The problem with using FF as a comparison is the subs get most of the items on the store first via in game events, they go on the store later for people who missed the events, not on the store first and on the trading post later. which btw trading post is still a gated currency you have to pick and choose, EVERY subbed FF player gets the event items during the event no picking and choosing.
@@ChinnuWoW that or it can make it into the trading post as a cosmetic. Fuck there were weapons in the game files for years that made it to the Trading Post not long ago, why ot Remornia.
For post launch zones they should do things similar to meta events in GW2 that are essentially outdoor raid/scenario hybrids, where zones have smaller events that contribute to completing a larger event with bigger rewards. Example, if we did this in broken shore, Instead of running around doing WQs, rares, etc. You have a tiered objective to build up for and launch an assault on the tomb of sargeras with some big bad demon general world boss at the end in the big battlefield where guldan was during the first scenario
Got out during BfA, but been feeling nostalgic... Bell and asmon talking about lockouts, sparks, weekly timers, drop chances, fragrant coins and crests whatever that is immediately killed my nostalgia. Thanks ❤😊
I absolutely agree with making Classic WoW free to play. I am amazed they haven’t done it by now. I mean, this is part of why Final Fantasy XIV is doing so well, they have a really good trial to hook people in with.
Classic doesn't have any microtransactions in it so it's not worth it. In ffxiv when you buy the game after trying the first expansion, you keep your character.
The zones full of rares at least midway playerbase fault. We threw Blizzard a curveball into thinking the timeless isle formula is the way forward. They interpreted it as "hmm so they are really interested in just killing rares with low spawn times and drop chances till their noses bleed!"
The only reason i play WOW over other games is because of the low drop chance collectibles (specifically mounts). Nothing feels better than getting a mount you grinded for weeks/months or years. It's gotten to the point where I won't play an MMO if there aren't some sort of collectible as good as that, which is...most mmos
One good thing to note is the FFXIV cash shop isn't in the game. You'll never see it if you don't go to the specific website where you can buy items. Unlike WoW that forces that shit in game and in your face constantly.
@@pepsikthelegend8367 You know why Pride month stays for a month and 9/11 its just remembered for 1 day, that's because being gay is a worse tragedy 💀
Ya know what captured my imagination with wow back in the day? Classic rpg adventure stereotypes. The story is too convoluted and complicated. Give me a picturesque forest with a haunted castle in the backdrop that houses the evil wizard summoning zombies and skeletons.
I think DF is pretty simple. You're not some space legendary hero anymore and you don't really need to know much about lore to understand the campaign of this expansion. Big bad dragon appears, tries to kill good friend dragons. We go kill her while she tries to release her siblings. She's killed but ultimately succeeds. Now we have 3 big bad dragons to worry about. One of them makes huge whole in ground to get some spicy purple fire. We are also fighting an evil scaley that does some void stuff. There's a bunch of lore you can go into, but that was true for classic and the old expansions as well.
Yep, and the de facto removal of the Horde and Alliance from the story makes it all the more complicated. I used to click through quest text and skip cutscenes but still generally knew what was going on, because it was all through the prism of Horde/Alliance-you went to pandaria to help the faction conquer lands, you went to BFA places to help get allies, you went to northrend to help the faction kill the bad guy. DF is the first expac I've been scratching my head thinking "What am I doing here? My character decided to go to the Dragon Isles... Why?" People make rational choices and there should be a concrete reason for our participation in the Dragon Isles, not like we just showed up to watch the story. Because that's bizarre. You don't just pack up your things and go to Africa to see the child soldiers because you want to be a part of the story. There has to be actual reasons to do things.
@@hozza9901 it certainly is. The experience is way more engaging to new players and it isnt aa frustrating as vanilla with all the qol improvements it has
This is a roundabout way of selling ingame currency. By spending $8, you effectively avoid spending the trader tenders that would have been required to purchase the set during the month it becomes free, thus you’d have traders tenders to spare for extra items..
Yep when i saw they put the new diplomat ensemble on ptr as sourced from trading post but instead added it to the store i feccing knew they would pull shit like this. But enough idiots pay 8-70£ for cosmetics so well get more trading post items on sale. Not surprised if they ask 25£ for mounts...
Simple fix to this problem. Store item blue Dropped item red Just have 2 colors to differentiate the store to the earned item. The prestige will hold in the color, even though everyone will be able to get the item.
Alt-oholic (but for Everquest) here. In Everquest I constantly suffered from "the grass is greener over there". I started a warrior, but early game, warriors were in a bad place to solo. So after a few weeks, of not being able to do a damn thing if none of my friends were on, I switched to a magician. But as I mained that mage, for years, and gear started getting better, I got hit with the melee envy. Mages were all front loaded power, mostly in their pet. So getting new gear for me, was like "oh yay, 100 more mana, yippee... (-_-)". But when a Ranger or a shadowknight got a new weapon or something, that was a massive deal... but alas, that game made alts damn near impossible. I had to take over a friends account and run two toons to fill that hunger. EQ2 made me into an altoholic, because of the mechanics of the game. Daily dungeon runs. Every day you could get the "daily double" quest which would pay double the 'currency' that that expansion required, which bought you augments and gear upgrades. So you could run the daily double zone(s) and then chose to try and get groups together for all the other 'normal' zones, which was like pulling teeth, or simply load up an alt and run the daily double again, instantly. Obviously, people didnt want to wait around for half the currency. So they ran alts, and did the DD again, for as many alts as they had. This made it faster to gear up multiple toons, than you could a single toon normally, since everything was tradeable on the same account (heirloom). It also made filling groups, or raids, a breeze. Since people knew I had a million alts, they would invite me, the player, to a group or guild. Not because they needed a warrior, or another dps, because they knew I could fill any role they may need. Asked the guild I wanted to join what they needed, and they said "a swashbuckler". I said "sure, gimme a week to get mine ready." The guy was like "wut?". Had a low level one I had to level up to max, then deck him out in a set of decent (but not spectacular) group gear. For the first few raids, I really wasnt doing all that hot, just middle of the pack DPS wise. But I got a full set of raid armor in that time, and after a double xp event (i was waiting for) happened, I finished my AAs. The very next raid and I was topping the dps Parse, much to the surprise of the entire guild... Everyone had a theory of what I had done, but I didnt want to tell them I never finished "leveling" my toon, I just wanted to raid. Eventually I fell in love with that class, and really started doing things nobody else had thought of. Since a Swashies forte was hate production and transfer, I was always number two on the hate list. Main tank dies, that means I was next. So I specced and geared to make use of that. Highest HP in the guild... when main tanks had 70,000 hps, I was creeping up on 90k. A chain Tank. Good times. Especially when I played that toon in a pick-up group. It would blow the casual's minds how many hitpoints this little halfling had. All because, of my addiction to alts. Next guild had me swap classes multiple times, because they had roles needed filling. My main (Droll) was a tank, I played as a ranger for a while, until they needed a coercer. I was the guy that did whatever the guild needed. And I had a blast doing it. So ever since, if a game isnt alt friendly, I look elsewhere.
@@Galewalion f2p always means more bots, and more toxicity. Monthly sub cuts down on it, it’s the same as paying a cover to get into a bar/club. When you pay to enter you’re less likely to be surrounded by the homeless (bots), and smell piss around you (toxic assholes).
