World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

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  1. kretas
    Sep 9, 2023
    0
    I really wanted to adore "Shadowlands," but I find myself struggling to reach level 60 due to the sheer boredom that seeps in. Although the zones are visually striking, they somewhat lack soul. It feels as if the developers took concept art and stuck to it religiously, without allowing room for deviations or nuances.

    The landscapes and pathways seem disproportionately vast, causing the    I really wanted to adore "Shadowlands," but I find myself struggling to reach level 60 due to the sheer boredom that seeps in. Although the zones are visually striking, they somewhat lack soul. It feels as if the developers took concept art and stuck to it religiously, without allowing room for deviations or nuances.

    The landscapes and pathways seem disproportionately vast, causing the journey from point A to B to feel like an endless venture. Moreover, the monotony of the scenery is exacerbated by the persistent use of the same color palette within each zone. You have the white heavenly hues, the murky greens, mystical dark blues, and gothic reds, and if you're familiar with the game, you can easily pinpoint which zones I'm referring to.

    I find it disheartening that the class design hasn't undergone substantial changes, making the gameplay feel stagnant. I can't help but chastise myself for placing faith in the Blizzard developers time and again, expecting a fresh and engaging experience.

    Moreover, I would like to clarify that my grievances aren't directed towards the often criticized management of Activision Blizzard, but rather at the developers who have made a series of questionable decisions regarding WoW. It seems like in many companies, there is a reluctance to critique the developers openly, for fear of sparking conflict or seeing them depart.

    However, I believe it's time someone told them outright that their quest design is growing outdated and frankly, boring. It's high time for a rejuvenated approach that revitalizes the player's experience.    … Expand
  2. JaxKagnard
    Aug 27, 2023
    0
    Blizzard is the worst company in the gaming industry currently. They give no **** about their playerbase. Bots run rampant while blizzard hands out permabans to players without warning and with no explanation for the ban.
  3. JackFrostyG
    Jul 25, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:

    - The atmosphere and design of each of the 4 levelling zones is great.
    - The cosmetic side of covenants satisfy expectations
    - Theatre of Pain is an example of how to make an exemplary linear dungeon.
    - Castle Nathria was a fantastic raid.
    - Sire Denathrius was a great villain, one of the only good villains since Legion.

    Cons:

    - Having player power tied to a Story / Cosmetic choice is possibly the worst way to design something in WoW and this was proven when literally every spec would zerg one covenant for the best power.
    - Thorgast is just another in the long list of failed Blizzard content system ventures. legionaries, Island expeditions, warfronts, corruptions. Soul ash was one of the worst to grind currencies in the game and made any joy from Thorgast a cascade of pain. This is without mentioning enemy health scaling, class powers inbalance, only one mode for the release of the expansion, timegating soul ash acquisition.
    - Joining with Thorghast and soul ash, just switching spec would be a chore as it would mean farming MORE soul ash for the different legendries required, more time gating to acquire said soul ash, AND having AN ENERGY BAR linked with your covenant on how much you could change soulbinds.
    - Class tuning was disgustingly bad, Protection warrior was a dumpster fire for 3/4 major patches, just as one example.
    - The jailer is the worst villain in WoW's history, and this includes the Disney villains of Dragonflight. The Jailer was described as 'Titan++' by a WoW Dev with no prior backstory to cement this. This and the fact he was suddenly behind The Lich King and had been manipulating the entire cosmos was a copout plotline to add importance to an otherwise unlinked villain to the main plot.
    - The boosting and P2W community was more present than the base game player base as they had all quit. When looking for a group, 70% of the group finder would be boost advertisements.
    - The final cinematic of Sepulchre, when compared to something like the Antoros cinematic, looks to have been designed by an infant.
    - Barring Halondrus and Painsmith Raznal, Sanctum and Sepulchre were terrible raids. The fact the expansion had only 3 raids was also a mockery when 2 of them were sub par.
    - After the release of the expansion it took 218 DAYS for the next major content patch, this was Korthia. Korthia was terrible, more so after waiting 2/3 of a year.
    - Addons were and are a requirement and not an option.    … Expand
  4. jcyphmr
    Jun 14, 2023
    6
    Shadowlands was basically in my mind mechanically the cream of the crop of the bad Ion hizzikostas led expansions following the legion redesign where every class suffered permanent damage/change in the attempt to turn every specialization into its own mini class. Thematically it looks more like something out of the diablo universe in some areas vs wow. It definitely had a different vibeShadowlands was basically in my mind mechanically the cream of the crop of the bad Ion hizzikostas led expansions following the legion redesign where every class suffered permanent damage/change in the attempt to turn every specialization into its own mini class. Thematically it looks more like something out of the diablo universe in some areas vs wow. It definitely had a different vibe which reminded me of Burning crusade being so different from the vanilla areas of the game.

    Legendaries were fun but should have been disabled in Arena. Effort to balance legendaries was minimal and slow. Some specializations had too few good choices of legendaries.

    Legendaries were originally farmed up purely in torghast so torghast was mandatory and some people didnt like doing it. My major complaint was the time it took, and initial difficulty to SOLO it vs not liking it.

    Pvp was fun in shadowlands even if it was unbalanced. Participation was very high in the first 3 seasons. I go off of participation. Every time pvp was overall great the game population swelled and participation in rated pvp was always seemingly high. Right now in dragonflight participation has plummetted. It also plumetted after 8.3 BFA due to the corrupted pve gear nonsense, and participation plummetted during legion because there essentially was no pvp gearing path only static stat templates.

    SL pvp was great because of the restoration of a basic feature. This propped up the positive response by the pvp community, in that the pvp gear vendors were back in the game. With a caveat. Your rating and rank determined the quality of the gear. The issue here is people with better gear can face you at lower rating if they wish to and destroy you.

    This is now fixed in DF yet class balance is just as bad if not worse.    … Expand
  5. AskeNacht
    Jan 21, 2023
    10
    It is on the second place in the list of my favorite expansions after the BfA, which in my view was the best expansion in the history of WoW. Shadowlands has perfectly ended the arc of the BfA as well as it has resolved many sharp problems of the past, especially problems in the life of many WoW main characters, including those which were connected to gaps in the plot of the game. TheIt is on the second place in the list of my favorite expansions after the BfA, which in my view was the best expansion in the history of WoW. Shadowlands has perfectly ended the arc of the BfA as well as it has resolved many sharp problems of the past, especially problems in the life of many WoW main characters, including those which were connected to gaps in the plot of the game. The death of Garrosh was very impressive. Sylvanas has finally found herself. All who worked on this have done a very nice job. At the same time, it was the most philosophic expansion of the WoW and this was beautiful.… Expand
  6. Crazygame
    Jan 16, 2023
    10
    ıt wasnt best expansion in wow but it wasnt bad i think. I loved raids, dungeons. Shadowlands added best back transmogs too wow, still many players using shadowlands back transmogs. Also mounts and toys were cool. The game's atmosphere was good. you could feel like in otherside in warcraft universe...
  7. Alvelian
    Dec 16, 2022
    4
    Полный провал близов по всем фронтам. 6 лет подряд закрывать дейлики и м+ уже просто не смешно
  8. Jacktronics
    Dec 3, 2022
    10
    I enjoyed just about EVERY minute of this expansion! It started well, ended well, the story was excellent, the gear looked gorgeous, and it ran incredibly well on a full range of PCs. What else is needed?
  9. Odin829
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    Racist company that represents racism as a foundation in world of warcraft.

    If a player wants to join a faction they have to participate in a racial segregation system. Basically forcing you to choose a faction based on the race you want to be.
    DISGUSTING.

    Also painfully outdated graphic all over the place.
  10. drlexx
    May 27, 2021
    1
    У меня был отзыв до этого на 3 балла, меняю на 1. Новые патчи - костыли старых систем. Торгаст, который изначально казался чем-то крутым оказался тупо скучен.. и не нужен! Вы реально можете его игнорировать. Локации унылости, только бастион и арденвельд вносят хоть какое-то разнообразие. Второй аддон подряд большинство локацией серые и унылые.У меня был отзыв до этого на 3 балла, меняю на 1. Новые патчи - костыли старых систем. Торгаст, который изначально казался чем-то крутым оказался тупо скучен.. и не нужен! Вы реально можете его игнорировать. Локации унылости, только бастион и арденвельд вносят хоть какое-то разнообразие. Второй аддон подряд большинство локацией серые и унылые.
  11. Gumball8
    Oct 20, 2022
    0
    Shadowlands is awful. Just like Battle for Azeroth.
    The lore is full of retcons, cringe story telling, character assassinations and more than questionable mindsets presented as something positive... granted, the latter isn't a surprise. The foundation of wow is racism, which forced players to choose a faction based on races. If you want to be a certain race... oh boy, you better don't    Shadowlands is awful. Just like Battle for Azeroth.
    The lore is full of retcons, cringe story telling, character assassinations and more than questionable mindsets presented as something positive... granted, the latter isn't a surprise. The foundation of wow is racism, which forced players to choose a faction based on races. If you want to be a certain race... oh boy, you better don't like the faction your race isn't allowed to be in!

    Gameplay is very unbalanced, both because of the biased faction system and of classes.

    Loooooooooong content droughts.

    No player housing... yes, still no basic mmo stuff, even though it's 2022...

    The graphic is outdated af.

    0 points for this trash. There was nothing I enjoyed about this expansion.    … Expand
  12. kreisegger12
    Oct 17, 2022
    0
    Don't waste your money and time, is not worth it

    too many systems, endless grinding, boring lore, bad loot shadowlands is bad and good at the same time, but I just can't get just with one side. The leveling is pretty good, but the gameplay on this expansion is garbage, you run and run and run over and over again, through quests and some of them are just there to be, without a story or    Don't waste your money and time, is not worth it

    too many systems, endless grinding, boring lore, bad loot
    shadowlands is bad and good at the same time, but I just can't get just with one side. The leveling is pretty good, but the gameplay on this expansion is garbage, you run and run and run over and over again, through quests and some of them are just there to be, without a story or certain line that connects with the actual main story. Not worth it at all, for a 40 dollar expansion and you get this bad, boring and stupid lore, is not very far from a SCAM. just don't buy it, but if you are really curious just go and watch the lore on youtube for free, and done, you've finished Shadowlands, nothing more.    … Expand
  13. Okara
    Sep 25, 2022
    0
    This game is garbage.
    Blizzard is incredible hypocritical.
    After the lawsuit against them became public they started putting a ton of lgbtq+ stuff in wow, so that people forget about the horrible things the devs did. As if... But you know what they didn't change? Racism. After almost 20 years they are still keeping racial segregation as the foundation of their game. How disgusting can    This game is garbage.
    Blizzard is incredible hypocritical.
    After the lawsuit against them became public they started putting a ton of lgbtq+ stuff in wow, so that people forget about the horrible things the devs did. As if...
    But you know what they didn't change? Racism. After almost 20 years they are still keeping racial segregation as the foundation of their game. How disgusting can you be?

    In order to be part of the toxic, biased, outdated and unbalanced faction system, which makes the game pretty much unplayble for one side because of the developer's bias, you have to participate in an outdated and racist system, that makes you choose a faction solely based on race, not in what you believe in.

    There is certainly a ton of other stuff in wow, like the cringe lore and outdated graphic for example, but racism and the toxic faction system is pretty much the biggest issue of this soulless game.    … Expand
  14. Lord_Romzess_V
    Sep 10, 2022
    0
    The baddest addon of all time. All touch of Shadowlands is maximum garbage and horrible to players. I think the Blizzard should be restructuring their team from inclusive to professional if this company want to have community in the future. Now this game is lost.
  15. FI-LIFE
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    Stop support russian propaganda! Blizzard blocks players based on Russian propaganda!
  16. Vitalick
    Sep 2, 2022
    5
    Punto medio entre mal y bien. Curias inecesarias. No tan mal com Bfa pero igual de floja.
  17. Zoksle
    Aug 30, 2022
    1
    Absolute embarrassment of an expansion.

