World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

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  1. Dratin88
    Sep 1, 2021
    3
    After reading several critics I think, that many players (including me) are just tired of Blizzard recycling old systems and retconning the lore non stop, so that they can have their favorite banshee in the focus all the time.
    With old systems I mean those:
    - that let you grind with no end in sight, just so that you can put all that effort in the garbage with the next expansion and    After reading several critics I think, that many players (including me) are just tired of Blizzard recycling old systems and retconning the lore non stop, so that they can have their favorite banshee in the focus all the time.
    With old systems I mean those:

    - that let you grind with no end in sight, just so that you can put all that effort in the garbage with the next expansion and start grinding for the nex borrowed power system.

    - that prevent you to play your favorite race in your favorite faction and on top of that doesn't let you play with your friends in the other faction. The old faction system with all it's barriers is really an outdated relict of the past that needs to go. Not the factions per se, but the fact, that races can't choose their faction freely and players, who can't do dungeons and raids with their friends in the other faction.

    I want to add, that world of warcraft looks like a very lazily designed game. There are huge parts of the world, who are stuck in the past, if you look at the graphic. It's really pathetic actually. Also the customization options... there are so few. It's really embarrassing for modern standards...    … Expand
  2. YrikiX
    Aug 31, 2021
    2
    Shadowlands is just awful. Just like Battle for Azeroth. I kinda hoped things would get better with this expansion... but the game is still bad.
    They ruined so much of what I used to love in wow. The lore. Oh the lore... it's so cringe... I can't even... What I would give, if they would just reset everything back to Legion...
    We all worked together in our class halls back in Legion,    Shadowlands is just awful. Just like Battle for Azeroth. I kinda hoped things would get better with this expansion... but the game is still bad.
    They ruined so much of what I used to love in wow. The lore. Oh the lore... it's so cringe... I can't even... What I would give, if they would just reset everything back to Legion...

    We all worked together in our class halls back in Legion, then came bfa and whoops, now the Horde is like: You know what? I know we were friends like 5 minutes ago, but I feel like today is a good day for genocide. Don't mind me slaughtering all of you, including woman and children. wtf is this writing? Now in Shadowlands it's like all of that isn't all that bad, let's be friends again! Get you sh* together Blizzard. This back and forth between factions is beyond ridiculous. That brings me to my next point actually.
    Why can't we play together?
    Mmos are supposed to be social games, yet wow is as anti-social as it can get.
    Why can't we choose a faction regardless of the race we want to play?
    It's like USA's racial segregation back in the day all over again, just this time in a virtual game.
    And why on earth does it matter, if we are Alliance or Horde, if we want to raid together with our friends, who might prefer a different faction?
    Why can't we play together the way we would enjoy it the most?
    Faction rewards like mounts and tabards can stay, but the other restrictions like race and one faction only raiding should go asap to make this game more social and enjoyable.    … Expand
  3. blaze89010
    Aug 31, 2021
    1
    Looks pretty as always. The time gating is just too obvious currently. If you are trying to be a sweaty player this game is for you as you can level alts quickly. Punishing the slow player that likes to enjoy the process is modern day WOW's moto it seems. Waiting for changes to fix issues is fine for free-to play games but this is a subscription based game. Requiring players to pay forLooks pretty as always. The time gating is just too obvious currently. If you are trying to be a sweaty player this game is for you as you can level alts quickly. Punishing the slow player that likes to enjoy the process is modern day WOW's moto it seems. Waiting for changes to fix issues is fine for free-to play games but this is a subscription based game. Requiring players to pay for inept design choices does not fly in this tight economy. Lowered my score. If you don't have dedicated M+, rated BG, Arena groups or a raiding guild you will be suboptimal probably until the end of the patch.… Expand
  4. dfhsfh
    Aug 29, 2021
    1
    online dead , content zero only grind korthia, pvp broken, covenant system ridiculous
  5. SothaSil
    Aug 29, 2021
    3
    One more addon where Blizzard don't listen their community and fix **** systems only after a year of boring expansion.

    You need keep player in game? Let them farm all covenants and have comfortable alt-friendly system (thing what we asked from the start of expansion). What Blizzard do - let's reduce drop chance to force people repeat **** non-social (because we kill social part of the    One more addon where Blizzard don't listen their community and fix **** systems only after a year of boring expansion.

    You need keep player in game? Let them farm all covenants and have comfortable alt-friendly system (thing what we asked from the start of expansion).
    What Blizzard do - let's reduce drop chance to force people repeat **** non-social (because we kill social part of the game expansions ago) dungeons without master-loot. Put small and non-interest story-lines in weekly Thorgast farm.

    With all this social replacements in Blizzard Hazzikostas should be fired for raping WoW. This game do not develop still Legion, we playing same dungeons, same classes, same **** story about CHAMPION OF AZEROTH LETS WATCH IN-GAME MOVIES ABOUT JAINA AND THRALL SAVING US ALL (on a note - BfA 4 war quest line was good), same ignore to our wishes from developers.

    I played WoW since WotLK and for a years have my subscription ON even if I not played in current moment, but now my loyalty is over.
    WoW right now is grindy, non-social and old-boring game which makes by people in isolation from the desires of the gamers who play it    … Expand
  6. cladimus
    Aug 28, 2021
    4
    Its pretty bad unfortunately.
    Enough has been said by many others at this point.
  7. Trakkal
    Aug 26, 2021
    1
    If you didn't like Battle for Azeroth, you won't like Shadowlands. The lore is still awful, the faction imbalance is still being ignored, for whatever reason they seemingly put all their effort in ridiculous time consuming systems, way too long content droughts.

    Quality of life things, that would bring me back: >Seems to be a popular request and I want it too - less faction    If you didn't like Battle for Azeroth, you won't like Shadowlands. The lore is still awful, the faction imbalance is still being ignored, for whatever reason they seemingly put all their effort in ridiculous time consuming systems, way too long content droughts.

    Quality of life things, that would bring me back:
    >Seems to be a popular request and I want it too - less faction restrictions. Let me play what I want, with whom I want and where I want. #AllRacesForBothFactions & #CrossFactionRaiding
    >I'm tired of all the systems. It was a healthy amount during Legion, but I hated everything what came after that and it is unbalanced, so please make some of the new stuff cosmetic.
    >Get rid of Sylvanas entirely. Everything surronding that character turns to trash. The whole lore has been ruined because of her as the overpowerd Mary/Evil Sue in this game.
    >More customization options. It is 2021 and the few cusomization options in this game are laughable.
    >Old world update. Start with the main cities and make them bigger with more unique districts.    … Expand
  8. Ykkaru
    Aug 24, 2021
    1
    I played two months of this expansion and quit. 9.0 is awful and 9.1... yeah, is still awful.
    You could argue that the systems suck, that the class balancing sucks, that the graphic sucks, that the limited customization options suck, that the story with that edgy bashee sucks and yeah, I would agree with that, but what I hate the most about this over 16 year old game is the fact, that    I played two months of this expansion and quit. 9.0 is awful and 9.1... yeah, is still awful.
    You could argue that the systems suck, that the class balancing sucks, that the graphic sucks, that the limited customization options suck, that the story with that edgy bashee sucks and yeah, I would agree with that, but what I hate the most about this over 16 year old game is the fact, that Blizzard continues to ignore the faction imbalance and activly made it worse with the former expansion Battle For Azeroth.

    I agree with many others on this subject. Given how bad the whole situation is, the only change, that would bring me back would be to make all races neutral like the Pandaren (preferable with their own introduction voice overs and new voice lines) and to give us players the ability of choosing optional cross faction raiding and bgs. So gamers would have free choice of playing with their own faction or together with the other faction.

    But the way it is now and has been for over a decade,- limiting the races to one faction only and the players to not being able to actually play together in this mmo, if they prefer one faction is just frustrating.

    Sadly I don't see this change coming anytime soon. Luckly there are other mmos, that are much more fun than wow at the moment.    … Expand
  9. Ultranasiliy
    Aug 23, 2021
    0
    I liked some of the content in the game, namely the random bg. But in this add-on, in order to play random BGs, I had to play keys and go to raids, I don’t have time for that. I stopped the subscription, expecting any changes like "leveling the level of armor on the BG". Lore is interesting but as a story although the main villain sucks.
    I think this supplement is the worst of all.    I liked some of the content in the game, namely the random bg. But in this add-on, in order to play random BGs, I had to play keys and go to raids, I don’t have time for that. I stopped the subscription, expecting any changes like "leveling the level of armor on the BG". Lore is interesting but as a story although the main villain sucks.
    I think this supplement is the worst of all.
    Legion and Pandaria at an unattainable level for the Shadowlands    … Expand
  10. Drely
    Aug 23, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands is so incredibly bad, just like bfa.
    Who writes such a cringe story? Who thought it would be a good idea to give us yet another bunch of awful systems? Who thought it would be a good idea to keep ignoring the faction imbalance? Seriously, who at Blizzard supports all these awful decisions? No wonder there is such a big exodus.
    Final Fantasy 14 is so much better in so many    Shadowlands is so incredibly bad, just like bfa.
    Who writes such a cringe story? Who thought it would be a good idea to give us yet another bunch of awful systems? Who thought it would be a good idea to keep ignoring the faction imbalance? Seriously, who at Blizzard supports all these awful decisions? No wonder there is such a big exodus.

    Final Fantasy 14 is so much better in so many regards. ff14 let's you play every race in every faction, in contrast to wow, where there is still racial segregation. Considering the lawsuit against Blizzard you would think they would get rid of racism in their game, but nah, they hold on to stricly separating the races. ff14 has player housing. Wow... not so much. xD ff14 has way better gear, not those ugly pixelated age old looking gear. ff14s Devs actually listen to their player's feedback. Yah, imagine that! ff14 doesn't have faction imbalance, because despite having several factions they let their players play together. Then you look at that extremely anti social faction system in wow on top of their racist division of the races. Yikes! And ff14 has a really solid story. Wow... just don't has a good story anymore. Bfa completly ruined the story and SL continues to be bad.

    Hopefully world of warcraft will get better, but until then, Final Fantasy 14 it is!    … Expand
  11. Dink
    Aug 21, 2021
    0
    Cheap soulless trash :(
    Pile of chopped mechanic, imbalance, timegating and etc... Everyone also knows this, I do not see sense to repeat. Very boring.
  12. Bearoo
    Aug 18, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands is a dumpster fire. You can't sugarcoat it anymore.
    I could list a lot of things that need major changes, but since Blizzard keeps ignoring feedback or straight up corrupts their player's wishes... well, dunno, if there is any point in that.
    Guess I could list the main thing why my friends and I finally quit this game (probably for good, since we don't see any changes coming,    Shadowlands is a dumpster fire. You can't sugarcoat it anymore.
    I could list a lot of things that need major changes, but since Blizzard keeps ignoring feedback or straight up corrupts their player's wishes... well, dunno, if there is any point in that.
    Guess I could list the main thing why my friends and I finally quit this game (probably for good, since we don't see any changes coming, regarding this issue).

    1 of the 2 factions in this game is almost dead playerwise. It came to this because the Devs were actively pandering to the faction that is overpopulated ever since blood elves made their entrance. Giving the small faction overweight humans and junk gnomes, while giving the overpopulated faction an adorable new fox race and a better looking version of an old race in the last expansion didn't help either. Strange, right?! The overpopulated faction had one advantage after the other, one of them= op racials among other things.

    So me and my friends too had to play the overpopulated faction for the last couple of years in order to get anything done. Even though we prefer the small faction. Yeah, that sucks. The whole faction system in wow sucks. But Blizzard simply doesn't seem to care as long as their favorite faction has the upper hand.

    Players are asking for years now for a new faction system, that would allow us to play all races and with all players but everything in this game stays stale and outdated. No place for new and innovative ideas.

    Since bfa and Shadowlands are in general bad expansions our guild on the overpopulated faction died out now too and we have no desire to search for a new one. We never felt at home in the big faction anyway and when I logg on my alts on the small faction... well, there is almost nobody left to play with. Guess I just give up on this game. The outdated faction system is just... awful for the player experience.

