice as always, but the rest is lackluster.
    So they gave us a new race, the Dracthyr, but let's be honest here, it is a reskin of an old model and doesn't even have two genders and it also can't wear clothes for some reason, only 2 sets or so. Yes, Blizzard makes us run around naked... Not my cup of tea. It is supposed to be a dragon race and dragons in    I don't like it so far. Music is nice as always, but the rest is lackluster.
    So they gave us a new race, the Dracthyr, but let's be honest here, it is a reskin of an old model and doesn't even have two genders and it also can't wear clothes for some reason, only 2 sets or so. Yes, Blizzard makes us run around naked... Not my cup of tea. It is supposed to be a dragon race and dragons in wow can look lile whatever they want.
    And so we meet another limitation, because unlike dragons the Dracthyr can only use male blood elf and female human for visage.
    Why? Probably because the devs are lazy like always.
    I can only repeat other people, but it is true, after almost 20 years there are still no updates for the visuals in this game. Most zones look hideous in wow.

    Another point I'd like to agree on is the criticism regarding racism in wow.
    The whole game uses racism as it's foundation. Let that sink in.
    Even though we are living in the 21. century. Racial segregation is not treated as bad, but as good for the faction system of Horde and Alliance. Race is more important than value. I think I don't need to add more.
    It's both from a gameplay perspective and from an ethical point of view a really bad restriction for the community. Races should be neutral, yet they aren't. Race is more important than anything else in this game. The way you look is what dictates what faction you are allowed to join.

    While dragon riding as the only new feature in this expansion makes travel across the dragon isles easier than in previous expansions, it becomes boring very fast. because we aren't allowed to use our normal mounts and dragon riding is also really bad for farming.

    Other than that there is really not much to talk about. Pretty much the same old restrictions, limitations and lack of standard mmo features like player housing. Not really a game I would recommend.    … Expand
  15. Porlek
    Mar 1, 2023
    3
    I find Dragonflight to be a little better than Shadowlands, but that's certainly no compliment considering how bad Shadowlands was. I bought the game, and I'm paying a subscription, so I force myself to log on now and again in an attempt to play it. It's so boring, and so bad, that I usually last somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour or so before logging off again.
    The professions    I find Dragonflight to be a little better than Shadowlands, but that's certainly no compliment considering how bad Shadowlands was. I bought the game, and I'm paying a subscription, so I force myself to log on now and again in an attempt to play it. It's so boring, and so bad, that I usually last somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour or so before logging off again.
    The professions (which used to be fun to some extent) is now broken beyond belief. And you have to grind rep with factions to be able to fully do the professions, that's if you put in the effort to learn the awful new broken system in the first place.
    The dragon flying is a chore at best, and the terrible design of the landscape means you need to occasionally try to fly places in order to get there at all. As others have stated, the concept was copied from Guild Wars 2, but somehow made less fun.
    The storyline is completely boring, and I cannot find it in me to care about any of it.
    You may ask why I bought it? Because I had heard it was better than Shadowlands, and because the critic reviews didn't seem too bad. They were wrong, it's awful.
    You may ask why I still subscribe? Because I enjoy World of Warcraft Classic, which is the only reason to continue to subscribe to the game at all. I can still enjoy VERY old content. World of Warcraft hasn't actually been a good game in years. Such a pity.    … Expand
  16. Sosoray
    Feb 27, 2023
    1
    Pretty bad so far and it is even worse with all the bugs this time than it was in bfa and sl.

    Like... I can't use the revival catalyst even though I have the 385 cloth chest vestment of raging tempest for example. Or all the bugs with the trading post, which took over a week to fix and it is still rather buggy sometimes. Or all the chests on the dragon isles, which are unopenable like    Pretty bad so far and it is even worse with all the bugs this time than it was in bfa and sl.

    Like... I can't use the revival catalyst even though I have the 385 cloth chest vestment of raging tempest for example. Or all the bugs with the trading post, which took over a week to fix and it is still rather buggy sometimes. Or all the chests on the dragon isles, which are unopenable like the icy lock and molten lock chests. Like... can you fix this crazy amount of bugs pls? There are so many more bugs, it's ridiculous.

    Same goes for this crazy rich company and their complete lack of investment in older zones. They use graphics from the early 2000s. Like wtf is wong with the devs. This game looks so old and ugly. It is also rather ugly to keep racial segregation like I saw a few mention already. Like... what gives to keep such a racist system for the factions Blizzard?

    Overall there is not much to name in this expansion. We get basically the same things like always, so be prepared to get bored very fast if you are not a m+ raider. I don't like that weird looking Dracthyr race either. Looks like Worgen with scales and it has only male blood elf and female human with rainbow hair for visage. Not really appealing and really boring looking.    … Expand
  17. Ravenjaden
    Feb 26, 2023
    10
    one of the best expsnsion of wow since legion . This expansion goes back to the strengths that made wow great .new updates and patches are coming quickly and regularly.
  18. TristanX
    Feb 26, 2023
    4
    Better than Shadowlands.

    Pros: Better graphics. Better music. Dragonriding. Alt friendly. No borrowed power. Cons. Graphics still dated. Music still significantly lags behind the main competitor. (2-4 CDs vs 1?) Group loot that encourages ninjas. (Big con. At least 3 cases on the raids I'm in.) No teleport anywhere. Story is meh... Characters could use some improvement.    Better than Shadowlands.

    Pros:
    Better graphics.
    Better music.
    Dragonriding.
    Alt friendly.
    No borrowed power.

    Cons.
    Graphics still dated.
    Music still significantly lags behind the main competitor. (2-4 CDs vs 1?)
    Group loot that encourages ninjas. (Big con. At least 3 cases on the raids I'm in.)
    No teleport anywhere.
    Story is meh...
    Characters could use some improvement. One toon is all you need on the main competitor.
    No flying with old mounts.    … Expand
  19. Shigio
    Feb 23, 2023
    2
    Terrible, just terrible. There is nothing impressive about this expansion and it is certainly not worth it's money atm.
    It is still a worthless timegated game full of brainlessly grinds, to keep you paying your monthly sub fee.
    I agree mostly with what other players already wrote. No innovation, no updates on the graphics or customization options/models, ton of discrimination in the    Terrible, just terrible. There is nothing impressive about this expansion and it is certainly not worth it's money atm.
    It is still a worthless timegated game full of brainlessly grinds, to keep you paying your monthly sub fee.

    I agree mostly with what other players already wrote. No innovation, no updates on the graphics or customization options/models, ton of discrimination in the community along with the racist faction system, which is still forcing us to choose a side solely on race, many bugs, a very lazy Worgen reskin, which was sold to us as a brand new race and it can only use male belf and female human for visage and the dragon form can't wear clothes, cringe story...

    2 points are really only for a decent soundtrack and for not continuing the dumb faction war story.    … Expand
  20. Roagan
    Feb 20, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight is very dull and uninspired. Story is rep gated, cant even enjoy that. Professions are a convuluted mess. The community is as bad as ever, but to no wonder, given that they play a game with racism for Alliance and Horde, namely racial segregation of races apart from Pandaren and Dracthyr.
    No wonder some players adapt such racist mindset and use it against other players. This    Dragonflight is very dull and uninspired. Story is rep gated, cant even enjoy that. Professions are a convuluted mess. The community is as bad as ever, but to no wonder, given that they play a game with racism for Alliance and Horde, namely racial segregation of races apart from Pandaren and Dracthyr.
    No wonder some players adapt such racist mindset and use it against other players. This game is basically a heaven for people, who want to live out racism. Seriously, do not go in voice chat, if you want to run a raid or dungeon. If other player notice you have a dialect, instead of pure American english, they will harass you. I've lost count on how many times this happened. The devs foster to these people with their racist faction system. Wouldn't even be surprised, if some of them are racist aswell, given the lawsuit and all and since they are still keeping racial segregation in wow and seem to be proud of such a toxic system.
    The developers are also more into a spam dungeon type game vs giving us an actual mmo. In short, same old game with the same outdated stuff and mentality.    … Expand
  21. demned
    Feb 19, 2023
    2
    Довольно дерьмовое продолжение. Одним словом - гонки на драконах которые управляются через жопу. Все квесты через это. Кругом эти драконы которые противно визжат. Контента мало до отчаянья. Профессии превратили в дрочь и услажненку. Подземелья через жопу . Половина с криворукими полетами где все через жопу. Игра умудряется по стилистике походить на отстойные игры 2000х. Если есть какой тоДовольно дерьмовое продолжение. Одним словом - гонки на драконах которые управляются через жопу. Все квесты через это. Кругом эти драконы которые противно визжат. Контента мало до отчаянья. Профессии превратили в дрочь и услажненку. Подземелья через жопу . Половина с криворукими полетами где все через жопу. Игра умудряется по стилистике походить на отстойные игры 2000х. Если есть какой то выбор - не стоит и начинать. За это они должны доплачивать. яПрошел через неделю, описание одно - ГОВНО… Expand
  22. Innrey
    Feb 18, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. most buget game in the world. Disconnect on arena after charge. Disconnect from arena after leap... any time disconect from arena and u loosing rating and u loosing your time. THX BLIIZZart. hope u do somethink or DUCK oFF… Expand
  23. diralark
    Feb 18, 2023
    0
    worst extension ever :O
    Nothing is right, all is poor, incredible !!!
    Can't find any idea to reach least 75 characters long in this comment coz : this game is nothing !
  24. IzzyCA
    Feb 17, 2023
    2
    It is better than previous expansions, yet carried over previous issues like the racist faction system as mentioned by others, that needs to go already, all races should be neutral and also gearing for example, they nerfed it in SL, and then made some powerful items rare drops which furthered the issue.
    Then all the myriad issues with the traders system, the botched key scaling that took    It is better than previous expansions, yet carried over previous issues like the racist faction system as mentioned by others, that needs to go already, all races should be neutral and also gearing for example, they nerfed it in SL, and then made some powerful items rare drops which furthered the issue.
    Then all the myriad issues with the traders system, the botched key scaling that took too long to solve, and just overall the DF dungeons being tedious to play due to all the interrupts.
    Renown has too much tied up into it. Professions are annoyingly over complicated and you will have no fun healing in dungeons. That I can guarantee you.    … Expand
  25. Znippii
    Feb 14, 2023
    1
    The devs just never learn, even after 2 big failures they bring out another failure of expansion.

    If you didn't like the previous expansion you won't like this one. Simply because for some reason the devs just keep holding on to the same archaic stuff, that clearly didn't work, but they keep it anyway. This constant raid, m+ or die mentality is incredibly hurtful to the game, because    The devs just never learn, even after 2 big failures they bring out another failure of expansion.

    If you didn't like the previous expansion you won't like this one. Simply because for some reason the devs just keep holding on to the same archaic stuff, that clearly didn't work, but they keep it anyway. This constant raid, m+ or die mentality is incredibly hurtful to the game, because they sell it as a mmorpg, yet it has become nothing but an e-sport game and even at that it is bad, because they can't balance classes properly.

    Regarding rpg you get almost nothing and definitely nothing new. This game is now 18 years or so old. Normal devs, especially those with so much money on their hands like Blizzard, would maybe start updating their game, the graphics, the player models, customizations, normal features for today's games like player housing and proper gear... they ignore all of it. Like literally all of it.
    This game's world is a dumpster fire to put it lightly and ugly to look at, beginning with the character selection screen, which not only forces you to take part in a racist faction system based on racial segregation, it also gives you poorly aged avatars, that didn't even receive basic things like sliders and color pallets over the last two decades.

