Is Season of Discovery a Waste of Time?
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
- Season of Discovery at one point was the shining jewel for World of Warcraft Classic, generating as much hype as any new expansion has for World of Warcraft. However, over time Season of Discovery's once huge popularity has rapidly decreased for various reasons, despite now heading into Phase 5 for Season of Discovery. With Cataclysm Classic and Phase 5 for Season of Discovery now the main attractions for World of Warcraft Classic, things are in a very different place for Classic WoW now. So, just what happened to Season of Discovery over the past year, and why is it no longer as popular as it once was? Let's find out.
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Are you still playing Season of Discovery? 🤔
I am. Looking forward to the projected karazhan crypts
I am. I am playing retail right now, like plenty of others, but I will return to Season of Discovery.
quit @ phase 1
@@golvellius6855 why?
@@michaelramos7026 retail-
what´s up with all these "SOD is death" "SOD is bad" videos from various creators. SOD is fun for a lot of ppl, stop the click beat.
The thing with retail ,sod, classic era is, you already get tired before you started since you know what grind lies ahead of you. Compare that to 2005 when we were discovering the world, levelling up and doing dungeons. Raiding was somethong do to a capital city of the other faction. It really was the 'world' of warcraft and not some theme park where you have to bunnyhop in the most efficient manner from quest to quest
After p1 they put close to zero energy and time into SoD. And as a shocker to absolutely no one, the game more or less died. It went from 500k players to 20k.
Well done Blizzard, 10/10 as always.
Nah. this happens even in classic 2019! tons of people play the new hype awesome classic and yhen quit at lvl 32 cus theyre bored.
are you dumb it's literally not blizzard's fault lmfao they introduced nice cool new content each new phase and people simply got bored of it that's all you're all just so quick to blame everything on blizzard as if it's not the community's fault lmao
Bro it’s 20k alliance, 19k horde on Crusader Strike. If you don’t think that’s good sever pop you’re dumb
sod p1-2 was amazing. I hurt myself professionally due to how good it was. p3 was abysmall. TBH p2 cracks showed big time but it was still very fun. I havent logged in more than 5 min since p3. What a waste.
Thoughts on p4
I enjoy it, but I am super casual. Raids a little gatekept, they are pushing for 2h, 3h and now the BWL debuffs. But I just wanna do vanilla raids with my feral. Anyway, I am sure ZG and Thunderaan are pretty pug-able.
Funny when people say season of discovery is shit there's nothing new. But then start yelling in the cam out of joy when classic classic popped.
The problem is the playerbase blizzard trained that is only about endgame now. Hence i asked in discovery how to deactivate the EXP boost and only got people answearing that I'm crazy... The current playerbase thinks it's crazy that you actually want to play the game...
Sod is great for those of us not comparing it to everything as and sulking when things don't go the way we want
Translation: SoD is great for people who consume product without any critical thinking, aka Blizzard favorite pay pigs.
@@JPJgamer well that is your subjective opinion but I can promise you are simply just playing another game lol
@@JPJgamer you dont pay extra to play SoD, so noone is a pay pig. did you drink the drain cleaner when you were a child?
@@stu805x It isn't subjective. It's an objective fact. Ya'll will pay to play any old slop Blizzard throws your way as long as it's WoW flavored.
@@networknomad5600 come play sod with me I’ll buy you sub for a month. Bet you’d love it
People complain so much they dropped a fresh classic server… not that they’re needed to be one. They could’ve easily just moved the current servers into TBC. And allowed anyone who wanted to stay in era stay in era like they did thefirst time.
This feels pretty anecdotal and "i see therefore it is". Do we have actual numbers supporting that SoD is not popular anymore? With the new mega servers the community seems more vibrant than ever, even after 1 whole phase of endgame content.
It's very populated and thank you for using your brain. Don't listen to these people, they have no facts.
Is there the world buffs meta on SoD, or they got rid of that time-sink nonsence? What is the current raiding tier now? Thanks
Retail > SoD i don't understand the point of playing classic with retail stuff while you could just play Retail
Because retail is convoluted soulless garbage?