    I much more prefer the faction system in Final Fantsy 14, that let's us play all races and with all players. Not to mention that ff14 has way more interesting features anyway.    … Expand
  13. Henry12A
    Aug 15, 2021
    2
    If you're looking for yet another disappointment after battle for azeroth, Shadowlands is waiting for you.
    Too many systems, endless grinding, too many chores, ridiculous lore, random loot, still old and toxic faction restrictions because racial segregation/racism is seemingly the pillar of wow... like... wtf?, still no class balance, big faction imbalance, still laughable few    If you're looking for yet another disappointment after battle for azeroth, Shadowlands is waiting for you.
    Too many systems, endless grinding, too many chores, ridiculous lore, random loot, still old and toxic faction restrictions because racial segregation/racism is seemingly the pillar of wow... like... wtf?, still no class balance, big faction imbalance, still laughable few customization options that might have been ok in 2010 but definitely not in 2021, random loot, still no account wide valor unlock and reputation, tiresome alt leveling, still no graphic update for old zones, not even for the capitals, arrogant behavior of the Devs, who either keep ignoring feedback or twist it so that nobody is happy with the result, gigantic content droughts, yet they still let their players pay for each and every month...
    I could go on, but in short: Shadowlands is yet another disaster after bfa.    … Expand
  14. Rogar
    Aug 14, 2021
    1
    No king rules forever... World of warcraft truley has fallen from grace. Battle for Azeroth was bad and Shadowlands is... still bad. I don't know what has happened during the last patch of Legion (which already was a bit weaker than the patches before that) and the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, but ever since then the game has become nearly unplayable. Both because of the gameplay andNo king rules forever... World of warcraft truley has fallen from grace. Battle for Azeroth was bad and Shadowlands is... still bad. I don't know what has happened during the last patch of Legion (which already was a bit weaker than the patches before that) and the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, but ever since then the game has become nearly unplayable. Both because of the gameplay and beacuse of the cringe writing reagarding the lore.
    What is it with this weird obsession with that awful written banshee queen? Ever since she is the focus of the story the lore went from mediocre to an absolutely cringe show.
    The writers ruined one major character after the other, they ruined the factions with yet another brainless faction war in bfa and continue to potrait everyone around that banshee like an idiot, while pretending she's so smart and everything, while the only thing she truly is, is a hypocrite. A mass murderer, a sadist and a coward, who only cares for herself. Yet through several retcons the writers forcefully want to push a redemption arc in our throats.
    I've read so many people suggest they should just retcon bfa and Shadowlands and blame N'Zoth for it and normally I'm not a fan of the trope "It was just a dream" or in this case a vision, but in this case I would gladly accept it. Because there is no repairing of the lore, if they decide to continue on this route.
    I would gladly return to Legion, to our order halls and to a time before the war. Like so many others I truly hate the meaningless back and forth between the factions. Let us play together. The devs created a huge faction imbalace, that you can't really fix anymore. Let all races have free choice like Pandaren. That would make the game so much better and let us choose, if we want to play in raids and battlegrounds together with the other faction with optional cross faction groups. And DO NOT corrupt something like that again. Don't make it half baked. Let us truly play together and with all races we want in the faction we want.    … Expand
  15. Luciuso
    Aug 12, 2021
    1
    I want to like wow, but I just can't anymore. I really enjoyed Legion, but I hated battle for azeroth and Shadowlands is... just frustrating... because I finally came to the conclusion that there is just too much wrong with this game.
    The lore, faction and class imbalance, throwaway systems, same old faction restrictions, choregast... there is nothing to like about the newest expansion.    I want to like wow, but I just can't anymore. I really enjoyed Legion, but I hated battle for azeroth and Shadowlands is... just frustrating... because I finally came to the conclusion that there is just too much wrong with this game.
    The lore, faction and class imbalance, throwaway systems, same old faction restrictions, choregast... there is nothing to like about the newest expansion. On top of that the long content droughts. There is nothing new and innovative in Shadowlands. Still no player housing, still no old world upgrade, still no cross faction raiding and more playable neutral races, almost no new customization options, nothing really for casual players.

    One of the most frustrating things... Blizzard seemingly just don't care for their players. They only care for money. Feedback keeps being ignored or currupted. Wow is in a really sad state.    … Expand
  16. Zoklos
    Aug 12, 2021
    2
    Shadowlands along with Battle For Azeroth and Warlords Of Draenor are painfully bad expansions.

    I loved the artefact system in Legion, but with the start of bfa it became worthless. Ever since then they threw one new borrowed power system after the other at us, just so that they can put it in the trash right after. Not fun. The ending of Legion was weak regarding the forced faction    Shadowlands along with Battle For Azeroth and Warlords Of Draenor are painfully bad expansions.

    I loved the artefact system in Legion, but with the start of bfa it became worthless. Ever since then they threw one new borrowed power system after the other at us, just so that they can put it in the trash right after. Not fun.

    The ending of Legion was weak regarding the forced faction choice of the allied races. But if you ignore that Legion had a solid story. But with the start of bfa everything went downhill. The story in bfa and Shadowlands is such a dumbster fire... oof. I wish they would do somthing similar like Square Enix with Final Fantasy 14 ARR. Just retcon bfa and Shadowlands and bring us back to Legion. I don't know a single person, who enjoys the lore anymore.

    Factions... yeah, no. They don't work. They don't work in Classic and they don't work in retail. Massiv changes are needed regarding the Alliance and Horde to make this game balanced again.
    Like many already suggested, the best way of doing it is simply by removing the restrictions.
    By ending the racial segregation and allowing all races to choose their faction freely. Just like the Pandaren. It would be way less toxic for the playerbase too.
    Additionally all players, regardless of their faction, should be able to do raids and battlegrounds together.
    Factions should only be separated in the story and through things like exclusive mounts, cities, and transmogs. Loyalty to a faction shouldn't come from the way someone looks. You're race XL, ok stick to that side. Sorry, but that's extremly stupid and outdated. Would be nice of course, if every race could get a unique starter area and not just the embassy in each city. A small space ship on some of the higher rocks in Orgrimmar for example or like someone suggested a ship for Tiragardesund Vulpera in the harbor of Stormwind.
    I think a lot of players would come back for this reason alone. For being able to level new alts and expierence new races in their facorite faction. Fun stuff, that keeps us entertained.

    I also want to mention again, that it really sucks, how everything we do in one expansions becomes worthless with a new expansion. I would love to use my artefact weapons again. Not to mention how cool it would be to be able to do the mage tower again trough time walking or something.

    Anyways, wow is not worth playing at the moment. bfa was bad and Shadowlands is it aswell.    … Expand
  17. Jananas
    Aug 12, 2021
    3
    Few latest expansions to WoW feel to me like a layering a cake. The problem is that the older the layer is, the more rotten it becomes. Legendaries they have added in Legion are worthless in Shadowlands, Azerite not worth it. They are layering the game with more and more stuff, but the problem is that the old mechanics are completely worthless as time goes on. New additions in ShadowlandsFew latest expansions to WoW feel to me like a layering a cake. The problem is that the older the layer is, the more rotten it becomes. Legendaries they have added in Legion are worthless in Shadowlands, Azerite not worth it. They are layering the game with more and more stuff, but the problem is that the old mechanics are completely worthless as time goes on. New additions in Shadowlands are incredibly bland (boreghast) and trying to live trough the expansion feels like a huge chore. And those additions will be, again, worthless wit new expansions. Adding to that is the staleness of Shadowlands - not adding patch for how long now? All things considered, it makes sense why people are leaving WoW in huge numbers. Feels like Blizzard is out of touch. Not saying the game cannot be good at some point, but looking back at the journey, I don't think Blizzard is quite learning what the players do want.… Expand
  18. OvanOfTheNorth
    Aug 11, 2021
    1
    Wasted potential buried under needless convoluted borrowed power systems. Launch day held high hopes and it all quickly fell apart as design and execution led to lack of interest in continuing. Held out till the first major content patch and was once again let down.
  19. Xodin1
    Aug 11, 2021
    1
    I give Shadowlands 1/10.
    The story is on the same level as battle for Azeroth = bad. Really bad. I've read fan fictions, that had a better quality than bfa and Shadowlands.
    The big promise to give us more customization options for the races is a complete joke. They gave us almost nothing new. Not even something simple like different body heights were implemented. Systems upon sytstems    I give Shadowlands 1/10.
    The story is on the same level as battle for Azeroth = bad. Really bad. I've read fan fictions, that had a better quality than bfa and Shadowlands.
    The big promise to give us more customization options for the races is a complete joke. They gave us almost nothing new. Not even something simple like different body heights were implemented.
    Systems upon sytstems sprinkled with yet another borrowed power system to keep us grinding. Yeah... no thanks.
    Last but not least we still have to suffer under the stupid faction restrictions.
    Wanna play a dark iron dwarf in the Horde? „Guess what, you can't.“
    Wanna play a Tauren in the Alliance? „Nope. We here at Blizzard prefer to keep our races separated because we value racism as the pillar of this game.“
    Wanna do raids with your friend, who happens to prefer the other faction? „Nope. We here at Blizzard don't want you to socialize in our game and would like you to hold on to tribalism.“
    Factions per se aren't bad, but the restrictions to keep races and players strictly separated is really bad.    … Expand
  20. Sonelai
    Aug 9, 2021
    0
    After the complete failure Battle For Azeroth I was looking forward to Shadowlands. Turns out Shadowlands is just as bad as bfa. Man I wish we could go back to Legion...
    Furthermore the game became almost impossible to play because of the ever growing faction imbalance. I am so tired of these outdated faction restrictions that prevent us from playing the game in a healthy way; namely    After the complete failure Battle For Azeroth I was looking forward to Shadowlands. Turns out Shadowlands is just as bad as bfa. Man I wish we could go back to Legion...
    Furthermore the game became almost impossible to play because of the ever growing faction imbalance. I am so tired of these outdated faction restrictions that prevent us from playing the game in a healthy way; namely without racial segregation and with the option to play with everyone.
    Keep factions, but burn the faction restrictions down. Burn it!
    Allow all races to every faction + allow cross faction raiding, at least for hero and mythic. Factions can still get their unique stuff, like mounts and tabards for example. However races should not be exlusive to only one faction

    If Blizzard would care about the health of the game they would do something to fix it. So why is the imbalance still being ignored?

    So yeah, in short, not a fun game at all.    … Expand
  21. Zokko
    Aug 8, 2021
    2
    There is almost nothing I like about Shadowlands. So a similar expierence to battle for Azeroth. Both expansions are pretty bad. At least we're not stuck in a brainless faction war, that made no sense after Legion.
    Speaking of factions, yeah, the imbalance is growing bigger and bigger by the day. No wonder, if you look at how Blizzard is handeling them, regarding playable races, racials    There is almost nothing I like about Shadowlands. So a similar expierence to battle for Azeroth. Both expansions are pretty bad. At least we're not stuck in a brainless faction war, that made no sense after Legion.
    Speaking of factions, yeah, the imbalance is growing bigger and bigger by the day. No wonder, if you look at how Blizzard is handeling them, regarding playable races, racials (in past expansions) and so on. That is a problem for years now, but Blizzard hasn't done anything to help the small faction out. They did quite the opposite if you look at the allied races.
    It's gotten so bad, that there is only one thing that would make this game playable and fun again. Get rid of most of the faction restrictions. Seriously.
    Let us play together with all the races we want. The playable races need to be neutral asap. Cross faction groups for raids need to happen aswell.
    There would still be a lot of money earned from faction transfers and race changes, once players get the chance to choose their faction and races freely without being forced to play in the overpopulated faction. So no worries there, Activision Blizzard.^^
    There don't have to be whole new zones for the races. just small introductions and a starting point. Aswell as new voice lines (for the Alliance! for the Horde!) for all races. Shouldn't be a big deal for such a huge company.
    Can't be so hard to reduce a part of the toxicity in this game by giving the players more freedom and the ability to actually play together.    … Expand
  22. Taccoru
    Aug 6, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands feels soulless.
    While I felt a lot of anger and frustration during bfa, because of how bad that expansion was... now there is just a feeling of disappointing for Shadowlands left. It just gets worse and worse with this game.
    They ruined the story and with that several important characters within the story... It feels like the authors of the story deliberately trash the    Shadowlands feels soulless.
    While I felt a lot of anger and frustration during bfa, because of how bad that expansion was... now there is just a feeling of disappointing for Shadowlands left. It just gets worse and worse with this game.
    They ruined the story and with that several important characters within the story... It feels like the authors of the story deliberately trash the lore...
    They don't respect the time of their playerbase. Quite the opposite. With endless grinds, random loot and time gating they make everything feel slow. They force their players to spend as much time as possible in the game in order to work their ingame chores off, so that Blizzard gets their monthly payment from us.
    They do not listen to feedback. Often they do the exact opposite of what their players ask them for or corrupt feedback and make it eben worse than before.
    They do not let us play together. They still split the playerbase with their old faction system and continued through several advantages like better racials, playable mainstream races, spotlight within the story etc. to give the players the feeling that they have to migrate to the overpopulated faction. They are promoting toxic behavior, which leads to some players acting like racist idots, who enjoy shouting at others for not being in their faction and yelling stuff like certain races don't belong in their „oh so great“ faction and shout certain races should be wiped out and similar stuff.
    But it seems as if that type of players are those Blizzard is catering to. While other players just want to be able to play all races in their favorite faction and to be able to do raids and battlegrounds together with the other faction. You know, being able to play with all players... something that should be normal in a mmo.    … Expand
  23. bravoad
    Aug 6, 2021
    0
    На ру сервере данной игры творится полная токсичная атмосфера и дискриминация по навыкам игрока, где на человека смотрят не как на человека, а на животного. Если игрок в их стаде, и играет также как они, или лучше, их расхваливают. Иначе сжирают толпой, подвергают моральному унижению и заставляют удалять игру, вместо того, чтобы взять и научить правильно играть. Призываю к бойкоту даннойНа ру сервере данной игры творится полная токсичная атмосфера и дискриминация по навыкам игрока, где на человека смотрят не как на человека, а на животного. Если игрок в их стаде, и играет также как они, или лучше, их расхваливают. Иначе сжирают толпой, подвергают моральному унижению и заставляют удалять игру, вместо того, чтобы взять и научить правильно играть. Призываю к бойкоту данной мморпг.… Expand
  24. Alori
    Aug 3, 2021
    1
    It's just so frustrating to see how bad this game has become. The last good expansion was Legion, but battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands are really awful. Grindy, frustrating systems, poorly written story, unbalanced, buggy and a ton of restrictions for players (they still hold on the age-old faction system, no improvements whatsoever).
    Be better Blizzard.
    • Allow all races to become    It's just so frustrating to see how bad this game has become. The last good expansion was Legion, but battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands are really awful. Grindy, frustrating systems, poorly written story, unbalanced, buggy and a ton of restrictions for players (they still hold on the age-old faction system, no improvements whatsoever).
    Be better Blizzard.
    • Allow all races to become neutral & available for both factions. No more missing out on fav. races & racials.
    • Allow optional cross faction raiding. Let us finally play together, if we want to.
    • Give us our cities (Teldrassil & Undercity) and old zones with better graphics back.
    • Stop ruining the lore or like others already suggested, reset the story entirely and put us back to the end of Legion.
    • Give casuals a reason to stay, like player housing!!!! or/and something similar like the mage tower or/and the artefact weapon skins.
    • More customization options, a lot more customization options are needed.
    • Be more transparent and start communicating with the players again Blizzard.

