Trying to understand the negative posts I keep seeing about the Dev Team

[Deceptus]

People often cite WoW when talking innovation and such, but I've been playing that game off and on for over 12 years now...and you'd be surprised by how much of the "innovations" are just new coats of paint on the same old design.

Which is why people are leaving BfA in droves. They've realized Blizzard is putting forth very little effort in improving the game and breaking the things that worked to make things take longer.

[Vahlnir]

Which is why people are leaving BfA in droves. They've realized Blizzard is putting forth very little effort in improving the game and breaking the things that worked to make things take longer.

Yeah. I mean, for awhile the game was solid. Starting with Cataclysm though they sorta went with bad expansion > good expansion (MoP, god I loved MoP) > bad expansion > good expansion...and here we are with BfA. While it looked promising I know even my friends who are hardcore WoW fans like I am were fed up with the game currently. It looks like they're trying to salvage it though based on the PTR additions, but...I hope it's not too little too late. It has just been one letdown after another. As far as both WoW and FF XIV are concerned, there's very little difference in the mentality of either the devs or the companies currently. Though in Blizzard's defense, they aren't afraid to pump money into the game if things get real ugly. SE doesn't seem to care one way or the other. And that makes me sad.

[Arrius]

Which is why people are leaving BfA in droves. They've realized Blizzard is putting forth very little effort in improving the game and breaking the things that worked to make things take longer.

I'd say after 14(!) years of that game, there possibly isn't much you can add into it and call that a solid improvement without having blizzard taking desperate measures or break up the core theme of the game.