With the map idea and issue of (needing to be right next to the event to spot it). It's always a coinflip. It's alright if there are enough events going around and they all give what you need, but it's an issue if you'd have to wait 30 minutes to miss them all and wait another 30 minutes to possibly miss them all again.
You're right, I play my druid to just have fun on it. And do dungeons or raids differently. It's like.. if I did the story chapter already, I'd like to just continue it on her because my account is aware anyway. So why do I have to do all of it all over again forcefully?
so you want every alt to be max level instantly with all the quests done? So essentially remove the leveling experience, I think a lot of people enjoy leveling new alts from scratch
@@sten260 Once again, we are just expressing if you did it once, you shouldn't be forced to do it again. No one said to remove the quests... you ignored the word "optional". I will no longer be replying. Because you are obviously just looking to argue...
Still waiting to see if they will change Shaman's Lava Burst animation over to the new 'lava bolt' animation that has been in use since pre-patch. Almost every instance of an NPC using Lava Burst now uses the new lava particle effect but Shamans are still using the one we've had for years now (one example is do the Horde Exile's Reach zone, Shuja (the Warlord's daughter) uses Lava Burst but it has that new effect).
"Dud-dude you don't understand, I'm against gacha and gambling so much I said I would talk to politician about it like 4 years ago but I will gladly promote and take part in gacha games and gambling. I-is it some gotcha moment against me? Why am I getting pushback? Ban this guy!!!!!@!!!!"
I usually see Asmongold videos in silence and enjoy his commentaries... but I just had to leave a comment say that when he said: "What is GBP, is it Good Boy Points?" I literally lost it and could not stop laughing! Tears were falling out of my eyes how much I laugh! My gosh, so funny I can never forget this now every time I see GBP it will always bring a smile to my face! Thanks for the content Asmon! xD
Can we really blame Activision and Blizzard for expanding the in-game shop more and more? It keeps bringing in the money because players keep buying those items willingly. Nobody is forcing or tricking them. Activision and Blizzard are giving the players what they want. It hurts to witness this, but it's true nonetheless.
It's so hard to get my friends to play the game because of the sub fee, when WoW wants $15 a month it directly competes with their other hobbies, making it a value judgement that WoW loses every time, if they could buy the expansion and play they would.
Hate to say it, but it's pretty clear the wow development team is low level. I can't imagine any developer who is worth anything says they want to work for blizzard let alone on a 20 year old game. What you're left with are the minimum wage fast food workers of the game design world. And then the few leaders they have leave a lot to be desired. So there's no wonder that the game is underwhelming.
Hell, the people that work for Blizzard barely even make more than fast food workers which is pitiful. Imagine wanting to work for a developer after going to school for a few years only to end up at a "big name" developer that pays you barely more than McDonalds or Burger King would.
@@jeremycampbell4021 theyre replacable otherwise theyd work somewhere else lets be honest, and is one of the biggest reasons why the game content is so slow and broken
They're still exceptional devs in the grand scheme of things, at least by some metrics. I'm thinking Blizzard attracts many of the older, tired devs with solid experience and people looking for a reliable pay-check at the expense of some of the passion.
I know a few of the level designers rn and they are only like 3 years into the industry. They don't have many solid vets working on wow at that level atm. There's a few but its mostly young/early career designers, and many who have never played the game.
I’ve been trying this trial, it’s a little misleading even though it’s not technically wrong, the inability to level past 60 means the quests quickly out level you, until you aren’t high enough level to pick up more quests. It’s basically just waking shore quests plus flying around the whole map and doing the races and traveler’s log.
Dragonflight aesthetic and story are very reminiscent of YA fantasy novels. This is a symptom of hiring writers and designers who only consume low-brow YA novels almost exclusively.
Nail on the head! This is it exactly. I couldn’t really understand what was bothering me so much about it. It’s like woke YA authors have taken hold of WoW and they know no other ways to write……Azeroth help us.
The deal with cosmetics, for me, is "do I like the way it looks?". I don't care what someone else thinks. I am not trying to impress anyone other than myself.
I'm always conflicted, because when I watch Bellular by himself I can speed up the video to 1.5 or even more speed. But when I do that with Asmongold commentary. It doesn't work at all for Asmongold, lol.
All they need to do is if you buy dragon flight you get vanilla included. This way you still pay $15 a month but can play all the games available vanilla and retail
they are not stupid ofc its possible, but it would kill all the nondragonriding mounts as people will not care enough to switch them out. disabling them is a very smart choice from blizzard
Asmon: -Big hairy sweaty man vibe check. There are those characters in Dragonflight also. We're missing overtly sexualised characters. It feels way too tame - but not compared with old wow, more that the MMO genre has given us cool sexy anime characters and we're missing those whilst playing wow. -There is a wealth of story in the new zone and Forbidden Reach - some of the best storytelling WoW has had thus far (as someone who has played everything extensively - i will say it was a shame to not see the face tracking introduced in forbidden reach at the end of the Zaralek Caverns quest... feels like a big step back). -Rare Spawns are completely farmable in both zones -The base game had tonnes bloat. Look at Barney's lucky charms :D It was partially the point compared to modern sensibilities. What emotion does "Carrot on a Stick" evoke for you as a wow player. I know this is gonna come across as being psudo psychological analysis from some nutter on the net - but you just come across as tired. Tired of the vanilla game, tired of the new game. Perhaps because you wish to again relive the glory days when you were on top of the game - had every piece of bullshit they threw at you - regardless of being an adult you were able to farm as a no lifer right? It just comes across as sheer frustration with that. Not saying wow is perfect - it does have flaws - but as an active player - some of your critique at the moment is coming across as misinformed which is a shame because I believe if you were able to just reset those emotional baked in responses - you'd be quite receptive to the new content.
Regardles of expansion blizzard does same thing, overwhelming content adding in grinding. So eventually you will be like in BFA: Oh do dailies, do mythics weekly, do weekly quests, do world quests. Fill your bags with tons of collectable items which you will need to exchange somewhere in China!
I think the biggest problem with subscriptions is that it doesn't ever provide enough value in my mind. I could buy one game and be able to play it for life, or buy this game and be able to play it for a month. Especially with how many options we have, and how many different types of games I personally play. Just recently I played Skyrim, Barotrauma, Satisfactory, Crusader Kings 2/3, and a few more I'm not remembering. With all these options, why would I spend 15 a month on a single game?
they time gate to simulate content. what should take you 2 weeks to grind out is stretched to 12+ weeks so you don't realize how little you are actually getting.
Legion was the best. Despite legendary rng. The story was so engaging and artifacts were so good that i made alts just for the class hall story and weapon skins.
25:40 Not going to lie, one of the worst things about WoW is how you feel much much weaker as you level and it's incredibly noticeable. I wish I had the option to keep my end of expansion gear and store exp to skip right to 70. They really need to fix that feeling of leveling up but getting weaker and weaker. I meet people who xp lock at 10 in dungeon finder running through one-shotting everything while the rest of us shmucks who are 50-60 are chasing them around.
