World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

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3.6

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  1. Heikx
    Jan 1, 2023
    5
    Boring, outdated and very limited.

    Instead of finally improving this game and bringing innovation to wow, it's basically the same stuff over and over and over and over again. For years! Wow ist stagnant, stale and really, really tiresome at this point. I unsubbed after only a few days since I started playing Dragonflight, because I really don't want to support a company that is giving    Boring, outdated and very limited.

    Instead of finally improving this game and bringing innovation to wow, it's basically the same stuff over and over and over and over again. For years! Wow ist stagnant, stale and really, really tiresome at this point.
    I unsubbed after only a few days since I started playing Dragonflight, because I really don't want to support a company that is giving their players the same old content just with different colors on it.
    How hard can it be to make this game more player friendly?
    More social and less racist by removing that strict racial segregation system for factions? Why do they keep such outdated restrictions in the first place?
    Why aren't they more up to date with it's graphics and customisations? With player housing and such?
    Nothing of that sort can be find in this game.
    The world feels very empty. If you only do certain activities like raiding and m+ then you’re quickly going to run out of things to do. I’ve spent countless of hours just flying around farming and I realize how bad that is so I stopped doing it. Crafting is just bad at this point and I really wish they would have put that effort to actual fun stuff like player housing, or again, creating new short intro stories for all races, so that they can start neutral like Pandaren and Evoker. Instead they give us this halfbaked crafting system, that almost nobody seems to enjoy from what I've heard.    … Expand
  2. Rosnor
    Dec 9, 2022
    5
    5/10

    Pro: Music Dragon Riding No faction war Ducks Time traveling Murloc New zone looks nice Better experience for alts Contra: Renown has no catch-up mechanics. The weekly reputation objective provides only miniscule rewards. Daily raw gold sources such as emissaries or callings are no longer provided, and weekly raw gold sources have been reduced. Mission tables are not    5/10

    Pro:
    Music
    Dragon Riding
    No faction war
    Ducks
    Time traveling Murloc
    New zone looks nice
    Better experience for alts

    Contra:
    Renown has no catch-up mechanics.
    The weekly reputation objective provides only miniscule rewards.
    Daily raw gold sources such as emissaries or callings are no longer provided, and weekly raw gold sources have been reduced.
    Mission tables are not available.
    The best ways of earning gold through professions are restricted to personal crafting orders.
    Racial segregation, which doesn't allows players to choose their favorite faction, thus players are still dictated by the devs, which faction to choose, if they want to look a certain way in the game.
    Most crafting professions require crafting orders in order to earn skill and knowledge points.
    Weekly quests provide no skill gains and only miniscule knowledge gains.
    Painfully outdated graphics in many zones and cities.
    Still very few and uneven customization options for playable races.
    Outdoor elites and rares are tuned like dungeon enemies.
    PvP quests are too frustrating due to grouped up, geared players and unbalanced classes.
    Dracthyr can only use blood elf and human for visage, instead of all races.    … Expand
  3. Cosmol
    Jan 11, 2023
    2
    As a relatively new player, who has also tried out Dragonflight for about a month:

    The story in this game is comically bad and all over the place. You will have different time zones all over the world like the darkshore warfront for example. This zone shouldn't be destroyed anymore and there should not be an ongoining war, yet there is. Same with zones like Ashenvale or Gilneas to only    As a relatively new player, who has also tried out Dragonflight for about a month:

    The story in this game is comically bad and all over the place. You will have different time zones all over the world like the darkshore warfront for example. This zone shouldn't be destroyed anymore and there should not be an ongoining war, yet there is. Same with zones like Ashenvale or Gilneas to only name a few.
    But even if the world wouldn't look like a patchwork rug, the lore is just overall really bad and full of many, many retcons, that make you cringe, if you spent even the smallest amount of time trying to follow the lore from the start.

    Speaking of a patchwork rug, the same goes for the visuals. you will find newer visuals inbetween lots and lots of outdated visuals, that look as if they haven't been updated for decades.

    Customization options... this is a mmo, yet the customizations are... well, almost not there for playable characters. And what is it with this toxic attempt of the devs to give some races noticeably more options than others?

    Speaking of races, this is the only game I know of in this age with open racism for it's races. If it would treat racial segregation as a bad thing, then I could let it slide, but open racism is treated as essential and good for the two playable factions.
    Races are separated between factions, so if you like a specific race you can't pick one of the two factions. Do I need to add more? It's crazy that such a toxic and racist system is still existing in the year 2023.

    The game design is also not very social. It doesn't allow us to be in a guild with players of the other faction or run lfrs or just simply trade or talk with such players. Talk about toxic game design... They really butchered the gameplay experience in a lot of aspects.

    Also as someone coming from other games, where is the basic mmo stuff like dyeable gear and player housing? Warcraft is for some reason all about running m+ and raiding. The whole mmorpg feeling is completly lost in wow. It feels like an e-sport game.

    Professions are overly complicated and a grind fest.

    Speaking of grind, we aren't even allowed to play through the whole story in Dragonflight, because it is locked behind renown.

    I also don't understand why they sell us customization options like Mecha Gnomes, Kul Tiran, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron, High Mountain Tauren, Zandalari etc. as entirly new races. Is an overweight human an entirly new human race or what? The mentality of the devs is really something else. Or gnomes with disabilities are apparently also a complete new race. Interesting...

    And what is it with these unbalanced classes? Didn't the devs check how bad the situation is for some classes?

    Well, I just quit this game. It's really a mess.    … Expand
  4. Gregorrrr
    Dec 15, 2022
    0
    This game plays like a Beta version.
    It's insane how many bugs there are. Climbing quests, more often than not, are a mess. Hunts in Azure span 9 out of 10 times are bugged aswell. World boss, yep, also bugged. Multiple quests are bugged and don't reward you or aren't even clickable.
    Considering how expensive this game is for players... no thanks. I don't spend anymore money on it. Bugs    This game plays like a Beta version.
    It's insane how many bugs there are. Climbing quests, more often than not, are a mess. Hunts in Azure span 9 out of 10 times are bugged aswell. World boss, yep, also bugged. Multiple quests are bugged and don't reward you or aren't even clickable.
    Considering how expensive this game is for players... no thanks. I don't spend anymore money on it. Bugs aren't the only thing, which "bug" me about this game however, but so many other people already spoke about it on metacritic, so I would only echo them, I guess.
    Like the horrible, horrible! looking graphics in older zones. Like... wtf is going on in this game?
    As a new player... it truly feels as if they haven't spent money on wow since it first came out and that was around 2005 I think. Like seriously, the graphics are outdated.... really, really outdated and don't even get me started on those clunky character models, especially for male humans, Worgen and night elves. They look ugly, so very ugly. Why aren't those things updated? Aswell as the older zones?
    Or are the devs of the opinion everyone would just buy a level boost instead of leveling through these zones? And even than, Stormwind for example is a main hub and despite of that it too looks extremely outdated. What are the devs doing with all the money they get from the players? It's really a shame.
    And what is it about the racist faction system? I wasn't sure, if I should point that out, because some people might tend to call you woke and stuff, but my god is the system with Horde and Alliance racist. xD Seeing how other players pointed it out on metacritic however, I definitively want to criticize it, too.
    Sorry, but being a specific race should not!!! define a faction loyalty. That is just wrong on so many levels. Jeez... Even if Horde and Alliance start yet another pointless war in the future, there is absolutely no reason to keep racial segregation. An Alliance Tauren can fight a Horde Tauren, just like all the other races can fight against eachother. Like Pandaren and Evoker they all need to have free will and free choice, instead of a hivemind mentality.

    This game sure is something else, but not in a good way. I tried it for a few months and unfortunately I don't plan on playing it anymore.
    I don't feel like it is worth it's money, seeing how the devs don't care for their world and races and on top of that value very questionable mindsets.    … Expand
  5. Megamiy
    Jan 5, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight makes some things better than the previous expansion, but wow is still a very bad game, which at it's core is not only very outdated in it's design and graphics in a big chunk of the world, but also rather toxic compared to most other games.
    Since I don't want to make this review too long, I only list some of the problems, but there are certainly a lot more.
    Renaming    Dragonflight makes some things better than the previous expansion, but wow is still a very bad game, which at it's core is not only very outdated in it's design and graphics in a big chunk of the world, but also rather toxic compared to most other games.
    Since I don't want to make this review too long, I only list some of the problems, but there are certainly a lot more.

    Renaming reputation for example into renown doesn’t make them any less tedious. It's still a grind fest.
    Primal storms events are very lackluster, not to mention all the lags and bugs in general.
    Group Loot definitely hasn’t been a massive hit and leaves many players frustrated.
    Another frustrating factor of course is the strict division of playable races between factions. This game is the only big game out there, which activly makes you play stuff you don't want to, just because Ion and his crew of devs is holding on to a racist faction system as the foundation in warcraft. Enough with the dumb compromises already and let players play the faction they like and have them the races they want.
    Vault still generates duplicate items to what players have equipped. Feels not really rewarding.
    The Inspiration Catalyst takes 6 weeks to appear. Stop with all the time gating already.
    Loot is still terribly scarce.
    Dragon riding is an ok feature, but not comparable with normal flying and only allowing dragon riding in the zone is another bad limitation.
    Old zones like the warfronts in bfa for example didn't receive any updates whatsoever and are left as never ending loops. It is annoying that they are treating their game as a patchwork rug. It also shows in the outdated graphics.
    Vault is still limited to 1 item out of a potential 9.
    The story is rather disjointed.
    Professions are horribly designed in this expansion.
    Customization options are simply a joke in this game.    … Expand
  6. Tillsd
    Dec 29, 2022
    2
    Dragonflight is still a “raid (or m+) or die” expansion and the new professions are a much worse grind than before that requires way more time and effort. Overtuned mess with the same loot scarcity and you need to run +20 now for max vault. Second job again. No thanks.
    Then there is all the time gating, no updates on graphics in the world, no more customizations or player housing or more    Dragonflight is still a “raid (or m+) or die” expansion and the new professions are a much worse grind than before that requires way more time and effort. Overtuned mess with the same loot scarcity and you need to run +20 now for max vault. Second job again. No thanks.
    Then there is all the time gating, no updates on graphics in the world, no more customizations or player housing or more freedom through finally ending racial segregation. No. It's basically the same old and boring grind fest we had for years. No fun allowed.    … Expand
  7. Magicus
    Dec 4, 2022
    5
    Dragonflight is better than battle for Azeroth and shadowlands... yes, though that isn't really anything to brag about. The former expansions were really bad.

    I'd like to give my take on some of the things, which people discuss here. Beginning with the story... well, it is not easy to continue on the shattered ground the former expansions left us with. The story in those expansions    Dragonflight is better than battle for Azeroth and shadowlands... yes, though that isn't really anything to brag about. The former expansions were really bad.

    I'd like to give my take on some of the things, which people discuss here.

    Beginning with the story... well, it is not easy to continue on the shattered ground the former expansions left us with. The story in those expansions were painfully bad. So I would at least say that Dragonflight is a bit more down to earth and that is a good thing.
    The story isn't really amazing, but it goes in a better direction now.
    I do understand the frustration however regarding all the loose ends in Azeroth. Especially all the losses of the Alliance, with Aszhara, Ashenvale, darkshore and stormgarde, Theramore, Gilneas and Teldrassil. Some of these zones are waiting for over a decade to get updated and are still shown in their demolished state.
    Yes, that is indeed sad and it takes too long, I agree. However I think there is at least some small hope now for a new tree in Dragonflight. Would be nice to get all those zones updated, yes, but at least there is hope.

    I think that brings me to the next point of criticism.
    The visuals should be upgraded, yes. Honestly I don't know what to add here. For the money we pay for the game there should be higher standards. Don't really think anyone would disagree on that.

    The drakthyr aren't that innovative, true. Only one class and a familiar story if you played demon hunters back in Legion. However the way this race uses it's wings and tail is in my opinion really nicely done. Personlly I have fun with that race.

    Racism and lgbtq, probably the most controversial part.
    Yes, it is true, that there are no genders anymore, if you create a character. However body 1 and 2 still have the same features as male and female and personlly I find the lgbtq stuff in the game not as on the nose as it is here described. So even if you don't like it, you don't see it everywhere like some people claim.
    Racial segregation is there with the factions Alliance and Horde and how their races are treated, true. By definition that is probably a form of racism. I can't play a Draenei for example and stay Horde and in my opinion yes, that is a very outdated mindset and I too wish, that those kind of restrictions are removed as soon as possible. It would give players so much more freedom in the game.

    With the island for new characters there isn't even a starter zone needed for all the races. They could get some tents or a building or a ship... something like that in the main hubs and are ready to go. Just change some voice lines and each faction gets all races. Would be pretty amazing.

    Dragonriding and Guild Wars II.
    I can't really comment on that since I've never played guild wars. So I don't know, if the animations are copied. Personlly I had fun with dragon riding in wow though. Could be better, but it is still fun.    … Expand
  8. Homjei
    Dec 28, 2022
    2
    This expansion has a pathetic amount of content outside of raiding and m+ and the content that is there is incredibly repetitive, uninspired and low effort.
    They also kept the same old and frustrating restrictions like racial segregation for playable races, despite claiming to be progressive with all the lgbt content. "We want you to freely express yourself in the game... but you aren't    This expansion has a pathetic amount of content outside of raiding and m+ and the content that is there is incredibly repetitive, uninspired and low effort.
    They also kept the same old and frustrating restrictions like racial segregation for playable races, despite claiming to be progressive with all the lgbt content. "We want you to freely express yourself in the game... but you aren't allowed to play half of the races in your favorite faction, because racism is the foundation of the game." -wow devs.
    Hypocrisy at it's best. Also no word about proper cross faction play. It's ridiculous how anti-social the whole game is.
    Also the new crafting system is just awful.    … Expand
  9. Swaggi
    Dec 14, 2022
    2
    Randomly movement keys stop working and disconnect from mounting.
    World Quests wont give credit.
    Mob tags not possible near Wrathion. Events/World Quests vanish off the map (with plenty of time remaining). Disconnects while using professions skill point items, opening the professions menu. Visuel elements like plants etc. are randomly flying in the air. Sometimes mounts don't appear    Randomly movement keys stop working and disconnect from mounting.
    World Quests wont give credit.
    Mob tags not possible near Wrathion.
    Events/World Quests vanish off the map (with plenty of time remaining).
    Disconnects while using professions skill point items, opening the professions menu.
    Visuel elements like plants etc. are randomly flying in the air.
    Sometimes mounts don't appear and you are sitting in the air.
    Quest givers don't always open their quest text, only a relog helps.
    Obviously outdated and quite frankly ugly looking graphics in the rest of the world.
    Classes are still very unbalanced aswell as factions.
    Unnecessary restrictions, especially regarding playable races as mentioned by others already.
    Also dragon flying isn't really fun, if you plan to fly far distances and especially flying over mountains is very annoying.    … Expand
  10. Torjan
    Dec 8, 2022
    2
    Professions are a mess because of the overall amount of bugs, exploits and stealth nerf, which lead to a quite frustrating experience.
    Some examples:
    Instransparent breaking points for higher quality items. Sometimes the required points for a higher quality are met, but it’s still lower quality. This has already been reported on beta and obviously not been fixed. Exploit for Artisans    Professions are a mess because of the overall amount of bugs, exploits and stealth nerf, which lead to a quite frustrating experience.
    Some examples:
    Instransparent breaking points for higher quality items. Sometimes the required points for a higher quality are met, but it’s still lower quality. This has already been reported on beta and obviously not been fixed.
    Exploit for Artisans rep, where some people just switched between all professions and got their rep so high they could buy all the good stuff and have a huge advantage in the economy.
    The Alchemy exploit from the start of the expansion. Some people finished the experiments countless times and got all Alchemy recipes on one day. There was no rollback, no bans, nothing.
    Big stealth nerf to Fishing.
    Other issues:
    Huge amount of lags in some zones.
    Outdated looking gear, customisation options, race models - for some races at least and outdated visuals in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms and Northend.
    Evoker is op, thus pvp is still a mess with so many unbalanced classes.
    Same old faction restrictions, both for races that are stuck in only one facion and all the limitations for social interactions between players.
    The new ui keeps resetting for some reason.
    Lore is... well, very focused on love couples this expansion.
    Too many reskins and reused assets instead of actual new stuff.    … Expand
  11. Raskal
    Dec 5, 2022
    5
    A mediocre expansion at best, a rather underdeveloped game at worst.

