There is nothing arbitrary at all. At the end of the game the Blizzard’s dev team decides what is good or bad because this is their game.
We as players can provide them arguments about why some changes are bad and while some aren’t.
Arguments about bad changes:
- Level boost is bad because it will create a swarm of bots, make the economy worse and bring clueless plebs that don’t even know how to start attacking at high level dungeons etc.
- Dual talent is bad because it is a good gold sink in an inflated economy and it also provides an incentive to pick your talents carefully, creating a certain difference between careless and bad players and those who are more careful with their choices.
- LFG is bad because it removes a lot of social interactions and makes finding group a lot easier without even spending any effort.
What are the arguments of those asking for these?
- 99% if not 100% of arguments I’ve seen on these is that “it makes the game easier” or “accessible”.
Why is this a terrible argument?
Because good games aren’t easy. Easy games might seem fun for a week or two but get old very quickly. My 65 year old mother who never played a single video game in her life started playing candy crush on facebook. After 2 weeks she got bored and bought some sort of a package of maps which were designed harder. On candy crush, on facebook.
Every game that caters to instant gratification becomes dull and meaningless, this is proved hundreds of times in the history of video games and the hardcore community leaves the game, its only noobs that keep playing the game for a few months then they all migrate after the hardcore crowd. I’ve experienced this many, many times only in the games I’ve played.
Arguments about good changes:
- Drums: LW is way too good for pve and creates a situation where almost all raiding guilds will have an entire raid of LWs. A profession shouldn’t be a requirement for raiding.
- Alliance racials in PvE: The horde will be extremely populated on most realms and creating even worse server balance issues, leading to extinction of one faction on some servers and ridicilously long BG ques for the horde.
- Seal of blood: One faction of a class shouldn’t have an ability so much better than the other. It is being changed already so this is a good change.