Scaling is the worst in an mmo. It's telling of where they're at in terms of game design tho. The bulk of the game is irrelevant. The only thing that ever matters is whatever released this month. Everything else is an unmeasured unattended and unloved cosmetic training ground
Not a wow kiddy, but EQ never felt that way, except in battlegrounds, dungeon maker or dungeon finder (level scaling). All three worked exactly how you describe. When level cap was 100 in EQ2, the sweet spot for battlegrounds was 80. A level 100 could of course solo level 80 raids, so it was easy to get that level 80 all the best gear. And that was a really good time in that game, so many special clicky effects were available. So a level 80 would trounce the best geared level 100 in BGs. It was so bad, they had to put max level into their own BGs so they wouldnt suck. Dungeon maker and finder were even more off. A level 30, with the right temporary effects from potions, could literally pull the entire thing and kill them all at once. So I made a killing power leveling people, and had my dungeon maker dungeons win awards.... silly, all of it.
If you want to get the game during the sale but don't want to play now you can always gift the game to yourself from another account. Speaking specifically about the highest version. So your 30 days game time doesn't start until exactly when you redeem the gift.
I'm worried about the visibility of the Evoker legendary. Fist weapons are notoriously unnoticeable on anything outside of a melee attacker or an Elem shaman using the Legion artifact. Evoker's are gonna have their wings in the way as well, so even if Blizz does let them use it in casting animations we're barely gonna see it if the camera is in the default location behind the Evoker.
The problem is that blizzard is hearing that the players don't want the game monetized. If they get rid of the sub, anything that they implement to recoup the earnings is going to be considered monetization and further angering the playerbase. it's a no-win situation for them even if the things they implement provide more benefits then what players were getting with the monthly sub. That's why they need to end current wow and launch wow 2.0.
i love how they couldnt even pay the art team for a new store set, instead they had to take a couple items from the trading post and put that shit up for chump change
I actually see these microtransactions being the prerequisite to a free to play Classic and/or lower monthly cost for retail. They're probably testing waters right now and I hope they make the right decision.
Dude, they will NEVER lower the cost of the subscription. Put yourself in the shoes of an Activision Executive, how are you going to frame "hey guys, we lowered the sub cost and its going to cost us a bunch of money now, but we believe its going to increase our profits in the future with this new direction we are taking" Bobby Kotick would kick your ass to the street in milliseconds.
Never been less excited for retail. Soulless shell of the original.They should seriously work on Classic +. Dragonflight is better then SL sure, but that doesn't mean that it is good. Asmongold is 100% right when he says that the badass aspect is totally missing. i just don't care about the lore anymore. It's just boring. No one can tell me that they don't like a badass vibe in a game. WoW is just not catered to the players anymore, but to the shareholders. It is soo obvious. As soon as i saw the gimpy Dracthyr i knew it is over.
Its funny how asmon wants them to reset the game but he still wont play the game even if they would do that, he is just burned out of the game lets be honest Ps im not an asmongold hater i love him, but when it comes to retail content he's downgrading dragonflight, even though the game is fun and a lot better then what it used to be (bfa, shadowlands)
The fact Store items are now quite regularly put in the Trading Post has pretty much removed all my gripes about them. Wanna spend some extra cash to get mog or a specific mount early? Cool. I can just earn it in less than 6h of gametime in a month or so. Win-win-minorwin.
I would back today if they had classic wow with balanced (where ret can do comparable damage) characters. They also need to charge like $5 /month for classic or 6 /12 month sub plan.
Been playing since BC. I can't keep track anymore of all the damn currency and side shit you're supposed to do now for gear or items. I miss just killing shit and getting rewards. The most complicated thing was reputation previously. Don't anyone dare say "well at least you don't have to craft things yourself now" ignoring the special requirements of material.
Now that you can earn store items ingame, it's harder to see who is a loser. Before you could immediately spot the losers because they had store items, but now you don't know if they swiped or actually farmed for it.
People really forget that day 1 DLC and mass micros only started being a widespread thing in the mid 2010s. I don't get why so many people want to be hyperbolic and pretend it was an issue in the 90s/00s. It wasn't, y'all just have shit memory. The $2.00 horse armor backlash in Oblivion scared every dev studio away from that kind of business for years. It wasn't until PC games like Hearthstone and League of Legends came out that the idea of swiping regularly for power and/or cosmetics became popularized for western gamers. That is what led to the same business model being applied to everything, even single player games, by 2014/2015 or so. So no, this isn't a problem old as time this is still a relatively new issue.
@@1001pierre just like bellular and asmon said. DF is quite good when it comes to keep the current players. the damage shadowlands did is just too big.
Asmons ted talk at the end was spot on - having found myself in a bit of a financial situation as of late, i've been looking at many F2P games that are either straight up F2P or Buy Once, Play for Free ala New World etc Currently playing Star Trek: Online because its free to play; i've even spent a few spare bob on some tidbits on there too, but the longevity of my playtime goes much further than if i was to Sub to WoW for example because i can log in to STO, and not have to worry if im getting my moneys worth where as with WoW, if i sub and i'm not 'feeling it' for a few days, thats money going down the drain and with time-gated content it makes it sort of worse too since youre there twiddling your thumbs trying to make the most of the money you spent on the sub as opposed to switching to another F2P game to pass the time etc - F2P will generally have you logging in as much as poss to knock down that 'grind wall' in order to progress (as pure F2P) but its better than being 'forced' to log in, in order to avoid wasting money imo
@@mnamethonk - have tried PoE before, didnt quite take to it unfortunately; this was a few years ago now so perhaps i can give it another go, but top-down isnt my cup of tea - ta for the suggestion tho :)
Many people lost faith in blizzard they lost me at corrupt gear in bfa when you have 1 item doing 40% of dmg was one the biggest spit in the face and after all that was just sad...
Asmongold is completely right about Blizzard's sales strategy. I did not buy nor play Dragonflight, but if they open the game for free for a month or so, I would definitely play it! If some of my old friends get into it too, I can see myself buying the whole thing by the end of it. As it stands, even if I decide to buy the game betting that I would like it, I know for sure that I would be playing alone.
I do dislike how the 10.1 made the max gear lvl from 424 to 450 so now I’m gonna farm to get back to an equal lvl as other players especially when I had my full 424 pvp gear. I would’ve preferred if they give me another reason to farm for instance this item can make you shoot lightning from the sky or this one can summon an explosive snail minion kinda as the gear does in Diablo, where it has a different function tempenting your gameplay style, like imagine if there was an item that makes me able to shoot lightning bolt from the sky similair like the thunder totems do in Ohn’ ahran or an item that makes me shoot an arm cannon made by engineers or something so I can work on an specific gameplay, that’s why I love the new skill tree for it change your character pretty decently to experiment in it.
@@donut_s Wouldn’t be problematic if the power scaling keeps growing that we end up with too high of numbers or becoming more complicated because you need to update yourself so frequently, are we gonna go back to lvl 120 just to be reset once again to 60.
Along time ago when you could talk to GMs directly through tickets I was having trouble making payments for my monthly sub... dude literally looked at my payment history and gave me a free trial. Wish I could remember howlong it was or the gms name. What a guy.
You would think some of the money would be used to hire more GMs or something to ensure that everyone has a healthy gameplay IF Blizzard actually care about that.
