Shocker, I know.
But then again, almost sixteen years later and we still seeing questions about Lore, Mechanics and what have you.
I probably going to sound pretentious, but I have always understood that everything Blizzard does, consensually or not, is aimed at making money. And not by making something good that actually deserves your money, but the bare minimum effort required.
And I think you should always remember that too, before you post your question on forums.
Every mechanic in WoW designed to make you waste as much time as possible without any real progression.
Every piece of Lore written exists there to accommodate the Gameplay, not the other way around. If new mechanic for new expansion will break Lore in half - so be it.
TL;DR, donât waste your time asking questions. Because you know the answers.
The thing people donât seem to understand is Blizzard CS/GMs are not there to tell you why that pair of transmog boots arenât dropping. They arenât even there to tell if that pair of boots still drop. They are there to fix things within their remit.
This entire âcommunity feedbackâ thing has spoiled gaming. Used to be people would adapt to games and find the best way to play, now they come crying on forums that games need to be changed to accommodate their way of playing.
And then when not everything gets instantly changed to their desires, the crying starts about the âevil, money grabbing companyâ.
WoW is especially bad with this, as there is an entire influencer business niche about moaning on blizzards choices, no matter what they do.
Blizzard is running a business for millions of people online, the cost of labor, equipment, servers, skillsets and many more things needs to be covered, and alongside that there needs to be an incentive to create/work at blizzard.
A reasonable adult will try and make money to make their lives better, thatâs how it goes, money doesnât grow on trees.
WoW is the only MMORPG game with fluid combat, no windup / lag on skill usage and reasonable GCDs though, and that is what has set it apart by leagues from other MMORPG games.
Funnily enough you criticize them for making everything time wasting, when the thing they excel it is designed specifically for time efficiency and fun.
The only compromise blizzard did in this game was setting GCDs at 0.75 seconds minimum for balance & latency reasons which is a very cool compromise.
ikr. People these days want everything handed to them on a silver platter. 'Wahh I donât have time to raid so give me the same ilvl loot from killing rares and doing WQ". Like bruh nobody is forcing anyone to play the game lol if one doesnât like it they can quit and play something else.
Theres nothing wrong with putting a bit of stuff in the game that pulls you back in âplay metricsâ. Itâs just Blizz have taken the peepee out of this recently and realised it, now they are backing off a bit (I hope)
Itâs a balancing act. But donât tell me that the people only wanted money, thats overly cynical. Many wanted to entertain and to create something amazing. They did that. In general I donât begrudge them getting rich of their talent.
I dunno, 16 years of consistently bad service, perhaps? That and disinterest in making something average, let alone good.
Everything.
Yes, I shocked that spending even ridiculous 10 hours in the game give you no progression whatsoever.
Influencers are the ones who make it even worse.
Do you even read what I said? Weâre not talking about money for servers, for food, for cleaning services for their offices, for office rent, for salaries, for servers rent, for server blades, and so on.
Weâre talking about getting every single penny out of you until youâre broke. Make all money now, donât invest in the near future, donât make that customer is satisfied, lie to them. Nice tactics.
Iâve defended this game to hell and back. Then Nazjatar came out. And I realized what âefficiencyâ weâre talking about.
I never said that? If I spend 3-4 hours a day every day in this game, Iâd like to see progression made.
Well it totally depends on what you are doing in the game. If you are pushing M+ on. a daily thats one thing but if you are farming mounts that have 0.01% chance drop and you get mad about the absence of progression due to the fact of you not getting them, thats a whole different story
Both, actually. And mounts is just⌠its ridiculous trying to not get the damn sword and the damn horse from the damn strathomle in almost 16 years. Thereâs should be at least slight increase in chance every time you doing the run.
Because itâs a company and the main goal of a company is to make profit, because when they are not making profit they will go bankrupt meaning the game couldâve been over long ago already if they did everything the community wants them to do.
Shots fired, company thats work for money want only money from you. Ofc AB not ur old grandma thats give you cookies and glad thats your litlle more happy.
I am not by any means suggesting that Blizzard is perfect as a company (name a company that is) but you have to consider that the main goal of a business is to make money and yes, any game company but especially a subscriber-based game has to find ways to keep people playing. Whether those ways are creating grinds, raid progression, long questing areas or encouraging playing alts blizzard do that very well imo⌠almost too well that they go too far and it detracts form the enjoyment of the game.
That they only care about making money? I disagree, yes there may be people at the top who just want to see their figures in the green always but the development team, art team and writers for sure care about what they are creating. For me this is evident in the quality of their work.
I support this game because I love the work of the (possibly underpaid) creative and development team, not for some guys at the top earning too much money for too little.
Ofc AB not ur old grandma thats give you cookies and glad thats your litlle more happy.