    Things I like: The animations of Evoker. Awesome looking attacks and a funny dance. The new zone. Very beautiful. The evoker gets at least for wow standards a bit more customisations. Dragon riding, because it means we can fly right away without grinding. No dense faction war so far. Less chores. Talent trees.    A mediocre expansion at best, a rather underdeveloped game at worst.

    Things I like:
    The animations of Evoker. Awesome looking attacks and a funny dance.
    The new zone. Very beautiful.
    The evoker gets at least for wow standards a bit more customisations.
    Dragon riding, because it means we can fly right away without grinding.
    No dense faction war so far.
    Less chores.
    Talent trees.
    Murloc quest.

    Things I don't like:
    Evoker is just a reskin and not a new model, can only be one class, it can only be a male blood elf and a female human in visage form. Unlike all the other dragons, who can be whatever race they want to be.
    Rest of Azeroth, at least all zones before wod look hideous with such outdated visuals.
    All races still have almost no customisation options. Seriously, it is 2022. What we get here is laughable. It is also rather toxic to give some races almost no options at all, while others get in comparision a lot more.
    Still racial segregation like other mentioned aswell. 2022 and still racism in wow. Sorry, but that is just a no go. Let me finally have my dark iron in the Horde. Not a fan of a racist faction system at all. Never was. All races need to start neutral.
    I still miss player housing in this mmo. Again, it is 2022 and no player housing...    … Expand
  12. Mato8
    Jan 3, 2023
    5
    Dragonflight is a 5 out of 10... at best, because there really isn't much noteworthy, let alone new in this expansion.

    Dragon flying is copied from another game, so it is what it is. By all means, it's not bad and a nice little feature. It is good to have flying without that annoying grind we had in the previous expansions. For farming and similar things it is overall very impractical    Dragonflight is a 5 out of 10... at best, because there really isn't much noteworthy, let alone new in this expansion.

    Dragon flying is copied from another game, so it is what it is. By all means, it's not bad and a nice little feature. It is good to have flying without that annoying grind we had in the previous expansions. For farming and similar things it is overall very impractical though. Normal flying with a higher speed would be better. Unfortunatly normal flying and mounts aren't allowed on the dragon isles, because this game is still all about restricting players as much as possible.

    Speaking of restrictions, I'm glad more and more people start to criticize the racist faction system, because it really is racist and brings out the worst in some players, who use curse words and what not against other races in this game in chat.
    Yes, it's just a game, but that doesn't excuse the toxic behavior, which racial segregation evokes in the wow community, which more often than not insult other players just because of the races they'd like to play.
    I never liked how the wow devs force us to choose a faction based on the the races we want to be. That's very toxic and you really have to wonder, why such things are still in the game. It's also just unnatural to strictly divide races like this, as if they woudn't have any free will. As other people pointed out, a very outdated mindset.

    I thought a little about some races, which would probably be the easiest to start with, if not all races would get neutral right away.

    Easy Alliance races to start with for Horde:
    Lightforged Draenei, Mecha Gnomes, Dark Iron Dwarf, Kul Tiran, Gnomes, Draenei.

    Lightforged Draenei and Mecha Gnomes are on top of the list, because it makes zero sense for them not to be neutral.

    Dark Iron Dwarves, because there are more DIDs hostile towards the Alliance than the ones under Moira. So there surely are some, who would join the Horde. Not to mention that their whole being and look is Horde like, more so than some current Horde races btw.

    Kul Tiran, because some of them already worked with the Horde against the Alliance, so there are obviously groups, who would prefer the Horde.

    Gnomes, because firstly there already is a love story between a Gnome and Goblin and secondly some Gnomes surely would like to have access to Goblin's tech.

    As for Draenei, well they are very forgiving and they would be a good package together with LFD.

    Easy Horde races to start with for Alliance:
    Highmountain Tauren, Nightborne, Goblins, Vulpera, Blood Elves, Tauren

    Highmountain, Nightborne and Goblins, because it makes zero sense for them not to be neutral.

    Vulpera, similar to Goblins are traders. So taking a group of traders from Kul Tiras or elsewhere for the Alliance would be very easy.

    Blood Elves as High Elves already are in the Alliance. Just take away demon hunters and they are good to go.

    Tauren, more than enough neutral clans. So just take one, who wants to help the Alliance.

    It doesn't take much to come up with good reasons for all races being neutral and it would give players more freedom and take away some of all the toxcity in this game.
    Would probably be a reason for me to resub, even though wow would still lack many features in general and is pretty far behind for a game in 2023. But at least I could finally play the faction I actually like instead of being stuck in a faction I don't like at all.    … Expand
  13. Hiks
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    Complete lack of any class direction.
    Continual nerfing and so called balance based on what?
    Gear upgrades in the expac are tied to time gated rep... again. Not a fan of Blizzard's control issues, also regarding racial segregation, which forces players to pick a specific faction for races they like, instead of just picking the faction players actually prefer. That is just not possible    Complete lack of any class direction.
    Continual nerfing and so called balance based on what?
    Gear upgrades in the expac are tied to time gated rep... again. Not a fan of Blizzard's control issues, also regarding racial segregation, which forces players to pick a specific faction for races they like, instead of just picking the faction players actually prefer. That is just not possible due to racial segregation as many others in this comment section already criticized.

    For years fun and freedom has been taken out of this game, classes jerked around with insane unexplained and unacceptable reasoning behind deflating and killing off classes players want to play. It’s long over due for a complete overhaul in management.    … Expand
  14. Clarencek
    Dec 12, 2022
    0
    I’ve unsubbed after just 2 weeks of Dragonflight. I don’t care for yet another flop. I find this rush rush gameplay tiring and unrewarding. WoW was not built to be an esport, yet the only content those devs care for is raiding. Outside of raiding you find another boring barebones expansion and I won't stick around this time. Not after bfa and shadowlands, which were both annoying andI’ve unsubbed after just 2 weeks of Dragonflight. I don’t care for yet another flop. I find this rush rush gameplay tiring and unrewarding. WoW was not built to be an esport, yet the only content those devs care for is raiding. Outside of raiding you find another boring barebones expansion and I won't stick around this time. Not after bfa and shadowlands, which were both annoying and tiresome, too.
    I left feeling like I wasted my money yet again to be honest. This was such a loss in my book all around.

    Talent trees? Well, how about they would have never removed those in the first place?
    New race? Good joke. Just a scaly female Worgen and unlike other dragons we can't even use all races for visage. Why? Because the devs love restrictions.
    Changeable ui? Ohhhh, great! wow reached the year 2010.
    Dragon flying? Can I copy your homework, GW2?
    New zone? How about you would update like 80% of the game, that is still using visuals from the early 2000s?
    Actual modern customisation options with sliders, color palettes and such? Nah, we don't keep up with time here at Activision Blizzard.
    Can we finally socially and freely interact with people from the other faction, joining guilds and stuff? You know, stuff you usually do in a social game like a mmo? Woah! Being social in wow? Of course not!
    Did the devs finally remove racial segregation and let all playable races have their own free will and with that all races start neutral? No! We wanna keep racism as a foundation in wow. B- but look, we are totally progessive by removing genders! Right?!

    I could go on. Just not a game worth spending time and money on.    … Expand
  15. Ryan868
    Dec 13, 2022
    0
    Is Blizzard for real?
    They charge their players for each month, for each new expansion and have a giant ingame store and this is what we get?
    I've quit mid Shadowlands, because that expansion, aswell as bfa, were just overall awful and I was hoping the devs would finally put some work in their game for all that money. Updating the archaic graphics, bringing customization options to a    Is Blizzard for real?
    They charge their players for each month, for each new expansion and have a giant ingame store and this is what we get?
    I've quit mid Shadowlands, because that expansion, aswell as bfa, were just overall awful and I was hoping the devs would finally put some work in their game for all that money. Updating the archaic graphics, bringing customization options to a modern standard, removing frustrating restrictions like faction locked races, guilds, lfr, lfd and so on.... nothing. They did nothing of that sort.
    No visual updates, no limitations removed, no real features... no, dragon flying is not new, it is stolen from another game and they didn't even care to use a new skeleton/model for the so called "new" playable race.
    Wouldn't be surprised, if there are many players wanting a refund.    … Expand
  16. Kev912
    Dec 15, 2022
    0
    Dragonflight brings you more of the same with a rather uninspiring and boring story. Granted, the game is in a better position than battle for azeroth and shadowlands, but well... considering how bad the former expansions were, that really doesn't mean much.
    Especially for people like me, who care... or better cared for the lore up to Legion it is sad to see, that nothing was done about    Dragonflight brings you more of the same with a rather uninspiring and boring story. Granted, the game is in a better position than battle for azeroth and shadowlands, but well... considering how bad the former expansions were, that really doesn't mean much.
    Especially for people like me, who care... or better cared for the lore up to Legion it is sad to see, that nothing was done about Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. Same old and outdated patchwork rug without any improvements and updates whatsoever considering that the zones are all in different time zones and not up to date regarding the story... well, and graphics. So again I will have to unsub after just one month in to the new expansion.    … Expand
  17. Jeffrey3
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Evoker is supposed to be a new race... yeah... no, it is a reskin. Not a new race. It is also genderless... for some reason. For their visage form the devs reused the human and blood elf model... and put more rainbow colors on it, aswell as horns. Evoker can also be only one class. Overall a very lazy attempt of selling a so called new race. They could at least make all races available forEvoker is supposed to be a new race... yeah... no, it is a reskin. Not a new race. It is also genderless... for some reason. For their visage form the devs reused the human and blood elf model... and put more rainbow colors on it, aswell as horns. Evoker can also be only one class. Overall a very lazy attempt of selling a so called new race. They could at least make all races available for visage form. That would have made this low effort race at least a bit more interesting.

    Speaking of low effort, there are no new customisation options for the other races. It is so embarrassing how far behind this game is... in so many aspects. Same goes for visuals in so many zones. They never fix old zones. They just keep them with their old visuals and outdated lore like the warfronts to name only one of many examples, which are stuck in an endless loop, despite the dumb and forced war being over. Or other zones, who are literally using graphics from 2005... it is so embarrassing how this game looks.

    Dragon riding is fine, but it is copied over from guild wars. So you can hardly praise Blizzard for this feature.    … Expand
  18. Skribble
    Dec 2, 2022
    5
    Intro:

    First things first. For everyone searching for honest opinions, here is my advise after reading some reviews myself: You can ignore the extremes. Dragonflight is not a 0, there are some nice things in this expansion, however, it is also definitely not a 10. Those, who claim this game would be flawless are lying straight in your face and want to push a better score for a very    Intro:

    First things first.
    For everyone searching for honest opinions, here is my advise after reading some reviews myself: You can ignore the extremes.
    Dragonflight is not a 0, there are some nice things in this expansion, however, it is also definitely not a 10.
    Those, who claim this game would be flawless are lying straight in your face and want to push a better score for a very mediocre and way too expensive game, that took a lot of losses due to the horrible decisions of the devs over the last couple of years.
    However those, who only complain about the amount of lgbtq+, that was put in to the game aren't really a good source of criticism about the game itself either.

    With that out of the way, personally I would give Dragonflight a 5 out of 10 at best and here is why:

    Pro:
    The new zone is really beautiful, like all new zones and even though most of the npcs and nature elements you see there are only reskins of old models, it still looks great.

    The music is also very nice.

    Less grinding and chores than usual.

    The talent trees from vanilla are back.

    No more ridiculous and brain afk faction war stories so far.

    Cons:

    Graphic:
    Yes, the new zone looks nice... however the rest of the world really doesn't. It's been almost 2 decades, yet despite of all the money for the montly sub costst, the additional store and the costs or each new expansion we have to pay, there ist no overhaul regarding older zones.
    Azeroth looks broken and like a very dirty patchwork rug with graphics, that hasn't be upgraded for over a decade.
    I saw someone mentioning Stormwind and yes, that is probably the best example. It contains trees, buildings, statues, a sunny skybox, ships, some animal npcs and those poor, poor lion heads, that are still using the same graphic they had since the beginning.
    I had to laugh as I've read how someone described that 5 lion head or so had been updated, while the rest was just left there with their old graphics.
    It becomes clear very fast, that the devs are not putting the work in to the game, that they should.
    Same goes for the character models and customisation options, which just don't give you what you would expect for a game in 2022, especially for such a high price.
    Really disappointing.

    Factions and racial segregation:
    I'd also like to agree on the criticism regarding the racist faction system in wow.
    As much as I like it to have 2 opposing factions in this game, the way they are handled is beyond toxic and resulted in a very serious faction imbalance. Instead of fixing the problem however, the devs made the problem worse by various acts of favoritsm.
    Someone mentioned the destruction of various Alliance zones, aswell as putting all the mainstream races in Horde and even though I main Horde... because otherwise you don't get anything done anymore due to the lack of players on the Alliance side, I fully agree on that statement.
    Unfortunately the devs made the situation worse again with Dragonflights by giving the Horde access to the female human model, which leaves absolutely no reason to play Alliance.
    All mainstream races – blood elves, updated night elves in nightborne, Vulpera and now humans are found in the Horde.
    And here of couse lies one of the biggest problems of the entire game. Racism is one of the main reasons, why there is a faction imbalance in the first place.
    The race you want to play decides what faction you are allowed to join. It is a very archaic and toxic mentality, that should have been gone years ago, but here we are.
    And I can see why people think of the lgbtq+ content as being hypocritical with all the racism going on in this game.
    In order to bring balance back and just in general in order to get rid of such toxicity, racial segregation has to go. Every race should be allowed to be part of both factions.
    Additionally of course the devs have to let us play with the other faction asap, at least make it optional.

    The Evoker:
    Unfortunately this is not a new race, but by definition in wow only an allied race.
    What we have here is nothing but a female Worgen reskin. A female human and a male blood elf model for visage and that's it. Don't treat it as a new race, it really isn't.
    Their story is not innovative. It plays very similar to the story of demon hunters, which resulted in a rather boring experience.
    They can only be one class, which makes them also rather unappealing.

    The lore: So far they are ignoring all the big mistakes they made during bfa and shadowlands. Warfronts keep being warfronts despite the war being over and in general are older zones all in different time zones, which makes the world... again... look like a patchwork rug, not only because of the graphics, but also because of the lore. Conclusion: There is some nice content you can do with this expansion, however I can't recommend it due to all it's flaws and the expensive price.    … Expand
  19. Tedaku
    Nov 30, 2022
    3
    And again I am disappointed with this game...

    Where to begin... So... we aren't allowed to choose male or female, while creating a character... fine then? But why do we have to be genderless in order to not offend anyone, while at the same time being forced to participate in a racist faction system? Why are almost all races treated as if they have a hivemind, instead of free will?    And again I am disappointed with this game...

    Where to begin...

    So... we aren't allowed to choose male or female, while creating a character... fine then?
    But why do we have to be genderless in order to not offend anyone, while at the same time being forced to participate in a racist faction system?
    Why are almost all races treated as if they have a hivemind, instead of free will?
    Why is the way we look important for choosing a faction instead of making all races neutral and available for both playable factions?

    Interesting mindset these devs have. That's for sure.

    Dragon riding... well, Guild Wars II says hello.

    Recycling old races and mixing them into one is not what I would call a new race.

    Why is there still no old world revamp? No offence but the world of wow looks outdated af.
    And why are there still no color palettes and sliders for the races? This game is so far behind...    … Expand
  20. Urska
    Dec 3, 2022
    0
    Another failure of Blizzard.
    They sell us a new race, which in reality is a worgen reskin. They sell us a new feature with dragon riding, which in reality is copied from GW2. They give us a new zone, yet let the rest of the world in wow continue to rot with it's outdated graphics. They pretend to be progressive with lgbtq content, but keep racial segregation with their racist faction    Another failure of Blizzard.
    They sell us a new race, which in reality is a worgen reskin. They sell us a new feature with dragon riding, which in reality is copied from GW2. They give us a new zone, yet let the rest of the world in wow continue to rot with it's outdated graphics. They pretend to be progressive with lgbtq content, but keep racial segregation with their racist faction system as the very core of their game. Newsflash, portraying racial segregation as important and good, does not make Blizzard progressive in the slightest.
    And how much do they want for such a failure? Up to $89.99 for the expansion plus $14.99 each month.    … Expand
  21. HogXs
    Dec 1, 2022
    3
    A very halfbaked expansion for an incredibly expensive prise. Especially considering that we have to pay monthly for the game...