    Professions aren't fun either. It feels like a gold sink and if you do alts, it feels like a job. It feels now like a chore to do more quests to keep up with the knowledge points so professions are taking up even more time, arbitrarily for barely any return. The crafting order system is truly a nightmare. Even crafting consumables for yourself is a gold loss because the mats cost more than the product does on the auction house.    … Expand
  26. Max9944
    Feb 13, 2023
    10
    Dont listen the blizzard hater with her review bombing... WoW DF is a really really good xpack since a looonnng time.
  27. Fleik
    Feb 13, 2023
    3
    To call this expansion bare-bones and lackluster would be an understatement.
    There is nothing new, nothing that could keep players in the game for more than a month apart from raids and m+... as per usual. A huge letdown yet again.
    No player housing. No free faction choice, still racism. Still visuals from 2005. Still a messy world with inappropriate time lines all over the place. No    To call this expansion bare-bones and lackluster would be an understatement.
    There is nothing new, nothing that could keep players in the game for more than a month apart from raids and m+... as per usual. A huge letdown yet again.
    No player housing. No free faction choice, still racism. Still visuals from 2005. Still a messy world with inappropriate time lines all over the place. No noteworthy customizations and model updates.Class balance is a mess. Solo shuffle has 40 minutes queue times for dps. Meta is horrible for healers. Group loot makes the community even more toxic than it was before. The crafting system is a mess. You constantly stumble over dozens of bugs. The new race is just a reskin and not actually new and despite it being a dragon it doesn't even let you choose all of the playable races for visage. Not good so far. Really, really not good. Maybe better than bfa, wod and sl, but that is a very low bar.    … Expand
  28. Alforian
    Feb 10, 2023
    8
    I like it ! ( I can't comment because story is not completed yet. ) and ( There are too many unnecessary negative comments. )

    + Dragon riding
    + New Crafting System
    + Return to Azeroth
    + New maps are good
    + New Raid
    + Alt Friendly

    - Lags, Bugs & Crashes
    - Graphics are bad compared to other games
    - Evoker does not satisfy
  29. Rogerios
    Feb 10, 2023
    2
    Guess it is time to just give up on this dated game.

    Racism is the very cornerstone of this game. You can't choose the faction you like and at the same time all the races you like, because racial segregation ist still a thing in this game. Considering the kind of devs, who work on this game it doesn't come as a surprise, though. The story, while bad and not really worth getting into    Guess it is time to just give up on this dated game.

    Racism is the very cornerstone of this game. You can't choose the faction you like and at the same time all the races you like, because racial segregation ist still a thing in this game. Considering the kind of devs, who work on this game it doesn't come as a surprise, though.
    The story, while bad and not really worth getting into after Legion, is locked yet again behind a gigantic renown grind. Why? Because the devs love your monthly sub fee.
    While fair play is a foreign word in this game, because of class imbalance, you wouldn't even want to participate in raiding. Dungeons and raids this time around are very boring.
    This game is also dated when it comes to it's graphics, no player housing, awful gear and clunky looking player models with almost no customizations.
    The world feels empty, even though my realm is supposed to be full. You really see how many players left over the last few years. wow almost feels like a ghost town these days.
    A ton of bugs in this expansion aren't helping either. Can't give it more than 2 points so far.

    I really don't know if they can save this expansion. We will see.    … Expand
  30. hellbard
    Feb 10, 2023
    1
    DF is "better" than SL in some ways. There is no borrowed power that you need to grind for, which is a good thing, and there is a new flight mechanic that is more modern and active.

    But, at least for me, the game play loop is really tedious... The dungeons in M+, for me, feel terrible. The new way of achievming KSM is kinda bad too. The new raid is, at least for me, is really boring...    DF is "better" than SL in some ways. There is no borrowed power that you need to grind for, which is a good thing, and there is a new flight mechanic that is more modern and active.

    But, at least for me, the game play loop is really tedious... The dungeons in M+, for me, feel terrible. The new way of achievming KSM is kinda bad too. The new raid is, at least for me, is really boring... Idk, maybe I just got old and can't stand WoW anymore.

    I've been playing FFXIV for the last year... It's just so much better in every way possible. I came back to try DF because I feel like WoW is my "home"... But it's just so bad... And we're not even talking about the lore... The game history got better since SL, but it still terrible.

    And now the best part... They introduced a "battle pass"... Now you can always have that delicious FOMO we all know and love...

    Blizzard is dead and gone, no reason to keep playing their stuff... I'll probably try the next expansion, but yeah... We have better options right now    … Expand
  31. artchild
    Feb 9, 2023
    2
    The story in so damn bad.. No more soul in World of Warcraft unfortunatualy. Every single strong dragon is a - Woman, every single dialogue between main characters feel like bad comedian joke, zero new mechanics, game is very boring and etc.

    Blizzard have no time to find a good story writer but they have time to remove some old queasts what they find "abusive" or chancge gender icon    The story in so damn bad.. No more soul in World of Warcraft unfortunatualy. Every single strong dragon is a - Woman, every single dialogue between main characters feel like bad comedian joke, zero new mechanics, game is very boring and etc.

    Blizzard have no time to find a good story writer but they have time to remove some old queasts what they find "abusive" or chancge gender icon from male/female - to bodytype 1/2. They have a so damn many different people working in their company what contains "inclusivity and diversity" but noone from these "inclusive" people have no clue about World of Warcraft, that's why this game is getting worse and worse.

    Only one good stuff about this DLC is riding dragons - that's it.    … Expand
  32. Mabuhay20
    Feb 7, 2023
    4
    I enjoy the storyline and zones. But the community is pretty divided. I can understand if there are SOME bad apples. But to me, I think half the player base is unfriendly. If you don't meet the group leader's standards you are likely to be removed, benched, or made fun of. For example, being removed from a group because of their server. It's just so dumb to me, and then to see playersI enjoy the storyline and zones. But the community is pretty divided. I can understand if there are SOME bad apples. But to me, I think half the player base is unfriendly. If you don't meet the group leader's standards you are likely to be removed, benched, or made fun of. For example, being removed from a group because of their server. It's just so dumb to me, and then to see players argue it's the group leader's choice. When really they know, heck I KNOW..... that these players are abusing the vote-to-kick or removal system.

    Dailies, well I had lost interest in grinding to max renown, especially when realizing that I was working towards a reskin of a mount. Pretty much a reward that isn't of use to me as a casual player.

    Lastly PVP, oh boy I feel like Blizzard threw pvp in the trash we barely get any sort of new content added. Like NEW OBJECTIVE battleground and epic battleground maps. Classes in general need to be balanced. I shouldn't experience or see players 1-2 shooting each other.

    Overall Dragonflight is a step in the right direction but they need to fix these unaddressed issues that linger into every expansion. I see these same problems and it just gets worse.    … Expand
  33. Lami871
    Feb 7, 2023
    0
    Third awful expansion in a row. gg Blizzard.
    Story is poorly designed, boring, cringe and doesn't fix all the retcons and plot holes from previous expansions. It is also locked behind a renown grind.
    Trading Post aka FOMO Post is heavily bugged since launch. Crafting was turned into a senselessly mess. Races for factions are still heavily restricted, because the devs keep holding on to    Third awful expansion in a row. gg Blizzard.
    Story is poorly designed, boring, cringe and doesn't fix all the retcons and plot holes from previous expansions. It is also locked behind a renown grind.
    Trading Post aka FOMO Post is heavily bugged since launch.
    Crafting was turned into a senselessly mess.
    Races for factions are still heavily restricted, because the devs keep holding on to racism.
    Literally zero innovation. No player housing, no proper updates on customizations, no graphic overhaul, no nothing, just a copy&paste version, but worse, from GW2s dragon riding.
    Countless maintenances because of all the bugs.
    Classes are as imbalanced as ever.    … Expand
  34. MonkeyDLuffy199
    Feb 6, 2023
    10
    I love this game. played since 2004

    Some negative comments just compare it to their favorite game and want races to be in both factions which clearly know nothing about the lore and want blizzard to butcher it. Google the lore YouTube it to like the game more if you are into the lore. The lore of world of warcraft is slow pacing you need to know a lot of it to understand what's going    I love this game. played since 2004

    Some negative comments just compare it to their favorite game and want races to be in both factions which clearly know nothing about the lore and want blizzard to butcher it. Google the lore YouTube it to like the game more if you are into the lore. The lore of world of warcraft is slow pacing you need to know a lot of it to understand what's going on.

    You need to finish the old content expansions if you want to visit old zones and see fights stopped. yeah some zones are out dated but not many go there anyway but i give you that. they should update those zones.

    the game overall is great not much grinding like before. Sad no account wide reputations though which will help with the grinding.

    to me overall is the best game the play style the dragon flying the zones are so big this time so much to explore.    … Expand
  35. Yellowi
    Feb 6, 2023
    1
    Dragonflight is broken af.
    It plays like a beta with all of it's bugs and completly broken systems. Just recently they released a fomo driven new feature named the trading post, which is also broken for days now. Both quest, chest and achievement is bugged.
    Completing a hunt is getting you no credit for aiding the accord by the way and my crimson gladiator necklace that I just bought    Dragonflight is broken af.
    It plays like a beta with all of it's bugs and completly broken systems. Just recently they released a fomo driven new feature named the trading post, which is also broken for days now. Both quest, chest and achievement is bugged.
    Completing a hunt is getting you no credit for aiding the accord by the way and my crimson gladiator necklace that I just bought today says the item cannot be modified when attempting to use any of the tiered medallion settings on it.
    I agree with others on metacritic too, though. Stuff like the racist faction system with it's toxic separation for playable races is horrible and not fitting for this century anymore. You have no free choice, if you want to be a certain race. Because everything in this game is divided and restricted to no end. It's awful.
    They also bring the servers down to fix their item shop, while so much around it is on fire. Scaling problems all over, idk why there's so many echants with an ilvl cap when you can't even use it because you zoom past the ilvl.
    So many zones are broken into multiple timelines now, there's no consistency with the open world anymore. Just a personal laundry list of complaints piling up.    … Expand
  36. topHunter
    Feb 5, 2023
    10
    My favourite game , i playing DF since November only best emotions good activities good guild i found like it 10/10
  37. KatarinaBest
    Feb 5, 2023
    10
    best game i ever played in 10 years i found my friends and daily activities here dungeons keys raids just 10/10
  38. serzas212
    Feb 5, 2023
    10
    best game ever, i really really like playing world of warcraft you can find friends do dungeons and raids :) 10/10
  39. Antoshka1111
    Feb 5, 2023
    10
    Игра детства обрела новый аддон , близарды гении, улучая игра всех времен и народов , жаль мало кто делает такие классные игры.
  40. Elejoe
    Feb 4, 2023
    2
    This game is a gigantic failure and hardly deserves a higher score than 2/10.
    You would think after battle for azeroth and shadowlands they would try to improve at any cost. Nope.
    Dragonflight overall is mediocre I would say. Nothing new, tons of reskins and recolors and a stolen system with dragon riding. Story is meh. Same garbage systems like racial segregation for Horde and    This game is a gigantic failure and hardly deserves a higher score than 2/10.
    You would think after battle for azeroth and shadowlands they would try to improve at any cost. Nope.

    Dragonflight overall is mediocre I would say. Nothing new, tons of reskins and recolors and a stolen system with dragon riding. Story is meh. Same garbage systems like racial segregation for Horde and Alliance and big imbalance for classes and a bad system for professions.

    What does make it a gigantic failure however are all the game breaking bugs, constant maintenances and almost daily hotfixes that don't fix anything.
    The newest example would be their new FOMO trap for collectors, the trading post. It's completly broken for days and radio silence so far from Blizzard after they said they supposedly fixed it. It isn't fixed at all and still full of bugs.

