"It's Legion's fault": Asmongold realizes why he didn't like Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands expansions for World of Warcraft

sportskeeda.com:

Veteran MMORPG Twitch streamer Zack "Asmongold" reacted to Preach Gaming's in-depth video at Blizzard's World of Warcraft headquarters with a one-on-one interview with game director Ion Hazzikostas, who revealed parts of how features for the new expansions are developed.

Over the course of the video, Asmongold gradually realized the reason content expansions Shadowlands and Battle of Azeroth were "sh*t" was because Blizzard was basically working with feedback from players who liked some of Legion's new mechanics back in the day:

While watching the 72-minute-long video from Preach Gaming titled A NEW Era for WoW - Inside Blizzard HQ, Asmongold had some important realizations about the development processes of the expansions. Following is the portion from the interview with the game's director that ultimately led the OTK Founder to criticize the developers.

While discussing new features in the Legion expansion, Hazzikostas had this to say:

Asmongold interjected the video at this point to praise Blizzard for these features:

He then unpaused the video:

Explaining further, the World of Warcraft director further revealed that the subsequent features that came in Shadowlands and Battle for Azeroth were a direct continuation of the features that were supposedly well-received by fans during the Legion expansion:

Asmongold clearly did not agree with the statement about people liking these things in particular and paused the video to give a long, incredulous stare at the chat window. He kept up that mocking smile as Ion Hazzikostas continued to say how that seemingly "positive" feedback made them go down a specific development path:

This is where Asmongold realized that the features that came in with the Legion expansion were the root