    I don't really believe, that Shadowlands can be saved at this point. But who knows, maybe 10,0 will be better.    … Expand
  25. Jokaal
    Aug 2, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands is just as bad as Battle for Azeroth. Don't play it. Wait until they improve their game. I have no idea when or if that will ever happen. Guess the only thing we can do is wait and see. That and giving them feedback. Maybe one day they come down from their high horse and start listening to their players again.

    The lore is important to me. So one thing that could bring me    Shadowlands is just as bad as Battle for Azeroth. Don't play it. Wait until they improve their game. I have no idea when or if that will ever happen. Guess the only thing we can do is wait and see. That and giving them feedback. Maybe one day they come down from their high horse and start listening to their players again.

    The lore is important to me. So one thing that could bring me back is a story reset, like others already wrote before me. Reset the story from bfa and shadowlands and bring us back to Legion. Make bfa and Shadowlands a fever dream or a vision. Something like that. Just remove that stuff from the canon storyline. No, there wouldn't be a problem with the allied races, but I come to that point later.

    Another popular request, that I too would like to see in retail is a change for the faction restrictions.
    Let us play with all players and let us play all races in each faction, not just half of them.
    You want to remove toxic stuff in your game? Racial segregation is probably one of the biggest aspects of your game that promotes toxic behavior. It's like those old dudes shouting at people with a different skin color that they shouldn't get near their lawn because they look different. It's pretty much the same ingame with people yelling they never ever want a specific race in their city.

    Blizzard should finally open the gates for free race choice, all races for both factions. Yeah, I get it. It's just a game. Who cares if there is racism in world of warcraft and a strict devide between races. I still don't have to like a virtual form of racism.
    But even if you ignore that, the devide forces players to make compromises they don't want to make. Because they can't have their favorite races and racials in the faction they prefer. They can't experience the game in the way they want and that is a bad thing and takes away a good portion of fun.
    Blizzard should also allow cross faction raiding and bgs, also a popular request I agree on.
    With these changes they would finally end the problem of faction imbalance. With these changes they would make the game much more fun.

    But what about the allied races? It's really not hard to come up with an alternative way how they join.
    Here are some examples.

    Nightborne, High Mountain Tauren and Lightforged Draenei:
    Both Alliance and Horde helped them during Legion. That they are neutral and join both factions is the only natural thing to do.

    Void Elves:
    The encounter with Alleria can stay the same and through Alleria a part of them joins the Alliance.
    However a second group should join the Horde. It's very weird that a faction like the Horde wouldn't want them, since they had never problems with "dark magic", if you want to call it like that. Just delete the part with the sunwell encounter.

    Dark Iron Dwarves:
    The connection to the other dwarf clans can stay. So that group joins the Alliance.
    However their whole being and their theme fits the Horde very well. It would feel natural for a group of them to join the rough ranks of the Horde.

    Vulpera:
    While the Horde explores the deserts and comes across the Zandalari, they also befriend the desert Vulpera of Vol'dun.
    The Alliance befriends the Tiragardesund Vulpera, so there would be a sailor and traveler theme for Alliance Vulpera. Taelia should be the one leading them in to the Alliance. They would be a very good fit for the Alliance and could have their own ship in the Stormwind harbor. They could also put a group of Vulpera into Stormsong Valley. There should be enough place for them too.

    KulTirans:
    They would look so awesome within the Horde with a sailor or even pirate like them, while the Alliance befriends them trough their connection to the Proudmoore family.

    Mechagnomes:
    Should be neutral anyway, since both Horde and Alliance befriends them. The encounter with Mechagon can stay similar to the original.

    Zandalari:
    Here you could take a group of banished trolls or travelers for the Alliance. Zandalari, who don't feel connected to the kingdom.

    Mag'har:
    I'll admit that these guys are a bit tricky, but you could play it out this way: They had the same vision or whatever it was from bfa and Shadowlands too and find a way to Azeroth in order to help out.

    It's really easy to come up with ideas and it didn't took more than 5 mintutes to come up with something. So yeah, it's easy to make it work. For all races by the way. Not just the allied races.

    I'm also tired of the borrowed power system. If there has to be such a system, then let us return to the legendary weapons in Legion.    … Expand
  26. Magicus
    Jul 31, 2021
    3
    World of warcraft - Shadowlands = a hot mess. Not worth playing at the moment.
    Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands are almost as bad as Warlords of Draenor. When it comes to story and systems it's even worse. Not to mention recent events regarding the bad working environment for employees.
    Nonetheless, there is a lot of things, that would bring players back and I want to hold on to hope.    World of warcraft - Shadowlands = a hot mess. Not worth playing at the moment.
    Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands are almost as bad as Warlords of Draenor. When it comes to story and systems it's even worse. Not to mention recent events regarding the bad working environment for employees.
    Nonetheless, there is a lot of things, that would bring players back and I want to hold on to hope. Blizzard and World of Warcraft still can become better.

    I've read a lot of reviews, comments and critics and there is so much Blizzard could do, to improve their game:

    -
    Lessen faction restrictions.
    Allow all races for both factions with new short introduction quests and voice overs.
    Allow cross faction raids, battlegrounds and alt mailing.
    Keep factions as a pure rp factor (exclusive clothes, rewards, cities etc.). Players shouldn't have the feeling of missing out something important, while deciding to join a faction (like races, racials, easier way of finding groups).

    -
    Real player housing.
    Garrisons are not player housing. Many players would love to have real player housing in Azeroth.

    -
    Less systems, less time gating, less or no borrowed power at all.

    -
    Improve the lore. Undo the events of bfa and Shadowlands. Square Enix did something similar to their game ff14 and now it's extremly popular. You can do the same. Both, bfa and Shadowlands were a mistake.

    -
    Better communication with the playerbase instead of ignoring it for the most part.

    -
    Better graphics.
    There are a lot of players, who wish for an updated Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor.

    -
    A lot more character customization options for all races.

    -
    More playable races like Sethrak, Arrakoa, Ogre etc.
    Like all the others they should be neutral and available for both factions.

    -
    Return to Azeroth.
    Many players feel more connected to Azeroth instead of some other worlds and realms.

    -
    Account wide reputation.

    -
    Balanced pvp and pve.

    -
    Impactful professions.

    -
    Make old zones relevant again. (Not by destroying them!!! but rather by improving them and giving them some new quests).    … Expand
  27. Tritoon
    Jul 30, 2021
    2
    World Of Warcraft is in a bad state, in a really bad state.
    Though I want the game to improve, since I have good memories of it and it would be nice to come back to it someday, right now I would advise everyone not to buy it. For various reason. Some of them I'd like to list in this comment.
    1. Poorly written lore. I'm one of those nerds, who wants a good story in a mmorpg. World Of    World Of Warcraft is in a bad state, in a really bad state.
    Though I want the game to improve, since I have good memories of it and it would be nice to come back to it someday, right now I would advise everyone not to buy it. For various reason. Some of them I'd like to list in this comment.

    1. Poorly written lore.

    I'm one of those nerds, who wants a good story in a mmorpg. World Of Warcraft doesn't have good lore anymore.
    Ever since the end of Legion the lore went downhill.
    It is in such a bad state, that you would think the writers were drunk while they wrote Battle For Azeroth and Shadowlands. They ruined major lore characters left and right and the factions look like complete idiots with the way Blizzard is handling the story. Both of them.

    - Possible Solution:
    The only way how to save the lore at this point is to retcon Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. I'm sorry, but I really don't see any other way how to fix that cringe fanfiction level of writing. Make Battle For Azeroth and Shadowlands a vision of some old god or something and return to the end of Legion. The "allied races", who came during that time can join the factions regardless. Just change the way how they join.

    2. Faction imbalance, faction restrictions and it's anti social player impact.

    Many people already wrote it, but it can't be criticized enough. World Of Warcraft's playerbase is known to be kinda toxic. Part of it comes from the over 17 years old faction restrictions.
    Many years of neglecting one faction and favoring the other faction led to a mass exodus, so that the faction imbalance is beyond repair.
    Now those, who are still playing this game feel forced to play the overpopulated faction,- to get pve and pvp done and because Blizzard decided to give the overpopulated faction the two most liked races of the game, along with a constant focus on said faction, like story, cinematics and so on.

    The faction system just doesn't work anymore. There are other popular mmos like Final Fantasy 14, who even have more than 2 factions and there is no faction imbalance whatsoever. Why? The reason is extremly simple: You have access to all races and you can trade and play with all players, regardless of the faction.

    - Solution:
    End the racial segregation.

    It is outdated, it is frustrating for the gameplay (both because you can't play your favorite race in the faction you prefer and because of the racials), it is unfitting and unnatural for modern standards when it comes to racism and it overall doesn't give a good look to the game. First thing you see while logging in is this huge resriction that doesn't let you play the game how you would enjoy it.

    Allow cross faction raiding, cross faction bgs (not same faction bgs!) and cross faction alt mailing, so that the players are able to send gold and other things to their characters in the other faction.

    All the rest can stay as it is. Horde players can't enter Alliance cities, Alliance players can't enter Horde cities. Warmode stays the same too.

    3. Graphic, especially the old world
    The old world looks for the most part as if it is stuck in the early 2000nds. This is on such a lazy level... Just... oof. This game looks really, really old. It's just embarrassing how bad World Of Warcraft looks.

    - Solution:
    Upgrade the world.

    4. The people working on this game:
    It's very sad, but I have to put it on this list too:
    The straw that broke the camel's back are the horrible working conditions for the employees of Blizzard. I won't go in to details in this comment. Everyone can read about the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard. The working environment needs to change asap.

    These are the most important things for me. However there are of course a lot of other things that needs to be better. Like borrowed power systems, class imbalance and so on. This game has a lot of potential, but ever since the end of Legion... it's just sad to see what this game has become. It certainly isn't a game anymore, that I would recommend playing. I do hope though it will become better. Hopefully sooner than later.    … Expand
  28. Rigor81
    Jul 27, 2021
    1
    This game has a lot of problems, unfortunately.

    One of the main issues is the glorified racism in form of racial segregation in this game. Not only is the restriction of separated races rather questionable for obvious reasons, it's also very annyoning from a gameplay perspective. Instead of choosing a faction because a player prefers the overall theme, the valors and ideals, they    This game has a lot of problems, unfortunately.

    One of the main issues is the glorified racism in form of racial segregation in this game.
    Not only is the restriction of separated races rather questionable for obvious reasons, it's also very annyoning from a gameplay perspective.

    Instead of choosing a faction because a player prefers the overall theme, the valors and ideals, they strictly make you choose based of the given races. Meaning if you prefer one faction over the other you only get access to half of the races.

    Seriously, what an idiotic and outdated system. I had several cases where my friends and I had to make annoying compromises, just in order of being able to play together.

    The faction system of wow is extremly anti-social.
    Racial segregation is questionable and annoying af. Especially if you consider, how unnatural it feels. However Blizzard likes to paint the picture of races, who follow a strict hivemind instead of making their own free decision.

    Then again, if you look at the recent scandal of Activision Blizzard, it comes to no surprise that racism in form of strict racial segregation is seen as a pillar of wow.

    Another thing that is annoying af are the pointless systems and borrowed power, that you can put in the trash right after every expansion or even after every patch. Meaning all the hours you spend with grinding for it are basically a waste of time.

    Then there is all the time gating for new content, just so that they can keep you/your money as long as possible in the game.

    Then there is the class and faction imbalance.

    Then the lore, that keeps being retconned, characters gain and loose power randomly just to fit Blizzards current narrative. The lore is in such a bad state, that I'm of the opinion that a bunch of middle school students could write a more solid story than what we have now.

    The list go on...    … Expand
  29. trains80fl
    Jul 23, 2021
    1
    This game is a complete waste of my time the stater gear that my character has been reset to is not strong enough for the scenario forge of aeons therefore I am very unhappy.... When character died in scenario I am instantly attacked upon revive
  30. KairiOrSomethin
    Jul 23, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I decided to try out WoW properly with this expansion because a few friends played and honestly speaking I'm quite disappointed, I haven't been here for it's prime but I don't understand how anyone could claim that this is still the best MMO out there. The movement feels atrocious to me and the fact that my character is to stupid to turn around and execute an action if I don't move my camera around is just dumb and artificial difficulty. Artificial difficulty that has plagued me throughout my entire leveling experience, everything I have had some sort of difficulty, which, to be fair, wasn't too often, it was because I was fighting the game and its controls and not because something challenging was thrown at me. The only good moments have been with my friends, because of my friend, the game did nothing to make it good, except maybe having animations so terrible, that it prompted us to laugh at them. The only moment in the game where I was positively surprised so far was when I joined Arenwalde, seeing this magical forest made so beautifully was really nice, however the storytelling in that was even more atrocious than the rest and it was just what I expected from an expansion coming out in 2020, the fact that the other zones (especially maldraxxus) can't even remotely keep up is just kind of sad, and disappointing. I can't recommend buying this game to anyone, I spent 60$ and it already feels like it's too much for them, where is the money they are getting from their players going? It doesn't look like it's going back into the game to me, to be honest, and after recent event I can only discourage giving Blizzard any money to begin with (though it is your decision if you want to play their products or not, this is just my opinion) so there's really no saving grace.… Expand
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    Jul 23, 2021
    1
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    Jul 20, 2021
    1
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  33. tiberiuss
    Jul 16, 2021
    0
    pros +
    1. still good raids
    cons - 1. POWER INFUSION meta. this ability should be selfcast only ! ! ! 2. hubrid specs do more damage than pure dps shadow priest and balance druid must be nerfed to the ground. my warlock must be buffed to heaven no discuss. 3. awful bored m+ 4. broken covenants balance 5 . broken covenants respec 6. maw and korthia - sh1t content 7.    pros +
    1. still good raids
    cons -
    1. POWER INFUSION meta. this ability should be selfcast only ! ! !
    2. hubrid specs do more damage than pure dps
    shadow priest and balance druid must be nerfed to the ground. my warlock must be buffed to heaven
    no discuss.
    3. awful bored m+
    4. broken covenants balance
    5 . broken covenants respec
    6. maw and korthia - sh1t content
    7. broken soulbind system    … Expand
  34. Drastic_drugs
    Jul 15, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Очень убогий, не интересный сюжет. Военное ремесло стало ещё более мультяшным. Серьезности больше нет от слова совсем. Теперь это дегроигра для дегродетишек 12 лет. Бонусом, в игру постоянно добавляют новых персонажей-глиномесов или и прочий СЖВ-мусор. От патча к патчу пихают пропаганду толерастни и гордятся этим.… Expand
  35. Amulrei
    Jul 14, 2021
    2
    "No king rules forever". And this expansion is key proof the king had long since died with his corpse is stinking up the building.