I used to play WOW a ton when I was younger. I started toward the end of Vanill and have quit and came back multiple times in my life. Now that I am older, have a fiancé, career and more, my time for video games is very scarce compared to what it once was. I just don't see the point of playing this MMO, that doesn't respect your time nor do the devs really seem to be in sync with the player base. I tried dragon flight for about 1 month before realizing what a mistake it was to even try.
Why would you feel that way? No one has ever said that about wow, they continuously say the opposite in fact. If you've watched bellular or asmon more than once, you'd have seen it. If you watched anything comparing wow to ff you would have seen. Nothing at all would lead you to believe that.
@@txmits507 end game content is decent but stuck on small island and instances. i would expect to fight in legion or in shadowlands. It is more fun than collecting fragment of keys to make one and you need 15 once a week and doing repetitive quests to upgrade an item +2 stats. It could be ok if the alting experience was better or if a level 70 could do low level quest with a bit of challenge and population
Same thing with boosting. i think gear and costmetics gotten that way should have a "boosted" addition to their tooltip for all to see. Tho some people i know that gets bigger tokens for $$$ would probably see it as bonus
"its just killing rares" This zone literally has public events that aren't just rare zergs, still pretty boring "Kill a rare more than once" nah kill it all day
The big dude vibe he's looking for doesn't hold up. Dudes did get bigger and bigger in WoW to the point that we were CONSTANTLY saving the world. By the time SL hit, I couldn't give a flying fuck about a bigger dude or saving the world anymore. That shit gets old.
hey look! it's slowly devolving into an modern day battlepass! yeah, you can earn those items later down the line (3 months) by just playing and grinding tendies or you could get it way quicker by just swiping!
Cmon Asmon. You only want to play alts when you have to now? Are alts boring now? Back in SL you wanted to play as many alts as you could, and sold it as a big thing. You stomped SL for it.. SL was tailored for mains. You rebell for the sake of rebelling. It's getting old.
I'd rather have a designed experience, than them iterate formulas until one sticks until it gets exhausting. Failures be damned, why learn from those? Just shovel more failures until one works for a while. Design to invoke interesting experiences in your players, that doesn't always precipitate systemic iteration.
The “big hairy men” hypothesis doesn’t make sense considering FF14 is highly popular and not “manly” al all. Now, if you mean that this is what the WoW player base who’ve left want, I can agree.
Why do people care so much about cosmetics being paid? People are so quick to shit on Blizzard and other companies for just cosmetics it makes no sense.
Timeless Isle -> Tanaan Jungle -> Argus (and Broken Shore) -> Nazjatar / Mechagon Isle -> Maw / Korthia / Zereth Mortis -> whatever this "new" iteration of the same old formula is called. Minor flavor differences across all these? But they're essentially the same content. I'd even argue that more recent versions have been more aggresively designed towards making it more difficult or time consuming to "hit" all the daily wickets for your drop chances, with unintuitive "puzzles" preventing you from just farming the rares. More engaging, but not more fun.
2020 Asmon: Blizzard has killed Alts, why even try to have an alt anymore 2023 Asmon: nobody wants to actually play Alts, why even bother This is why the developers call him toxic tho Blizzard isn’t perfect at all but I don’t blame them for being annoyed by the constant criticism, and crying over everything. No matter what they try, asmongold trashes what they do and so do others. I think blizzard should just focus on making fun content. No little change is going to please everyone.
The problem with using FF as a comparison is the subs get most of the items on the store first via in game events, they go on the store later for people who missed the events, not on the store first and on the trading post later. which btw trading post is still a gated currency you have to pick and choose, EVERY subbed FF player gets the event items during the event no picking and choosing.
@@ghozter1 uh huh
Remornia as a drop would have been sick. Imagine if you had it equipped it floated behind you. Following like a pet.
@@ShadowFri3nd stole the swords breast milk
She might still have a role in future lore tho
@@ChinnuWoW that or it can make it into the trading post as a cosmetic. Fuck there were weapons in the game files for years that made it to the Trading Post not long ago, why ot Remornia.
It's not quite the same, but if you get the remornia pet drop and feed it a magical pet biscuit to increase its size you can get pretty close.
@@cole0889 just play Classic WoW and maybe work your way up from there.
For post launch zones they should do things similar to meta events in GW2 that are essentially outdoor raid/scenario hybrids, where zones have smaller events that contribute to completing a larger event with bigger rewards.
Example, if we did this in broken shore, Instead of running around doing WQs, rares, etc. You have a tiered objective to build up for and launch an assault on the tomb of sargeras with some big bad demon general world boss at the end in the big battlefield where guldan was during the first scenario
Lmao they should and I wish are about all these comments ever sum up to😅
Blizzard has way too much money to ignore all this shit lmao
Blizzard simply does not care about creating lasting content, their content last for 2 months and then is completely worthless.
Got out during BfA, but been feeling nostalgic... Bell and asmon talking about lockouts, sparks, weekly timers, drop chances, fragrant coins and crests whatever that is immediately killed my nostalgia. Thanks ❤😊
they just havent nailed a good expansion since legion.
I absolutely agree with making Classic WoW free to play. I am amazed they haven’t done it by now. I mean, this is part of why Final Fantasy XIV is doing so well, they have a really good trial to hook people in with.
Classic doesn't have any microtransactions in it so it's not worth it. In ffxiv when you buy the game after trying the first expansion, you keep your character.
@@cloter2079 Even better, then, because you don't have the looming specter of the cash shop standing over you.
@@Jon_the_Wizard i was talking about blizzard perspective, there is no reason for them to do it, think.
@@cloter2079 Exactly. There's nothing for them to gain from it, it's great PR. And Blizz is kind of hurting for that right now.
Classic going free to play makes zero sense
The zones full of rares at least midway playerbase fault. We threw Blizzard a curveball into thinking the timeless isle formula is the way forward. They interpreted it as "hmm so they are really interested in just killing rares with low spawn times and drop chances till their noses bleed!"
tbh people do lose their shit over an item/mount if it has 0.02% drop chance instead of 2%. we want that crap.
The only reason i play WOW over other games is because of the low drop chance collectibles (specifically mounts). Nothing feels better than getting a mount you grinded for weeks/months or years.
It's gotten to the point where I won't play an MMO if there aren't some sort of collectible as good as that, which is...most mmos
Everyone in here farming collectibles for a meaningless dying game that isnt retaining any playerbase and is dying expac by expac.
@@quetz6335 same old story, still not dead 20 years later.
But well on the way it has been slowly dying the past 10 years
if a game requires an monthly sub fee, there shold be ZERO paid costemtics. all that shit should be included... early access for cosmetics ffs
One good thing to note is the FFXIV cash shop isn't in the game. You'll never see it if you don't go to the specific website where you can buy items. Unlike WoW that forces that shit in game and in your face constantly.
Asmon and bellular. Like a warm blanket.
Homosexual activities you is in, I to myself be dabbling in those, pride month is upon us, champion!
Or a wet diaper
@@pepsikthelegend8367 want to get in my blanket?
@@MyDelpapa will you change me?
