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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

There's been a trend lately where people expect companies to exclusively balance a game targetting a VERY small niche of "professional" gamers, people who make income from Twitch/eSports and have 16 hours every day to play their game of choice. And then you have people in the community that barely play the game, but echo the "professionals" because they want to feel some sort of weird validation for "agreeing" with them, as if that makes them somehow a better player.

That's why I stopped playing Dota 2, and I suspect that's what's happening here as well

Honestly, this was the beginning of the end for me. I'm not a hardcore player...or at least I don't want to be. But the game really started catering to the hardcores specifically with mythic dungeons, and specifically mythic+ dungeons. Having a game mode that becomes "You HAVE to clear the majority of trash AND beat the bosses AND you have a time limit AND you have to specifically find people willing to do this with you, since we can't expect LFG to cover that level of skill" isn't fun, when you're expected to grind M+ for raid gear (to the point where you can outgear raids with M+ gear). Raids are already supposed to be the "this is super hard to progress" content, yet M+ suddenly became the new thing, and you had to set aside time and schedule content with specific people (which meant two nights of doing so, if you already had raid nights). Plus, M+'s whole aesthetic seemed designed to tailor specifically to Twitch streamers who want to push for records and high scores, but with rewards that become necessary for casuals to find any level of success.

Throw in the level scaling that removed any sense of progression (making the starting zone and ending zone of any expansion all feel exactly the same), and WoW really does seem like it started trying to desperately cling to the hardcores, without doing anything to appease the people who might be on the fence about enjoying the game.