1.12 is not catering for convenience. They chose a baseline they had complete content for. They’re attempting to make the most accurate representation of the system at the time they had accurate data for, instead of guessing.
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Barman Shanker.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=12791/barman-shanker#comments
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Ahh, ok. Thanks a bunch!
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1.12 most certainly is catering to convenience, IMO.
I am not surprised to see a retail player attempting to defend that choice, though.
This is your latest go-to isn’t it? 1.12 is now “Convenience” because every other argument you’ve presented as to why 1.5 is “better” has been destroyed by the fact that they said they’re providing 1.12 and they have consistently applied that logic to everything they’ve been doing.
Again, please provide any example where they’ve taken an element of Vanilla not in 1.12 which will be present after CP6. Your mailbox concept failed because you overextended what the 1hr cooldown for mail meant, and there’s no other examples anyone has even tried to use.
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Also, this post should return to the topic of how the PVP system should not be watered down to account for casuals.
AV Thread here: Alterac Valley in Classic
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WoW in general from day one was catering to convenience, if you don’t like convenience you never really liked WoW in the first place.
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So basically “better” = better for blizzard because it is more convenient to not have to do work for something they (not the devs that originally designed AV) have no passion for. Gameplay-wise, 1.12 is a hollowed out dry piece of ![:poop:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/poop.png?v=6" ":poop:")
compared to early AV.
No, the use of “better” in that statement was all the people saying that they should include AV 1.5 because its “better”…
You know… like you…
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But it the most convenient, instant (figure of speech, not literally “instant”) gratification oriented version of AV. It is the version with the fastest “payout” for the least effort.
Are you really surprised that retail players with a conveniennce oriented, instant (figure of speech, not literally “instant”) gratification mindset want that version of AV?
I’m not arguing for 1.12 because its convenient. I’m pointing out it will be 1.12 because its consistent, and because its what Blizzard is going to give us.
We’re far too far down the road for them to start making systemic changes to the plan. Release is within months.
It was fine then, it’s fine now.
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AV is instanced content that is not going to be open till quite some time after release, which is months off to begin with. Give the “systemic changes” garbage a rest. They managed to be able to make sweeping changes to the BG from vanilla patch to vanilla patch 14 years ago. I have faith that they actually have someone capable of adding mobs, NPCs and tweaking stats within what could easily be a year out from now.
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Do you really?
Except they’ve clearly explained they feel 1.12 is the best version of vanilla they can offer. And that includes AV, so #nochanges
Maybe I am incorrect, but I believe they said “most complete” version.
“Most complete” does not mean “best”.
If your goal is driving, a functioning Pinto is better than a Ferrari that has no engine.
Doesn’t really matter which adjective you want to use for why blizzard considers 1.12 the correct version to use. It’s the version they’re using.
The PvP system is not perfect. But I still don’t want it changed. And it won’t be.
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THE WALL OF NO - REVISED AS OF JUNE 18, 2015
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SUMMARY:
1. Blizzard does not believe there are enough people interested in utilizing this idea long term to justify the costs necessary to bring it about.
2. Blizzard feels this idea is counter to the nature of MMO’s; non-progression equates to stagnation and eventual boredom.
3. Blizzard does not possess the old code. No, they did not save it as a "backup" - they might have for the launch of Cataclysm, but that was over four years and two expansions ago. Even if it were “recoverable” by other means (i.e., see “private” servers” below) it would still require lengthy and expensive rewrite, a task Blizzard denies interest in.
4. They have no plans or desire to recreate the original version(s). They refer to the notion as “a logistical nightmare,”… and in keeping with #1 above the time, money and resources required are prohibitive and unjustified.
TL;DR: “Too much cost, too little interest and it’s not what the game is about… we’re not doing it.”
Proponents of “Classic” (or any other variant thereof) servers rarely put thought into the idea. This would be similar to requests for the film industry to make silent films again, or the auto industry to mass-produce Model-T cars again. Avid collectors, people who look fondly back on those days, or new folks curious about the past might take a look at them, but that wouldn't be a high number of people in the first place - never mind the few of those who would actually pay for the experience. There’s not enough market for those, so those companies are not doing it; neither is Blizzard. That doesn't mean there isn't a market - just that it's nowhere near large enough to make it worthwhile.