    The first thing to notice is of course the new race... which is not new at all. It is a female Worgen reskin. As a visage form they used female humans and male blood elves. The only difference to regular humans and blood elves is the colorful hair and makeup.    A very halfbaked expansion for an incredibly expensive prise. Especially considering that we have to pay monthly for the game...

    The first thing to notice is of course the new race... which is not new at all. It is a female Worgen reskin. As a visage form they used female humans and male blood elves. The only difference to regular humans and blood elves is the colorful hair and makeup.
    That is definitely not a new race and shouldn't be treated as one.

    The new zone looks nice and I can give some points for that, but what is up with all the other zones in that game? You would think with such age old graphics, that you are still stuck in 2004. Very, very bad looking.

    Unfortunately they didn't update the playable races, which means that races like night elves for example are still stuck with a very ugly looking model and what is it with these devs, that males always look like they are on stereoids and cranky old man? In general male... or now "body 1" humanoids look like clunky gorillas. They really aged very poorly.

    Dragon riding... yeah well, others already criticized that. At least give credit, if you have to copy other people's homework, Blizzard.

    I also noticed all the lgbtq pandering. I mean, fine, if you have to. But how about you remove the obvious toxic aspect in your game?
    Racism.
    It's the very first thing you let your players participate in.
    Dunno, but as a black person myself I always felt yucky about the racial segregation concept, which you use for Horde and Alliance.

    A rather meh expansion overall.    … Expand
  22. Criks82
    Dec 3, 2022
    0
    This game is so tiresome... jeez. Kill 10 from this, kill 10 from that... good story telling looks different, but even after almost 2 decades Blizzard sticks to the same boring formula, instead of telling us a deep and meaningful story.
    Scaly Worgen with their rainbow humanoid form... uhm, I mean the brand new dragon race of course, plays just like demon hunters. Made for war and then put    This game is so tiresome... jeez. Kill 10 from this, kill 10 from that... good story telling looks different, but even after almost 2 decades Blizzard sticks to the same boring formula, instead of telling us a deep and meaningful story.
    Scaly Worgen with their rainbow humanoid form... uhm, I mean the brand new dragon race of course, plays just like demon hunters. Made for war and then put to sleep for several thousand years. Lame.
    Nothing really new in this expansion and as others mentioned, the same idotic restrictions. Players can't play their preferred faction with their favorite races, because racial segregation is still a thing in wow. Yes, even in this day and age Blizzard sticks to racism. Just great.    … Expand
  23. Johnnyus
    Dec 1, 2022
    5
    Areas look good, dragon ridding buggy but fun, story really bad, again the same grind and now even more of a chore... Compared to Shadowlands it's pretty good but overall it's a rushed expansion trying to be progressive which is a good thing but it kept the massively racist remarks. Also they were waaaaaaay to lazy with the new race shaved scally worgen+human with makeup. Not really a 1Areas look good, dragon ridding buggy but fun, story really bad, again the same grind and now even more of a chore... Compared to Shadowlands it's pretty good but overall it's a rushed expansion trying to be progressive which is a good thing but it kept the massively racist remarks. Also they were waaaaaaay to lazy with the new race shaved scally worgen+human with makeup. Not really a 1 game but at max a 6.… Expand
  24. Emillio
    Nov 30, 2022
    3
    The so called new race is nothing but female humans and male blood elves with rainbow hair and make up with a female Worgen reskin. No new model whatsoever.

    Dragon riding is stolen from Guild Wars 2, without giving them credit. They left most of the world with graphics from the early 2000s, instead of finally updating it. Character customisations are not only extremely limited,    The so called new race is nothing but female humans and male blood elves with rainbow hair and make up with a female Worgen reskin. No new model whatsoever.

    Dragon riding is stolen from Guild Wars 2, without giving them credit.

    They left most of the world with graphics from the early 2000s, instead of finally updating it.

    Character customisations are not only extremely limited, they are also extremely uneven between the races, so that some races have a lot more options than others. Just way?

    Speaking of races, racism is still the very foundation of this game. The devs force teir players to use racial segregation in order to choose a faction.

    We have 2022 and there is still no player housing.

    I could go on, but in short: I yet again wasted my money for this game...

    There are some nice reskins and recolors on the the dragon isles, the new zone. So I guess I can give 3 points for that.    … Expand
  25. Zun78
    Dec 1, 2022
    4
    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    Understandably they try to look inclusive and open minded after the lawsuit. There is a ton of lgbtq things in the game now and all players are now non-binary with creating a new character.
    Not saying that is a good or a bad thing, but what really angers me is the fact, that despite putting so much lgbtq in the game, they kept their glorified    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    Understandably they try to look inclusive and open minded after the lawsuit. There is a ton of lgbtq things in the game now and all players are now non-binary with creating a new character.
    Not saying that is a good or a bad thing, but what really angers me is the fact, that despite putting so much lgbtq in the game, they kept their glorified racism as foundation in this game.
    Playable races are still strictly separated.
    So my race matters while deciding what faction I want to join?

    Like wtf, Blizzard? You can't claim to be progressive while at the same time keeping racial segregation of all things.

    I can't even with these toxic devs... That shows more than obviously, that all the lgbtq stuff is also nothing but a facade they put on.

    What else about this expansion...

    Well, for up to 90 Euro on top of the monthly sub costs you get a new race, which consists of humans with too much make-up and female Worgen with scales, tails and wings.
    Then there is the copied dragon riding animation from GW2 and a new zone.
    Old zones have still their very outdated graphics, no updates on customisation options, no dyeable gear, still no player housing and so on.

    Not worth it's money.    … Expand
  26. LazyLex
    Dec 4, 2022
    2
    This game has wasted enough of my time and I don’t want to spend more time on the review than Blizzard did this expansion. To keep it short: the game was released in Early Access and is no where near a finished product. Shameful.
  27. Joink
    Dec 2, 2022
    0
    Blizzard charges you up to $89.99 for the expansion, there is a huge ingame store and on top of that charge their players for each and every month.
    And what do we get? A reskin for Evoker with copy&paste human and blood elf visage form, that look like dragqueens. Copied dragon riding from GW2, stone age old graphics in most parts of Azeroth, massive amount of racism, starting right in the    Blizzard charges you up to $89.99 for the expansion, there is a huge ingame store and on top of that charge their players for each and every month.
    And what do we get? A reskin for Evoker with copy&paste human and blood elf visage form, that look like dragqueens. Copied dragon riding from GW2, stone age old graphics in most parts of Azeroth, massive amount of racism, starting right in the beginning with creating a character and even though it is 2022 still no player housing.    … Expand
  28. Usori
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    I'm starting to believe, that some people here have never actually played anything else but wow. There is almost nothing positive about this expansion.

    The new race is anything but new. They just baked humans, blood elves and worgen together, put a lot of rainbow on it and call it now a brand new dragon race. The devs were so lazy, that they even kept some of the animations of Worgen    I'm starting to believe, that some people here have never actually played anything else but wow. There is almost nothing positive about this expansion.

    The new race is anything but new. They just baked humans, blood elves and worgen together, put a lot of rainbow on it and call it now a brand new dragon race. The devs were so lazy, that they even kept some of the animations of Worgen for the oh so new dragon race.

    As others mentioned already, the only other new feature, dragon riding, is straight out of Guild Wars.

    They didn't even update all the old graphics. Azeroth looks like pixel mush.

    Again, like others already said, Blizzard tries very hard to look progressive after that gigantic lawsuit against them, but their double standards show very clearly.
    Lots and lots of lgbtq left and right, but racism is unchanged.
    We still choose a faction based on race.
    That is not progressive at all, Blizzard, lol.
    Calling racial segregation important for the factions...    … Expand
  29. Rockya
    Nov 30, 2022
    1
    I don't know why I even gave wow another try. Guess I was full of copium...

    As an Alliance player I hoped that the devs would finally stop being so biased and start caring for the Alliance... I was wrong. Very, very wrong. To give you some examples for what I mean by the devs being biased and toxic: - Teldrassil, Theramore, Gilneas, Ashenvale and probably some areas I forgot were    I don't know why I even gave wow another try. Guess I was full of copium...

    As an Alliance player I hoped that the devs would finally stop being so biased and start caring for the Alliance... I was wrong. Very, very wrong.

    To give you some examples for what I mean by the devs being biased and toxic:

    - Teldrassil, Theramore, Gilneas, Ashenvale and probably some areas I forgot were all destroyed by the Horde and we never got them back in game.
    They still are presented as being destroyed and under attack.
    - Stormgarde and darkshore are also destroyed by the Horde and are now stuck in a never ending loop of being a warfront.
    Again, we never got them back.
    All these zones and cities are left looking like trash now, thanks to the Horde.

    Yet the Horde never lost that much and even though they were the aggressor, attacking Alliance zones again and again, they got Undercity immediately back, after they poisoned that place themselves.
    - Night Elves and Worgen meanwhile are getting ignored and are still being refugees in Stormwind.
    And they didn't even care to update Stormwind. It uses graphics from 2004...

    So the abuser is being rewarded and the victims... nothing. How fair.

    Playable races:

    - Space goats for Alliance vs the only halfway decent looking humanoid race in that game, blood elves for Horde,
    Updated night elves/nightborne with now even more customisation options than night elves with a gigantic zone, the biggest city in the entire game and rich lore for the Horde vs copy&paste blood elves with terrible and very few hair styles, almost no customisation options, no zone, no city... they literally live in small tents on a rock... and almost no lore for the Alliance.
    - Better looking trolls, that use the night elf model vs... overweight and way too big humans...

    - And the biggest insult, the only new race Vulpera, a mainstream fox race, that could be straight out of a Disney movie vs... a customisation option for gnomes, the least played race in the entire game.

    And these are only some examples of the devs and their toxic behavior. Yet they claim to have no idea why there are almost no players left on the Alliance... sigh

    With dragonflights I hoped that we could at least get a zone for the night elves back and Gilneas for the Worgen. Nothing. We got nothing.

    Not only that, with the new dragon race they gave the Horde the very last halfway decent looking race on the Alliance side for the Horde, female human + the female Worgen model on top of that.

    Just wow. Well then, this was my last attempt of giving this game a chance. I don't want to be forced to pick the favorite faction of the devs. in order to be able to play this game, because the few, who are left playing this game are almost all on the red side.

    No, thanks.    … Expand
  30. KraxO
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    This game looks old... so, so old. Why do they want that much money for so little afford? Like seriously.
    They use the same graphics for over a decade now. Complete pixel mush in some areas. They didn't even updated the sky boxes. How lazy can you get?
    And what even is this new race? Why do they call it a new race when it very clearly is just a reskin, which can only be one class?    This game looks old... so, so old. Why do they want that much money for so little afford? Like seriously.
    They use the same graphics for over a decade now. Complete pixel mush in some areas. They didn't even updated the sky boxes. How lazy can you get?

    And what even is this new race? Why do they call it a new race when it very clearly is just a reskin, which can only be one class?

    They are years behind what you would expect of a modern game when in comes to customization options and also keep the archaic mentality of using racial segregation for the factions.    … Expand
  31. Villolo
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    Blizzard should be really ashamend of themselves.
    They sell us a reused model of female Worgen as brand new race. Their visage form is just female human and male blood elf with rainbow hair and skin. On top of that this race can only be one class and their lore is basically demon hunters 2.0. 0 creativity.
    For some reason they still use age old graphics in many zones with no updates.    Blizzard should be really ashamend of themselves.
    They sell us a reused model of female Worgen as brand new race. Their visage form is just female human and male blood elf with rainbow hair and skin. On top of that this race can only be one class and their lore is basically demon hunters 2.0. 0 creativity.

    For some reason they still use age old graphics in many zones with no updates.
    Take Stormwind for example. At some point a dev must have started to update the lion heads, but instead of updating all of them that person just updated a handful and left the rest with their early 2000s graphic. This is pure laziness.
    And do yourself a favor, don't look at the trees, the statues, the buildings, the sky... unless it's raining, npcs like wolves or some of the humanoid races you can play. Outdated graphics everywhere.

    I also agree with others. Being pro lgbtq+, but also pro racism is just... really awkward. I have no idea why Blizzard is still keeping racial segregation in the game. Could be a very shady mindset of the devs or pure laziness.. or both.

    Either way, another trash expansion so far. One can only hope, that they start using all that money they take from players and invest in actual new features in the next patch, like free faction choice without racism and player housing for example.    … Expand
  32. Hugosk
    Dec 1, 2022
    3
    Unfortunately Blizzard is very dishonest with their players.

    The most controversial aspect of wow is probably the fact, that the whole game is build on racism. You log in and first thing you have to do is choose a faction. A normal game in this day and age would make you choose a faction based on it's lore, it's values, maybe because of it's cities. Not wow though. It forces you to    Unfortunately Blizzard is very dishonest with their players.

    The most controversial aspect of wow is probably the fact, that the whole game is build on racism.

    You log in and first thing you have to do is choose a faction. A normal game in this day and age would make you choose a faction based on it's lore, it's values, maybe because of it's cities.
    Not wow though.
    It forces you to pick a side soley based on... yes, on race.

    Makes you wonder in what century the devs are liviing with this kind of mindset.
    So yes, except for Pandaren and Evoker all races apparently have a hivemind mentality and can't join a faction freely.
    Making racial segregation the biggest limitation for players is not just in general very questionable, it is also extremely annoying for players, who just want to play their favorite faction with their favorite races.
    Together with cross faction gameplay we could finally play where we want, what we want and with whom we want.
    But nope. Can't have that with Blizzard.

    So instead of removing racial segregation after almost two decades, they are trying very hard to make us believe, that they are progressive due to all the lgbtq content and the removal of genders.

    I have news for you. You can't be progressive, while at the same time treating racism as something necessary for the game.
    Kinda disgusting the more you think about it.

    Next up is the pure laziness when it comes to the virtual world of Azeroth, which has some newer visuals, which look nice, I give you that, but most of it's zones haven't been updated for over 15 years and that shows.
    Same goes for the very few options when it comes to character customisations and player models in general.
    It also shows in the new race, which is just a female worgen reskin.

    Can't recommend this game at all.    … Expand
  33. Quilzz
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    Blizzard is pretending to appear inclusive, but also want to stay racist. Hilarious.

    Think about all the lgbtq+ what you want, it falls flat the minute you use your brain and look at the very first thing Blizzard makes you do. Take part in racial segregation. Races in this game can't just choose the faction they feel connected to, making their own individual decisions. Oh no, Blizzard    Blizzard is pretending to appear inclusive, but also want to stay racist. Hilarious.

    Think about all the lgbtq+ what you want, it falls flat the minute you use your brain and look at the very first thing Blizzard makes you do. Take part in racial segregation.
    Races in this game can't just choose the faction they feel connected to, making their own individual decisions. Oh no, Blizzard makes almost all races use a hivemind mentality.
    Wanna make a dwarf and play Horde? NO!
    Wanna make a Tauren and play Alliance? NO!

    So yeah, Blizzard wants to keep racism and at the same time wants you to think of them as being progressive. it's actually really funny how dumb that is.

    Ah well, the new race is just a reskin, talent trees are back, which is nice, but it is certainly not a new feature, dragonriding is simply copied from another game and well... there really is nothing new in this expansion.
    Pretty insolent, if you think about how expensive this game is.

    Fully agree with others, who say the graphics etc. are outdated. I really wonder what they do with all the money they take from their players.    … Expand
  34. Rigor81
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    I honestly don't understand at all, why people would give this expansion a 10/10.

    The graphic is outdated, like really outdated. They didn't update it since 2004 in many zones and even main hubs and some people praise wow with a straight 10? Like... What? The customisation options are hilariously outdated aswell and very limited. Not only that. For some reason some races receive more    I honestly don't understand at all, why people would give this expansion a 10/10.

    The graphic is outdated, like really outdated. They didn't update it since 2004 in many zones and even main hubs and some people praise wow with a straight 10? Like... What?

    The customisation options are hilariously outdated aswell and very limited. Not only that. For some reason some races receive more options than others. The devs love being toxic, huh?

    Speaking of toxic, we are still not allowed to play with eachother, despite this being a mmo. Due to the racial segregation aspect, that doesn't allow players to pick their favorite faction with their favorite races, there is a huge faction imbalance, which the devs made worse and worse of the last years with their horrible decisions.
    But instead of removing racism, something that actually hurts the gameplay and faction balance... guess what?
    They instead removed genders. So all players have to be non binary now. What a joke.

