Disabling Crawling Insect Screen Effect

[Nillah-ravencrest]

yeah i agree with this. was very glad when i finished those quests and moved on

[Saliashra-sargeras]

@Erpolith-moon-guard

But the reality is developers, or the big money people above them, don’t care. So you end up in a world where it’s either A or B, bugs on screen or no bugs on screen. Hence why I said ‘not that big of a deal’ because the alternative, no bugs on screen, is just another step in less immersion for the wider audience.

The addition of arachnophobia mode, as well as all the other accessibility options they’ve added, begs to differ with this theory.

They care, they just didn’t realize it would be a problem. So we need to let them know it is a problem, so they can fix it.

@Erpolith-moon-guard

For example; there’s a small group that can’t play in low light environments. So all the new zones look overly bright and now we have to use costly consumables to get back to a ‘normal’ dimlit cavern, which was the default years ago when I started playing WoW. There isn’t a toggle to have dimlit caves or accessibility caves, which seeing it’s just a buff could very well just have been a toggle.

I suspect the problem here is not that they don’t want ot implement it, but that doing it right is much harder than you’re saying. When it comes to lighting issues specifically, there are about a hundred different conditions that cause a hundred different preferences, so implementing lighting controls that work for everyone is very complicated and thus a big ask. And, if I had to make a guess, the Blizzard devs probably don’t want to ‘quick fix’ something like that, so it keeps getting put off on their priorities.

What’s asked for in this thread… all that’s needed is the quick fix. Nearly everyone who dislikes this would be happy with just the quick fix of ‘disable all front-screen effects’ or whatever you wanna call it.

@Erpolith-moon-guard

Hence why I said ‘not that big of a deal’ because the alternative, no bugs on screen, is just another step in less immersion for the wider audience.

And very specifically to this point: The fact that they implemented this tells me they plan to use it again. They wouldn’t do the effort to implement this as a throwaway mechanic for one sidequest. And if it becomes a part of something more important… I could very easily see at least one or two people I know fully quitting the game over it.

I doubt anyone would quit over it not existing. So… the latter is in fact the lesser of two evils, if we’re simply talking ‘it has to be a or b’ - but it doesn’t have to be a or b. That’s why we have such a large accessibility menu - so we don’t NEED to decide between ‘a or b’.

[Erpolith-moon-guard]

@Saliashra-sargeras

The addition of arachnophobia mode, as well as all the other accessibility options they’ve added, begs to differ with this theory.

They care, they just didn’t realize it would be a problem. So we need to let them know it is a problem, so they can fix it.

I don’t want to sound negative but I have mixed feelings about that one.

We already had toys and items that could change everything into Corgi’s or hearts, so the underlying work was there already. They now made a toy into a setting’s toggle. So why can that be a toggle which seemingly is far more work as only spiders are affected but not lightning for example?
Also, before we were able to hide helmets and cloaks through the interface options and there were addons that basically gave you a button to hide and unhide. They took that away for no reason. It was such a QoL thing for RP.

I feel like the arachnid option had priority only because Nerubians are such a big part of this expansion. So it’s more of a PR thing to look good as if there was maybe 1 dungeon they wouldn’t have bothered at all.