    Seriously, do not play this game at the moment.    … Expand
  41. jaguare19
    Feb 3, 2023
    0
    A game that doesn't give you a reward for your effort because you don't have to do it. Sad game for a really good artist direction and universe. I don't recommend.
  42. Cindra
    Feb 2, 2023
    0
    Buggiest expansion I've ever seen. Very many maintenances, so you can't even play it most of the time, especially, if you have a real life next to gaming and can't afford playing for the short periods of time every now and then when the servers are up.
    Quests are hyper focused on lgbtq... at the same time the whole game is built on racial segregation. Racism is fine I guess? Which is it    Buggiest expansion I've ever seen. Very many maintenances, so you can't even play it most of the time, especially, if you have a real life next to gaming and can't afford playing for the short periods of time every now and then when the servers are up.
    Quests are hyper focused on lgbtq... at the same time the whole game is built on racial segregation. Racism is fine I guess? Which is it Blizzard? Being progessive or the wish to keep racism for playable races? Can't be both. :))
    The Worgen reskin Evoker is uninspired and odd looking.
    Dragon riding is fine, but it doesn't save such a lackluster game.
    Cancelled my sub. Really bad experience.    … Expand
  43. Paris_St
    Feb 1, 2023
    0
    I used to be a big fun, adored the game, it was my favourite game. I had some of the best years of my gaming life playing WoW. What it has become saddens me so much. I miss the good old days blizz cared for their games and community. It was not just a product, it was if i can describe it right a living organism. Now....just a husk of it's former self with nothing but a goddamn in gameI used to be a big fun, adored the game, it was my favourite game. I had some of the best years of my gaming life playing WoW. What it has become saddens me so much. I miss the good old days blizz cared for their games and community. It was not just a product, it was if i can describe it right a living organism. Now....just a husk of it's former self with nothing but a goddamn in game shop, a bunch of cosmetics and a huge amount of copying and pasting.… Expand
  44. Ubungo
    Feb 1, 2023
    3
    Bugs as far as the eye can reach.
    Faction imbalance still being ignored - Still racial segregation, while all races really should be neutral by now in order to give players free choice for factions. But I guess the devs really love their racist faction system? Idk. No cross faction guilds, questing, chat, trade and no cross faction lfr/lfd.
    Class imbalance is a dumpster fire in this    Bugs as far as the eye can reach.
    Faction imbalance still being ignored - Still racial segregation, while all races really should be neutral by now in order to give players free choice for factions. But I guess the devs really love their racist faction system? Idk. No cross faction guilds, questing, chat, trade and no cross faction lfr/lfd.
    Class imbalance is a dumpster fire in this expansion. Unplayable specs.
    Broken profession system.
    Customizations are like from a game from 2009, so little is there to choose and on top of that some races get noticeably less than other races.
    Story is really cringe, similar to bfa and shadowlands. It's also weird that the "Champion" of Azeroth just defeated the "Jailer" yesterday and today can't even handle some gnolls or a dragon, which makes bad weather.
    Graphics never get updated. Considering this game is almost 20 years old... yes, older zones and even the capitals look hideous.
    Solo and in general casual content is almost not there. This game still makes almost everything about raiding. That's one of the many reasons why this game isn't appealing.
    I only gave it 3 points out of 10 because it is at least a bit better than bfa and shadowlands, but as soon as my sub runs out... bye bye.
    There are not enough fun things in this game and it is so far behind other games and it annoys me that they still keep such racist aspects, that I really don't feel like supporting Blizzard any longer. I gave them so many chances to improve themselves and I think I'm just done with that company now.    … Expand
  45. Rankere
    Jan 29, 2023
    2
    There is really no fun in playing this outdated game that is even neglected by it's own developers by the looks of it.
    Because if you squeeze that much money out of your customers through very high xpansion costs, monthly sub and all the microtransactions and aren't ashamed that this game doesn't even reach the bare minimum of what you should expect from a modern mmorpg... then there is    There is really no fun in playing this outdated game that is even neglected by it's own developers by the looks of it.
    Because if you squeeze that much money out of your customers through very high xpansion costs, monthly sub and all the microtransactions and aren't ashamed that this game doesn't even reach the bare minimum of what you should expect from a modern mmorpg... then there is very obviously something wrong with this company.

    No player housing, almost no customization options -have fun with your nine hair styles, lol, seriously, wow is even worse than many mobile games with it' customizations, no dyable gear, 2 decade old graphics without any upgrades whatsoever in old zones, almost no emotes for characters, a racist faction system that is still treated as a good system.
    Like wtf?
    How are the developers still fine with a systematic separation of playable races instead of just giving players free faction choice? Do they not understand how living beings (yes even in a game) work? Or do they miss the old days in the USA and want to live that out in their game? Imagine socially enforced separation in 2023, that is treated as a pillar of this game's structure. Big yikes.
    It's just a very awkward mindset in this game, which is enforced on it's players and takes also away a big chunk of player freedom.

    Also the fact that so much is behind gates. Story, professions, raid and so on. I don’t want to have to grind rep to just find out the story or actually play the game. The story isn't worth grinding for anyway. Slightly better maybe than the mess that was bfa and shadowlands, but still very awful. You would have to obliterate the first half of bfa and all of shadowlands, if you would try to fix this mess.

    The so called new stuff in Dragonflight isn't good either and on top of that all the bugs in this expansion....
    Instead of creating a new race the developers just took the female Worgen model and put scales on it and this reskin is just... ok, that is my opinion, but it is so very ugly... The body is just so... uncanny-valley. Just really weird looking and since you can't transmog clothes you either take their standard outfit or run around naked. Yes, literally. Just nope. It doesn't help that this race can only be one class and only use female human and male blood elf for visage either. In my opinion a big failure.
    Professions as already mentioned are overly complicated, gated and just awful and dragonriding is maybe fun for some hours but it get's tiresome really soon.

    2 out of 10. Without big improvements this game won't see me again. So my advice atm: Stay away from Dragonflight. It will safe you a lot of frustration and money.    … Expand
  46. woogwun
    Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Dev's try to drag content as much as possible. There are less Raid bosses and new M+ dungeons but difficulty is increased and rewards less, so it takes longer to complete. If I wanted multi month project then I would just go for second job that actually pays me money. I am playing video game I want fast dopamine secretion. They turned profession into hot garbage, so they can sell moreDev's try to drag content as much as possible. There are less Raid bosses and new M+ dungeons but difficulty is increased and rewards less, so it takes longer to complete. If I wanted multi month project then I would just go for second job that actually pays me money. I am playing video game I want fast dopamine secretion. They turned profession into hot garbage, so they can sell more tokens like they did in Shadowlands. which is funny because they said they wouldn't do that in interview. Only good thing about Dragonflight is flying, and I wouldn't really call that "content" Wow is pretty much in maintenance mode now. Ion Trying to milk it as much as he can until it dies. "We can always change game engines" no you can't you sh!tty liar. You can't even fix simple bugs for months now. Oh did I tell you about all the bugs? Constant lags, disconnects, "There are already character with same name" yea that is me so let me in.
    Watching wow player is like watching kids with violent parents who just got restraining order. My parents doesn't beat me up anymore so they are great! No... they are still really bad parents.    … Expand
  47. Akkasuki
    Jan 27, 2023
    1
    Not happy with this game.

    It becomes very clear that the main focus of the devs seem to be to make wow look like an e-sport game. Given how big the imbalance of classes and factions is, well, wow should not have a horse in this race. Some specs are simply unplayable in this expansion and the constant hotfixes didn't make the situation any better so far. Since it is a mmoRPG you would    Not happy with this game.

    It becomes very clear that the main focus of the devs seem to be to make wow look like an e-sport game. Given how big the imbalance of classes and factions is, well, wow should not have a horse in this race. Some specs are simply unplayable in this expansion and the constant hotfixes didn't make the situation any better so far.

    Since it is a mmoRPG you would think, well, just enjoy the rpg aspect then. Yeah, no. You simply can't. I fully agree on the stuff other people on metacritic already said.
    Sorry, if that sounds a bit rude, but the rpg part in wow is absolute garbage.

    Playable races:
    1.) Have outdated and clunky models.
    2.) Have almost no customization options.
    3.) Are still segregated between factions. If you want to be a dwarf for example, but also want be loyal to the Horde... forget it. You can't choose your favorite faction and your favorite races because of the archaic divide in this game.

    Player housing?
    There is no player housing in this mmoRPG

    How about the story?
    During wow's prime times (wrath and Legion) the story was fine, but still mediocre. Yet still good enough to enjoy it. For the last couple of years however it's trash full of retcons and cringe storytelling.

    How about exploring the world?
    Not only are the graphics very outdated as pointed out by many people already, it's a complete patchwork rug regarding the story. The devs simply don't care for the world and that shows.

    Ok... then, no rpg aspect to enjoy in this game, no raiding... how about pvp?
    Again, huge class imbalance.

    Sorry, but there is just no reason to play this game at the moment.
    Don't even get me started on all the bugs or the horrible new crafting and profession system.    … Expand
  48. rkh80
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    Huge imbalance of the classes and specs. The most gamebreaking bugs in a wow game since 2004 release. Clueless developers that seem out of touch and desperate. Sleazy stealth changes to things that continue to disrespect players and their time.

    It is a game full of annoyances and frustration due to underqualified staff and clueless management.
  49. vligon
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    - No longer feels like WoW.
    - Customize is nice, but give players option to use the old UI. HATE the new UI.
    - First time I've ever been bored by a Blizzard cutscene. Looks rushed and lacks passion compared to any previous expansions / games. - Just terrible overall compared to Shadowlands. - Separate class / spec talent trees are a mess. - Feels like playing Mass Effect: Andromeda    - No longer feels like WoW.
    - Customize is nice, but give players option to use the old UI. HATE the new UI.
    - First time I've ever been bored by a Blizzard cutscene. Looks rushed and lacks passion compared to any previous expansions / games.
    - Just terrible overall compared to Shadowlands.
    - Separate class / spec talent trees are a mess.
    - Feels like playing Mass Effect: Andromeda after playing previous Mass Effect games.
    - Played for less than a day and have already cancelled my subscription.

    Big Ol' cash grab :(    … Expand
  50. farside79
    Jan 25, 2023
    2
    I wanted to like it. I quit SL in April of 2021 and the hope of Dragonflight brought me back. My career and home life dictate that I cannot raid for hours on end or even really dedicate as much to the game as I used to. I was hopeful that DF would incorporate more solo/open-world play and similar but that just isn't the case. WOW cannot seem to keep up or adapt or include options forI wanted to like it. I quit SL in April of 2021 and the hope of Dragonflight brought me back. My career and home life dictate that I cannot raid for hours on end or even really dedicate as much to the game as I used to. I was hopeful that DF would incorporate more solo/open-world play and similar but that just isn't the case. WOW cannot seem to keep up or adapt or include options for emerging player markets and it has demonstrated this in year over year decline. I will likely quit this expansion again soon. Unfortunate. Update: Stuck around until 10.5 "content" patch. This patch, which took roughly 12 hours to implement is buggy, laggy and messy. It adds nothing of value for solo players while providing nothing of value for players who already out gear the content. It is clear that Blizz is unable or unwilling to adapt and Blizzard has failed (or do not want to) see that gamers have changed and the days of spending 20-30 hours per week raiding and similar are over.… Expand
  51. woodpost
    Jan 24, 2023
    2
    Blizz is increasingly only focusing on the narrow band of players that predominantly just want to push M+/Raids, and PVP. they've done this by fast-tracking the leveling experience, and gutting or removing most of the content and systems that slowed these players down, or didn't appeal to them. as a result, there's almost no fun/meaningful/rewarding solo/open-world content for the rest ofBlizz is increasingly only focusing on the narrow band of players that predominantly just want to push M+/Raids, and PVP. they've done this by fast-tracking the leveling experience, and gutting or removing most of the content and systems that slowed these players down, or didn't appeal to them. as a result, there's almost no fun/meaningful/rewarding solo/open-world content for the rest of us to progress through or engage with. i think Blizz meant for the professions revamp to fill some of the void, but it's far too expensive and convoluted for most players to deal with. if you're mostly a solo/open-world type player, this is definitely not an expansion for you.… Expand
  52. Tow81
    Jan 24, 2023
    2
    After quietly reading the opinion on metacritic for a long time I've now decided to create my own account, so I can share my review on this game. I took long breaks during battle for azeroth and shadowlands, because in my opinion these were really bad expansions, but I was still willing to give wow another chance with Dragonflight, because this game does have potential to be good... butAfter quietly reading the opinion on metacritic for a long time I've now decided to create my own account, so I can share my review on this game. I took long breaks during battle for azeroth and shadowlands, because in my opinion these were really bad expansions, but I was still willing to give wow another chance with Dragonflight, because this game does have potential to be good... but now I'm really at a point where I'm considering to quit for good and many things that are being criticized reflect my own points, but for this review I would like to focus only on the things that bother me the most.