    Some of the people here, that give it a 10, praise dragon riding... you do realise, that Blizzard stole that Guild Wars 2, right?

    The second feature of this expansion are the Evoker... another embarrassment.
    They just took the male model of blood elves, the female model of humans, put a lot of rainbow on it and gave the female Worgen model scales. That is your new dragon race.    … Expand
  35. Jakk8
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    Dragon riding was stolen from Guild Wars II.

    They tried to sell us a new race, which in reality is a worgen reskin and female human and male blood elf for visage form. No old world revamp. Graphics are outdated af. Far behind with customization options, meaning still no sliders and such. Some races have almost no customization at all. Seemingly Blizzard only adds some new options    Dragon riding was stolen from Guild Wars II.

    They tried to sell us a new race, which in reality is a worgen reskin and female human and male blood elf for visage form.

    No old world revamp. Graphics are outdated af.

    Far behind with customization options, meaning still no sliders and such. Some races have almost no customization at all. Seemingly Blizzard only adds some new options for their own fav races.

    Still racism all over the place.
    Playable races are still stricly seperated, meaning you have to look a certain way, to be in one of the 2 playable factions. I don't want to compare it to real life events, but the whole racial segregation concept in wow... yikes.

    The lore is very bad and just ignores old lore, instead of fixing all the mistakes of the last two expansions.

    We still can't play with the other faction, stuff like guilds, lfr, lfd etc. Meaning the devs just keep on ignoring the obvious faction imbalance, which they costs.

    Standard features like player housing for example is still non-existent in this game.    … Expand
  36. Naven
    Nov 30, 2022
    0
    Instead of virtue signaling and pushing their political agenda to the fullest, Blizzard should try actually making a decent game.
  37. Lattimere
    Dec 1, 2022
    0
    Filled with bugs and crashes. Dragon GLIDING not FLYING. All the woke crap is going to far. Massive time gates. Prediction: Shadowlands 2 just released.
  38. Zyky
    Dec 6, 2022
    0
    I was truly hoping to want to return to retail with Dragonflight, but I was bored and frustrated within the first 30 minutes. Unfortunately Blizzard front-ended Dragonflight with a single core feature “Dragonriding” and this feature leaves a lot between wanting more and causing me(and others based on forum feedback) motion sickness. I sadly won’t be returning.

    I want to update in saying    I was truly hoping to want to return to retail with Dragonflight, but I was bored and frustrated within the first 30 minutes. Unfortunately Blizzard front-ended Dragonflight with a single core feature “Dragonriding” and this feature leaves a lot between wanting more and causing me(and others based on forum feedback) motion sickness. I sadly won’t be returning.

    I want to update in saying that none of my opinions are related to anything regarding lgbtqia. My opinions are strictly about the quality of the game and my thoughts on why they do things Blizzard does. I don’t care what character is gay, bi, trans, inclusion is always appreciated for everyone to see characters they can relate to. What I do not condone is a lackluster game coupled with what feels like very minimal effort throughout the alpha/beta to solve problems during the testing phase.    … Expand
  39. Bernall
    Dec 1, 2022
    1
    Excesivamente caro el juego, teniendo en cuenta que debes pagar un dineral por la expansión y además la subscripcion, de la cual te obligan a pagar los 60 días. Para un juego del 2005 es demasiado caro, no sé si los que actualmente están jugando son consientes de que existen otros juegos mejores que el wow y lo único que quieren es desperdiciar su dinero. Si te hace falta autoestima y teExcesivamente caro el juego, teniendo en cuenta que debes pagar un dineral por la expansión y además la subscripcion, de la cual te obligan a pagar los 60 días. Para un juego del 2005 es demasiado caro, no sé si los que actualmente están jugando son consientes de que existen otros juegos mejores que el wow y lo único que quieren es desperdiciar su dinero. Si te hace falta autoestima y te sobra el dinero, está expansión es para tí.… Expand
  40. Thodrazi
    Dec 1, 2022
    10
    I dont know why people that clearly don't play are bombing ratings. Dragoniding is amazing and feels noticeably different to Gw. The new profession system is incredible.. like imo that's the standout. The open world content is the best since legion. There is so much you can do that it's almost overwhelming
  41. Cheezyz
    Jan 14, 2023
    2
    Dragonflight feels clunky, buggy and unorganized.
    Crafting isn’t fun because the new system is broken af, pvp isn’t fun because classes and factions are very unbalanced, the storyline is moot and cringe and parts of it are locked behind a renown grind. One of the many cheap tactics to keep players with too much time on their hands subscribed by forcing them to participate in a never    Dragonflight feels clunky, buggy and unorganized.
    Crafting isn’t fun because the new system is broken af, pvp isn’t fun because classes and factions are very unbalanced, the storyline is moot and cringe and parts of it are locked behind a renown grind. One of the many cheap tactics to keep players with too much time on their hands subscribed by forcing them to participate in a never ending grind.
    The "new" race Evoker doesn't even get a new model and is just a reskin. And despite it being the half baked reskin, that kinda works like worgen with blood elf and human for the visage form, the devs don't let us use all playable races for visage. So what we have here is a female worgen reskin as a "Dragon" race, that is not only locked to just one class, but also locked to only blood elf and human, despite the fact, that dragons can look however they want to look... In short, evoker is a complete failure.
    Dragon racing and dragon riding is a cheap copy from GW2's system. In wow however that system feels rushed and unfinshed. You have a ton of "political correctness" in Dragonflight with many lgbtq npcs all over the place. But despite Blizzard pretending to be political correct after a certain lawsuit went public, they kept racism in the game. You are still forced to choose a faction based on race. If you are a certain race you can't enter cities of the second faction, can't talk to certain other races, can't trade, can't quest together and most importantly, you can't join the second faction. So yes, Blizzard pretrends to be political correct by going the lazy way and quickly turning a bunch of npcs gay, trans or whatever and by removing genders and making all players non-binary, but the core problem of the game stays the same. Of course hypocrisy is nothing new here, if you know a little bit about the devs behind this game.
    I can at least give some credit for the amazing soundtrack this games has.
    However, Blizzard charge their players monthly sub costs, the cost for the expansion and a ton of microtransactions and I'm sorry, but that's just too much money they want for such a underdeveloped and outdated game. I mean, they don't even care to give that 18somthing year old world a visual overhaul. Sorry, but most zones and cities look ugly af.
    There are many more issues of course, but even writing about wow is frustrating, since I have to realise, that this is now the third time in a row I wasted my money on this game. Ah well, at least I can share my feedback here. Maybe it helps some peeps. Unfortunately this game is no longer for me. I gave it plenty of chances, because i want it to be good, but there seems to be an obvious lack of passion when it comes to the developers of this game.    … Expand
  42. FaunkaXiX
    Jan 13, 2023
    1
    It’s the same formula: Level–>grind–>dungeon–>raid–>repeat. I am tired of the treadmill and would like to see something different, but Blizzard proves time and time again, that they don't care to be on par with modern games and prefers to stay in the past and with past I mean that this game is as outdated as a game from the year 2009... at best.
    Outdated graphics, no player housing, gear    It’s the same formula: Level–>grind–>dungeon–>raid–>repeat. I am tired of the treadmill and would like to see something different, but Blizzard proves time and time again, that they don't care to be on par with modern games and prefers to stay in the past and with past I mean that this game is as outdated as a game from the year 2009... at best.
    Outdated graphics, no player housing, gear that is painted directly on the player's character model instead of normal 3d armor, which every modern game uses by now, outdated restrictions like racial segregation, so that we can't play our preferred faction with our preferred races... very progressive here, Blizzard... not. And anti social gameplay design with Horde and Alliance in general. Like... we can't do sh* together like just leveling and stuff. Wow is built on a very toxic and antisocial foundation and yes, it shows in the remaining playerbase.
    Grinding and crafting in this expansion is so bad, that you would think the game is built towards people with no lives where the only way to enjoy the expansion is to stop living your life and devote it entirely to this game. They even locked the story behind a gigantic grind wall (Renown). Not that the story in this game would be good, because it certainly isn't, but they even build a wall around basic stuff like that.
    Like... there are so many restrictions, limitations, grinding, horrible loot, crafting orders, toxic restrictions, lack of basic features and outdated graphics... it's ridiculous how this game is filled with time consuming brainlessly chores and full of short leashes for the players, so that they can't have freedom and fun.    … Expand
  43. Rankere
    Jan 29, 2023
    2
    There is really no fun in playing this outdated game that is even neglected by it's own developers by the looks of it.
    Because if you squeeze that much money out of your customers through very high xpansion costs, monthly sub and all the microtransactions and aren't ashamed that this game doesn't even reach the bare minimum of what you should expect from a modern mmorpg... then there is    There is really no fun in playing this outdated game that is even neglected by it's own developers by the looks of it.
    Because if you squeeze that much money out of your customers through very high xpansion costs, monthly sub and all the microtransactions and aren't ashamed that this game doesn't even reach the bare minimum of what you should expect from a modern mmorpg... then there is very obviously something wrong with this company.

    No player housing, almost no customization options -have fun with your nine hair styles, lol, seriously, wow is even worse than many mobile games with it' customizations, no dyable gear, 2 decade old graphics without any upgrades whatsoever in old zones, almost no emotes for characters, a racist faction system that is still treated as a good system.
    Like wtf?
    How are the developers still fine with a systematic separation of playable races instead of just giving players free faction choice? Do they not understand how living beings (yes even in a game) work? Or do they miss the old days in the USA and want to live that out in their game? Imagine socially enforced separation in 2023, that is treated as a pillar of this game's structure. Big yikes.
    It's just a very awkward mindset in this game, which is enforced on it's players and takes also away a big chunk of player freedom.

    Also the fact that so much is behind gates. Story, professions, raid and so on. I don’t want to have to grind rep to just find out the story or actually play the game. The story isn't worth grinding for anyway. Slightly better maybe than the mess that was bfa and shadowlands, but still very awful. You would have to obliterate the first half of bfa and all of shadowlands, if you would try to fix this mess.

    The so called new stuff in Dragonflight isn't good either and on top of that all the bugs in this expansion....
    Instead of creating a new race the developers just took the female Worgen model and put scales on it and this reskin is just... ok, that is my opinion, but it is so very ugly... The body is just so... uncanny-valley. Just really weird looking and since you can't transmog clothes you either take their standard outfit or run around naked. Yes, literally. Just nope. It doesn't help that this race can only be one class and only use female human and male blood elf for visage either. In my opinion a big failure.
    Professions as already mentioned are overly complicated, gated and just awful and dragonriding is maybe fun for some hours but it get's tiresome really soon.

    2 out of 10. Without big improvements this game won't see me again. So my advice atm: Stay away from Dragonflight. It will safe you a lot of frustration and money.    … Expand
  44. Elejoe
    Feb 4, 2023
    2
    This game is a gigantic failure and hardly deserves a higher score than 2/10.
    You would think after battle for azeroth and shadowlands they would try to improve at any cost. Nope.
    Dragonflight overall is mediocre I would say. Nothing new, tons of reskins and recolors and a stolen system with dragon riding. Story is meh. Same garbage systems like racial segregation for Horde and    This game is a gigantic failure and hardly deserves a higher score than 2/10.
    You would think after battle for azeroth and shadowlands they would try to improve at any cost. Nope.

    Dragonflight overall is mediocre I would say. Nothing new, tons of reskins and recolors and a stolen system with dragon riding. Story is meh. Same garbage systems like racial segregation for Horde and Alliance and big imbalance for classes and a bad system for professions.

    What does make it a gigantic failure however are all the game breaking bugs, constant maintenances and almost daily hotfixes that don't fix anything.
    The newest example would be their new FOMO trap for collectors, the trading post. It's completly broken for days and radio silence so far from Blizzard after they said they supposedly fixed it. It isn't fixed at all and still full of bugs.

    Seriously, do not play this game at the moment.    … Expand
  45. Cindra
    Feb 2, 2023
    0
    Buggiest expansion I've ever seen. Very many maintenances, so you can't even play it most of the time, especially, if you have a real life next to gaming and can't afford playing for the short periods of time every now and then when the servers are up.
    Quests are hyper focused on lgbtq... at the same time the whole game is built on racial segregation. Racism is fine I guess? Which is it    Buggiest expansion I've ever seen. Very many maintenances, so you can't even play it most of the time, especially, if you have a real life next to gaming and can't afford playing for the short periods of time every now and then when the servers are up.
    Quests are hyper focused on lgbtq... at the same time the whole game is built on racial segregation. Racism is fine I guess? Which is it Blizzard? Being progessive or the wish to keep racism for playable races? Can't be both. :))
    The Worgen reskin Evoker is uninspired and odd looking.
    Dragon riding is fine, but it doesn't save such a lackluster game.
    Cancelled my sub. Really bad experience.    … Expand
  46. Yellowi
    Feb 6, 2023
    1
    Dragonflight is broken af.
    It plays like a beta with all of it's bugs and completly broken systems. Just recently they released a fomo driven new feature named the trading post, which is also broken for days now. Both quest, chest and achievement is bugged.
    Completing a hunt is getting you no credit for aiding the accord by the way and my crimson gladiator necklace that I just bought    Dragonflight is broken af.
    It plays like a beta with all of it's bugs and completly broken systems. Just recently they released a fomo driven new feature named the trading post, which is also broken for days now. Both quest, chest and achievement is bugged.
    Completing a hunt is getting you no credit for aiding the accord by the way and my crimson gladiator necklace that I just bought today says the item cannot be modified when attempting to use any of the tiered medallion settings on it.
    I agree with others on metacritic too, though. Stuff like the racist faction system with it's toxic separation for playable races is horrible and not fitting for this century anymore. You have no free choice, if you want to be a certain race. Because everything in this game is divided and restricted to no end. It's awful.
    They also bring the servers down to fix their item shop, while so much around it is on fire. Scaling problems all over, idk why there's so many echants with an ilvl cap when you can't even use it because you zoom past the ilvl.
    So many zones are broken into multiple timelines now, there's no consistency with the open world anymore. Just a personal laundry list of complaints piling up.    … Expand
  47. Ubungo
    Feb 1, 2023
    3
    Bugs as far as the eye can reach.
    Faction imbalance still being ignored - Still racial segregation, while all races really should be neutral by now in order to give players free choice for factions. But I guess the devs really love their racist faction system? Idk. No cross faction guilds, questing, chat, trade and no cross faction lfr/lfd.
    Class imbalance is a dumpster fire in this    Bugs as far as the eye can reach.
    Faction imbalance still being ignored - Still racial segregation, while all races really should be neutral by now in order to give players free choice for factions. But I guess the devs really love their racist faction system? Idk. No cross faction guilds, questing, chat, trade and no cross faction lfr/lfd.
    Class imbalance is a dumpster fire in this expansion. Unplayable specs.
    Broken profession system.
    Customizations are like from a game from 2009, so little is there to choose and on top of that some races get noticeably less than other races.
    Story is really cringe, similar to bfa and shadowlands. It's also weird that the "Champion" of Azeroth just defeated the "Jailer" yesterday and today can't even handle some gnolls or a dragon, which makes bad weather.
    Graphics never get updated. Considering this game is almost 20 years old... yes, older zones and even the capitals look hideous.
    Solo and in general casual content is almost not there. This game still makes almost everything about raiding. That's one of the many reasons why this game isn't appealing.
    I only gave it 3 points out of 10 because it is at least a bit better than bfa and shadowlands, but as soon as my sub runs out... bye bye.
    There are not enough fun things in this game and it is so far behind other games and it annoys me that they still keep such racist aspects, that I really don't feel like supporting Blizzard any longer. I gave them so many chances to improve themselves and I think I'm just done with that company now.    … Expand
  48. Lami871
    Feb 7, 2023
    0
    Third awful expansion in a row. gg Blizzard.
    Story is poorly designed, boring, cringe and doesn't fix all the retcons and plot holes from previous expansions. It is also locked behind a renown grind.
    Trading Post aka FOMO Post is heavily bugged since launch. Crafting was turned into a senselessly mess. Races for factions are still heavily restricted, because the devs keep holding on to    Third awful expansion in a row. gg Blizzard.
    Story is poorly designed, boring, cringe and doesn't fix all the retcons and plot holes from previous expansions. It is also locked behind a renown grind.
    Trading Post aka FOMO Post is heavily bugged since launch.
    Crafting was turned into a senselessly mess.
    Races for factions are still heavily restricted, because the devs keep holding on to racism.
    Literally zero innovation. No player housing, no proper updates on customizations, no graphic overhaul, no nothing, just a copy&paste version, but worse, from GW2s dragon riding.
    Countless maintenances because of all the bugs.
    Classes are as imbalanced as ever.    … Expand
  49. Roagan
    Feb 20, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight is very dull and uninspired. Story is rep gated, cant even enjoy that. Professions are a convuluted mess. The community is as bad as ever, but to no wonder, given that they play a game with racism for Alliance and Horde, namely racial segregation of races apart from Pandaren and Dracthyr.
    No wonder some players adapt such racist mindset and use it against other players. This    Dragonflight is very dull and uninspired. Story is rep gated, cant even enjoy that. Professions are a convuluted mess. The community is as bad as ever, but to no wonder, given that they play a game with racism for Alliance and Horde, namely racial segregation of races apart from Pandaren and Dracthyr.
    No wonder some players adapt such racist mindset and use it against other players. This game is basically a heaven for people, who want to live out racism. Seriously, do not go in voice chat, if you want to run a raid or dungeon. If other player notice you have a dialect, instead of pure American english, they will harass you. I've lost count on how many times this happened. The devs foster to these people with their racist faction system. Wouldn't even be surprised, if some of them are racist aswell, given the lawsuit and all and since they are still keeping racial segregation in wow and seem to be proud of such a toxic system.
    The developers are also more into a spam dungeon type game vs giving us an actual mmo. In short, same old game with the same outdated stuff and mentality.    … Expand
  50. CrazedHippie
    Jan 6, 2023
    3
    Buggiest expansion that Blizzard has pushed to public use so far. Quests broken, classes broken, professions are ridiculously overly complex, and dragon flying is intermittently fun. The restructure of the 'talent trees' left a lot to be desired; fairly certain that they were designed by people who never actually played that class before. Stunned that anyone would positively review thisBuggiest expansion that Blizzard has pushed to public use so far. Quests broken, classes broken, professions are ridiculously overly complex, and dragon flying is intermittently fun. The restructure of the 'talent trees' left a lot to be desired; fairly certain that they were designed by people who never actually played that class before. Stunned that anyone would positively review this game at all, with droves of people leaving the game because it's frankly... not really worth the money or time to play. Questioning the 'glowing' reviews of anyone who thinks this expansion is excellent and wondering how much they were paid to write such tripe.… Expand
  51. Rogerios
    Feb 10, 2023
    2
    Guess it is time to just give up on this dated game.

