I’ve slain many Hermitaurs and Ceanataurs. I may be one of the most qualified individuals to fix WoW’s crustacean problem
I’m not sure what their priority chart looks like, but considering the lack of bug fixes I can only assume they are being instructed to ignore a majority of the bugs and focus on new content. Hopefully after this little mini island thing releases they will have some breathing room to actually work on the game.
There definitely is a difference and players providing criticism / feedback in a respectful manner is infinitely more productive than the other ways I’ve seen players provide it. Although that doesn’t fix the pipeline issues that developers face, it does make them feel appreciated, motivated, and obligated to keep trying and improve the content they do create within the time constraints they are given.
Also, It’s always a pleasure to see the phrase ‘bus shock’ on the forums lol
It really is though.
We owe nothing besides our payment.
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Well it’s a good thing being polite costs nothing.
Only real one’s know…
You think they are being told to ignore bugs like:
-Kyvessa portals getting moved during the portal suck in addition to multiple dash targeting a single player which means it is an insta wipe on mythic should that occur
-Ovinax will sometimes either freeze and give raid groups 30 seconds of free time to damage the boss OR will do a whole 4th set of mechanics.
-Both Silken Court AND Queen have numerous abilities where the ability does not line up with animations meaning it can be almost impossible to tell if you were safe from them
-High frequency server instability leading to players getting DC’D and log in servers becoming unreliable leading to people unable to log in which has been typically occurring during peak hours when guilds are raiding.
-AoE damaging pools just straight up not being visible but still damaging you.
Like just go watch some compilation clips of WoW streamers and literally 70% of them is just showing these gamebreaking bugs.
Tbf, there is a point to where it becomes apparent that being polite isn’t working or being reciprocated. The problem comes to where that impoliteness and frustration gets directed. The unfortunate part of this is that players have little to no way of directing their issues to the people ultimately responsible for the quality dip and community managers and devs get bombarded with it instead.
Yeah, I’m suggesting the mismanagement is that bad still.
Oh no if only they had an entire development cycle, alpha and beta tests, public tests and a public test realm to apply some form of QA to their game.
It’s a shame Blizzard resources are so limited.
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I think it’s disrespectful to develop a new patch while there are bugs to be fixed.
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There also was another key point I made earlier in this thread, and it’s that most players will see a bug and then go “Man this is broken Blizzard can’t do anything right!” and then just not file any official bug report lol.
Is nasty apparently. I don’t like how positivity has made people a lot worse, because now that saying anything negative is taboo, unless you do a very specific social dance that has 90,821 versions because context maters, all negative actions are essentially allowed because some guy can beat you down in the street and if you complain about it you’re a negative nelly.
Except there are multiple instances where said bug has been reported on PTR, Live, Beta, and it its either not address or it haphazardly handled.
Man you really one of the bad ones on MG.
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I’m not saying it happens all the time, but it does happen a lot and not just to this game.
Your tone and conduct says otherwise. You’re an incredibly dismissive person.
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I want the bugs fixed before it comes off the PTR.
No it isn’t. If I did my job like programmers do theirs you’d never be able surf the internet. Ever.
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I have no expectation that all bugs will get fixed all at the same time.
I would however appreciate seeing more existing bugs fixed and less new bugs introduced in a patch rather than seeing fewer existing bugs fixed and more new bugs introduced.
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It’s hard to maintain this “mistakes are inevitable” for top-tier professions that make millions when your local illiterate fry cook makes a mistake and he has to fix it. Not like, in a year. Now.
I don’t think it’s the lack of bug reports enabling the lack of fixes. Every bug I run into, I google it to see if anyone else has reported it and 9/10 times, someone has. In many developer interviews, Ion or some other dev director state that shortcomings on content and fixes are because of a cost-benefit analysis. Management would rather devs continue to work on new content rather than fix what they have already shipped. Blizz should have a department or at least a team dedicated to fixing bugs currently ingame and if they already do, they should expand it. Now, if management will provide the funding to allow Blizz to do so is another story.
If that’s true that just confirms my suspicions that they’re being told and instructed to ignore bugs. That makes the state of this anniversary patch make so much more sense to me.
I remember back in the day, TBC got delayed from a December launch to the middle of January the following month so that they can iron out more kinks. I think it’s unrealistic of me to expect that level of dedication from them back but it’d be nice to see a shade of that dedication all the same.