Yeah you really showed him... /facepalmI'll bite your troll. 9 hours straight for Black Rock Depths alone. Then there was upper Black Rock Spire and the Raid Molten Core. All in the same area.
Yeah you really showed him... /facepalmI'll bite your troll. 9 hours straight for Black Rock Depths alone. Then there was upper Black Rock Spire and the Raid Molten Core. All in the same area.
Absolutely, too bad they abandoned good game design for the McDungeon value menu and never made another BRD.I'll bite your troll.
Players didn't like BRD because it took too long. Scarlet Monastery, on the other hand, was popular, each of it's 3 instances could be ran in an hour or so.Absolutely, too bad they abandoned good game design for the McDungeon value menu and never made another BRD.
Like I said, this argument is over and the "Waah, mye-peen" crowd lost.Players didn't like BRD because it took too long. Scarlet Monastery, on the other hand, was popular, each of it's 3 instances could be ran in an hour or so.
Blizz just gave the players what they wanted.
Maraudon in Desolace was another huge instance. It was hard to get groups for BRD or Maraudon.
WoW had a lot of similarities with EQ in the beginning and moved away from that design style over time.
Well, he's wrong if the goal is a more populated game. He's absolutely right if the goal is a better game.
Betteris irrelevant to Blizzard, so the whole argument is pointless. Market share and profit are the decision makers for a publicly traded company.Better inyouropinion which, as can be seen quite clearly, is irrelevant to Blizzard.
I'm sure that contributed a bit, but the main problem was that it took too long time to be practical for most people. It wasn't like you could find a group and do BRD if you had a couple of hours after work to play.The reason why it was harder to get groups for BRD in the beginning was the shit-poor itemization for 80% of the bosses. Risk(time spent) vs. reward.
If you phrase it like that, the only "better" that matters from the company point of view is Blizzard managing their product in a way that leads to better results for their shareholders/bottom line/revenue."Better" is also subjective in this case. "Better" forwhom?
Diremaul was actually fully connected. In theory, you could run every wing without rezoning. It was chunked off into subsections, though, so players could run specific wings if they wanted to. If you did the bonus loot Ogre run, there were some nice (at the time) items, but that took planning and you needed certain classes/items.Dire Maul was also a McDungeon and hardly anyone ran it because everyone wanted the looks of Tier Sets eventhough Dire Maul loot may have been slightly mathematically better.
Sure you could. The dungeon was rather intuitively separated into distinct areas aimed at a certain level range...didn't need to split it into 4 instances to figure that out. Also, by the time you were in a level range to kill emperor, you didn't need any drops pre inner-city.I'm sure that contributed a bit, but the main problem was that it took too long time to be practical for most people. It wasn't like you could find a group and do BRD if you had a couple of hours after work to play.
Sure, but most people did not know BRD well enough to do this early on. Which is one of the reasons that BRD didn't became so popular with PuGs. I mean, with some creative lava swimming you can skip past everything up to the Lyceum, but attempting this in a PuG would probably leave half of the group dead in the lava.Sure you could. The dungeon was rather intuitively separated into distinct areas aimed at a certain level range...didn't need to split it into 4 instances to figure that out. Also, by the time you were in a level range to kill emperor, you didn't need any drops pre inner-city.
...thus as a warlock, I would get spammed with requests for summons all the damned time ;/Back in our day we had to form up a group in town and then run all the way to the dungeon to do it. Most mouse clickers and keyboard turners didn't even know where Maraudon or Dire Maul were. The rest didn't know BRD's layout.