Twitch Streamer Asmongold Reveals Why He Thinks WoW Dragonflight Is Getting Less Attention Than Other Expansions

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Blizzard has officially announced the next expansion forWorld of Warcraft will beDragonflight, and reception among the MMO's community has been divided. While the announcement event for Dragonflight went well, World of Warcraft players have questions regarding storytelling and design that linger from previous expansions. Twitch streamer Asmongold recently vocalized these criticisms, answering why he believedDragonflight is struggling to pick up momentum in a way the previous World of Warcraft expansions haven't.

The topic that caught the attention of Asmongold during a recent stream was tied to YouTube views for World of Warcraft's past three expansion announcement trailers. Battle for Azeroth's cinematic trailer is said to have had 6.5 million views after seven days, Shadowlands had 4.7 million, and nowDragonflight is falling short of 2 million. The implication being that Dragonflight's announcement has significantly less hype surrounding its reveal than even World of Warcraft's past two heavily criticized expansions.

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Asmongold explains to his viewers that the «truth» isWorld of Warcraft players are «tired of getting fooled.» He says that players feel like they've been fooled twice with Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands promising meaningful changes and improvements but otherwise delivering the same kind of experience that World of Warcraft players are frustrated with. As such, those World of Warcraft players are taking a wait-and-see approach to Dragonflight.

Dragonflight, in Asmongold's eyes, is an expansion that's going to have to «earn back [World of Warcraft's] audience.» He believes that this could take a year, in that Dragonflight isn't going