BLIZZARD'S STANCE ON LEGACY SERVERS:
There are many Blizzard references on the issue over the years, from many different Blizzard employees; you can read most of them in previous Walls of No. For this one, we'll focus mostly on a recent (May 29, 2015) interview with Lore, just to keep the length of this Wall a little more bearable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ewtKpNMm4&feature=youtu.be&t=4m45s
(Quotes edited for brevity)
I honestly - I think [progression servers] would be a really cool idea. It's just like - it's a hard sell, because it's a whole lot of work to put one of those together, and, the idea, like... if we put all of that work into that, that means ... those people are working on that instead of something else, and there's like, a GIANT list of what those 'something elses' could be.
We're talking about a time in the game's life when night elves were considered to be the best race for leveling because they had faster corpse runs.
I think the risk with something like that is a whole lot of people go 'yaaay yeah, no no no I totally wanna play Classic,' and then they play for like two days, and then they go 'Well. That's my fill of Classic FOREVER ... I remember now ... this game was not NEARLY as good back then.' *laughs*
Don't get me wrong... I think there's a lot of people that would actually be totally into it and be like 'this is the type of game that I wanna play.' I think there's a number of people that would be like that. I am just... my thought is that the sort of risk of it is - is that number of people high enough to justify the cost, or are we going to like - if Blizzard were to roll something out like that - would we be putting more engineers on making this work than players who participate? *chuckles*
The other side of it is, if we've got this one developer who's just doing nothing but this for... five years... like, what else could he have done in that time? Like, are we talking about, now there's two or three major game features that never get added because this guy was working on that instead? It's interesting, really, thinking about it, because it's the sort of issue that game developers face that there really isn't ever an answer to.
So like if you say 'oh I'll just hire someone else to do those other features', like, okay, but... then we're still faced with the question of should we have this guy working on vanilla servers? Or should we have him working on ... ANOTHER new feature? Like, hiring more people just means that now there's ten, or twenty, or forty features that never make it into the game. So. It's an interesting sort of tradeoff.
And there almost certainly is a point at which it would make sense. In theory, anyway. ... It's just a question of - do enough people in the current playerbase want this to justify the amount of time that's gonna be spent to putting it together?
The reality is, what would almost certainly end up happening - IF it were something that Blizzard were ever to decide, to come out with vanilla servers - would be something where they've said okay, NOW it's valuable to have vanilla servers, so we'll put ten techs on it or something, instead of having one guy sort of chipping away at it for years. Because then what happens if that guy leaves?
Blizzcon 2014 :
Do you plan to introduce classic realms?
No we do not plan to. It is too hard to maintain that many versions of the game.
THE PROBLEMS WITH PRIVATE SERVERS:
Furthermore: Some have argued that even if Blizzard didn't keep "backups" of old code they haven't needed or worked on for nearly five years, they could take their code from these private servers, if they so desired. There are three major problems with that.
1) Most private servers are buggy in a lot of ways, because they aren't perfect copies of the live servers back in Classic. Frequently functionality is flawed (broken quest chains – some items, achievements, mounts, etc., not obtainable); they are generally buggy and unreliable. Blizzard would have to fix such code to make it useable – an undertaking which would likely take as long and cost as much as simply rewriting it from scratch… both of which they’ve described as a “logistical nightmare” and have said they’re not going to do.
2) Most private servers are altered in a lot of ways. If the devs were to take someone's Classic server data and trust that it was up and running properly, they would risk the possibility of - just to give some examples - hidden obscene content, or hidden, functional, Martin Fury shirts. And, yes, that can happen: when Nintendo released the first Pokémon games, they were completely unaware of the existence of Mew until well after the fact. It should be obvious that Pokémon Red and Blue are far simpler games than World of Warcraft; it would only be easier to hide things like that in the sheer bulk of game code that Classic WoW would have. Again, the devs would need to spend a lot of time going over them to make sure they're up to par.
3) Not to mention that Blizzard's stance on private servers is that they are illegal and unwelcome. This has been their stance from the very beginning. All other concerns aside, for them to simply take code from these servers would mean openly condoning the theft and illegal abuse of their property. It shouldn't need stating here how unlikely it is for that to ever happen.
