World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2560 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Nottmexpress
    Dec 18, 2020
    1
    Expansion has been over sold by you tube liars. Its for the 12 hour a day player (lifes loosers ). They want the casuals to pay for their habit but provide nothing but toxicity to you as a casual ( Person with an actual life) for being apart of it . The added mechics to compete in Raids mythic plus are not gone but growing and growing . This requires a multitude of add ons loaded to adaptExpansion has been over sold by you tube liars. Its for the 12 hour a day player (lifes loosers ). They want the casuals to pay for their habit but provide nothing but toxicity to you as a casual ( Person with an actual life) for being apart of it . The added mechics to compete in Raids mythic plus are not gone but growing and growing . This requires a multitude of add ons loaded to adapt interrupt the endless growing mechanics. The borrowed power system has left content limited and they have reduced gear drops in a desperate ploy to hide the fact. Torghast was meant to be the fun no bars highlight Its not. Its a RNG power drop which has to be in your favor to kill the floor 6 over difficult end bosses. For certain class specs not balanced at all DPS was impossible at times tank no issue . Its launched with way way to hard leaving a very un happy community which has caused them to reduce the time gated difficulty. Getting into groups for even mythic dungeon runs takes hours with lack of tanks and healers. I have item level 189 and getting refused from groups as I refuse to use raider IO .ranking add on. The warcraft forums are filled with Paid police. they individuals who try to make any negative post the players fault and not the game designers .Content is so dragged out even the daily covenant zone quests are filled with run here run back run here time gated fun ! Bugs ohhh my god. dcd and lagged so much this expansion This has nothing for a player with a life as well. Avoid it . Leave it to the no life losers who have nothing but this in their lives .… Expand
  4. supercriticguy
    Mar 5, 2021
    4
    Whether you're a casual or hardcore player (and I consider myself both), SHADOWLANDS is one of the most polished and yet boring games I've ever played.

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

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

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

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

    With combat this meaningless, with a tired story and characters that will entertain no one, and with easily the worst and least exciting leveling experience of any World of Warcraft expansion, I give SHADOWLANDS a "4": technically playable, but void of any unique experiences or fun.    … Expand
  5. Floofies
    Jan 6, 2021
    0
    Very poor expansion, first expansion including BFA for me to lose interest within the first week alone. Completely stopped playing within 3 weeks, the first time ever. Casual content is the worst it's ever been, world quests/dailies take forever and are not rewarding. Heroic/regular dungeons give basically nothing, PvP is still awful with one-shots from covenants and PvE items.. So bad.
  6. Kezian
    Sep 24, 2021
    0
    Shadowlands is even worst than BFA ! World of Chores with bots everywhere !
  7. Makakdu
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    Dont bye blizzard games , this corporation is so greede . Thanks Activision for bad games.
  8. Leather_Moose
    Dec 27, 2020
    1
    I have no idea how the hell not a single reputable blogger/youtuber haven't mentioned how grindy this expansion is. At the end of BFA, blizzard said that shadowlands will have less grind, because every one was tired of farming azerite dust. Shadowlands rolled out, and expansion is unplayable unless you can play 40 hours a week, EVERY week. this was not the case with BFA. Currently youI have no idea how the hell not a single reputable blogger/youtuber haven't mentioned how grindy this expansion is. At the end of BFA, blizzard said that shadowlands will have less grind, because every one was tired of farming azerite dust. Shadowlands rolled out, and expansion is unplayable unless you can play 40 hours a week, EVERY week. this was not the case with BFA. Currently you have farm stygia, anima, renown, do the mandatory campaign, ashes from torgast. this is just to stay relevant in game, this is on TOP regular gear grind. this is too much. Also most of that grind is also locked behind reputation and covenant campaign. The catch up mechanics are also much worse than in other expansions. like i play warrior, i can play 10-15 hours a week and not every week. I'm so far behind in renown, and yet there are no way to just knock out some easy quests in one day and make up those 20 renown im missing in one day. Renown is way too important to have such a crappy catch up mechanic. I'll be skipping this expansion altogether because i simply can't play the game 40 hours a week just to stay relevant in game. Last thing to mention, what's the point of gear and levels when blizzard made content to scale to your level and gear? like you can't overpower the content, this is MMO lol, not call of duty, or moba, why are you trying to make a cyber sports out of it.....? what a bs.… Expand
  9. Striege
    Nov 30, 2020
    0
    Just a ****

