I’ve been getting some emails stating how they’ve decided to stay unsubbed from WoW because of the bad taste WoD has given them. And from what I’ve been saying about Legion, it seems I’m convincing them to stay unsubbed.
This is good. It pays to be informed. I’m glad this website and its words are finally having an affect on the gaming community. But this also had me thinking after watching this video(which is Karma with a channel name of ‘Give It Thought’).
It’s possible that WoW’s Warlords of Draenor, and No Man’s Sky could be alike in the way they were delivered. Both had their developers get their customers on the hype train, and both fell flat on them. However, there is one major difference between Blizzard and Hello Games. And that is Blizzard had the balls to finally apologize (and also proved they were sorry with Legion).
Though the endgame of Legion is still a grindy mess (and forced group content), they apologized. Hello Games, has yet to do so. Most say the company turned tail and ran off with their money. The CEO has yet to say anything. He has been silent since the release, and all forms of contact are ignored. This is the kind of shit you just don’t do.
Yet another thing that unfortunately does separate the two, is Hello Games lied so..so much about certain features and never delivered. Blizzard..they admitted they overhyped. However, don’t get me wrong. Blizzard still tried to hide things from us (such as their declining subscription numbers) and two-faced.
But the main reason why I say both NMS and WoD could be alike, is that linked video claims a developer who’s trying to make another space game in the shadow of NMS(that looks similar to Space Engineers BTW).. his business could face collapse because of people feel “this is just going to be another No Man’s Sky”. The game has poked a black eye on the genre and could possibly kill it off if this path continues.
These people, like I had with WoD (and in ways still do) feel the genre cannot be trusted to make a game that will undo the damage of NMS. Some people say that it’s all up to Star Citizen to come through “or the genre is fucked”.
And it was the SAME fucking exact way with WoW, that we needed Legion to come through. For most people, it has. So hopefully Star Citizen will save their genre.
This has caused people to wake up and not preorder games as much. And hopefully this path will continue. I however, still haven’t gotten over it. I keep feeling “what will be the next game to disappoint their playerbase with overly-hyped content?”
The content creator feels that we need to not be so scarred over it (but it is just his opinion, and I do respect it). I’ll admit that I, too, need to get over it one of these days.
But I dunno. Feel free to keep those emails coming of your opinion about this, and also consider subscribing to Give It Thought‘s channel, as it’s pretty informative.
P.S. I’m not affiliated with or sponsored by Give It Thought in any way. So please don’t send me emails about that.