Discussion

Seriously what is it about this decade old ARPG that has me blasting my way to Paragon 700 on a character I rolled in Season 26 this week?

Shadowlands Season 4 is starting in just over a month, and there are some interesting "experiments" the World of Warcraft development team is planning with it whose influence will inevitably come into play for Dragonflight.

Since the very first release of World of Warcraft you've been able to acquire the game in a special Collector's Edition box, and for every expansion since -- as well as on the 15th Anniversary -- players can add a box of physical goodies to their shelf. Dragonflight, of course, continues this tradition with the standard art book and mousepad, as well as the more recent common inclusion of pins (which seems to be the go-to replacement for the late, lamented expansion soundtrack CD).

Look, I love World of Warcraft, and I've been playing it for years.

I love Diablo 3's Seasons, and I'm enjoying Season 26 right now.

It's pretty clear to me that monetization aside -- and yes, I'll just cede here that I think it has flaws, I really am not blind to them -- Diablo Immortal has proved that you can have a very successful mobile game with a Blizzard IP that is a full-fledged MMO.

I keep wondering if WoW Classic has to be done with content after Wrath Classic.

While I wait for the arrival of Dragonflight later this year I've started farming mounts from older expansions that I hadn't gotten around to before.

Please note that I am not asking what the best platform is in terms of playing video games -- these are to some degree a matter of taste and thus utterly subjective and it's a lot easier and less contentious to ask people what they like, rather than what they believe to be best.

I was on the Atlantic coast a couple weeks back, and I like to explore the various environments that I don't normally get a chance to see near my central piedmont home.