    The lore makes every fanfiction of a 10 year old kid look like a masterpiece compared to this dumpster fire. The faction system is incredibly racist with it's racial segregation, which forces players to pick a faction BASED ON RACE... jeez... in this day and age. It's no surprise of course. It's an open secret, how toxic, sexist and even    Absolute embarrassment of an expansion.

    The lore makes every fanfiction of a 10 year old kid look like a masterpiece compared to this dumpster fire.

    The faction system is incredibly racist with it's racial segregation, which forces players to pick a faction BASED ON RACE... jeez... in this day and age. It's no surprise of course. It's an open secret, how toxic, sexist and even predatory the devs at Blizzard are. There is a gigantic lawsuit against them. Just look it up.
    That really reflects in the awful and outdated faction system, that caused nothing but toxicity, frustration and unbalanced gameplay for almost 2 decades.
    But of course nothing changes. Racism is such a nice feature afterall, right Blizzard?

    Also the game is full of time gating, borrored power systems, lack of standard features like decent character customisation options, housing, dyeable gear, mini games, dyebale mounts,- all stuff that other modern mmos has, but of course wow's design is way too lazy. Also the graphics in this game are extremely outdated... the list goes on and on.

    Horrible game.    … Expand
  18. shenkenhigh
    Aug 27, 2022
    8
    Why i'm giving this 8, -2 for removing the possibility of achieving Champion of Naaaru and HoAD. Just in time when i came back to this game, and found out original quest lines in my old character log. Fair review out here. Guys let's face it, compared to BFA this isn't that bad. 8/10 from and old WoW Player ( since april 2007 ). It has great zones (except bastion), nice raids, finally someWhy i'm giving this 8, -2 for removing the possibility of achieving Champion of Naaaru and HoAD. Just in time when i came back to this game, and found out original quest lines in my old character log. Fair review out here. Guys let's face it, compared to BFA this isn't that bad. 8/10 from and old WoW Player ( since april 2007 ). It has great zones (except bastion), nice raids, finally some level squishing but it didn't turned out greatly. Solid PvP.. Yeah it has a lot of farming problems which i hope will be solved in the future, but overall, Shadowlands > BFA. Bfa was a total failure, let's admit it.… Expand
  19. KaiserOfTheMord
    Aug 3, 2022
    0
    A lot of timegated content made so you stay subscribed. I absolutely hate the money-hungry approach that Blizzard is taking with this game. Unfortunately this approach probably won't change until the game dies
  20. Xchar
    Aug 1, 2022
    0
    Extraordinary dumb lore with a ton of retcons and more than questionable world views portrayed as good in the story. You are literally called a champion for committing genocide and such and are even rewarded for that. No amends towards the victims whatsoever.

    Racist faction system, that is literally forcing you to choose a faction based on race of all things. In what century are these    Extraordinary dumb lore with a ton of retcons and more than questionable world views portrayed as good in the story. You are literally called a champion for committing genocide and such and are even rewarded for that. No amends towards the victims whatsoever.

    Racist faction system, that is literally forcing you to choose a faction based on race of all things. In what century are these devs even living in?
    Not to mention all the restrictions the outdated racial segregation system holds for players.

    Borrowed power systems and fomo in order to trick players in staying subscribed, because they let us pay for every single month. Despite no new content for almost a year sometimes.

    Age old graphics, which the devs don't bother to update, let alone the yukky looking player models of some races and don't get me started how limited the customisation options are.

    Then there is the huge faction imbalance the devs caused... I could go on and on.
    This game is just really, really bad.    … Expand
  21. Srkoy
    Aug 1, 2022
    1
    What a horrible game with toxic developers and lousy systems like the strict faction divide, which causes nothing but frustration since players can't choose their favorite races for their favorite faction and on top of that aren't allowed to play together with friends, if those want to play in the other faction.
    No guilds, no lfr and lfd, we aren't even allowed to talk to each other!    What a horrible game with toxic developers and lousy systems like the strict faction divide, which causes nothing but frustration since players can't choose their favorite races for their favorite faction and on top of that aren't allowed to play together with friends, if those want to play in the other faction.
    No guilds, no lfr and lfd, we aren't even allowed to talk to each other!

    How toxic do you want this game to be?
    Blizzard: YES

    World of warcraft is as anti-social as it can get on top of a racist faction system.

    As for the lore... I've stopped caring after Legion. It's just beyond brain afk.    … Expand
  22. BiggieWiggle
    Jul 31, 2022
    0
    Ой, что это случилось? Топящие за равенство лгбт бляди, уверяющие, что они вне политики, забанили доступ всем игрокам из России? Ну ничего, им можно, ведь это они делают с благой целью. Пусть глиномесы и дальше убивают интересную вселенную равенством и толерастией Кста, огромное кол-во людей ноет о том, что наличие уникальных расс в каждой фракцией является расизмом (чего блять??). По этимОй, что это случилось? Топящие за равенство лгбт бляди, уверяющие, что они вне политики, забанили доступ всем игрокам из России? Ну ничего, им можно, ведь это они делают с благой целью. Пусть глиномесы и дальше убивают интересную вселенную равенством и толерастией Кста, огромное кол-во людей ноет о том, что наличие уникальных расс в каждой фракцией является расизмом (чего блять??). По этим комментариям можно понять аудиторию, которой Близзард пытаются угодить.… Expand
  23. Tuccui
    Jul 26, 2022
    0
    What a joke of a game in 2022.
    Seriously, how can anyone take warcraft seriously with graphics, that are stuck in the early 2000s for the most part? Just look at the trees, npcs like wolves, sky boxes, even main cities like Stormwind look like pixel mush.
    And don't even get me started on the player character models. Male humans, night elves, blood elves, Worgen etc. They all look    What a joke of a game in 2022.
    Seriously, how can anyone take warcraft seriously with graphics, that are stuck in the early 2000s for the most part? Just look at the trees, npcs like wolves, sky boxes, even main cities like Stormwind look like pixel mush.

    And don't even get me started on the player character models. Male humans, night elves, blood elves, Worgen etc. They all look like... I don't even know how to describe them. As if the designer doesn't know how humanoid bodies look. It's utterly embarrassing for a "modern" game.
    Also customisation options... yeah, there are almost none and they are EXTREMLY uneven between races. Orcs, Tauren, humans and Nightborne for example have a ton compared to races like night elves, Worgen, void elves, Pandas etc.
    Seriously, who is responsible for such a mess?
    And why do all male human options have to be either fat and twice the size of a normal human or a normal sized human on stereoids, hairy and with an old face??? What is this game?

    I could go on and on about these ridiculous graphics, but oh well.

    While in recent years... for some reason... lawsuit and all... they started to make everything rainbow in this game, they keep racism as their game's pillar lol.
    Racial segregation of playable races seems to stay.
    Talk about hypocritical devs.

    The lore... what a trash show ever since Legion ended.

    Do yourself a favor and don't play this game.    … Expand
  24. daddygull
    Jul 17, 2022
    1
    The lore is still bad, the old world looks still bad, the faction imbalance is still bad, the class imbalance is still bad, the borrowed power system is still bad the racial segregation is still there so it's also still bad, the customization options are still too few and with that bad.
    If you didn't like Battle for Azeroth, you won't like Shadowlands.
  25. poezar
    Jul 17, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Man.. best advise for you .. better play elden ring . This is a piece of **** (really dog **** this blizzard scums only care about player subscription and never improve their pathetic grinding systems and always ignore what people asks and wanted. Seriously man .. i mean it. And don't even think about this **** dragon flight again . same dog ****s ever . let the streamers play first alpha version and hear their reviews. i put 1 star for this crap because PVP system is better than BFA (corruptions).… Expand
  26. RexxoO
    Jul 15, 2022
    1
    1/10 Game.
    That one point is for the nice background music and the cartoonish look (even though it is painfully outdated in most of the world and the player models as well) of the environment and animals, which I enjoy.
    The rest is trash. Sorry. But for years now wow is only getting worse. I saw others criticising the onging racism in warcraft as the game's foundation and yes, I agree    1/10 Game.
    That one point is for the nice background music and the cartoonish look (even though it is painfully outdated in most of the world and the player models as well) of the environment and animals, which I enjoy.
    The rest is trash. Sorry. But for years now wow is only getting worse.

    I saw others criticising the onging racism in warcraft as the game's foundation and yes, I agree on it being disgusting. Especially considering that no changes about the racial segregation has been made for 2 decades... but let's be real here, racism is but one of many quite obvious flaws this dubious company places right in to their game.

    Genocide, torture and destruction of nature gets rewarded, so you basically play as a murderous psychopath and no, that is not the norm in a mmo... but it is in wow unfortunately,
    humanoid men look old, hairy and full of steroids, while women look like anorexic barbie dolls... to no surprise if you look at the lawsuit against Blizzard
    and while they added overweight humans with ogre size during bfa, probably because they want to reuse that model later, and recently put a lot of lgbtq pandering in that game in order to distract us from all the harassment against women and people of color at Blizzard, they keep the most obnoxious stuff, racial segregation, untouched in their game.

    Hypocritical company.
    Racial segregation.
    Outdated and questionable game.
    A ton of restrictions for players.
    Tedious borrowed power systems.
    Unbalanced factions.
    Unbalanced classes.
    Very poorly written lore.
    Long content droughts, despite monthly sub costs.    … Expand
  27. Kalyanee
    Jul 8, 2022
    4
    So firstly about the expansion: Its the same as BfA except the story reached a new low and it has significantly less content for the same price. At this point even a common evening tale makes more sense and tbh is more enjoyable even with semi-adult mind. Sad. Apart from this Blizzard seemingly could not learn anything from the failure of 8.0 and then the additional mess that was caused bySo firstly about the expansion: Its the same as BfA except the story reached a new low and it has significantly less content for the same price. At this point even a common evening tale makes more sense and tbh is more enjoyable even with semi-adult mind. Sad. Apart from this Blizzard seemingly could not learn anything from the failure of 8.0 and then the additional mess that was caused by the system-on-system design. SL repeated all of the errors and just like BfA, it was playable only by 9.1.5 when the Covenant system got fixed.
    Then in 9.2 they again felt like: the game is too playable and we should break it somehow: lets add more and way more powerful stuff on the top of what we already have and see how it works with barely any testing, instead of presenting a sensible storyline and more actual content. That is 9.2 SL S3.
    BfA at least had better story and very nice open world zones stuffed with way way way more content for the same price. SL cuts on both the amount content and on the quality of the game too.

    Secondly however:
    I see this critic that wow promotes racism because it forces certain races to certain parties. Yes this is almost by definition racism, but pls observe this game again, play with it, honestly, its enough if you just do the Zuldazar quests till lvl 20, that's free.
    Can you honestly say that what this game presents to you resembles to what our current world is? Basically every single quest requires you to KILL something or STEAL something, DESTROTY something. Also you are allowed to KILL PLAYERS of the opposite faction, hell even players of your faction under certain circumstances. And lets not even talk about certain, more difficult (to analyze) story lines(which includes mass murders, genocides, tortures and many more).
    This world is nothing like what we live in. It however is similar to older, simpler periods of humanity where things actually worked quite similarly.
    So this is why I think this critic, that wow promotes racism is not really justified. No one should compare what they see here to our reality, that would be like saying that a film which takes place in the 1800s is relevant to our current society and promotes something unacceptable. It DOES NOT. Thats the point. All it does is just presenting things objectively, as they were, not as they are today and especially not how it should be.