    Cringy fanfic level writing, Bizarre fixation on Mythic dungeons and some of the worst PvP in the history of the game.
  36. RDonnell
    Jul 10, 2021
    1
    Felt rushed and hounded to go through zones unlike classic. Talked to very few people its very shallow and very few interactions with players. They used up good lore too the afterlife is totally forgettsble you meet like 5 wow heroes from ALL that lore? Lets be honest i spent more time rejected in qyeyes for rated bg than playing the actual battlegrounsa
  37. AntonAft
    Jul 9, 2021
    0
    the game seems to be normal, the plot is good, but there is one problem. a very big problem. and this problem is called minorities. WHY would blood elves be black all of A sudden? according to the original plot, blood elves are not found in nature as black, yellow, etc., they can ONLY be white and their skin has a pink hue, just like night elves can't be white, Blizzard have you gone crazythe game seems to be normal, the plot is good, but there is one problem. a very big problem. and this problem is called minorities. WHY would blood elves be black all of A sudden? according to the original plot, blood elves are not found in nature as black, yellow, etc., they can ONLY be white and their skin has a pink hue, just like night elves can't be white, Blizzard have you gone crazy there at all? LGBT is superfluous, and there is also a feeling that you are specially making a lot of girl heroes, I won't say I don't like it, there will undoubtedly be kings - will be and queens, but don't go too far with this. and, unfortunately, you are not the only ones, this is the problem of many games, if the person reading this review is a gamer like me, then he will understand, we play for entertainment, we like it, and we do not want to see politics, propaganda, etc.in games, I do not pay my money for this, games are creativity, the embodiment of the ideas and thoughts of the author, and not... this. if you want to make the world a better place-start with yourself, Blizzard stop this circus, we should not let them climb into our territory, what games will be decided by US, we must fight them! developers, do not add LGBT, BLM and especially feminists to your games, and we, gamers, let's just criticize and not buy games where they are present. we will avenge the WoW, we will avenge the girls in Mk11, we will avenge the games they ruined, we will avenge someone else, we will avenge on behalf of all gamers, we are the force, games are our territory, help us RGB-light, they will not be able to resist us!!! Blizzard I demand from you: give me back my WoW, give me back my Sin'dorei, selama ashal’anore. and maybe you will return Arthas? would you rather make the Whip a separate faction like a Horde or an Alliance? it would be very cool)))

    игра вроде норм, сюжет хорош, но есть одна проблема. очень большая проблема. и эта проблема называется меньшинства. С ЧЕГО ЭТО ВДРУГ эльфы крови могут быть чёрными? по оригинальному сюжету эльфы крови в природе не встречаются чёрными, жёлтыми и т.д., они могут быть ТОЛЬКО белыми и их кожа имеет розовый оттенок, так-же как и ночные эльфы не могут быть белыми, Blizzard у вас там вообще крыша поехала? ЛГБТ лишнее, и ещё создаётся чувство что вы специально делаете много героев-девушек, не скажу мне это не нравится, несомненно, есть короли будут и королевы, но не перегибайте с этим. и, к сожалению, вы не единственные, это проблема очень многих игр, если читающий этот отзыв человек геймер как и я то он поймёт, мы играем для развлечения, нам это нравится, и мы не хотим видеть в играх политику, пропаганду и т.д., я не за это плачу свои деньги, игры это творчество, воплощение идей и мыслей автора, а не... это. хотите сделать мир лучше - начните с себя, Blizzard прекращайте этот цирк, мы не должны давать им лезть на нашу территорию, какими будут игры решаем МЫ, мы должны бороться с ними! разработчики, не добавляйте ЛГБТ, BLM и особенно фемисток в свои игры, а мы, геймеры, давайте просто будем критиковать и не покупать игры где они присутствуют. отомстим на вов шд, отомстим за девушек в Мк11, отомстим за испорченные ими игры, отомстим за кого-то ещё, отомстим от лица всех геймеров, мы - сила, игры - наша территория, да поможет нам RGB-свет, они не смогут противостоять нам!!! Blizzard я от вас требую: верните мне мой WoW, верните мне моих Син’Дорай, сэлама ашаль’анорэ. и, может, вы вернёте Артаса? а лучше сделаете Плеть отдельной фракцией как Орда или Альянс? было бы очень круто)))    … Expand
  38. Tenarus
    Jul 9, 2021
    0
    The game gets worse with each expension. It just feels like a moneygrab. The blizzard team's behaviour is just bad publicity for the game. While dungeons could technically be somewhat fun the whole game experience gets ruinied by the games rotten community (and while tecnically the community isnt a feature of the game it can be rated in a way that blizzard does not punish player behaviorThe game gets worse with each expension. It just feels like a moneygrab. The blizzard team's behaviour is just bad publicity for the game. While dungeons could technically be somewhat fun the whole game experience gets ruinied by the games rotten community (and while tecnically the community isnt a feature of the game it can be rated in a way that blizzard does not punish player behavior that is against their tos. so really the state that the community is in is kinda much blizz fault.)

    The changed shop options for playtime just show, that blizz fears that players wont play longer then a month - so you need to pay multiple months to be able to play.

    All in all WoW is an era that should be over. The game got worse and worse and i dont want to see what comes after shadowlands. 0/10 not worth to be played a single minute anymore.    … Expand
  39. Woody271
    Jul 9, 2021
    1
    Horrendous storytelling.

    Without writing down spoilers here, I will only say this much; every aspekt of Blizzard's main focus character for 3 expansions now, who is called „The dark lady“ by some edgelords, is extraordinaire garbage. They stretch her story arc for far too long now, put her in most cinematics, retcon her every other patch just so that they can keep her around and so    Horrendous storytelling.

    Without writing down spoilers here, I will only say this much; every aspekt of Blizzard's main focus character for 3 expansions now, who is called „The dark lady“ by some edgelords, is extraordinaire garbage.
    They stretch her story arc for far too long now, put her in most cinematics, retcon her every other patch just so that they can keep her around and so they can sell more figurines and pictures for the people, who (for some reason) still simp for that murderous maniac. But I guess hot women sell, no matter how bonkers a character is written.

    Second point to despise World of Warcraft in it's current state are the things Blizzard is preaching with it's game:

    1)
    Genocide, mind controll, raising the dead and spreading the plague is totally fine, if it's comitted by a good looking woman. You should totally forget and forgive her for all her crimes. Don't you see? She just had a bad day and now she is totally good again! No consequences at all!

    2)
    Racial segregation and racism is fun and the pillar of World Of Warcraft!
    That's why it's totally importat that we separate players by race.
    The race matters, not the factions and that's why we strictly separate players by race instead of letting them choose their faction freely and without racial segregation.

    Wtf? In what universe should racism be a pillar of something to build on? It's beyond me, how Blizzard is still supporting the idea of racial segregation and racism after all this time and claim it's a pillar of wow.

    The faction should matter, not the freaking race a player wants to choose.    … Expand
  40. legion2wer
    Jul 3, 2021
    3
    A good start and a terrible continuation. There is no desire to continue playing this unfinished game.
  41. VolosatuyeNogi
    Jul 2, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ужасно просто ужасное дополнение.а вышла обнова 9.1 и она просто пуста. даже баланс классов не подвезли. странно что есть люди которые в это играют игра просто ужасна и с каждым годом все хуже и хуже. когда же люди бросят её навсегда… Expand
  42. Portgaz
    Jul 1, 2021
    0
    TLDR: this was my first and last game ever to request a refund.

    So I played this game when it came out and the first thing that really bored me was the quests. They have to be the most boring, irritating quests on an MMO ever. You have to do a bunch of uninspired stuff, a lot of which is following and talking to NPCs, but also through hordes of enemies who unmount you and make the    TLDR: this was my first and last game ever to request a refund.

    So I played this game when it came out and the first thing that really bored me was the quests. They have to be the most boring, irritating quests on an MMO ever.

    You have to do a bunch of uninspired stuff, a lot of which is following and talking to NPCs, but also through hordes of enemies who unmount you and make the whole process so troublesome for no reason.

    I really disliked most of the areas too. You are putting vampires and other irrelevant stuff into wow? What is wrong with you?

    I saw more elements from other themes inside the game than wow's.

    I grinded to 60 as I thought the end-game could save the whole thing, but it was an even more boring errand, so I quitted the game and asked for a refund for the first time ever.

    I really liked Legion back then and I hoped this would be similar to it, but it wasn't.

    Just save your time and stay away from this mess. The team has obviously given up or doesn't have resources.    … Expand
  43. houjo2000
    Jun 28, 2021
    1
    The great levelling overhaul makes ShL seem very alt friendly at first- but once you hit max level the sheer amount of grindy, time wasting repetitive systems is at an all time high, you need a daily planner to keep track of it all.

    At the same time, they've made the game considerably less rewarding, reducing the loot from just about every type of content, reducing the value of the    The great levelling overhaul makes ShL seem very alt friendly at first- but once you hit max level the sheer amount of grindy, time wasting repetitive systems is at an all time high, you need a daily planner to keep track of it all.

    At the same time, they've made the game considerably less rewarding, reducing the loot from just about every type of content, reducing the value of the content that is done by the most players. This game might be fine for the hardcore players with premade groups, but it's unacceptable for just about everyone else after the initial chunk of content.

    At the moment, this feels worse than WoD, BfA and Cata- avoid it if you can, and if you're a new player pick another MMO. The easy leveling system may make this seem at first to be very welcoming to new players, but everything else makes that far from the truth.    … Expand
  44. RiaskoFF
    Jun 28, 2021
    4
    I was wrong, content draught for 8-9 months, terrible systems coming in 9.1, you got to recraft legendaries, swap covenants over and over to perform better. I feel a hostage with my 5 months sub left.

    However I had fun for 3-4 months at the beginning of the expansion and did over a hundred m+ runs, thats why i give it 4 out of 10, and not 1. _______________________________________    I was wrong, content draught for 8-9 months, terrible systems coming in 9.1, you got to recraft legendaries, swap covenants over and over to perform better. I feel a hostage with my 5 months sub left.

    However I had fun for 3-4 months at the beginning of the expansion and did over a hundred m+ runs, thats why i give it 4 out of 10, and not 1.
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    below my first review
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    At first feelings - it's gonna be as good as legion. I like the systems so far - covenants, conduits and legendary are going to be fun.

    P.S. don't really understand the hate, because the xpansion just came out and we can only predict how it is going to be, but for now - week 1 - it looks very promising.    … Expand
  45. Caeki
    Jun 27, 2021
    2
    Right after Battle for Azeroth and Warlords of Draenor the worst expansion so far.

    As someone, who cares for the lore I'm so tired of the bad writing ever since the ending of Legion. Worst thing about it is the forced faction conflict with all it's brainless restrictions for players and on top of that the constant focus on „Ms evil Mary Sue“ and her idiotic plot armor. Jeez what a dumb    Right after Battle for Azeroth and Warlords of Draenor the worst expansion so far.

    As someone, who cares for the lore I'm so tired of the bad writing ever since the ending of Legion. Worst thing about it is the forced faction conflict with all it's brainless restrictions for players and on top of that the constant focus on „Ms evil Mary Sue“ and her idiotic plot armor. Jeez what a dumb character.
    Only good thing, that could come out from the 8 month wait for patch 9.1, that brings us absolutly nothing innovative (just more systems upon systems together with reskins of old stuff), would be for that banshee to FINALLY die for good at the end of the raid.

    The main reason however why I really can't stand the game anymore is the racial segregation, like several others mentioned before. It's so stupid, that we can't play with all our friends, if some prefer a different faction. Jeez, how hard can it be to allow cross faction raiding for those, who want it.

    That and the fact, that we can't play our favorite races in the faction we prefer... like wtf?

    Why is racim so important for Blizzard? You can't tell me, that a Goblin for example wouldn't join the Alliance, when there are already active Goblins working for the Alliance in the SI7, or Lightforged Draenei the Horde, or Vulpera from Tiragardesund as sailors the Alliance, or as counterpart sailor humans the Horde, or High Mountain Tauren the Alliance and so on.

    For each and every race there is a reason to prefer the other faction, yet we are stuck with a racist system that promotes toxic behavior and separates the playerbase in an unhealthy way.

    I could go on with the faction imbalance, that Blizzard is making constantly worse with their decisions or the class imbalance, the outdated graphic and so on... it's just tiring at this point...    … Expand
  46. Thaksin
    Jun 24, 2021
    2
    Shadowland - в переводе, теневые земли? Вот уж правда.
    Тень былого величия.
    Предлагаю вам обратить внимание на другие ММО, платить за абонентку и новый DLC, перебор за убийство скуки - на 2 недели.
  47. gothm8
    Jun 17, 2021
    0
    Unfinished rubbish from a company that only cares about your money.

    The devs don't listen to players, they just take ideas from **** mobile games and add them to WoW, while the core gameplay stagnates and rots. Everybody loves the mission table at Blizzard. Every expansion they promise to improve communication with players, and it's always a lie. They talk about wanting to add    Unfinished rubbish from a company that only cares about your money.