    Racism is the very cornerstone of this game. You can't choose the faction you like and at the same time all the races you like, because racial segregation ist still a thing in this game. Considering the kind of devs, who work on this game it doesn't come as a surprise, though. The story, while bad and not really worth getting into    Guess it is time to just give up on this dated game.

    Racism is the very cornerstone of this game. You can't choose the faction you like and at the same time all the races you like, because racial segregation ist still a thing in this game. Considering the kind of devs, who work on this game it doesn't come as a surprise, though.
    The story, while bad and not really worth getting into after Legion, is locked yet again behind a gigantic renown grind. Why? Because the devs love your monthly sub fee.
    While fair play is a foreign word in this game, because of class imbalance, you wouldn't even want to participate in raiding. Dungeons and raids this time around are very boring.
    This game is also dated when it comes to it's graphics, no player housing, awful gear and clunky looking player models with almost no customizations.
    The world feels empty, even though my realm is supposed to be full. You really see how many players left over the last few years. wow almost feels like a ghost town these days.
    A ton of bugs in this expansion aren't helping either. Can't give it more than 2 points so far.

    I really don't know if they can save this expansion. We will see.    … Expand
  52. Fleik
    Feb 13, 2023
    3
    To call this expansion bare-bones and lackluster would be an understatement.
    There is nothing new, nothing that could keep players in the game for more than a month apart from raids and m+... as per usual. A huge letdown yet again.
    No player housing. No free faction choice, still racism. Still visuals from 2005. Still a messy world with inappropriate time lines all over the place. No    To call this expansion bare-bones and lackluster would be an understatement.
    There is nothing new, nothing that could keep players in the game for more than a month apart from raids and m+... as per usual. A huge letdown yet again.
    No player housing. No free faction choice, still racism. Still visuals from 2005. Still a messy world with inappropriate time lines all over the place. No noteworthy customizations and model updates.Class balance is a mess. Solo shuffle has 40 minutes queue times for dps. Meta is horrible for healers. Group loot makes the community even more toxic than it was before. The crafting system is a mess. You constantly stumble over dozens of bugs. The new race is just a reskin and not actually new and despite it being a dragon it doesn't even let you choose all of the playable races for visage. Not good so far. Really, really not good. Maybe better than bfa, wod and sl, but that is a very low bar.    … Expand
  53. Znippii
    Feb 14, 2023
    1
    The devs just never learn, even after 2 big failures they bring out another failure of expansion.

    If you didn't like the previous expansion you won't like this one. Simply because for some reason the devs just keep holding on to the same archaic stuff, that clearly didn't work, but they keep it anyway. This constant raid, m+ or die mentality is incredibly hurtful to the game, because    The devs just never learn, even after 2 big failures they bring out another failure of expansion.

    If you didn't like the previous expansion you won't like this one. Simply because for some reason the devs just keep holding on to the same archaic stuff, that clearly didn't work, but they keep it anyway. This constant raid, m+ or die mentality is incredibly hurtful to the game, because they sell it as a mmorpg, yet it has become nothing but an e-sport game and even at that it is bad, because they can't balance classes properly.

    Regarding rpg you get almost nothing and definitely nothing new. This game is now 18 years or so old. Normal devs, especially those with so much money on their hands like Blizzard, would maybe start updating their game, the graphics, the player models, customizations, normal features for today's games like player housing and proper gear... they ignore all of it. Like literally all of it.
    This game's world is a dumpster fire to put it lightly and ugly to look at, beginning with the character selection screen, which not only forces you to take part in a racist faction system based on racial segregation, it also gives you poorly aged avatars, that didn't even receive basic things like sliders and color pallets over the last two decades.

    Professions aren't fun either. It feels like a gold sink and if you do alts, it feels like a job. It feels now like a chore to do more quests to keep up with the knowledge points so professions are taking up even more time, arbitrarily for barely any return. The crafting order system is truly a nightmare. Even crafting consumables for yourself is a gold loss because the mats cost more than the product does on the auction house.    … Expand
  54. Wr3n
    Jan 5, 2023
    2
    Same crap different year. Grinding the same 8 dungeons, 1 raid, PvP is a mess behind an enormous ridiculous grind after they lied incessantly about it before the expansion came out.

    Biggest waste of £40 in gaming, only addicts will enjoy this steaming faeces. No semblance of Warcraft in the game, complete waste. I pray WoW dies soon so we may get something better. Avoid.
  55. Shigio
    Feb 23, 2023
    2
    Terrible, just terrible. There is nothing impressive about this expansion and it is certainly not worth it's money atm.
    It is still a worthless timegated game full of brainlessly grinds, to keep you paying your monthly sub fee.
    I agree mostly with what other players already wrote. No innovation, no updates on the graphics or customization options/models, ton of discrimination in the    Terrible, just terrible. There is nothing impressive about this expansion and it is certainly not worth it's money atm.
    It is still a worthless timegated game full of brainlessly grinds, to keep you paying your monthly sub fee.

    I agree mostly with what other players already wrote. No innovation, no updates on the graphics or customization options/models, ton of discrimination in the community along with the racist faction system, which is still forcing us to choose a side solely on race, many bugs, a very lazy Worgen reskin, which was sold to us as a brand new race and it can only use male belf and female human for visage and the dragon form can't wear clothes, cringe story...

    2 points are really only for a decent soundtrack and for not continuing the dumb faction war story.    … Expand
  56. Sosoray
    Feb 27, 2023
    1
    Pretty bad so far and it is even worse with all the bugs this time than it was in bfa and sl.

    Like... I can't use the revival catalyst even though I have the 385 cloth chest vestment of raging tempest for example. Or all the bugs with the trading post, which took over a week to fix and it is still rather buggy sometimes. Or all the chests on the dragon isles, which are unopenable like    Pretty bad so far and it is even worse with all the bugs this time than it was in bfa and sl.

    Like... I can't use the revival catalyst even though I have the 385 cloth chest vestment of raging tempest for example. Or all the bugs with the trading post, which took over a week to fix and it is still rather buggy sometimes. Or all the chests on the dragon isles, which are unopenable like the icy lock and molten lock chests. Like... can you fix this crazy amount of bugs pls? There are so many more bugs, it's ridiculous.

    Same goes for this crazy rich company and their complete lack of investment in older zones. They use graphics from the early 2000s. Like wtf is wong with the devs. This game looks so old and ugly. It is also rather ugly to keep racial segregation like I saw a few mention already. Like... what gives to keep such a racist system for the factions Blizzard?

    Overall there is not much to name in this expansion. We get basically the same things like always, so be prepared to get bored very fast if you are not a m+ raider. I don't like that weird looking Dracthyr race either. Looks like Worgen with scales and it has only male blood elf and female human with rainbow hair for visage. Not really appealing and really boring looking.    … Expand
  57. Lars98
    Mar 2, 2023
    2
    I don't like it so far. Music is nice as always, but the rest is lackluster.
    So they gave us a new race, the Dracthyr, but let's be honest here, it is a reskin of an old model and doesn't even have two genders and it also can't wear clothes for some reason, only 2 sets or so. Yes, Blizzard makes us run around naked... Not my cup of tea. It is supposed to be a dragon race and dragons in    I don't like it so far. Music is nice as always, but the rest is lackluster.
    So they gave us a new race, the Dracthyr, but let's be honest here, it is a reskin of an old model and doesn't even have two genders and it also can't wear clothes for some reason, only 2 sets or so. Yes, Blizzard makes us run around naked... Not my cup of tea. It is supposed to be a dragon race and dragons in wow can look lile whatever they want.
    And so we meet another limitation, because unlike dragons the Dracthyr can only use male blood elf and female human for visage.
    Why? Probably because the devs are lazy like always.
    I can only repeat other people, but it is true, after almost 20 years there are still no updates for the visuals in this game. Most zones look hideous in wow.

    Another point I'd like to agree on is the criticism regarding racism in wow.
    The whole game uses racism as it's foundation. Let that sink in.
    Even though we are living in the 21. century. Racial segregation is not treated as bad, but as good for the faction system of Horde and Alliance. Race is more important than value. I think I don't need to add more.
    It's both from a gameplay perspective and from an ethical point of view a really bad restriction for the community. Races should be neutral, yet they aren't. Race is more important than anything else in this game. The way you look is what dictates what faction you are allowed to join.

    While dragon riding as the only new feature in this expansion makes travel across the dragon isles easier than in previous expansions, it becomes boring very fast. because we aren't allowed to use our normal mounts and dragon riding is also really bad for farming.

    Other than that there is really not much to talk about. Pretty much the same old restrictions, limitations and lack of standard mmo features like player housing. Not really a game I would recommend.    … Expand
  58. YongChi
    Mar 4, 2023
    3
    It is astonishing that Blizzard is charging us for such a bad expansion. Given how many bugs there are and how little new things they added, they should pay us for testing the game, because it plays like a Beta. Might be a little harsh on my part, but this expansion really is half-baked so far.

    Let's start with so-called new features: Dragon flying. It's good to let players fly right    It is astonishing that Blizzard is charging us for such a bad expansion. Given how many bugs there are and how little new things they added, they should pay us for testing the game, because it plays like a Beta. Might be a little harsh on my part, but this expansion really is half-baked so far.

    Let's start with so-called new features:
    Dragon flying. It's good to let players fly right at the beginning, but it is not really flying. It is a watered-down version of the flying system in Guild Wars 2.
    I am not in general against copying features from other games, but they should at least do it right. Dragon riding in wow is not good and so far we can only use four mounts in the new zone. Not fun.

    Dracthyr is an overhauled female Worgen model, which even kept some of the Worgen animations like the sitting pose. Not very innovative. The design by itself is in my opinion meh, especially the head is really tiny compared to the body.
    What bothers me the most however is the fact, that despite it being a dragon, the dracthyr can't use all playable races for visage, but only female human and blood elf. That and in dragon form they can't use transmogs.
    All in all this race looks like a last minute project, which never got finished.

    I wish there would be more new features, but that is pretty much all. So I fully understand people complaining that they got shafted with this expansion. Blizzard gave us more of the same, but of course charged us anyway for this expansion.

    I think what they should do in order to save this expansion is:
    Adding all playable races for visage and to give the dragon form transmogs.
    Making all races neutral and available for both factions asap. As many stated, racism should not be a pillar of this game.
    Get skilled devs for the classes.
    Update the graphics, models and expand on the customizations (no, not just 5 more hair colors every few months. That is laughable and pretty embarrassing).
    Add mmorpg features, instead of making everying about e-sport.
    Fixing the lore. Not sure if that is still possible after the last expansions, but a mmorpg with cringe story like the one in wow is not really fun to play.    … Expand
  59. Rizaun
    Jan 1, 2023
    5
    Another expansion, another proof that Blizzard is one of the most incompetent game developers in the industry. All the issues in this expansion are proof that it was rushed and wasn't thoroughly tested, all because Blizzard was desperate to try to bring back subscribers as soon as possible after the failure that was Shadowlands.

    Many players are suffering from poor performance since the    Another expansion, another proof that Blizzard is one of the most incompetent game developers in the industry. All the issues in this expansion are proof that it was rushed and wasn't thoroughly tested, all because Blizzard was desperate to try to bring back subscribers as soon as possible after the failure that was Shadowlands.

    Many players are suffering from poor performance since the pre-patch dropped and Blizzard has gone completely silent about the issue. Dragonflight's main feature, Dragon Riding, is terribly broken. Blizzard attempted to copy Guild Wars 2 mount system and failed spectacularly. Dragon Riding is clunky, buggy and overall broken. The more time you spend on it, the more issues you will notice. I have gotten disconnected from the game due to collision issues during Dragon Riding over 20 times in the same day. Dragon Riding also makes all other mounts completely obsolete in the new areas as they are designed with Dragon Riding in mind.

    The expansion doesn't offer anything new or exciting, it's exactly what they've offered before. The endgame consists of 4 old dungeons, 4 new dungeons and a raid. That's it, there's nothing else that is good. The rest of the endgame consists in mindless tasks such as grinding reputation for different factions or doing boring events, most of which doesn't even require you to do anything except being present during the event.

    The game is also infested with bots that ruin gathering professions by teleporting from one gathering node to another and Blizzard doesn't take action against them and makes it nearly impossible for players to report them.

    The expansion is also full of bugs in every aspect of the game. Broken visuals, broken abilities, broken talents, broken quests, etc. Blizzard also continues to use the Race to World First as live beta testing for the Mythic difficulty because they don't want to bother testing the raid themselves, after all, they know that the top raiders in the world will test them for free anyway.

