Yeah that’s a genuine frustration with Ion, he loves to make mandatory content and then reference it, either unable to, or refusing to acknowledge that mandatory =/= fun
“LOOK EVERYONE IS DOING THE MANDATORY CONTENT!! THEY MUST BE ENJOYING IT!!”
See - Visions of N’zoth, N’zoth invasions etc.
current team management has no other task than increase cash shop related metrics
it shows in every single system and design that they’ve changed or implemented since legion forward
they aren’t even trying to retain subs, they only care about retaining people that buy cash shop gold
They don’t.
You have plenty of world quests, pet battles, and low-skill content to do. The game caters to everyone except high end professional players. There’s a lot more low-skill content than there is high-skill content.
They don’t.
But their philosophy has been transplanted into the current WoW. It wasn’t just Ion who got hired, it were several people… who are in lead positions now.
What philosophy is that? What do you even know about them?
Name some names and why you feel they shouldn’t be here or shouldn’t have been here.
A few years ago there was a documentary based on the Elite Jerks and how they rose to become developers. If I find it again, I’ll get back to you.
Many of the RWF guilds have been remarkably transparent about what they spend their money on. And while a large portion of it does go to PvP carries, even that percentage isn’t necessarily all 3rd party services. Indeed: is ANY portion of it?? You have not proved that point.
But regardless of an assertion you haven’t proven, what we already know is that the far greater portion of what they spend their gold on is just raiding mats. The only 3rd party getting enriched there are the digital goblins taking their AH-cut. All the rest of the money goes to the PLAYERS who farm all those mats.
The rest of your argument is very weak, supported by the weakest of claims and no real evidence at all.
But this one in particular is immediately dismissible as obvious nonsense. And if you’re going to put something so obviously wrong in your post, why should anything else in the post be taken remotely seriously?
Look in the group finder I find it hard to believe everyone that wants to play is doing 18 and 20 keys rofl without paying for it. I tried and this community is just horrible so moving on to other games. The elitist gate keeping mentality came from the developers and Dragon Flight will be no different with IO score and making you just a number in every aspect of the game. NO thanks
lol… I’ve seen guilds called “Gray Parses Only” and “Mostly Mediocre” and “Idiot.” Tell me again how guild names are super-serious and only meant to be taken literally.
These forums and being unable to get over a decade plus old joke is an iconic duo.
Hell, like half the reason that people hated Asmongold now (and like 90% before he really blew up in popularity) was some old joke videos he made about ninja looting.
I’m gunna be real with you chief. Those people were always in prominent positions in WoW’s development, even in the early days.
Like half of the early 2000s WoW dev team were basically from the Method of Everquest.
There are things in the game OP doesn’t like, so he thinks the devs only ever work on that to spite him.
I mean in this thread we have “Fifth Affix” (which is a fantastic name btw).
Only fools would ever take like half of WoW’s guild names as anything but self-deprecatory humor.
Our guild name is…well, it’s exactly this. 
I mean, how does anyone who’s played this game for more than five minutes not know that most guild names are funny or at least partially ironic?
Thank you! We’re all quite proud of it. /grin It was a group effort.
Valor token caps.
So, let me get this right. You said all of this -
But you don’t have any idea what their philosophy is, you have no idea who from that guild is or was employed by Blizzard, and you don’t know why they are “bad” to have in that spot.
Awesome, sounds like you’re on top of your game.
Raiders make up MUCH more than 1%. Considering the number of CE raiders equals 2% alone.
That’s not including the people that only focus on aotc or mythic raiders that don’t get CE.
I was happy to see civil conversations.
Now I’ve started a war.
Your argument is flawed. RP’s can play for 24 hours a day, but it doesn’t net them any more money than someone who plays 1 hours a month.
Raiders, from my experience, are the ones who purchase tokens on a frequent bases to cover the cost of consumables.
It was a documentary about around <10 people who were hired before Mists of Pandaria. But we can see that the philosophy has changed with Legion which came back to bite them and why Dragonflight is more casual at this point.