    The devs don't listen to players, they just take ideas from **** mobile games and add them to WoW, while the core gameplay stagnates and rots. Everybody loves the mission table at Blizzard.

    Every expansion they promise to improve communication with players, and it's always a lie.

    They talk about wanting to add meaningful choices to the game, but these choices are always anti-player.

    The players ask for more content, Blizzard drip feeds us timegated quests, and makes everything as tedious as possible.

    This expansion has almost no story, so I guess Blizz expect us to buy their upcoming Sylvanas novel to fill in the blanks from the past 3 expansions...

    They've skinned me for three sorry excuses for expansions now, and they somehow managed two in a row this time... I'm out.    … Expand
  48. Solgalos
    Jun 16, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands is extremly boring and feels like a chore. There are too many systems, that nobody needs, too many grinds, huge faction imbalance, that keeps being ignored, classes are still a mess when it comes to balance, the story keeps being painfully bad with Blizzard's constant focus on that over powered edgy banshee and there is absolutely nothing new- meaning you wouldn't even feelShadowlands is extremly boring and feels like a chore. There are too many systems, that nobody needs, too many grinds, huge faction imbalance, that keeps being ignored, classes are still a mess when it comes to balance, the story keeps being painfully bad with Blizzard's constant focus on that over powered edgy banshee and there is absolutely nothing new- meaning you wouldn't even feel rewarded for doing all those grinds.

    New race? Nope.
    New class? Nope.
    Player housing? Nope.
    Customization options? Still laughable compared to other games and extremly unbalanced between the races.
    Graphic update for the old world? Nope.

    Biggest disadvantage and reason not to play this game: Racial segregation/Racism.

    Like several others already wrote, this game has a huge problem with this topic.
    Playable races are strictly split in to two factions. The only exception are Pandaren, who can be in both factions. There are several examples from real life events trough history where this happend and where people practised racial segregation. The same is happening in this game.

    It's not only extremly annoying from a gameplay perspective because players can't play their favorite faction with their favorite races, it also promotes toxic behavior in the game. "I don't want to see race XY in this city!" "I would never ever want to play together with race XY!"
    What the heck is this kind of mindset? Looking at the real world it's like saying "You have a certain skin color, so you should stick to a certain side and keep away from me!"

    I'm sorry, but there is really no other way to call the racial segregation. It's a form of racism and I for one find it very distasteful and I'm not enjoying to see it in wow. People who think that is cool treats every race pretty much like a robot, who can't think for it's own. A good story lives from it's individuals and there are enough neutral groups, who would gladly join the other faction. The faction should matter, not the race you choose. It's just stupid to explain to a new player that he can't play his favorite race on his favorite faction because racism is apparently something Blizzard likes to call the pillar of their game.

    And to clarify, factions should stay. A little bit of competion is nice (although cross faction raiding should be optional), but Blizzard should end racial segregation in retail as soon as possible. I know a lot of players, who (just like me) would resub to wow again, if all races are allowed on both factions. At least that would give us some fresh air after years and years of the same old stuff. Together with nice intro quests for the races, who join the other faction and maybe even new transmoggs to collect it would be a nice addition to spend some time with leveling new characters.    … Expand
  49. Titan32
    Jun 14, 2021
    0
    A boring add-on that requires a huge number of repetitive actions. I know that in MMORPGs this is a significant part of the content, but in this add-on they went beyond all limits! Torghast is just crazy, no one likes it. Of the latest addons, only Legion is made at a decent level. This addon has not yet released any new content, it's just a mockery. They want us to pay a subscription, butA boring add-on that requires a huge number of repetitive actions. I know that in MMORPGs this is a significant part of the content, but in this add-on they went beyond all limits! Torghast is just crazy, no one likes it. Of the latest addons, only Legion is made at a decent level. This addon has not yet released any new content, it's just a mockery. They want us to pay a subscription, but they don't want to do anything to keep the players.… Expand
  50. Wlasiuk
    Jun 8, 2021
    0
    Worst expansion by far, the whole game is designed to be a community driven p2w game, it has a gear gap as there was never before. Leveling is fun, but once you reach endgame the frustration begins, when you have to face other players in order to progress, who can kill you in a single blow while you need like 20 sek to kill them even when they go afk.

    The whole game feels like a mobile    Worst expansion by far, the whole game is designed to be a community driven p2w game, it has a gear gap as there was never before. Leveling is fun, but once you reach endgame the frustration begins, when you have to face other players in order to progress, who can kill you in a single blow while you need like 20 sek to kill them even when they go afk.

    The whole game feels like a mobile game, where you can only progress in super small meaningless steps, the end is never near, so you are never going to feel satisfied or as you accomplished anything.    … Expand
  51. Tedaku
    Jun 1, 2021
    0
    Shadowlands is probably the definition of lazy. Yes, the new zones are nicely done, but apart from that there is absolutely nothing new and innovative in this game.

    You get to grind for the sake of grinding. Mindless systems, which only costs frustration for a lot of players. Broken class balance. Huge faction imbalance for a lot of reasons caused by the Devs. Extraordinary    Shadowlands is probably the definition of lazy. Yes, the new zones are nicely done, but apart from that there is absolutely nothing new and innovative in this game.

    You get to grind for the sake of grinding.

    Mindless systems, which only costs frustration for a lot of players.

    Broken class balance.

    Huge faction imbalance for a lot of reasons caused by the Devs.

    Extraordinary brainless lore, just like in Battle for Azeroth and Warlords of Draenor.

    No new class.

    No new race.

    Same old faction restrictions:

    - meaning you get only half of the races, if you prefer one faction over the other, because racial segregation and racism is fun I guess? Seriously, get you sh* together Blizzard. Racism is definitely not faction identity. All races should be available for both factions.

    -only access to a small part of the playerbase, meaning that especially the smaller faction has a huge disadvantage. Allow cross faction raiding.

    How a game can be so openly anti social and activly supporting racism is beyond me. Being a different race doesn't mean that every race has a hivemind and should stick to one side.

    And finally the archaic graphic for old zones and npcs. One word: Embarrassing.    … Expand
  52. Leogroslot
    May 30, 2021
    0
    Not so great expansion, the lvling was complicated for nothing lots of quest where you don't know what to do, I have to check wowhead for almost every rare and chest.
    The zone "Sylvarden" is ugly as hell, the end game zone is a nightmare to be in.
    The other zone are really beautiful to be fair. I have a bug with a reroll that prevent me from leveling the support is very slow (i guess    Not so great expansion, the lvling was complicated for nothing lots of quest where you don't know what to do, I have to check wowhead for almost every rare and chest.
    The zone "Sylvarden" is ugly as hell, the end game zone is a nightmare to be in.
    The other zone are really beautiful to be fair.
    I have a bug with a reroll that prevent me from leveling the support is very slow (i guess because of the covid situation) for another ticket they just gave me an automatic response and a link to the website.
    The loot and farming seems to be a long grind feel like a pay to fast game.
    One of the worst part is that a lot of things are not clear so you have to try and make mistakes to know. I don't know if they tried to make the game feel more like classic or tbc but it's a succes, it's long and frustrating.
    Also the zone are inconsistent sometimes you have enemies everywhere you have to fight big group of npc because they dismount you and sometimes you end up in the middle of nowhere with few to no npc and quest.
    The capital is simple : two circle.
    The quest are full of dialogue and cut scene, i usually love that in wow, but there are too many. There were many times where i just wanted to play and had to wait for an npc to talk to me or walk from point A to B.

    In conclusion shadowlands is long boring frustrating sometimes beautiful and is not even close to the previous expansions, quality at blizzard HQ is not the priority and it shows.    … Expand
  53. Draugus
    May 21, 2021
    0
    I pvp mostly and can say this is the most broken exp ever.
    -Torgast is a bad content to waste ur time
    -longer and boring World Quests -bad writen lore -more and more and more borrowed powers -more and more and more useless grinds -"must to do" shores are again all over the places to make things take longer -bad class design and class balacing (dude, rpal's are one shotting people    I pvp mostly and can say this is the most broken exp ever.
    -Torgast is a bad content to waste ur time
    -longer and boring World Quests
    -bad writen lore
    -more and more and more borrowed powers
    -more and more and more useless grinds
    -"must to do" shores are again all over the places to make things take longer
    -bad class design and class balacing (dude, rpal's are one shotting people since launch with no fixes)    … Expand
  54. miomio
    May 16, 2021
    0
    Игра мертва.последние дни доживает тот мусор в который жадная активижн превратила игру.заталкивание людей в бесконечный гринд-оталкивает новичков,убрать скалирование в пвп-просто гении)))е**аны.нет баланса нигде и ни в чем, никаких правок.минимум вложений в игру и максимум затягивание "контента" что бы игрок ПЛАТИЛ.повысили цену что бы выкачать баблишко с оставшихся.игра ПОМОЙНАЯ БФА РЯДОМИгра мертва.последние дни доживает тот мусор в который жадная активижн превратила игру.заталкивание людей в бесконечный гринд-оталкивает новичков,убрать скалирование в пвп-просто гении)))е**аны.нет баланса нигде и ни в чем, никаких правок.минимум вложений в игру и максимум затягивание "контента" что бы игрок ПЛАТИЛ.повысили цену что бы выкачать баблишко с оставшихся.игра ПОМОЙНАЯ БФА РЯДОМ С ЭТИМ КОНФЕТКА!!!!не делайте ошибок НЕ ПОКУПАЙТЕ ЭТО!деньги на ветер.нет близзард, есть помойная жадная ативижн
    The game is dead.the last days live out the garbage that the greedy activision turned the game into.pushing people into the endless grind-repels newcomers, remove scaling in pvp-just a genius)))e* * ana.there is no balance anywhere or in anything, no edits.a minimum of investment in the game and a maximum of tightening the "content" that the player would PAY.increased the price to pump out the money from the remaining ones.The game is A GARBAGE BFA NEXT TO THIS CANDY!!!!don't make mistakes DON'T BUY THIS!money is wasted.there is no blizzard, there is a slop greedy ativizhn    … Expand
  55. ForestCrow
    May 16, 2021
    1
    So far this expansion is really, really bad.

    Classes are unbalanced, the story feels very dull, you have to grind for hours, systems upon systems that nobody asked for and they broke their promise to give all races more customization options throughout the expansion. What they did was giving orcs 70% of the new options, while the rest went to the other races. Some races got almost    So far this expansion is really, really bad.

    Classes are unbalanced, the story feels very dull, you have to grind for hours, systems upon systems that nobody asked for and they broke their promise to give all races more customization options throughout the expansion. What they did was giving orcs 70% of the new options, while the rest went to the other races. Some races got almost nothing at all. So most of the races look half baked. Now they said there will be no new customization options in Shadowlands. False advertising.

    The old world, even the capitals look like a patchwork rug with some new elements, but most of it uses the same graphic from 15+ years ago and that shows. They didn't even implemented new sky boxes. How lazy can you get?

    They only gave one faction a new race last expansion, so you would think they would announce, when they will give the other faction a new race aswell. Guess what, they just don't give the other faction a new race. How fair. All the rest of the allied races were lazy reskins. Now with Shadowlands there is no new race and no new class.

    The faction imbalance is getting worse by the day and they do the exact opposite of helping the smaller populated faction. Seriously, if you can't treat the factions fairly you should end the racial segregation alltogether. It's an outdated concept anyway and makes for many races no sense. Racial segregation should finally end. Let us play whatever faction with whatever race we choose. More freedom would FINALLY be something new and interesting, instead of repeating the same stuff over and over again.
    It's extremly outdated after 15+ years and unfitting, -painting the picture that you can only play with your friends when they choose a race of a specific pool. Players should be able to choose their faction regardless of the race. Racism is a pretty questionably pillar to build your ideals on. Just saying.

    Factions should stay for those who like them, but pve grouping for dungeons with the other faction should also be allowed in order to play with all players.    … Expand
  56. Nodachi
    May 14, 2021
    0
    Play WoW since 2005. Worst Addon. You clearly see Activision in it. No Love. Covenants are a Battle Pass. Story is lame. Design is extremely boring, after beautiful Suramar, Boralus or WoTLK its a shame. Main City Flyronforge looks like a classic beta placeholder. New Evil Skinhd Zovaal has nothing on him. No charisma, no storyline....hes like a B-Movie Villain. Hes evil because he isPlay WoW since 2005. Worst Addon. You clearly see Activision in it. No Love. Covenants are a Battle Pass. Story is lame. Design is extremely boring, after beautiful Suramar, Boralus or WoTLK its a shame. Main City Flyronforge looks like a classic beta placeholder. New Evil Skinhd Zovaal has nothing on him. No charisma, no storyline....hes like a B-Movie Villain. Hes evil because he is evil. Thats it. Raids suck. Progression suck. You cant twink anymore, and you dont want to, because all 4 Zones look like the panties of an 90 years old man. There are no remembrable Characters. Burning Lichking is a Placeholder. There a massive logical errors. When all Souls of the universe come to this lands, why look all like blue humans and why we only met souls from azeroth? Activision wants maximum effort with minimal investment. I think soon subscription is optional, and the itemshop evolves. Bobby wants his bonus. RIP Blizzard, best Studio of my Childhood. This Addon sucks more than any addon in the MMORPG Genre. Lame. -5/10. BFA, WoD, Cata had their flaws, but this one here is a mess. Things you can do:
    a) go to mordor.....i mean thorgast and farm souls. Thats it. Designs borrowed from peter jackson, castlevania and From software.
    70% of the comm left retail since release. Thats the number Bobby.    … Expand
  57. Azeldon
    May 13, 2021
    1
    I would say that this is just not a good expansion, but it feels more like a patch or continuation of the previous BFA expansion. It is hard to imagine that they could even justify manufacturing discs/boxes to sell in retail stores when there's just so little included but as many have said before, the game is littered with these systems that stretch out what little content there is to keepI would say that this is just not a good expansion, but it feels more like a patch or continuation of the previous BFA expansion. It is hard to imagine that they could even justify manufacturing discs/boxes to sell in retail stores when there's just so little included but as many have said before, the game is littered with these systems that stretch out what little content there is to keep you coming back, the likes of which you would find in a mobile game.

