World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Imagine going to McDonalds - World of Warcraft Forums
"to get a 4 piece McNuggets, you pay, get your nuggets and your happy and all that then some idiot comes and also gets 4 piece McNuggets but it McForges into a 12 piece McNuggets with a soda and some fries and you're standing there like a fucking idiot with your dumb 4 piece McNuggets while he/she has more than you for some weird reason even tho you both payed the same price but you are less rewarded because...
WoW 2018 gearing "
This post summed up WoW 2018 for me really. Still cracks me up, and makes me sad at the same time.
"to get a 4 piece McNuggets, you pay, get your nuggets and your happy and all that then some idiot comes and also gets 4 piece McNuggets but it McForges into a 12 piece McNuggets with a soda and some fries and you're standing there like a fucking idiot with your dumb 4 piece McNuggets while he/she has more than you for some weird reason even tho you both payed the same price but you are less rewarded because...
WoW 2018 gearing "
This post summed up WoW 2018 for me really. Still cracks me up, and makes me sad at the same time.
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In 8.1 they also stealth buffed the health of Legion dungeon bosses, and I think the trash as well, for reasons unknown. I was able to solo Nightbane in Karazhan easily before the patch but can't do it now.
Mahes
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Please give us money. We are bleeding and we need to keep our investors happy.
Also, See you later bundle?? HAHA its a fucking piece of programming script that no longer takes effort to make. Why would they disappear?
Of course..when you see this..
You just have to sigh and know that unless some serious management changes are made, this game is quite possibly finished. Say hello to the new Korean Modeled Blizzard.
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Please give us money. We are bleeding and we need to keep our investors happy.
Also, See you later bundle?? HAHA its a fucking piece of programming script that no longer takes effort to make. Why would they disappear?
Of course..when you see this..
You just have to sigh and know that unless some serious management changes are made, this game is quite possibly finished. Say hello to the new Korean Modeled Blizzard.
World of Tanks does the same thing. Rare tank! Only will be sold once! ...goes on sale a year later.
Please give us money. We are bleeding and we need to keep our investors happy.
Also, See you later bundle?? HAHA its a fucking piece of programming script that no longer takes effort to make. Why would they disappear?
Of course..when you see this..
You just have to sigh and know that unless some serious management changes are made, this game is quite possibly finished. Say hello to the new Korean Modeled Blizzard.
Despite uninstalling the game and the bnet clients from both of my PC's yesterday, my brain still had the impulse to buy this when I saw this. The idea was immediately discarded as insanity, but the chemistry that goes on with impulse buying is bloody frustrating (and fascinating) at times.
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Lambourne
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This idea has been going through my head for a while too. The big idea behind MMORPG's was expanding the traditional RPG to being part of a virtual world and all the early games like UO, AC and EQ profiled themselves as such. Blizzard was no different even called it World of Warcraft for this very reason. "Be a part of this vast world" was the core appeal.
As an individual in this world, your character could grow and develop. Maybe you had some unusual reputation maxed that offered some minor benefit, had a rare piece of loot that looked cool, something that set your character apart from others. It made your character your own and made the player feel invested in both the character and in the game.
Newer designers came along who never had the original dream of being part of a virtual world. They just looked at things players reported enjoying (like maxing a rare reputation) figured this is what people enjoyed and gave everyone a bunch of bars to fill up. Except, it was no longer something optional to make the player's character into an individual, it was a mandatory hoop to jump through. Now everyone is the same.
People enjoy getting powerful, "epic" items that increase their character's power? Epics for everyone. But wait, we can do better: a whole new set every patch even! With MORE SPARKLES!!! Cool looking item somewhere? Now you can farm all those looks too!
Over time the idea has shifted from virtual world to theme park where everything is nearby, nothing is dangerous and everyone's character can do everything. There is nothing to make the player feel like an individual and so they aren't invested in the character or in the game world. Other players are either an annoyance or only there out of necessity. No one talks, no point. Better kick that guy because his DPS isn't good enough to get this pre-fab dungeon done in the least amount of time possible.
Maybe I am starting to be an old fart, but way back when PoK books were added to EQ, there were people complaining (on this very board) that it was making the game feel less like a world because it allowed easy travel and less interaction between players. Didn't think much about it back then, but 15 years on I'm thinking they had a point, even if it did take another thousand cuts for the genre to end up where it is now: a perversion of what once made the genre work.
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Been thinking a lot of the same recently as well. I remember when talk about things like welfare epics started popping up and people were griping about over-simplification of things and I shrugged them off as they seemed like reasonable design decisions at the time when look at individually, but a decade of these sort of decisions with increasing intensity has just gutted everything that mattered beneath the surface.
The thousand cuts bit has me thinking of it as some sort of weird reversal of intent. They made a thousand changes all with the intent of staunching the bleeding that comes from messy designs when they were really slicing open a thousand wounds in the process.
I don't really agree with the newer/younger designer concerns though as the lead designers of WoW and most other bigger RPG's are all people within our age ranges and played the same games. I think the younger design approach is actually from the marketing/corporate influences that have these guys on short enough changes that there was no hope to begin with. You really only see older style game design coming from the Japanese market or Indie devs where their designers have freedoms that the western AAA devs haven't had for a very long time.
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This is Blizzard of today though - it doesn't matter what you choose - they won't chance letting one experience be better (or significantly different) than the other.
They are even adding in a vendor (according to them) to allow you to get pets only available to the other faction.
They are even adding in a vendor (according to them) to allow you to get pets only available to the other faction.
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Blizzard customer service concern as staff accept cash to exit Irish hub
Yes, paying your customer service employees a year's worth of salary to fuck off is a good sign for the company and the quality of its customer service.
Yes, after "a lean expansion" you have to plan for a "a lean year".