@@pepsikthelegend8367 You know why Pride month stays for a month and 9/11 its just remembered for 1 day, that's because being gay is a worse tragedy 💀
Ya know what captured my imagination with wow back in the day? Classic rpg adventure stereotypes. The story is too convoluted and complicated. Give me a picturesque forest with a haunted castle in the backdrop that houses the evil wizard summoning zombies and skeletons.
Exactly. But Blizzard is hellbent on writing convoluted plots centered around femboy dragon guys.
Ahhh, Castle Mistmoore as well as The Estate of Unrest. Too bad you had to play WoW and not join us civilized folk in Everquest.
I think DF is pretty simple. You're not some space legendary hero anymore and you don't really need to know much about lore to understand the campaign of this expansion. Big bad dragon appears, tries to kill good friend dragons. We go kill her while she tries to release her siblings. She's killed but ultimately succeeds. Now we have 3 big bad dragons to worry about. One of them makes huge whole in ground to get some spicy purple fire. We are also fighting an evil scaley that does some void stuff.
There's a bunch of lore you can go into, but that was true for classic and the old expansions as well.
bro if you find dragonflights story complicated idk what to tell you
Yep, and the de facto removal of the Horde and Alliance from the story makes it all the more complicated. I used to click through quest text and skip cutscenes but still generally knew what was going on, because it was all through the prism of Horde/Alliance-you went to pandaria to help the faction conquer lands, you went to BFA places to help get allies, you went to northrend to help the faction kill the bad guy. DF is the first expac I've been scratching my head thinking "What am I doing here? My character decided to go to the Dragon Isles... Why?" People make rational choices and there should be a concrete reason for our participation in the Dragon Isles, not like we just showed up to watch the story. Because that's bizarre. You don't just pack up your things and go to Africa to see the child soldiers because you want to be a part of the story. There has to be actual reasons to do things.
"good boy points" instead of "great british pounds" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard and I can't thank you enough
Man I would like to play vanilla classic, but I am so sick of paying anything to blizzard now...
Turtle Wow.
@@fancen average blizzard response to any customer criticism
@@fancen typical bot.
@@KwBeee thanks for the laugh, a game which died at launch and is now milked by another company to death.
@@hozza9901 it certainly is. The experience is way more engaging to new players and it isnt aa frustrating as vanilla with all the qol improvements it has
This is a roundabout way of selling ingame currency. By spending $8, you effectively avoid spending the trader tenders that would have been required to purchase the set during the month it becomes free, thus you’d have traders tenders to spare for extra items..
Yep when i saw they put the new diplomat ensemble on ptr as sourced from trading post but instead added it to the store i feccing knew they would pull shit like this. But enough idiots pay 8-70£ for cosmetics so well get more trading post items on sale. Not surprised if they ask 25£ for mounts...
blizzard literally sells gold
@@arktulius you aren't locked at 1k gold a month, though, where they only thing you can spend it on is only available one month of the year.
Simple fix to this problem.
Store item blue
Dropped item red
Just have 2 colors to differentiate the store to the earned item. The prestige will hold in the color, even though everyone will be able to get the item.
Alt-oholic (but for Everquest) here.
In Everquest I constantly suffered from "the grass is greener over there". I started a warrior, but early game, warriors were in a bad place to solo. So after a few weeks, of not being able to do a damn thing if none of my friends were on, I switched to a magician. But as I mained that mage, for years, and gear started getting better, I got hit with the melee envy. Mages were all front loaded power, mostly in their pet. So getting new gear for me, was like "oh yay, 100 more mana, yippee... (-_-)". But when a Ranger or a shadowknight got a new weapon or something, that was a massive deal... but alas, that game made alts damn near impossible. I had to take over a friends account and run two toons to fill that hunger.
EQ2 made me into an altoholic, because of the mechanics of the game. Daily dungeon runs. Every day you could get the "daily double" quest which would pay double the 'currency' that that expansion required, which bought you augments and gear upgrades. So you could run the daily double zone(s) and then chose to try and get groups together for all the other 'normal' zones, which was like pulling teeth, or simply load up an alt and run the daily double again, instantly. Obviously, people didnt want to wait around for half the currency. So they ran alts, and did the DD again, for as many alts as they had. This made it faster to gear up multiple toons, than you could a single toon normally, since everything was tradeable on the same account (heirloom).
It also made filling groups, or raids, a breeze. Since people knew I had a million alts, they would invite me, the player, to a group or guild. Not because they needed a warrior, or another dps, because they knew I could fill any role they may need. Asked the guild I wanted to join what they needed, and they said "a swashbuckler". I said "sure, gimme a week to get mine ready." The guy was like "wut?".
Had a low level one I had to level up to max, then deck him out in a set of decent (but not spectacular) group gear. For the first few raids, I really wasnt doing all that hot, just middle of the pack DPS wise. But I got a full set of raid armor in that time, and after a double xp event (i was waiting for) happened, I finished my AAs. The very next raid and I was topping the dps Parse, much to the surprise of the entire guild... Everyone had a theory of what I had done, but I didnt want to tell them I never finished "leveling" my toon, I just wanted to raid. Eventually I fell in love with that class, and really started doing things nobody else had thought of. Since a Swashies forte was hate production and transfer, I was always number two on the hate list. Main tank dies, that means I was next. So I specced and geared to make use of that. Highest HP in the guild... when main tanks had 70,000 hps, I was creeping up on 90k. A chain Tank. Good times. Especially when I played that toon in a pick-up group. It would blow the casual's minds how many hitpoints this little halfling had. All because, of my addiction to alts.
Next guild had me swap classes multiple times, because they had roles needed filling. My main (Droll) was a tank, I played as a ranger for a while, until they needed a coercer. I was the guy that did whatever the guild needed. And I had a blast doing it. So ever since, if a game isnt alt friendly, I look elsewhere.
The Dragon Racing locations also only appear if you are nearby,.. it's ridiculous
its sad they didn't do anything with this kind of content that in my opinion was the best of this expansion.
In some countries, $8's will feed a family of four for the DAY...
They touch grass
@@tomik6537some do, to make money from rmt
@@RiogaRivera probably no grass there
YES! Classic being Free To Play would bring me back INSTANTLY.
I'm thinking of the bots D:
If they make it free that means they will open a new store in classic to recoup money and that's a bad idea
It’s literally $20 for 31 days holy shit 😂
@@Yogafireflame For $20 you get 60 days, or you mean something else? 30 days sub is $12,99
@@Galewalion f2p always means more bots, and more toxicity. Monthly sub cuts down on it, it’s the same as paying a cover to get into a bar/club. When you pay to enter you’re less likely to be surrounded by the homeless (bots), and smell piss around you (toxic assholes).
With the map idea and issue of (needing to be right next to the event to spot it). It's always a coinflip. It's alright if there are enough events going around and they all give what you need, but it's an issue if you'd have to wait 30 minutes to miss them all and wait another 30 minutes to possibly miss them all again.
You're right, I play my druid to just have fun on it. And do dungeons or raids differently. It's like.. if I did the story chapter already, I'd like to just continue it on her because my account is aware anyway. So why do I have to do all of it all over again forcefully?
so you want every alt to be max level instantly with all the quests done? So essentially remove the leveling experience, I think a lot of people enjoy leveling new alts from scratch
That's not what he said nor what I was indicating... I'm saying if I already did the plot, it's nice that it's optional and not mandatory.