    Creative Business Unit III continues to prove being better MMO developers than Blizzard and it looks like it's never going to change.    … Expand
  60. inflames14
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    This game USED to be pure escapism. It was a place one could go to escape the world, it’s conflicts, it’s tiresome social warring. As an original player who has never missed an expansion, I was excited for Dragonflight after the semi-disaster that was SL. 2 hours in, and it’s clear the Woke Mind Virus has thoroughly infested the WoW team as the number of times I’ve been bludgeoned withThis game USED to be pure escapism. It was a place one could go to escape the world, it’s conflicts, it’s tiresome social warring. As an original player who has never missed an expansion, I was excited for Dragonflight after the semi-disaster that was SL. 2 hours in, and it’s clear the Woke Mind Virus has thoroughly infested the WoW team as the number of times I’ve been bludgeoned with pro-LGBT storylines and suggestions is appalling. This game should NOT be a place for this. It’s completely out of place and it’s absurd that it’s been turned into yet another real life social battleground. Do better, Blizzard. Absolutely appalling.… Expand
  61. woodpost
    Jan 24, 2023
    2
    Blizz is increasingly only focusing on the narrow band of players that predominantly just want to push M+/Raids, and PVP. they've done this by fast-tracking the leveling experience, and gutting or removing most of the content and systems that slowed these players down, or didn't appeal to them. as a result, there's almost no fun/meaningful/rewarding solo/open-world content for the rest ofBlizz is increasingly only focusing on the narrow band of players that predominantly just want to push M+/Raids, and PVP. they've done this by fast-tracking the leveling experience, and gutting or removing most of the content and systems that slowed these players down, or didn't appeal to them. as a result, there's almost no fun/meaningful/rewarding solo/open-world content for the rest of us to progress through or engage with. i think Blizz meant for the professions revamp to fill some of the void, but it's far too expensive and convoluted for most players to deal with. if you're mostly a solo/open-world type player, this is definitely not an expansion for you.… Expand
  62. Paris_St
    Feb 1, 2023
    0
    I used to be a big fun, adored the game, it was my favourite game. I had some of the best years of my gaming life playing WoW. What it has become saddens me so much. I miss the good old days blizz cared for their games and community. It was not just a product, it was if i can describe it right a living organism. Now....just a husk of it's former self with nothing but a goddamn in gameI used to be a big fun, adored the game, it was my favourite game. I had some of the best years of my gaming life playing WoW. What it has become saddens me so much. I miss the good old days blizz cared for their games and community. It was not just a product, it was if i can describe it right a living organism. Now....just a husk of it's former self with nothing but a goddamn in game shop, a bunch of cosmetics and a huge amount of copying and pasting.… Expand
  63. IzzyCA
    Feb 17, 2023
    2
    It is better than previous expansions, yet carried over previous issues like the racist faction system as mentioned by others, that needs to go already, all races should be neutral and also gearing for example, they nerfed it in SL, and then made some powerful items rare drops which furthered the issue.
    Then all the myriad issues with the traders system, the botched key scaling that took    It is better than previous expansions, yet carried over previous issues like the racist faction system as mentioned by others, that needs to go already, all races should be neutral and also gearing for example, they nerfed it in SL, and then made some powerful items rare drops which furthered the issue.
    Then all the myriad issues with the traders system, the botched key scaling that took too long to solve, and just overall the DF dungeons being tedious to play due to all the interrupts.
    Renown has too much tied up into it. Professions are annoyingly over complicated and you will have no fun healing in dungeons. That I can guarantee you.    … Expand
  64. Comirso
    Mar 15, 2023
    5
    Firstly, let's talk about the loot system. The group loot system in Dragonflight is highly flawed.
    It's frustrating to spend hours battling through dungeons or raids, only to receive sub-par loot that isn't even suitable for your character's class or specialization. This system also promotes selfishness among players, as everyone is trying to snag the best items for themselves. It's a    Firstly, let's talk about the loot system. The group loot system in Dragonflight is highly flawed.
    It's frustrating to spend hours battling through dungeons or raids, only to receive sub-par loot that isn't even suitable for your character's class or specialization. This system also promotes selfishness among players, as everyone is trying to snag the best items for themselves. It's a shame that Blizzard didn't address this issue before releasing the expansion.

    Another major flaw is the outdated segregation of playable races. It's disappointing that players are still forced to choose between Horde and Alliance factions and cannot play as all races on either side. This limits players' choices and can lead to frustration when wanting to play a specific race on the opposite faction. It's time for Blizzard to move past this outdated system and provide players with more freedom in character creation.

    The profession system in Dragonflight is also complicated and convoluted. The crafting process is needlessly complicated, making it difficult to craft useful items for your character. It's frustrating to have to spend hours researching and crafting to create something that isn't even that great. The profession system needs a complete overhaul to make it more accessible and user-friendly.

    The class balancing in Dragonflight is also unimpressive. Some classes are just much more powerful than others, which leads to an unfair advantage in PvP and PvE situations. This imbalance can make the game less enjoyable for those who don't play the strongest classes, and it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

    The new race, Drakthyr, is also rather uncreative. Additionally, the fact that it can't use all playable races for its visage is a letdown.

    Finally, apart from the new feature of dragon riding, there aren't many new features in Dragonflight. It feels like a missed opportunity for Blizzard to introduce innovative gameplay mechanics and fresh content that would keep players invested in the game.

    In conclusion, while Dragonflight has its moments, it ultimately falls short of expectations due to its flawed loot system, outdated race segregation, complicated profession system, unbalanced classes, lack of open-world content and lack of new features.    … Expand
  65. Ethan717
    Mar 16, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight, the newest expansion, has me left disappointed with its lackluster features, numerous bugs, and outdated design choices. While some may still find enjoyment in the game, it's hard to overlook the significant flaws that plague this expansion.

    One of the biggest problems with Dragonflight is the number of bugs. From game-breaking glitches to minor annoyances, the sheer    Dragonflight, the newest expansion, has me left disappointed with its lackluster features, numerous bugs, and outdated design choices. While some may still find enjoyment in the game, it's hard to overlook the significant flaws that plague this expansion.

    One of the biggest problems with Dragonflight is the number of bugs. From game-breaking glitches to minor annoyances, the sheer volume of bugs makes the game feel unfinished and unpolished. It's frustrating to encounter problems that could have easily been fixed before release.

    Another issue is the class imbalance, which makes certain classes feel op while others are left in the dust. It's a problem that has been present in previous expansions, but it's disappointing to see it still exists in Dragonflight.
    The profession and crafting system is another letdown, with few improvements made from previous expansions.
    Despite the game's longevity, there is still no player housing system. This is a common feature in modern MMOs, and its absence in wow is a significant disappointment for players who want to create a personal space in the game. Additionally, many modern MMO features are lacking, making wow feel outdated compared to its competitors.

    The new playable race, Dracthyr, is also a letdown. Not only is it a boring looking, but its limited options for visage customization are baffling. A dragon should be able to take on the appearance of any race, not just male blood elf and female human. This restriction makes little sense and is a missed opportunity for players to create unique characters.
    The avatar models for the existing races are outdated and lack customization options. The transmog system is also outdated, and many sets use the same designs with different colors.
    WoW also still suffers from too much focus on e-sports and not enough on actual MMORPG content. The game's racial segregation is still in place, which means that players cannot choose their favorite faction and races together. This outdated faction system is holding the game back in free player choice.

    The story in Dragonflight is locked behind a grindy renown system, which makes it difficult to fully experience the game's narrative. The storytelling itself is also lackluster, with little depth or nuance. This is a significant disappointment again.

    Finally, the graphics in many zones of the old world are very, very, very dated and unimpressive. The game feels more or less the same as it has for years, with few new additions to make it feel fresh and exciting. Dragonflight is a disappointing expansion so far that fails to live up to the expectations of its players.    … Expand
  66. Floofies
    Dec 26, 2022
    0
    Somehow an expansion that almost entirely is worse than Shadowlands, proving Blizzard with it's current dev team are getting REALLY good at making a REALLY BAD game!

    Dragonriding with an energy system, when the game has gathering and you're going back and forth between high cliffs and low ground so you're always running out of vigor on a farming route. Dragonriding which causes motion    Somehow an expansion that almost entirely is worse than Shadowlands, proving Blizzard with it's current dev team are getting REALLY good at making a REALLY BAD game!

    Dragonriding with an energy system, when the game has gathering and you're going back and forth between high cliffs and low ground so you're always running out of vigor on a farming route.
    Dragonriding which causes motion sickness even with the 'accessibility' settings.
    Dragonriding which can't do sharp turns like regular flying mounts and can't just fly up because 'losing momentum', so everything but the 'max speed' is worse than regular flying.

    Questing experience again, 'campaign' streamlined which is always a poor choice.

    Renown is another poor system they're pushing forward to keep it limping, and it's not account wide like people gave the feedback for. No real catch up mechanics besides "Oh hey you earn a little more while doing all the quests again!" which hey, people don't want to do because the questing is a slog and a chore.

    Basically the removal of World Content as a whole, and what World Content there is, like World Quests have poor rewards and are generally unfun to play through.. So many more 'minigames' instead of I don't know, playing my character? They're LESS compelling than SL WQs which is saying something.

    New Profession system, requiring MONTHS of working on and farming to level up properly, and CRAFTING professions are now basically untenable without others helping you, you have to PAY them to get help btw so Blizzard fosters more community toxicity again while claiming to want to fight it (again). Continued disabling of certain profession things like Transmutes because someone figured out an exploit and Blizz has no Quality Assurance team.

    Customization options still lacking for many races, especially those of furred variety, as well as the utter failure that is the Dracthyr.

    They've really been pushing cash shop transmog and other items since the xpac launched, right after making you shell out a large sum of money for a game on top of monthly fees you have to PAY more to get the 'cool new items'. If they want to do that they're gonna have to make expansions or sub free, sorry.

    Class Balance is an absolute joke in PvE and PvP this time around and in old world content like older cities, players with broken Heart of Azeroth essences have a large advantage as well as tanks that just self-heal to max and take so little damage.

    Talent Trees TRIED to return to Vanilla style and failed, taking base things from class toolkits and making them talents to make them 'feel better' but failing. I DO NOT want to have to 're-earn' something I already had before.

    Blizzard also doesn't equally enforce their rules in game or on the forums, and in fact rarely actions anything at all. Low amounts of reports mean nothing, meaning Blizzard doesn't value their reports and doesn't care.    … Expand
  67. artchild
    Feb 9, 2023
    2
    The story in so damn bad.. No more soul in World of Warcraft unfortunatualy. Every single strong dragon is a - Woman, every single dialogue between main characters feel like bad comedian joke, zero new mechanics, game is very boring and etc.

    Blizzard have no time to find a good story writer but they have time to remove some old queasts what they find "abusive" or chancge gender icon    The story in so damn bad.. No more soul in World of Warcraft unfortunatualy. Every single strong dragon is a - Woman, every single dialogue between main characters feel like bad comedian joke, zero new mechanics, game is very boring and etc.

    Blizzard have no time to find a good story writer but they have time to remove some old queasts what they find "abusive" or chancge gender icon from male/female - to bodytype 1/2. They have a so damn many different people working in their company what contains "inclusivity and diversity" but noone from these "inclusive" people have no clue about World of Warcraft, that's why this game is getting worse and worse.

    Only one good stuff about this DLC is riding dragons - that's it.    … Expand
  68. Joshua-NOT-josh
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    I don't understand how WoW gets WORSE with each expansion, but here's a few of my gripes;
    1) "Smushed levels" ...expansions increased level cap to 120, until shadowlands, when the levels got 'smushed' and set most folks back WEEKS, if not MONTHS of grinding. New level cap is 70... for now.
    2) ZERO ability to follow the storyline from main game to 1st expansion to current; game bounces    I don't understand how WoW gets WORSE with each expansion, but here's a few of my gripes;
    1) "Smushed levels" ...expansions increased level cap to 120, until shadowlands, when the levels got 'smushed' and set most folks back WEEKS, if not MONTHS of grinding. New level cap is 70... for now.
    2) ZERO ability to follow the storyline from main game to 1st expansion to current; game bounces you from zone to zone, expansion to expansion without regard to continuity, story, or your level. [Yay, level scaling! ..not]
    3) speaking of lack of continuity, large portions of expansions, if not ENTIRE CITIES have been altered, tweaked, or simply retconned out of existence, 'for the sake of plot' [which again, one huge jumbled mess]
    4) some zones have had 'visual makeovers' while most older zones look like you're playing a game on a sega genesis... ZERO consistency in visual fidelity.
    5) PvP has been a hot mess since the Legion expansion, which was released NEARLY A DECADE AGO!

    and thats just my top five gripes.    … Expand
  69. Vitalick
    Jan 6, 2023
    5
    Parece que están tomando mejores decisiones que los últimos años y esta expansión está bastante entretenida y chula pero el juego sigue con los mismos problemas de siempre.

    Tarifa de suscripción abusiva, lag y crasheos casi a diarios, buscador de mazmorras que no funciona, servidores medio vacios que no se dignan a unir para que pagues migraciones y una base de jugadores muy toxica. Un    Parece que están tomando mejores decisiones que los últimos años y esta expansión está bastante entretenida y chula pero el juego sigue con los mismos problemas de siempre.

    Tarifa de suscripción abusiva, lag y crasheos casi a diarios, buscador de mazmorras que no funciona, servidores medio vacios que no se dignan a unir para que pagues migraciones y una base de jugadores muy toxica. Un servicio no acorde a lo que uno espera con lo que te cobran.

    Así que en resumen mas de lo mismo de siempre , uno de los mejores mmo con una de las peores gestiones.    … Expand
  70. Slydaqt
    Jan 3, 2023
    0
    The whole feel and comfort of wow is just.. gone. Dragonriding was fun for a day but became a boring gimmick, especially since it's a rip off of gw2 flying. Customer service has now become an absolute joke.
    The new profession overhaul is terrible, public orders are never existent and seems like an absolute waste of development. The whole development team seem clueless and continue to    The whole feel and comfort of wow is just.. gone. Dragonriding was fun for a day but became a boring gimmick, especially since it's a rip off of gw2 flying. Customer service has now become an absolute joke.
    The new profession overhaul is terrible, public orders are never existent and seems like an absolute waste of development. The whole development team seem clueless and continue to change things that made wow good. Sell out to Microsoft thanks.    … Expand
  71. AlgorosX
    Jan 15, 2023
    1
    It is much to expensive for the content. The Graphic is old, the new class has a good fighting system but the other not, lame Quests, okay story
  72. linasovereign
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    Clearly another fail from Blizzard, as usual...

    Technically catastrophic, optimization problems, texture problems, infamous lags in certain areas, slow, incompetent and rude support team. The lore has been written by 12 years old teenagers. Secondary quests are pointless. The new talent tree is a big mess, and M+ dungeons way too difficult. Even with a nerf, ruby life pools is    Clearly another fail from Blizzard, as usual...

    Technically catastrophic, optimization problems, texture problems, infamous lags in certain areas, slow, incompetent and rude support team.

    The lore has been written by 12 years old teenagers. Secondary quests are pointless.

    The new talent tree is a big mess, and M+ dungeons way too difficult. Even with a nerf, ruby life pools is unplayble.

    Clearly not worth the price, when you think you have to pay a sub, i'm glad my bank accepted to do a chargeback on my payment.    … Expand
  73. tonywony
    Dec 26, 2022
    0
    Dragonflight is a step in the right direction, but falling flat in some areas. Worth playing for fans of the IP, but long time fans are going to feel left out in some areas.

    Pros: -End Gameplay is solid: removal of bloated systems and a return to simplicity makes the game feel more like a game again. -Professions Overhaul: MMORPG staple finally brought to modern standards.    Dragonflight is a step in the right direction, but falling flat in some areas. Worth playing for fans of the IP, but long time fans are going to feel left out in some areas.

    Pros:
    -End Gameplay is solid: removal of bloated systems and a return to simplicity makes the game feel more like a game again.
    -Professions Overhaul: MMORPG staple finally brought to modern standards.
    -Dragonflying: a perfect replacement for "swimming" through the air.
    -wPvP and PvP are back: rewards for both fighting the opposite faction out in the world, and in instances on ladder. Solo queue has finally been implemented, but...

    Cons:
    -War in Warcraft has been diluted: actual fans of the IP for the long term understand Horde vs Alliance. Working together with the opposite faction as a fan of the original game this much just feels awful. Peace time exists, but the game feels diluted and lost it's soul.
    -Solo Shuffle: solo queue arenas have massive problems with wait times, lack of incentives for healers and MMR issues for them, and people leaving will ensure you've just wasted over a half hour of your time with no CR gains or losses.
    -Dracthyr: an MMORPG race that can't even wear armour in it's main form? All the development time was put into a visage form with customization that could have easily gone to other races, which also still feel horribly outdated.
    -Faction Imbalance: the Alliance still lacks any interesting new races, and has human male models that look like gorillas. Playing one faction shouldn't feel like you're getting scraps, but if you're a Horde main who doesn't care that you're working with Alliance peacefully in a war game, you'll likely feel fine.

    While the game continues to evolve to modern standards, it is still massively behind, and with a focal part of the game's identity - Horde vs Alliance - being put to the side, hopefully temporarily, other games in the genre like XIV, Guild Wars 2, or even Star Wars offers more features, and embraces their identities in full.

    Worth playing if you enjoy the end game cycle, but if you're a long time Warcraft fan or enjoy the old stories, this doesn't feel like Warcraft.    … Expand
  74. Lillo9000
    Dec 26, 2022
    0
    Very poor and very slow PvP balances for the game. They lose a massive amount of players who feel like their classes are being ignored while other classes are just superior in every way.

    Solo Shuffle the new rated Solo arenas is a disaster as Blizzard favors players with previously high rating in shadowlands by giving them automatic high MMR and letting them shoot up the boards even    Very poor and very slow PvP balances for the game. They lose a massive amount of players who feel like their classes are being ignored while other classes are just superior in every way.