    That being said I too would be happy if each race would be like Pandaren and were given a choice on lvl 10, but I can see why is this something that Blizzard can hardly help with. The existing stories(both written and in-game), the playable content and the entire setting is built differently.
    Therefore I do not think that its fair to call WoW or Blizzard racist because at this point we should have a look at quite a lot of other games/films...etc.
    History should be respected and we all should learn from it, instead of trying to change it so it looks better for us.    … Expand
  28. XyyX
    Jul 4, 2022
    0
    World Of Warcraft promotes racism as something that is needed in order to determine which faction you are allowed to be loyal to.
  29. Urigi
    Jun 27, 2022
    2
    Second worst expansion of this very outdated game. Worst would probably be Battle for Azeroth.

    On top of a ridiculous amount of borrowed power systems, timegating, fomo, outdated graphics, unbalanced classes and factions, laughable bad lore and content droughts despite the monthy sub costs, -it is also worth mentioning that Blizzard is still holding on to racism as this game's pillar.    Second worst expansion of this very outdated game. Worst would probably be Battle for Azeroth.

    On top of a ridiculous amount of borrowed power systems, timegating, fomo, outdated graphics, unbalanced classes and factions, laughable bad lore and content droughts despite the monthy sub costs,
    -it is also worth mentioning that Blizzard is still holding on to racism as this game's pillar.
    Like others already criticised, racial segregation of playable races is the very first thing players of world of warcraft have to participate in.
    If they don't accept the racist faction system they simply can't play this game.

    Can't get more disgusting than that really, but I'll admit that I still had some fun during Legion despite such an archaic mindset, which the developers of this game force upon their players.
    Battle For Azeroth and Shadowlands however are in almost every aspect extremely bad and not enjoyable in the slightest.    … Expand
  30. homer3142
    Jun 26, 2022
    7
    Shadowlands is generally good but has many major problems that people tend to focus on. Lore was bland/bad, class balance is non-existent, and the initially released content is always designed to be grindy, time-gated, and obnoxious. There are still some good strengths though (raid design, mythic keystone design, etc).
  31. letsregisteraga
    Jun 26, 2022
    3
    9.0:
    -Covenant system: this system literally meant that you are not allowed to play more than 1 of your specs optimally
    -Maps are ok, but the idea that none of them are connected, so you cant go anywhere without going first back to Oribos is rubbish. -Max lvl zone, The Maw: I liked its appearance, but: it had 0 chapters. it had a precious little amount of lore quests and the Eye of    9.0:
    -Covenant system: this system literally meant that you are not allowed to play more than 1 of your specs optimally

    -Maps are ok, but the idea that none of them are connected, so you cant go anywhere without going first back to Oribos is rubbish.

    -Max lvl zone, The Maw: I liked its appearance, but:
    it had 0 chapters. it had a precious little amount of lore quests and the Eye of Jailer mechanic which literally forced you out of the map if you did too much activities. How dare I play their game?

    -Affix changes: necrotic still not removed, but at least on death affixes no longer trigger from minor mobs. If only this was a thing in BfA, shrine of the storm could have been so much better.

    -First seasonal affix prideful: even worse than infested was. It meant that you either plan your route very precisely and do exactly that or rip keystone. Also if you wiped any of the more challenging bosses on tyrannical week then you were also free to leave since there was no way to do it without both bl and prideful, provided you didnt overgear the content ofc. (note: 9.1 and later version of these dungeons are not even comparable to their 9.0 version).

    -Torghast: this was in fact nice, BUT blizzard seems to be obsessed with telling ppl how to play. Making it a mandatory and timegated grind for everyone who wanted to make use of the legendary system is idiotic at best and made ppl dislike it in general.

    -World quests: There were some fun world quests like bastion's flight school quests or revendreth's go kart quest and umbrella quest, so you know these minigame like quests. However most of the WQs were more like this: go kill 20 of that, loot 12 of that and 3 of this, then complete the bar (this 1 quest, not 3, in case you arent sure).
    Also a strictly wq callings required 3 wqs and most of the time only 2-4 quests were active in a given zone while legion and bfa had almost always 8 or more.

    -Revamped lvling: This is very nice and tbh this one of the reasons why I didnt give 0 points. 1-50 leveling is actually a fun activity in 9.0 and 50-60 is also acceptable in 9.1.5

    9.1:
    -Shard of domination: fortunately I did not raid so I didnt have as much exposure to this "feature" as raiders. Tho set bonuses did not work on m+/pvp, the shard effects DID. On high keys this meant that no matter what, you will never be able to compete with someone in raid gear. In pvp it was somewhat offseted by the pvp gear scaling but still it was quite unfair. I wonder why do raids always need some unfair advantage over other endgames just to make ppl play them?

    - Korthia, Desmotaeron +Maw updates: Lore quests were again timegated and imo really boring after the 4th chapter. But apart from lore, the content and the mechanics were OK except the Archivists' Codex repu which was required for conduit and socket upgrades. I stopped caring about it after the first months as it was evident that it takes way more time to reach rank 6 than I am willing to commit.

    -Seasonal affix Tormented: its actually really good, straight forward, non-intrusive yet made a notable difference. It felt good to play m+ during season 2. Tbh this was the best time of my SL experience, I miss it. We did not have insane power creeps, the content was tuned properly. We were not overloaded with systems and covenants got fixed in 9.1.5: multispec gameplay again became a thing!

    -Tazavesh: Honestly its a really nice, fun and unique dungeon, but it was mythic only and even m10/normal raids gave better loot than this so it was mostly ignored in 9.1, I only did it during the last months of the 9.1 drought, because I had nothing better to doxD, but I did not regret. Streets of Wonder is one of my favorite keystones in 9.2.

    9.2: rip-rop
    -Zereth Mortis: Story is getting even more disneylandsish, I just cba paying attention anymore. But zone mechanics are somewhat fine. Overall an OK map tho mount crafting is severly overtuned, but we have flying and almost fine WQs at least.

    -Tier system: its is only obtainable from raids or weekly and is based entirely on RNG. Unless you won the lottery 4 times, you were out if you were playing for m+/pvp.
    An 246 lfr tier gear was better than a 278 m+ non-tier gear.
    Later catalyst system came which allowed us to transform non-tier gear into tier, but by the time it came I've already finished keystone hero without tier and over the time I've grew to hate it so much that I was no longer interested in neither acquiring it nor playing retail any further.

    -Class balance: This term was abolished by 9.2. If you are not a lock/hunter then dont even bother with dmging. They do 2x as much dps as the worst classes. This is mostly due to tier+double leggo. They clearly didnt care about the synergies and their effect on the class balance

    Imo 9.2 is god awful, 9.2.5 is a bit less horrendous. 9.1 was simple and fun. I hope that tier will get back to where it belongs to (classic)    … Expand
  32. Koaz
    Jun 25, 2022
    1
    A truly horrible state world of warcraft is in for the last couple of years.

    The lore is horrendous and reminds you of bad fanfictions with all the retcons, cringe characters and storylines, that really make you question what is going on in the writer's heads... After almost 2 decades Activision Blizzard is still holding on to a racist faction system, separating playable races    A truly horrible state world of warcraft is in for the last couple of years.

    The lore is horrendous and reminds you of bad fanfictions with all the retcons, cringe characters and storylines, that really make you question what is going on in the writer's heads...

    After almost 2 decades Activision Blizzard is still holding on to a racist faction system, separating playable races strictly between 2 factions.
    Meaning your race, not your values, defines your loyalty.
    Keeping racial segregation as the game's foundation really tells you all you need to know about this company and the mindset of the devs.

    wow became almost unplayble because of the faction imbalance, which the devs made worse and worse over the years with various acts (destruction of several zones and cities of the small faction (like Theramore, Gilneas, Teldrassil, Ashenvale, Darkshore, Arathi etc.), trash gnomes wearing diapers, fat humans (allied races in general really), racials, openly trash talking about that faction, usually giving crumbs to the small faction while chunks to the big faction (Suramar, high mountain for example vs. ... tents on a rock as new hub & an island full of trash I guess? lol), devs publicly only show that they play the overpopulated faction, the lists goes on.

    And despite all of that the devs are not allowing cross faction guilds, questing, random dungeons, raids etc.
    So again, you will find one dead (playable faction) and one overpopulated faction. Which makes the whole experience just awful.

    Tons of FOMO (mage tower weapon skins for example) & time gating in this game.

    The world looks outdated. Very, very outdated. The graphics may look nice in newer zones, but the overall world looks like a patchwork rug with graphics from the early 2000s.

    There is still no player housing in this game, no dyeable gear, very limited and uneven character customisation options, no modern standards for an mmo really. Almost everything is stuck in the past.

    Not a game I can recommend.    … Expand
  33. TergeroN
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    WoW is dying? Yes, he's dying. And a long time ago. Blizzard just has enough resources to support his agony on artificial life support for many years. Games outside politics
  34. mahmoodew
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Игра не развивается от слова Совсем.
    Они раздувают мир как мыльный пузырь попутно меняя лор. Но вед увеличение мира это не его развитие. Или я что то не так понимаю?
    Сюжет зациклен на одном и том же. У них не осталось видимо толковых сценаристов которые могли бы написать толковый сюжет.
    Все так же продолжаются пляски вокруг старых персонажей. Как мертвых так и живых. Нет не одного взращённого нового НПС.    … Expand
  35. Ghostface1337
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    I've never rated WoW on any platform, as someone who's been playing the game for 17 years without a major break, I have to say I've never been more disappointed with an expansion than Shadowlands. By far the worst expansion ever released. The devs are so desperate that they're like, "We don't know what to do anymore, so we're going to give our all to the player base." The only positiveI've never rated WoW on any platform, as someone who's been playing the game for 17 years without a major break, I have to say I've never been more disappointed with an expansion than Shadowlands. By far the worst expansion ever released. The devs are so desperate that they're like, "We don't know what to do anymore, so we're going to give our all to the player base." The only positive thing you can get from Shadowlands is the high quality of raids. The rest especially the variety/class design in PvP is so bad I would give a minus rating if it existed.
    The content you get is also done quickly and the fun outside of raiding is also very limited. As a passionate WoW player, this is an expansion that cannot be recommended under any circumstances.    … Expand
  36. Kenoct
    Jun 8, 2022
    0
    I stopped wow after years of playing because of this lazy xpack. It's a shame to ask to suscribe for this.
  37. Dagren
    Jun 7, 2022
    0
    I don't want to dwell on the gameplay and the overall engagement, because as an expansion it is definitely the worst ever, but I would like to speak about the lore.
    The original idea of digging up the Scourge, the undead and the world beyond to expand the lore further might have been really fine if done properly, but the whole story of Shadowlands is just plain CRAP. To justify its own    I don't want to dwell on the gameplay and the overall engagement, because as an expansion it is definitely the worst ever, but I would like to speak about the lore.
    The original idea of digging up the Scourge, the undead and the world beyond to expand the lore further might have been really fine if done properly, but the whole story of Shadowlands is just plain CRAP. To justify its own narration this expansion distorts that lore masterpiece created by Metzen and create a new figure even more powerful, machiavellian and insidious than Sargeras himself, but the result is mediocre and embarrassing, I hope, and I'm not ironic about this, that people like Steve Danuser get fired after writing this ****    … Expand
  38. Zokks
    Jun 6, 2022
    0
    The game is disgusting on so many levels. So I will only name two messed up things here.

    It is an open secret, that there is a huge lawsuit against the devs of this game for their disgusting behavior (you can easily look it up), but it doesn't end here. The devs portray their disgusting mindset also in world of warcraft. For example: The Horde slaughtered the night elves in the most    The game is disgusting on so many levels. So I will only name two messed up things here.

    It is an open secret, that there is a huge lawsuit against the devs of this game for their disgusting behavior (you can easily look it up), but it doesn't end here. The devs portray their disgusting mindset also in world of warcraft.

