It’s nice that you can take Blizzard at their word. I don’t. I’ve also done a lot of online marketing as a job and so I know selling things when I see it.
To be fair I don’t think this is that but I still don’t think those reasons are why they made the change. I think that’s their fluff reasons for why they made the change.
I do not, by a long shot, think that this is the worst thing they’ve done, people like it so in that way it’s one of the better ones, but that doesn’t mean I trust what they say or think that they actually care about making this game better for the people who it should be for.
If you want to trust that Blizzard did this because they actually thought they were fixing a problem then props to you, that’s fine, it must be nice to trust this company.
EDIT: Ok I went back and read it all and it got the same impression as the first time. Blizzard wants to take the community out of the game and cater to those who care only about me, myself, and I.
There is zero focus on helping make a better PVP community in that post, like ZERO. This is actually EXACTLY my point in everything I’ve been saying. That’s why I didn’t like it the first time I read it and that’s why I replied to that post in the way I did. This is absolutely, 1000%, Blizzard hating the PVP community, being exclusively negative about it, and wanting to see it gone so that the people with the social skill of a rock and all eyes on themself can get what they want. Or maybe that’s not what it actually meant but that’s what whoever is posting it is saying and they clearly want to impress those who care about themselves > all others which means that’s their target audience and their focus for any (future too) changes. You say that this is not Blizzard hating the PVP community. However, they CLEARLY do. Specifically, the changes focus on a SOLO grind and community doesn’t matter, ONLY the individual. To me, this kind of stuff DESTROYS the game, and seeing Blizzard cater to the types who want to destroy the game in that way is disgusting. If that post proves anything it’s that what I’ve been saying is completely accurate and with these statements, I’m denying absolutely nothing. I’ve actually been much more positive in the posts on here than any reaction I can legitimately have to Blizzard wanting to rip the soul out of what makes the game special because I can still see some good things remain.
In short, that Blizzard post makes me angrier because it makes me realize how these devs have no clue what makes the game good, and that’s why they destroyed Wrath too.*End Edit
What’s frustrating to me is that we had a great conversation yesterday and I thought we came to a common ground. I told you there that the “mafia” thing was a pet peeve and you quoted it in a response so I know you saw it.
Seeing somebody (Despitebeing) say anything about having a positive community was nice, and people were going at him with their close-minded mafia garbage, so I replied and the reply from Despitebeing was fine too but for some reason, you decided to reply and just poke about my pet peeve. Why? Plus you glossed over a lot of what I’ve said.