    Solo Shuffle the new rated Solo arenas is a disaster as Blizzard favors players with previously high rating in shadowlands by giving them automatic high MMR and letting them shoot up the boards even though this is a new expansion and solo shuffle is completely new.

    Furthermore, Blizzard has an extreme bias towards some classes like Demon Hunters who right now are untouchable and do 3x as much damage as the 2nd closest class. It's like you have 2 DPS classes in 1 with an insane amount of control/CC/stuns. The top 100 Solo Shuffle board has 40+ demon hunters.

    Blizzard also hit the game with a series of nerfs that completely destroyed some classes before the season even went live based on some world PvP and buffed others until they become completely dominant like Shadow Priests.

    Unfortunately, the PvP side of DF so far has been a disaster and whoever is in charge of it at Blizzard needs to do a much better job and adjusting class damage numbers and the amount of CC in the game has become obnoxious. Their solution is Dampening and bandage solutions that don't actually address the game's fundamental problems.

    There is also a massive issue with PvP and PvE boosting where people spend gold to get their ratings boosted or to get carried through a raid, they do so by buying gold through Blizzard's services and Blizzard turns a blind eye to this because they make a profit from it. It is however undermining the value of these activities and making legitimate players frustrated.

    Blizzard also screwed up the race to world first by making changes to the last boss while only 1 guild was raiding.

    DF has a ton of UI bugs as well as game bugs and Dragonriding is a fun mechanic but feels very clunky and can cause you to DC and have your characters bugged across all realms if you DC while strafing.

    Blizzard has also started designing fight encounters on the basis that everyone is running Add-ons which overly complicates the fights. Mythic raids are also unattainable for the majority of WoW players as it requires 20 people from the same realm and Blizzard has continuously focused on putting the majority of the best rewards and gear and cosmetics in Mythic raids.    … Expand
  75. woogwun
    Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Dev's try to drag content as much as possible. There are less Raid bosses and new M+ dungeons but difficulty is increased and rewards less, so it takes longer to complete. If I wanted multi month project then I would just go for second job that actually pays me money. I am playing video game I want fast dopamine secretion. They turned profession into hot garbage, so they can sell moreDev's try to drag content as much as possible. There are less Raid bosses and new M+ dungeons but difficulty is increased and rewards less, so it takes longer to complete. If I wanted multi month project then I would just go for second job that actually pays me money. I am playing video game I want fast dopamine secretion. They turned profession into hot garbage, so they can sell more tokens like they did in Shadowlands. which is funny because they said they wouldn't do that in interview. Only good thing about Dragonflight is flying, and I wouldn't really call that "content" Wow is pretty much in maintenance mode now. Ion Trying to milk it as much as he can until it dies. "We can always change game engines" no you can't you sh!tty liar. You can't even fix simple bugs for months now. Oh did I tell you about all the bugs? Constant lags, disconnects, "There are already character with same name" yea that is me so let me in.
    Watching wow player is like watching kids with violent parents who just got restraining order. My parents doesn't beat me up anymore so they are great! No... they are still really bad parents.    … Expand
  76. Chairface42
    Dec 26, 2022
    1
    Absolutely boring, I can no longer play the game without becoming bored within 30 minutes. I could care les about the flying. They should have left the profession system alone. Blizzard has been loosing me for a while and this may be the deathblow.
  77. LazyBrokOli
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    Game would be nice if it wasn't full of Time gate everywhere !
    Full of crash & bug in all kind, you are basically disconnected every 15 minute in general since every time you have the bad luck to collide a wall a floor or anything that got physic you might get disconnected since the server find that you are cheating since you position is weird !!!
    Extra + they make you think they have    Game would be nice if it wasn't full of Time gate everywhere !
    Full of crash & bug in all kind, you are basically disconnected every 15 minute in general since every time you have the bad luck to collide a wall a floor or anything that got physic you might get disconnected since the server find that you are cheating since you position is weird !!!
    Extra + they make you think they have great rework of the Profession well turns out you need object to craft that is given to you every two week 1 by 1, then you also have this wonderful "Artisan's Mettle" which drop only when you 1st time craft something of when you get specialisation point or other rare occasion well you can't get enough of this to craft plenty of high end item
    Specialisation point well this is also time gated since you only drop few each week & days for some,
    this make you very slow get the 400 required to end with all spe....

    Now we have the dungeon all difficulty is crap only mythic is challenging so no real fun to do normal heroic or mythic m0

    Raid the same only mythic is challenging

    Game is crap to conclude !

    Blizzard if Diablo 4 isn't good i'll boycott every next game you craft !!! wake up !!! make thing fun ! games from small studio are more fun to play than yours what a shame since.

    You won 300millions of benefit with your **** diablo immortal i really hope you will wake up before you have to sell what's left of your company    … Expand
  78. Kallenn
    Dec 31, 2022
    0
    Es un juego creado con enfoque de género forzado, solo tiene una trama lgbti , la historia es mala y para peor los gráficos siguen siendo los mismos del 2000.
    No gaste su dinero, castigue a la compañía hasta que hagan un trabajo bueno y digno o que mejor dejen morir en paz al wow .
    Los desarrolladores son malos, y si incluso te gusta la historia y te encanta el contenido lgtbi , el juego    Es un juego creado con enfoque de género forzado, solo tiene una trama lgbti , la historia es mala y para peor los gráficos siguen siendo los mismos del 2000.
    No gaste su dinero, castigue a la compañía hasta que hagan un trabajo bueno y digno o que mejor dejen morir en paz al wow .
    Los desarrolladores son malos, y si incluso te gusta la historia y te encanta el contenido lgtbi , el juego esta lleno de bugs    … Expand
  79. tmorello529
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    As empty an expansion as Warlords of Draenor was, if not more. This isn't the Blizzard we grew up with.
  80. bruma
    Jan 3, 2023
    0
    Worst story of any MMO I have ever played, full of self inserts, PC culture and a lot more inserts in every way possible. The dungeons are unbelievably bland and just annoying on purpose.
  81. rkh80
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    Huge imbalance of the classes and specs. The most gamebreaking bugs in a wow game since 2004 release. Clueless developers that seem out of touch and desperate. Sleazy stealth changes to things that continue to disrespect players and their time.

    It is a game full of annoyances and frustration due to underqualified staff and clueless management.
  82. Porlek
    Mar 1, 2023
    3
    I find Dragonflight to be a little better than Shadowlands, but that's certainly no compliment considering how bad Shadowlands was. I bought the game, and I'm paying a subscription, so I force myself to log on now and again in an attempt to play it. It's so boring, and so bad, that I usually last somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour or so before logging off again.
    The professions    I find Dragonflight to be a little better than Shadowlands, but that's certainly no compliment considering how bad Shadowlands was. I bought the game, and I'm paying a subscription, so I force myself to log on now and again in an attempt to play it. It's so boring, and so bad, that I usually last somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour or so before logging off again.
    The professions (which used to be fun to some extent) is now broken beyond belief. And you have to grind rep with factions to be able to fully do the professions, that's if you put in the effort to learn the awful new broken system in the first place.
    The dragon flying is a chore at best, and the terrible design of the landscape means you need to occasionally try to fly places in order to get there at all. As others have stated, the concept was copied from Guild Wars 2, but somehow made less fun.
    The storyline is completely boring, and I cannot find it in me to care about any of it.
    You may ask why I bought it? Because I had heard it was better than Shadowlands, and because the critic reviews didn't seem too bad. They were wrong, it's awful.
    You may ask why I still subscribe? Because I enjoy World of Warcraft Classic, which is the only reason to continue to subscribe to the game at all. I can still enjoy VERY old content. World of Warcraft hasn't actually been a good game in years. Such a pity.    … Expand
  83. Regina781
    Mar 24, 2023
    3
    Dragonflight... Let's just say, it's not exactly soaring to new heights.

    What's up with those clunky and poorly aged models and the severe lack of customizations? Then the outdated graphics in most zones of the world. They couldn't even be bothered to update Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Especially Stormwind looks hideous with it's dated graphics. The bugs in this expansion are enough to    Dragonflight... Let's just say, it's not exactly soaring to new heights.

    What's up with those clunky and poorly aged models and the severe lack of customizations?
    Then the outdated graphics in most zones of the world. They couldn't even be bothered to update Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Especially Stormwind looks hideous with it's dated graphics.

    The bugs in this expansion are enough to make any player want to quit.
    Then the glaring class imbalances.
    And what's with the racial segregation? We should be able to play any race in any faction without feeling like we're betraying some archaic and racist mindset, which the devs put in this game. But no, all races still have a hivemind instead of free will like the Pandaren and that weird looking new race Dracthyr.
    It's frustrating for players who can't play their favorite races in their favorite faction.

    Then the story... It's poorly written and lacks any real depth.

    Dragonflight is a disappointing expansion for me that fails to deliver on almost every level.
    From the poorly aged character models to the outdated graphics and bugs, it's clear that this expansion was not given the attention it deserved.

    Save your time and money and skip this one.    … Expand
  84. farside79
    Jan 25, 2023
    2
    I wanted to like it. I quit SL in April of 2021 and the hope of Dragonflight brought me back. My career and home life dictate that I cannot raid for hours on end or even really dedicate as much to the game as I used to. I was hopeful that DF would incorporate more solo/open-world play and similar but that just isn't the case. WOW cannot seem to keep up or adapt or include options forI wanted to like it. I quit SL in April of 2021 and the hope of Dragonflight brought me back. My career and home life dictate that I cannot raid for hours on end or even really dedicate as much to the game as I used to. I was hopeful that DF would incorporate more solo/open-world play and similar but that just isn't the case. WOW cannot seem to keep up or adapt or include options for emerging player markets and it has demonstrated this in year over year decline. I will likely quit this expansion again soon. Unfortunate. Update: Stuck around until 10.5 "content" patch. This patch, which took roughly 12 hours to implement is buggy, laggy and messy. It adds nothing of value for solo players while providing nothing of value for players who already out gear the content. It is clear that Blizz is unable or unwilling to adapt and Blizzard has failed (or do not want to) see that gamers have changed and the days of spending 20-30 hours per week raiding and similar are over.… Expand
  85. TristanX
    Feb 26, 2023
    4
    Better than Shadowlands.

    Pros: Better graphics. Better music. Dragonriding. Alt friendly. No borrowed power. Cons. Graphics still dated. Music still significantly lags behind the main competitor. (2-4 CDs vs 1?) Group loot that encourages ninjas. (Big con. At least 3 cases on the raids I'm in.) No teleport anywhere. Story is meh... Characters could use some improvement.    Better than Shadowlands.

    Pros:
    Better graphics.
    Better music.
    Dragonriding.
    Alt friendly.
    No borrowed power.

    Cons.
    Graphics still dated.
    Music still significantly lags behind the main competitor. (2-4 CDs vs 1?)
    Group loot that encourages ninjas. (Big con. At least 3 cases on the raids I'm in.)
    No teleport anywhere.
    Story is meh...
    Characters could use some improvement. One toon is all you need on the main competitor.
    No flying with old mounts.    … Expand
  86. Tzol
    Dec 29, 2022
    0
    The gameplay is fun but the state of retail wow is so bad these days. It's not an MMO its a single player game with bots. No community, no chat just unfriendly people.
  87. Frenzie
    Jan 2, 2023
    0
    Как всегда было много маркетинговых обещаний от разработчиков, а что на деле?
    Из хорошего:
    Больше казуального опционального контента. Нет Торгаста, Утробы и других обязательных сайд активностей. Професии интересны и нестандартны, но минусов больше, о них ниже. Новые таланты действительно хороши, я беспокоился что это будет аналог талантов WotLK. Из плохого: Чтобы сделать гир    Как всегда было много маркетинговых обещаний от разработчиков, а что на деле?
    Из хорошего:
    Больше казуального опционального контента.
    Нет Торгаста, Утробы и других обязательных сайд активностей.
    Професии интересны и нестандартны, но минусов больше, о них ниже.
    Новые таланты действительно хороши, я беспокоился что это будет аналог талантов WotLK.

    Из плохого:
    Чтобы сделать гир профессий полезным они понерфили лут ключей и растянули его до 20 ключей.
    Для того чтобы заставлять гильдии рекилить ластов рейда они добавили ему мизерный шанс на итем который на 10 илвл выше чем весь лут игры. С учетом что близзы благородно решили не разделять ключи от рейдов, то в добрых традициях второго сезона Shadowlands вы обязаны гриндить рейды если хотите максимального выхлопа в ключах. Все чтобы умирающие престарелые рейды казались живее.

    Шанс лута остался прежним с Shadowlands. То есть вы можете как пройти рейд не получив ни одной вещи, так и фармить гору ключей ничего не получая. Ретрограды должно быть танцуют от удовольствия из-за того, что людям которые действительно играют в игру не дают в нее поиграть.

    Профессии дико затаймгейчены. Отчасти с каждой неделей у новичков увеличивается базовая доступность профессий, за счет квестов список которых расширяется с каждой неделей. Но помимо этого получить знания (очки талантов) можно в основном занимаясь профессией, что сильно ограничено. Дело в том что собрав определенное количество знаний в неделю твой шанс их получения резко стремится к нулю и можно спокойно бросать это и ждать следующей недели.

    В случае ошибки с выбором талантов профессий ты ничего больше не можешь с этим поделать, разве-что создать нового персонажа и перекачать профессию на нем.
    После расширения аукциона на весь регион цены на нем всегда стремительно падают до незначительных и не стоящих времени. Я полагаю это было сделано чтобы осмыслить использование стола заказов. Такой аукцион может и хорош для покупателя, но за отсутствием источников чистого золота вам придется на нем торговать.
    Полеты на драконах неудобны для фарма ресурсов. Во-первых энергия рано или поздно заканчивается. Во-вторых талант который регенерирует энергию за сбор ресурсов работает ТОЛЬКО НА ЗЕМЛЕ, кто это придумал? Это все делает талант на сбор ресурсов с дракона нелепым.

    В итоге это просто очередной затаймгейченный кусок кала. К этому всему ситуация с лутом только ухудшилась. Как по мне подойдет только ретроградам для которых медленней и унылей всегда лучше.    … Expand
  88. hellbard
    Feb 10, 2023
    1
    DF is "better" than SL in some ways. There is no borrowed power that you need to grind for, which is a good thing, and there is a new flight mechanic that is more modern and active.

    But, at least for me, the game play loop is really tedious... The dungeons in M+, for me, feel terrible. The new way of achievming KSM is kinda bad too. The new raid is, at least for me, is really boring...    DF is "better" than SL in some ways. There is no borrowed power that you need to grind for, which is a good thing, and there is a new flight mechanic that is more modern and active.

    But, at least for me, the game play loop is really tedious... The dungeons in M+, for me, feel terrible. The new way of achievming KSM is kinda bad too. The new raid is, at least for me, is really boring... Idk, maybe I just got old and can't stand WoW anymore.

    I've been playing FFXIV for the last year... It's just so much better in every way possible. I came back to try DF because I feel like WoW is my "home"... But it's just so bad... And we're not even talking about the lore... The game history got better since SL, but it still terrible.

    And now the best part... They introduced a "battle pass"... Now you can always have that delicious FOMO we all know and love...

    Blizzard is dead and gone, no reason to keep playing their stuff... I'll probably try the next expansion, but yeah... We have better options right now    … Expand
  89. targoviste_2302
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    - graphics from 2004
    - lack of new customization options
    - race/class combinations are limited though lore and logic are massacred and you can play tauren rogue, But NE paladin still is something beyond blizzard`s mind - racism in the game? they pretend to be open minded yet you still can not to play every race you want, because you have faction segregation - they ruined the WAR    - graphics from 2004
    - lack of new customization options
    - race/class combinations are limited though lore and logic are massacred and you can play tauren rogue, But NE paladin still is something beyond blizzard`s mind
    - racism in the game? they pretend to be open minded yet you still can not to play every race you want, because you have faction segregation
    - they ruined the WAR atmosphere between horde and alliance. they said that it will be never again a war between these two factions, but still you can not talk with players of another faction. Just why?
    - a lot of bugs
    - a few new dungeons. it is not a level of 2022 game
    - old talents. old skills. they just changed the talent tree again, but it does not impact the gameplay. I can not feel that i am playing something new. so no class upgrades or changes.
    - old quest design. nothing new. same quests.
    - m+ gear is worse than raid gear. so literally you are forced to to 20+ ppl content. and again I dont understand why?
    - awful pvp balance. nothing new. its a pve game at the end.

