Hotfixes/changes being made without notifying player base

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Recently, there have been many hotfixes that have gone through under the radar, without the player base being notified. In my opinion, this is done in really bad taste, especially since Blizzard is trying to earn back the trust of its player-base. The stutter step mechanic, used in AOE farming has been removed, and nothing was mentioned of this. It also appears the drop rate of the pumpkin bag has been adjusted along with god knows what else. Before this, it was Black Lotus and Devilsaur rates that were affected with no notification to the player base.

I’m sure this post will be lost, and the current dev team doesn’t care, but I really wish we could be notified, at the very least, of these changes. And this will fall on deaf ears, but I also really wish they would honor #nochanges when it comes to the classic experience of the game. Adjusting AOE farming mechanics, trying to balance classes etc… is not part of the classic experience at all, and from what we’ve already seen, is bad for the game.

Anyway, unless you have 5M twitter followers nothing gets done, so I don’t even know why I’m wasting my time posting this.

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I’d like to be notified of any changes as well. Do you know if anyone is maintaining a comprehensive list of these stealth changes?

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These are not patches. Which means we don’t get patch notes.

Not seeing the problem

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There’s no list. They are trying to make the changes so subtle that no one notices, but they are making them. I don’t understand why they are dedicating resources to this, especially when it just degrades from the original classic experience. It’s disheartening.

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went from 12g to 3.9g on my server because of this =[

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I like to be notified of any changes to how the game originally was. If I’m dedicating my time to play the game, I deserve to be notified of any changes being made, simple as that. Are you ok with them constantly hotfixing things to their liking until we end up in the same situation that exists in retail? The principles are the same.

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Is this the case of pirate server vs actual Vanilla?

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About as close as you will get I’m guessing.

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They can’t read your mind to find out how you remember vanilla. They can only use their reference.

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It’s a transparency issue. People play the game with the assumption/promise that the mechanics of the game will not change. If Blizzard does change them they must communicate with us.

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Got that in writing somewhere? They have every right to do as they see fit with their own property

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The stutter step existed in Classic. The removal of it is not in line with the original mechanics.

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It’s not a legal obligation. It’s something they should do if they don’t want to erode trust and faith between the players and the devs.

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I remember when I first started playing Blizzard games. It took a little while for me to see Blizzard’s way too. You’ll follow along soon enough. Don’t worry.

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Lol I appreciate your sense of humor but you should have more faith in Blizz. They have proven that they will listen to us if we complain loud enough.

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It’s thinking like this that leads to the retail route. Long, arduous, and painful. Ends in ruin.

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Back in my day we used to get patch notes… Would be nice…

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every1 used to laugh at how the barrens raptors have no heads but lately when ever i do that quest on an alt it seems like a 90-100% drop rate now.
blizz r gonna screw us with these little changes for sure

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YoU ShOuLd HaVe MoRE faITh In BlIzARd

Have you seen the news lately buddy?

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What would you have done differently, had they alerted you to those changes? Besides creating a thread griping about them.

My warrior heart bleeds for the impact on your aoe farming, by the way.

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