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At different points in the Cataclysm expansion, my opinions varied greatly. It’s negative first, then slightly negative, and then outright positive about it as an experience. I read a thread recently discussing the Cataclysm as a failed expansion. Frankly I agree with a lot of this post, disagree with some. While today I’m going to talk what I was thinking about the Cataclysm expansion.
1. My point view of Cataclysm
Those are some of biases about Cataclysm expansion:
The revamp of the old world zones was extremely well done. Levels 1 to 60 are an astonishing experience.
The word Cataclysm is hard for me to spell. catacylsm or cataclsym quite often spelled.
Quest design in Cataclysm’s zones is, for the most part, better than it has ever been.
As a raider, I felt adrift in the start, and the time between the launch raids and Firelands felt too long. The three launch raids also didn’t feel at all like a starting raid experience, as Naxx/Sarth/Maly did. Firelands is an excellent, extremely fun, extremely well-designed raid, but it’s also the only game in town for this tier and I’m starting to get tired of it. In general, if you’re a raider or if you’re not, endgame content felt thin on the ground compared to The Burning Crusade or Wrath, which had more dungeons and heroics and comparable raid content, as well as a lot more zones to level through.
As a result, this leads to my biggest criticism of Cataclysm: its 80 to 85 zones. There were not enough of them. But in Wrath of the Lich King when you hit level 80, there might still have several zones you had not yet really explored to come in, quest, grind up some solid quest items before starting dungeons seriously. They were value-added, effectively. But it’s also not an easy task to get them all. So, usually, I check out on SwagVault.
2. However, just because I can find flaws in something, it doesn’t follow that thing has failed. It’s not even the case that the developers haven’t already found flaws in it.
If I could sit down tomorrow with the game’s development team, the first thing I’d want them to know is how much I enjoyed the game and the points why I didn’t love all of it. But if you’re going to approach every discussion of the game with the people who work on it as an adversarial process, you’re going to miss out on hearing what they have to say.
I usually like to wait until the last content patch is out and we can reasonably be said to have experienced all of its content before I do so. There’s some awesome content coming in this last patch, and I don’t think it fair to discuss Cataclysm’s overall success or failure until that content is out. Quite frankly, the best really is yet to come. And I’m looking forward to play it. Only one main criticism I have for this Cataclysm at this particular time is that: It didn’t have enough endgame world questing content.
3. What is constructive criticism?
If I really hated Trial of the Champion/Crusader as a content patch, does that make Wrath a failed expansion? No, of course it’s not. The game isn’t perfect. It has never been perfect. It will never be perfect. Perfection is the end. Perfection means there’s nowhere to go. Going places and doing things is the entire point. No one wants the game to never be perfect. But this doesn’t mean that Blizzard shouldn’t strive for constant improvement.
In a sense, the entire fight against Deathwing is an objective correlative for this struggle to always improve the game. I’ve argued before that change has been good for the game for the vast majority of its existence, and Cataclysm has been some of the biggest changes the game has ever experienced. Our task in every expansion is to tell Blizzard what we want in a way that allows it to make use of that information.
And constructive criticism is the kind of criticism that informs us: what didn’t you like, why didn’t you like it, what did you like and why did you like it, what Blizzard did right as well as what it did wrong, and why those things worked or didn’t work for you. And any personal attacks or cynical interpretations of every statement won’t contribute to helping the game get better. I think everyone knows it.
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