Jack Videogames
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World of Warcraft Dragonflight launched on the 29th with surprisingly little fanfare. There's not even a thread about it here or in the Community board. After Shadowlands' debacle it was to be expected I guess, but I thought the WoW community was alive and kicking here at GAF.
Anyway, for what I've played, Dragonflight seems to be better than Shadowlands (Not that it was very hard to begin with). Dragonriding is a lot of fun, and the game is sunnier and more colorful, which I guess it's nice. I'm currently more interested in glyph hunting and racing than the more usual WoW-y aspects of the game, but still, I've already done a couple dungeons, which is more than the total of dungeons I ran in Shadowlands (A total of 0)
There are still no "official" reviews which is I guess normal for a MMO, but the user reviews are notoriously negative, even though the gameplay seems to be miles better than Shadowlands' and there's a new race to play with. The negative user reviews mention almost unanimously how woke the game has become, how full of gay couples the new expansion is, the virtue signaling etc, how the new Centaur area seems to be a big "matriarchy good, males bad" pantomime etc. (Keep in mind I haven't gotten there myself yet) If anything, it pretty much guarantees decent review scores...
I generally run away from the performatively woke stuff because the overlap in the venn diagram of "Good games" and "Performatively woke games" isn't generally very big, but I haven't seen anything "blagrant" and I frankly believe most of the negative reviews are there just out of malice. Since WoW is an MMO you can play your main character the way you like and anyway, people will stop reading the quests in two months time.
Anyway, for what I've played, Dragonflight seems to be better than Shadowlands (Not that it was very hard to begin with). Dragonriding is a lot of fun, and the game is sunnier and more colorful, which I guess it's nice. I'm currently more interested in glyph hunting and racing than the more usual WoW-y aspects of the game, but still, I've already done a couple dungeons, which is more than the total of dungeons I ran in Shadowlands (A total of 0)
There are still no "official" reviews which is I guess normal for a MMO, but the user reviews are notoriously negative, even though the gameplay seems to be miles better than Shadowlands' and there's a new race to play with. The negative user reviews mention almost unanimously how woke the game has become, how full of gay couples the new expansion is, the virtue signaling etc, how the new Centaur area seems to be a big "matriarchy good, males bad" pantomime etc. (Keep in mind I haven't gotten there myself yet) If anything, it pretty much guarantees decent review scores...
I generally run away from the performatively woke stuff because the overlap in the venn diagram of "Good games" and "Performatively woke games" isn't generally very big, but I haven't seen anything "blagrant" and I frankly believe most of the negative reviews are there just out of malice. Since WoW is an MMO you can play your main character the way you like and anyway, people will stop reading the quests in two months time.
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