After the recent delay on the expansion I had expected Blizzard to have noticed the feedback and worry that perhaps they had to take a step back and realize that their customers were not satisfied with how the product was shaping up to be.
Instead they doubled down on the restrictions, the time walls, the throttling mechanics designed solely to frustrate you and make you come back for as many resets as possible.
Why can’t Blizzard just let the players have some silly fun for a change? Who cares if my shadowlands skills oneshots old content? I am no expert on world pvp but if they are so afraid of imbalances to the point where they have to arbitrarily turn off a chunk of your rotation to feel at ease, maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with their design and not with how the players play the game, which is something they micromanage to the point where Ion may as well sit on my desk and play my account himself since he seems to believe we play the game ‘wrong’.
Aren’t people tired of this attitude from the developers? Shouldn’t the game adapt to what people pay to enjoy instead of the players having to bow down to draconian philosophies, restrictions and overcomplications that borderline and what you would see in a mobile game?
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They actually changed that covenant restriction. Due to the feedback it was quickly reverted and covenant abilities can be used everywhere again.
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Honestly though, how did they think that was a good idea in the first place?
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Thank God for that but Blizzard always do this. People had to beg for months to get a corruption vendor and we only got it at the tail end of the expansion anyway AND it was on a rotation. This and the recent troubles are just a few examples of how Blizzard completely ignores issues and concerns from the community because it thinks to know better. Only to make a Pikachu face when the backlash doubles down on release. After this many years of this pattern repeating over and over again I can’t be the only one getting tired of it.
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My feeling is, how do they come up with these ideas and think it’s good to begin with, not mentioning the one that was reverted recently but in general, just makes me scratch my head and think.
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how deluded the playerbase is mindboggling. They think blizzard has good attentions but they are just making the game as grindy and timegated as possible so they can get as much money out of you as possible.
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Most of these issues seem to be the result of a balancing act between:
- Maintaining player engagement / subscription via carrots on sticks
- Balancing all PVP around their eSports arena model
- Timegating to artificially inflate functional lifetime of a feature
None of these are inherently bad, but Blizzard has rarely found ways to achieve these goals subtly or enjoyably. And, of course, most of the balancing is for naught because there will almost always be a pretty unshakable meta.
Blizzard stopped prioritizing player enjoyment a long time ago. I have an active sub b/c I can make enough gold running old instances for xmog stuff to buy tokens, and, ofc, they’re killing that in the prepatch.
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I don’t find anything wrong with doing one-shots in previous expansions starting with Legion and down. This is what I was thinking about when they said level squish is coming. That they would mess that up.
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Ion lives in his own shadowlands world. He does not live with us humans on earth. He doesn’t comprehend logic like us.
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His is the eternal logic of mathematics and multidimensional spreadsheets.
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I think its stupid my apartment complex makes me pay rent, I have to spend weeks and earn money and pay it why cant they just give it to me for free. OH, and the gas in my car why do I have to stop and fill it up, Why cant they just put gas in my car for me every morning so I dont have to work for it and it can just be handed to me.
Seriously, What is the point of implementing anything if everyone just wants it handed out. Part of the point of doing content is to earn and acquire abilities and items. You have to invest time, and play in order to get. I am truly sorry that your friend got a corruption you wanted, RNG has its place, didnt get lucky? Lets complain until blizzard makes it so everyone can have it. Please get over yourselves and play the game blizzard gives you. So much complaining all the time.
idk if you’ve played ptr or beta, but shadowlands is actually rife with heavyhanded control measures in several places. it’s really starting to become blatant and rather annoying.
they’re just outright slaughtering twinking, removing the experience eliminator and level locking portals(even the teleport to wod from timeless isle).
there’s other examples as well. it’s all very authoritarian in design, and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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So what you’re saying is that people who buy a videogame that is advertised as being fun and entertaining are wrong to expect to find it to be either. They should approach any and all videogames as an opportunity to prove they are willing to obediently follow pointless orders from strangers, because blind obedience to authority in a videogame is what makes someone the best human being they could be.
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What about the mechanics being implemented to throttle something as basic as a respec? Because I do consider the conduits/soulbinds to be a talent tree for my class which I always been able to change with minimal effort according to the content I intend to run. Why do I have to commit to just one portion of the game now? Why can’t I just experiment with different combinations and enjoy the damn thing through that trial and error? With this much commitment behind every click, I’ll just read a guide and only change it once or twice a week. Like I am ‘supposed’ to…
The fact that they’re worrying about old content “”""“balance”"""" when the expansion that they delayed the release of is on fire. You know, there’s been things that have made me think about quitting, but this might actually be it. I’m not exaggerating, either.
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