I actually like war mode and think it has more potential than old world pvp. I jumped back in again and have been enjoying it. Incursions puts a neat twist on it as well. If factions are somewhat balanced then it's pretty fun.
Yeah I think war mode has more
potential in modern WoW than previous world PvP. It's a step in the right direction, but so far just a step. Kind of sloppily implemented and the excessive phasing/sharding is terrible. No joke, their server tech seems to have been downgraded with the implementation of sharding -- they seem to be able to handle fewer players in one area and just spin up another shard instead. This is a huge problem in having the game world feel lively. I mean, anecdote, but when I can't even see someone on my friendslist on the same server, both with warmode on the same setting, in the same spot, something is seriously wrong. It honestly is probably helping to mask how bad sub numbers really are if I'm being cynical.
I haven't done holidays in game since I unlocked What's a Long, Strange Trip back in Wrath/Cata. The pets etc just aren't enough to get me to log in daily for those, lol.
Yeah, pretty much all the holidays I kinda ignore now for the same reason unless there's something new for a given year, even then it's usually not worth it. I get why they don't do big revamps or add too much at one time, since people that might not have done the holidays before still have a lot to do in any given annual holiday. Would be nice if they added brand new holidays maybe -- the micro-holidays are okay, but there's no lasting rewards for those since they only last a couple days at most.
uhh... why would they stop having this?
FUN DETECTED.
But seriously, this is another case of "you're not playing the way WE want you to play."
But they've retracted it for now, while they have further internal discussions or whatever.