    For example:
    The Horde slaughtered the night elves in the most horrific way imaginable and destroyed their home. Now you would think there are consequences for people, who act like psychopathic maniacs.
    No.
    Instead the Horde gets 2 long and nice questlines in 9.2.5, which gives them new stuff and an update for their city.
    Oh and the best part, a part of the slaughtered night elves (who were raised against their will in order to fight their own people and are now undead) join the Horde. Because vitcims should support their abusers. Right?... Right?!
    On top of that for the victims, it's another case of "wait & see".
    Devs: "We know we haven't restored any of the destoryed zones by the Horde for over a decade now, but eventually you will get one of them restored. Promised! Maybe in 3 years or so."
    Utterly disgusting.

    It doesn't end here, however.

    Racism is the very foundation of this game.
    There are 2 factions, but unlike factions usually work this game forces you to choose a faction based on races.
    With strict racial segregation being still very real in wow, half of the races aren't available if you choose one faction.

    There are several other cases of disgusting stuff in this game, but yeah, do not support Blizzard.    … Expand
  39. Koda88
    Jun 4, 2022
    0
    World Of Warcraft is full of racist themes:

    -Racial segregation of playable races between factions = meaning your race matters in this game, not your values. This way half of the races aren't available for one of the two playable factions. Can't get more disgusting than that... - Making almost the whole game about literal race wars. - Genocide and in general war crimes aren't    World Of Warcraft is full of racist themes:

    -Racial segregation of playable races between factions = meaning your race matters in this game, not your values. This way half of the races aren't available for one of the two playable factions. Can't get more disgusting than that...

    - Making almost the whole game about literal race wars.

    - Genocide and in general war crimes aren't punished. Quite the opposite, the aggressor gets rewarded in the end, while the victims get neglected... again. Kaay... considering the lawsuit against Blizzard this mentality doesn't come as a surprise though.

    - Division of the playerbase, even though the devs caused faction imbalance through various acts, making the game for one side almost unplayable. 9.2.5 offers the bare minimum of cross faction play - without cross faction guilds, random lfr, lfd, bgs and neutral races this change is pretty much useless for casual players.

    - the lore in general is shady af, glorifying incredibly questionable world views. Well and if they write themselves into a corner with a villain, they just retcon some stuff and claim "well, it was just their bad side! So their good side is innocent!" Yeah... right.

    One can only hope some major changes happen to this game. It's a mess.    … Expand
  40. Tondi
    Jun 2, 2022
    2
    Shadowlands is just as bad as battle for Azeroth.
    The lore... cringe story and many retcons.
    Strict racial segregation... for almost 2 decades now, no changes whatsoever. You still can't play your favorite races in your favorite faction. Strict division of the playerbase, despite big faction imbalance, caused by the devs. Still no cross faction guilds, questing and random dungeons and    Shadowlands is just as bad as battle for Azeroth.
    The lore... cringe story and many retcons.
    Strict racial segregation... for almost 2 decades now, no changes whatsoever. You still can't play your favorite races in your favorite faction.
    Strict division of the playerbase, despite big faction imbalance, caused by the devs. Still no cross faction guilds, questing and random dungeons and raids.
    Outdated looking graphics. Seriously, it's a pain to look at this ugly pixel mush.
    FOMO (mage tower skins for example).

    All in all a very bad game.    … Expand
  41. Tulanji
    May 27, 2022
    1
    Really bad game with a ton of limitations for players.
    If you prefer one faction over the other, you won't be able to play all races because of strict racial segregation.
    You won't be able to have standard mmo stuff like player housing. Character customisations are extremely limited and don't even have basic stuff like sliders and color palettes. Graphics are stuck in the early 2000s    Really bad game with a ton of limitations for players.
    If you prefer one faction over the other, you won't be able to play all races because of strict racial segregation.
    You won't be able to have standard mmo stuff like player housing.
    Character customisations are extremely limited and don't even have basic stuff like sliders and color palettes.
    Graphics are stuck in the early 2000s in most parts of this game and even for a huge part of the gear and mounts.
    A lot of FOMO.
    A lot of time gating.
    Faction and class imbalance.
    Strict split of the playerbase, which hinders you to play with players of another faction.
    Absurd lore with a ton of retcons.
    Despite the monthly costs very long content droughts, meaning no new content for several months (almost a year).
    1/10    … Expand
  42. Sponger
    May 25, 2022
    0
    World Of Warcraft is a game full of dubious stuff like racial segregation, which is forced upon the players, meaning that your race is what defines to what team you are allowed to go.
    No, not your values are what is important, solely the race is and they kept this division for almost 2 decades.
    This however is not suprising, considering that there is an open lawsuit against Blizzard,    World Of Warcraft is a game full of dubious stuff like racial segregation, which is forced upon the players, meaning that your race is what defines to what team you are allowed to go.
    No, not your values are what is important, solely the race is and they kept this division for almost 2 decades.
    This however is not suprising, considering that there is an open lawsuit against Blizzard, because of the yukky stuff the devs did...

    Anyways, back to wow and it's toxic aspects.
    As if racial segregation in 2022 wasn't bad enough the devs do not care, that one of the two playable factions is essentially dead playerwise. An issue, that the devs caused through multiple acts, such as playable races, racials, constantly destroying zones of that faction, allowing open mockery on interviews against the faction and so on.
    That surely tells you a whole lot about the mindset these devs have.

    Then there are cheap tactics like FOMO and borrowed power systems in order to trick their players to stay subscribed (since you have to pay for each month) without giving actually new content. The best example here would be the mage tower.
    Shadowlands had no real content for months, so they announced to bring back the mage tower from Legion. While at first that would be a nice (old) feature, they did not allow us to get the original rewards for fighting in the mage tower. So another case of FOMO. Because if you want certain items in this game, you will have to make sure to play without taking breaks or you will miss out.
    Sadly there are players, who fell for such cheap methods.

    The lore is another case that shows the clear disconnect to their players.
    There are no consequences for anything in this game. You can commit genocide, burn down entire zones, use the blight, tortue and at the end of the day you get rewarded for it.
    And I want to be clear here, I am not against violence in video games, but the way it is used in wow ist straight up disgusting.
    The abuser gets awesome new stuff, while the victims are basically told they should just forgive and forget... and are allowed to watch, while the abuser gets away. Like wtf is this kind of mindset the devs are putting in this game?

    There are just so many questionable things in wow...

    Oh and also... this is an mmo and despite of that the devs didn't want their players to actually play together. Only recently they said, they would be open an extremely small part of gameplay for cross faction, but the main part (neutral races, lfr, lfd, guilds etc.) remains strictly separated.

    The devs fuel so much toxicity and tribalism with the systems in this game...
    There are better games out there. Do not play wow at the moment. This game needs major changes.    … Expand
  43. Pokito
    May 22, 2022
    1
    This game is full of FOMO -fear of missing out-, borrowed power systems, which don't respect your time at all... speaking of time, huge amount of time gating, enormous faction imbalance, because the devs cram all mainstream races in the Horde and didn't even bother during bfa to give the Alliance a new race, but I guess fat ogre sized humans and gnomes without arms and legs count as a newThis game is full of FOMO -fear of missing out-, borrowed power systems, which don't respect your time at all... speaking of time, huge amount of time gating, enormous faction imbalance, because the devs cram all mainstream races in the Horde and didn't even bother during bfa to give the Alliance a new race, but I guess fat ogre sized humans and gnomes without arms and legs count as a new race right? Right? lol xD
    Crappy story full of retcons that turns one character after the other in to idiots, game is full of microtransactions and outdated graphics and classes aren't balanced. Despite the faction imbalance they still keep the races strictly separated, aswell as the players instead of just making most stuff cross faction.

    Well and all these things turn this game to a toxic cesspool full of frustrated players -the few, who are still playing despite all the toxic stuff in this game.    … Expand
  44. Starkdrac
    May 20, 2022
    0
    This game is in a horrendous state.

    The biggest and most sad problem this game faces is the gigantic faction imbalance, which was caused by over a decade of neglecting the Alliance. The final nail on the coffin was during bfa, when the devs gave fat humans, disabled gnomes and an unwanted compromise in form of tentacle elves with some tents in the void "as home" for the Alliance. At the    This game is in a horrendous state.

    The biggest and most sad problem this game faces is the gigantic faction imbalance, which was caused by over a decade of neglecting the Alliance. The final nail on the coffin was during bfa, when the devs gave fat humans, disabled gnomes and an unwanted compromise in form of tentacle elves with some tents in the void "as home" for the Alliance. At the same time they gave the Horde one highly requested race after the other. The biggest insults being superior night elves with their enormous city and a brand new mainstream fox race. The Alliance in return received not a single new race, let alone a mainstream race.
    There are several incidents of toxic behavior towards the Alliance from the devs, but I want to keep this short.

    The devs of warcraft are sadly very toxic in general. Especially towards the Alliance and it's players, but with all their restrictions, time gating, FOMO, ignoring feedback and such they also behave very toxic towards the playerbase as a whole.

    There is of course an easy solution to the faction imbalance, namely making all races neutral like others already suggested and also putting optional cross faction guilds and such in the game. But the devs are so stubborn with their fixation of outdated stuff like the hivemind mentality for races, that I doubt that they are even considering to remove toxic restrictions like racial segregation in wow.

    It sure looks very grim.
    The devs are also very lazy when it comes to the outdated graphics in this game. Best example for that is probably Stormwind, that uses graphics from the early 2000s for the most part and looks like a patchwork rug with the few newer elements in there.
    At one point they changes a handful of lion statues with new ones, but let more than half of the remaining lion statues (among many other outdated elements) just be unchanged.
    Why didn't they finish the job? One would assume they are just lazy af and don't care for a proper update, even though it's the main city of the Alliance.
    There are a lot of other zones and cities however that are stuck in the past like Ashenvale, Gilneas, the warfronts, Theramore, you name it. The devs just keep ignoring the work, that should have been done years ago.

    The lore... is a mess. They shoved Sylvanas down our throats for the last couple of years and the story suffered immensely under the dev's obsession with that character.

    For everyone reading this, do yourself a favor and don't play this game. It is unbalanced, has a ton of toxic & time consuming systems and restrictions, outdated graphics, cringe lore and arrogant devs.    … Expand
  45. Milos14
    May 19, 2022
    0
    Trash lore, killed the greatest villain in gaming history by making helm of domination into a disgrace
  46. mrderwyn
    May 16, 2022
    1
    So after **** Shadowlands, u decide to make 4 season without any new content to focus on next expansion... With one new race/class with **** model? Well done
  47. Ukole
    May 12, 2022
    0
    I can't even fully describe how much went wrong over the last 2 expansions battle for azeroth and shadowlands... It's just so much. So here are just a few things:

    Lore...they completely ruined it and no, that is not an exaggeration. They retconned so much, just so that they could keep their status quo of Sylvanas being the Mary Sue of this game... disgusting. There is also disgusting    I can't even fully describe how much went wrong over the last 2 expansions battle for azeroth and shadowlands... It's just so much. So here are just a few things:

    Lore...they completely ruined it and no, that is not an exaggeration. They retconned so much, just so that they could keep their status quo of Sylvanas being the Mary Sue of this game... disgusting.

    There is also disgusting bias of the devs towards the Horde =huge faction imbalance as a result. They are downright trolling the Alliance with races like junk gnomes, fat humans that for some reasons (future ogres?^^) are ludicrous big, blue elves with ugly af hair styles and tentacles, no lore, no home & no logical lore, just so they could troll high elf fans, destroying 2 Alliance zones & making them to never ending war zones, gave the Horde 4 HD Cinematics, a new mainstream fox race, nightborne (better looking night elves with more customisations) two gigantic cities (Suramar, Highmountain) with rich lore, now with dragonflights they will also give the Horde female humans... the list goes on. So of course there are almost no players left on team blue.

