I think the flight whistle removal falls under timegating and they havent really addressed it yet
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Where do you purchase your optimism from and is there any in stick because I’m running on fumes here.
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Another high quality posting worth reading:
Yes and No.
I like Prosident. But the interview with Asmon didn’t really help him at all.
Not really a fan of giving people who use racial slurs so flippantly or even when he did so younger, didn’t really grasp why it was wrong.
This is kinda how we got Alex–ignore the bad because he does a good job, well that comes with a price.
Maybe this issue impacted CC or just Blizzard forgot about CC, the last comment of the “present yourself” was 20 days ago, you can check and there’s only 40+ comments on that thread, if you remove blues then you’ve like 30-35 players on the CC and there’s like only 5-6 players doing post and comments… even Worldpvp profession thread didn’t receive comments, i was expecting profession focus players there too.
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CC to casual players was always a joke. I think there was 3 total casual players in that group compared to the countless high end guild leaders and CE players which again–seems like WoW cares more about their concerns than anyone else’s.
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This is true for every game, movie, show, job, relationships, and basically every facet of life.
The whole notion of “we read this and will get back to you on this” sets the expectation of a continuous dialog that Blizzard would be stupid to fall for because it just invites the “when” question and puts them on the defensive where they have to act or justify why they dont.
Just like in the corporate world, people hate those who stick read receipts on emails because you know their intent is just to bludgeon you with it. “My records show you saw my email on X. Why did you not respond?” That is basically what you are trying to achieve here.
We didn´t need CC Forums or 100 players, besides GD forum, they could just promote the existing forums, there’s a whole gameplay section with forums for professions, new player, raid, m+, pvp…etc, they just needed to respond to some of the topics there than were ignored for years and players will start to post more frequently and according to the topic section (avoiding toxic behaviour that’s common on GD). However, they took this as an opportunity to show that they listen and now players want answer to the threads on the forum, also it diminish the whole player population to only “100 players”.
I am of the opinion that it is nothing more than a publicity stunt. Blizzard is getting creamed in the public eye in all facets of the game and company and this is just one small attempt to undo some of their earned reputation.
The root problem is Blizzard built WoW on the foundation of a solo casual friendly game that caters to a market that MMO’s of the time shunned and then, over time, but especially after they were bought by Activision and time for management to replace mid and top people, did the game go from pursuing everyone to focusing nearly exclusively on the tryhard…and namely raiding tryhards at the expense of the solo casual base. We already know Blizzard is in deep with “professional gaming” and Activision is surely behind the bulk of that so it is no surprise to see the game taken and doing down this path.
I mean you literally have the actual president of Blizzard (nobody believed Jen, should she have stayed, had any ounce of actual power as “co president”) as one of those mythic tryhard raider and boost sellers. The game director is either currently a mythic tryhard or at the very least is a tryhard has been who has quite the colorful history himself as an arrogant bully (though maybe the years have softened him some…idk).
Even a quick look at the target members Blizzard focused on for this CC shows a huge bias in favor of no life mythic tryhard raiders. This even ignores the secret forums and direct lines of communication these sorts have had with Blizzard devs for expansions now.
The more troubling thought is does the current CC represent Blizzard’s intended audience or is it just more likely that those types signed up in greater numbers given true solo casuals likely don’t frequent here let alone go through the hassle of jumping through that ridiculous application process including giving your social media/influencer standing.
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Which was a mistake, yes.
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Heh “Communit Council” sounds vaguely Eastern-Bloc authoritarian.
I think everyone was a casual once so they can really understand how things can be rough. I even releveled a toon without heirlooms to find out the annoying stuff and man it really is an unfriendly game if you just starting out
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It’s even unfriendlier if you do not raid or pvp. The game lacks requested rewards, quality of life changes and evergreen content.
The current WoW community council has too much focus on raiders and current expac-players and this needs to be addressed with more people who do not raid.
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I’ve never understood why it can’t be the case that hardcore raiders/PVPers/and M+ can’t get the most awesome rewards faster. AND, casual people get almost the same rewards, but at a slower pace.
As a casual, I don’t see the issue with me eventually able to get 252 pieces of gear as long as it’s slower than those who “earn” them by doing harder content.
INB4: why do you need hard gear for casual content? None of us need any of this, it’s a game. I just want it to be rewarding. Also, we all want gear for some of the same reasons: it makes whatever content you’re doing easier and it’s a carrot that provides motivation. Why do people want awesome gear after mythic has been cleared by world first people at a much lower item level? Because it makes the task easier.
Edit: sorry for typos, I was rushed.
Geeze they changed the text colors again
What color am I now? Aw man I wanted red
You’ll always be red to me.
Kill on sight. 
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I do think that with regard to ZM the devs are listening a lot more now than they were in the lead-up to Kortha.
During the first month or so of the 9.2 PTR I was really super frustrated with the direction ZM was headed. I posted a bit of a rant in the PTR forum one day when I was really at the end of my rope with it. And after submitting what felt like endless bug reports and forum requests and watching not a single thing change I fully expected the same to happen this time around.
ZM isn’t perfect now but it’s a lot better than it was, enough that I’m actually looking forward to playing it on a bunch of alts rather than unsub and wait for the next xpack.
Flying isn’t an endless grind anymore and is actually pretty fast. The progress on the ciphers thing has all the timegating heavily reduced and progress as far as cool downs on the system is account wide for alts, there’s a vendor that sells iLvl 226 greens to quickly get alts ready with about 10k Anima for a full set.
That dumbass 272 conduit catchup for for what will be current elite content isn’t even on the vendor in the latest build. A catchup for current content always seemed like a dumb idea to me anyway.
They even listened to my and other’s complaints that some of the tokens should be split up to avoid RNG ridiculousness. (Which i must have reported and suggested 50 times during the korthia PTR)
They apparently listened to the rep grind feedback and made it so that even if you never kill a single rare you’ll have enough rep for the leggo and memory if you just do the world boss every week, the twice a week quest and three dailies every day for a few weeks.
It’s still not perfect, I’d love to see a renown 80 boost and some honor PvP gear improvements but the way I see it is there’s still a pretty good list of stuff that got changed that was really making me not want to bother. And hey, who knows maybe they can still squeeze in a couple of simple but meaningful adjustments before the patch goes live.
I agree. But, what other game are you as ok with “not as bad as I thought” as an okay standard? The bar is so low at this point.
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