WoW: Eventually people will celebrate Shadowlands as one of the best addons

All in all, Shadowlands wasn’t a particularly good WoW expansion. You are not so sure about that? Then don’t believe me, but rather the one who the reckoning with Shadowlands wrote. Ok, so was I… But anyone looking at the history of WoW’s expansion 8 will agree that Shadowlands had more weaknesses than strengths.

In any case, Shadowlands will not end up in the top 5. At least not in the near future. But I’m sure that in a few years the first posts will appear on Reddit and Co. that will celebrate Shadowlands as one of the most successful expansions. Because as the past has shown, this happens at some point with every WoW expansion.

Wasn’t so bad after all?

A WoW extension that was bad at the time is, as befits its status, re-examined two to three addons later and not found to be so bad after all. example please: Players rate WoD more generously after Shadowlands – rightly so? If you look hard enough, you’re bound to find a paean to Cataclysm as well. Admittedly, in my perception, WoD and Cataclysm – along with maybe parts of BfA – are the only unsuccessful WoW extensions.

WoD had one of the worst addon starts in terms of lag and game crashes, one of the two content patches basically consisted of the Twitter connection and a final patch was missing completely. Yes, yes, we know the strengths of WoD, but what did you rightly curse about the start and the missing end.

But eight years later, players are asking themselves whether WoD might have been wrongly rated. The answer: No, you didn’t, it was more bad than right back then. It’s a phenomenon that players don’t look at bad WoW expansions with rose-colored glasses, but rather with disillusionment or forgetfulness. As if you had forgotten everything from back then. What will be said about Shadowlands in eight years?

“There was so much to collect!”

“Yes, but the artwork.”

“Yes, but the transmog.”

“Yes, but the many things you could collect.”

“The story wasn’t that bad.”

“Packages were kind of cool, weren’t they?”

This is what the arguments will look like in a few years. stop stop, this is how they looked at the beginning of Shadowlands. Yes yes, at the beginning of the expansion you are always a bit blinded by everything that is new.

The period between the first few weeks after release and the first seven to eight months afterwards is what is usually the most difficult part of a WoW expansion. And then of course it also depends on whether a WoW extension overtakes WoD fate and a patch is missing.