I’m sorry but this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Stop AND I DO MEAN STOP timegating LFR. No one enjoys that. You can clear normal in a day but god forbid people on lfr difficulty see things in a timely manner.
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Not everyone will use or go on the forums those that do they have themselves to blame for it.
By “alot” any real hard numbers? Because I highly doubt the casual players would go out of their way and look for spoilers.
Just stop using the internet 4head.
As someone who has cleared the raid, this is a really weird call. Just did the questline and it literally starts by showing Sarkareth’s death cinematic. Just open it to everyone
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Everyone is ignoring the fact that blizzard have stated once LFR is released people can freely do the questline without even touching the raid and I bet it’ll show the end cutscene from the raid so that people who don’t raid will know what happened.
Also, be grateful that those who has completed the raid can now do the questline on their own free will.
Social media and YouTube will spoil you, it will also make impossible to follow anyone who talks about wow.
Unless you don’t care at all about wow you gonna catch spoils if you wait a month just by living your life.
This decision and people defending it is nonsensical
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Wrong, even before blue post OP already mentioned how dumb it is to wait a month for that.
Imagine if it was mythic only story how dumb it would be, if you don’t do mythic wait a month, makes no sense
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Facebook has 2.11 billion users, 450 million use Twitter, 2.1 billion use Youtube, Wowhead has an average 4.1 million visiters, the forums have thousands of posts a day. You figure it out.
And stop with the devil’s advocacy.
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When people go on any social media and or YouTube the cutscenes aren’t gonna automatically pop up in your front page. Not unless these people have wowhead followed or subscribed to them other then that nothing will be on your front page.
If people post it it can show up even more than before because of Twitter’s changes to their layout meaning you don’t see posts just from people you follow. And Youtube shows random videos on it’s front page.
Nothing wrong with that.
Yes it will, idk in what world you living in but if you talk or follow something in social media if there is a big news it will show up for u
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Those random videos the majority of them are News or politics or anything related to the real world not video games. How I know? Because I use the platform.
As I said those billions or millions of people on both Facebook or Twitter will not know or follow wowhead and so they won’t even know spoilers exist.
I want to thank Blizzard for doing this with the rest of the story campaign. It gives me a chance to play the new chapter in ESO when it releases without worrying if I’m missing something by not playing WoW.
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I was trying to figure out why this bothered me so much.
In the past, I thought it was neat that LFR was time-gated. It felt like a campaign to me in that respect, and that it made some kind of chronological sense–from a role-playing perspective. When the last boss could be killed in the LFR wing, I took that as it being canonically dead in the game. “Neat,” I thought. “Here’s a way to ensure that RP is consistent for role-players.”
The thing is, …although there were minor story beats that occurred at the end of the raids (and I could just watch the cinematics the first week and be done with that until I killed it in LFR), this is something else entirely. This is a story–something I care about (apparently)–being opened up and completable by some people and not others. Why not just open the story up when raiders have killed Sark? You made THEM wait until this week; so,…why make everyone who can’t/won’t/don’t-want-to/only-LFR–wait? If the story completion is happening NOW, then my whole idea that the LFR was the time-gating of the actual war/campaign/fight makes no sense at all. It has all just been arbitrary. All of it.
If you made everyone wait until the LFR campaign was open, …I’d understand this. Instead, you just open up story for some people and not others–kind of like they don’t already have perks–like higher-end gear, better rewards, mounts and such. But no. Now you’re saying they also get to have “story” too while the rest of us who don’t raid or only do LFR must wait for some arbitrary point in time to complete it–…for …reasons? Oh wait…so we can see the story chronologically–clearly something raiders aren’t doing, I guess, since they can just complete everything earlier than intended–at least by the standards I was thinking you intended them to go by.
Why not just make EVERYONE wait for the conclusion? That would have been nice–fair even. Instead, you chose to divide your player bases, …again. Maybe you want us fighting. Maybe any press is better than no press at all. Maybe you want players to resent each other. Or maybe you just don’t really care about how this all washes out in the end. Maybe you believe that raiders really are the only one who deserve to enjoy the story of this game.
In either case, it’s …disappointing. I thought it was anger, but mostly it’s just disappointment. Side quests from a raid, I’d get. A cut-scene at the end of the raid–that’s normal. I’d just go and watch it on YouTube and then enjoy it again in LFR. But actual plot and story being held hostage to a raid kill? That’s not something I ever experienced until now.
And I don’t like it.
You should have made everyone wait for the last chapter.
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Wowhead videos can’t reach million views the majority of them are thousands of views at most. And their video will never be bump to YouTube front page or on any social media front page to say the least.
That’s based on YOUR algorithm. So no, mine is not mostly news or politics.
They don’t have to follow Wowhead. I don’t think you get that Wowhead isn’t the only one that spoils the story. I don’t think you get that because of algorithms and how the internet works that it pushes interest first. So a person interested in WoW is likely to see more random posts about WoW.
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Idk why you so invested in lying but it definitely will, social media is literally design to show you news about stuff you are interested in. You don’t have to be obsessed but if you talk about, tag,. follow and watch videos it will 100% spoils stuff for you if you have to wait a month, trying to deny that is just dishonesty
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Never once I said wowhead, if you think only wowhead talks about wow you are delusional
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Wowhead is the main source that people will go to. That is a fact.
The official World of Warcraft pages in both Facebook and or Twitter or even YouTube they will never post spoilers of any ending and to think that somehow they will is a straight up lie.