In fact, Blizzard had a recent banwave in April 2015, targeted at Twitch players who were streaming use of said servers:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1751535-So-Blizzard-wants-to-shut-down-private-streams-on-Twitch
I've read forum topic on Battle.net that Blizzard is shutting down private server streams from Twitch.
http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/297116-people-getting-banned-on-twitch-for-streaming-vanilla-servers/
People are currently getting banned within five minutes of turning on their stream. So yeah. :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/31cv9e/blizzard_suddenly_getting_aggressive_with_twitch/
Every time blizz starts coming after these people, the community starts buzzing about Legacy servers, but they just flat out will not happen.
One of the simpler reasons is the "if you give a mouse a cookie" argument. You release classic wow servers, people are going to want BC servers. BC leads to LK, etc. etc.. Every time they release a new expansion, people will eventually want a server for the old one available. Of course, no one's going to want to go on to them after a while, but blizz won't be able to remove them, or people will !@#$%.
They cost money to run, they cost effort to maintain. You'll need at least one per expansion, and the thing is that they don't draw and hold crowds large enough to justify maintaining them. Also, they detract from the current game's market. Enough people spend their time in legacy, and when that content gets to stale for them they look back at the current model and think, eh, screw it, and quit until the nostalgia bug bites and they come back to mess around in MC/Kara/ICC for a month.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE CLASSIC:
In addition, very few players asking for a Classic Server have really thought through just what they’d be missing out on. Below is a list of key features introduced patch-by-patch up to the launch of Warlords of Draenor.
Burning Crusade
2.0.1 12/05/2006
- Looking for Group interface tool (not LFD)
- Pet stats scaling with their player’s stats
- Multiple characters being able to use the same HoT on the same target (more than one druid can Rejuve the same person)
- Resilience
- CC effects lasting no longer than 12 seconds max in PvP
- Honor Points as currency
- Arenas
- Hunters able to use traps in combat
- Warrior rage generation normalized with weapon speed
- Thrown weapons use durability instead of stacks
- Crafting time for equipment reduced
- Meeting Stones usable as summon stones
- Main Tank option in the Raid UI
- Display enemy cast bars
2.0.3 01/09/2007
- Pets no longer attack CC’d targets
- Pet raid frames
- Flying Mounts
2.3.0 11/13/2007
- Guild banks
- Bonus healing also giving some bonus spell damage, making solo content easier on healers
- Faction vendors giving discounts for reputation levels
- Player pets attacking enemies from behind when possible
2.3.2 01/08/2008
- Yellow question marks for completed quests on the quest givers instead of exclamation points
2.4.0 03/26/2008
- Characters retaining talented spell ranks so they don’t have to relearn the spells after retalenting
- Daily Quest limit raised to 25
2.4.3 07/16/2008
- Apprentice Riding at level 30
Wrath of the Lich King
3.0.2 10/14/2008
- Hit, Crit, and Haste no longer divided between Spell/Melee.
- Spell pushback no longer infinitely pushes a spell back.
- Spell power and healing power merged.
- Calendar feature
- Companions and Mounts changed from items; now accessible through the pet/mount tabs.
- Focus frame
- Lost tabards, pets, mounts, and keys can now be restored through vendors
- Linkable trade skills
- Improved quest sharing
- Visible timer until the PvP flag clears
- Macros and key binds saved server side
- Auto looting mail
- Druids and shaman able to use items while shape shifted
- Barber shop
3.0.8 01/21/2009
- Mounts no longer have racial restrictions within factions
- Mob tapping improved
- Corpse run speed improved
- Rep gains from monster slaying no longer deprecate compared to player level
- Chat frames able to be made Noninteractive
- Special GM chat UI
3.1.0 04/15/2009
- Dual Specialization
- Ground Mounts no longer dismissing when you enter water
- Farmable capital city reputation without just farming outdated cloth for months
- Pet taunts on raid bosses don’t affect player taunts
- Holding Alt over equipment slots to show other items for that slot
- Color blind option
- 2-hour refundable items when purchased with alternate currencies (badges, honor, etc.)
