Are we destroying "our own" game?

[Ruris]

I think the only thing I'd like to add to this thread is that I wouldn't count or trust content creators more than anyone else in game, forum or friend to give an honest opinion about the game. Quite the contrary in fact, they're in the business of keeping conversations open and your eyes on their stream or youtube videos for profit, so if its interesting or provocative to say a game is bad, failing or whatever, they are likely to jump on the trend for views and engagement.

Thank you, but I haven't forgotten why streamers stream. I'd appreciate if we can ground the context here properly. Zepla and Preach are well known for enjoying the MSQ in prior expansions, have directly interviewed Yoshi P himself, and are now both hitting the same beats of dissatisfaction with the story, along with a huge blanket of unhappiness laying over the playerbase in result of the DT MSQ, I think it is safe to conclude there's a bit of consistency there with their opinions.

Also on the note of Preach, that man isn't jumping on hate bandwagons, he dropped WoW for a reason. Man won't play what he isn't interested in. He gave an extremely fair review at the end of his playthrough that doesn't just sum up to "DT bad" so what trend is he jumping on?

"Streamers gonna stream" is just ringing massive cop out response to me.

[Volgia]

Thank you, but I haven't forgotten why streamers stream. I'd appreciate if we can ground the context here properly. Zepla and Preach are well known for enjoying the MSQ in prior expansions, have directly interviewed Yoshi P himself, and are now both hitting the same beats of dissatisfaction with the story, along with a huge blanket of unhappiness laying over the playerbase in result of the DT MSQ, I think it is safe to conclude there's a bit of consistency there with their opinions.

Also on the note of Preach, that man isn't jumping on hate bandwagons, he dropped WoW for a reason. Man won't play what he isn't interested in. He gave an extremely fair review at the end of his playthrough that doesn't just sum up to "DT bad" so what trend is he jumping on?

"Streamers gonna stream" is just ringing massive cop out response to me.

Streamers are indeed are gonna stream, but my point is that you shouldn't take their word as gospel. They're not professional game critics or reviewers, they're just another guy who happens to be really good at entertaining.

I don't know why we are focusing so hard on Preach here, but I'm kind of tired of people using streamers or influencers to measure the success of an expansion.