Blizzard Getting it Right

[Aurumai-grobbulus]

@Accolades-myzrael

Most the anti-LFD arguments were purely astroturfing. These people will agree with whatever blizzard chooses to do. Any “stance” they have is all for show, they just argue for the sake of siding with Blizzard.

@Accolades-myzrael

So, yea, not surprised to see massive inconsistencies and hypocrisy coming from people like Aurumai

This is hilarious. It’s almost as if you’ve never read anything I’ve ever posted.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

There is a very real problem with population distribution, faction imbalance and dungeon carries, and Blizzard has done nothing short of a shameful job maintaining a good experience through it all.

Blizzard has propped up and incentivized playing on “mega servers”, and it’s led to a point where the population bloats to an absolutely insane degree and breaks down the traditional fabric of what made the WoW community feel so good in the past.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Blizzard certainly doesn’t seem to care. Especially since it’s been proven by the indie teams running private realms that botters can be eradicated.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

If you actually look up Activision Blizzard’s financial reports, they are doing staggeringly well, especially considering the abysmal state their games are generally in lately. They are a fantastic example of a company that is raking in literal record profits in this industry, and the way they decide to reward their employees for it is firing 800 of them and delegating tickets to automated systems rather than GMs.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Activision Blizzard is making way more profit off of Blizzard IPs today than Blizzard ever did back before they were acquired (even though the subscriber count went into freefall), and yet it’s the general consensus that the games and the state of Blizzard’s services have only gotten worse over time. It’s a very simple truth that is backed up by more than a decade of financial reports for proof.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

@Bonerover-stormreaver

I wonder what time limit would be a happy medium.

At least 6 months, I think. By then, I’m sure Blizzard will have let already let bots run rampant and destroy the economy.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

And unless Blizzard stopped leaning on stuff like layering as a crutch and allowing botters to run rampant, I’d probably just rather play Vanilla and Wrath on a private realm.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Blizzard’s “solutions” to population distribution and faction balance are utterly flaccid and indicate nothing but indifference to the problems.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

I would argue that RMTs happen because there’s no friction that stops them. Blizzard has completely ignored the dungeon carry economy and that’s a huge area where this gold is circulated around. GDKPs are obviously the single place where the highest volume of gold is circulated per person, per hour. But really, the root of this issue is that botting remains unmitigated. It seems like private servers have better automated systems for detecting and automatically banning bots.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Blizzard certainly doesn’t seem to care. Especially since it’s been proven by the indie teams running private realms that botters can be eradicated.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Hell, Blizzard didn’t even give us Classic because we begged for it for a decade – They literally only ever gave it to us because they saw the absurd popularity of private realms and couldn’t ignore how much money it would make to charge that whole community a sub fee.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

I think that’s a horrible decision.

TBC has always been the least popular of the ‘first 3’ among private realm communities, but an audience does exist. By removing TBC from the pool of WoW content officially available, they necessarily guarantee that the community who wants TBC will go back to private realms.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

@Shadows-grobbulus

I didn’t mind the boost, mount and toys. The boost doesn’t impact TBC content, and the mount and toys are just cosmetic. Those were not fundamental changes to the game itself.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree there. To me, those are shining examples of Blizzard desecrating the spirit and memory of the game for quick profit.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

@Slavegirl-faerlina

“Normally, I only ride on epic mounts… But, let’s talk.”

inb4 the Retail team turns this line into a bowl of fruit

@Aurumai-grobbulus

I doubt Blizzard will roll back their pandering move. Seems like this is just another issue where the community was too spineless, and let them shoehorn in another awful Retail change rather than letting people feel the pressure for flocking to the biggest servers and the dominant faction.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

The same year they fired 800 employees, Bobby Kotick was awarded a $200 million bonus.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

Allowing transfers, even after a 90-day period is a massive blemish on this idea. When people want fresh servers, it’s because they want that server to exist in a self-contained state where it produces all of its own economy and community without external influence.

Allowing the transfer after 90 days just opens the floodgates for all of the cheater-farmed mats and some of the dirty gold from other realms. This completely undermines the idea of a fresh realm.

It’s not that people are ingrateful. It’s that they’re not really getting what they’ve been asking for.

@Aurumai-grobbulus

@Nicklah-arugal

You realize they introduced their own paid service

Yeah, and it’s a cancer in the game, but this community was too spineless when Blizzard announced it and now we’re stuck with it.

But I’d love for you to point out my “massive inconsistencies and hypocrisy”. Which posts were you talking about?