@@ludvikalexander8618 poopy take
@@ludvikalexander8618 If told me Classic, I'll agree.
I'm not a super big fan of the lore in retail. Also I find the slower combat of Classic/SoD fun.
@@ludvikalexander8618 thats just stupid lol
This is exactly why private servers like TurtleWoW can implement extreme changes while vanilla seasonal can't. Community is too orientated to min/max. It's rude if you don't. Nothing developers could do about it. Even if Blizzard allowed them to actually pour more resources into seasonal servers and would cease railroading players to different versions of WoW everytime they sense the playerbase is dwindling.
doesnt sound like youve been playing SOD; they've add in a lot of changes. World bosses being raids; hardcore mode for the old raids & new dungeon and etc. TWoW has had its time to develop which is why it has lots of content now; I wish SoD can just do talent changes into stuff like what Twow did but they've done minor ones to make certain talents better. Lets not forget the new dungeon in Ashenvale too; so its only a matter of time before there will be more new dungeons.
ima vanilla andy and i love sod i think its faithful to vanilla i just want more 60 content
SOD is still far better than Classic Cata; classic cata is a waste of time; SOD should just become its own game with achievement link to retail similar to MOP remix.
OK BOOMER
I think making a different expansion to replace cataclysm classic wouldve been a better move then making SoD. But rehashing and modding old content is wayway cheaper then making brand new stuff.
Turtle hype! turtle hype!
Turtle is cool but too bad it’s a pain in the ass to keep up with just to be able to play.
Gonna check out the scarlet crusade instance but that’s it
Simply playing sod because it’s the closest thing to classic + that we have. It’s far from perfect but retail isn’t for me and I can’t justify replaying other versions of classic at this point in my life lol
I'm playing SoD and enjoying my time. To the people saying why play if it's just seasonal? So what. I haven't played retail since Legion. I quit classic in wotlk. I enjoyed my time when I played.
Played it everyday during P1 and P2 but P3 killed the game, hype and fun for me to the point I didn't care anymore. Had a good amount of time testing it out up until then.
Don't need to see the same raids again with wrath/retail abilities with 1 more boss per raid. Done it many times already and tired of all the reused (or as the Devs call it, reimagined) content.
SoD is just a testing ground for both Classic, Classic+ and even Retail to some extent.
My wallet is closed until we get Classic+ so see you in 2 years, ish.
I play retail and sod. Sod was my first experience ever with wow. I fell in love. with my only problem, i could NEVER do raids and dungeons easily and it’s just like you either sweat your ass off and have people to enjoy or you don’t. I just wish it had a finder to lfg. I feel lost and i have nobody to enjoy it with. So i switched to retail played war within got to lvl 80 but i never did any other expansion so to do any of that at this point seems impossible i hot a dead end in retail i got to 80 and i can’t even access certain zones because id have to go back 5 years and do a quest i have no idea about. I love wow with such little experience that im lost and unable to get a groove going. My 2 friends that got me into it just dropped it and im here like a loner. Just washed away in a sea of wow dreams
Unfortunately it's just hard to find a good community in the game these days. It's a great game imo but the community is so rough.
I recommend the RUclipsr Zepla's guild 'Onlybuns' if your looking for a friendly community.
Is it still here? Cuz i want the mounts
I think Season of Discovery is perfectly fine and my favorite version of WoW. Season of Discovery is not popular because of the new WoW expansion, and we can't deny there is overlap between the classic and retail player base. Aside from that, Season of Discovery isn't suppose to have a high server population like retail, it was made for a niche crowd.
I’m just ready for Classic+. That’s why I’m not playing season of discovery.
THIS. SoD isn't Classic+, it's just low effort slop.
If sod is like an alpha alpha for classic plus it s ok. If classic plus comes and has no meaningfull new content compared to sod then it will a complete mess
I enjoyed the earlier phases, revamped dungeons turned into raids, new world events, etc. Max level content is where I think blizzard missed the mark. I expected new content & raids at max level but instead we get to run MC with reused mechanics from SoM. The BlackRock PvP "event" was a joke.
