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Myobi
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Fuck sake, people like you should be banned on the spot.
Now youtube is going to spam me with that googly eyed mofo =(
Sykar
Arcane
Mongoderp videos at their finest. 
Late Bloomer
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On youtube recommends there are three vertical dots, lower right hand corner under each video thumbnail. Click that and slect "don't recommend channel" There is also the "not interested" for any subject that pops up that you dont like but may not want to outright ignore the channel. If you press the "not interested" enough option here and there it will stop showing you that type of subject matter. I made the mistake of watching some Quartering, which started a flood of that content from others like him. Both methods used in conjunction works fine and it doesnt take long.
This. I was getting spammed with Asmongoloid videos a year or two ago and I had to crush that with maximum prejudice.
Late Bloomer
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It appears Dragonflight sold worse than Shadowlands. In this case, while Dragonflight has been praised for the most part by people that did play it, people were turned off from WoW as a whole by Shadowlands enough to not consider buying into Dragonflight
https://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/sales-dragonflight-shadowlands-activision-blizzard
https://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/sales-dragonflight-shadowlands-activision-blizzard
I had given up on WoW but still managed to be tempted by each expansion to at least pick them up and a few month sub. Every time was like getting kicked in the balls and by Shadowlands I think I subbed for three months and quit after a week. That was enough for me, especially coming after Diablo Immortal.
Fuck this game and company.
Fuck this game and company.
J1M
Arcane
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It's worse than that. They would share the numbers if they were close. We are talking like 50% of pandemic players.
Elttharion
Learned
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I played a lot of WoW from Vanilla to Pandaria and always came back everytime they launched a new expansion or big patch, but BFA broke me. I stopped playing during 8.2 and remember the exact momment I gave up on the game, I wanted that fox mount from Legion and was doing the dungeon on my priest, when I finished it I won the mount just for the servers to DC and I suffered a rollback and lost both the mount and my daily change at the dungeon. I remember staring at the screen and thinking 'What the fuck am I doing with my life' when I realized the only thing that kept me subbed to the game was collecting mounts, pets, transmogs, etc. A complete waste of time, from someone playing the game with friends because of the raiding, adventure etc to a retard playing mostly alone to collect stupid things.
My old guild was desintegrating at the time and most people I knew were quitting. I stopped cold turkey there and never went back. A few months ago they had a huge sale in the Battle Net store so I decided to resub again to check how much gold I had. I used all my gold plus sold every rare pet, item, mount I had and traded them for wow tokens. In the end I bought Crash 4, Starcraft 1+2+expansions, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Diablo 3 and gave almost a million gold to an old friend. The fact that the guild I was in since Vanilla had disbanded was another punch to the gut. Nothing I saw from Blizzard since then has given me even the slightest desire to return to the game, quite the opposite, I would be happy to see them burn to the ground.
Thanks for reading my blogpost. 
I feel this. I used to be a hugely addicted Vanilla raider that burnt out on that during AQ40. After that, I tended to still play a lot but it wasn't the same, and ultimately kind of fell out of the MMO mindset in general. I have a hard time with them because they're such huge time/life sinks.
The AQ thing was sort of funny though. I was like: I'm paying to play this game, I dislike a bunch of you elitist raider assholes, that I spend most of my time with, what the hell? And on top of that, instead of getting stuff to be an awesome knight, I'm getting armour made of bug partz. Fuck this. I want to fight dragons, not insects. Totally broke my class fantasy stuff. If I were a WoW designer, instead of trolling the playerbase by having a "dig through shit" quest every expack, I'd have made the best loot drop in AQ40 and similar a giant fly swatter, or a wand that looks like a can of Raid.
Larianshill
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Reminder that it is a beautiful February day, and Blizzard still got assfucked by the Great Jade Dragon and have no recourse or a replacement for their chinese market. Feels good.
Elttharion
Learned
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Hey, thats why I like monster hunter. Nothing more adventurous than murdering what you see in front of you and carving the carcass to make a giant hammer I will use to kill the rest of the monsters family.
I like Monster Hunter too, but that's killing dragons and dinosaurs to make dragon armour and weapons, not killing bugs to make bugman suits that looked retarded.
Sarathiour
Cipher
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Nothing is preventing you from picking both option.
Angthoron
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For me, one of the biggest deathblows for WoW was when dungeon progression was put on a timer. I can't think of anyone that enjoys timers, and yet, the most theoretically accessible form of progress in the game is hidden behind just that.
What if I just want to enjoy some challenging content with a small group of friends, sink a couple of hours into a long, hard dungeon, chill, talk shit, have a few beers? Oh right, can't have that, the last time Blizz tried something like that was revamped Kara, and to be honest, it didn't quite work, in my opinion - at least I didn't get the same feels from running it with friends as I did running Strat/Scholo/BRS/BRD, or the harder dungeons in BC/WotLK era.
Timers were cool when they were used for leaderboards in MoP, when the biggest thing you could get out of it was a mount or cosmetics. Flex your massive peen? Check. Challenging content? Check. Timer? Check. Oh yeah and gear normalization too, so you couldn't push timers by just having more stats on your loot.
Making it core gameplay essential to progression, on the other hand, was dumb as fuck and drove a giant stake made of shit into the already suffering mode. Yeah there's M0, but who the hell runs M0? Why would you want to waste the time of your friends like that? Oh yeah and you can't waste time of randoms because you can't LFG it, tee hee.
What if I just want to enjoy some challenging content with a small group of friends, sink a couple of hours into a long, hard dungeon, chill, talk shit, have a few beers? Oh right, can't have that, the last time Blizz tried something like that was revamped Kara, and to be honest, it didn't quite work, in my opinion - at least I didn't get the same feels from running it with friends as I did running Strat/Scholo/BRS/BRD, or the harder dungeons in BC/WotLK era.
Timers were cool when they were used for leaderboards in MoP, when the biggest thing you could get out of it was a mount or cosmetics. Flex your massive peen? Check. Challenging content? Check. Timer? Check. Oh yeah and gear normalization too, so you couldn't push timers by just having more stats on your loot.
Making it core gameplay essential to progression, on the other hand, was dumb as fuck and drove a giant stake made of shit into the already suffering mode. Yeah there's M0, but who the hell runs M0? Why would you want to waste the time of your friends like that? Oh yeah and you can't waste time of randoms because you can't LFG it, tee hee.
Late Bloomer
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WoW and MMO's in general are so far removed from this experience. It's one of the reasons I can't stand modern MMO's. I am hoping Monsters & Memories can at least fill in this void because Pantheon looks more and more like shit with each new preview they do.
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...school-style-mmo-by-niche-worlds-cult.142953/
J1M
Arcane
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Can't build a house on sand.
Duraframe300
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Sykar
Arcane
Riot can go and fuck themselves. Deleted my account because my name was reported racist. Out of the blue without even an explanation. What was my LoL name? Same name I use here just backwards. I punched that name into google translate and several search engines with no results. So much for that. Will never touch a Riot game again.
Sykar
Arcane
That is racist how exactly Riot? Not that they care. Seems like being reported is all that is needed.
abija
Prophet
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They have tons of lore already done, huge audience and lots of $$$ to throw away. If anything could have taken on WoW, that was it.
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