- Confirmation boxes to prevent accidental talent point placement
- Class Roles in the LFG feature
- Raid lockout warnings/escape option when entering a raid in progress
3.1.2 05/19/2009
- Equipment Manager (saving sets)
3.2.0 08/05/2009
- 2 hour "just in case" trade window for raid & dungeon loot
- Upgraded cat/bear form art
- EXP through battlegrounds
- NPCs to turn EXP gain off
- Dungeon/raid lockout extensions
- Shorter mount cast time
- Apprentice Riding at level 20
- Journeyman Riding at level 40
- Expert Riding at level 60
- Expert Riding flight speed changed to 150% instead of 60% (faster than ground mounts now!)
- Double-paned quest log for easier quest info viewing
- Uninterruptible casts now shown differently
- Druids able to see their mana bar while shape shifted
- Holding Shift to compare a piece of equipment to a currently equipped one
- Visible item level
- Vendor prices shown on items even when not currently using a vendor
- More mailboxes in the capital cities
3.3.0 12/09/2009
- Better descriptions in Character Creation
- Reduced/removed daze chances for lower level players
- Knockbacks no longer dismounting players
- Maximum character level limitations for meeting stones removed
- Taunt diminishing returns retuned and made easier
- The ability to track quest objectives on the map
- LFD & cross realm groups
- Looking for Raid interface (not the actual LFR we know now)
- Dungeon & Raid difficulty shown on the minimap
- Disenchant added next to Need or Greed in roll options
3.3.3 03/23/2010
- Random Battleground feature
- General raid buff range increased to 100 yards, from 45
3.3.5 06/22/2010
- Right clicking chat types in the chat frame to move the types to separate windows
- Battle.net accounts now friendable
Cataclysm
4.0.1 10/12/2010
- Flexible raid lockouts - you can now do a partial raid clear, then join a completely different group (assuming they’ve cleared at least as far as you had)
- No more ammo
- Auto-ranking spells
- New in-game raid frames
4.1.0 05/04/2011
- Players resurrectable through their character frame even after releasing
- Character and Target frames now unlockable/movable
- Target & Focus shown on minimap
4.2.0 06/28/2011
- Dungeon Journal
- Healing crits for 2x the heal instead of 1.5x
- Buffs no longer generate threat unless they directly cause healing or damage
- CC no longer pulls the group being Ccd
- Need rolling on a BoE binds it to you, preventing AH ninjaing
- Can no longer skin corpses already being looted or skinned by other players
- Everyone gets /roar
- Rearrangable characters on the Selection Screen
- Dismiss Pet option on unit frames
- Items turning yellow in the repair frame when under 20% durability, not when under 5 (not %).
4.3.0 11/30/2011
- LFR
- Transmog
- Void Storage
- Tank threat buffed
- Bag search
- Quest objective tracking on the minimap
- Mass raid assist checkbox
- Ability to unlearn profession specialization without unlearning the actual profession
Mists of Pandaria
5.0.4 08/28/2012
- Account wide achievements, pets, & mounts
- AoE looting
- Removal of the ranged/thrown/relic slot
- Daily quest cap removed
- Roll result frame
- Item filtering at vendors
5.0.5
- Pet Battle System
5.2.0 03/06/2013
- Tap to Faction for world bosses
- Absorb effects visible on character frames
5.3.0 05/20/2013
- Loot Specialization
- Ability to harvest nodes for reduced harvests if not at the appropriate level in their gathering profession
5.4.0 09/09/2013
- Flexible raids
5.4.2 12/10/2013
- Cross-realm mailing for BoAs
Warlords of Draenor
6.0.2 10/13/2014
- New character models
- Increased barber shop options, decreasing the need for the paid appearance change
- Premade Groups tab
- Quest items no longer taking inventory space (as often)
- Tradeskill items stacking to 200 instead of 20
- Account-wide Toy Box
- Bag cleanup
- Reagent bank
- Flexible system incorporated into non-Mythic raids going forward
- Automatic Hit & Expertise caps
- Reduced cost of rez spells
- Personal Loot
- Outline Mode
- Favorite Mounts
- Flying mounts usable as ground mounts in no-fly zones