That's because Legion amps things up in terms of presentation and quality. I've never cared about the story in WoW until now. You can still read all the quest texts if you want, too. How it works now: Watch cinematic cut scenes and listen to a ton of high-quality voice acting as a rich and compelling story is told. How it used to work: Read quest texts and dialogue balloons with the occasional voice over thrown in.

And it's largely because Blizzard's latest changes the game in some major ways - for the better. Now, two months later, I'm back in Azeroth. I even proclaimed at one point that I would never go back.īut about eight weeks ago, I fell off the wagon.īlame the deluge of stellar reviews and personal recommendations from friends of WoW's newest expansion pack, Legion. Blizzard's massively multiplayer, orcs versus humans (versus many others) online fantasy game had monopolized my leisure time for more than half a decade, but I dropped it cold turkey.īy and large I've been on a complete media blackout on everything WoW since then.

After playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for six straight years since its launch, I quit the game in 2010.

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