Did Blizzard ever poll their players about spellbatching?

[Ellenaid-grobbulus]

I’m new and wasn’t here for the release, or beta.
I’d like to know if Blizzard ever, democratically, conducted a poll for their audience/players to decide whether to implement this 400ms spellbatching thing?

At first I thought it was just lag, but now I’m discovering that this was a deliberate implementation called “spellbatching”, decided on before launch due to outcries of what is likely a minority of the WoW Classic population.

Would anyone else like the idea of at least introducing certain servers with NO spellbatching while leaving the current ones the way they are for those who like it?
I’d certainly like to see the results of such a poll.

[Hiawanda-windseeker]

I’d like to know if Blizzard ever, democratically, conducted a poll

I doubt that Blizzard took a “democratic” poll about anything. Why would they? WoW is not a “player-decided” game". It is not a “democratic” game. We don’t vote for the devs.

[Milanfrozen-incendius]

I’d be curious about what was in those surveys. I sure didn’t get one.

[Graff-nathrezim]

They almost never poll for anything.

[Ellenaid-grobbulus]

Blizzard very recently polled its playerbase to determine how they should introduce potential TBC servers which I think is very cool. I love that Blizzard actually cares enough about its playerbase to take their opinions into consideration.

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

There was a large post about the necessity of spell batching by a private server dev/admin whatever you want to call him. That post received a tremendous number of upvotes and Blizzard later announced they would be taking us back to the stone age because of this “No-change” community.

Their announcement post also received a tremendous number of upvotes. Now that the “No-change” community realizes how bad they messed up, they’re blaming Blizzard for “not getting it right”. Spell batching was changed years ago for a reason, the current implementation is correct and it’s awful just like it was 15 years ago.

PvP needs spell batching or the meta is tarnished

If you don’t know what spell batching is, it’s the way the game processed spells before WoD. Spells were processed every server tick instead of ASAP and it’s what let two Mages polymorph each other, two Rogues gouge each other, two Priests fear each other, and so on. While it’s true that it was originally design because of technical limitations, it was kept all the way until WoD because of the positive effect it had on game play, most notably PvP. In PvP it gave you options that are not availa…

Spell Batching in Classic

Since we first announced World of Warcraft Classic, we’ve seen questions about spell batching. While we never really eliminated spell batching in WoW, we did change how (and how often) we process batches of actions coming from players, so you’re less likely to notice that processing in today’s game. We’ve been working to ensure that in WoW Classic, the gameplay of activating spells and effects will not differ from the experience of playing original WoW. It was relatively common in the original…

[Ellenaid-grobbulus]

Ah okay. Thank you for the info you provided. There was no poll then? It was decided by these forum topics? Hmm… Well I sure wish we could have a poll on this spellbatching matter, because it seems to be coming up a lot and seems to be unwanted more now than ever.

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

Blizzard originally announced they’d be taking community feedback on the development of Classic. This was definitely one of those things the community helped decide.