WoW is a very competitive game that has seldom seen an active hand as far as community management. That’s a pretty reliable formula for the memelord spasm crowd.
FFXIV cares? News to me.
~ A hrothgar/viera player
FF14 devs apologized for bad game design and a bad story that led to massive disappointment and exodus of the game.
While sub numbers are a mystery, one assumes eventually Blizzard will have to figure out why numbers have dipped, and how much of that why is because of their vision for the game as developers.
And that, their vision and design as developers that caused at least partially players to abandon the game, is something that deserves naming and an apology.
Because the rest: e.g. players aging out of WoW, generational gaps, market factors otherwise, are things outside of their control.
But the game, its state, and its impact on the playerbase of the game, is quite literally in their control.
This is a cop out argument.
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Which is not a worry, because FFXIV actually bans/suspends people for being toxic.
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Considering that the GMs punish the reporter if the report was unfounded, you cant really smarmly claim its some kind of witch hunt.
FFXIV GMs dont ban out of nothing.
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I do think Blizzard should be more active on the forums to be fair. I also realize that they’ve probably found it to be non-beneficial in the past, and expect that if they WERE to start talking on the forums more they would be inundated by people being garbage and screaming about their personal pet issues.
I expect the only way for that to work out well would be to heavily moderate and slam that ban hammer around. It would be incredibly painful for some people for awhile probably.
But I think in the end we’d be better off as a whole. And after awhile, I’m sure Blizzard could post regularly without setting off the feeding frenzy.
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If you think the bleed is bad now, wait until the next wave of MMORPGs see release.
And when that happens, we’ll all get to witness another exodus to another platform.
I’m already preparing my popcorn.
I see. Sounds like they were just placating.
There is no reason to apologize for story.
Its all subjective.
A gaming company makes the game, and we play it.
If we don’t like it, we shouldn’t play it.
But I would never expect an apology for something that wasn’t broken.
Sounds like things are handled different in the East perhaps?
If Blizzard did that, they would be doing it every few months.
What would be the point?
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True… the eSports killed it for me.
People like you make the forum so entertaining. Whether intentional or not, thank you.
No, it isn’t. If a game is lauding itself as “progressive”, then it’s mishandling of suicide, genocide, and abuse tropes is something that is valid criticism, and should be apologized for.
This is again, a cop out.
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I disagree. I assume Blizzard does too.
But again, if they did apologize, they would be doing it every few months.
Not going to happen.
I highly doubt every former WoW player is a huge bigot who can’t keep their bigoted opinions to themselves, that’s a tiny minority. I think it’s more likely since there is little to no punishment for being toxic in WoW, people just… were toxic. If there is actual punishment, the community improves because people don’t want to be banned from a game they enjoy playing just for being a nonce. That’s what happened when Overwatch cracked down on toxic players, as well.
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They were more than simply placating - which infers they apologized insincerely - no they genuinely apologized and had a world event where they blew up the whole world and then they reimagined it - it was reborn and to much fan fare and success - relatively speaking. They continue to maintain (from what I can tell) a positive relationship with their player base.
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Yep, us holdouts from the late '90s who don’t want to watch another Bioware go down are a zany bunch!
Hyperbolic bunch.
Only if we are wrong.
Right, but Blizzard isn’t going to do that. Final Fantasy did that to relaunch their game. This game is not going to do that haha
probably because “toxic” is subjective.
thankfully, blizzard only dish out account actions to people who are breaking actual rules, instead of catering to pearl clutchers.