    So here we go.

    It is noticeable that Dragonflight is very buggy. Even more so than previous expansions and this game always had problems with bugs.
    The field of ferocity quest chain for example has been broken since launch. In my case the enemies glitch out and stop at one hp, so you have to start over again and that has happened several times. The toggle auto self cast keybind has not been functioning for weeks, to name another example. It just straight up doesn’t work at all, in any way. It's just frustrating. The skills on my action bars for Evoker will go randomly gray like if I couldn’t use the spells. They are still usable, yes, but it is still really annoying, because it very often happens during combat.
    I could go on, but there are just so many bugs that I keep it short. You really have to wonder, who greenlighted this expansion to go live in this broken state.

    Another point is class and faction imbalance. It has been a big problem for years, but in this expansion it's just... you simply can't play some classes because they perform so poorly, while other classes more or less one shot you. You also notice how insecure the developers seem to be with class design, looking at the constant nerfs and buffs, which seem to happen very randomly.

    This means if you plan to play halfway decent in this game you have to face several limitations at once:

    First being faction choice. Because oft the faction imbalance you rather not pick the unpopulated of the two choices or you will face several obstacles, be it in pve or pvp, you simply will have a harder time on this side.
    Then of course there are races. Another point I strongly agree with. Half of the races won't be available for you, if you decide to join one of the two factions. So there is another big limitation for you, if you would like to play as some of those races. Another unnecessary limitation players have to face.
    Third are classes as I already mentioned above. You will have a really bad time, if you choose some of the classes.

    That are three very big limitations for player choice, that simply shouldn't be there and make the game just frustrating in so many ways.
    By all means keep factions, but all these limitations need to be removed. Wow really needs free race choice for factions, more cross faction options and the classes desperately need an overhaul.    … Expand
  53. Friver
    Jan 22, 2023
    3
    I would say so far it’s only slightly better than WoD, BfA and Shadowlands. If not equal. It’s very barebones, buggy, customization options are still laughable for a mmo, the features are lackluster, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms and Northend still have their outdated graphics and the story is still meh.
    The client also performs worse than I’ve ever seen in WoW history.
    Dragonflight was    I would say so far it’s only slightly better than WoD, BfA and Shadowlands. If not equal. It’s very barebones, buggy, customization options are still laughable for a mmo, the features are lackluster, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms and Northend still have their outdated graphics and the story is still meh.
    The client also performs worse than I’ve ever seen in WoW history.
    Dragonflight was Blizzard's chance to show the community they were serious about restoring the IP, and all they did was revert to the same tactics to take more money from it’s players with tedious, repetitive and frustrating tasks.
    And yeah, I saw the critism about racial segregation. Make it plus one, because it really sucks to have something like that still in the game.
    Blizzard has also made being a caster completely unfun and a tedious slog of constant movement for mechanics that don’t affect melee or allow melee to continue to move while sidestepping. They don’t seem to really understand where the imbalance is so they’re blindly throwing everything at the wall. It’s like they don’t even play their own game. When you gut specs without a clue, it invalidates the choices players made and disrespects their time just like the racist faction system. Players shouldn't feel forced to play certain things, if they don't want to.
    Class imbalance needs to be fixed asap, just like all races need to be neutral. Otherwise this game continues to be that annoying and frustrating mess, which it has been for years.    … Expand
  54. Fallconex
    Jan 22, 2023
    6
    Something new, fresh and innovative, but not enough at all. Still a money sucker game with content spread in time.
  55. Roindi
    Jan 21, 2023
    2
    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to get in this xpac thanks group loot.
    Class design is still in the gutter. Racism is still the cornerstone of this game, meaning players can't play their favorite faction, if their favorite races are in the other faction. Seriously, in what century are    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to get in this xpac thanks group loot.
    Class design is still in the gutter.
    Racism is still the cornerstone of this game, meaning players can't play their favorite faction, if their favorite races are in the other faction. Seriously, in what century are the devs even living in?
    Crafting and profession system is made even more confusing and is now hard to get into.
    The fact that the main quest line is rep locked made me instantly stop caring about it.
    Customization options for races? Player housing... um... what customization? What player housing?
    Meaningful world content and visual overhaul? Good joke.

    If you are only looking for m+ content this game might be ok enough for you, just pick the right classes because of the severe class imbalance, but raids and dungeons are pretty much the only thing the devs seem to care for.    … Expand
  56. dpadwarrior
    Jan 20, 2023
    0
    I really can't comment on the dragonflight since i'm unable to play it. The new UI they they implemented with the pre-expansion patch totally broke my player that after 4 months they still have not fixed. The new ui created a bug where you bags disappear and even if you buy new bags and equip them and log out, upon log in those bags will disappear too. This has happened to a lot of peopleI really can't comment on the dragonflight since i'm unable to play it. The new UI they they implemented with the pre-expansion patch totally broke my player that after 4 months they still have not fixed. The new ui created a bug where you bags disappear and even if you buy new bags and equip them and log out, upon log in those bags will disappear too. This has happened to a lot of people and they ignore the problem or cant figure out how to fix it. I played this toon since 07 and now unable to play it. If anyone knows inventory is huge in wow and just playing with a backpack does not work. With that said i do visit from time to time to see if my bags are back. The jar jar binks looking "dragon" class look dumb. Even dumber on mount. The new talent system looks complicated and not necessary. I use to love wow, the company use to care. With the merger with Activision they seemed to lost there way. I play classic now, but even with that it has its problems. Battlegrounds is full of bots - its definitely not the same game it once was.… Expand
  57. Kasseda
    Jan 20, 2023
    2
    Dragonflight is just a little less annoying to play than Shadowlands and Battle For Azeroth. That's basically it. That's why I largely agree with the negative reviews on this platform.
    Class balance is still horrible. Even worse if you play the new mode, solo shuffle.
    Dragon riding is fun at first, but it doesn’t ‘go anywhere gameplay-wise. All it is is transportation in the dragon isles    Dragonflight is just a little less annoying to play than Shadowlands and Battle For Azeroth. That's basically it. That's why I largely agree with the negative reviews on this platform.
    Class balance is still horrible. Even worse if you play the new mode, solo shuffle.
    Dragon riding is fun at first, but it doesn’t ‘go anywhere gameplay-wise. All it is is transportation in the dragon isles from the start instead of making us complete that horrible pathfinder system from before. For gathering however it's a pain in the butt and it is also annoying that due to dragon riding we are tied to only four mounts instead of all our mounts.
    Professions this time around are even worse than before. Inflation on the AH is really nasty.
    I feel like toxicity is growing thanks largely to the decisions on Blizzard’s part. I saw quite a lot of people point that out already. They still keep the playable races very strictly separated between Horde and Alliance. This not only led to the faction imbalance in this game, but also constantly to heated discussions how unfair races are portioned and even though I main Horde I can see the frustration.
    In bfa for example they gave us a highly requested race, while the Alliance received a very ugly customisation option for gnomes. Kinda makes you think. Or nightborne for example with their huge city, zone, lore and so on vs. a copy and paste belf version for Alliance, just uglier and without a zone, city and so on. An improved troll allied races vs and uglier human race wasn't helping either or only destroying Alliance zones, while keeping Horde zones all intact.
    The faction system in wow doesn't really work with devs that can't stay neutral. Though personally I want to keep 2 factions, I am too all for making the races neutral and making more cross faction stuff like guilds and so on. It could reduce toxicity and would lead to a more healthy gameplay design for players. Would also allow me to finally play Draenei on Horde, which would be pretty neat. So that's my 2 cents about that topic.
    Continuing with my review, same grindy systems that were put into this game to increase play time like the renown grind.
    The talent trees are kinda messy, their talent switching system doesn’t work properly.
    They added all kinds of external systems to capitalize on the players addiction to completionism like now the trading post. If the items were permanent this would be a nice small addition to the game, but the way it works... just no thanks. There is already too much FOMO in this game and I'm still bitter about the Mage Tower skins.    … Expand
  58. Jobloi
    Jan 19, 2023
    1
    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    "new system for players to further personalize their character and their expierences within World of Warcraft", "even more ways to add to their collections and express themselves everywhere they go in Azeroth". This is what they wrote in their newest blue post about the coming patch. Wanna have a translation what that really means?
    A new FOMO    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    "new system for players to further personalize their character and their expierences within World of Warcraft", "even more ways to add to their collections and express themselves everywhere they go in Azeroth". This is what they wrote in their newest blue post about the coming patch. Wanna have a translation what that really means?

    A new FOMO tactic in form of the trading post that requires an active sub, for which we have to pay monthly. Only then you will get the currency for the transmogs, pets and mounts the trading post will sell. Also the amount of coins you will get each month is of course limited and the items in the trading post will vanish after the end of each month. Quite obvious, that this is a new way of Blizzard trying to force collectors to stay subscribed.

    But it doesn't end there.
    If the rest of the game would stay true to what Blizzard is saying "we want you to express yourself in the game", then I wouldn't even have a big problem with such an obvious FOMO trap.

    However this game is anything but "freely express yourself". It's all about restrictions.

    "Express yourself the way you want to BUT you can't play almost half of the races in the faction you prefer, because we value racial segregation as really, really good for our 2 faction system."

    "Express yourself BUT if you want to be good in pve and pvp you better don't play certain specs or whole classes, because we have no idea how class balance works."

    "Espress yourself BUT you better don't play the smaller faction, because we caused massive faction imbalance and you will have a really hard time finding groups and guilds there."

    "Express yourself BUT don't expect actual customisation options and be grateful for your 8 face options and 9 hair colors. If you want more options play another race, but all races will certainly not get basic things like sliders or color palettes, because we simply don't care to keep customisations fair between races and put the least amount of effort towards customisations. Maybe you get 3 more hair colors for one of the races, if we're feeling extra generous! "

    Sorry for that little rant there, but Blizzard's newest blue post about saying players in wow could freely express themselves in this game really got me the wrong way, because it is a such a big lie.    … Expand
  59. bitnoir
    Jan 18, 2023
    1
    The raid content is oke-ish, the profession changes are quite good, the new mythic plus' are not good. Even Shadowlands had better instances than this expansion. The game feels quite boring at the moment.
  60. Shepard07
    Jan 17, 2023
    2
    Une pure déception dans la lignée de BFA et SL.

    Je vais tenter de rester objectif, tout n'est pas mauvais dans cette extension : le fly en dragon est un concept original (même si affreusement inspiré de GW2), les parcours et les courses ajoutent du fun. Les paysages sont splendides rien à redire. Le nouveau système de template est également bienvenu. Malheureusement ces menus avantages    Une pure déception dans la lignée de BFA et SL.

