I'm Finally Excited To Play WoW Again After An Afternoon With Dragonflight

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The World of Warcraft community has been stuck between a rock and hard place in recent years. After two disappointing expansions (with Shadowlands in particular in the running for worst WoW expansion of all time), frequent content droughts, and a year's worth of disturbing headlines in regards to developer Blizzard's alleged «frat boy» workplace culture, it's no surprise that many longtime WoW players have moved on to greener MMO pastures. Though positive changes have been made in the past year both in regards to how Blizzard operates as a company and how Blizzard is approaching the future of WoW, for many fans, the changes were too little, too late.

The situation raises some questions: What impact will Dragonflight have, and can the upcoming expansion, currently slated to release before the end of the year, bring players back? That still remains to be seen, but having spent more than six hours playing a version of the upcoming expansion ahead of its public alpha test (which starts today), I can say with confidence WoW finally seems to have found its footing after two years of stumbling around in the Shadowlands.

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In many ways, Dragonflight feels like a back-to-basics expansion. That's not a bad thing. Gone are flashy, headline-grabbing new features like Covenants, Soulbinds, Azerite Armor, Artifact Weapons, Class Halls, Garrisons, Warfronts, Island Expeditions, and the like. Instead, Dragonflight's list of core features is