Blizzard's president called out Asmongold

[Akston-area-52]

I am not sure I’d say jerk. I just didn’t know what was going on

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

@Akston-area-52

I would suggest a variety of games for ages under 12

you mean like WoW was when it launched?

If you want EQ, its still there. It died when WoW came out aimed at 12 year olds - its why I came here

[Snozy-pagle]

@Riverwind-skull-rock

all of those are competitions.

WoW is a cooperative game

PvP is the only area where competition exists like those games

Incorrect.

Baseball
Soccer

Are team games.

Raiding is a team game.

There are websites that track progress/speed and rank you in the server/region/world.

The people that are so anti teamwork always come off as the people that never played sports as kids.

[Akston-area-52]

@Riverwind-skull-rock

you mean like WoW was when it launched?

Rated T for Teen

Go enjoy WoW classic and stop trying to destroy what others like.

I don’t labor for Classic to be destroyed.

[Frosstfire-pagle]

Yeah it was pretty low for a President of a company to stoop down this low and insult a player directly.

Asmon must have hit a nerve with his true comments and takes about WOW recently.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Tuwen-moon-guard

@Snozy-pagle

As the majority of the playerbase raids

Well duh, because that is the only thing to do lol. This has been a problem in WoW since Vanilla, they just got away with it in the past because they didn’t have any competition. Things have changed now. I play ESO, Lotro and FF14, all those games have way more non-raid content than WoW, and all those games are thriving.

If fact, a lot of the other big MMOs are all doing quite well, and most of them aren’t centering their game around raids.

WoW is a dinosaur when it comes to MMO design these days, they keep relying on an old formula that most modern MMO players just don’t care about anymore.

They can still have raids, but they need to shift their focus to different forms of content. Lord of the Rings Online is a good example, they still make raids, but they make a ton of other content for players to do that is not raiding. The raids they make as well are smaller in scope and scale, since so few players engage with that content.

So LoTR and ESO are “thriving” by your opinion.

And despite WoW having a much larger player base than both of those games, you don’t feel WoW is doing well and WoW needs to emulate those games more?

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

@Snozy-pagle

Incorrect.

Baseball
Soccer

Are team games.

Raiding is a team game.

so with baseball and soccer you play against a prescripted computer ai?

No you compete against other players in a head to head matchup to see who is better. Races vs computers are not the same thing

ROFL wanna be jock nerds thinking that a video game = real life sports

[Akston-area-52]

Is he a player tho

[Frosstfire-pagle]

Well he was before he realized how bad WOW retail is now.

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

@Akston-area-52

Go enjoy WoW classic and stop trying to destroy what others like.

Not trying to destroy what others like. Trying to get wow back to what I USED to like. I would love for retail to be thriving again. TO badd they think 4 hours is enough for leveling through 14 different broken realities while they hadd another mechanic to a boss and call it the extreme ldifficulty!

[Akston-area-52]

So a blizzard employee did not insult a player?

[Akston-area-52]

And leveling hasn’t been the center piece of WoW since classic.

Sorry.

WoW is not returning to a leveling centric game.

That would cause massive sub loss.

[Nihilis-garrosh]

@Thelei-stormrage

has done more to damage the game than anyone else.

Based on what?

[Daarrk-thrall]

@Riverwind-skull-rock

ROFL wanna be jock nerds thinking that a video game = real life sports

They are not the same. But many of the skills required to be successful are the same.

@Riverwind-skull-rock

Trying to get wow back to what I USED to like.

It can’t. WoW started evolving the day they added MC. It has continued since.

[Frosstfire-pagle]

@Akston-area-52

So a blizzard employee did not insult a player?

He did and you can’t spin it otherwise.

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

@Akston-area-52

That would cause massive sub loss

or it could bring back those players that are now only playing Classic

I mean we cant lose more subs than we already have no can we? I mean I am counted as a retail sub, but would gladly pay for only classic at this point

[Akston-area-52]

But those playing classic are already subbed.

If they lose subs and only being to retail the ones playing classic…that’s a massive sub loss.

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

@Daarrk-thrall

It can’t. WoW started evolving the day they added MC. It has continued since

you mean that side piece that was added in 1 week while the rest of the game took 5 years?

BTW you DO know raiding existed long before WoW, right?

Even SWG had the Blockade runner raid

[Riverwind-skull-rock]

or maybe other would come back

Not everyone wants a face roll to cap so they can then buy carries in raids for RMT

[Akston-area-52]

@Frosstfire-pagle

He did and you can’t spin it otherwise.

But…

@Frosstfire-pagle

Well he was

Sounds like you said he was a former player

He is not currently one
Per your own words.