    Almost no content over the last 2 years, yet lots & lots of time gating.

    FOMO.

    Class imbalance.

    Nothing innovative, like player housing (or actual modern customisation options/sliders color pallets etc.)

    Like others wrote, racial segregation. Yeah, it's still a thing in this game. You have to look a certain way, to be in a certain faction. Also disgusting.
    Not to mention that with all races being neutral + cross faction guilds there would be no faction imbalance. So of course Blizzard will hold on to racial segregation, in order to keep this game as toxic as it can get.

    0/10 Do not play this game. It's really bad.    … Expand
  48. Cosmos8
    May 2, 2022
    1
    I couldn't agree more with the other criticisms here. I'm so tired of all the restrictions in this game.
    There is so much you just can't do in wow.
    As already mentioned in other reviews, a big factor is of course the very, very stale faction choice. You won't be able to play half of the races in the faction you prefer. Who ever came up with this very poorly aged racial segregation    I couldn't agree more with the other criticisms here. I'm so tired of all the restrictions in this game.
    There is so much you just can't do in wow.
    As already mentioned in other reviews, a big factor is of course the very, very stale faction choice. You won't be able to play half of the races in the faction you prefer.
    Who ever came up with this very poorly aged racial segregation concept in wow... jeez... It makes faction choice look very shady and for us players it is just a very, very frustrating restriction.

    For me the restrictions on transmogs, which are bound to classes is also really annoying.
    Then of course fomo and time gating.

    Content droughts are also worth mentioning, considering that we have to pay monthly for wow.

    The story is a disaster in battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands (mainly because of Sylvanas).

    Customization options don't fulfil modern standards and some races would need a whole body upgrade because they look extremly weird, like male humans, night elves, worgen, male gnomes, male dwarves, blood and void elves.
    Also most zones use very dated graphics.

    Overall a very poorly managed game, that isn't worth playing in it's current state.    … Expand
  49. Tek7O
    May 1, 2022
    2
    This game is all about limitations. There are so many unnecessary restrictions for players, it's ridiculous.

    You want to earn a certain weapon skin from the mage tower? Nope. FOMO says hello. You want to play a dark iron dwarf (for example) in the Horde? Nope. Races are strictly separated between factions. You are not allowed to play the races you like in your favorite faction.    This game is all about limitations. There are so many unnecessary restrictions for players, it's ridiculous.

    You want to earn a certain weapon skin from the mage tower? Nope. FOMO says hello.

    You want to play a dark iron dwarf (for example) in the Horde? Nope. Races are strictly separated between factions. You are not allowed to play the races you like in your favorite faction.

    You want to be in the same guild and do some quests together with your friend, who happens to prefer team blue, while you prefer team red? Nope. Players are strictly separated between factions.

    You want to have your character a bit shorter or bigger? Nope. Customisation options only give you the bare minimum & are also extremely unbalanced between races.

    This game is full of tedious restrictions and outdated graphics.
    Can't recommend it at all.    … Expand
  50. Drangleic
    Apr 28, 2022
    0
    absolute garbage! Just as bad as the rest of the expansions starting with Cataclysm
  51. Iisko
    Apr 28, 2022
    3
    After the bad story in sl and bfa and all the repetitive systems and content droughts they announced some good changes for Dragonflight. However there wasn't a single word about removing racism in wow, which really gives a bitter taste to the part where they are saying they would be more progressive from now on.
    It's just sad, that we still have such huge limitations after all these    After the bad story in sl and bfa and all the repetitive systems and content droughts they announced some good changes for Dragonflight. However there wasn't a single word about removing racism in wow, which really gives a bitter taste to the part where they are saying they would be more progressive from now on.
    It's just sad, that we still have such huge limitations after all these years. After all these years playable races are still strictly separated between the Alliance and Horde and it's wrong on so many levels.
    I really wish they would remove such bothersome restrictions. Would finally give me a reason to return to this game.    … Expand
  52. Jagers
    Apr 26, 2022
    1
    This game is beyond bad and the developers have really outdated and shady world views, which they project in their game.
    They are actively forcing players to choose a faction solely based on race and separate races between the two factions. What you look like is important to which faction you go...disgusting.
    I bet these developers wish they could return to the days, where your race was    This game is beyond bad and the developers have really outdated and shady world views, which they project in their game.
    They are actively forcing players to choose a faction solely based on race and separate races between the two factions. What you look like is important to which faction you go...disgusting.
    I bet these developers wish they could return to the days, where your race was decisive to which school you could go, what job you can get or to which club you was allowed to go.
    The devs are certainly forcing this racist mindset upon their players.

    The new zones look nice, I can give a point for that, but that's pretty much all.
    The lore is ridiculous, there are way too many months without any new content despite the monthly sub costs, factions are obviously still unbalanced with all the restrictions and through the general behavior of the devs, classes are unbalanced, the old zones look horribly outdated aswell as many, many npcs apart from Sylvanas, who gets updated nonstop, probably because a certain writer loves her a bit too much... borrowed power systems, almost no communication and oh well, it's just a really bad expansion. Just like bfa and wod.    … Expand
  53. kazael01
    Apr 25, 2022
    0
    Dont play this game, go to FFXIV, MUCH BETTER. SL brings the same content of BfA, eternal grind, no challenge, no horizontal progression, only if you are hardcore player it worth, but for us. the marjority, casuals, forget it.
  54. Daermon
    Apr 24, 2022
    3
    The worst expansion ever! :( - The “””””story””””””” writing is BIG **** Retcon and destroy the lore. - Gamplay just meh.
    - Covenant system is **** - PvP full unbalanced.
    - The whole after-life is uninteresting and boring

    Please remove Christie Golden and his team.
  55. Xerjx
    Apr 21, 2022
    2
    Shadowlands as well as Battle For Azeroth are both very bad expansions with an obnoxious focus on Sylvanas, which basically ruind the entire lore, lot of content droughts, borrwed power systems, fomo, time gating and with a playerbase that is left ignored for the most part when it comes to feedback.
    Like others I want also criticize the ongoing racism in this game, which is dictated by    Shadowlands as well as Battle For Azeroth are both very bad expansions with an obnoxious focus on Sylvanas, which basically ruind the entire lore, lot of content droughts, borrwed power systems, fomo, time gating and with a playerbase that is left ignored for the most part when it comes to feedback.
    Like others I want also criticize the ongoing racism in this game, which is dictated by the developers in form of racial segregation when it comes to playable races.
    Seriously, in what age are these devs living in when they are still thinking your race is what defines your faction and loyalty?
    Race is apparently more important to Blizzard than values. Seriously?
    Get a grip, Blizzard! End racial segregation and give all races free will, instead of a hivemind. It is not only questinable to keep racism in the game it is also frustrating for us players not to be able to have the races we want to play together with the faction we want to be in.
    Together with cross faction guilds, lfr and lfd this will also FINALLY end the faction imbalance the devs created, because choosing a faction won't be forced because of races anymore or the bigger playerbase, but only because of the lore and main cities.    … Expand
  56. cOKI
    Apr 11, 2022
    1
    I find it funny how so many criticize racial segregation in wow. While yes, of course it's wrong and Blizzard needs to remove the racist division of the races, but why does nobody (as far as I could see) criticize the allied races aspect from bfa? I mean... um... overweight humans are presented as their own race instead of just a customisation option for normal humans...disabled gnomes areI find it funny how so many criticize racial segregation in wow. While yes, of course it's wrong and Blizzard needs to remove the racist division of the races, but why does nobody (as far as I could see) criticize the allied races aspect from bfa? I mean... um... overweight humans are presented as their own race instead of just a customisation option for normal humans...disabled gnomes are also considered their own race instead of just a customisation option for normal gnomes? Riiiiight... You could make the argument that brown orcs as their own race instead of a customisation option for green orcs is also very questionable.
    Well and all the other races (except for the only new race Vulpera) are as lazy as it can get, just recolors of the original race.
    If you look at the whole way Blizzard manages their playable races... well, it becomes pretty obvious that this company has not quite arrived in 2022 yet and has rather questionable views.

    Anyway, as for Shadowlands... the lore is just as awful as in bfa and all this because of the dev's mascot Sylvanas.
    There is absolutely no connection to Azeroth. The player spends the entire time in a death realm and yeah... it's as depressing as it sounds.
    The bunch of recycled borrowed power systems are just frustrating and time consuming.
    We (the players) are still not allowed to play in lfrs and lfds with our friends in the other faction and also no cross faction bgs and guilds. With the big faction imbalance this makes the game unplayble for a lot of players.
    FOMO... mage tower without the original skins for example.
    Graphic... while Sylvanas gets a new outfit pretty much every patch almost all the other npcs look outdated and ugly. They also haven't updated most of the old world, not even the main cities...
    Every game has it, Blizzard of course doesn't have it. Player housing, yeah... guess that would be too much work for a small indie company like Blizzard...    … Expand
  57. Kuszko
    Apr 9, 2022
    0
    Incredible racist, hypocritical and toxic company. Changing an ingame painting of a woman in a bikini with a painting of a bowl with fruits and removing some emotes is Blizzard's way of saying "Hey, look how progressive we are!", yet at the same time they're preaching their gamers that racial segregation is such a cool foundation of their game. After almost 2 decades playable races areIncredible racist, hypocritical and toxic company. Changing an ingame painting of a woman in a bikini with a painting of a bowl with fruits and removing some emotes is Blizzard's way of saying "Hey, look how progressive we are!", yet at the same time they're preaching their gamers that racial segregation is such a cool foundation of their game. After almost 2 decades playable races are still divided between the factions, sending the message of "You have to look a certain way, if you want to join team blue or red. We don't care what you stand for and which faction you feel loyal to, only your race matters like in the good ole days in the USA! That's our idea of fun!"
    Despicable, especially considering the lawsuit against this company and the toxic behavior of the devs towards a part of their playerbase.

    There are other things I despise about wow, like the lore in wod, bfa and now in shadowlands, like others said the outdated grapic, fomo, borrowed power systems and so on, but ever since I know about the lawsuit the racial segregation aspect of this game angers me the most.

