You know hypocrisy suites you.
I don’t think anyone is referring to current profitability when they talk about “game is dying”. They are referring to an empty world and friends and entire guilds that have quit the game. In the short term Blizzard can beef up profits based on token sales for paid carries to whales. In the long run, though, even the whales will notice the population dropping if significant changes aren’t made. And I see no sign that devs will do anything but stay the course and expect things to turn themselves around. God forbid they should consider they might have done something wrong.
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Remember when they announced a ton of features for WoD that later got cut? Being able to move my garrison to any zone. Tier 3 upgrades for buildings offering different bonuses based on how I specialized them. Farahlon, Land of the Ogres, a raid in Shattrath. . .What’s that about “can only discuss things unless they are set in stone”? Blizzard is notorious for making a ton of promises then dialing them back and not delivering after getting their fans excited.
FFS my Wrath of the Lich King box still advertises aerial vehicle combat as being a feature of the expansion. That Wrath teaser also mentioned new dances and the Dance Studio that’s become a meme because of how mad people were when they just didn’t include the feature, ignored it then said it got scrapped months after launch.
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These things came from the time period before they learned their lesson. They became much more guarded after Catalcysm. But yes they do speak more candidly at Blizzcon. Perhaps that is a mistake as well.
Can’t help but notice you didn’t respond to the post where i replied to your post.
The rest of your post remained in the same vein as your first comment so there was no point in responding to it.
I’ll respond again, this time maybe you can let me know about how blizzard is “creating possible solutions to keep players engaged” lmfao
Conduit Energy
Already has a recharge rate, they could very easily increase the speed at which it recharges to a point where each day you have a full bar regardless of how many you swap in and out, this temporary measure would fix the system until they completely scrap it
Making it easier to swap covenants
Unfortunately for you Blizzard made a post a few weeks ago about how they “temporarily” made the covenants “forgive us” for swapping and would let us swap without as much as touching a quest, if they could do it once why couldn’t they keep doing it?
Increase in rep gains
Unfortunately for you they’ve already already touched research twice so they are not stranger with mucking around with this, they could very easily incraese the amount in each lootable/elite killed
Flight whistle
ohhhhh how could they possibly do this jeez it would be soooooooooooooooo hard for them to add (bring back) the flight whistle gosh
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Well, at least they’re trying 
I mean, with all the middle to senior level devs under scrutiny from all sides and away from the computers, the intern has to do something to fix the game, right?
Bless their souls for trying to salvage titanic with a water bucket.
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Time to get out those bingo boards and grab them shot glasses. Time to get drunk while playing some GD bingo. Remember to take your shots each time you fill in a square.
Okay, you can count right? Cataclysm is 4. WoD is 6.
4 precedes 6.
“They became much more guarded” when just TWO expansions later they completely hoodwinked their audience with promises that all got cut conveniently after those preorder sales went online.
It was actually so bad, Blizzard got taken to court for not honoring refunds because “Well the boost was applied to your account to we can’t do anything” despite if you bought a boost and your bank didn’t clear the transaction they just locked the character.
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With these current devs nothing will be done and WoW will end up like Rift with only 20 people total playing.
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Thats a bit of a cop out. They have had 2 years of data at this point. The changes are obvious and they have yet to muster the will to make them.
I’ve gone ahead and highlighted his post that might help you formulate a response better when you revisit this after you finish checking with Blizzard what they’d like you to say.
who would’ve thought someone would so willingly step up to take over the mantle of Yesuna, what a heavy burden that must be.
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My comment was literally telling you how those “solutions” would just create other problems. A solution which creates problems isn’t a solution. They need something to fill the gap which slows players down if they was to remove all that. Otherwise we go back to pre-legion days where everyone instantly complains that there is no content. Because they already done everything. The hour per content creation vs the time of content consumption is unbalanced. So they need a way to artificially slow players down to keep them engaged until a new content patch is released.
What, did Yesuna like quit or something?
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What problems would arise by any of the above?
Oh yes bringing up hypotheticals is absolutely the way to win a discussion, you nailed it.
Do they need a way to artificially slow people down? I mean they could always do what they used to do by adding content that casuals consume to keep people occupied. Blizzard seems to forget Archaeology is a profession in their game, fishing, cooking. All these could have fun things to do but they don’t because they’re too busy thinking they are still top dog to look what the competition is doing.
heh yeah even made a big post about it to.
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Uhh, how exactly do I tell you that this wasn’t a problem until about MoP when Blizzard kept shoving people through the content on LFR?
Just saying, players in TBC didn’t cry that there was no content unless they were one of the few guilds capable of killing Illidan early, and that raid got added before people could even enter it.
Ever since World of Warcraft became World of Latest Content Patch in MoP this has been a problem. It’s hardly a “pre Legion” problem unless you want to clutch to that technicality that MoP precedes Legion but of 6 eras that precedes Legion, only two had the problem of there feeling like there was no content. In WoD’s case I’ll make an exception because there unironically was no content.
I’m gonna have to dig that one up, that’s just peak irony if they made a long post about quitting when they used to mock others for doing the same.
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I remember being able to solo islands in 8.3. Why has this not already been a thing?
haha the best part was how people pretending like they were going to miss a person who used to dump on any thread asking blizzard for any kind of change
“wow guys if you’re not having fun just unsub whats wrong with you”
yeah gonna miss that so bad
thread got deleted LOL
just you wait bucko, now you can go back and solo with the AOE cap. yeehaw have fun cowboy.
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People cry about content drought the main problem is people consume it too fast. They drink like 10 red bulls and stay up all night blazing through expansion release content in one day.
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To be fair, I still miss some of the earlier posters here. I don’t miss Killercaitie or Adelphie’s desperate attention seeking though. They turned the forum into a social media platform.
Verbatim though always cracked me up because he’d talk big about clearing Mythic raiding being actually really easy as if you couldn’t notice on his achievements that he had a Mythic Argus kill before he had any other boss on Mythic that wasn’t Garothi.