Blizzard does not know how to fix their game

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Ive got 30 or so shares in act/blizz. I put them there because i have faith in classic to deliver. And i think it will. But lets be honest, blizz aint the only house building games. Activision are seriously dropping the ball. Games like BF5 are played out. Destiny 2 is a mess. Blizzard are genuinely holding up their end of things. But i should have figured the other publishers when i made my bid. Overall im realtively certain they’ll get the message. Gamers want AAA not mobile bs with in game transactions. But i might need to wait a few years for a return. Until then im dollar cost averaging every 10%.

ETA: As a shareholder (to Blizzard) im rather worried that youre recently hemorrhaging talent.

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If wow was thriving why did they move the most talented devs off these games and put them onto the Mobile games? There are alrready reports of unprecedented cost cutting to the game. Its pretty obvious BFA was designed by Devs who had super tight budgets and strict time constraints.

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Ya know I find this kind of thing lower than trolling. Seriously grow up. Regardless of you agreeing with someone,etc. Doesn’t give you a right to jump them and attack them. Demanding them to post on their main.

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I had made a post about this recently with just a few ideas on the topic. Some people may not agree with but I had a few that I loved.

  1. Get rid of Azerite Traits , or turn them into an ability buff system like Path of Exile.
  2. Bring back Honor and Conquest Vendors . The current PvP reward system is garbage. Random BGs are a mystery as to how the gearing system works. Do I get a piece from a win or nah? Allow players to save up their PvP currency and target the gear they want to purchase. I have no idea why this was ever changed.
  3. Make PvP and PvE seperate. Gear from PvE should not be amazing in PvP and vice versa. Seems pretty self explanitory.
  4. Add a Badge system and get rid of RNG and not have it time gated leaving players to farm 5 months for 1 piece of loot, which we have now. I think one of the reasons Legion took off as well as it did was due to the implementation of the nethershard vendor. This allowed players to farm a currency and obtain gear.
  5. Add Armor/Gear Increase similar to some Free to Play games; armor or weapons go up to +15. While I dont want it to go that high we can do something with it. We had this before where armor can be increased from 2/2 or 4/4. Bring it back.
  6. Get rid of the current Talent Tree style. This system proves to be hindrance leaving players limited when it comes to chosen abilities that have no synergy or doesn’t help the spec/class at all.
  7. Bring back the old Tree system and build up on it like Path of Exile giving players “freedom” to breath and explore options.
  8. Bring back all Abilities that were taken away by Devs because they wanted to create a “new” experience per expansion when in fact it created nothing but neglected classes/specs from PvP/PvE content until needing buffs. The Azerite could have fit well here buffing certain abilities players “choose”.
  9. Get rid of Nerfing and fix the “Internal” issues classes/specs have. Nerfing has solved NOTHING leaving players angry.
  10. Add Player Housing . We have NPC housing in Major Cities and Zones and nothing for players to call home except for an Inn shared by players or players staying in the current expansion zones.
  11. Add Guild Fortress . Class hall did pretty good holding many players, so why not introduce an instance for Guilds to build upon with cool options and features. You can even have Guild battles allowing guilds to go into pvp mode to fight other Guild Fortresses.
  12. Bring back Quivers, relics, etc . We were supposed to have these implemented in WoD. They were supposed to be unique to classes. This would create more immersion in classes.
  13. Bring back Reforging . This allowed players to switch stats on their gear and gave players more unique customization with their characters.
  14. Add a better system for Professions . Make them relevant even in end game.
  15. Add the ability to Transmog Legendary gear/armor players worked hard to get.
  16. Add more Open World content. The “invasion” in 8.1 is ok but could be longer or more could happen around the zones. Not wait 8-10 hours for another one to pop up. Keep people engaged. Add more stuff for players to do like Wave dungeons or treasure hunting on Azeroth. Warcraft has so many zones, yet a lot of them remain empty due to the lack of open world engagement/content. It would’ve been cool to see Legion invasions happen all over Azeroth instead of just the broken isles.
  17. Add a system that allow PvPers to attack Major cities and get loot from them. GW2 has a system with walls breaking as well as AION; upon control in AION you can do dungeons for loot until it becomes “contested” again. We had this before with Tol’barad, Wintersgrasp, and Ashran. They just needed more work done to them to add more polish. This is what Warfront should’ve been.
  18. Add more Character Features . Cuts, scars, more detail, height, weights, etc.
  19. Add better and more Effects to armor and weapons; better cool looking enchanted bows and have arrows use enchants.
  20. Bring back Glyphs and cool looks Affliction Locks had with the orbs, etc.
  21. Give Druids more Moonkin form options and Resto form options.
  22. Add Hunts . This could be one of the forms of content that I mentioned above to get players back into the world and to engage in the world. There could be quests available on the Hero’s Call Board (the board in major cities you can click on and it sends you to appropriate zones) that send you to fight unique and challenging monsters across Azeroth. Said monsters can range in difficulty form solo-able to 5 man content. These monsters would have unique mechanics that make them CHALLENGING for players as well as having a retreat mechanic which would allow them to retreat to another part of the zone, requiring you (and your group if its harder) to track them and hunt them back down. Said bosses could reward unique xmogs for said monsters slain that made you look like a monster hunter. This could bring back some of the thrill and adventure back to WoW.
  23. Give Enhancement Shamans full control allowing them to maintain their Flametouge and Frostband like how they use to for 1 hour on w/e weapon. Same could be said for Retribution Paladins and their seals. Buffs added a lot of immersion into peoples classes. Not sure why this was ever removed.
  24. Give 2 Handed-Weapons to Enhancement Shaman and Frost Death Knights. Also 1 Handed-Weapons to Fury Warriors.
  25. Bring back and add Bleed/Poison/Burning/Slow frost/Plague/Electricity, etc effects on NPCs/Players for 5-10 seconds and have Arrows stay on NPCs/Players for 5-10 seconds.
  26. Remove Pathfinder or at least change it. Allow players the choice to complete pathfinder and unlock flying account wide or pay for flying on that single character.
  27. Put a little more love into your Holiday Events . Wildstar did a better job at this than WoW currently does. A couple decorations here and there are meh. Go nuts redecorating major cities. Blizz has an AMAZING art team. There is no reason this cant be done
  28. Actual Weather. At the moment all we get is rain every once and a while. Would be cool to see it snow in relative climates. Also would be kind of cool to have the weather actually affect the environment.
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Because working on the same project for 10+ years gets a tad boring.

