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    However, I believe it's time someone told them outright that their quest design is growing outdated and frankly, boring.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).
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#34 Best PC Game of 2020
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  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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