I’ve enjoyed this game since early vanilla. I’ve made friends, enjoyed raiding with them, and invested countless hours and dollars into it.
Each expansion comes with change. Some have been good; some not so good. These last two expansion haven’t been the greatest, but I still like logging in and powering up so I can contribute on raid night. If an expansion is bad, I know it’ll only be no more than 2 years and maybe the next will be better. In the meantime I can make the best with what we have.
But something happened this expansion that hasn’t happened before. The puritan purge. Each day over the last few weeks there’s new items, NPCs, quests, etc. that are being renamed or outright removed from the game. And each week we “Air our grievances” with them, en masse. And yet, they keep happening. We don’t even know when it’ll end, if it ever will.
I feel helpless. What else can we do to stop this? Why are they so hell bent on this purification? Why don’t they talk to us about it, or give feedback, or say anything at all beyond bland corporate talking points? Do they not see their numbers plummeting? Do they just have contempt the player base? I don’t understand.
The more things gets censored, the less I feel welcome or a sense of belonging. I’ve always felt “at home” in WoW, since 2005. This is the first time I get the sense I’m not part of the community anymore.
I am not for it. Dont feel so strong to say against it. In meantime I enjoy mocking them spinning their wheels in a foolish attempt to “do something” with their bad work culture.
gotta love when a company sexually harasses its own employees to the point of self deletion, and their only change after being caught is making sure the fans of their product awaken to their views on whats right or wrong.
They don’t care about the players, the changes are for them and them only
Only thing you can do is become like me and don’t associate with the game world in that way in the first place so the changes are meaningless to you or get every Dev fired
WoW is too big to fail. They would probably get a bailout if they have a bad quarter. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was already a carvout in that 3.5T spending bill for them.
Nothing, it’s Blizzard’s call. They are going both feet in.
Lawsuit brought up the ugly head of what is going on there, the Devs are also comprised of grown adults who are pretty inline with the ‘pseudo’ progressive mentality of society to put it lightly so they joined forces and pushed a lot of very silly changes.
We have nothing to do with this, it’s kinda their decision on this.
Doesn’t affect their decision. They mount farm and collect stuff for 30 mins a month and we are in an age where these grown adults think changing the things they did will somehow change the game for the better and then they can stroke their ego for being warriors for social justice.
It’s kinda like how a lot of others are just BSing themselves when they champion their own cause of rewriting history.
You are. With the exception of quitting the game over it, the really is nothing you can do.
They want to appear to be supporting “inclusiveness” because apparently their own behavior has been anything but inclusive.
You don’t have to like it, but it is how the culture is changing.
I did corporate crisis relations for a very short time many years ago - but limiting who get to talk is one of the easiest ways to control the conversation. The lawyers control the mic so no one says anything that would get the company sued (more than they already are.
Also, they don’t want to have a conversation. They want not to be sued.
I expect they weighed the numbers when everyone Unsubbed after the internal sex scandal become public and are taking an informed gamble that more will come back if they act nice, vs how many will leave if they don’t at least appear to be changing.
As long as you make them money they love you. If you don’t, we’ll, I’m assuming they don’t care one way or the other.
They are not your friend. They are a business. Everything they might say to the contrary is just marketing.
WoW might generate revenue but its cost of opportunity might be too much if it keeps going this way. Activision would rather spend that money on something that generates three times the amount.
Activision/Blizzard is a soulless organization that only pretends to care about its workers and subscribers.
They are pandering to a minority that is literally eating it up in the hopes that they can hop onto the SJW bandwagon much like the NFL and NBA has.
They don’t care about their older base players. They only care about profits and making their new, weak, soft clients/supporters happy.
Activision/Blizzard is a garbage company but, for now, the game is playable which is why I still play.
Their employees are pandering, weak, and pathetic…removing paintings, renaming characters, deleting sayings and emotes…all under this guise that they are “making a difference” or something.
lets see if the policies that are ruining California and making everyone leave can save the game… find out next time on “why does every patch take a year to come out Z!”
The dev’s are totally defending the changes with their own echo chamber on twitter by blocking and limiting responses.
You and the normal player arent going to change anything. This is another normal thing in blizzard decisions like the game… too stubborn but then too little too late when the wake up call happens.
when I was young I could call someone a b word for stealing my tag and they just lold and ran away… where did we go wrong as a community… far as the devs go… yeah they blow