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welcome to the 14 year beta known as world of warcraft .

edit : if you want a balanced game play ffxiv!
re edit: square enix almost went bankrupt trying to please fans!

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I find many great points but others I don’t agree with. But like you said not everyone will agree on something. Number 28 would be a great addition. :wink:

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I think the time is past for any of that to happen. With Activision sunsetting this game and getting ready to put it into maintenance mode, we wont see any of that. Its shame because you have some terrific ideas.

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Yea some of them aren’t for everyone I understand but 28 would be a welcome addition to the game :grinning:

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That has nothinjg to do with ATVI removing devs to work on Mobile projects though. Nor does it take into account the slashing of salaries and cost cutting . If anything its underscoring the fact that WOW is very old and is dying because it can not attract any new talent that would be willing to work on it

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Thanks bud! Its a shame Blizzard wouldn’t implement them as most of them wouldn’t be super difficult to achieve. Granted the weather effects would be a pain.

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It’s just a terrible shame that Blizzard deleted the Feedback and Suggestions forums. Otherwise they would have known to make such drastic changes to BFA and incredibly sooner than when the game had to go live.

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It would add levels of immersion. As it is WOW is lacking so much of that.

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Oh I 100% agree. It would be well worth the time.

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If I ever get the proper training I’d gladly work on it. :smiley:

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YOU ARE DESCRIBING FFXIV! ffxiv has all of this!
edit : do you play ffxiv mr shadowsong? some of these features are pulled directly from ffxiv notable ones being hunts and housing and ffxiov has the most amazing spell effects btw!

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Tinfoil theories.

Working on the same game for 10+ years is creatively exhausting. Devs move to different teams when their expertise is needed. (Artists tend to move around a lot more.)

That’s all there is to it.

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TBH, most class suggestions are complete garbage. So, those ideas aside, there’s actually a really good reason for it: If Blizzard were to use a suggestion from a non-employee, said person may be able to sue for stealing IP (even if it’s written on these forums.)

It’s sketchy legal stuff where no one really knows the answer. And the possibility of being sued over stealing IP is pretty damn serious, even if highly unlikely.

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To speak on game developers and their movement to mobile games: let them do that, why not? It’s not like BFA needs to be redone. It needs to be tweaked. Rewards need to be tweaked. Azerite/Azerite Gear needs to be tweaked. Class specializations need to be tweaked. BFA doesn’t need a face lift. It just needs the right adjustments in the right areas to make it a fun, engaging game.

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Honestly, that’s how I feel about it. And I’m sure a lot of people would agree with these words.