@@lunerlilly what do you mean by plot? you mean the quests that you do in order to level up?
@@sten260 Once again, we are just expressing if you did it once, you shouldn't be forced to do it again. No one said to remove the quests... you ignored the word "optional". I will no longer be replying. Because you are obviously just looking to argue...
@@lunerlilly so you want to make the quests optional? how do you level up then?
Still waiting to see if they will change Shaman's Lava Burst animation over to the new 'lava bolt' animation that has been in use since pre-patch. Almost every instance of an NPC using Lava Burst now uses the new lava particle effect but Shamans are still using the one we've had for years now (one example is do the Horde Exile's Reach zone, Shuja (the Warlord's daughter) uses Lava Burst but it has that new effect).
Blizz hates shaman. 😢 They just keep nerfing us.
This is the same guy that drops $1k+ on gacha pixels btw
"Dud-dude you don't understand, I'm against gacha and gambling so much I said I would talk to politician about it like 4 years ago but I will gladly promote and take part in gacha games and gambling. I-is it some gotcha moment against me? Why am I getting pushback? Ban this guy!!!!!@!!!!"
@@MrEvans1 if that would be true than he had to announce it somewhere or have a banner somewhere for it that its sponsored.
I usually see Asmongold videos in silence and enjoy his commentaries... but I just had to leave a comment say that when he said: "What is GBP, is it Good Boy Points?"
I literally lost it and could not stop laughing! Tears were falling out of my eyes how much I laugh!
My gosh, so funny I can never forget this now every time I see GBP it will always bring a smile to my face! Thanks for the content Asmon! xD
Can we really blame Activision and Blizzard for expanding the in-game shop more and more? It keeps bringing in the money because players keep buying those items willingly. Nobody is forcing or tricking them. Activision and Blizzard are giving the players what they want. It hurts to witness this, but it's true nonetheless.
Typically a big in game shop means no monthly sub
yes, we can
It's so hard to get my friends to play the game because of the sub fee, when WoW wants $15 a month it directly competes with their other hobbies, making it a value judgement that WoW loses every time, if they could buy the expansion and play they would.
Asmon misses the days of big buff sweaty men brawl it out.
Hate to say it, but it's pretty clear the wow development team is low level. I can't imagine any developer who is worth anything says they want to work for blizzard let alone on a 20 year old game. What you're left with are the minimum wage fast food workers of the game design world. And then the few leaders they have leave a lot to be desired. So there's no wonder that the game is underwhelming.
Hell, the people that work for Blizzard barely even make more than fast food workers which is pitiful. Imagine wanting to work for a developer after going to school for a few years only to end up at a "big name" developer that pays you barely more than McDonalds or Burger King would.
@@jeremycampbell4021 theyre replacable otherwise theyd work somewhere else lets be honest, and is one of the biggest reasons why the game content is so slow and broken
@@Thanatos2k they live in cali
They're still exceptional devs in the grand scheme of things, at least by some metrics. I'm thinking Blizzard attracts many of the older, tired devs with solid experience and people looking for a reliable pay-check at the expense of some of the passion.
I know a few of the level designers rn and they are only like 3 years into the industry. They don't have many solid vets working on wow at that level atm. There's a few but its mostly young/early career designers, and many who have never played the game.
I’ve been trying this trial, it’s a little misleading even though it’s not technically wrong, the inability to level past 60 means the quests quickly out level you, until you aren’t high enough level to pick up more quests. It’s basically just waking shore quests plus flying around the whole map and doing the races and traveler’s log.
Dragonflight aesthetic and story are very reminiscent of YA fantasy novels. This is a symptom of hiring writers and designers who only consume low-brow YA novels almost exclusively.
Nail on the head! This is it exactly. I couldn’t really understand what was bothering me so much about it. It’s like woke YA authors have taken hold of WoW and they know no other ways to write……Azeroth help us.
The deal with cosmetics, for me, is "do I like the way it looks?".
I don't care what someone else thinks.
I am not trying to impress anyone other than myself.
I sat in Looam for an hour chilling because nothing was happening. Little did I know
Feels like forever since he last watched a Bellular video
I honestly CANT watch Bellular without Asmonds commentary lol
I'm always conflicted, because when I watch Bellular by himself I can speed up the video to 1.5 or even more speed. But when I do that with Asmongold commentary. It doesn't work at all for Asmongold, lol.
@@NiekVL lol! Nope wouldn’t work 😂
All they need to do is if you buy dragon flight you get vanilla included. This way you still pay $15 a month but can play all the games available vanilla and retail
6:45 THANK YOU!
Yep, i would play wow if it was either free to play or one-time purchase, but not a subscription
Not gonna lie if they had cheaper mounts etc I would of swiped 100%
but mounts 30 to 35 AUD is just insane..
And yet, sadly, people out here paying that, or 20+ AUD for pets. They can get fucked for those prices.
I think the Legion vibe was hype. Dragonflight feels... Cozy. So yeah, it makes sense to me that it has Hella retention.
They need to make dragon and drake mounts dragon rideable
they are not stupid ofc its possible, but it would kill all the nondragonriding mounts as people will not care enough to switch them out. disabling them is a very smart choice from blizzard
please no... that means half my mounts are useless until i level them up
@@whoknows8225 what?
need to make an Atramedes mount
Bellular "Pause" face on min 2:51 is hilarious!!
Given Blizzard lately, fast turn arounds on fixes are making me wonder what they're trying to cover up.
They're trying to cover up shadowlands.
shadowlands
Asmon:
-Big hairy sweaty man vibe check. There are those characters in Dragonflight also. We're missing overtly sexualised characters. It feels way too tame - but not compared with old wow, more that the MMO genre has given us cool sexy anime characters and we're missing those whilst playing wow.
-There is a wealth of story in the new zone and Forbidden Reach - some of the best storytelling WoW has had thus far (as someone who has played everything extensively - i will say it was a shame to not see the face tracking introduced in forbidden reach at the end of the Zaralek Caverns quest... feels like a big step back).
-Rare Spawns are completely farmable in both zones
-The base game had tonnes bloat. Look at Barney's lucky charms :D It was partially the point compared to modern sensibilities. What emotion does "Carrot on a Stick" evoke for you as a wow player.
I know this is gonna come across as being psudo psychological analysis from some nutter on the net - but you just come across as tired. Tired of the vanilla game, tired of the new game. Perhaps because you wish to again relive the glory days when you were on top of the game - had every piece of bullshit they threw at you - regardless of being an adult you were able to farm as a no lifer right? It just comes across as sheer frustration with that.
Not saying wow is perfect - it does have flaws - but as an active player - some of your critique at the moment is coming across as misinformed which is a shame because I believe if you were able to just reset those emotional baked in responses - you'd be quite receptive to the new content.
Regardles of expansion blizzard does same thing, overwhelming content adding in grinding. So eventually you will be like in BFA: Oh do dailies, do mythics weekly, do weekly quests, do world quests. Fill your bags with tons of collectable items which you will need to exchange somewhere in China!
