Should there be a change at the top. I would never want anyone to lose their job especially in this climate but I feel if this expansion bombs we need a fresh take at the game.
I just hope they focus on the core classes and making them fun and ditch these big systems.
After watching this video I feel even more worried.
What constitutes an expansion being a failure? And to who? 
depends on what you mean by failure. failure in eyes of the player or economically for blizzard? cause bfa, although disliked by a lot of people, was financially not necessarily unsucessful.
imo, as long as blizzard isnt losing money long term, nothing at the top will change.
I would expect if it bombs and its really bad then i guess subs will take a hit. I havent been this worried and excited about an expansion ever.
I just hope the expansion doesnt get cut like WoD. The art team has been carrying for a while.
I miss proper class balance and big major patches that fix broken classes etc. however, if a class sucks from the start its a long time until the next expansion.
Doesnât matter if people keep buying store mounts then finance is happy
I think you spelled âwhenâ incorrectly
More Bellular hyperbolic videos? Yawn. Just ignore that chap. The man makes a living on clickbait videos, so of course every video has to seem APOCALIPTIC one way or the other.
I watched the video. I generally agree with his concerns about the game needing to be delayed, but as he seems to do with many of this videos, it has an overly hyperbolic tone and draws big conclusions from a limited picture. Always consume content like this with a grain of salt.
That said, I am fully expecting that the expansion will launch with core problems if they do not delay this release, and thatâs a conclusion I drew months ago (in fact, I even tweeted about it the day after they announce that launch date). Theyâve had to adhere to a pretty tight deadline while getting this game together in the middle of a pandemic in a country that has completely failed to grapple with the situation. Several software and game projects have been delayed, it always smelled fishy that Blizzardâs projects are not being delayed.
Bellular, one day he praises the SL another day he is bsing.
I have stopped watching his videos because of these bss.
Imagine Blizzard doing what Square did with Final Fantasy 14, admitting that their game was a complete failure, sack the lead developer and scrap the entire game only to start anew. And end up with a much better game.
if we are gonna see a Delay⌠they need to serious Get up and state it⌠like litterally, less then a Month away would be unacceptable, doesnt give anyone enough time to anything concerning holiday booked and more.
And before Someone says âwell spend ur holiday doing something elseâ⌠guess what. Most cant. its a Pandemic.
Yup, and this is an excellent point. Not everyone has the luxury to ârebookâ their time off, and many have already booked time off. If we are going to get a delay, it should be announced like yesterday.
I agree with the hyperbolic statement but the concern is definitely there.
Just take Monks for example, still extremely bugged that most beta testers havent been able to test the class properly.
Dead talents, I will be going into the 3rd expansion in a row as wind walker and i will be using the same talent set up as the last 2 expansions. As a game deisgner how can they look at that and say ânah they good!â . Two of the specs have poor stat scaling and require us to stack versatility which Bliz themselves said they never want a class to do that.
Also i hope you like covenant abilities because they will be your 10.0 talents.
Just the idea of the Monk covenant abilities worry me. The Kyrian is a mastery increase and resource builder (we may as well have kept some of the essence passives). We scale poorly from mastery and are you trying to tell me they cant think of a cool martial art move or enhancement.
The Venthyr ability is essentially SEF version 2 although we still have SEF version one which has been bugged for years. We are going to have so many pets out out they may as well give Monks army of the dead.
The night fae one is cool and kind a fits the fantasy and the necrolord one fits teh fantasy but its essentially an effect added to keg toss that all the specs can use.
Another example is paladins, unprune auras which are essentially passives from the previous expansion which makes them worse and they even removed one. they removed blessings so paladins actually have less iconic abilities than they started with.
I just think the class design is suffering and the game is suffering due to them spending so much time fixing and balancing borrowed power systems.
Anyway, apologies for the rant, i just want the game to be great again and its frustrating.
But Blizzard have not said a peep about a possible delay of anything.
You have to keep in mind that all these expectations, disappointments, concerns, and other reasons for a delay, theyâre all created by people in the community, like Bellular.
This is all a storm the WoW community has been brewing up entirely on its own.
It has nothing to do with Blizzard, so far.
If there was a Risk of a Delay, the date shoiuldnt of been set to begin with.
Im between on this realistically.
the bug fixes do seem to be coming out fast enough ands the major ones which caused Severe impact simply did also. but it does bring me back to a point
the Devs at a point.
Did State âWeâll delay things IN the expansion. to simply get the expansion out on time and then drop the Content after its polishedâ this was there way of stating a garuntee to the Expansion launch pre 2021.
I mean they have already refused the point of Delaying the expansion itself.
I actually have a Return on this.
FFXIV doesnt have a Beta, it doesnt have a Feedback Loop As in what goes into a Expansion etc etc. which means âbugs and moreâ simply have no Pre-Sight for their playerbase to scream about.
however the game has defintly had Gamebreaking bugs, through its Launcher Use and tons more. the difference is. the Mentality of FFXIV Players
Say something against FFXIV, their community will find u. litterally Scotzzone got his Address sent to him by a unkown FFXIV Player with a threat of âif u dont leave this community weâll remove you ourselvesâ.
FFXIV COmmunity⌠no matter the Bug that happens or more. they simply Dont get mad at Square Enix. they go to every level to Defend them. WoW Players are more then happy to To insult and critic WoW in a Much more open fashion.
FFXIV has tons of Falls and its over its time done ALOT wrong throughout its time. just because its built a Community that wouldnt say a bad word against their company doesnt make the game more polished or anything.
Simply the critical players of FFXIV are pushed out VERY quickly. its a big leading problem to why it doesnt sustain Players.
Because he clickbaits. What he does is the LITERAL DEFINITION OF CLICKBAIT!
Where else you think he still gets the braindead clicks from? (the people that canât resist clicking because they donât know fast enough what clickbait means)
Im aware im just curious to if weâll see them give into the community and maybe try do this as a good PR Stunt.
Iâd probably eagerly wait what Dreamhaven [ex-Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaimeâs new company] has in store for us.
I donât know if this is a fair thing to say Jito. The concerns certainly do originate from the community, but the community is responding to what seems to be an issue of multiple problems with a game that is not even a month from release. This is everything from bugs to classes that still have serious design flaws.
Beforehand I would have chalked that off to âwell Blizzard probably has internal builds that are several paces ahead of the betaâ, but after what happened to Warcraft 3, I canât be blamed for being a little skeptical. The Pandemic really complicates the development process for them.
Also, theyâre rushing in huge changes to big systems that need a lot of data from beta testers to tune correctlyâat the last minute. Hopefully that is something theyâll be able to quickly do on launch, but it is worth highlighting.
Youâre just spoiling the game for yourself, when you dwell on other peopleâs opinions.