Again the scenario he wrote about is just what i replied to… you can fill in whatever you want after but doesnt really change the scenario he wrote… blame him for “lazy writing” 
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What does this add to the thread tho. Your analogy sucked.
Ah but atleast you got to claim the victim status. I guess that means you won or something. Well done.
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Because “WoW is too big to fail so we can do what we want.” Truth hurts I know.
It’s “monopolic” complacency, same happened with Intel after being so many years at the top, now they’re getting eaten by AMD.
Patiently waiting for another company to make an MMO that dethrone WoW, even for a limited time, just so the developers have a reality check and get their egos back in their place. FFXIV is doing a good job at de-disillusioning for now, but i’m really curious to see how the upcoming Riot MMO will perform.
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Blizzard should start looking here to get some ideas how to fix WoW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwHJqXKwRKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtdaby3q6NI
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There was also another approach at bfa beta forum,they wiped whole forum,who needs feedback they knew better
I think the issue here is that this might have worked in the past, when WoW was an anomaly in the market and no other MMO could touch it. But we have had 2 expansions with generally hated story/lore and generally disliked systems and mechanics, the general neglect of the employees’ well being, and on top of that the recent harassment scandals the giant is crumbling.
To say “lol then quit” is disastrous when people already are quitting in droves.
Edit: Oops, this was cut off unintentionally… This should say “[…] is undeserving hubris during a time when they should rather focus on building customer trust again”
I really do not want anyone to be let go. Rather they should step back from the game and get feedback from other people. An outside perspective. Let other people step up and try alternatives. I feel like there are a bunch of people that have been promoted way past their proficiency, possibly for lack of anyone else willing to do the job. Now they’re stuck with a job they can’t do well and with a lot of pressure both from players and corporate. That’s why I say maybe level the playing field with responsibilities? Let them be creative as
a team instead of putting pressure on a single dev. That requires those to let go of their ego of course, but it’d be better to just fire everyone. Firing people in times of great uncertainty will only demotivate the rest of the colleagues I feel…
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I think the best example of Blizzard implementing bad systems is the conduit energy. Why does it exist? To restrict players from changing their conduits freely. Why does that need to exist? Well, uhm… to be an inconvenience? For whom? I don’t know.
Blizzard trying to actively sabotage the players with their systems in ways like these is, in my opinion, the biggest downside of the current game. It has happened time and time again, and sometimes they’ve fixed it later on in the patch. This is not good game design.
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Time to play metric for casual whales. Thats what these systems are. Tragedy here is not even whales likes them, and it is just starting to get into their heads that maybe they overdid the features. And yes Im casual whale as well, but game has not been fun for a long long time comparing it to the past.
Yeah, I am not new to the forums. I have been reading a lot. I suppose you want Blizzard to do this:
What i want is reaction to fair concerns regarding systems they implement because guess what every time they ignore it those system fail as ppl predicted months earlier
Do they actually ignore “Every time”? As in they NEVER EVER make any change as a response to player feedback?
Do players agree on feedback? Can you point to a single feedback thread where there are ZERO players who disagree they the original posters? And before you say “fanboys”, the “fanboys” are paying customers too, and their feedback matters too.
Azerite gear-ignored and whiped beta forum
Legendaries aquisition in legion-ignored
Removal of tier sets-ignored
Corruptions-ignored
List goes on and on
Some of the Blizz decision makers be like:
It’s pathetic. Fix your crap, then lecture the players that carry “your” game. Talking smack on twitter while the whole Blizzard castle is crumbling and burning down around you.
It’s like that “everything’s fine” dog in burning house meme.
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Frankly? Maybe they should…
Then they won’t have to spend half expansion fixing the crap players told them was bad back in x.0 PTR.
Just you wait, you can bet they will remove conduit energy and “pull the rip cord” in 9.2. Because at this point it’s just being stubborn for no reason, with Ion going on stream doing total metal gymnastics to try to even rationalize this BS.
“Whelp we don’t want players to feel annoyed needing to switching binds and conduits mid run…”
- -OR- just like… let us decide for ourselves there? You know, player agency and all.
- Stop spamming the game with systems with crap pitfalls you need to make another equally crappy solution for.
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That reminds me of the people who worked on No man sky. They remained silent and just did fix their game. And now people love the game.
Thing is they responded for fair criticism regarding state of the game and worked on it instead of going on twitter blaming players for every bad thing
Frankly? They didn’t… Ion going on stream and layering out his lawyerspeak with half-admissions of shortcoming and then a year later making half hearted changes is not “response”.
That’s how we had Azerite armor taking half expansion to half-fix. And it’s how we will have covenant restrictions that make little to no sense take half expansion to half-fix.
“Conduit energy”… how about you just remove that crap altogether Blizz? Nobody asked for that BS. The very living example of doubling down on crap nobody wants on top of covenant restrictions.
They’re not really taking offense, just disregarding people that can’t give feedback in a useful fashion. Working retail, if I have someone going “Ya’ll should be fired for x and y” and usually the problem has nothing to do with me I’m going to ignore that customers feedback because they don’t even bother engaging correctly for one and two have no idea what they’re talking about.
Wrong. Tons of people want people fired, see threads like this where people do call for it and anywhere else like twitter where people do so all the time.
I think he was refeering to my example with the No man Sky devs
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