>>5841
Well, the issue is that WoW initially was never seen as canon. Anyone who played it 20-15 years ago remembers this: WoW was seen as a spin-off based on Warcraft 1-3 world, that was supposed to go along its main plot route up until a certain point, and then Warcraft 4 would be released and push the plot forth properly.
This, as we know, never happened, and so once they ran out of Warcraft 1-3 plot lines (written by actual RPG and video game enthusiasts from the real 1990s Blizzard) to exploit, their--by that point through and through corporate--soul and spirit could not conjure anything even remotely as good as the existing world of Warcraft 1-3, or the never-to-be world of Warcraft 4, as it was supposed to have been created right after Warcraft 3. They sold themselves to Activision, introduced cash shop items and official real money gold trade, and began focusing not on continuing the old plot lines of the old Warcraft, but on replacing and retconning them gradually with the new, corporate-approved themes and characters. Shifting the Overton window, the old cool well-written brutal and honest Warcraft was forgotten, now morphed into the new safe and inclusive WoW with mediocre to abysmally insufferable writing. And now they can keep stamping these pathetic retarded inclusive woke expansions without ever worrying about upholding the standard of Warcraft established in 1994-2003, and upheld until something like 2010-2012.
Such cases.
On an additional note: the time period when they started to lose their soul and creative edge for the corporate greed was exactly the time period when they stole Diablo franchise from its creator David Brevik and threw him out. What followed was the newly developed by the certified Blizzard only (not Condor/Blizzard North) staff absolute piece of shit disgrace of "Diablo" 3.