    Only change in the game is much more LGBT content. Majority of quests is gay/trans stories. I mean...OK, but I am not a far right guy, I dont need to be teached about diversity for 40$ + month subscription.
    It can be free update or free patch if you do care so much about it.
    I am paying for gameplay, not social/politic updates.    … Expand
  90. Atyra
    Jan 5, 2023
    5
    I wish I could rate this higher. There's a lot to love. The new Race/Class combo is super fun, and can look pretty cool with the right cosmetic options. The new zones are gorgeous and a lot of great improvements has been made to the core content. Old functions are slowly getting overhauled and this really does feel like the first time WOW has played like a modern game.

    But the narrative    I wish I could rate this higher. There's a lot to love. The new Race/Class combo is super fun, and can look pretty cool with the right cosmetic options. The new zones are gorgeous and a lot of great improvements has been made to the core content. Old functions are slowly getting overhauled and this really does feel like the first time WOW has played like a modern game.

    But the narrative is just too poor. No matter how good an RPG is, if the dialogue is so painfully cringe-worthy that you don't even want to read it, what's the point? Unfortunately, despite all its beauty and fun gameplay, Dragonflight is not an MMO to get lost in. The dialogue and narrative are overly childish and disney-esque in a way that I doubt will appeal to its overwhelmingly adult playerbase.    … Expand
  91. Mabuhay20
    Feb 7, 2023
    4
    I enjoy the storyline and zones. But the community is pretty divided. I can understand if there are SOME bad apples. But to me, I think half the player base is unfriendly. If you don't meet the group leader's standards you are likely to be removed, benched, or made fun of. For example, being removed from a group because of their server. It's just so dumb to me, and then to see playersI enjoy the storyline and zones. But the community is pretty divided. I can understand if there are SOME bad apples. But to me, I think half the player base is unfriendly. If you don't meet the group leader's standards you are likely to be removed, benched, or made fun of. For example, being removed from a group because of their server. It's just so dumb to me, and then to see players argue it's the group leader's choice. When really they know, heck I KNOW..... that these players are abusing the vote-to-kick or removal system.

    Dailies, well I had lost interest in grinding to max renown, especially when realizing that I was working towards a reskin of a mount. Pretty much a reward that isn't of use to me as a casual player.

    Lastly PVP, oh boy I feel like Blizzard threw pvp in the trash we barely get any sort of new content added. Like NEW OBJECTIVE battleground and epic battleground maps. Classes in general need to be balanced. I shouldn't experience or see players 1-2 shooting each other.

    Overall Dragonflight is a step in the right direction but they need to fix these unaddressed issues that linger into every expansion. I see these same problems and it just gets worse.    … Expand
  92. vligon
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    - No longer feels like WoW.
    - Customize is nice, but give players option to use the old UI. HATE the new UI.
    - First time I've ever been bored by a Blizzard cutscene. Looks rushed and lacks passion compared to any previous expansions / games. - Just terrible overall compared to Shadowlands. - Separate class / spec talent trees are a mess. - Feels like playing Mass Effect: Andromeda    - No longer feels like WoW.
    - Customize is nice, but give players option to use the old UI. HATE the new UI.
    - First time I've ever been bored by a Blizzard cutscene. Looks rushed and lacks passion compared to any previous expansions / games.
    - Just terrible overall compared to Shadowlands.
    - Separate class / spec talent trees are a mess.
    - Feels like playing Mass Effect: Andromeda after playing previous Mass Effect games.
    - Played for less than a day and have already cancelled my subscription.

    Big Ol' cash grab :(    … Expand
  93. playswtor
    Mar 3, 2023
    2
    Maybe someday I will wake up and see the game's rating 10/10, but not today... "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fu****g thing... over and over again expecting... s**t to change...". These words of a modern classic accurately describe the state of the game at the moment. (playswtor).
  94. AthonyLor
    Mar 17, 2023
    2
    Ah, Dragonflight, where do I even begin? Well, for starters, it seems the developers are resorting to some cheap tricks to keep their players shelling out that monthly subscription fee. I mean, who wants to grind for renown all day? It's about as exciting as watching a Murloc knit a sweater. And don't even get me started on how they lock the story behind that tedious grind.

    But wait,    Ah, Dragonflight, where do I even begin? Well, for starters, it seems the developers are resorting to some cheap tricks to keep their players shelling out that monthly subscription fee. I mean, who wants to grind for renown all day? It's about as exciting as watching a Murloc knit a sweater. And don't even get me started on how they lock the story behind that tedious grind.

    But wait, there's more! The trading post is another tactic. They change the items each month, creating a feeling of FOMO, like we're missing out on the best gear or mounts. It's good to give more cosmetics, but with the trading post they don't tell you when exactly you will see those items again.
    Now, let's talk about the loot situation. It's like the developers want us to suffer. They dangle the carrot of epic loot in front of our faces, but it's always just out of reach, depending on pure luck.

    And let's not forget about the developers' hypocrisy.
    They've added several lgbtq+ elements to the game, hoping to improve their reputation after the lawsuits against them. But at the same time, they stick to a very strong form of racism in their game. I'm talking about the racial segregation of playable races between factions. It's not just ethically questionable, it's also terrible for the player experience. Players are forced to choose a faction based on the race they want to be. Veeeeeery progressive... not.

    And finally, let's talk about the lack of fresh content. Dragonflight is like a stale piece of bread that's been left out in the sun for too long. The developers seem to be relying on recycled old systems, rather than coming up with anything new and exciting.

    So, there you have it, folks. I'm not impressed at all and the coming patch will give us more... more recycled stuff. I might change this review with 10.2, if they'll actually add something new and improve bad stuff like their racist foundation, but so far? No thanks, there are better games out there.    … Expand
  95. AnaviY
    Mar 26, 2023
    2
    The only people still enjoying this game are probably those who find satisfaction in mindlessly spamming buttons in dungeons and raids... and even that isn't fun because of the horrible class imbalance. If you're looking for a proper RPG experience however, you might as well look elsewhere, because WoW lost that aspect years ago.

    The open world looks like it hasn't been updated since    The only people still enjoying this game are probably those who find satisfaction in mindlessly spamming buttons in dungeons and raids... and even that isn't fun because of the horrible class imbalance. If you're looking for a proper RPG experience however, you might as well look elsewhere, because WoW lost that aspect years ago.

    The open world looks like it hasn't been updated since the early 2000s, and the player models are just embarrassing. No sliders, no color palettes, no nothing. Yes, new zones have good visuals, but that's like what? 25% of the overall world? It's like the devs are just phoning it in at this point.

    But the real problem with WoW is the lack of immersion.
    There's no class identity, the storytelling is cringeworthy and constantly retconned, still no player housing and the toxic restrictions the devs force upon players are just infuriating. Seriously, who builds their two faction system upon racism and then tries to claim they're progressive because they've thrown in a few LGBTQ stories and characters?
    It's hypocritical at best and downright a frustrating restriction for players.

    And even if you are interested in the bad story of the game, you're not even allowed to see it unless you spend days, or even weeks, grinding for renown. The whole game seems to be designed to be as repetitive as possible, just to milk players' monthly subscription fees.

    In short, if you're looking for a game that's worth your time and money Dragonflight is definitely not it. At least so far, but the next patch looks just as bad.
    Unless, of course, you're content with mindless button mashing and don't mind throwing your money away on a game that's lost its way.    … Expand
  96. Jobloi
    Jan 19, 2023
    1
    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    "new system for players to further personalize their character and their expierences within World of Warcraft", "even more ways to add to their collections and express themselves everywhere they go in Azeroth". This is what they wrote in their newest blue post about the coming patch. Wanna have a translation what that really means?
    A new FOMO    Blizzard is as hypocritical as it can get.
    "new system for players to further personalize their character and their expierences within World of Warcraft", "even more ways to add to their collections and express themselves everywhere they go in Azeroth". This is what they wrote in their newest blue post about the coming patch. Wanna have a translation what that really means?

    A new FOMO tactic in form of the trading post that requires an active sub, for which we have to pay monthly. Only then you will get the currency for the transmogs, pets and mounts the trading post will sell. Also the amount of coins you will get each month is of course limited and the items in the trading post will vanish after the end of each month. Quite obvious, that this is a new way of Blizzard trying to force collectors to stay subscribed.

    But it doesn't end there.
    If the rest of the game would stay true to what Blizzard is saying "we want you to express yourself in the game", then I wouldn't even have a big problem with such an obvious FOMO trap.

    However this game is anything but "freely express yourself". It's all about restrictions.

    "Express yourself the way you want to BUT you can't play almost half of the races in the faction you prefer, because we value racial segregation as really, really good for our 2 faction system."

    "Express yourself BUT if you want to be good in pve and pvp you better don't play certain specs or whole classes, because we have no idea how class balance works."

    "Espress yourself BUT you better don't play the smaller faction, because we caused massive faction imbalance and you will have a really hard time finding groups and guilds there."

    "Express yourself BUT don't expect actual customisation options and be grateful for your 8 face options and 9 hair colors. If you want more options play another race, but all races will certainly not get basic things like sliders or color palettes, because we simply don't care to keep customisations fair between races and put the least amount of effort towards customisations. Maybe you get 3 more hair colors for one of the races, if we're feeling extra generous! "

    Sorry for that little rant there, but Blizzard's newest blue post about saying players in wow could freely express themselves in this game really got me the wrong way, because it is a such a big lie.    … Expand
  97. Kasseda
    Jan 20, 2023
    2
    Dragonflight is just a little less annoying to play than Shadowlands and Battle For Azeroth. That's basically it. That's why I largely agree with the negative reviews on this platform.
    Class balance is still horrible. Even worse if you play the new mode, solo shuffle.
    Dragon riding is fun at first, but it doesn’t ‘go anywhere gameplay-wise. All it is is transportation in the dragon isles    Dragonflight is just a little less annoying to play than Shadowlands and Battle For Azeroth. That's basically it. That's why I largely agree with the negative reviews on this platform.
    Class balance is still horrible. Even worse if you play the new mode, solo shuffle.
    Dragon riding is fun at first, but it doesn’t ‘go anywhere gameplay-wise. All it is is transportation in the dragon isles from the start instead of making us complete that horrible pathfinder system from before. For gathering however it's a pain in the butt and it is also annoying that due to dragon riding we are tied to only four mounts instead of all our mounts.
    Professions this time around are even worse than before. Inflation on the AH is really nasty.
    I feel like toxicity is growing thanks largely to the decisions on Blizzard’s part. I saw quite a lot of people point that out already. They still keep the playable races very strictly separated between Horde and Alliance. This not only led to the faction imbalance in this game, but also constantly to heated discussions how unfair races are portioned and even though I main Horde I can see the frustration.
    In bfa for example they gave us a highly requested race, while the Alliance received a very ugly customisation option for gnomes. Kinda makes you think. Or nightborne for example with their huge city, zone, lore and so on vs. a copy and paste belf version for Alliance, just uglier and without a zone, city and so on. An improved troll allied races vs and uglier human race wasn't helping either or only destroying Alliance zones, while keeping Horde zones all intact.
    The faction system in wow doesn't really work with devs that can't stay neutral. Though personally I want to keep 2 factions, I am too all for making the races neutral and making more cross faction stuff like guilds and so on. It could reduce toxicity and would lead to a more healthy gameplay design for players. Would also allow me to finally play Draenei on Horde, which would be pretty neat. So that's my 2 cents about that topic.
    Continuing with my review, same grindy systems that were put into this game to increase play time like the renown grind.
    The talent trees are kinda messy, their talent switching system doesn’t work properly.
    They added all kinds of external systems to capitalize on the players addiction to completionism like now the trading post. If the items were permanent this would be a nice small addition to the game, but the way it works... just no thanks. There is already too much FOMO in this game and I'm still bitter about the Mage Tower skins.    … Expand
  98. Roindi
    Jan 21, 2023
    2
    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to get in this xpac thanks group loot.
    Class design is still in the gutter. Racism is still the cornerstone of this game, meaning players can't play their favorite faction, if their favorite races are in the other faction. Seriously, in what century are    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to get in this xpac thanks group loot.
    Class design is still in the gutter.
    Racism is still the cornerstone of this game, meaning players can't play their favorite faction, if their favorite races are in the other faction. Seriously, in what century are the devs even living in?
    Crafting and profession system is made even more confusing and is now hard to get into.
    The fact that the main quest line is rep locked made me instantly stop caring about it.
    Customization options for races? Player housing... um... what customization? What player housing?
    Meaningful world content and visual overhaul? Good joke.

    If you are only looking for m+ content this game might be ok enough for you, just pick the right classes because of the severe class imbalance, but raids and dungeons are pretty much the only thing the devs seem to care for.    … Expand
  99. Hugo627
    Dec 20, 2022
    0
    This is such an awful game. wow has been stagnant for almost 2 decades.
    Granted, Legion was a bit of fresh air with all the quest lines for artefact skins, but FOMO and in general bfa and shadowlands made everything you might have achieved during Legion complete meaningless.
    Now with Dragonflight we get another stale expansion with nothing new on the table. It is such a boring    This is such an awful game. wow has been stagnant for almost 2 decades.
    Granted, Legion was a bit of fresh air with all the quest lines for artefact skins, but FOMO and in general bfa and shadowlands made everything you might have achieved during Legion complete meaningless.
    Now with Dragonflight we get another stale expansion with nothing new on the table. It is such a boring expansion, that I felt bored after just 3 days. New record.

    Now the devs always claim they want to give players more freedom to express themselves in the game. But guess what, that doesn't mean we are finally able to play whatever race we want in our favorite faction, you know, being free to be, who we want to be.
    Instead it actually means we get some more recolors of age-old transmog sets, maybe even 3 more hair colors for one of the many races... or not. Right now not a single race got any more customization options, not to mention how uneven the options are between the races and in general all of them have way too few options.
    What else? Ah yes, while Blizzard thinks it is completely legit to keep racism, they take away genders. Because nothing says more freedom of expression like taking away the option to be male or female. All players have to be non-binary.
    You gotta love all the freedom in this game.    … Expand
  100. Tekesa
    Dec 21, 2022
    0
    You get a Worgen reskin as a so called dragon race, that can only use human and blood elf for visage and visage form for some strange reason looks like drag queens. Not only because of the rainbow hair and makeup, but also because of the face.
    No more gender options for character creation, because being male or female is now offensive? idk..
    Story is focused on one lgbtq character after    You get a Worgen reskin as a so called dragon race, that can only use human and blood elf for visage and visage form for some strange reason looks like drag queens. Not only because of the rainbow hair and makeup, but also because of the face.
    No more gender options for character creation, because being male or female is now offensive? idk..
    Story is focused on one lgbtq character after the other.

    Dragonflight's oh so great (and only) new feature is dragonriding, straight up copied from guild wars 2.

    Apart from these things there is nothing really new about this expansion and well, the stuff above is not really my taste.
    This game has the same old problems like class and faction imbalance, outdated graphics and models, restrictions etc.
    Guess it is just time to give up on this game once and for all.
    battle for azeroth was a disaster, so was shadowlands and now again the same with dragonflight.    … Expand
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82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Windows Central
    Feb 17, 2023
    80
    World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is somehow a breath of fresh air and a celebration of classic design principles in equal measure. The return to more dynamic, old-school talent trees enhances the class fantasy with a seasoning of new abilities across the board. At the same time, the retreat of pressuring, artificial power-gating systems promotes a more healthy gameplay loop. The game is also gorgeous, with a more promising storyline, elevated cinematic delivery mechanics, and deeper core systems which make for one of WoW's best expansions in years.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 7, 2023
    70
    I appreciate the new interface (it needs getting used to though) and talent system (those dilemmas!), as well as changes to crafting that raise its importance. I enjoyed dragonriding a lot and found quests to be engaging, but was disappointed by dull dungeons and repetitive endgame content. World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is a pretty safe expansion and I expected a bit more from it, but I do feel it has a huge potential that could be fulfilled in the near future.
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  3. GameSpot
    Jan 31, 2023
    90
    Dragonflight is sprinkled with little moments like these that encourage you to take your time and smell the roses, so to speak. Though there are still plenty of collectathons and kill quests to complete, Dragonflight shines when it reminds you of the unique world you're in and invites you to slow down and immerse yourself in it. It's an expansion about remembering where you've come from, yet embracing what comes next. It's about coming home. Considering the quality on display in Dragonflight and all the changes that have been made to improve the core systems of Blizzard's iconic RPG, I have no doubt more than a few lapsed players that had grown tired of what Azeroth had to offer in recent years will be doing just that.
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