I think the biggest problem with subscriptions is that it doesn't ever provide enough value in my mind. I could buy one game and be able to play it for life, or buy this game and be able to play it for a month. Especially with how many options we have, and how many different types of games I personally play. Just recently I played Skyrim, Barotrauma, Satisfactory, Crusader Kings 2/3, and a few more I'm not remembering. With all these options, why would I spend 15 a month on a single game?
Love that they went back to 1 spark every 2 weeks again, because everyone loved that in 10.0
I honestly think they are doing the timegating bs because it isnt ready to release yet.
they time gate to simulate content. what should take you 2 weeks to grind out is stretched to 12+ weeks so you don't realize how little you are actually getting.
@@Direbeetus yea sounds about right
35:57 From now on, ill call them Good Boy Points.
All purchasable items should be obtainable in game via time invested. Let people pay to save time. Let the others purchase with their time.
35:56 GOOD BOY POINTS
im dead
It's not the Argus formula. It's been that way since MoP.
the new zones with rares formula is lacking mini dungeons and events that link up together.
legion was peak wow imo
Legendary RNG was so bad. That's pretty much the only downside of Legion though.
Legion was the best. Despite legendary rng. The story was so engaging and artifacts were so good that i made alts just for the class hall story and weapon skins.
@@snikrz some of the time gating was pretty bad in legion as well, but overall a great xpac
half of legion sucked ass, cata-mop was Peak wow
bellular is WoW's Edward Snowden
LoL, No.
Facially, nothing else lol
25:40 Not going to lie, one of the worst things about WoW is how you feel much much weaker as you level and it's incredibly noticeable. I wish I had the option to keep my end of expansion gear and store exp to skip right to 70. They really need to fix that feeling of leveling up but getting weaker and weaker. I meet people who xp lock at 10 in dungeon finder running through one-shotting everything while the rest of us shmucks who are 50-60 are chasing them around.
It's the scaling crap
Scaling is the worst in an mmo. It's telling of where they're at in terms of game design tho. The bulk of the game is irrelevant. The only thing that ever matters is whatever released this month. Everything else is an unmeasured unattended and unloved cosmetic training ground
Not a wow kiddy, but EQ never felt that way, except in battlegrounds, dungeon maker or dungeon finder (level scaling). All three worked exactly how you describe.
When level cap was 100 in EQ2, the sweet spot for battlegrounds was 80. A level 100 could of course solo level 80 raids, so it was easy to get that level 80 all the best gear. And that was a really good time in that game, so many special clicky effects were available. So a level 80 would trounce the best geared level 100 in BGs. It was so bad, they had to put max level into their own BGs so they wouldnt suck. Dungeon maker and finder were even more off. A level 30, with the right temporary effects from potions, could literally pull the entire thing and kill them all at once. So I made a killing power leveling people, and had my dungeon maker dungeons win awards.... silly, all of it.
If you want to get the game during the sale but don't want to play now you can always gift the game to yourself from another account. Speaking specifically about the highest version. So your 30 days game time doesn't start until exactly when you redeem the gift.
I'm worried about the visibility of the Evoker legendary. Fist weapons are notoriously unnoticeable on anything outside of a melee attacker or an Elem shaman using the Legion artifact. Evoker's are gonna have their wings in the way as well, so even if Blizz does let them use it in casting animations we're barely gonna see it if the camera is in the default location behind the Evoker.
30:40 800% value!!!
The problem is that blizzard is hearing that the players don't want the game monetized. If they get rid of the sub, anything that they implement to recoup the earnings is going to be considered monetization and further angering the playerbase. it's a no-win situation for them even if the things they implement provide more benefits then what players were getting with the monthly sub. That's why they need to end current wow and launch wow 2.0.
i love how they couldnt even pay the art team for a new store set, instead they had to take a couple items from the trading post and put that shit up for chump change
I actually see these microtransactions being the prerequisite to a free to play Classic and/or lower monthly cost for retail. They're probably testing waters right now and I hope they make the right decision.
Lol.
Don't be so naive.
Dude, they will NEVER lower the cost of the subscription. Put yourself in the shoes of an Activision Executive, how are you going to frame "hey guys, we lowered the sub cost and its going to cost us a bunch of money now, but we believe its going to increase our profits in the future with this new direction we are taking"
Bobby Kotick would kick your ass to the street in milliseconds.
Never been less excited for retail. Soulless shell of the original.They should seriously work on Classic +. Dragonflight is better then SL sure, but that doesn't mean that it is good. Asmongold is 100% right when he says that the badass aspect is totally missing. i just don't care about the lore anymore. It's just boring. No one can tell me that they don't like a badass vibe in a game. WoW is just not catered to the players anymore, but to the shareholders. It is soo obvious. As soon as i saw the gimpy Dracthyr i knew it is over.
Its funny how asmon wants them to reset the game but he still wont play the game even if they would do that, he is just burned out of the game lets be honest
Ps im not an asmongold hater i love him, but when it comes to retail content he's downgrading dragonflight, even though the game is fun and a lot better then what it used to be (bfa, shadowlands)
My problem with game store cosmetics/mounts is they get more attention than actual shit you grind for
Repeating something over and over is a definition of insanity
no, insanity is repeating something over and over expecting a different result
The fact Store items are now quite regularly put in the Trading Post has pretty much removed all my gripes about them. Wanna spend some extra cash to get mog or a specific mount early? Cool. I can just earn it in less than 6h of gametime in a month or so. Win-win-minorwin.
I would back today if they had classic wow with balanced (where ret can do comparable damage) characters. They also need to charge like $5 /month for classic or 6 /12 month sub plan.
Been playing since BC. I can't keep track anymore of all the damn currency and side shit you're supposed to do now for gear or items. I miss just killing shit and getting rewards. The most complicated thing was reputation previously.
Don't anyone dare say "well at least you don't have to craft things yourself now" ignoring the special requirements of material.
Very smart of blizzard, future players shouldn't feel like they missed out on rare mounts.
Now that you can earn store items ingame, it's harder to see who is a loser. Before you could immediately spot the losers because they had store items, but now you don't know if they swiped or actually farmed for it.
In the WC2 manual Anduin is holding a baby. It's Orgrim Doomhammer who's holding Blackhand's decapitated head. Cuz Doomhammer was a badass.
People really forget that day 1 DLC and mass micros only started being a widespread thing in the mid 2010s. I don't get why so many people want to be hyperbolic and pretend it was an issue in the 90s/00s. It wasn't, y'all just have shit memory. The $2.00 horse armor backlash in Oblivion scared every dev studio away from that kind of business for years. It wasn't until PC games like Hearthstone and League of Legends came out that the idea of swiping regularly for power and/or cosmetics became popularized for western gamers. That is what led to the same business model being applied to everything, even single player games, by 2014/2015 or so. So no, this isn't a problem old as time this is still a relatively new issue.
new mount, new clothes, same dead game
Games doing just fine 😁
Lmao, delusional troll on copium
@@1001pierre just like bellular and asmon said. DF is quite good when it comes to keep the current players. the damage shadowlands did is just too big.