    nothing new in this game. just old stuff in a new setting (And i dont mean some "old" guys we meet)
    I loved the bugs in the night of the release. waiting up to 30 minutes for a mob that instant despawned. Balancing is **** in this game. Last 2 day just lags the whole day in this game. better deinstall and refund!
  10. Feylexi
    Dec 15, 2020
    0
    The worst expansion so far. Is not alt friendly, mandatory game time of minimum 20+ hours per week, mandatory zones and a lot of repetitive boring chores. Not to mention the zones are disabilities unfriendly. Good luck trying to play the game if you have conditions or if you have challenges with bright colors and identifying 5 shades of red in a split of a second.
  11. Subjektivity
    Dec 16, 2020
    1
    I've played Warcraft since Vanilla and I don't think I've ever regretted spending money on an expansion. Yet here we are, 2 weeks into Shadowlands and I already don't want to play this game anymore. They added frustrating after frustrating mechanic: can't mount in the Maw, if you die you lose items, if you want to change specs and your covenant doesn't match you have to start all over onI've played Warcraft since Vanilla and I don't think I've ever regretted spending money on an expansion. Yet here we are, 2 weeks into Shadowlands and I already don't want to play this game anymore. They added frustrating after frustrating mechanic: can't mount in the Maw, if you die you lose items, if you want to change specs and your covenant doesn't match you have to start all over on leveling your covenant. Then Torghast is crazy overtuned and just depressing to play as a mage main, you have to return to the hub to resync groups for LFG in the maw. If you are a mage thinking of coming back just save yourself the regret and don't. Some of the zones are pretty althpugh its obvious that they are recycling art assets. The lore was what got me interested in coming back and leveling was OK but slogging through the Maw and Torghast to get more story is just not going to happen. Im definitely not resubbing and want a damn refund at this point.… Expand
  12. bangalor
    Dec 23, 2020
    0
    Ничего нового. Ковенанты это просто две кнопки с квестами типа трини. Охренительно унылые локалки искуственно затянутые. Торгаст хваленый, обычный инст, только без лута. В чате одна нищета что-то продает, другая нищета пытается что-то выкружить, урвать , обмануть, нажиться. В потустороннем мире снимаются потустороние шкурки, готовится потустороняя еда. Фуфел который впарили как новизну. ДаНичего нового. Ковенанты это просто две кнопки с квестами типа трини. Охренительно унылые локалки искуственно затянутые. Торгаст хваленый, обычный инст, только без лута. В чате одна нищета что-то продает, другая нищета пытается что-то выкружить, урвать , обмануть, нажиться. В потустороннем мире снимаются потустороние шкурки, готовится потустороняя еда. Фуфел который впарили как новизну. Да и сюжет до зубовного скрежета обычное фуфло. В бфа это было: ой мы потеряли кораблики. В шл : ой мы просрали РЛов. Торгаст дико несбалансирован. Какие то класы жрут попкорн и пыжатся что в соло за полчаса закрывают 8 этаж. А большинство вынуждено тратить голду и набирать группу чтоб получить горстку пыли. Игра крайне недружелюбна к новичкам. Ничего не понятно, что за мусор выпадает в рюкзак, для чего он? как пройти квест если ничего не понятно в описании? каждые 5 минут надо гуглить. А уж какое коммюнити в игре !!! просто сборище неадекватов которые самоутверждаются за твой счет. В чате нецензурщина и оскорбления. Регаешься в ппг, тебя кикают потому что рио нулевой. Ну хорошо, повезло , регнулся, заходишь в инст и после первого босса ливают с пати танк и хил. Все в игре нацелено на выжимание с тебя; денег, времени , нервов. Удалил это говно.… Expand
  13. AsmodaiNoxx
    Dec 29, 2020
    1
    Shadowlands is a pure back to the grindstone ... in former expansions Dev's at least tried to disguise the treadmill a little bit but this time they show it completely uncovered. Every little piece of progress is locked behind massive timegating.
    But the "best" of all: we all got used to crackpot idea of learning to fly long after release and after jumping through all their hoops ... but    Shadowlands is a pure back to the grindstone ... in former expansions Dev's at least tried to disguise the treadmill a little bit but this time they show it completely uncovered. Every little piece of progress is locked behind massive timegating.
    But the "best" of all: we all got used to crackpot idea of learning to fly long after release and after jumping through all their hoops ... but to take away even riding in the maw is this one step to much.
    Especially since the Maw and Torghast are as juicy as reaqding a user manual in aramaic language and as funny as preventive inspection of your prostate    … Expand
  14. Ilovemydog
    Dec 29, 2020
    1
    I was looking forward to this expansion, the devs were promising to right a lot of the things they got wrong with BFA. Sadly I soon learnt it was all a mirage.

