Well it didn’t take long for the likes to dislikes to change, it was 9k dislikes to 14k likes yesterday now it’s sitting on 17k dislikes 14k likes.
I wonder what blizzard are thinking now, I wonder if they thought everyone was going to like this low effort crap and are now surprised or do you think they knew people wouldn’t like the tripe they were selling, because I’d be shocked if they thought it was going to do well.
I think they genuinely thought we would be blown away, and that everyone would come flocking back from FFXIV. Evident in how they dropped the $60 level 60 boost minutes after dropping the video.
They’re probably not thinking about it at all.
Because it doesn’t matter.
Likes/Dislikes on YouTube has never been a good way to measure community feelings on a subject. Blizzard knows this, as do most other folks. The only folks who seem to think it matters are the same ones who likely used the dislike feature in the first place.
And honestly? I can’t wait for YouTube to hide it so that threads like these, that try to put YouTube likes/dislikes on a pedestal are no longer relevant.
Hm, that’s funny because people like you were literally saying the patch was good because the dislikes were low yesterday. No, they’re not perfect, but they’re a pretty good representation of how things are received.
You mean “I can’t wait for YouTube to hide it so that way I’m not exposed to the fact most people don’t blindly worship everything this company does as I do and I can live in an echo chamber thinking the game is everything I think it is and live in blissful ignorance thinking everyone shares the same view as I do.”
true, just like most game developers, they will ignore it, however what happens every time is when “consumers” see it… that will end up ruining the game’s reputation. After all you can’t say consumers don’t pay heavy attention to things like reviews or ratings.
However I also agree it doesn’t matter in the long run since their reputation already been dmged beyond repair even before the horrible stuff in the company.
The dislikes only cement that fact, not establish it.
They’re probably thinking that a lot of people who don’t play WoW anymore habitually say negative things about WoW because they can’t let it go.
Facebook is the same way. New WoW news goes up on Blizzard’s facebook feed, and most of the comments are “I haven’t played in 10 years, but…”.
As if anybody gives a damn what someone who hasn’t played in 10 years thinks.
Especially when you look at 9.2 and have to realize this is Blizzard’s big play to win back their credibility. People who quit the game for FFXIV probably have kept a very close eye on WoW and the updates and this goose egg probably just cemented their belief WoW is screwed.
This was probably the most important update for them with regards to the drastic shift in the MMO paradigm where WoW is no longer the untouchable god. The biggest thing getting memed on right now is that Blizzard made a system to understand the NPC dialogue now that you have to grind up. This shows players who are jaded about systems that Blizzard is not doing away with them or even interested in dialing back their prevalence. They are probably going to stay gone.
You realize there are people out there who will Dislike literally anything WoW-related, right?
It was as stupid to use the positive ratio as a measure of the patch looking promising as it is to use the negative ratio as a measure of the patch not looking promising, especially when we’ve seen SO LITTLE of it.
This is something into “Googling something has never been a good way to measure how accurate is a certain statistic” that Forum Warriors wont really dig.
its about reputation.
And?
If people dislike WoW videos on principle, is that actually indication of what content that is actually straight-up unreleased is gonna look like?
There’s some actual stuff to dislike but disliking the patch trailer based on stuff unrelated to the patch is petty IMO.
Haha I can see it. “We set the preview annnnnd…bam! Place the boost!” wrings hands together like the goblins they are
Now we just wait for the suck…errr Customers to come crawling back.
I really wish nobody would touch that waste of $60. Its best put elsewhere. Like another game or food or 4 months of game time which could then be used to level 10+ toons.
Getting to 60 doesn’t ever take that long, and its not like theres any rush to get there to do the 1000s catch ups.
you don’t get it. petty or not, it’s about reputation. Would you go to a low rated restaurant or a hotel with lots of negative feed back? of course not, and it wouldn’t really matter in the end whether they were petty or not because it’s about “reputation”. that is basic consumer 101 facts. ignoring that is pretty naive IMO
Blizzard is just trying their best despite the recent scandal and such. But even without the scandal, moral for the game overall is questionable.
they’re probably thinking all those dislikes are just trolls and that isn’t really what the players think.
thats the way it goes, if the data, reactions, forums etc are positive that is correct and true and valuable feedback that they are doing a great job
but if it is negative it just trolls and should be ignored. according to blizzard
exactly, honestly I hope they can eventually pick themselves back up because i love the lore of the game. However, if they continue to keep distancing themselves from the player base they going to end up like aaall the other game companies that have gone down that path.
Uhh, no, people like me weren’t saying that. Anyone who says that is a moron, I certainly didn’t say it, because I stand by exactly what I just said. It’s not a good way to measure community feelings.
Likes/Dislikes can be gamed on YouTube. Any idiot can come along and hit the dislike button, even if they’ve never played the game. Bots can easily be created to create mass dislikes, anti-Blizzard trolls can form brigades to create mass dislikes. The list goes on.
Any system that allows people outside of it to manipulate scores is a stupid one, and I mean any system. One of the reasons why I completely disregard metacritic ‘user’ scores is for the exact same reason. It’s the wild west out there. There’s no quality control, no tools to limit review bombs. I can literally go to Metacritic right now and leave a review for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game I have never played because I do not own a Nintendo console or have any emulation software on my PC, and I can give that game a 0 out of 10. My ‘review’ will impact the score just the same as everyone elses.
As long as that can happen, I will disregard any system like it as poorly designed trash.
Not just blizz , look in this very thread, one of the people here was just yesterday telling everyone that it’s a good patch because there is more likes, now they all of a sudden say the ratio doesn’t matter anymore because it’s more dislikes lol and they can’t wait for the dislike button to be removed from YouTube.
As long as Blizz can get away with less content and more money, they will continue to do that. Not only that, they will continue to create less and less content and see if they can get away with that.
The exact thing you just said happens the other way around as well with mass likes from shills, I guess that evens it out.