    Je vais tenter de rester objectif, tout n'est pas mauvais dans cette extension : le fly en dragon est un concept original (même si affreusement inspiré de GW2), les parcours et les courses ajoutent du fun. Les paysages sont splendides rien à redire. Le nouveau système de template est également bienvenu. Malheureusement ces menus avantages ne peuvent combler ma satisfaction à eux seuls.

    Les déceptions : les donjons disons le clairement sont mauvais mais vraiment mauvais. C'est bien simple il n'y en a pas un seul que j'aime et c'est bien une première en 17 ans de jeu sur WoW. Cela m'a dégouté de tenter les mm+. Parlons du nouveau système de métiers, qui est clairement d'une lourdeur est d'une complexité innommable ! Ok ils ont voulu apporter un peu de fraîcheur à ce dernier mais là c'est beaucoup trop, c'est fouillis à souhait on s'y perd. Les commandes de crafting, sur le papier ça pouvait être intéressant mais la réalité a vite enterré la fiction. C'est purement et simplement inutile. Et enfin, je n'ai pas parlé de raid pour la simple et bonne raison que le Lore (qui contribue grandement à ma motivation pour les raids) est complètement éclaté au sol dans cette extension. Et idem que les mm+ je n'ai même pas eu envie de raid... 2ème "exploit" en 17 ans de jeu. J'ai beau avoir adoré les origines des aspects, d'en savoir plus sur la chute de Neltharion mais que c'est vide de sens ! Blizzard à voulu surfer sur la mode des dragons qui règne actuellement en remettant les aspects au premier plan. On nous sort une nouvelle menace qui vient de nul part comme d'habitude avec une Raszageth au comportement digne d'une ado au summum de sa crise de rébellion pour libérer ses copains encore plus méchants qu'elle. Ca n'a aucun sens bon sang ! C'est mou, plat et ennuyeux au possible.
    Il y avait d'autres possibilités bien plus intéressantes notamment concernant le contenu sur les seigneurs du Vide ou sur La corruption de la Lumière et l'armée de Dark Yrel.

    Dernier point, le plus explosif : l'effet néfaste, selon moi, du Wokisme sur le jeu et sur son histoire. Cela a commencé doucement dans SL, pour débarquer tel un rouleau compresseur dans DF. On a commencé par supprimer les sexes. Plus d'homme, plus de femme maintenant on parle de morphologie... Je doute que toutes les personnes homosexuelles soient pour ce changement car à mon sens c'est une sérieuse dérive. Les dragons humanoïdes et les Draktyr males comme femelles n'ont quasiment aucune différence morphologique WTF... Alors que quand on regarde Alexstrasza on voit bien que c'est une femelle bon sang ! Parlons maintenant des romances, quand on pex on nous a mis en avant quelques romances entre PNJ et devinez quoi ? ce sont tous des couples gay... à croire que l'hétérosexualité soit devenue une honte ? Qu'on soit bien clair : OUI à l'ouverture d'esprit et à sa libre orientation sexuelle, NON à ce qu'une minorité veuille nous imposer leur vision de la vie.

    La société devrait toujours compter sur le bon sens de la majorité des gens pour faire évoluer les consciences et non pas sous la dictature et l'influence néfaste d'une poignée.

    En conclusion le constat est amer et je regrette d'avoir dépensé mon argent pour ça...    … Expand
  61. Akitosik
    Jan 17, 2023
    2
    Dragonflight leaves you with the same problems wow always had and is overall really just an awful expansion. Probably better than Battle For Azeroth and Shadowlands to keep it fair, but let's be real, that bar is very low.

    For starters, the developers just completly ignore the overall world. Like always players get a tiny new island with modern graphics while the rest of the world plays    Dragonflight leaves you with the same problems wow always had and is overall really just an awful expansion. Probably better than Battle For Azeroth and Shadowlands to keep it fair, but let's be real, that bar is very low.

    For starters, the developers just completly ignore the overall world. Like always players get a tiny new island with modern graphics while the rest of the world plays no role at all. Neither the lore gets adjusted, for example in the 2 warfronts from bfa, or in Ashenvale, Gilneas, Theramore you name it, nor get the graphics an update. And we are talking here about visuals, that are almost two decades old. Thus the world in this game looks really hideous due to it's extremely outdated visuals.

    Since luckily I've played other games besides wow I know what modern customisation options should look like. Customisations in wow however are a joke. Not only are there way too few options, they are also very unfairly portioned between playable races. To no surprise, considering how toxic the developers of wow tend to be.

    Toxic is probably a good keyword to continune this review, because one of the worst problems the developers never removed is the glorified form of racism in wow, a very strict segregation of playable races apart from Pandaren and Evoker. Even up to this very day they treat racism as necessary and essential for Alliance and Horde. Are they for real? You choose your faction based on the race you want to be. That's just... oof.

    This expansion also overcomplicated everything. Crafting/Professions are confusing and I’ve had to read several guides just to figure out how it even works. Not to mention that profession and also the story is locked behind a renown grind. Obviously to waste as much time as possible for the monthly sub cost this game charges.

    The group loot situation is... how do I say this politely? Not good. Loot was always a problem and felt unrewarding in this game, but this time around... it's catastrophic.

    The story continues to be very bad, even though it's not as bad as in wod, bfa and shadowlands, but again, very, very low bar.

    wow doesn't really feel like a mmorpg. The RPG part is completly missing. It rather feels as if the only thing the developers care for is pretending that this game is an e-sport game. So it's neither for casuals, nor for people, who would enjoy the story/world part.    … Expand
  62. Crazygame
    Jan 16, 2023
    10
    Its best alt friendly expansion i played in wow.It started good. I wish it will continue so...
  63. NorthAmericanGu
    Jan 15, 2023
    10
    This is a really big improvement compared to the previous 2 expansions.The game it's actually enjoyable and trust me that means a lot.Let's hope this game continues to go in the right direction because right now the game is a lot of fun.
  64. AlgorosX
    Jan 15, 2023
    1
    It is much to expensive for the content. The Graphic is old, the new class has a good fighting system but the other not, lame Quests, okay story
  65. Cheezyz
    Jan 14, 2023
    2
    Dragonflight feels clunky, buggy and unorganized.
    Crafting isn’t fun because the new system is broken af, pvp isn’t fun because classes and factions are very unbalanced, the storyline is moot and cringe and parts of it are locked behind a renown grind. One of the many cheap tactics to keep players with too much time on their hands subscribed by forcing them to participate in a never    Dragonflight feels clunky, buggy and unorganized.
    Crafting isn’t fun because the new system is broken af, pvp isn’t fun because classes and factions are very unbalanced, the storyline is moot and cringe and parts of it are locked behind a renown grind. One of the many cheap tactics to keep players with too much time on their hands subscribed by forcing them to participate in a never ending grind.
    The "new" race Evoker doesn't even get a new model and is just a reskin. And despite it being the half baked reskin, that kinda works like worgen with blood elf and human for the visage form, the devs don't let us use all playable races for visage. So what we have here is a female worgen reskin as a "Dragon" race, that is not only locked to just one class, but also locked to only blood elf and human, despite the fact, that dragons can look however they want to look... In short, evoker is a complete failure.
    Dragon racing and dragon riding is a cheap copy from GW2's system. In wow however that system feels rushed and unfinshed. You have a ton of "political correctness" in Dragonflight with many lgbtq npcs all over the place. But despite Blizzard pretending to be political correct after a certain lawsuit went public, they kept racism in the game. You are still forced to choose a faction based on race. If you are a certain race you can't enter cities of the second faction, can't talk to certain other races, can't trade, can't quest together and most importantly, you can't join the second faction. So yes, Blizzard pretrends to be political correct by going the lazy way and quickly turning a bunch of npcs gay, trans or whatever and by removing genders and making all players non-binary, but the core problem of the game stays the same. Of course hypocrisy is nothing new here, if you know a little bit about the devs behind this game.
    I can at least give some credit for the amazing soundtrack this games has.
    However, Blizzard charge their players monthly sub costs, the cost for the expansion and a ton of microtransactions and I'm sorry, but that's just too much money they want for such a underdeveloped and outdated game. I mean, they don't even care to give that 18somthing year old world a visual overhaul. Sorry, but most zones and cities look ugly af.
    There are many more issues of course, but even writing about wow is frustrating, since I have to realise, that this is now the third time in a row I wasted my money on this game. Ah well, at least I can share my feedback here. Maybe it helps some peeps. Unfortunately this game is no longer for me. I gave it plenty of chances, because i want it to be good, but there seems to be an obvious lack of passion when it comes to the developers of this game.    … Expand
  66. FaunkaXiX
    Jan 13, 2023
    1
    It’s the same formula: Level–>grind–>dungeon–>raid–>repeat. I am tired of the treadmill and would like to see something different, but Blizzard proves time and time again, that they don't care to be on par with modern games and prefers to stay in the past and with past I mean that this game is as outdated as a game from the year 2009... at best.
    Outdated graphics, no player housing, gear    It’s the same formula: Level–>grind–>dungeon–>raid–>repeat. I am tired of the treadmill and would like to see something different, but Blizzard proves time and time again, that they don't care to be on par with modern games and prefers to stay in the past and with past I mean that this game is as outdated as a game from the year 2009... at best.
    Outdated graphics, no player housing, gear that is painted directly on the player's character model instead of normal 3d armor, which every modern game uses by now, outdated restrictions like racial segregation, so that we can't play our preferred faction with our preferred races... very progressive here, Blizzard... not. And anti social gameplay design with Horde and Alliance in general. Like... we can't do sh* together like just leveling and stuff. Wow is built on a very toxic and antisocial foundation and yes, it shows in the remaining playerbase.
    Grinding and crafting in this expansion is so bad, that you would think the game is built towards people with no lives where the only way to enjoy the expansion is to stop living your life and devote it entirely to this game. They even locked the story behind a gigantic grind wall (Renown). Not that the story in this game would be good, because it certainly isn't, but they even build a wall around basic stuff like that.
    Like... there are so many restrictions, limitations, grinding, horrible loot, crafting orders, toxic restrictions, lack of basic features and outdated graphics... it's ridiculous how this game is filled with time consuming brainlessly chores and full of short leashes for the players, so that they can't have freedom and fun.    … Expand
  67. catdad89
    Jan 11, 2023
    8
    After playing for some more days I must change my score from 4 to 7. The combination of great art, music, dragonflying and new cool dungeons is working for me. After some more time I increase it to 8!
  68. Cosmol
    Jan 11, 2023
    2
    As a relatively new player, who has also tried out Dragonflight for about a month:

    The story in this game is comically bad and all over the place. You will have different time zones all over the world like the darkshore warfront for example. This zone shouldn't be destroyed anymore and there should not be an ongoining war, yet there is. Same with zones like Ashenvale or Gilneas to only    As a relatively new player, who has also tried out Dragonflight for about a month:

    The story in this game is comically bad and all over the place. You will have different time zones all over the world like the darkshore warfront for example. This zone shouldn't be destroyed anymore and there should not be an ongoining war, yet there is. Same with zones like Ashenvale or Gilneas to only name a few.
    But even if the world wouldn't look like a patchwork rug, the lore is just overall really bad and full of many, many retcons, that make you cringe, if you spent even the smallest amount of time trying to follow the lore from the start.

    Speaking of a patchwork rug, the same goes for the visuals. you will find newer visuals inbetween lots and lots of outdated visuals, that look as if they haven't been updated for decades.

    Customization options... this is a mmo, yet the customizations are... well, almost not there for playable characters. And what is it with this toxic attempt of the devs to give some races noticeably more options than others?

    Speaking of races, this is the only game I know of in this age with open racism for it's races. If it would treat racial segregation as a bad thing, then I could let it slide, but open racism is treated as essential and good for the two playable factions.
    Races are separated between factions, so if you like a specific race you can't pick one of the two factions. Do I need to add more? It's crazy that such a toxic and racist system is still existing in the year 2023.