    And no, allowing players pre made groups for cross faction raids is NOT fixing racial segregation in wow, since the races will keep their hivemind with this baby step towards cross faction. The races are still locked to only one faction.
    Well, and here we are, with a western company still holding on to racism. So yeah, I'm done with the hypocrisy of Blizzard.    … Expand
  58. Zni
    Apr 6, 2022
    0
    When you're playing wow, you get the feeling you went back in time and are still in the early 2000s and I don't mean that in a positive way. Quite the opposite.
    Many zones and npcs in this game are not updated, meaning the graphic is very outdated and an ugly pixel mush.
    Even worse, after all these years Blizzard kept racism in their game and divide the playable races between the 2 very    When you're playing wow, you get the feeling you went back in time and are still in the early 2000s and I don't mean that in a positive way. Quite the opposite.
    Many zones and npcs in this game are not updated, meaning the graphic is very outdated and an ugly pixel mush.
    Even worse, after all these years Blizzard kept racism in their game and divide the playable races between the 2 very unbalanced factions. By this players can't really decide what faction they would like to play on because of it's lore etc. but rather because racial segregation is still very real in wow. Quite frankly I find it very distasteful of Blizzard holding on to racism.
    Lastly I want to mention the lore, which went downhill very badly for the last couple of years.
    wow is in a very sad state and I can't recommend playing it.    … Expand
  59. asxasmaxas
    Apr 6, 2022
    0
    **** game for **** by the worst company ever existed, which even can not repear its **** broken launcher.
  60. Tokoa
    Apr 5, 2022
    1
    I kinda agree on the comments here about the racism in wow.
    It is a very outdated mindset and as a player you don't have any choice but to take part in it, if you want to play this game. I guess especially after the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard the racial segregation part of this game became painfully obvious.
    This game won't let you choose a faction because of values and overall    I kinda agree on the comments here about the racism in wow.
    It is a very outdated mindset and as a player you don't have any choice but to take part in it, if you want to play this game. I guess especially after the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard the racial segregation part of this game became painfully obvious.
    This game won't let you choose a faction because of values and overall theme, it makes you choose because of the races, which are strictly divided between the factions and that for almost 2 decades.
    I think this game desperately needs to change this outdated concept and has to finally allow all members of a race to choose their faction freely.
    It is really time to end this racist concept and better sooner than later, considering the bad reputation of this company.
    It's also a very unnatural thing to keep in the game. Baine for example is more Alliance than Horde and Calia on the other hand is more Horde than Alliance.
    There are lots of neutral groups in the lore, who would choose the other side and even in the case of night elves, you could simply rename Horde nelves to Highborne and in return blood elves to high elves. Rogue Worgen for Horde, sailor Vulpera from Kul Tiras for Alliance, nightborne, lightforged, mecha gnomes and highmountain tauren don't make any sense to be in only one faction anyway.
    I mean, it's really simple, but instead Blizzard chooses to give them all a hivemind and keep racial segregation for whatever reason. xD
    I have really no clue why they hold on to racism of all things...
    Ah well, I hope they rethink their faction system altogether.
    Factions should only be exclusive in clothes and flags (and main cities, meaning Stormwind and Orgrimmar, maybe Teldrassil 2.0 (if there is one) and undercity). The rest like Exodar, Suramar, Silvermoon, Gilneas and so on should be available for both sides and with that for all players.
    There are more than enough frustrating things in this game (especially the lore in recent years, borrowed power systems and fomo), factions should not remain one of them.    … Expand
  61. XxZxX
    Apr 3, 2022
    0
    Shadowlands is awful. Second awful expansion in a row...

    Along with the typical stuff like FOMO, racism -yeah, playable races are still split between the 2 factions, what really makes you question the mentality of the devs, but whatever,- no player housing, unbalanced and in general too few customisation options, no dyeable gear, no npc and world update -seriously, the graphic is    Shadowlands is awful. Second awful expansion in a row...

    Along with the typical stuff like FOMO, racism -yeah, playable races are still split between the 2 factions, what really makes you question the mentality of the devs, but whatever,- no player housing, unbalanced and in general too few customisation options, no dyeable gear, no npc and world update -seriously, the graphic is outdated af in this game-, borrowed power systems, huge content droughts, almost no communication between devs and players and unbalanced classes you get another expansion with really stupid lore with Sylvanas as the main character since the devs seem to be obsessed with her for several years.

    Do yourself a favor and don't waste time with world of warcraft. This game won't respect your time and on top of that glorifies racism.    … Expand
  62. Nihax
    Apr 2, 2022
    1
    *Sigh*
    Shadowlands might be not as bad as battle for Azeroth, but it is still very, very bad (especially regarding the... very questionable lore and all the systems that nobody asked for.)
    For me personally however the worst part remains to be the toxic behavior of the developers, who keep neglecting one of their 2 playable factions for years now. In bfa it felt as if they were straight    *Sigh*
    Shadowlands might be not as bad as battle for Azeroth, but it is still very, very bad (especially regarding the... very questionable lore and all the systems that nobody asked for.)
    For me personally however the worst part remains to be the toxic behavior of the developers, who keep neglecting one of their 2 playable factions for years now. In bfa it felt as if they were straight up trolling the faction by:
    -giving them fat humans in ogre size, junk gnomes & a copy & paste races (but worse than the original, insead of high elves, that had been Alliance since the beginning and were highly requested for over a decade), not a single city, but instead an island full of junk, destroyed 2 zones (never endling warzone loop) and burned their world tree.
    -All that while giving the already overpopulated faction 2 new gigantic cities (Suramar -the biggest elf city in the entire game and highmountain) along with rich lore, a new mainstream fox race and an upgrade for trolls, 4 HD cinemtatics all about the meaning of their faction, they lost no zones to these disgusting war zone concept, and undercity can still be restored.
    This constant focus on the overpopulated faction is just so... tiring and at the same time the devs will tell us, that it is a playermade issue... yeah, sure.^^
    As someone, who doesn't want to swap to the overpopulated faction this game became unbearable a long time ago. Nonetheless I tried out Shadowlands, only to learn, that nothing has changed.
    The devs keep neglecting my favorite faction, so yeah, I won't pay for this dreadful game anymore.
    You can't have a 2 faction system in your game, when one faction is treated as a second class citizen for all these years.    … Expand
  63. Horok
    Mar 31, 2022
    0
    What a racist company. Racial segregation is still a thing in this game. It might have been acceptable in 2004, but they kept it til this very day. Only half of the races are available for one faction, while the other half is available for the other faction. In Blizzard's mind this is seemingly the way factions work, meaning what race you are is important, not your values. Like... wtf?
    I    What a racist company. Racial segregation is still a thing in this game. It might have been acceptable in 2004, but they kept it til this very day. Only half of the races are available for one faction, while the other half is available for the other faction. In Blizzard's mind this is seemingly the way factions work, meaning what race you are is important, not your values. Like... wtf?
    I just find it hilarious, how people only just recently realised how racist this company is due to the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, while in reality this game had obvious racist elements since the very beginning.
    I for one won't touch this game as long as they keep racial segregation (and as long as the lore keeps being so unbelievable brain afk and as long as there is no cross faction guilds, lfr and lfd).    … Expand
  64. Dhoris
    Mar 28, 2022
    1
    This game has soooo much outdated stuff...
    Imagine still holding on to racism in this day and age. Yeah, that's world of warcraft for y'all, where almost all races are split to a certain faction because, if you look a certain way, then you will of course only stick to your own kind, because that is how factions work! -Blizzard's mentality.
    The only race with free will is Pandaren. All    This game has soooo much outdated stuff...
    Imagine still holding on to racism in this day and age. Yeah, that's world of warcraft for y'all, where almost all races are split to a certain faction because, if you look a certain way, then you will of course only stick to your own kind, because that is how factions work! -Blizzard's mentality.
    The only race with free will is Pandaren. All the others stick to racial segregation. Makes you kinda want to puke honestly. And the devs probably think this mentality is fine.

    Also outdated graphics, FOMO (mage tower without artifact skins for example), stupid lore, no cross faction lfr and lfd, no cross faction guilds, lack of modern customization options, you name it. Just don't play this game until major changes happen... if they will ever happen that is.    … Expand
  65. ClarkKunt
    Mar 26, 2022
    0
    It turns out that the biggest WoW killer is WoW itself. How ironic, there is no hope for this game anymore.
  66. HugoXY
    Mar 25, 2022
    0
    We have 2022 and Blizzard is still promoting racism with the division of the playable races. Yikes. Only exception being Pandaren, but all the other's have seemingly a hive mind and keep to only to one side. What an embarrassment for modern times.
    It comes to no surprise however, considering the lawsuit against this company.
    A friend of mine said I should try this game and I was    We have 2022 and Blizzard is still promoting racism with the division of the playable races. Yikes. Only exception being Pandaren, but all the other's have seemingly a hive mind and keep to only to one side. What an embarrassment for modern times.
    It comes to no surprise however, considering the lawsuit against this company.
    A friend of mine said I should try this game and I was disgusted that the first thing I saw was open racism. Jeez... and there are still players, who actually play this game? Just sad...
    Not to mention the limited customisation options and age old graphics in this game.
    I can't recommend world of warcraft at all.    … Expand
  67. JR7
    Mar 23, 2022
    1
    What a hypocritical company. They change an ingame painting of a woman into a bowl of fruits for example and claiming with that they would now be progressive, yet at the same time they keep racism in form of strict racial segregation (except for Pandaren) in their game.
    Like... what?? In what reality is racism as a foundation of a game progressive?
    But that are Blizzard's double    What a hypocritical company. They change an ingame painting of a woman into a bowl of fruits for example and claiming with that they would now be progressive, yet at the same time they keep racism in form of strict racial segregation (except for Pandaren) in their game.
    Like... what?? In what reality is racism as a foundation of a game progressive?
    But that are Blizzard's double standards for you...
    In their world what counts in order to pick a faction is what you look like, not what you stand for.

    Shadowlands is yet the second awful expansion in a row. It has incredibly bad lore just like bfa, it has long content droughts, repetitive borrowed power systems, still outdated graphics, incredible unbalanced customisation options between the races und still a serious imbalance between the factions.    … Expand
  68. Zunsjki
    Mar 18, 2022
    2
    The lore of this game... just oof... I can't even describe the amount of cringe Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have in their story. Really, really bad storytelling.

    Gameplay... another oof. This game is extremely unbalanced regarding classes and factions, yet they are still not allowing cross faction guilds and free faction choice for all races instead of archaic racial segregation    The lore of this game... just oof... I can't even describe the amount of cringe Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have in their story. Really, really bad storytelling.

    Gameplay... another oof. This game is extremely unbalanced regarding classes and factions, yet they are still not allowing cross faction guilds and free faction choice for all races instead of archaic racial segregation that should have no place in a modern game, there is still no cross faction lfr & lfd and no cross faction alt mailing.

    There is a also lot, A LOT of time gating and FOMO in this game.

    2 points for the nice looking enviroment in the new zones, though technically I should take these points away considering that most zones in this game look like they are stuck in 2004. Really old graphics...    … Expand
  69. IloveTurkey
    Mar 13, 2022
    1
    The game is meant to be played, not to hurt users by not being born there. After all, gamers are not to blame. They just want to play their favorite game, they don't support this whole crisis.
  70. frostmorn
    Mar 12, 2022
    1
    Worst plot twist ever. Jailer is dead and we have no idea who he was. They ruined Arthas story as well....
  71. Miroslavich
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    This addition wasn't so bad until the Blizzard started to promote the things modern society is trying to get rid of. Things like racism, xenophobia, dislike of groups of people and other things. With your policy, you are not only killing the game, but also provoking hatred between groups of people in your community. You, like many other companies, must keep the peace, because in the gameThis addition wasn't so bad until the Blizzard started to promote the things modern society is trying to get rid of. Things like racism, xenophobia, dislike of groups of people and other things. With your policy, you are not only killing the game, but also provoking hatred between groups of people in your community. You, like many other companies, must keep the peace, because in the game worlds we don’t care who you are, what race you are, what gender and religion you are, I play with people because they fulfill their roles well and I enjoy communicating with them. You have to unite people, but you do the opposite: you divide and play off.… Expand
  72. Roto
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Everytime you think Blizzard couldn't mess up the lore of this game any further... surprise, sursprise! It get's worse. With the end of Legion to the end of Shdowlands... well, the lore is a dumpster fire. I'd love them to just retcon bfa and shadowlands entirely to fix this mess.
    Oh and while Blizzard is pretending to be more tolerant and open towards all minorities by removing some    Everytime you think Blizzard couldn't mess up the lore of this game any further... surprise, sursprise! It get's worse. With the end of Legion to the end of Shdowlands... well, the lore is a dumpster fire. I'd love them to just retcon bfa and shadowlands entirely to fix this mess.
    Oh and while Blizzard is pretending to be more tolerant and open towards all minorities by removing some emotes and changing an ingame painting of a woman to a bowl of fruits... yeah, they really did that, they are keeping strict racial segregation in their game, the only exception being Pandaren.
    Such hypocrisy xD
    Oh well, just don't play this messy game. Old graphics, class imbalance, faction imbalance, fomo, time gating, content droughts... it's just not worth anyone's time.    … Expand
  73. andree1822
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    just pathetic, bad lore, useless final boss, awful game mechanics, terrible covenant system, a total rip-off for so much development time a lot of problems
  74. Magicxx
    Mar 11, 2022
    1
    Updated critique:

    With the last patch 9.2. of this expansion not much has changed. What I and many others feared just happened. The devs redeem their waifu npc, even though she is a psychopath and war criminal. The writers are playing the "oh, but it was just her bad side! Her good side is actually such an angel! You have to love her like we do!" card. Seriously, this kind of    Updated critique:

    With the last patch 9.2. of this expansion not much has changed.
    What I and many others feared just happened. The devs redeem their waifu npc, even though she is a psychopath and war criminal. The writers are playing the "oh, but it was just her bad side! Her good side is actually such an angel! You have to love her like we do!" card.
    Seriously, this kind of storytelling makes you wanna puke. And if that wasn't annoying enough they teased that they will continue keeping her relevant in the story, as if over 5 years with her as the main character wasn't enough.