    - The grind is back baby! This expansion you have to grind stygia for sockets and anima for your covenant. For stygia you do this by going to 'The Maw'. The Maw is a punishing, unforgiving place and to top it all off Blizzard has    I was looking forward to this expansion, the devs were promising to right a lot of the things they got wrong with BFA. Sadly I soon learnt it was all a mirage.

    - The grind is back baby! This expansion you have to grind stygia for sockets and anima for your covenant. For stygia you do this by going to 'The Maw'. The Maw is a punishing, unforgiving place and to top it all off Blizzard has decided that if you die you will lose 20% of your stygia, not just the stygia you have collected today but all the stygia you are carrying that you might have earnt from previous expeditions to the Maw, so you can lose sometimes 4 days worth in one death. You can get it be going back to your corpse but things have a habit of turning deadly in a zone where elites are packed together and can two shot you if you aren't wearing plate so definitely not for causal players. Anima is just be doing quests or killing rares and then you put it into your covenant reservoir, if you change covenants you can't get it back.
    - Loot acquisition has been nerfed into the ground so people can do 16 dungeons and get no loot.
    - The story is lacking. comical and is timegated to the extreme.
    - The zones are purposely hard to navigate and the one concession of BFA, the flight masters whistle has been taken away. Everything in game is designed to take you as long as possible to pad blizzard time played metrics. They don't want to boost time played by making an enjoyable game, they seem to prefer doing this by making everything as tedious, frustrating and drawn out as possible.
    - Balancing is abysmal. Blizzard can't seem to balance the specs so it's not a case of play what you enjoy but play what is doing well. The gap between the top classes and bottom classes is now extreme.

    I couldn't recommend this game. I find it very tedious and frustrating with little fun squished in between.    … Expand
  15. tredo
    Dec 31, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Прокачка, рейды, торгаст, утроба, ключи, механика выпадения шмота, рандом, фарм. Фарм репутации постепенно открывающийся квесты. Играйте сами в свою игру, барыга на барыге.… Expand
  16. turbo25
    Jan 6, 2021
    2
    Shadowlands is nice to look at but I just find it really boring. Only played for two weeks and log in for 10 mins before alt f4. Torghast is about as much fun as watching paint dry. I see some people say how much they "LOVE" Torghast and it's like wtf are these people smoking cause i definitely need it to play this game
  17. MonchitoPichon
    Jan 16, 2021
    3
    Extremely disappointing expansion. Boring is the best adjective to define it, sorry. 0 is out of line, but 5 is too much, honestly. 3/10
    They need to really hire a much better class designer, quick from the company the people taking care of pvp (seriously. incompetents) and much better story and content creators. Blizzard's level is going down and down every year
  18. OIHNsnI
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    I wish it will turn out that battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands turn out to be a fever dream of an old god' vision, because... well... these expansions are so bad, that I don't even know where to start with the criticism.
    Both in lore and in gameplay.
    And they need to do something about faction imbalance. Fast. They're ignoring this game breaking problem for years now, activly making the    I wish it will turn out that battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands turn out to be a fever dream of an old god' vision, because... well... these expansions are so bad, that I don't even know where to start with the criticism.
    Both in lore and in gameplay.
    And they need to do something about faction imbalance. Fast. They're ignoring this game breaking problem for years now, activly making the situation worse with cinematics, allied races (fat humans, diaper gnomes, "void elves" wtf? lol), dungeons attached to them, racials, cinematics (constantly focusing on the overpopulated faction, only destroying zones of the faction in need and making them in never ending warzones, because the devs don't want to show the victor ingame? lol 2.0, only giving the overpopulated faction huge cities like Surarmar for example and extremly main stream new! races like vulpera, through gameplay decisions and so on. It's just sad at this point.

