Nod, the change they made in Season 4 of Dragon Flight I think was more harmful then helpful. I came back a month before the launch of Shadowlands after a 9-year hiatus and I use to love doing dungeon content even with random people, but a few toxic groups caused me to not want to do that kind of content.
It wasn’t until S3 of DF that I even thought to give Looking for Raid and Mythic 0 a shot and I limited myself to only when the weekly asked me to complete 5 dungeons. I always searched for groups that made notes that said learn group etc. When S4 came and they pushed M0-9 to Heroic and made the new M0 equivalent of an old M10 I was having a really hard time.
It’s been a year since I had two fingers amputated on my dominate hand which is my mouse hand. Couple with those changes I am reluctant to do content that requires more accuracy and precision skill, so to not ruin other people’s fun I have once again stopped doing that content.
I mostly focus on Delves (bountiful tier 8; never beat Zekvir ?) and have never grouped for them. I run 7 characters a week to open up 1 Great Vault of Hero quality gear and they are between 612-619 in item levels. I’m currently working on my 38th level 80 (at 76), after which I will start working on upgrading some of their gear closer to item level 600. Normally it would be end of S3 start of S4 I would have a lot of maxed level characters or worry about gear for the next expansion, so something is definitely wrong with the content for me this expansion.
I’m sure the impact is not significant enough for them to care. Between people being upset, but still paying, and sales of tokens/mounts/annual subs, the bottom line is probably barely affected. At least I know I’m not supporting these heinous business practices with my money. I even refuse to buy tokens with gold, because they end up making MORE of a sub fee from that.
M+ issues/sub losses aren’t really relevant to this issue, I don’t think people leaving from that would count in regards to the guild banks being wiped out.
My personal guild is old, spanning way back to vanilla, though I honestly don’t remember how long the guild has been around.
My guild bank had every tab and each tab was nearly (most were completely) full of tradeskill mats, some BoE equipment, TONS of recipes, and the odd potion here and there.
Following the plundering of the guild banks, I had 3 fairly common recipes, a couple stacks of vanilla cloth, metal and alchemy mats. I think 3 or 4 potions of healing (various types) and here we are months later, I’ve not received as much as a sympathy card let alone any refund of items.
It’s very frustrating, I love the game I just hate the utter lack of communication and disregard of the player base.
If a game-breaking bug occurs in favor of the player, they will shut things down until they fix it. Example: WSG at Cataclysm classic launch was bugged and level 10 toons were going from 10 to max level within a single battleground. Result: The entire battleground was disabled until it was fixed.
If a game-breaking bug screws over the player, during an especially financially crucial period such as an approaching end-of-quarter launch, they allow live servers to keep on trucking come hell or high water. Example: This very bug. You lost 90% of your rare valuables that took you ages to collect while the devs were tracking down a flaw in live testing and then compounded by being indecisive about taking action? That’s tough… for you.
Back in August I noted how eerily similar Activision’s response was to the crisis management tactics employed by tech giant Intel after the news of their major costly f’up became widespread. My suspicions about how bad this situation really was–based entirely on Activision’s observed behavior–were sadly confirmed.
I wouldn’t believe you typed that out with a straight face.
The uncertainty stemming from mixed messaging presented by GM’s, the ambiguous and open-to-interpretation PR sticky note which attempts to downplay and obfuscate matters, the obvious next questions which weren’t answered.
There is nothing here that suggested anybody in Irvine knows how to do anything other than run and hide.
Intel’s scandal didn’t get much attention and action until they started getting dragged in public by the bigger independent outlets.
Unfortunately for everyone here, the biggest public WoW web sites and streamers are sycophants because they rely on insider access and lots of people playing the game to make their money. They won’t bite the feeding hand.
That’s because these people are weasels and snakes. They craft their words carefully to make it sound like one thing when they actually mean something else entirely. Take a dump on a Friday, oversell the restoration, lock all threads and move on.
Phil’s a gamer, he’d never let us down! Why he said so himself!
So, from what I’m assuming, if a guild hasn’t received any in game mails containing items recovered at this stage, its highly unlikely they will receive a single thing lost from the guild bank. My guild lost all but about 12 stacks in 7 full tabs, and as guild master I’ve received nothing in game as yet…