    Imagine being told that you could have a dessert but only after you mop the floor. After you get half way through mopping the floor you are told you need to wait a week to mop the other half and also paint the walls before you can get the dessert. To get the paint though you have to grind a special currency for a few weeks before you can get on with the painting. A word that a lot of people are using in this expansion is chores and it is for good reason as this is the sort of thing you encounter as soon as you hit 60.

    I've played this game since TBC, in BFA the last of my friends on this game left but I still found reasons to subscribe by casually doing arenas/BGS and that was all I had to do - in Shadowlands I'm doing the same BG maps, same arenas but this time have to slog through extended WQ's, covenants and soul ash grinding which is just not engaging.

    The fact that subscribers are down but the profits are up because of store purchases and services, just speaks for itself.    … Expand
  58. tac94oks
    May 13, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 0/10
    аддон разочаровал вообще. Расы не добавили, классов тоже (их даже не расшарили, кроме дк, ой извините, вы должны были для этого купить предзаказ), в торгасте наград нет, в ковенантах одни ограничения (баснословные суммы для открытия "плюшек ковена", купить ничего нельзя просто так), свисток отняли, локалки уг сделали, баланса нет вообще. И что за все это еще и плату подняли на 100р. Серьезно? ЗА ЧТО?    … Expand
  59. Syhn
    May 10, 2021
    0
    If you are looking for a boring, repetitive and mind-numbing Job that costs you money:
    Shadowlands is for you.
    The story seems to be written by an 8-year-old kid, but much worse: everything is designed to waste your time to an absolute maximum: -no flying or even flight master whistle+ hard to travel across maps. -thorgast is a repetitive chore. Only done to get mats for an item you    If you are looking for a boring, repetitive and mind-numbing Job that costs you money:
    Shadowlands is for you.
    The story seems to be written by an 8-year-old kid, but much worse: everything is designed to waste your time to an absolute maximum:

    -no flying or even flight master whistle+ hard to travel across maps.
    -thorgast is a repetitive chore. Only done to get mats for an item you will want to have.
    -the maw is a blank void with no meaning but to waste your time, but if you want a socket:get to work and do the same stuff over and over again.
    -the PVE content of this "expansion" consists out of 8 dungeons and 1 raid....since November 2020.so pay up 13 EU per month.
    -you would like the best out of your char and switch skills?no problem, just switch convernats(takes up to 2 weeks of mindless farming).

    This  "expansion" feels like a WOW themed, free to play mobile game with no heart and soul.
    Shadowlands proves that there is no more Blizzard, its purely Activision now:profit only, as long as players are hooked, theyll buy anything. Who cares if its Fun or not?    … Expand
  60. Haarl
    May 9, 2021
    0
    This is undoubtedly the worst WoW expansion yet. The devs seem to be focused on making the game slow, annoying, and inconvenient, as if a game set in a kind of hell should be true hell for the players. I found I was simply unable to force myself to log in and keep playing, even with months left on my subscription. My sub finally did run out (I had not been playing) and 2 1/2 monthsThis is undoubtedly the worst WoW expansion yet. The devs seem to be focused on making the game slow, annoying, and inconvenient, as if a game set in a kind of hell should be true hell for the players. I found I was simply unable to force myself to log in and keep playing, even with months left on my subscription. My sub finally did run out (I had not been playing) and 2 1/2 months later nothing I have seen makes me want to return. If anything, it's looking even more dire as the devs double down on their unworkable conceits.… Expand
  61. TristanX
    Apr 28, 2021
    1
    The new worst expansion ever! Level squish from 120 to 60 and we get crapload of rubbish. Everything now is longer or harder. You lose bonus roll and flightmaster whistle. Game drops less loot. Crafting is longer. World Quests is mostly longer, "Mage Tower" Torghast spam is required for legendary. This xpac is definitely the worst.
  62. Falcone
    Apr 25, 2021
    4
    Almost the same game BFA that was. Minor updates, a lot of grind activities and boring plot.
    The plot of the game suffers greatly and the developers of the scriptwriters seem to have completely run out of adequate ideas. At the moment, the game is becoming more and more dead and more and more fixated on the player's character as the one and only hero.
  63. radosh
    Apr 18, 2021
    0
    Nothing this expansion brought is fun. Torghast and the Maw are absolute chores that feel like a job rather than a fun video game. Every new system is timegated crap just to keep us subscribed. Covenants is a system that fundamentally cannot work and everyone except Blizzard knew it the moment it was announced. Class design is still awful, M+ still sucks, no PvP gear, terrible balance. TheNothing this expansion brought is fun. Torghast and the Maw are absolute chores that feel like a job rather than a fun video game. Every new system is timegated crap just to keep us subscribed. Covenants is a system that fundamentally cannot work and everyone except Blizzard knew it the moment it was announced. Class design is still awful, M+ still sucks, no PvP gear, terrible balance. The game is designed to keep us feel pressured to play to not be behind others. It's no longer supposed to be fun.… Expand
  64. suffernomore
    Apr 15, 2021
    0
    I totally understand why causal players are leaving, stuff to do in shadowland is plenty but also pointless, your character progression is so limited, that you feel like you're is just have another part time job to waste your time.
  65. Icingdeath
    Apr 12, 2021
    0
    Worst expac to date that should be renamed to systemlands for the unnecessarily complicated and unrewarding grind.
  66. Georguz
    Apr 8, 2021
    9
    This expansion revives the feeling of the players to commit to a cause since, you can choose what you want to belong to and you choose the content you want to do.
  67. ohyeahsure3355
    Apr 4, 2021
    0
    Too many systems that only are put in for time metrics. We are at the point where every bit of content with these guys is drip fed.
    No choice in class play due to covenants being unbalanced.
    The removal of flying is the biggest one for me as the game seems to be a halt atm with the only thing left for me is raiding or mythic plus dungeons... Only gave it a 3 because of the art team. Way    Too many systems that only are put in for time metrics. We are at the point where every bit of content with these guys is drip fed.
    No choice in class play due to covenants being unbalanced.
    The removal of flying is the biggest one for me as the game seems to be a halt atm with the only thing left for me is raiding or mythic plus dungeons...
    Only gave it a 3 because of the art team. Way worse than BfA. Would have been a 1 without the art team.    … Expand
  68. KainNPR
    Apr 1, 2021
    0
    Compaign best but end game oh this is so terrible.

    In End Game we have 4 Covenants in each of which you need to do daily quests, is it ok, sure, if you need something from covenant you must complete quests and get item you need. And sure you must choose your covenant and waist your time in. We have 5 locations in each of which you need to do local quests, but in this you MUST    Compaign best but end game oh this is so terrible.

    In End Game we have 4 Covenants in each of which you need to do daily quests, is it ok, sure, if you need something from covenant you must complete quests and get item you need. And sure you must choose your covenant and waist your time in.

    We have 5 locations in each of which you need to do local quests, but in this you MUST complete this quests, because new resource Anima, You need anima for your covenants, for upgrades or use Anime like a valet for traders and you can buy sets of this covenant for Anima.

    Ok, but what next?

    Torgast is it endless dungeon Rogue Like, i think thats best new fiature in game, but 8 levels for special item levels, 8 dungeons u must complete this dungeons to get special reagents for legendares items.

    And soo what next? PvP oh, this is my favorite topic on this game, because in WotLK in PvP staff we had PvP Tiers 1 - 11 and Arena tiers, you go on Battle Ground and farm honor for new armor or weapon, BUT in this patch you CAN'T normal play, because Blizzard made new system Honor Level and equipment level, in Equipment PvP sets we have 1 to 7 levels and item level starts at 158 ok, when you upgrading your equipment, you have some problem, because max level for you it's a level upgrade 3 and if you want upgrade to next level you must have Honor Level 7 AND I have right now Level 5 and to level up you need 8800 honor and you ask me what? This is so Hard? I say YES, because i play long time and in battle grounds for win you get 400+ and 200+- for kills 600 for WIN and for Lose you get 200 honor and for kills maybe if your raid do something you get 75 - 100+- honor, so ask me again is it hard? yes, and what a problem just sit and play? So i have 20k hp and i have item level 171 and i can't do something, because i can't upgrade my equipment.

    PvE nothing new, normal dungeons, heroic dungeon, epochal dungeon and raids.

    Blizzard made the endless and long end game content for what? I playing in wow for PvP, but right now i can't playing, becuse i'm need upgrading and upgrading, I'm being humiliated, because i can't do something.    … Expand
  69. zhribovanact
    Mar 31, 2021
    0
    The expansion itself has potential, but the delays are starting to hurt the game. Patch 9.1 will be released in JULY/AUGUST 2021, leaving players who pay a $20 sub without any new content for 9 months, which to me is unacceptable. Unsubbed, for now, we'll see what comes.
  70. jebeninick
    Mar 27, 2021
    0
    I was really hyped for this expansion after BFA fiasco, but they first disappointed me with postponement , and then it gets really boring. PVP balance is no where to be found, nobody balancing anything. Boosters everywhere, game become p2w. This is prolly worst expansion of all, even worse than WOD and BFA. They threw on us unfinished product, I think this expansion wont even get 9.3 patchI was really hyped for this expansion after BFA fiasco, but they first disappointed me with postponement , and then it gets really boring. PVP balance is no where to be found, nobody balancing anything. Boosters everywhere, game become p2w. This is prolly worst expansion of all, even worse than WOD and BFA. They threw on us unfinished product, I think this expansion wont even get 9.3 patch if this continues. Doesn't deserve 15€/mo. There are better games out there now. Sack Ion and get better ceo and balance teams if you wanna prosper.… Expand
  71. Bluegoon
    Mar 27, 2021
    0
    Not impressed, you have to clench your teeth to get through the absolutely awful and mundane writing, uninspired setting and ancient gameplay.

    Aggressively mediocre.
  72. LuizHM
    Mar 26, 2021
    0
    Game is very umbalanced, you must stay with one covenant just because of one skill, some dungeons are a pain in the A... because of mecanics and mobs damage its very off hand, and now they just change the game time prices and how we buy then.
  73. Keynox17
    Mar 24, 2021
    4
    The expansion could be very-very good, but at this moment (9.0.5) it's garbage.
    Levelling is okay, raids/dungeons are good, but everything else is not.
    -Story is absolutely boring, self-repeating and predictable -The Maw is empty, it literally does not make any sense, if tou are not minmaxing (Socets can be acquired through farming reputation in the maw) -Torgast is trash, although you    The expansion could be very-very good, but at this moment (9.0.5) it's garbage.
    Levelling is okay, raids/dungeons are good, but everything else is not.
    -Story is absolutely boring, self-repeating and predictable
    -The Maw is empty, it literally does not make any sense, if tou are not minmaxing (Socets can be acquired through farming reputation in the maw)
    -Torgast is trash, although you have go do it to get your legendary item. Time-consuming and not fun
    -PvP is bad too. Absolutely not friendly to alts/new players. Gearing is long and even when you get semi-decent gear - be prepared to be stomped by overgeared players, who got it from RBGs, because there is no scaling and you can easily meet 220 ivl gys on 1200cr (where they supposed to be 207 ivl at max)

    I wasted 3 months playing it and regret every single day wasted.    … Expand
  74. Abrakkar
    Mar 24, 2021
    0
    Game is terribly grindy, unbalanced because of tons of one shot abilities like Convoke and is has the worst world design World of Warcraft ever had, small areas with too high mob density and just the same boring look.

    Otherwise weeklies and more weeklies, it's like they are forcing people to pay at least a few months of abo before reaching anything, it feels like they forcefully try to    Game is terribly grindy, unbalanced because of tons of one shot abilities like Convoke and is has the worst world design World of Warcraft ever had, small areas with too high mob density and just the same boring look.

    Otherwise weeklies and more weeklies, it's like they are forcing people to pay at least a few months of abo before reaching anything, it feels like they forcefully try to make players play their game longer, instead of making the game simply fun.    … Expand
  75. Mulcan
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Even worst than BFA. This game is the biggest piece of trash out there. They had so many options but decited to turn the game into a **** show
  76. Zodwraith
    Mar 20, 2021
    3
    Reminded why I've left..twice.

    Ahh, WoW. A victim of your own success. I've been playing on and off since 04. As someone who used to get big into lore I'm leaving out the details so someone who wants to get back in and geek out will get little from this. Instead I'll speak of the overall feel as a -video game- that's far since long in the tooth. TLDR: This is an expan$ion for    Reminded why I've left..twice.

    Ahh, WoW. A victim of your own success. I've been playing on and off since 04. As someone who used to get big into lore I'm leaving out the details so someone who wants to get back in and geek out will get little from this. Instead I'll speak of the overall feel as a -video game- that's far since long in the tooth.

    TLDR: This is an expan$ion for expan$ion'$ $ake.

    Story:
    They're far past milking the IP at this point. The story feels meh at best. "We need magic doodads from dead people and we're not getting it anymore. Boo Hoo. Help us!" I've never felt _less_ excited since WoD to help. It's obvious we need Chris Metzen back in a BAD way. The story feels like it was twisted around game designers' ideas and patched together by writers in a Frankenstein way. BFA felt like this but at least it had a cohesive overall arc. It feels like a sidestory that should have been omitted from a movie but that's not a bad thing if it's done as masterfully as Mists was. (My 2nd favorite expansion.) If you're coming for story the base price isn't worth the price of admission, let alone monthly fees. This should have been a content pack, not a full expansion.