    The game design is also not very social. It doesn't allow us to be in a guild with players of the other faction or run lfrs or just simply trade or talk with such players. Talk about toxic game design... They really butchered the gameplay experience in a lot of aspects.

    Also as someone coming from other games, where is the basic mmo stuff like dyeable gear and player housing? Warcraft is for some reason all about running m+ and raiding. The whole mmorpg feeling is completly lost in wow. It feels like an e-sport game.

    Professions are overly complicated and a grind fest.

    Speaking of grind, we aren't even allowed to play through the whole story in Dragonflight, because it is locked behind renown.

    I also don't understand why they sell us customization options like Mecha Gnomes, Kul Tiran, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron, High Mountain Tauren, Zandalari etc. as entirly new races. Is an overweight human an entirly new human race or what? The mentality of the devs is really something else. Or gnomes with disabilities are apparently also a complete new race. Interesting...

    And what is it with these unbalanced classes? Didn't the devs check how bad the situation is for some classes?

    Well, I just quit this game. It's really a mess.    … Expand
  69. Relulonk
    Jan 10, 2023
    3
    Same old game with the same outdated restrictions like racial segregation when it comes to playable races for Horde and Alliance, which still are separated instead of finally becoming neutral.
    The same limitations like no proper cross faction play and the same outdated graphics and very limited customisations.
    The campaign quest line is still timegated behind renown. The whole rework    Same old game with the same outdated restrictions like racial segregation when it comes to playable races for Horde and Alliance, which still are separated instead of finally becoming neutral.
    The same limitations like no proper cross faction play and the same outdated graphics and very limited customisations.
    The campaign quest line is still timegated behind renown.
    The whole rework for profession is such a fail.
    Still no player housing.
    More rep levels this time around.
    Long profession grind that feels like it will take years.
    Class balance is very bad in terms of dps and damage. Some class just have 0 utilies to bring to the table.

    Not a fun game.    … Expand
  70. Araji
    Jan 7, 2023
    2
    I am not satisfied with the expansion in it's current state.

    Group Loot. This was a bad idea. Go back to personal loot. People are toxic in group loot, more so among randoms. Dps. The devs seem to want us all to play melee, because this entire xpac has gutted every single caster. Not a single one feels fun or rewarding, when melee can just obliterate anything they look at. Class    I am not satisfied with the expansion in it's current state.

    Group Loot.
    This was a bad idea. Go back to personal loot. People are toxic in group loot, more so among randoms.
    Dps.
    The devs seem to want us all to play melee, because this entire xpac has gutted every single caster. Not a single one feels fun or rewarding, when melee can just obliterate anything they look at.
    Class Balance.
    There is none. All classes need to be able to perform at any level in the game. This is why class designers are important, This is why listening to feedback in beta is important. Fix your mess.
    Talents.
    They threw together talent trees, that took core class gameplay and screwed it all up.
    Racism as foundation in wow.
    All races should be playable on either side. Not all races agree with where they were born and raised and with certain leaders, who decide for them which side to pick. It’s dumb, it’s old, racism should be a thing of the past and not the core of the game.
    Dragon Flight.
    It’s fun, but I won’t ever take up a profession without normal flying for obvious reasons.
    Crafting.
    I absolutely hate the new crafting system, the knowledge, the orders, everything.
    Evoker.
    This class is terrible, the race is terrible, everything about its design is terrible. From the random bugs to the bad survivability. And why are we stuck with female human and male blood elf for visage? Dragons are able to use all mortal forms. But of course the devs have to restrict their players again with this race by only giving us human and blood elf. That lizard form is ugly af, so at least give us the freedom to choose from all races.

    2/10 so far. Not recommended.    … Expand
  71. CrazedHippie
    Jan 6, 2023
    3
    Buggiest expansion that Blizzard has pushed to public use so far. Quests broken, classes broken, professions are ridiculously overly complex, and dragon flying is intermittently fun. The restructure of the 'talent trees' left a lot to be desired; fairly certain that they were designed by people who never actually played that class before. Stunned that anyone would positively review thisBuggiest expansion that Blizzard has pushed to public use so far. Quests broken, classes broken, professions are ridiculously overly complex, and dragon flying is intermittently fun. The restructure of the 'talent trees' left a lot to be desired; fairly certain that they were designed by people who never actually played that class before. Stunned that anyone would positively review this game at all, with droves of people leaving the game because it's frankly... not really worth the money or time to play. Questioning the 'glowing' reviews of anyone who thinks this expansion is excellent and wondering how much they were paid to write such tripe.… Expand
  72. Vitalick
    Jan 6, 2023
    5
    Parece que están tomando mejores decisiones que los últimos años y esta expansión está bastante entretenida y chula pero el juego sigue con los mismos problemas de siempre.

    Tarifa de suscripción abusiva, lag y crasheos casi a diarios, buscador de mazmorras que no funciona, servidores medio vacios que no se dignan a unir para que pagues migraciones y una base de jugadores muy toxica. Un    Parece que están tomando mejores decisiones que los últimos años y esta expansión está bastante entretenida y chula pero el juego sigue con los mismos problemas de siempre.

    Tarifa de suscripción abusiva, lag y crasheos casi a diarios, buscador de mazmorras que no funciona, servidores medio vacios que no se dignan a unir para que pagues migraciones y una base de jugadores muy toxica. Un servicio no acorde a lo que uno espera con lo que te cobran.

    Así que en resumen mas de lo mismo de siempre , uno de los mejores mmo con una de las peores gestiones.    … Expand
  73. Atyra
    Jan 5, 2023
    5
    I wish I could rate this higher. There's a lot to love. The new Race/Class combo is super fun, and can look pretty cool with the right cosmetic options. The new zones are gorgeous and a lot of great improvements has been made to the core content. Old functions are slowly getting overhauled and this really does feel like the first time WOW has played like a modern game.

    But the narrative    I wish I could rate this higher. There's a lot to love. The new Race/Class combo is super fun, and can look pretty cool with the right cosmetic options. The new zones are gorgeous and a lot of great improvements has been made to the core content. Old functions are slowly getting overhauled and this really does feel like the first time WOW has played like a modern game.

    But the narrative is just too poor. No matter how good an RPG is, if the dialogue is so painfully cringe-worthy that you don't even want to read it, what's the point? Unfortunately, despite all its beauty and fun gameplay, Dragonflight is not an MMO to get lost in. The dialogue and narrative are overly childish and disney-esque in a way that I doubt will appeal to its overwhelmingly adult playerbase.    … Expand
  74. Wr3n
    Jan 5, 2023
    2
    Same crap different year. Grinding the same 8 dungeons, 1 raid, PvP is a mess behind an enormous ridiculous grind after they lied incessantly about it before the expansion came out.

    Biggest waste of £40 in gaming, only addicts will enjoy this steaming faeces. No semblance of Warcraft in the game, complete waste. I pray WoW dies soon so we may get something better. Avoid.
  75. Megamiy
    Jan 5, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight makes some things better than the previous expansion, but wow is still a very bad game, which at it's core is not only very outdated in it's design and graphics in a big chunk of the world, but also rather toxic compared to most other games.
    Since I don't want to make this review too long, I only list some of the problems, but there are certainly a lot more.
    Renaming    Dragonflight makes some things better than the previous expansion, but wow is still a very bad game, which at it's core is not only very outdated in it's design and graphics in a big chunk of the world, but also rather toxic compared to most other games.
    Since I don't want to make this review too long, I only list some of the problems, but there are certainly a lot more.

    Renaming reputation for example into renown doesn’t make them any less tedious. It's still a grind fest.
    Primal storms events are very lackluster, not to mention all the lags and bugs in general.
    Group Loot definitely hasn’t been a massive hit and leaves many players frustrated.
    Another frustrating factor of course is the strict division of playable races between factions. This game is the only big game out there, which activly makes you play stuff you don't want to, just because Ion and his crew of devs is holding on to a racist faction system as the foundation in warcraft. Enough with the dumb compromises already and let players play the faction they like and have them the races they want.
    Vault still generates duplicate items to what players have equipped. Feels not really rewarding.
    The Inspiration Catalyst takes 6 weeks to appear. Stop with all the time gating already.
    Loot is still terribly scarce.
    Dragon riding is an ok feature, but not comparable with normal flying and only allowing dragon riding in the zone is another bad limitation.
    Old zones like the warfronts in bfa for example didn't receive any updates whatsoever and are left as never ending loops. It is annoying that they are treating their game as a patchwork rug. It also shows in the outdated graphics.
    Vault is still limited to 1 item out of a potential 9.
    The story is rather disjointed.
    Professions are horribly designed in this expansion.
    Customization options are simply a joke in this game.    … Expand
  76. asymptotic
    Jan 4, 2023
    8
    Short and simple: I haven't felt like there are things I could just go and do in WoW since Mists. It's always felt like there was a very specific set of things I had to do, not could do. So here I am happily gearing an alt at level cap using things I obtained on my main.
  77. Eddie_Izzard
    Jan 4, 2023
    10
    Game: Be the best it's been in many years (including early legion), remove all of the **** fomo, forced grind, "systems" everyone ended up hating, have good M+ and raid and great things to do in the world and a writing team that understands the first act of a story should be a slow, comfy build up to further plot threads.

    Miserable gamers on metacritic: "but wheres the manipulative game    Game: Be the best it's been in many years (including early legion), remove all of the **** fomo, forced grind, "systems" everyone ended up hating, have good M+ and raid and great things to do in the world and a writing team that understands the first act of a story should be a slow, comfy build up to further plot threads.

    Miserable gamers on metacritic: "but wheres the manipulative game design? what else am i supposed to do with the 12 hours a day im going to put into this game?"    … Expand
  78. bruma
    Jan 3, 2023
    0
    Worst story of any MMO I have ever played, full of self inserts, PC culture and a lot more inserts in every way possible. The dungeons are unbelievably bland and just annoying on purpose.
  79. Mato8
    Jan 3, 2023
    5
    Dragonflight is a 5 out of 10... at best, because there really isn't much noteworthy, let alone new in this expansion.

    Dragon flying is copied from another game, so it is what it is. By all means, it's not bad and a nice little feature. It is good to have flying without that annoying grind we had in the previous expansions. For farming and similar things it is overall very impractical    Dragonflight is a 5 out of 10... at best, because there really isn't much noteworthy, let alone new in this expansion.

    Dragon flying is copied from another game, so it is what it is. By all means, it's not bad and a nice little feature. It is good to have flying without that annoying grind we had in the previous expansions. For farming and similar things it is overall very impractical though. Normal flying with a higher speed would be better. Unfortunatly normal flying and mounts aren't allowed on the dragon isles, because this game is still all about restricting players as much as possible.

    Speaking of restrictions, I'm glad more and more people start to criticize the racist faction system, because it really is racist and brings out the worst in some players, who use curse words and what not against other races in this game in chat.
    Yes, it's just a game, but that doesn't excuse the toxic behavior, which racial segregation evokes in the wow community, which more often than not insult other players just because of the races they'd like to play.
    I never liked how the wow devs force us to choose a faction based on the the races we want to be. That's very toxic and you really have to wonder, why such things are still in the game. It's also just unnatural to strictly divide races like this, as if they woudn't have any free will. As other people pointed out, a very outdated mindset.

    I thought a little about some races, which would probably be the easiest to start with, if not all races would get neutral right away.

    Easy Alliance races to start with for Horde:
    Lightforged Draenei, Mecha Gnomes, Dark Iron Dwarf, Kul Tiran, Gnomes, Draenei.

    Lightforged Draenei and Mecha Gnomes are on top of the list, because it makes zero sense for them not to be neutral.

