Any info in that matter to be confirmed true?
Extremely disturbing…
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Considering what ‘content’ we were getting.
Development being halted doesn’t sound all that different.
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Good thing that we are used to long gaps by now.
But to be honest, i wouldn’t mind if WoW got halted so that the company can get their stuff together and then come back and go 110% to get this game back again.
But one can only hope, time will tell.
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What is even more disturbing is that people who love the game, and want it to succeed, are complaining that the workers, who are standing up against management that is “handling” the situation so awfully “well”, are, well… standing up against management.
If you want the game to be good, you stand with those who stand up against the tide that tries to milk it, and otherwise doesn’t care.
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Hmm shouldnt than they freez our game time aswell than? It was always argued that mmorpgs got monthly fee to afford constant developement. If that’s not the case atm than we are paying only for game upkeep right now?
Anyway dont treat this response too serious, just some theoretical musings.
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They’re gonna get to have two 6 month sub rotations in the same patch now, why would they freeze?
Getting it just as the weekend is ending.
Biggest nonsense of the week award winning entry.
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The way i see it world of warcraft currently stands at a crossroads, they can continue down this path of microtransactions , delayed patches and a slow decline in the game.
OR
They could have a major shuffle up of the dev team , completely restructure and create a good work environment, hunker down for a few years and come out with an expansion deserving of the legacy wow has created.
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Ignoring the whole lawsuit thing for a moment to just think about the game itself for a second, I think this is a good thing.
Why? Because as far as I’m concerned this expansion is nothing short of a disaster. It’s awful. It’s not BfA levels of awful, but it’s bad enough I’ve had enough.
Stopping development means there’s a larger chance they’re going to give Shadowlands the WoD treatment and cut it down in size so they can focus on whatever comes after. Now given we’ve had 2 trash piles in a row, 10.0 could be crap as well. But throwing Shadowlands in the bin is, to me at least, the best move. It’s bad. WoW has never been as unpopular as it is right now. Get rid of this failed attempt at an expac and move on.
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we passed this crossroad 12 years ago. they’d rather let WoW slowly bleed out than make major changes that could save it or break it
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no we didnt?
better that way…the content outside of raiding was crap anywho. maybe, just maybe they start to actually develop something rather than rename and reuse old systems
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Almost entirely irelevant to quality of content.
You’re wrong. I’m a dev and I’m not willing to produce good quality software where I’m currently working. Hence why I’m leaving in September.
You can’t produce good code and or design in such toxic and unfriendly environment.
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well, i dont know much about twitter and whatnot but i found this:
@JeffAHamilton
I don’t know what to do. I don’t have all the answers. I can tell you, almost no work is being done on World of Warcraft right now while this obscenity plays out. And that benefits nobody - not the players, not the developers, not the shareholders.
[4:02 vorm. · 25. Juli 2021
https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/status/1419115702569472003
no idea how credible it is though. 
Afaik from a legal standpoint we’re paying for access to the server, thus we’re only able to reclaim gametime if our access to the server is impossible for a long period of time.
And even that is up to Blizz as there’s nothing forcing them to give free gametime.
Seemingly not 100% true for Blizzard as a whole since they are working on raid hotfixes and must’ve enough people working for them to ship that fix
Wouldn’t be surprised if little work is done for a few day, but this lawsuit will take months if not years to settle and time won’t magically stop until then.
So wouldn’t worry about that slowing down 9.2.
On the other hand we have no confirmation that whatever delayed 9.1 was fixed so I would be more worried about that if I were y’all.
It looks like a few days for Blizzard to (pretend to) sort itself out, the way OP is making they’ve completely abandoned the game, feeding the end of WoW narrative that’s making the rounds more than usual. It’s not worth making a post, I’m sure it’s the same with ALL Blizzard games.
I’m sure they’ll all be doing HR seminars all week.
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i tought development was allready halted …
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For one they financing was around billion dollars titles - that article about W3 remaster vs funding D4 and OV2. So WoW is targeted at making such money because anything less is not compatible with those higher-ups.
And then we have morale / quality of working for Blizzard. Some time ago people wanted to work there - which also was abused and the wages were below average. As generations changed new developers were not players but just employees that treat it as pure dev work (and when devs don’t play their game…).
So we arrive at the lawsuit - higher-ups did atrocious responses which even more annoyed/angered lower tier employees. With all of this hostility and lack of understanding it’s obvious work will be much harder if it happens at all anytime soon.
Even if HR/management tries to put it under the rug it’s obvious this won’t end in a good product - underpayed, mistreated devs, blind management, constant problems and conflicts.
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Pretty much this. Blizzard have known about this investigation for a long time as they talked about working with the department that is accusing them. The people working there didn’t just randomly wake up to shocking news, lots of them knew it was coming. Lots of the apologies are to save face. They are on damage control mode now. The apologies and acting like they care are from being caught, Just like the kid with his hand in the cookie jar.
They won’t let something die that makes them money. Money is the most important thing. If it wasn’t they would have talked about these accusations before they got announced.
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