    Gameplay:
    This one's easy. It's a treadmill. Problem is WoW has long since been a treadmill that was FUN. Now it's 10 different treadmills you need to jump through with unrewarding results. Forget alts. Your main is going to need stupid amounts of time to build up to timed gates. Fetch quests aren't even hidden under fun. Flavor quests feel like the chef was only given salt. Timed gating to milk subs, repetitive boring quests that are obviously just busy work... It's turned into a grindfest Free2Play Korean P2Win MMO but charges a sub fee and has no P2W. Literally the worst of both worlds.

    The good news is Blizz finally broke the pattern of good>bad>good>bad expansions. The bad news it went bad>bad instead of good>good. This is the 1st expansion I actually regret buying, let alone paying the sub. I think I'm done for good after giving Blizz literally 1000s over the years for me and the wife's accounts. This game is dead and only has subs because we're stuck with nothing else. This game should have dropped to $5/month long ago or gone free.

    Anyone that rates this 10/10 is an idiot fanboy. It's meh at best but deserves a 3 for still being the best MMO but that's only testament to the absolute garbage the field has become.    … Expand
  77. stevegaming
    Mar 17, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolute worst expansion to date, even in it's "honeymoon" period.
    Game feels extremely unrewarding. The raid is objectively horrible, overtuned and unfun to progress on mythic. Loot scarcity isn't a good thing. Lack of promised tier sets. Extreme ammounts of mandatory grinds (anima,stygia,soul ash). Mythic + feelsa horrible with the new even more unfun affixes (spiteful...)
    Eeverything being covenant locked, while covenant are extremely unbalanced. Legendaries that feel like a mandatory gold sink, yet are extremely weak and boring and passive. Lack of unique looking armor (again covenant armors are ok, but are no tier sets).
    Lets not mention even the story is dull and boring. I expected the literal afterlife to be a tad more...inspired.
    Overall this is looking BFA, but maybe even worse, which isn't holding well, especially since they're making the same mistakes a second time.    … Expand
  78. Svenkonig
    Mar 16, 2021
    0
    New "realm" is smaller than most continents in azeroth, including northrend by itself.
    Forced farming:
    Torgast-ashes World Quests that are longer, and less interesting- anima Covenants are NOT alt friendly nor is the story. Economy is artificially tied to Legendries and it is fried/dead. Dungeons/Raids are uninteresting as much as the reason for being in the "maw". Torghast is    New "realm" is smaller than most continents in azeroth, including northrend by itself.
    Forced farming:
    Torgast-ashes
    World Quests that are longer, and less interesting- anima
    Covenants are NOT alt friendly nor is the story.
    Economy is artificially tied to Legendries and it is fried/dead.
    Dungeons/Raids are uninteresting as much as the reason for being in the "maw".
    Torghast is generally lacking diversity as almost every layer looks similar if not identical, some doors change from open to close, and the layout, but generally if you walk into a smoldering layer with death traps/fire, you will have the same theme each time, and very similar if not identical mobs, it does rotate each week, but for every layer, you have to clear 6 floors, which again, for the sake of repetitiveness, it's a good way to waste an hour or more of your life with no reward for it outside "you need this to be viable for your borrowed power item that was meant to replace azerite armor.

    looting system really blows. I've had friends tell me they've cleared Nathria raid and that their loott wasn't replacing anything new, including the fact they only received 3 pieces of loot for 5 toons, meaning only 3 of them got loot of the 5 after a full clear on each.

    The weekly vault is also pretty bad in terms of the items you receive may be entirely useless and disposable. Imagine receiving 6 pieces from your vault over the course of 6 weeks and each one is completely useless and not a viable replacement.

    It is the most unrewarding grind.

    Yes grinding is part of MMO design, but this grind is not rewarding in the slightest.
    Simply chorelands summarizes it.
    Do WQ, do Torghast 2ce, do keys (lock out at 0's and above for m+) , do the raid.
    Do some pvp (Arena) and that summarizes it. Then you're done for the week in probably 2-3 days max.

    Entering SL at first was interesting, but it wears off really fast.

    Covenant conduit grinds are equivalent to corruption grinds from BFA.

    It's layered grinding for content that becomes irrelevant relatively fast. Covenants simply amplified the ability to one shot other players with ease across the board.

    It feels pretty bad, and there is little to no consequence for it. If someone put on gear with tons of corruption, they would have to worry about being one shotted by being that over powered. Here? Nope. Don't mind a priest hitting for 55k and killing you out right, don't mind a rogue killing you out of stealth one shot. Don't mind a fire mage pyroblasting you in one shot. Etc.
    Overall this game just feels terrible.

    The story is literally a refurbished BFA. "You're the chosen one" "Go kill this bad guy for some terrible plot line we made".    … Expand
  79. Frankpotion
    Mar 12, 2021
    0
    The loot systems are spread thin on content that's already lacking. The developers have shown they think they know better than their player base, despite getting it wrong on almost every major system they've introduced. They also refuse to apologise or even acknowledge the overwhelming amount of mistakes they continue to make.

    I've subsequently lost faith in the wow development team completely.
  80. dikakos
    Mar 11, 2021
    2
    unbalanced,one shot pvp classes, pay to win pvp. chinese mmorpgs grinding. maw is frustrating and unnecessary beyond first time in. matchmaking system is broken. pve loot and weekly rewards mostly rng. one of the three worst expansions. blizzard team you suck. quit now.
  81. grreaper
    Mar 10, 2021
    0
    Под красивой оберткой из ностальгии нас встречает сплошной гринд и минимум новинок.
  82. TheSpookMeister
    Mar 9, 2021
    3
    Beautiful.

    Tedious. From the (unskippable) almost hour-long intro to the constant NPCs commenting on everything as they stand on what you're trying to loot, it's a slog. World Quests now take 10-20 minutes and no flight master's whistle. The story is cool. But making the option to level without the story take much longer is not. You have to do EVERYTHING (Covenant, Torghast,    Beautiful.

    Tedious.

    From the (unskippable) almost hour-long intro to the constant NPCs commenting on everything as they stand on what you're trying to loot, it's a slog. World Quests now take 10-20 minutes and no flight master's whistle. The story is cool. But making the option to level without the story take much longer is not.

    You have to do EVERYTHING (Covenant, Torghast, Mythic+, and World Quests) to progress.

    CHORES.

    Torghast is awesome. The rewards are not.

    Don't even know what to say about dungeons, since almost every group I've been in has fallen apart after the first boss (since that's where the most desirable loot drops come from). Gear drops are almost nonexistant. Got two upgrades in World Quests the first day, nothing else for a month.

    Stepping away at least until I see what they're doing with 9.1.    … Expand
  83. laydying
    Mar 9, 2021
    0
    autistic trash created by autists for other autists
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  84. supercriticguy
    Mar 5, 2021
    4
    Whether you're a casual or hardcore player (and I consider myself both), SHADOWLANDS is one of the most polished and yet boring games I've ever played.

    Do you like doing three fetch quests, receiving a crumb of the most boring and uninspired story ever written, and then doing three more fetch quests to receive the next crumb? Because that's what SHADOWLANDS is--without exaggeration.    Whether you're a casual or hardcore player (and I consider myself both), SHADOWLANDS is one of the most polished and yet boring games I've ever played.

    Do you like doing three fetch quests, receiving a crumb of the most boring and uninspired story ever written, and then doing three more fetch quests to receive the next crumb? Because that's what SHADOWLANDS is--without exaggeration. While previous WoW expansions have had (admittedly few) off-the-beaten-path pacing mechanisms, SHADOWLANDS has none. Even the Archaeology profession has been removed! SHADOWLANDS is plainly and unapologetically bare-bones, and with uneventful combat (whether questing or dungeoneering) it is unable to challenge players of any skill level--and that begs the question: Why is this a game and not a (bad) novel?

    Theoretically there may be a glint of fun at SHADOWLANDS' endgame, but why must players wait until then? Leveling in SHADOWLANDS and even experiencing its main quest for the very first time is an absolute slog. Whether you meticulously read every quest or rush through the zones, players will be insulted by the lack of imagination on the part of both the story and the gameplay. It's as if the developers of SHADOWLANDS had never before read a book, watched a movie, or played a video game. There are zero attempts to raise any bar or intrigue the player at any level. Unless you've been part of an underground bunker-cult for two decades, nothing in this game is new or going to surprise you.

    Though the graphics are at times gorgeous (but always unmistakably outdated), I would rather look at a painting than "play" SHADOWLANDS. In an attempt to mix up the gameplay I actually unequipped all of my gear (except for my weapon), and horrifyingly it didn't change anything! I was still able to kill enemies without issue and the gameplay was unchanged. Unfortunately, there is just no way to make SHADOWLANDS a mechanically interesting experience without investing an inexcusable amount of time to reach deep into its endgame.

    With combat this meaningless, with a tired story and characters that will entertain no one, and with easily the worst and least exciting leveling experience of any World of Warcraft expansion, I give SHADOWLANDS a "4": technically playable, but void of any unique experiences or fun.    … Expand
  85. Nathonas
    Mar 5, 2021
    2
    Let me preface this by saying that I played wow a lot during classic/BC/WOTLK and this is the first time I seriously came back to the game.

    Shadowlands sucks. I recently let my sub run out after playing regularly since it was released. I'm mostly a PvP/Arena player and PvP balance/pace is atrocious right now, the damage is too high and there are too many broken skills. Blizz doesn't    Let me preface this by saying that I played wow a lot during classic/BC/WOTLK and this is the first time I seriously came back to the game.

    Shadowlands sucks. I recently let my sub run out after playing regularly since it was released.

    I'm mostly a PvP/Arena player and PvP balance/pace is atrocious right now, the damage is too high and there are too many broken skills. Blizz doesn't care about PvP as it still broken months after release.

    On top of that gearing in PvP is the worst ever as you get better tier gear for higher rating, why would you reward better players with better gear when PvP is supposed to be about skill first?

    But even outside of that, the game just feels so bland and designed only to keep you logging on and paying your sub.

    You have to keep grinding covenant renown to keep up, have to do a certain amount of pve/pvp every week for your chest, and there's nothing truly fun or immersive to do with your time.

    The covenant system is a mess because the skills are so powerful yet you have to switch and grind renown again.

    The storyline this expac is non-existing and bland. Don't care about any of the characters and the horribly-written dialogue from every NPC is boring. The dungeons are boring.

    The only saving grace is the gorgeous new zones and Mythic+ progression (if you're into that thing, I personally don't care). This expansion confirms what I felt since I quit in Cataclysm: retail WoW has become a soulless machine for getting the most money out of people.    … Expand
  86. Conski
    Mar 5, 2021
    1
    Not a pro player but have enjoyed many hours in the World of Warcraft (and will continue hopefully!)

    Shadowlands is the first expansion that for me personally has failed on all counts. I usually enjoy some, if not all elements of an expansion. So I would generally be quite a “glass half full” kinda player where if I didn’t like something I’d enjoy something else in the game. Sadly, not    Not a pro player but have enjoyed many hours in the World of Warcraft (and will continue hopefully!)

    Shadowlands is the first expansion that for me personally has failed on all counts. I usually enjoy some, if not all elements of an expansion. So I would generally be quite a “glass half full” kinda player where if I didn’t like something I’d enjoy something else in the game. Sadly, not the case this time.

    First of all, levelling a character should be fun! An adventure that you (the hero) must endure! Shadowlands makes this so much of a chore that it is painful to get to max level. The main storyline is boring, as are the side stories along the way. This tied together with uninteresting environments which fail
    to captivate and draw you in, makes for a tedious progression. I have seen reviews that have commended the art and design elements of the expansion. I don’t see what there is to commend. Every expansion has its good and bad areas, but always at least once you would be taken back by an area and go “wow” this is beautiful! I didn’t get that in any zone this time.

    I didn’t like the idea of covenants when they were announced, but they were not as bad as I thought they would be, still not interesting enough to make you log in and sure by the next expansion they will be gone so they don’t really matter.

    Overall a story should inspire, captivate and draw you in so that all the levelling, dungeons and raids add to the story and make you feel your character is the hero of the story and your common goal is to defeat the villain Shadowlands failed to inspire me to even attempt a dungeon or raid or even get any legendary gear. If you are wondering if you should play Shadowlands, wait until a future patch. Hopefully some interesting content will be added to make it at least enjoyable until the next expansion.    … Expand
  87. xy85
    Mar 5, 2021
    1
    Game is boring, unrewarding, lazy designed, /w only metrics on Blizzt..d's mind.
    Btd thinks of their customers as addicted morons and from WoD they're probing how low they can go.
  88. Kot17a
    Mar 4, 2021
    1
    Farm Farm Farm, daily daily daily. World of warcraft is dead. You csn't Just change the story of world.
  89. heshamzidan7
    Mar 4, 2021
    1
    Very repetitive boring content for casual player. You gotta be a pro to enjoy
  90. guccigang87
    Mar 3, 2021
    0
    High end content is a joke. quests are so boring and too repetitive. Maw content just made for consuming player's time without any fun.

    Balance between classes in PVP are nonexistent. In its current state, this game should be still in beta at best case scenario but nooooo greedy blizzard has to make money right ? If your current responsibilities irl doesnt bore you enough welcome to    High end content is a joke. quests are so boring and too repetitive. Maw content just made for consuming player's time without any fun.

    Balance between classes in PVP are nonexistent. In its current state, this game should be still in beta at best case scenario but nooooo greedy blizzard has to make money right ?