    Regarding playable races however, I'm of the same opinion as many others, racism should not be a part of wow, regardless of the idotic faction war. Racial segregation should be removed as soon as possible- Every race should get to choose instead of promoting a hive mind mentality to the players.

    In general there is just nothing I like about this expansion. So I'm really sorry, but it's 0 out of 10 points from me. I'm still hoping though, that wow can be saved someday.    … Expand
  19. Zodwraith
    Mar 20, 2021
    3
    Reminded why I've left..twice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Anyone that rates this 10/10 is an idiot fanboy. It's meh at best but deserves a 3 for still being the best MMO but that's only testament to the absolute garbage the field has become.    … Expand
  20. xidengji
    Dec 28, 2020
    0
    装备掉落太低了，天天35心能玩尼玛呢。毫无追赶机制，职业严重不平衡，小号啥都得从来。0分不谢
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. darklyluna
    Jan 3, 2021
    3
    I am insanely bored.

    That first zone is like having to slog through 5 episodes of a show before it 'gets good'. It was a terrible slog. Why do they think people want to wander around clicking on people to read more dialogue? Just put it all in one place. It felt like a dramatic time sink for no reason. I felt no investment in the blue angel people. I just didn't care. Once I lost the    I am insanely bored.

    That first zone is like having to slog through 5 episodes of a show before it 'gets good'. It was a terrible slog. Why do they think people want to wander around clicking on people to read more dialogue? Just put it all in one place. It felt like a dramatic time sink for no reason.

    I felt no investment in the blue angel people. I just didn't care. Once I lost the reason I went to the shadowlands (that being the leaders of the alliance & horde) I found myself detached from their story. Probably because it lacked any foundation.

    Maybe if they spent at least the last half of Battle for Azeroth leading up to the shadowlands...I don't even think that would've helped. At least on the Alliance side, you had Jaina's people to work with. She's a staple of the series. Been in since Warcraft 3. There's investment in lore there.

    Going to the shadowlands is like WoW 2 without any push to be part of that world. I literally just felt completely bored by it all. And even when I tried to push through the zone, I couldn't be bothered. So all around, the lack of engagement gets it a 3. This is simply not fun.    … Expand
  24. Nabar
    Dec 14, 2020
    0
    Jogo muito ruim em se tratando de um mmo "rpg". Não existe uma liberdade, ou você segue um dos três covenantes e faz o que eles querem (chato) ou não joga. O pior de tudo é o seu personagem fica quase a maior parte do tempo assistindo os três heróis nas cutcenes. O seu char (personagem) é literalmente um serviçal fica fazendo desde taréfas mais dométicas a melhorzinhas mas nem um poucoJogo muito ruim em se tratando de um mmo "rpg". Não existe uma liberdade, ou você segue um dos três covenantes e faz o que eles querem (chato) ou não joga. O pior de tudo é o seu personagem fica quase a maior parte do tempo assistindo os três heróis nas cutcenes. O seu char (personagem) é literalmente um serviçal fica fazendo desde taréfas mais dométicas a melhorzinhas mas nem um pouco desafiador e divertido. Ainda tem a questão de o jogo não parecer mais um jogo do universo warcraft.… Expand
  25. Biaggo
    Jan 11, 2021
    0
    Full of bugs. Class spells have been bugged since beta and noone seems to care. Conduits bugged. Dungeons bugged. Class balance non existent. Mythic keys punishing healers and tanks. Hard to gear up because literally no gear drops. Repetative farming with timegated boring content. Support doesn't exist, the only thing they can tell me in web tickets is to go to the forums and hope someFull of bugs. Class spells have been bugged since beta and noone seems to care. Conduits bugged. Dungeons bugged. Class balance non existent. Mythic keys punishing healers and tanks. Hard to gear up because literally no gear drops. Repetative farming with timegated boring content. Support doesn't exist, the only thing they can tell me in web tickets is to go to the forums and hope some other player can answer me cause they won't. Extremely laggy. Maw & Thorgast is time consuming without reward. Botters are still not banned or punished, ruining ecnomy. Report system (bug or bot) has 0 feedback, you are left in the dark. It feels like we are still playing the beta version of the game. Community feedback are ignored and no communication from bLizzard.… Expand
  26. mickeysood
    Dec 29, 2020
    4
    The smallest expansion so far with small maps to explore. Everything is time-gated and once again boring world quests and dailies will bore you out of your mind in a couple of weeks. Nothing new to see here. Covenant is just another system that will be scrapped once new expac is out so why even bother? For me though the biggest reason to quit was level scaling. Its completely broken butThe smallest expansion so far with small maps to explore. Everything is time-gated and once again boring world quests and dailies will bore you out of your mind in a couple of weeks. Nothing new to see here. Covenant is just another system that will be scrapped once new expac is out so why even bother? For me though the biggest reason to quit was level scaling. Its completely broken but Blizzard refuse to listen to the feedback. Its a below average expansion with a terrible game director steering it off the hill right into big pile of **** He is the same guy who was responsible for BFA so yeah. You have been warned.… Expand
  27. ob_gyn_kenobi
    Dec 16, 2020
    2
    Pros: a couple of the new areas are beautifully drawn.