It is a mess at this point, I quit during MC and don't think I will return to SoD.
I deleted my WoW account, which I had since 2006.
Turtle WoW has ruined all other WoW experiences for me, be it modern WoW or classic WoW.
Turtle WoW is everything I want out of WoW: Vanilla+ done right. The content they add feels like they have OG WoW developers working in their team, insanely well done and true to the lore. The server feels incredibly alive, the people are super wholesome, there is no min/max mentality, there are people leveling in all zones, everything feels so alive. The world feels fresh, due to new quest hubs with new quests, whole new zones, new dungeons, new raids, better spec balance. Bots get banned, gold sellers get banned, no bidding gold in raids. It's the closest thing to the old magic of WoW. I used to think I was done and burned out with WoW, but it turns out that was simply Activision Blizzard not caring and being lazy. I do not regret deleting my account one bit.
Official WoW is dead and has been dead for a long time. Classic+ is a joke. It's a lazy seasonalo way to replay WoW. No new content, just adding new abilities from modern WoW (which played a part in ruining WoW in the first place) and adding level caps.
I would love to play turtle wow seriously but it’s such a pain to keep up with my game works half the time try to contact support on discord and hardly get help. I can barely login.
They should probably create more content if they want people to pay them money.
HC wow died for SOD, makes me sad.
HC wow has so much replayablity potential.
Shit take imo. Hc wow died because only a handfull of people actually finds those stakes fun for more Than a couple of tries. It becomes a chore after some time. dying at 40-60 doesnt make a sane person go "i cant wait to use those litteral days in game doing the exact same thing again"
HC wow isnt dead. the nature of permadeath means leveling is always relevant and all content is being cleared all the time.
@@Jamesmyboy1 u might have changed my mind actually. That the game didnt die, just the hype, and the niche is there for those who enjoy it 🤔
@@snakie413 Needs its hype again, it was the only way I really felt like I was playing WoW in 2004 again.
3 words: New expansion innit
SOD is for the folks to replay with a twist the memories of the past. Trying to make it modern day metrics and needing everyone to be "perfect" cookie cutter builds with no exploration is disgusting. Retail is WOKE and perverted. WoW is dead.
sod is extremely bad. It needs to end it feels like a game for toddlers
Haha sod is good and still has 2x more active raiders than cata and 4x as era
it only shuts conservative type players up for classic wow in general
WOW IS A WASTE OF TIME AS A WHOLE!
How could you say such blasphemy lol
The reason i dont play classic is because nothing carries over into retail making it in the end pointless
My thoughts too. If the gear and mounts I unlocked in classic also unlocked in retail, there would be a reason to play
I don't play it, but I'm sick of it.
how can you be sick of it if you dont play it?
Bros the type to get offended if someone far away farts in his general direction @@alihorda
How tf can you be sick of it, you don’t play
Shut up clown
why would i play a character thats just going to get deleted at the end of the season? defeats the entire purpose of an rpg for me
yes its a waste time, its been clearn that SOD its a beta to test things for the upcoming classic+
SoD is dead. They need to make a new game. Move on from classic lore and make new expansions like bloodsail bucaaneers or Scarlet Crusader expansions divert WoW to a new era(classic) SoD is literally nothing new they killed the game on purpose
SoD is just retail on the classic client
very boring its something people think they want but they don t
What the Fuck did People Expect, to be in a Happy Wonderland for Eternity?
Classic,SoD and so on have Literally no Future, Players Knows the Ins and Outs of EVERY Fight because they did Private Servers on the Base Games and SoD is like M+ Toxicity with elitism cranked to 11 when they want to reach 2,500 Rating or 3K
i Prefer Retail and have it the way with regular changes and constant new Updates
classic is a waste of time. The graphics are so outdated
graphics are what makes it appealing to me, retail just looks like the sims with dragons.