    Blizzard is still keeping racism as their so called pillar of wow.
    They tried so hard virtual signaling by removing some emotes for example but didn't said a single word about removing racial segregation in wow.
    Such hypocrisy, if it wasn't so sad I would laugh.
    Now some emotes are considered as toxic but keeping racism in your game is a-ok?
    Seriously, stop being so arrogant and remove racial segregation Blizzard. It's about time that every race has the right to choose their faction freely.
    Such outdated mentality as racial segregation belongs in the past.
    Cross faction guilds, alt mailing, lfr & lfd need to happen too asap in order to save this game.

    Old critique:

    What a disappointment and here I tought it couldn't get any worse after Battle For Azeroth...

    Lore:
    After the awful story in bfa where they forced an idotic faction war that made absolutly no sense they now continue focusing their story on the worst written character there is. A certain „banshee queen“ that commited one atrocity after the other; (genocide-twice, destruction of whole areas, mind control, spreading the plague, slavery and so on, the list is long). She has been the focus since 3 expansions, but as long as there are some people, who see in her some weird kind of edgy waifu... I guess Blizzard will continue treating her like an overpowered Mary Sue that is above all else.
    Worst case scenario they'll redeem her and portray that ex dictator as an innocent victim. Considering Blizzard's horrendous writing skills since the end of Legion I wouldn't be surprised. Genocide isn't all that bad, if it is commited by a good looking woman, huh Blizzard? Time to forgive her! Well, but we will see what route they will go. Hopefully 9.1. will be the end of that mass murderer.

    Faction Imbalance:
    It's no secret that they focus only on one faction, while the other is treated like a second class citizen.
    - only 1 faction got a new and obvious mainstream race, while the smaller faction got a reskin of a rather unpopular old race.
    - only 1 faction got 2 well established races with two huge and beautiful cities, while the smaller side got a race, that came in the very last patch and a second race that came literally out of nowhere
    - both races without a city.
    - one side got a better looking version of an old race, while the smaller side got an overweight version of an old race.
    - one side got 4 high quality cinematics all revolving on the meaning of their faction, while the smaller faction was playing the side character.
    - the smaller side has less druids and shamans than the other side.
    - the last Blizzcon was revolving around the bigger faction... again.
    - the second most popular city of the smaller faction was destroyed, while the other faction only lost a hardly visited city, that still can be saved.
    - 2 zones were attacked of the smaller faction and are now in an endless loop between being controlled by both factions. Thus useless.
    - the racials of one faction were overpowered for far too long, yet every small advantage of the smaller faction gets nerfed immediately.

    Despite all of that Blizzard claims they have no idea, how to help the smaller faction. I'm no expert, but treating the smaller faction like an afterthought propably doesn't help.

    Did it change with Shadowlands? Nope. They continue as if it never happend. With an attitude like that I agree with many others on this subject. They should just end the racial segregation. All races for both faction + cross faction raiding.
    The damage is far too big at this point. Not to mention that racial segregation and thus a kind of racism... it's a game sure, but it doesn't sit well to claim the pillar of wow is build on racial segregation. Racism is not faction identity. Ideals and so on, that is faction identity. These archaic restrictions harm the community and thus the social factor of the game. "You can only play with me, if you choose a race of this specific pool." "But I like that race..." "Then you can't play with me." Excuse me, but what? You shouldn't separate players like that. Like seriously.

    And lastly there is the usual stuff like unbalanced classes, the never ending grinds and all the systems.

    I want to like wow and I have good memories playing it. But I'm sorry, it' utterly trash since bfa. Still hoping it will get better though.    … Expand
  75. Genstab
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    я виноват в том что я русский? ну тогда привет вам от детей бомбасса
  76. gabriel910
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    Еще одна лицемерная компания, которая топит за толерантность, а по факту таковой не является! В чем мы собственно все убедились в свете последних событий. Поступаете как нацисты! Гнобите простой русский народ, который не имеет никакого отношения к происходящему. Позор вам и таким же компаниям как вы!Еще одна лицемерная компания, которая топит за толерантность, а по факту таковой не является! В чем мы собственно все убедились в свете последних событий. Поступаете как нацисты! Гнобите простой русский народ, который не имеет никакого отношения к происходящему. Позор вам и таким же компаниям как вы!
  77. Nepen1he
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    games out of politics, juegos fuera de la politica, jogos fora da política
  78. RichardAlpert
    Mar 9, 2022
    0
    За последние несколько дней произошло многое, особенно за время существования данного обновления.
    Хочу сказать, какое негативное отношение к Русским пользователям. Какое отношение компании Blizzard к нам. Никто не может, ни продлить подписку, ни поменять регион своего аккаунта. В чем разница между нами и людей с Запада? Я не вижу никакой разницы между нами. Когда на нас простых людей,    За последние несколько дней произошло многое, особенно за время существования данного обновления.
    Хочу сказать, какое негативное отношение к Русским пользователям. Какое отношение компании Blizzard к нам. Никто не может, ни продлить подписку, ни поменять регион своего аккаунта. В чем разница между нами и людей с Запада? Я не вижу никакой разницы между нами. Когда на нас простых людей, которые работают в своих профессиях, платят так же налоги, образно говоря живут. НО за что нам перекрывать доступ к оплате ?! Не мы виноваты, т.е простые люди. А виновата политика! Из-за которых всё и началось! Очень разочарован что так поступают с RU-регионом. Почти 10 лет своей жизни отдал этой компании, и одним взмахом всё разваливается.    … Expand
  79. Vardeval
    Mar 9, 2022
    0
    Blizzard became a breeding ground for russophobia, which was later joined by the entire leadership. It is disgusting that in 2022 there may still be oppression along ethnic lines.
  80. Alaindantek
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    Thanks for expansión Blizzard 0/10... nice end game.. and $Hųk hazzicostas
  81. TolyaT
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    Мой отзыв из-за того что я не могу продлить себе подписку. Вы же продвигаете равенство между всеми, но в то же время угнетаете игроков из-за того что они из стран, которые вам не нравятся. Что же будет дальше?
    Какие ещё страны вы заблокируете без весомой причины?
    Угнетатели.... Я больше не могу вам доверять...    Мой отзыв из-за того что я не могу продлить себе подписку. Вы же продвигаете равенство между всеми, но в то же время угнетаете игроков из-за того что они из стран, которые вам не нравятся. Что же будет дальше?
    Какие ещё страны вы заблокируете без весомой причины?
    Угнетатели.... Я больше не могу вам доверять...
  82. diralark
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Nothing interesting in this game.
    PVP is non existent !
    The quest and the PVE is so boring omfg :/
    worst addon ever !
  83. lazerjazz
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Blocking payment for Russia and other countries is a betrayal from Blizzard
  84. Mercyow
    Mar 6, 2022
    10
    Perfect expansion .I was not expecting wow to give good expansion after worst bfa .but here we are .love it
  85. Kunray
    Mar 6, 2022
    1
    Recommend this game.
    The game itself looks pretty nice.
    Have some fun (: 1/10 This Shadowlands
  86. Xtinsion
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Blizzard just banned all countries who were using RUB in THEIR payment system, so we are not able to buy even a subscription. I can understand why Russia is banned, but the whole Middle Asia is using RUB currency too, due to Blizzard's payment method settings. Should explain none further i guess
  87. Zhek87
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Невозможно оплатить подписку в России, гг Близзард
  88. snegovikoff
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    НЕТ ПОЛИТИКИ В ИГРАХ! Я в вов с ванилы. считал близард лучшей компанией с лучшими играми. А они повели себя как подстилка для политика!
  89. Nikolas_super
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Меня сильно разочаровала новая локация Зерет Мортис, если ты не варлок, дх и не в ковенанте вентиров, то там делать нечего, так как большинство сундуков запрятаны так, что без прыжков и телепортов нереально добраться, а остальные сундуки под шифрами (головоломками). Слили значимых героев как Артас. Так же в игре сильная дискриминация определённых классов, которых не берут в рейды и в ключи. Создаёшь игрового персонажа и выбираешь специализацию которая тебе понравилась, и после траты времени на прокачку этого персонажа узнаешь, что его никуда не берут, так как он не сильно наносит урон в ключах и рейдах.
    Поставил плохую оценку, так как разработчики этой игры влезли в политику!    … Expand
  90. Logan3108
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Thanks to Blizzard for the lack of possible payment for a subscription in Russia. Ukraine "really it will help." Especially considering that the entire CIS segment cannot play.
  91. RoyX71
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    Horrible.
    This game is horrible. Ever since bfa the writers butchered the story, they humiliated the night elves non-stop, they portrayed the factions as completely brain afk, gods became a complete joke, retcons left and right and now with 9.2. they trashed the last good character, Arthas.
    And for what? Because the writers are obsessed with their waifu Sylvanas. I mean, yeah, I    Horrible.
    This game is horrible. Ever since bfa the writers butchered the story, they humiliated the night elves non-stop, they portrayed the factions as completely brain afk, gods became a complete joke, retcons left and right and now with 9.2. they trashed the last good character, Arthas.
    And for what?
    Because the writers are obsessed with their waifu Sylvanas.

    I mean, yeah, I agree with others here criticising the faction imbalance, class imbalance, ridiculous drop rates, racial segregation, fomo, borrowed power systems, time gating, unfinished content even after long content droughts, lazy character design, oudated graphics in general, you name it, but the lore... I just can't anymore.
    I honestly don't know why I've hoped for over 5 years now that the story will get better eventually.

    Unless they reset the lore entirely back to Legion I won't return to this horrendous game.    … Expand
  92. Ikol
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    Blizzard seems to have extremely questionable world views, which are portrayed all over the place in world of warcraft and especially since battle for azeroth and now in shadowlands it shows more and more.

    Reading some of the comments here... well, I can't agree more to the most obvious part, which is the racism in this game, that is portrayed as the very pillar of wow. As a player you    Blizzard seems to have extremely questionable world views, which are portrayed all over the place in world of warcraft and especially since battle for azeroth and now in shadowlands it shows more and more.

    Reading some of the comments here... well, I can't agree more to the most obvious part, which is the racism in this game, that is portrayed as the very pillar of wow.
    As a player you simply can't avoid racial segregation. If you want to play wow, you have to take part in this. You can't choose a faction, because you prefer it's lore, it's capital, it's gear and so on, you have to choose a faction based on the exclusive races on that faction.
    The races in this game don't have free will. A hivemind is given to all of them except Pandaren.
    Are you for real Blizzard? After over 17 years you are still holding on to racism of all things?

