They check, they’ve been consolidating and pulling down posts.
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Irrick, I think it’s worth stepping back and considering the larger perspective here.
For these changes, individually, they’re not actually the end of the world. Like, I play a Druid, having polearms is only a good thing for me! It’s not a super useful thing, but at least I have a few more weapon options that I didn’t have before. I’m indifferent to the guild pane (though really I did think the old one was a bit cleaner for what I needed), and the Might of Stormwind buff is only a positive for me as an Alliance player.
The problem isn’t the actual changes themselves, it’s the fact that there are changes at all. People signed on to play Classic Era, as it was in 2019. That’s what they created their characters for and that’s what a lot of people further invested money for clones to support. They wanted that 1.12 version of the game and that’s what Blizzard effectively told them they were going to get. They did not sign up for Classic: Reforged.
So while I do think some of these changes are good changes, if I’m doing my best to be impartial, they really don’t belong in Era. If Blizzard wants to make these changes I feel like they need another realm, one where I’d probably want to play, but still one that is separate. Some folks just wanna play the original game, as it was, and as Blizzard told them it would be.
I’m not dumping on you here and I’m certainly not in support of #nochanges as a whole, my post history more than speaks to that. However, the longer I play Classic Era the more I realize it really is something unique. There’s just nowhere else I can go right now in order to get this same experience. Blizzard is demonstrating that they’re willing to make changes to that experience without taking into consideration the community of players who support it. I find that concerning. If you enjoy this version of the game, you should find that concerning as well.
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First post, zero activity before or since.
Why do the same 1-2 people feel the need to hop on alts and post the same crap, and then have conversations with themselves in the thread. Its endless comments from ppl with 5-10 posts all time lololol.
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so you dont want to quit and your response is to be annoyed at the people who do
i dont think anyone is forced to post or read posts here.
i dont know about other peoples guilds but mine died this past week over these changes. i know blizz and most people dont care but someone does
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its called Classic ERA for a reason you 2heads
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would be different if it was not a downgrade… new thing is trash bro
Not a fan of these post consolidations… it confuses the conversations a lot of people are having by losing the topic and having it interleaved into a single one.
These topics aren’t hurting anybody and they are a much needed vent for a lot of players. I’m not sure why you feel the need for this heavy handed moderation.
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I notice that some pruning has taken place here. This appears to have broken some connections in the conversations.
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Blizzard dont want the scale of the backlash noticeable, imo thats why they are merging all posts into 1 thread.
btw why do the CMs hide their profiles? Thats weird to do on your own platform?
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People are also free to their opinions. Mine is im annoyed at the baseless threats they give blizz about unsubbing when these same people use retail gold to buy gametime… they were never subbed to begin with.
Is it ONLY CMs that has their profile hidden? If so, it’s very interesting.
Seems they moved only 27 posts, rest were purged and only the original starter post stays in the locked thread. I think this is a bad idea. Why delete some of the comments? None of them were - as far as I remember - against the forum rules.
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I mean you look at censorship in china and tell me what blizz is doing here isn’t the same thing. They are trying to force a back peddle to save face in some way.
Course any mention of china the comment just gets deleted and the user banned for 7 days… already happened to me 3 times and the other 2 times i only mentioned the damn place for context and not to be insulting.
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This ^ /10char
I too think so.
Go play retail, Era is not for you.
No, anybody can hide their profile. I’ve noticed a lot of notorious trolls do it too.
I don’t use ignore too often but when I have a particularly negative interaction with someone and am consider putting them on ignore, I often check their post history. I’m looking to determine if this is just a one off thing where we hit each other the wrong way on that day or if the particular person is generally aggressive, confontational, or insulting.
Some of these folks have a hidden profile and I just put them on ignore immediately. There’s only been 1-2 like this but there’s no way those folks are CMs, lol.
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Hehe, thank you. I also have a very exclusive ignore list.
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I almost stopped participating here after one of my posts was removed, it was a sincere thought and certainly not trolling in any way.
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I’ve had one post get flagged for auto moderation and taken down just because it was something people didn’t want to hear. I had the audacity to suggest that SoD experiment with disabling logs to see what changes that had on player behaviour. As you might expect people lost their minds. It got restored after a few days though and for the most part this is ok, but it is mildly upsetting that you can have a post taken down, even temporarily, because people don’t agree with it. I think that’s maybe giving too much power to the masses.
I have had a post removed that I don’t feel should have been though. Like, for the life of me, I have no idea. The moderation team decided it was trolling but I couldn’t find anything wrong with it and I do try really hard to be objective about stuff like that. I even had a few good friends (who don’t even play WoW) review it and they couldn’t come up with a reason why. Which is a bit frustrating because Blizzard is always really light on the reasoning behind it, usually not even offering any explanation or context at all. You’re getting a slap on the wrist without any insight into why.
So I definitely feel you here.
It’s hard because the forum community is just as much a part of my gaming community as any guild I’ve been a part of in game over the years. In some ways we spend a lot more time with each other. Every community has its bad eggs but when that bad egg is a faceless moderator that you don’t interact with, it can feel a bit… I dunno, disheartening? Maybe that’s not the word I’m looking for but I’m not sure which to use at the moment.
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