Blizzard, Just give us what we want

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Blizzards stock has dropped nearing that of $40.
the player base has dropped to an all time low, nearing the worst.
People share opinions about this game liken to that of Fallout 76.
But, these problems can be fixed by a few, tho not limited to these
features which we’ve, and many have requested for so long.

PLAYER HOUSING
For some odd reason Blizzard seems to think this difficult.
In goldshire, and in a few other popular places add a few homes.
Make them instanced, so that way One house can be used by infinite amounts of people if they want. Use the system from garrisons, so when you get within a certain feet of your house You enter yours, and to avoid taking advantage of this, make it to where if you’re in combat before you reach there than the house is no longer able to be entered. lol, no one wants to be that guy who starts stuff runs in his house looks out the window and says “I’m calling the guards”
We want this. It can give us a way to mount trophies to brag to those who enter.
Special items, little tiny buffs if you cook in your house ect. It could add so much.

Cosmetics
Give us a large assortment of collectible wings, horns, crowns, physics enabled capes, makeups, hats, clothes, and skins. Let me be a sparkly fairy if I want, let me be a lone ranger, a retired war vet who’s taken up a simple farming life (like many npc’s in the game have done) and allow me to wear cloth as a warrior via mogs. “But, when people see a plate wearer they know it’s a warrior or a dk ect”
You say that as tho that’s crucial to something? lol. Let their be more of an element of surprise. The fun police need to step down.

Bring back professions from 1-800+ and their worth ect
Many top players, including myself (not a top player, just in my heart)
have stated that this was a huge mistake. The only thing this did was take away
the worth of creators in the game. It also took away the worth of the created items. Now everyone can just make everything without an issue.
Create more interesting perks. Like allow a true alchemist to use a special exlir that allows the use of two stat boosting potions. not one ect.

I was going to write like 10 more reasons, but Now I’ve become lazy knowing none of this matters that I’m typing. Enjoy what I’ve put anyway, thanks for reading peeps.

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Do people really believe that Activision’s stock price is dependent upon this game?

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Its amazing.

Esp when you consider that the company which makes Red Dead 2 also nose dived in the stocks.

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I could not care less about player housing.

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It has more to do with something called Fortnight or Fortnite I believe and what Wall Street sees in cards for PC/console vs mobile gaming.

To say it’s all about player housing is kind of silly.

:cookie:

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Do we have a chart somewhere on this all time low playerbase?

And on a forum of less than 1% of the players, I’m not sure we can really say these opinions are widespread.

I won’t even bother with the “OMG the stock is falling!” line, because Activision stock isn’t reliant on one single game.

Personally, I could care less about player housing and for the people I know, it won’t bring them back to the game.

The cosmetic ideas you have are something that belongs in a Korean f2p MMO and doesn’t fit WoW style. Makeup? Fairy wings? Uh… no thanks.

I’m not sure why changing the levels of crafting matters. No one cared about level 10 Mana potions before the change and no one cares now. Would I like to see profession perks come back? Yes! Cata and Mists profession perks were awesome. (pretty sure that’s when we had those)

To sum up, there’s a bit of drama in your post and none of it is fact. It’s your opinion and should be stated as such. Because this certainly isn’t stuff I want, meaning of the not stuff we all want. Just stuff you want. Please stop trying to speak for others.

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A lot of stocks dove this week. It is a volatile market right now.

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I am sure the stock drop is because of WoW not having player housing and not because all their other IPs performed under expectations (Not WoW, it exceeded them and actually made up the difference) as well as Activision’s last 2 big IP under performed as well. Add that 1 game listed as “coming soon” on Activision’s website and Blizzard only announcing working on 2 remakes of old games and 1 mobile game.

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Video game stocks in general have been diving for the last few months. Rockstar, Square Enix, etc.

Blizzcon and Ion are so bad its causing the entire industry to drop!

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Sadly, it kinda is reliant on Blizzard products because a few of their games aren’t doing so well.

Black Ops 4 did fine though.

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ActiBliz stock is getting brutalized above and beyond. WoW is just a small part of that.

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So why is the stock price for nearly every studio also diving?

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The whole market is going down. Wait a week or two and invest lol.

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I do not believe that the drop in stock prices can be attributed to the feedback you are presenting here.

An overall dissatisfaction with Blizzard, and a very negative reception for Diablo: Immortal most certainly accelerated it. I do not believe it caused it, though.

The tech fields are down all over the place. Rockstar, who has had arguably the best 2018 of all the gaming companies out there is still down 3.05% compared to where they started the year. They’re improving since the launch of RDR2, but their stock prices are still down.

In regards to the feedback you present here on its own. Player Housing from an engineering and cost perspective simply isn’t worth it.