    War crimes and general atrocities won't be punished.
    Just last expansion, one of the 2 playable factions committed several war crimes, genocide, burning of a world tree, destroying nature and so on and all of that is being ignored at the end. No resolution, no reparations for the attacked factions, everything is fine I guess.
    Not only got the only elf capital of the attacked faction destroyed, among with 2 zones turning to never ending war zones and a third zone still being under attack after several years... there is not a single mention in the game, that the attacked faction won. The game will seemingly be frozen forever, making several zones of the attacked faction to warzones forever and one zone with the hub lost completely.
    What did Blizzard instead? The aggressor gets the biggest and most stunning new elf zone and hub in this game, along with a gigantic tauren zone and hub. The victim gets a junkyard in form of mechagon...
    Just wow.

    If you're planning to play wow, you better play the overpopulated faction, which the devs prefer or you will have a bad time. I guarantee you that. The underdog faction (as mentioned before) is not only getting neglected in the case of zones and hubs, but rather in every possible way, races, mounts, cinematics, in some cases racials, customisation options etc. yet the devs will claim it's the player's fault and not their own behavior towards the unpopulated faction.

    Just sad to see how toxic the whole mentality of the devs are and unfortunatly it also affects a part of the wow playerbase, which is very well known for it's toxic behavior among players of other games.

    Blizzard is also continuing to use very cheap tactics like FOMO and borrowed power systems in order to trick their players to feel the need of being subscribed to their game all the time. Just disgusting behavior in general.    … Expand
  93. metacriticuser8
    Feb 26, 2022
    1
    it is over and the devs aren't doing good. Shadowlands and Battle for Azeroth are both just pigs which you have to feed and in the end you don't get much back.
  94. Kikvid
    Feb 24, 2022
    0
    The devs of this game are racist and sexist with outdated views, which they put in this game and even praise them as a so called „pillar of world of warcraft“.
    I'm exaggerating? Well, last year the state of Californian sued Activision Blizzard for the things they did behind the curtain.
    Their questionable mentality shows very clearly in world of warcraft. It's the very first thing a    The devs of this game are racist and sexist with outdated views, which they put in this game and even praise them as a so called „pillar of world of warcraft“.
    I'm exaggerating? Well, last year the state of Californian sued Activision Blizzard for the things they did behind the curtain.

    Their questionable mentality shows very clearly in world of warcraft.
    It's the very first thing a player will forcefully participate in. Racism.
    The 2 factions of this game are strictly separated by...? What? History? Values? No, no, we're talking of Blizzard here after all. The factions are divided by races.
    So players can't just play the faction they prefer because of it's lore, they are forced to participate in racial segregation, having to choose a faction based on the races.
    Wow... you know what Blizzard? Praising racism as a foundation in a game doesn't make it less disgusting than in real life.
    That's like saying the races can't think for themselves, making their own decisions. No, they all think like one person and if that person prefers blue or red, they will follow, no free thinking allowed in this game.
    If we would compare this with rl, this game would dictate you to decide, if you want to live exclusively with white people or with black people (for example). Just idotic to it's core.
    Instead of just making the factions visual exclusive based on it's gear and the main capital (Stormwind and Orgrimmar) they instead are making them exclusive because of the races.

    There are many things wrong with world of warcraft, but racism as it's very pillar... can't get any worse than that, huh?

    But sure, there are also the loooooooooooong content droughts together with all the time gating, despite this being a monthly subscription game, showing how greedy this company is. No content for months? Ah well, who cares! Buy more store mounts, dear payers... eh, players!

    Customisation options and graphics are the bare minimum. Yes, the new zones use relatively modern graphics, however a huge chunk of wow uses graphics from the early 2000s, yes, it looks like pixel mush.
    The customisation options are not only very uneven between the races, they don't even have standard options like sliders and color palettes... I'm not sure, if Blizzard realised yet, that we are living in the year 2022...

    The lore... one would assume the lead writer of wow sleeps with a body pillar of Sylvanas, given the way he writes the story. The decision to make her the main character for 5+ years has caused wow several severe retcons, destroyed Azeroth, destroyed the lore of literal gods of that world and made both factions look like complete idiots.

    FOMO, ah yes, they are still using this cheap method to bind players to their game. "You will only get this reward for a limited amount of time! Better never take a break of this game or you will miss it!!!" DIsgusting. I have nothing more to say about it.

    Faction imbalance, well, it doesn't need much of a brain to see why it came to this. It started with bc and was actively made worse during bfa by the devs. Yes, I heard they want to make a baby step with 9.2.5. but let's be honest here, without cross faction raids, lfd/lfr, random bgs, alt mailing and neutral races this won't help the issue at all.

    World Of Warcraft gets 0/10 points from me. Yes, it may have some interesting parts here and there, but even that died with the end Legion.
    Who knows, if this game will become good one day, but Shadowlands is certainly not good at all.    … Expand
  95. ZekanK
    Feb 23, 2022
    0
    Shadowlands feels like a mindless chore. There are way too many grinds, way too long content droughts and way too much time gating and FOMO.
    Not to mention the horrible story. The developers seem to be obsessed with Sylvanas, like seriously. They are going out of their way to make the whole story about this stupid character. Certainly a huge part why battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands    Shadowlands feels like a mindless chore. There are way too many grinds, way too long content droughts and way too much time gating and FOMO.
    Not to mention the horrible story. The developers seem to be obsessed with Sylvanas, like seriously. They are going out of their way to make the whole story about this stupid character. Certainly a huge part why battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have a trash story.
    Also a huge factor why this game is trash is the faction imbalance, which the developers created. It's gotten so bad, that this game is beyond repair. They have to introduce cross faction guilds, raids, pvp, lfr, alt mailing etc. asap.
    They also have to allow all races for both factions. Not only because of faction imbalance, but rather because racial segregation is just a horrible aspect of wow in general.
    Racism should never be something that is as glorified as it is in this broken af game.    … Expand
  96. leopandro
    Feb 21, 2022
    0
    Самая худшая версия вов, они даже лгбт бабушку взяли к себе на работу, вы представляете? ужас просто.
  97. Cookie728
    Feb 18, 2022
    0
    Activision Blizzard is as toxic as it can get.
    Do not play World Of Warcraft as long as this toxic game design and in general this toxic mentality of the developers continues.
    Since this will be a long critic, I will concentrate on the biggest problem, faction imbalance: The devs will tell you „Oh, well, we're listening“, „We're working on it“, „It's a player made problem, not our    Activision Blizzard is as toxic as it can get.
    Do not play World Of Warcraft as long as this toxic game design and in general this toxic mentality of the developers continues.

    Since this will be a long critic, I will concentrate on the biggest problem, faction imbalance:

    The devs will tell you „Oh, well, we're listening“, „We're working on it“, „It's a player made problem, not our fault“ and so on,
    while in fact, no, they are not working on it, they haven't done anything to improve the situation while they should have done something a decade ago, they are not listening, they make the situation worse and worse and it definitely is the fault of the devs.

    For example:

    They gave the overpopulated faction a new version of night elves with their own model, lots of lore and a beautiful and large city... the unpopular faction get's a copy & paste race, but blue and with incredibly ugly hair styles and tentacles with some rocks in the void as their home that nobody but them can visit and without a unique model...

    H-Gets a better looking version of an old race,
    A-get's an ugly fat version of an old race with a ridiculous big body height, probably because the devs want to reuse that model for heavily requested ogres for the overpopulated faction...

    And the biggest insult of all:

    H-gets a brand new race, that could be sraight out of a Disney movie and was heavily requested by both factions. A race that could finally bring players back to the unpopulated faction... nah, let't give that to the already overpopulated faction!
    A-get's a variation of an old and extremely unpopular race, that looks even worse than the old race.

    Congrats, Blizzard, you are clearly working on the problem by trolling the small faction. :)

    And this is just one of many things they did to insult the small faction.
    There are also the cities and zones for the factions.

    A- lost 2 zones, that are now in an endless limbo: controlled by the H and controlled by the A and not a final option, that would show them under the conrtol of A.

    A-lost their only and popular elf city and a world tree- Teldrassil, lost a big harbor city- Theramore, lost a druid village of night elves, lost several zones, Astranaar is still under attack, lost a sailor village in Kultiras.
    What did they get in return? Mechagon... a junkyad, literally.

    H-lost an unpopular and already broken city, that can be restored by removing the plague, that their own leader put there and a tauren village with like 3 tents or so.
    They get an extremely huge zone with a gigantic elf city and they get a second huge zone with a gigantic tauren city.

    Seems fair, huh? Good thing you are listening to all your players, Blizzard. :)

    Several friends of mine left wow over the last couple of years, who felt trolled by Blizzard for wanting to play the small faction and I had to switch to the overpopulated faction because my favorite faction became a ghost town... to no surprise.
    Eventually I quit this awful game too because there are no improvements whatsoever in Shadowlands.

    This problem wouldn't even be there in the first place, if one of this game's pillar's wouldn't be built on racism.
    If all races would be available for both factions, along with cross faction play we could all play the faction we prefer and wouldn't be forced to play the faction the devs prefer.

    A truly toxic game, that I can tell you and I won't give this company any more money for insulting a part of their playerbase... and for a painfully bad story (aka Sylvanas).    … Expand
  98. dariolord
    Feb 16, 2022
    10
    it is usual for wow to drop a good addon after a bad one like bfa. like the gameplay especially the rework of the mistweaver monk my favourite class all in all a very balanced and well done package
  99. Acrol87X
    Feb 16, 2022
    1
    Just as bad as bfa.
    Worst part for me personally is the awful story, that continues to focus around that horrible written Mary- or in this case Evil Sue Sylvanas. That character has caused several retcons and idotic lore decisions just so she can be the focus of the story all the time... just really, really awful story telling that ruined the lore of wow completely.
    Stuff like faction    Just as bad as bfa.
    Worst part for me personally is the awful story, that continues to focus around that horrible written Mary- or in this case Evil Sue Sylvanas. That character has caused several retcons and idotic lore decisions just so she can be the focus of the story all the time... just really, really awful story telling that ruined the lore of wow completely.

    Stuff like faction imbalance caused by faction neglection of the devs, FOMO, borrowed power, Choregast, class imbalance, outdated graphics, drop rates, time gating and many more things... well, it's not like there wasn't any feedback, but the devs keep ignoring their player's feedback for the most part... overall a really toxic game design.

    Now I had some hope with the announcement that they would finally introduce cross faction play with 9.2.5.... better late than never I guess... but turns out that they are only making cross faction raids, dungeons and rated PvP available, so I was instantly let down, yet again, as I learned that they keep the races separated and also don't allow cross faction guilds, lfr, random bgs and alt mailing... so essentially ignoring all their casuals.

    Just wow... cater for like what? 5% of the playerbase while continuing to ignore the majority? No thanks. So again, that tiny step they are making there won't bring me back.

    If they are finally getting rid of racial segregation and let us choose a faction freely without binding the races to a certain faction, then we can talk, but what they are doing now is nothing more than a tiny band-aid on a broken leg, that hasn't been treated for several years.    … Expand
  100. Skullkid93
    Feb 14, 2022
    1
    Shadowlands is probably Blizzard's worst demonstration of how little they care about player's time and enjoyment. They developed layers of systems on top of systems NOBODY wanted without any concern for user's feedback. The community was very adamant from the beta stage about the problems these systems would create in the community and the game but, as always Blizzard thinks they knowShadowlands is probably Blizzard's worst demonstration of how little they care about player's time and enjoyment. They developed layers of systems on top of systems NOBODY wanted without any concern for user's feedback. The community was very adamant from the beta stage about the problems these systems would create in the community and the game but, as always Blizzard thinks they know better than their players. They have shuved a half assed expansion in our faces, where you will have to grind endlessly just to be able to keep up with the multiple time gates they have introduced in the expansion so that players are literally forced to bore themselves to death until Blizzard decides you get to have fun. This game is NOT worth 10% of what it costs, Blizzard doesn't deserve a cent of your money. Better invest this money elsewhere.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

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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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