Quote Originally Posted by Crafoutis View Post
For me the DT story went over like a wet fart in an elevator, which was only made worse by the fact that I loved SB->EW so much.

I can completely understand players getting tonal whiplash from such great characters and writing in EW, only to be served up Wuk Lamat and the Series of Irrational Decisions.
It didn’t help that the story devs for DT were essentially a new team and we got a preview of their work in 6.1 to 6.5. I was worried but I stuck it out, my fears were proved correct when DT hit and it looks like SE may have pulled some of their vets back to the game late in the 7.x patches to try and right the ship.

Sadly, the damage is done and we lost a lot of players permanently or at the very least, until they see reviews of the game, not from 8.0 but more like 8.3. Many I know want to see a long term trend before they spend money again. I’m expecting preorders for 8.0 to be much lower than past expansions, probably close to ShB.