Remember, Garrisons use the instance servers. Talk to anyone who plays on the Oceanic realms about the lag problems they get going into Garrisons due to the OCE instance realms prioritizing raids and dungeons, and their Garrisons getting shunted over to US Instance servers to handle the load and you’ll understand how much strain that can cause the systems WoW runs on. And just how frustrating it can be.

For a major expansion feature, the cost to set up that infrastructure and increased load on the instance servers would be worth it. For what is essentially nothing more than cosmetic decoration… definitely not. Good luck getting that past the server guys, let alone the budget people.

Especially when you consider that most feats and achievements in WoW are already shown off through visible mediums seen on your character, or linked through chat and achievements.

I would absolutely love Player Housing, as I’m an old school Ultima Online player who loved my House. However, I don’t think it would be viable within WoW.

Also remember throughout much of BC and a good chunk of Wrath, there were queues to get into instances. Not to form groups, but to actually step through the door to get a slot for your dungeon on the instance server. That’s why there’s a X number of dungeons/instances created per hour limit per account.

As far as additional cosmetics. I would love more ways of customizing my character. Permanent holy wings for beating super difficult challenges to go with my Lightbringer title would be amazing, or eyes that glow with holy fire when I pop Avenging Wrath would be awesome. That would give me motivation to do more than log in to see how my Waifu’s (Jaina) story has progressed before switching over to Destiny 2 to punch Xenos in the face. (Black Armory has red and black shaders… I finally get my Sister of Battle colors, now if only I can steal Sloane’s Purity seals my Guardian will be a true Daughter of the Emperor.)

I vote we spam the forums with cosmetic suggestions like this until they ban us or Ion is forced to answer questions about it in upcoming Q&A’s. I think Blizzard has some of the best artists in the business and would love for them to be able to put more things into the games. I’ll even pay for them if they’re priced reasonably. (The transmog helms were not priced reasonably in my opinion.) But I don’t think the lack of fantastical cosmetics have lead to a decrease in stock price, or sub count.

Professions I’m fairly torn on. I know for a fact that my Father is extremely dissatisfied with professions, not because of the 8.0 changes, but because for the past several expansions professions really haven’t been useful.

The problem with that is that there’s no real sink for professions in WoW. You deal with massive, massive inflation. The start of an expansion is time for all the crafters to spam the market as they level up, charging insane prices that people with lots of money and no patience buy to throw away later, and then after that first couple of weeks… there’s really no point to the profession.

Not as a result of its accessibility, which is what the 8.0 change made. But because of its actual crafting and usefulness. Beyond transmog, I have no reason or motivation to craft any of Blacksmithing’s items this expansion. And I can afford to wait for flying so that I can mine efficiently to get the mats to make them.

The only professions that have long term stability and sustainability are Alchemy, and Cooking due to raid buffs and food.

I love crafting… again, old school UO Player. If you didn’t have a crafting alt, then you better be stupidly wealthy because you needed a crafter to be able to accomplish a huge chunk of the game. And there was always the risk that the Blacksmith you just paid gold to repair your armor wasn’t really a Blacksmith and just walked away and logged out with your gold and your armor. Good luck getting them to give it back. (Especially in a game with a skill for opening up your bags and stealing your items from you.)

If you make crafting useful in WoW, there’s nowhere to go with it, since armor and weapons aren’t consumed or destroyed. You’ll end up with massive inflation. The only way WoW has to combat spamming out the best crafted items is to make them stupid hard to get. (Hello botting, and raid or die gameplay) Or stupidly RNG dependent. (Hello more botting and now everyone hates RNGesus even more.)

The only games I know of with crafting focused economies that work are UO (Pre-Trammel) and EvE Online… because everything you craft will eventually end up being lost, stolen, or destroyed at some point. So crafters have an eternal sink for their goods and prices don’t get out of control.

So I would love WoW to have more focus on crafting… I just don’t think it’s possible to give crafting anything more than minor or secondary benefits without destroying dungeon/raiding.

But again, as I said earlier… I highly doubt these points are what is causing the stock value to go down. But yeah… let’s spam the forums with cosmetic suggestions. I like that idea.

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I highly doubt that. The bag issue aside, some people enjoy 76, others not so much.

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I doubt player housing or anything Blizzard would present to us that resembles it could remedy how bad BFA is.

Edit - Blizzard should probably focus time, effort and resources on Island Expeditions, War Fronts, Class design and the Azerite System.

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Player housing, makeup? Second Life is this a way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

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At what point do you realize that maybe World of Warcraft just isn’t for you? I mean… housing? Makeups? Sparkly fairies? What part of any of that speaks to a world that is constantly embroiled in a civil war or fighting off some next-level monstrosity and its servants or cultists?

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If you want player housing, go to the Valley of the Four WInds. There’s a pleasant little farm that is perfect on its own.

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If you really really want and are so dead set on having housing, makeup faerie wings then Second Life is for you, NOT World of Warcraft.

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