I’m glad to announce that today at 2:05am Blizzard did push the button of the “shadowfix” regarding the abomination that was the Hallowfall cloth farm via quest. Mobs don’t drop cloth anymore.
I’m glad to see that Blizzard sees this things and fixes them “quick enough” as they go public.
I’m even happier to see how people who did exploit it to the limit via autoclickers and stuff, got perma banned.
This thing might be no relevant for all of you guys, but this was part of the shadowy WoW’s exploit story, and Blizzard did display a statement: We are controling our game and will fix things with all our effords.
Microsoft wanted a huge quarter so they released the game early to get 2 months of sub time, right on top of an Overwatch season start, right on top of a Diablo 4 season start, and in a few weeks time the Diablo 4 expansion will be out too.
The idea is to blow up the quarterly earnings report so people flock to the company and buy stock. Get ready for the headline “Biggest ever Blizzard quarter”, then in January or February, “Blizzard lays off 1500 employees.”
Why pay for BETA testers or reward people who volunteer to be BETA testers, while you can just make the poor people who paid full price to deal with the bugs and involuntarily BETA test instead?
Tbf it wasn’t actualy a bug. It was legit WoW post classic (maybe tbc ish) mechanics.
You can’t progress a quest in raid, you get no exp tho. So you can do quest things permanently without progressing, so it alows you to perma click stuff, it’s been like this since back then. So no, this is not a “beta test thing” problem, it’s more like a core WoW related feature.
The reading here is that Blizz did fix everything that was messing around even if it was a core feature beneath its mechanics pretty quick after it got viral, so ye, I’m happy to see a more vigilant WoW team, rather than an AI supported team lol.
I don’t think they have a dedicated team of players to which they pay for testing everything in game. If that was the case the Beta wouldn’t exist. They rely on players particupating in the Beta testing and reporting issues.
To be honest,most of the players join the Beta just to check on what’s comming regarding content insted of really testing things.
That’s true. But imagine that you are a guy who knows the patterns of how to exploit the game and find…lucrative stuff. If one of those would find something in the beta, that person would not say a word and not even test it there, but would wait to do it with his closed community and profit.
The problem with beta testing is that the developers relay on people bein honest rather than selfish (or with a seeking profit attitude), and the reality is that some players do profit on that. I don’t know by first hand, but odds are that this exploit was “available” since launch, and some groups were exploiting it secretly, untill some guy did snitch or find out how to do it and release to the community.
In the end, even if people would report everything in the beta, the reality is that no player can test everything even if he would want, and it is normal that some stuff is hidden just to find and “report”. We (as players) are still discovering stuff from Classic or relatively old expansions nowadays, so it is reasonable to think that way.
