If you bought tickets and plan on going good luck and I hope you have fun. But this BlizZcon seems underwhelming.
Is the broadcast schedule the same as the in-person one?
I’m more curious what they’re going to talk about for an hour about Classic.
I might chargeback on my debit card all the gametime I just bought if they genuinely do Classic+ that people want with all new lore.
Cause that’s spitting on retail at that point.
Yeah, that was unbelievably bad on Blizzard’s part. If they had at least released a D4 video first it would have done a lot towards mitigating the backlash they received. I mean, it was Diablo’s turn at a Blizzcon and all they had to show a hall full of PC Master Race gamers was a mobile game?
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I think this is terrific. The developers should be working on game development, not doing the marketing team’s job for them.
As somebody who’s been in game publishing for over 25 years, the trend in recent years to have the developers carry most of the marketing weight has been disturbing. And very hard on developers.
Let the marketing teams learn about the games they’re supposedly working on, and do their damn jobs. Instead of farming it out to the dev team.
(Of course, they’re not doing that. Now marketing people just farm it out to streamers, instead.)
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Hence the backlash. Hopefully they’re more cognizant of the room this year.
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Well they’d perma your account for that.
Considering what they did to retail’s lore with SL and their unwillingness to retcon the whole expac with the “it was all a dream by an old god to trick us” I would not be surprised if they investigate the possibility of finding a branching point for a reset of some sort as their choices seem to have sunk the whole IP or at least badly damaged it in a limb that doesn’t grow back way.
I personally don’t think Classic+ is it because Vanilla itself was not that great. (I soft experienced Vanilla by first playing and leveling in Burning Crusade, yes I didn’t get the Vanilla end-game/level 60 experience but I got the experience of leveling and seeing the world and I was glad as heck with the changes Wrath made like lower levels for mounts, reduced costs for things, class and gameplay changes, the start of collections for mounts/pets)
I would actually be very enthusiastically for a Classic+ but only if the branching point was either after Pandaria (without Garrosh escaping and WoD nonsense) or after patch 7.2 or 7.3 in Legion with the next order of business still being Kul’tiras and Zandalar (because Boralus is the best city ever made and never having it would be painful as an RPer) but under different circumstances and without all the Sylvanas SL preparation crap like the fourth war and burning down that tree. Those are the points where they jumped the shark. Though I’d still want Chromie time for traveling back to old versions of changed/removed dungeons and raids.
Admittedly I’d also likely play a Classic+ set in Wrath but which had up to at least BFA level things like collections and other convenience features, had Chromie-time for traveling back to old versions of places like Vanilla Naxxramas raid.
I would never play a Vanilla Classic+ though. The game just wasn’t that fun for me back then.
- I actually like flying in the old world (and everywhere really) as a convenience,
- I like mounts at lower levels (reduced to 20 and 40 in Wrath to my recollection from 40/60),
- I like collections,
- I like not having to worry about different levels of spells and having multiple on my bars out of concern for mana.
- I like not needing to constantly buy ammo and spend loads buying or making the best for my hunter and a separate bag that takes up space for it.
- I love having bigger bags and more slots.
- I love toys as a collection that doesn’t take up bag space.
- I love my Jeeves and vendor mounts and mobile mailboxes and would never go back to a time where I had to waste lots of time running back and forth from mailboxes (doubly worse without flying because of how much longer it takes and compounded with tiny bag sizes and a need to carry all kinds of reagent crap around).
- And I love not being poor. In Vanilla you had to work extraordinarily hard to get a decent amount of gold, same in BC to earn flying (we all know that infamous story about that girl). Sure the best people at the game could sell runs and PvP carries and rack up the thousands of gold. But for the average person you couldn’t farm old raids (because there were none), you couldn’t do content a few expacs old that you outclass and sell the trade goods and rare transmog looks you got lucky with (because there were none, you had to contend with fighting dangerous mobs and low spawn amounts that everyone else was also competing for). All in all it’s a disaster for anyone who doesn’t want to play super-hardcore.
Tickets not selling out is because it’s free to stream. It is solely a thing to basically be Disneyland for Blizzard superfans, and how many of those are realistically left anymore? The only reason you’d go is for the physical attractions they have there. Imagine paying thousands to get a ticket, get a place to stay in Anaheim, and then having a budget left over for whatever it is they’re selling there.
looks like someone has been playin’ a dwarf lately.
i dunnuh blame ya tho