Asmons ted talk at the end was spot on - having found myself in a bit of a financial situation as of late, i've been looking at many F2P games that are either straight up F2P or Buy Once, Play for Free ala New World etc
Currently playing Star Trek: Online because its free to play; i've even spent a few spare bob on some tidbits on there too, but the longevity of my playtime goes much further than if i was to Sub to WoW for example because i can log in to STO, and not have to worry if im getting my moneys worth where as with WoW, if i sub and i'm not 'feeling it' for a few days, thats money going down the drain and with time-gated content it makes it sort of worse too since youre there twiddling your thumbs trying to make the most of the money you spent on the sub as opposed to switching to another F2P game to pass the time etc - F2P will generally have you logging in as much as poss to knock down that 'grind wall' in order to progress (as pure F2P) but its better than being 'forced' to log in, in order to avoid wasting money imo
Tldr: he likes the grind wall playing f2p p2p games
Path of Exile is the game for you.
@@mnamethonk - have tried PoE before, didnt quite take to it unfortunately; this was a few years ago now so perhaps i can give it another go, but top-down isnt my cup of tea - ta for the suggestion tho :)
Question for asmongold if you buy it on the trading post and enter your transmog comp is it ok or are they kicked?
Many people lost faith in blizzard they lost me at corrupt gear in bfa when you have 1 item doing 40% of dmg was one the biggest spit in the face and after all that was just sad...
Asmongold is completely right about Blizzard's sales strategy. I did not buy nor play Dragonflight, but if they open the game for free for a month or so, I would definitely play it! If some of my old friends get into it too, I can see myself buying the whole thing by the end of it. As it stands, even if I decide to buy the game betting that I would like it, I know for sure that I would be playing alone.
Bellulars light skin stare around 31.45 aaaugh gachiGASM
I do dislike how the 10.1 made the max gear lvl from 424 to 450 so now I’m gonna farm to get back to an equal lvl as other players especially when I had my full 424 pvp gear. I would’ve preferred if they give me another reason to farm for instance this item can make you shoot lightning from the sky or this one can summon an explosive snail minion kinda as the gear does in Diablo, where it has a different function tempenting your gameplay style, like imagine if there was an item that makes me able to shoot lightning bolt from the sky similair like the thunder totems do in Ohn’ ahran or an item that makes me shoot an arm cannon made by engineers or something so I can work on an specific gameplay, that’s why I love the new skill tree for it change your character pretty decently to experiment in it.
@@donut_s Wouldn’t be problematic if the power scaling keeps growing that we end up with too high of numbers or becoming more complicated because you need to update yourself so frequently, are we gonna go back to lvl 120 just to be reset once again to 60.
You know you need to take a break from the internet for a bit when your first thought when seeing GBP is "Good Boy Points".
0:51 you can incinarate penguins, goty
Along time ago when you could talk to GMs directly through tickets I was having trouble making payments for my monthly sub... dude literally looked at my payment history and gave me a free trial. Wish I could remember howlong it was or the gms name. What a guy.
You would think some of the money would be used to hire more GMs or something to ensure that everyone has a healthy gameplay IF Blizzard actually care about that.
I used to play WOW a ton when I was younger. I started toward the end of Vanill and have quit and came back multiple times in my life. Now that I am older, have a fiancé, career and more, my time for video games is very scarce compared to what it once was. I just don't see the point of playing this MMO, that doesn't respect your time nor do the devs really seem to be in sync with the player base. I tried dragon flight for about 1 month before realizing what a mistake it was to even try.
bang on. back after 15 years. 2-3 months and over it. i thought i would get 15 years of expansions and thousands of hours of content... nope
Why would you feel that way? No one has ever said that about wow, they continuously say the opposite in fact. If you've watched bellular or asmon more than once, you'd have seen it. If you watched anything comparing wow to ff you would have seen. Nothing at all would lead you to believe that.
@@txmits507 end game content is decent but stuck on small island and instances. i would expect to fight in legion or in shadowlands. It is more fun than collecting fragment of keys to make one and you need 15 once a week and doing repetitive quests to upgrade an item +2 stats. It could be ok if the alting experience was better or if a level 70 could do low level quest with a bit of challenge and population
There should be a little indicator to differentiate between people who bought vs people who earned it
Same thing with boosting. i think gear and costmetics gotten that way should have a "boosted" addition to their tooltip for all to see. Tho some people i know that gets bigger tokens for $$$ would probably see it as bonus
4:13 literally why I play alts lmao
"its just killing rares" This zone literally has public events that aren't just rare zergs, still pretty boring
"Kill a rare more than once" nah kill it all day
The big dude vibe he's looking for doesn't hold up. Dudes did get bigger and bigger in WoW to the point that we were CONSTANTLY saving the world. By the time SL hit, I couldn't give a flying fuck about a bigger dude or saving the world anymore. That shit gets old.
hey look! it's slowly devolving into an modern day battlepass! yeah, you can earn those items later down the line (3 months) by just playing and grinding tendies or you could get it way quicker by just swiping!
is that animation on alexstraza real at 1:30 ?? she doesnt move her hips or legs at all while emoting. jank looking as hell
Cmon Asmon. You only want to play alts when you have to now? Are alts boring now? Back in SL you wanted to play as many alts as you could, and sold it as a big thing. You stomped SL for it.. SL was tailored for mains. You rebell for the sake of rebelling. It's getting old.
I agree
”rebel for the sake of rebelling” tf 💀
@@vikkran401 Rebel* Mb. English third language.
@@clawnor3880 I didn’t mean to critisize the way you write lol. I just disagree with your take since no one is being a rebel just for the sake of it.
I'd rather have a designed experience, than them iterate formulas until one sticks until it gets exhausting. Failures be damned, why learn from those? Just shovel more failures until one works for a while.
Design to invoke interesting experiences in your players, that doesn't always precipitate systemic iteration.
The “big hairy men” hypothesis doesn’t make sense considering FF14 is highly popular and not “manly” al all.
Now, if you mean that this is what the WoW player base who’ve left want, I can agree.
Why do people care so much about cosmetics being paid? People are so quick to shit on Blizzard and other companies for just cosmetics it makes no sense.
Timeless Isle -> Tanaan Jungle -> Argus (and Broken Shore) -> Nazjatar / Mechagon Isle -> Maw / Korthia / Zereth Mortis -> whatever this "new" iteration of the same old formula is called.
Minor flavor differences across all these? But they're essentially the same content. I'd even argue that more recent versions have been more aggresively designed towards making it more difficult or time consuming to "hit" all the daily wickets for your drop chances, with unintuitive "puzzles" preventing you from just farming the rares. More engaging, but not more fun.
Maybe, just maybe, retail WoW should've just ended with destroying the burning legion and then focussing on WoW 2 or something
I will not lie. A dragonriding Netherwing drake would get me to put $15 into Blizz's pocket. IF! If the way to get it is not some convoluted bullshit.
this and another new gearing system to learn and grind lol - blizz continues to kill itself
It’s a painfully easy system
2020 Asmon: Blizzard has killed Alts, why even try to have an alt anymore
2023 Asmon: nobody wants to actually play Alts, why even bother
This is why the developers call him toxic tho
Blizzard isn’t perfect at all but I don’t blame them for being annoyed by the constant criticism, and crying over everything. No matter what they try, asmongold trashes what they do and so do others. I think blizzard should just focus on making fun content. No little change is going to please everyone.
I haven't spent a single tendy on anything in the trading post...