    Dark Iron Dwarves, because there are more DIDs hostile towards the Alliance than the ones under Moira. So there surely are some, who would join the Horde. Not to mention that their whole being and look is Horde like, more so than some current Horde races btw.

    Kul Tiran, because some of them already worked with the Horde against the Alliance, so there are obviously groups, who would prefer the Horde.

    Gnomes, because firstly there already is a love story between a Gnome and Goblin and secondly some Gnomes surely would like to have access to Goblin's tech.

    As for Draenei, well they are very forgiving and they would be a good package together with LFD.

    Easy Horde races to start with for Alliance:
    Highmountain Tauren, Nightborne, Goblins, Vulpera, Blood Elves, Tauren

    Highmountain, Nightborne and Goblins, because it makes zero sense for them not to be neutral.

    Vulpera, similar to Goblins are traders. So taking a group of traders from Kul Tiras or elsewhere for the Alliance would be very easy.

    Blood Elves as High Elves already are in the Alliance. Just take away demon hunters and they are good to go.

    Tauren, more than enough neutral clans. So just take one, who wants to help the Alliance.

    It doesn't take much to come up with good reasons for all races being neutral and it would give players more freedom and take away some of all the toxcity in this game.
    Would probably be a reason for me to resub, even though wow would still lack many features in general and is pretty far behind for a game in 2023. But at least I could finally play the faction I actually like instead of being stuck in a faction I don't like at all.    … Expand
  80. Slydaqt
    Jan 3, 2023
    0
    The whole feel and comfort of wow is just.. gone. Dragonriding was fun for a day but became a boring gimmick, especially since it's a rip off of gw2 flying. Customer service has now become an absolute joke.
    The new profession overhaul is terrible, public orders are never existent and seems like an absolute waste of development. The whole development team seem clueless and continue to    The whole feel and comfort of wow is just.. gone. Dragonriding was fun for a day but became a boring gimmick, especially since it's a rip off of gw2 flying. Customer service has now become an absolute joke.
    The new profession overhaul is terrible, public orders are never existent and seems like an absolute waste of development. The whole development team seem clueless and continue to change things that made wow good. Sell out to Microsoft thanks.    … Expand
  81. Frenzie
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    Как всегда было много маркетинговых обещаний от разработчиков, а что на деле?
    Из хорошего:
    Больше казуального опционального контента. Нет Торгаста, Утробы и других обязательных сайд активностей. Професии интересны и нестандартны, но минусов больше, о них ниже. Новые таланты действительно хороши, я беспокоился что это будет аналог талантов WotLK. Из плохого: Чтобы сделать гир    Как всегда было много маркетинговых обещаний от разработчиков, а что на деле?
    Из хорошего:
    Больше казуального опционального контента.
    Нет Торгаста, Утробы и других обязательных сайд активностей.
    Професии интересны и нестандартны, но минусов больше, о них ниже.
    Новые таланты действительно хороши, я беспокоился что это будет аналог талантов WotLK.

    Из плохого:
    Чтобы сделать гир профессий полезным они понерфили лут ключей и растянули его до 20 ключей.
    Для того чтобы заставлять гильдии рекилить ластов рейда они добавили ему мизерный шанс на итем который на 10 илвл выше чем весь лут игры. С учетом что близзы благородно решили не разделять ключи от рейдов, то в добрых традициях второго сезона Shadowlands вы обязаны гриндить рейды если хотите максимального выхлопа в ключах. Все чтобы умирающие престарелые рейды казались живее.

    Шанс лута остался прежним с Shadowlands. То есть вы можете как пройти рейд не получив ни одной вещи, так и фармить гору ключей ничего не получая. Ретрограды должно быть танцуют от удовольствия из-за того, что людям которые действительно играют в игру не дают в нее поиграть.

    Профессии дико затаймгейчены. Отчасти с каждой неделей у новичков увеличивается базовая доступность профессий, за счет квестов список которых расширяется с каждой неделей. Но помимо этого получить знания (очки талантов) можно в основном занимаясь профессией, что сильно ограничено. Дело в том что собрав определенное количество знаний в неделю твой шанс их получения резко стремится к нулю и можно спокойно бросать это и ждать следующей недели.

    В случае ошибки с выбором талантов профессий ты ничего больше не можешь с этим поделать, разве-что создать нового персонажа и перекачать профессию на нем.
    После расширения аукциона на весь регион цены на нем всегда стремительно падают до незначительных и не стоящих времени. Я полагаю это было сделано чтобы осмыслить использование стола заказов. Такой аукцион может и хорош для покупателя, но за отсутствием источников чистого золота вам придется на нем торговать.
    Полеты на драконах неудобны для фарма ресурсов. Во-первых энергия рано или поздно заканчивается. Во-вторых талант который регенерирует энергию за сбор ресурсов работает ТОЛЬКО НА ЗЕМЛЕ, кто это придумал? Это все делает талант на сбор ресурсов с дракона нелепым.

    В итоге это просто очередной затаймгейченный кусок кала. К этому всему ситуация с лутом только ухудшилась. Как по мне подойдет только ретроградам для которых медленней и унылей всегда лучше.    … Expand
  82. tmorello529
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    As empty an expansion as Warlords of Draenor was, if not more. This isn't the Blizzard we grew up with.
  83. Monsterskill
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    Well, they finally released a version of WoW that doesn't even qualify as a game. It's essentially a computer virus. The game has terrible stuttering problems and memory leaks. I haven't been able to play and enjoy it since the prepatch. Sure am glad I preordered this trash. Clearly, most of the good devs have left Blizzard. Either that or they have iterated on an ancient engine to theWell, they finally released a version of WoW that doesn't even qualify as a game. It's essentially a computer virus. The game has terrible stuttering problems and memory leaks. I haven't been able to play and enjoy it since the prepatch. Sure am glad I preordered this trash. Clearly, most of the good devs have left Blizzard. Either that or they have iterated on an ancient engine to the point where they have permanently broken everything. I wanted to like DF given the abomination that was SL, but so far, this expansion hasn't even qualified as a game for me since I can't play. Notepad is more fun and functional as a piece of software. Seriously.… Expand
  84. WokeMindVirus
    Jan 1, 2023
    0
    This game is a perfect example of Woke Mind Virus - its ruined the game. They have changed everything remotely offensive from classic to wrath to dragonflight.

    They took the fun out of being a human and turned it into a cancel culture of insanity. They even pretend that genders don't exist anymore in the game. The inmates in the insane asylum are running the show. DO NOT SUPPORT    This game is a perfect example of Woke Mind Virus - its ruined the game. They have changed everything remotely offensive from classic to wrath to dragonflight.

    They took the fun out of being a human and turned it into a cancel culture of insanity.
    They even pretend that genders don't exist anymore in the game.

    The inmates in the insane asylum are running the show.
    DO NOT SUPPORT THIS, LET IT FAIL -- Otherwise we will get 100x more wokeness.
    This game is a shining example of the failure of western society due to wokeness.    … Expand
  85. Heikx
    Jan 1, 2023
    5
    Boring, outdated and very limited.

    Instead of finally improving this game and bringing innovation to wow, it's basically the same stuff over and over and over and over again. For years! Wow ist stagnant, stale and really, really tiresome at this point. I unsubbed after only a few days since I started playing Dragonflight, because I really don't want to support a company that is giving    Boring, outdated and very limited.

    Instead of finally improving this game and bringing innovation to wow, it's basically the same stuff over and over and over and over again. For years! Wow ist stagnant, stale and really, really tiresome at this point.
    I unsubbed after only a few days since I started playing Dragonflight, because I really don't want to support a company that is giving their players the same old content just with different colors on it.
    How hard can it be to make this game more player friendly?
    More social and less racist by removing that strict racial segregation system for factions? Why do they keep such outdated restrictions in the first place?
    Why aren't they more up to date with it's graphics and customisations? With player housing and such?
    Nothing of that sort can be find in this game.
    The world feels very empty. If you only do certain activities like raiding and m+ then you’re quickly going to run out of things to do. I’ve spent countless of hours just flying around farming and I realize how bad that is so I stopped doing it. Crafting is just bad at this point and I really wish they would have put that effort to actual fun stuff like player housing, or again, creating new short intro stories for all races, so that they can start neutral like Pandaren and Evoker. Instead they give us this halfbaked crafting system, that almost nobody seems to enjoy from what I've heard.    … Expand
  86. Rizaun
    Jan 1, 2023
    5
    Another expansion, another proof that Blizzard is one of the most incompetent game developers in the industry. All the issues in this expansion are proof that it was rushed and wasn't thoroughly tested, all because Blizzard was desperate to try to bring back subscribers as soon as possible after the failure that was Shadowlands.

    Many players are suffering from poor performance since the    Another expansion, another proof that Blizzard is one of the most incompetent game developers in the industry. All the issues in this expansion are proof that it was rushed and wasn't thoroughly tested, all because Blizzard was desperate to try to bring back subscribers as soon as possible after the failure that was Shadowlands.

    Many players are suffering from poor performance since the pre-patch dropped and Blizzard has gone completely silent about the issue. Dragonflight's main feature, Dragon Riding, is terribly broken. Blizzard attempted to copy Guild Wars 2 mount system and failed spectacularly. Dragon Riding is clunky, buggy and overall broken. The more time you spend on it, the more issues you will notice. I have gotten disconnected from the game due to collision issues during Dragon Riding over 20 times in the same day. Dragon Riding also makes all other mounts completely obsolete in the new areas as they are designed with Dragon Riding in mind.

    The expansion doesn't offer anything new or exciting, it's exactly what they've offered before. The endgame consists of 4 old dungeons, 4 new dungeons and a raid. That's it, there's nothing else that is good. The rest of the endgame consists in mindless tasks such as grinding reputation for different factions or doing boring events, most of which doesn't even require you to do anything except being present during the event.

    The game is also infested with bots that ruin gathering professions by teleporting from one gathering node to another and Blizzard doesn't take action against them and makes it nearly impossible for players to report them.

    The expansion is also full of bugs in every aspect of the game. Broken visuals, broken abilities, broken talents, broken quests, etc. Blizzard also continues to use the Race to World First as live beta testing for the Mythic difficulty because they don't want to bother testing the raid themselves, after all, they know that the top raiders in the world will test them for free anyway.