    Cons: Torgath is so difficult that people cant even progress past the SECOND mission in their Campaigns! What does Blizzard do to fix it? They BUFF Torghast to make it even HARDER! Virtually no new loot, mythic dungeons are now a waste of time.
  28. MusclePig
    Jan 11, 2021
    2
    Been there done that. Feels super outdated by now. Think this will be my last wow expansion. Story is also way too far out by now for my tastes
  29. Zulsaframano
    Jan 11, 2021
    2
    Die Erweiterung fing gut an. Story an sich interssant & die Gebiete mehr als abwechslungsreich. Aber der Endcontent hingt so hinterher. Alles versteckt sich hinter einen Timegate, man macht jeden Tag das selbe. Weltquest & Abgesantenquests wiederholen sich innerhalb weniger Tage so rasant.
    Es gibt keine neue Klasse, keine neue Rasse. Nichts ist wirklich neu.
    Shadowlands fühlt sich für    Die Erweiterung fing gut an. Story an sich interssant & die Gebiete mehr als abwechslungsreich. Aber der Endcontent hingt so hinterher. Alles versteckt sich hinter einen Timegate, man macht jeden Tag das selbe. Weltquest & Abgesantenquests wiederholen sich innerhalb weniger Tage so rasant.
    Es gibt keine neue Klasse, keine neue Rasse. Nichts ist wirklich neu.

    Shadowlands fühlt sich für mich eher an wie ein schlechter Versuch ein Best of aus den letzten Addons zu machen. Das klappt durch fehlende Inhalte aber leider nicht.    … Expand
  30. damond5031
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    If you're a neckbeard who can live inside the game 24/7 you'll probably love this expansion, it was made for you. For everyone else it's a terrible slog through boring time gated content and continually buffed mobs coupled with ilvl scaling which actually makes you feel weaker as you pick up more powerful gear. Loot has been nerfed and drops much less frequently, world quests give next toIf you're a neckbeard who can live inside the game 24/7 you'll probably love this expansion, it was made for you. For everyone else it's a terrible slog through boring time gated content and continually buffed mobs coupled with ilvl scaling which actually makes you feel weaker as you pick up more powerful gear. Loot has been nerfed and drops much less frequently, world quests give next to nothing and torghast has once again been made more difficult, all in an effort to appease the mythic/heroic raiding crowd who find it all too easy. Seriously, if you have a life outside of this game, do not buy the expansion, the only way Ion and company will learn is taking a hit to the wallet. This is a pathetic expansion where every sytem is clearly created to make you spend more time for less reward, I have a feeling this will be the expansion with the least amount of content to date, there is no other reason for the ungodly amount of gating and taking away of quality of life systems players enjoy *flight whistle*.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

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