    If your current responsibilities irl doesnt bore you enough welcome to WoW where you do same or even more boring stuff everyday till the end of the content and also pay for it instead of being paid for it :)

    Most fun part of it all is that all of those items you will collect during the game will be absolute trash after 2 years at most :) They will be transmogs at best...
    They respect their players effort that much.
    Stay away from this game, even spending your time with staring at a wall is better...    … Expand
  91. Skyie
    Mar 3, 2021
    10
    They really did a good job this expansion. They eliminated some of the systems from the past 2 expansions that were destroying the game, such as titanforging. The amount of unfun weekly chores that only served as mans to artificially bump up engagement has been drastically reduced. The classes play much better than Legion and BfA, and the unpruning brought back some fan favorite abilitiesThey really did a good job this expansion. They eliminated some of the systems from the past 2 expansions that were destroying the game, such as titanforging. The amount of unfun weekly chores that only served as mans to artificially bump up engagement has been drastically reduced. The classes play much better than Legion and BfA, and the unpruning brought back some fan favorite abilities that were dearly missed. There are, of course, the typical early expansion balance problems, but they are applying balancing fixes once every 2 weeks or so, which is a good thing. Overall, I haven't had as much fun in WoW for years. I only hope SL gets better and better as more content patches are released, and I hope they won't make the mistake of going back on the good decisions they made.… Expand
  92. Nihl
    Mar 2, 2021
    2
    Covenant system is terrible. A good oportunity to diversify characters narrative and aesthetically completely wasted. Because let's face it: very few people want to sacrifice their PvE/PvP performance for the sake of role playing and everyone will be inevitably pigeonholed into their best Covenant.
    Content and loot being stretched and/or drip fed to us. Wait a week for everything. What's    Covenant system is terrible. A good oportunity to diversify characters narrative and aesthetically completely wasted. Because let's face it: very few people want to sacrifice their PvE/PvP performance for the sake of role playing and everyone will be inevitably pigeonholed into their best Covenant.
    Content and loot being stretched and/or drip fed to us. Wait a week for everything. What's the next step? Making us buy crystals on the store to advance faster?
    Torghast gets stale really fast.
    Visual design and music are really good, as always. Dungeons and raids are decent.

    Still better than BfA at launch.
    I really hope some things get better for 9.1.

    Update: Blizzconline gave no signs of improvement.    … Expand
  93. FMRPYRODOX
    Feb 28, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. in one word its disappointment , if you are not a pvp-only player you will be in pain , if you wanted less grind in endgame pve content and easier gearing - you will be in pain , if you wanted something new from this expansion - you will be in pain , torghast just an empty tower with same endless mobs , after one max lvl legendary it feels just like concrete box with dummies, artwork is just godlike , locations are beautiful , sets are pretty good tho, so in simple words - if you wanna some pve (dungeons and raids for descent lvl of skill or higher) - its not about this this exp, but if you want some good pvp content , this exp is pretty good. And if you played pandaria , there are no plot for you at all ,you've seen this before.… Expand
  94. dafunkk
    Feb 28, 2021
    8
    I don't understand the level of negativity in many of these reviews. Honestly I think some folks might just need a break from WoW. This is easily my favorite expansion since Wrath (I skipped a couple here and there) and there are many reasons why I feel the game has improved. Leveling is no longer a slog, nor does it include the pain of something like "I just hit 80... only 40 levels toI don't understand the level of negativity in many of these reviews. Honestly I think some folks might just need a break from WoW. This is easily my favorite expansion since Wrath (I skipped a couple here and there) and there are many reasons why I feel the game has improved. Leveling is no longer a slog, nor does it include the pain of something like "I just hit 80... only 40 levels to go." You get something new most every time you ding, it's actually a lot of fun leveling up in the BFA content, at least in my opinion, and when I level an alt, I can choose from any expansion out there to level in.

    My wife and I have been having a blast running heroic and mythic dungeons and just stepping into raid content this week. This is no longer a game that demands all of your free time, the classes still feel iconic and the worldbuilding in Shadowlands is a cut above anything I've seen in the decade+ this game has been out.

    Is it perfect? No. Is it a solid game? Definitely. Is it the greatest MMO out there? That's up to you. 8/10, would recommend.    … Expand
  95. Krayvel
    Feb 27, 2021
    1
    Отвратительно и не уважительное отношение к лору игры не пойми откуда то появившиеся темные земли которых по лору игры сущестовавать не должно не понятно какой Тюремщик которого не существовало , мативация Сильваны уничтоженно тупорылым сценарием.Давайте вспомним чего хотела Сильвана все свое существование баньши , сделать отрекшихся сплоченным народом самостоятельным и своевольным ,Отвратительно и не уважительное отношение к лору игры не пойми откуда то появившиеся темные земли которых по лору игры сущестовавать не должно не понятно какой Тюремщик которого не существовало , мативация Сильваны уничтоженно тупорылым сценарием.Давайте вспомним чего хотела Сильвана все свое существование баньши , сделать отрекшихся сплоченным народом самостоятельным и своевольным , теперь этого нет оказвывается это все план тюремщика который хз как это вообще можно связать ,хочет что бы сельвана собирала души для него но ведь души остаются на азероте мы можем их видеть в виде призраков а тех мертвых что она поднимала так же имеют душу .вообщем это самый тупорылый аддон по лору игры нельзя его воспринимать как часть Wow это просто ошибка уровня новых ЗВ . Уважаемы разработчики вов не подпускайте к сценарию людей что в лоре вообще не шарят не важно кто это женщина или мужчина просто не подпускате я очень люблю лор вов да он дырявый но он ни когда не обсирался так жидко сценарист/ка не понимали что писали стыд и срам близзард что подпустили к вселенной таких бездарей. А сама игра как всегда великолепна куча контента гринда.… Expand
  96. Gemini808
    Feb 21, 2021
    0
    As a long-time player of this game, I am highly disappointed at the complete lack of content in the expansion. Shadowlands shows great promise with its intro quest but quickly reveals its shallowness and true nature afterward. The expansion is basically a dungeon/raid simulation with zero content outside these activities, Furthermore, its future is grim as the developers showed a lack ofAs a long-time player of this game, I am highly disappointed at the complete lack of content in the expansion. Shadowlands shows great promise with its intro quest but quickly reveals its shallowness and true nature afterward. The expansion is basically a dungeon/raid simulation with zero content outside these activities, Furthermore, its future is grim as the developers showed a lack of interest in addressing grieve critical problems from class balance to loot drops and even the bare minimum of fixing bugs in the game.

    Blizzcon revealed that there is no major content coming soon. The Developers also revealed that they will not fulfill promises they made when preorders were released which shows unethical practices that have been seen in the past but not to this measure.

    In conclusion, Shadowlands proves to be another failure with no hope for recovery as the developers seem uninterested to listen the playerbase.    … Expand
  97. Inheritance92
    Feb 19, 2021
    3
    It seems that the developers went over their heads to make this expansion as time-consuming as possible. Everything is locked behind impassable terrain, multi-stage world quests, a hundred of currencies timegates of all types. There is no flying, and a very important end-game zone doesn't allow you to mount at all (plus, it has a timer that makes you lose health after a half-hour or soIt seems that the developers went over their heads to make this expansion as time-consuming as possible. Everything is locked behind impassable terrain, multi-stage world quests, a hundred of currencies timegates of all types. There is no flying, and a very important end-game zone doesn't allow you to mount at all (plus, it has a timer that makes you lose health after a half-hour or so spent in it).

    It is obvious that the developers had serious time constraints, as only the first game zone has original art assets, the rest is just re-hash of previous expansions. The much-rumored "infinite dungeon" is just a mess of small passageways which use the same limited set of walls, doodads and monsters.

    The story itself is locked behind various timegates too and is a mess of trivial, non-exciting stuff and clichees galore.

    I would advise not to buy it until developers get into their senses and finally fix the game by patch 9.2 or so.    … Expand
  98. garygl
    Feb 18, 2021
    2
    That's not the game you expect to be for 40$ and montly sub. Company scams the players with fake advertisements not the first time - In BFA the things were fakely advertised as new epic additions as Expeditions and the Fronts. This time we have the Torghast and the Maw being literally a useless location. All other new things is completely designers' job - i mean the locations/newThat's not the game you expect to be for 40$ and montly sub. Company scams the players with fake advertisements not the first time - In BFA the things were fakely advertised as new epic additions as Expeditions and the Fronts. This time we have the Torghast and the Maw being literally a useless location. All other new things is completely designers' job - i mean the locations/new encounters as dungeons and raid. PvP balancing team feels like lacks of employees, and these few who's left are neither testing the balance changes on their own PTR, nor have a clue what's going on with that game. Feels like the game is full of boosters/RMT and not the regular players.
    In total there's nothing new and particularly unique after the legion expansion.    … Expand
  99. notsarke
    Feb 14, 2021
    8
    I was very unkind to BfA (although it kind of deserved it) and so coming into shadowlands my expectations weren't overly high. I have to say though, Shadowlands - so far - feels like an excellent expansion. The systems are great, the zones are amazing, the classes (generally) feel like they're in a good place, the storyline and all that jazz seems decent enough. The raid is fun. This isI was very unkind to BfA (although it kind of deserved it) and so coming into shadowlands my expectations weren't overly high. I have to say though, Shadowlands - so far - feels like an excellent expansion. The systems are great, the zones are amazing, the classes (generally) feel like they're in a good place, the storyline and all that jazz seems decent enough. The raid is fun. This is some of the most fun I've had in wow in... ever
    Like with anything, I'll list a few downsides:-
    Gearing so far has been heavily on the PVP side of things, with a majority of top players opting to gear up via the vendors than to gear up via other means, which has meant that the m+ community may have seen a major drop off in participants, given that the loot situation in m+ is a bit dire at the moment. So if PVP isn't your thing, prepare to dive into the grim m+ scene...
    The M+ dungeon community seems to be as big of a filth swamp as ever. So if you plan to play the game in a casual setting, the M+ wall will hit you pretty hard without your own clique of mates to play with.
    Some classes (mine in particular RIP rogues) are in a bit of a grim state compared to most of the other classes in the game, however it does feel like blizz is looking after the bin classes early days.
    The alt situation, while much better than BfA is a bit of a grind - although SL gearing alts feels more like a 'fun' grind if that makes sense?
    Some people say that the Vault is unrewarding... but for the most part it's been some of the most rewarding content in the game - currently i'm 9/10 heroic progress, and if i had to guess i'd say about 30-40% of my gear has come from the vault. I can see how players would get their hopes up too high, and then blame that on the vault 'being bad' but if you temper your expectations a bit the vault it fine.
    otherwise yeah - solid expansion - would highly recommend you give it a shot.    … Expand
  100. Grenna
    Feb 12, 2021
    4
    With Shadowlands, at first it's quite enjoyable. Then after some time, you get the feeling that all of WoW's past issues have come to a head. The problems with systems in BFA, and how much they have succeeded slowing the game down to artificially increase play time to get players to that next month of their subscription, is really noticeable at this point. In one area you can't mountWith Shadowlands, at first it's quite enjoyable. Then after some time, you get the feeling that all of WoW's past issues have come to a head. The problems with systems in BFA, and how much they have succeeded slowing the game down to artificially increase play time to get players to that next month of their subscription, is really noticeable at this point. In one area you can't mount anymore at all, not even with a ground mount. I doubt it will be long before they extend this idea to other new zones, slowing everything down even more and making it a frustrating experience for the player. Of course there is the longer GCD issue still remaining an issue for some specs. And they have lowered haste quite a bit as well. Even with purchasable gear for PVP, the haste on that gear is quite low. High haste makes for fun gameplay. Long cast times makes for dull and sluggish gameplay.

    The entire endgame story is timegated over a period of several months which is ridiculous.

    Then there are the serious and most frustrating issues with the endgame. In WoW's endgame, you have three options for the most part. Mythic dungeon plus, PVP with arenas or rated battlegrounds, or raiding. For raiding and mythic plus, you have to have a third party addon score now called Raider IO in order to get invited to most groups of varying levels. If you haven't done any of the content, your score will be low, and you most likely won't get invited to groups. This leaves new players stuck in a position where they can't try any new content for them because they haven't already done the content they're trying to do for the first time.

    PVP is even more of a mess right now. Blizzard awards the higher rated players with better gear. And the increments between entry level and say, 1800+ rated arena gear is massive to the point where even a player who has a full honor set will be 25% behind both health-wise and an even larger percentage damage-wise. PVP is also quite bursty right now. I have a friend who has always been a casual PVPer in the game, and that has kept her subscribed since 2005. Now even with all of the rewards she has received in PVP from running hundreds of battlegrounds this expansion, since she isn't rated, a higher rated player can one shot her in a third of a second from full health. This issue has led to an increase in boosting services where people pay lots of gold to high ranked players to carry them to higher ranks for better rewards, so they no longer get one shot. And of course Blizzard profits off this as well because people buy their token for gold to pay for this. The issue with this is that it has caused higher rated boosting players to fall lower and lower in rank because now they're all competing with each other instead of the normal players at that rank. So now for a new player, they are seeing very high geared and skilled players at very low brackets, hundreds of points away from any low reward. And they then get stuck there and quit the game in frustration.

    Long story short, these problems are mostly caused by greed. Most of us on here have loved WoW as a hobby for so long. But how can we keep paying for this nonsense in good conscience? I have unsubscribed along with many other people I know in game. I guess we can only hope that Blizzard undoes these awful choices at some point so we can go back to the game we used to love.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 32
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  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Apr 12, 2021
    80
    Blizzard finally comes with an alt-friendly expansion that brings back the best features of the previous ones. The patch that WoW desperately needed. [Issue#309]
  2. Shacknews
    Jan 29, 2021
    90
    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands certainly manages to capture the same feelings we’ve had since first started playing the game. The leveling experience overhaul, constant sense of progress with rewards, and new campaign stories make Shadowlands a must-have for any avid player.
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  3. GamingTrend
    Jan 27, 2021
    90
    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is a return to greatness for the franchise. The content is both accessible and fun for all types of players, and the story actually makes you feel like everything you’re doing is helping to save the Shadowlands. Torghast is one of the best features ever added and makes each experience unique and fun. While there are some issues which can slow down the time it takes to get everything you want, the journey there is still enjoyable.
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