Classic Conspiracy Theories

[Naamtar-grobbulus]

Here’s my latest for today:

The great fallout in AQ40 on pservers wasn’t because of the guys who run it constantly creating new fresh servers to pull the playerbase away, or the content and time investment around the raids being difficult.

It was all the black lotus mafia. Stockpiling lotus from launch to bleed the casuals dry when they needed it.

[Sideous-grobbulus]

Susan used her billions of dollars from gold sales to buy majority actiblizz stock and now has control of the company.
It’s why blizz doesn’t ban bots or gold buyers/sellers.

[Haseo-westfall]

@Bepsimax-arugal

The original team were such insane workers and so ahead of schedule that they had almost finished beta versions of TBC and WOTLK ready to go not long after original vanilla was released, however this ended up leading to their downfall as blizzard ended up making them redundant, keeping all the digital asset, and hiring fresh developers that would have absolute allegiance to studio heads.

It’s mostly because the asset creators were doing so much stuff that the systems and gameplay design teams were unable to keep up with their side of the content pipeline. (corroborated by John Staats and Kevin Jordan)

@Bepsimax-arugal

The reason the game went to after WOTLK is because the new developers could no longer rely on the blueprints left behind by the original crew for content, this is why there have been no innovation since and every boss is a reboot of old material.

Actually, this is because there are literally no JUST “idea guys” left at blizzard. Everything is being handled by developers that run back and forth between different departments or take on multiple hats. (said by Kevin Jordan)

It’s called “job title consolidation”.

@Malipho-kelthuzad

Blizzard doesnt mind the effective gold sink of lotus prices (gold just sits in huge guild cartel coffers with nowhere to go)

I’d say this is effectively true but the reason it’s a problem is the larger server capacity. It would still be a problem if the server caps were still 2000 but having them up where it is right now has made the problem worse. in essence it’s a scaling problem that they are unable to fix due to not wanting gameplay effecting changes.

[Bepsimax-arugal]

Black lotus used to spawn in AV on the hour and Dire Maul had a rare chance of spawning one to.

These 2 changes are the big reason prices are sky high, population is minor to not having surplus lotus from AV and DM.

[Haseo-westfall]

@Bepsimax-arugal

Black lotus used to spawn in AV on the hour and Dire Maul had a rare chance of spawning one to.

These 2 changes are the big reason prices are sky high, population is minor to not having surplus lotus from AV and DM

I literally do not remember this, was this before 1.10?

[Naamtar-grobbulus]

It did on pservers, I’ve never seen any evidence this was true for Vanilla, though.

It was an interesting solution from the pserver guys if it wasn’t in Vanilla.

The downside being that everyone AFK’s out of AV the second the lotus is picked.

[Joyson-sulfuras]

that blizzard gave high notoriety streamers their bindings selectively before anyone else

[Mariobrother-westfall]

Paladins are so mind numbingly boring to play because the original guys hated them since EverQuest or something