    Creative Business Unit III continues to prove being better MMO developers than Blizzard and it looks like it's never going to change.    … Expand
  87. Kallenn
    Dec 31, 2022
    0
    Es un juego creado con enfoque de género forzado, solo tiene una trama lgbti , la historia es mala y para peor los gráficos siguen siendo los mismos del 2000.
    No gaste su dinero, castigue a la compañía hasta que hagan un trabajo bueno y digno o que mejor dejen morir en paz al wow .
    Los desarrolladores son malos, y si incluso te gusta la historia y te encanta el contenido lgtbi , el juego    Es un juego creado con enfoque de género forzado, solo tiene una trama lgbti , la historia es mala y para peor los gráficos siguen siendo los mismos del 2000.
    No gaste su dinero, castigue a la compañía hasta que hagan un trabajo bueno y digno o que mejor dejen morir en paz al wow .
    Los desarrolladores son malos, y si incluso te gusta la historia y te encanta el contenido lgtbi , el juego esta lleno de bugs    … Expand
  88. samfischer354
    Dec 31, 2022
    3
    Bugs Stealth nerf
    Bad m+ inis
    Bad season affix
    Bad balance
    The raid is only ok

    Crafting orders suck
  89. Tillsd
    Dec 29, 2022
    2
    Dragonflight is still a “raid (or m+) or die” expansion and the new professions are a much worse grind than before that requires way more time and effort. Overtuned mess with the same loot scarcity and you need to run +20 now for max vault. Second job again. No thanks.
    Then there is all the time gating, no updates on graphics in the world, no more customizations or player housing or more    Dragonflight is still a “raid (or m+) or die” expansion and the new professions are a much worse grind than before that requires way more time and effort. Overtuned mess with the same loot scarcity and you need to run +20 now for max vault. Second job again. No thanks.
    Then there is all the time gating, no updates on graphics in the world, no more customizations or player housing or more freedom through finally ending racial segregation. No. It's basically the same old and boring grind fest we had for years. No fun allowed.    … Expand
  90. Tzol
    Dec 29, 2022
    0
    The gameplay is fun but the state of retail wow is so bad these days. It's not an MMO its a single player game with bots. No community, no chat just unfriendly people.
  91. inflames14
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    This game USED to be pure escapism. It was a place one could go to escape the world, it’s conflicts, it’s tiresome social warring. As an original player who has never missed an expansion, I was excited for Dragonflight after the semi-disaster that was SL. 2 hours in, and it’s clear the Woke Mind Virus has thoroughly infested the WoW team as the number of times I’ve been bludgeoned withThis game USED to be pure escapism. It was a place one could go to escape the world, it’s conflicts, it’s tiresome social warring. As an original player who has never missed an expansion, I was excited for Dragonflight after the semi-disaster that was SL. 2 hours in, and it’s clear the Woke Mind Virus has thoroughly infested the WoW team as the number of times I’ve been bludgeoned with pro-LGBT storylines and suggestions is appalling. This game should NOT be a place for this. It’s completely out of place and it’s absurd that it’s been turned into yet another real life social battleground. Do better, Blizzard. Absolutely appalling.… Expand
  92. Joshua-NOT-josh
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    I don't understand how WoW gets WORSE with each expansion, but here's a few of my gripes;
    1) "Smushed levels" ...expansions increased level cap to 120, until shadowlands, when the levels got 'smushed' and set most folks back WEEKS, if not MONTHS of grinding. New level cap is 70... for now.
    2) ZERO ability to follow the storyline from main game to 1st expansion to current; game bounces    I don't understand how WoW gets WORSE with each expansion, but here's a few of my gripes;
    1) "Smushed levels" ...expansions increased level cap to 120, until shadowlands, when the levels got 'smushed' and set most folks back WEEKS, if not MONTHS of grinding. New level cap is 70... for now.
    2) ZERO ability to follow the storyline from main game to 1st expansion to current; game bounces you from zone to zone, expansion to expansion without regard to continuity, story, or your level. [Yay, level scaling! ..not]
    3) speaking of lack of continuity, large portions of expansions, if not ENTIRE CITIES have been altered, tweaked, or simply retconned out of existence, 'for the sake of plot' [which again, one huge jumbled mess]
    4) some zones have had 'visual makeovers' while most older zones look like you're playing a game on a sega genesis... ZERO consistency in visual fidelity.
    5) PvP has been a hot mess since the Legion expansion, which was released NEARLY A DECADE AGO!

    and thats just my top five gripes.    … Expand
  93. RicardoDavid
    Dec 28, 2022
    1
    Subscription for this worthless game? No thanks.
    The graphics and gameplay still look old. I don't know what they do with all the money. This is the last time I give WOW a chance.
  94. LazyBrokOli
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    Game would be nice if it wasn't full of Time gate everywhere !
    Full of crash & bug in all kind, you are basically disconnected every 15 minute in general since every time you have the bad luck to collide a wall a floor or anything that got physic you might get disconnected since the server find that you are cheating since you position is weird !!!
    Extra + they make you think they have    Game would be nice if it wasn't full of Time gate everywhere !
    Full of crash & bug in all kind, you are basically disconnected every 15 minute in general since every time you have the bad luck to collide a wall a floor or anything that got physic you might get disconnected since the server find that you are cheating since you position is weird !!!
    Extra + they make you think they have great rework of the Profession well turns out you need object to craft that is given to you every two week 1 by 1, then you also have this wonderful "Artisan's Mettle" which drop only when you 1st time craft something of when you get specialisation point or other rare occasion well you can't get enough of this to craft plenty of high end item
    Specialisation point well this is also time gated since you only drop few each week & days for some,
    this make you very slow get the 400 required to end with all spe....

    Now we have the dungeon all difficulty is crap only mythic is challenging so no real fun to do normal heroic or mythic m0

    Raid the same only mythic is challenging

    Game is crap to conclude !

    Blizzard if Diablo 4 isn't good i'll boycott every next game you craft !!! wake up !!! make thing fun ! games from small studio are more fun to play than yours what a shame since.

    You won 300millions of benefit with your **** diablo immortal i really hope you will wake up before you have to sell what's left of your company    … Expand
  95. Zsnia
    Dec 28, 2022
    1
    Just unsubbed. For me, the loot feels far too unrewarding. I like M+ and I like raiding, but I pug them as I enjoy the flexibility it provides in my scheduling.

    If not for hand-me-downs from other players with tremendously better luck than myself I’d likely be running around still half equipped in blues after 2 dozen M+ runs and 8+ N VoI boss kills. I just don’t see a reason in    Just unsubbed. For me, the loot feels far too unrewarding. I like M+ and I like raiding, but I pug them as I enjoy the flexibility it provides in my scheduling.

    If not for hand-me-downs from other players with tremendously better luck than myself I’d likely be running around still half equipped in blues after 2 dozen M+ runs and 8+ N VoI boss kills.

    I just don’t see a reason in actively paying for this experience. Not to mention all the other issues this game faces for over a decade now. But most of that has already been pointed out by other people on this platform.    … Expand
  96. targoviste_2302
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    - graphics from 2004
    - lack of new customization options
    - race/class combinations are limited though lore and logic are massacred and you can play tauren rogue, But NE paladin still is something beyond blizzard`s mind - racism in the game? they pretend to be open minded yet you still can not to play every race you want, because you have faction segregation - they ruined the WAR    - graphics from 2004
    - lack of new customization options
    - race/class combinations are limited though lore and logic are massacred and you can play tauren rogue, But NE paladin still is something beyond blizzard`s mind
    - racism in the game? they pretend to be open minded yet you still can not to play every race you want, because you have faction segregation
    - they ruined the WAR atmosphere between horde and alliance. they said that it will be never again a war between these two factions, but still you can not talk with players of another faction. Just why?
    - a lot of bugs
    - a few new dungeons. it is not a level of 2022 game
    - old talents. old skills. they just changed the talent tree again, but it does not impact the gameplay. I can not feel that i am playing something new. so no class upgrades or changes.
    - old quest design. nothing new. same quests.
    - m+ gear is worse than raid gear. so literally you are forced to to 20+ ppl content. and again I dont understand why?
    - awful pvp balance. nothing new. its a pve game at the end.

    Only change in the game is much more LGBT content. Majority of quests is gay/trans stories. I mean...OK, but I am not a far right guy, I dont need to be teached about diversity for 40$ + month subscription.
    It can be free update or free patch if you do care so much about it.
    I am paying for gameplay, not social/politic updates.    … Expand
  97. Homjei
    Dec 28, 2022
    2
    This expansion has a pathetic amount of content outside of raiding and m+ and the content that is there is incredibly repetitive, uninspired and low effort.
    They also kept the same old and frustrating restrictions like racial segregation for playable races, despite claiming to be progressive with all the lgbt content. "We want you to freely express yourself in the game... but you aren't    This expansion has a pathetic amount of content outside of raiding and m+ and the content that is there is incredibly repetitive, uninspired and low effort.
    They also kept the same old and frustrating restrictions like racial segregation for playable races, despite claiming to be progressive with all the lgbt content. "We want you to freely express yourself in the game... but you aren't allowed to play half of the races in your favorite faction, because racism is the foundation of the game." -wow devs.
    Hypocrisy at it's best. Also no word about proper cross faction play. It's ridiculous how anti-social the whole game is.
    Also the new crafting system is just awful.    … Expand
  98. wow_guy
    Dec 28, 2022
    5
    Thanks for keeping racial segregation, that's part of the lore and how it should be in medieval world, it's part of it. But ... BUGS. Bugs are everywhere. Alive animations on dead, comparison of items on auction completely broken with showing wrong numbers. With level 35 you can one shot everyone on old locations and gather loot from them for crafting effectively rising classic professionsThanks for keeping racial segregation, that's part of the lore and how it should be in medieval world, it's part of it. But ... BUGS. Bugs are everywhere. Alive animations on dead, comparison of items on auction completely broken with showing wrong numbers. With level 35 you can one shot everyone on old locations and gather loot from them for crafting effectively rising classic professions as a rocket so this system simply broken, useless and looting in old locations brings no fun at all. On the other hands balance of the dungeons is something .. extremely hard to understand. Sometimes your party using same tactic beat the boss for easy, other time with the same approach it fails completely. I know most of this came from previous addons, but why this problems didn't fix?

    So blizzard says in summary - we have old content, right ... but if you want to play it - go to classic because we broke everything classic in the modern WoW.

    I can imagine only reboot of the WOTLK line and completely redoing everything that was after. If you can't save old content normally - REMOVE IT, DON'T LEAVE IT BROKEN, please, Blizzard.

    Also you make so many gold on quests and mobs you don't really need to use professions anymore to make money at least on mid levels, so, upon reaching 60+ you basically spending your time just rising levels and it's ... boring? Even with auto leveling. In WOTLK and BC it was interesting on the whole timeline. Quests don't feel that bad as people describe, but more empty, that's true.    … Expand
  99. Koose
    Dec 27, 2022
    10
    Easily the best WoW experience in over 10 years! Play how you enjoy without a bunch of extra chores.
  100. Darkowl666
    Dec 26, 2022
    10
    Je comprends pas le délire de descendre un jeu comme ça pour le fun surtout que sur tout les groupes fr et us de WoW que je fréquente le jeu a d’excellents retours.
    Cette extension est incroyable. Un vrai retour au source pour blizzard après l’abomination de shadowlands. Le lore est vraiment sympa.
    Le vol à dos de dragon rajoute une fonctionnalité vraiment plaisante qui permet d’avoir le    Je comprends pas le délire de descendre un jeu comme ça pour le fun surtout que sur tout les groupes fr et us de WoW que je fréquente le jeu a d’excellents retours.
    Cette extension est incroyable. Un vrai retour au source pour blizzard après l’abomination de shadowlands. Le lore est vraiment sympa.
    Le vol à dos de dragon rajoute une fonctionnalité vraiment plaisante qui permet d’avoir le vol en début d’extension et c’est vraiment un sacré plus.
    La custom de dragon est assez riche , ça permet d’avoir des drakes un peu unique rien qu’à soit.
    Les nouveaux peuples sont cool notamment les centaures. Et c’est un plaisir de revoir les ishkar ( les phoques de WOTLK) d’ailleurs leur zone et la musique me font penser aux grisonnes     … Expand
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82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    80
    Dragonflight is still de facto at the beginning of its life cycle. Still, one can't help feeling that we desperately needed an adventure like this. With all its pros and cons. [Issue#325]
  2. Windows Central
    Feb 17, 2023
    80
    World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is somehow a breath of fresh air and a celebration of classic design principles in equal measure. The return to more dynamic, old-school talent trees enhances the class fantasy with a seasoning of new abilities across the board. At the same time, the retreat of pressuring, artificial power-gating systems promotes a more healthy gameplay loop. The game is also gorgeous, with a more promising storyline, elevated cinematic delivery mechanics, and deeper core systems which make for one of WoW's best expansions in years.
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  3. CD-Action
    Feb 7, 2023
    70
    I appreciate the new interface (it needs getting used to though) and talent system (those dilemmas!), as well as changes to crafting that raise its importance. I enjoyed dragonriding a lot and found quests to be engaging, but was disappointed by dull dungeons and repetitive endgame content. World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is a pretty safe expansion and I expected a bit more from it, but I do feel it has a huge potential that could be fulfilled in the near future.
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