Why should everyone be required to jump through hoops
“Jumping through hoops” Isn’t this just playing the game?
If you retail players want to pay activision for a boost to max level or boost from players or crap like that. Just play retail.
If blizzard decides to launch new servers of SoD it could be like a ladder season, simply rushing to max level dumb. Instead you’d do something from each phase to progress. You’re missing out on the game buying boosted characters.
Haven’t played whatever that is, but I have seen Wow raid bots on private servers. They do not do well. They can hardly clear the trash mobs.
You need to read in between the lines. They say they don’t make money from bots but they dont lose enough money to justify hiring more employees or create a system that will make it easier to deal with the problem. They are admitting they would rather do the minimum to address the problem because its a loss in money no matter what and as long as people play the game, its fine.
If Blizzard has decided to launch multiple products, there could be a server or ruleset dedicated to this.
To say there isn’t demand for the solo player in a massively multiplayer online would be wrong. The reverse is also true. A game where group content is required ALSO has demand.
It seems the solution to this problem if different folks different strokes. FF14 is alright, but pick-up-groups just don’t feel the same. The choose your own difficulty raid style is also something casuals rally behind, but it kills that progression feel.
Perhaps next year there could be a “season of progression.”
Each bot is a paying account.
Each buyer is a paying account.
Classic has been very popular even with the outrageous gold buying GDKP meta…
Blizz probably think that ppl are getting what they want and so are they.
It really shouldn’t be hard to stop the bots and buyers… But it ain’t happening so I suspect blizz and too many players don’t care…
I’m enjoying sod. But could not enjoy classic, TBC and wrath because of the dominant play style and attitude of the majority of classic players.
HC was good because people were playing a bit more as intended.
Sod at least on oceanic realms seems to be suffering less from these issues. From my experience
Reading between the lines is: “There are enough real players who would quit if they can’t buy their gold, that this isn’t worth hiring people to police it”.
It’s a s–t situation coming and going, but your interpretation allows players to continue to be the driving force behind bots, and expects Blizzard to be a nanny state, while people complain that Blizzard shouldn’t be a nanny state.
That’s it? That’s zero context and zero real “official-ness”. Just a player rambling on his stream and probably getting his figurative nuts kicked in the office the next day by Legal.
We all know they make a cut off the token. It’s not a secret, and everyone points it out regularly. But I’m pretty sure the context is “We barely get anything out of that, compared to the shops and the subscriptions.”
He said “It’s the only thing that stops RMT” and the he probably means they’re not using the WoW Token as a profit driver simply because the cut is small and the number of them traded is insignificant to the value, but it means that the players who want to RMT have a legitimate outlet to collaborate between themselves. The full context is probably “Oh we know you’re doing this to sell more WoW Tokens” to which he’s replying “Meh, that’s an insignificant aspect and we don’t make the money you think we do off it.”
So yeah, that’s not “See Blizzard lies” because it’s an offhand comment on a personal, non-official stream, vs a curated Blue post.
Agreed SoD on oceanic realms doesnt seem to have the mega bot problems - but we are small. There’s also a very anti-gdkp thing on the pve realm - and very rare any ads for gdkp.
I am really enjoying SoD. I’ve tried to convince a number of my wow friends to come play. The most common reason for no is they believe there would be rampant bots and GDKP. The destruction has already happened.
That’s like saying if the president of a car company said on twitter that their cars light on fire if you go 65mph you shouldn’t worry about it because they didn’t make an “official post”
I think it’s important to keep in mind ‘how badly will this screw over legitimate players’. A lot of people are bad or casual, they’d likely quit if forced to do bfd to level.
Imo it should be easy enough to flag BRAND NEW ACCOUNTS, with high client to server ping, following known bot paths/reported for botting. Then immediately shadowban them.
-Bots still waste time thinking they’re on active accounts with trading.
-Real players can still play normally if falsely shadowbanned and appeal.
Casuals have other wow products they could play, WotLK classic or retail. It’s a slight challenge. I realize no one is going to be clamoring for restrictions.
Not saying don’t do those other things, such as a shadow layer/mailbox/AH etc. (So they can’t send gold.)
The casuals should not be the driving force for features in SoD. If it’s obtuse, so was classic. Look at some of the loot, agi on cloth boots? Ah classic…
Yeah, that’s literally the point. The company’s Legal department would have words with the President of the company, and in that situation probabaly the authorities, but it’s still not the official company line.
It’s like all the people freaking out about the founder of Lululemon being an a##hat, but the company is like “He does not in any way speak for the company in any official capacity.”
Open question; should we delay the launch of the Gnomeregan 10-player raid by a week or just have it be open from day one of Phase 2? Why do you feel the way you do? Just trying to get a pulse check and some opinions to read. Thanks!
(Note: I’m not going to answer any other p2 questions in this thread, sorry).
They should probably delay it with some kind of attunement too.
